Welcome to the Neighborhood!

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

I had fun playing with my Cricut and building this cute little house. The card measures 5" x 6 1/2" cut from a lavender cardstock.

Cricut Cartridge is April Showers. The house is cut 5" from some leftover papers of a K&Company patterned paper pad. I added a small piece of vellum behind the windows and door.
Other supplies:

Martha Stewart Layered Arches edge punch is used on the white mat. 

Spellbinders MBossabilities Splendid embossing folder is used on the pale blue mat.

My Craft Spot - Friends and Neighbors Stamp was blog candy from Kimberly. Perfect sentiment for my little hand cut banner.

Crinkle ribbon is blog candy from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces.
Lots of inking and the purple gemstones are from my stash.

Challenges:
My Craft Spot -  Ch. 99 Welcome to the Neighborhood
Craftin Desert Diva's -  Craft it up and Link it up Party 7 - Anything goes with ribbon or twine.

Simple Pleasures

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Today I am sharing a card that seems to be out of my color comfort zone. Most of you know that I love working with pinks, and of course, red and purple. However when I saw the weekly color challenge at  

The Shabby Tea Room, I was inspired to search for aqua and yellow papers.

My card measures 5" x 7" cut from white cardstock. Patterned papers are from paper pads that I have had for quite some time.

Cricut Cartridge: 

Country Life - Page 60 - Pitcher is cut 3". Pitcher is pop-dotted on the yellow mat. Phrase is cut 1.25"

Spellbinders - Nestabilities Eyelet Circles on the yellow dot paper

Martha Stewart Daisy Dot Edge Punch is used on the white layer.

Sew Easy Fancy floss - Baker's twine primary

Crinkle Ribbon from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces

Pearls and buttons from my stash and lots of inking complete the look.

 Challenge:

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 169 Shabby Sunshine using aqua, yellow, and white/cream and include twine

Frosted Designs - Punches

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 111 - Father's Day/Embossing

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Today begins a new and fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! Challenge 111 is Father's Day. Our design team member Sandy asked us to create a male card or project that includes some embossing on it. My card measures 5" x 6 1/2" cut from white cardstock. Papers are from The Paper Studio.

Cricut Cartridge is Phrases. I decided to take a simple approach to my male card and used a phrase as the focal point.

Page 25 - Happy Father's Day is cut 3" using Phrase 3 and Phrase 3 Layer/Shadow with 4 colors of paper.

Cuttlebug:

Swiss Dots - Father's

With Love 5 Folder Set - Dot border and with love border

Red brads are from the stash!

Visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the wonderful inspiration by the talented design team and our guest designer. For more information on the projects, please visit the individual blogs! Don't forget to leave us a comment!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! Remember to create a male card or project and you must add some embossing. Several Ooh la la awards will be given and one person will be selected to be our next guest designer!

Thanks for your visits and comments!

Through the Window!

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I had a little time to play with my Cricut and this is the results. My dear friend gave me the pretty paper pad quite some time ago and I could not make myself cut it until now! After seeing a couple of challenges, I decided to play along and cut the paper. It has glitter on some areas of the paper..not sure if you can see that in the photo. My card is 5" x 6 1/2" white cardstock and layered with the floral print paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Christmas/Noel - Window is cut at 5". I layered a piece of vellum behind the window panes for the peeking through look!

Mother's Day Bouquet - Flower 3 is cut at 1.25" and 1" from a piece of the floral background paper.

The pretty crinkle ribbon is blog candy from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces. Many thanks Karen! 

Lace and pearls are from my stash.

Challenges: 

Papercraft Star - Ch. 146 Beauty. I love flowers and see beauty in each of the pretty blooms!
My Craft Spot - Ch. 98 Ribbon & Twine (Use ribbon or twine somewhere on project)

The Shabby Tea Room - Week. 167 Open Window - Inspiration by colors in the photo and add a window.

Thanks for your visits and comments!

My first Cuttlebug Brocade Window card

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My Cuttlebug folders arrived! Whenever I saw the great sale on some older Cuttlebug folders at Cricut, I jumped at the chance to purchase the Emboss Plus 5" x 7" Brocade Window at $1.99. I wanted to buy more of the Emboss Plus folders, but they were already sold out.

This is my first card using the Brocade Window and I really like the looks! Card is 5" x 7" cut from a cream Recollections cardstock. The cut and embossed window is from The Paper Studio Light Burlap. For the window opening I used The Paper Studio Eloise Floral and the flowers are also cut from this paper.

Cricut Cartridge:

Mother's Day Bouquet - Flowers are cut using Flower 8 at varying sizes. 

Martha Stewart Fern punch used for the greenery. I do not know the name of that punch so I call it greenery punch. If you know the name, please tell me!

Like most of us, I have bought crafting items that I seem to hoard!  Last year, I bought pretty paper pad, brads, buttons, die cuts, and trinkets of Bo Bunny Little Miss collection. For today's project, I chose to use the dress form and the green scroll die cuts from the collection..love those colors! Dress form is pop-dotted on the card.

Other supplies from my stash include the Venice Lace Collection motif, crochet doily, the button that is in the doily and the Love button which is pop-dotted on the card. These buttons have been stashed a long time. Recollection Pearls and Michael's ribbon trim for the bow complete the look. Of course, lots of inking!

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Flowers

Celebrate the Occasion - Ch. 112  3 Flowers, 2 buttons, 1 Ribbon,

CWC - Ch. 134 Lace

Paper Playtime - Ch. 10 Button or Brads  May 13 - May 26

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 166 Sweet SpringTime- Use pink, green, white or cream, and a sewing element

Hope you enjoy this card! Maybe you are inspired to use some of those crafty items that you have been hoarding! Thanks for your visits and comments!