You Make My Heart Sing!

Hello everyone! Hope you had an awesome weekend, I sure did!

I know that in between getting the kids ready for going back to school is probably consuming a lot of time. In between school supply lists, getting some cute new clothing and shoes....who has time to hit the scraproom?

I'm here to show you some easy to make cards using fabulous bling and flowers from Creative Charms and my Cricut Imagine. (yes, I actually dusted it off....I need to show DH his investment wasn't in vain, ya know!)

I cut out the designs with my Cricut and decided to spice up the already nice art with some bling just to make details that ordinarily would blend in pop right out at you. See the blinged out musical notes and the heart?

 in this close up you see that I used various sizes of the blue gradient gem stickers, you see a bit of the pink and white sparkled flowers, and some of that gorgeous polka dotted scalloped ribbon. Who knew that one little card can contain so many pretty details?

Here you see more of the gems and that pretty stitched flower. The packaging contain different sizes. How cool, right?

Hope that you're inspired to try a quick easy little project using Creative Charms!

Happy Crafting!

Arlene

Birthdays and Butterflies!

I am so in love with these adorable Butterflies from the 3-D Sparkly Garden Brads from the Deal of the Month.  They add just a little bit of whimsy to this card.  I also used the Orange Fancy Felt Flowers on the stamped leaves and the Purple Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon as an accent on this card.  I love this embossing folder for this card because it provides the perfect backdrop for the inset.        

         

This center fold step card was such fun to make.  I love cards that are unique and different.  I also used the 3-D Butterfly on this card but this time in the green and  included the Sparkly Floral gems from the 3D Sparkly Garden Brad collection.  The same stamp was used for the stem on this card.

Time with Dad & Get Well Wishes

Happy Tuesday!

I'm back again with some projects using the June Kit of the month.

First, I created a layout using these gorgeous felt flowers. In this month's kit, they're blue, but you can get them in more amazing colors! These flowers have beautiful stitching, so if you're sewing impaired like I am, you save your finger tips! I also took a sequin flower and punched the inside with a hole punch to fit a brad in.

want to see a closeup?

Now with the scraps from this layout, I created a Get Well Card for my daughter, who had surgery recently.

I really needed an excuse to use that awesome fuzzy blue Fun butterfly! How cute is that???

Don't you just want to reach out and touch that butterfly, or is it just me? Well, I hope you've been inspired to use up that kit, or buy one if you don't already have it! Thanks for taking a peek.

Have an awesome week!
Arlene

A few Creative Charms favorites...

Hi, it's Diane today - thanks for stopping by.  I was given "Designer's Choice" for my post this week so I looked around and found a few favorite items to use for my projects.

These knitted strawberries are one of my favorite items from Creative Charms.  This time of year we are eating lots of strawberries and making strawberry desserts.  This card would be perfect to send along with a pie or some jam that you make for a neighbor.

You can even place a tiny gem sticker in the center of the strawberry flower if you want to add a bit of sparkle.

The papers I use are from Cosmo Cricket, the scalloped circles are made with Spellbinders dies and the "For You" was cut with the Cricut using the Gypsy and the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge.

 

This is a simple little decoration for a girl's room.  I recycled an old acrylic photo frame and added some pretty papers from DCWV, a ribbon, a monogram initial cut with the Storybook Cricut cartridge and lots of gem stickers to decorate the monogram.

I am always happy to see how easy it is to transfer the gradient gem stickers to my projects and they really stay put once I place them.

These fabulous fancy felt flowers are part of the Kit of the Month for June.

I used one large flower and all three small flowers from the kit for this card.  The blue felt frame was cut with a Sizzx die, the card front layer is embossed with the "Polka Dots" Cuttlebug folder and the sentiment was cut with the "Friends Forever" Cuttlebug combo set.

These flowers are charming and they also come in other colors - be sure to check them out HERE.

Don't forget that Creative Charms is having a sale that will run through the 9^th of July. ALL Simplicity items are 70% Off! Simplicity is the line of black and white embellishments (click HERE to go to the Simplicity page on the Creative Charms site).  These are great for graduation projects, weddings and anything else than needs a neutral accent.  Be sure to check these out soon - they may not last long at these prices!

Have a wonderful day!  If you would like to see more details or instructions for these projects, I will be adding posts about them to my blog, Capadia Designs, this week.