Butterflies

Father's Day is coming up, so I wanted to make something for my husband.  He has always been fascinated with butterflies.  He had a butterfly garden at home, but the nursing home he is in doesn't have one, so he can't enjoy them as much as he would like.  

I used Close to My Heart Paper  in the colors of Denim Blue and Honey for the butterflies and New England Ivy for letter shadows, with Olive for the letters. I used the Cricut cartridge Art Philosophy for all of the cut outs.  

This cards is very simple, but took some time to make, as it was hard to place letters on top of the shadow letters in just the right way.  This card will fit in several contests this week; Color My Heart, Fantabulous Cricut Challenge, and Bitten by the Bug 2.  

I wish all the fathers out there a very happy Father's Day.  

Music

My favorite younger grandson (I also have a favorite older grandson) will be 16 this month.  He loves music and plays a mean trumpet.  So for his birthday card, I used the Cricut Quarter Note Cartridge  to cut the trumpet and the notes and the Cricut Craft Room Basics to cut the heart.  To keep with the Heart to Heart contest, I used Blue for the heart.  For the embossing on the heart, I used the Cricut Cuttlebug Floral Bouquet and sanded over the top with Close to my Heart fine sandpaper purchased from Katie's Corner.  All of this altering means it fits the Bitten by the Bug 2 Challenge this week, also!  On the inside of the card I used the Music of Life Close to my Heart stamp "Music is Love in Search of a Word with Close to my Heart Outdoor denim ink.   Since my card includes so many die cuts, I'm also sending it over to Scrapbooker PhD where the challenge is to use your die cuts!

Let Your Heart Soar

Isn't this weather wonderful?  Even when there are storms, it is warm and NO SNOW!!

My flowers are starting to bloom, which inspired me to do Heart to Heart's garden theme.  I used Close to My Heart  card stock (from Katie's Corner, of course) and my Cricut to make the tree, animals and the flowers.  I used Close To My Heart markers to make accents on flowers, and the deer.

flowers and rain

The challenge themes over at Heart 2 Heart (Flowers) and Fantabulous Cricut Challenge (April Showers) inspired this card.

The flowers were cut from three different Cricut cartridges:  purple flowers from Walk in My Garden, yellow from Easter, and red from Mother's Day.

The clouds were cut from the Cricut cartridge Serenade.  The cat is from Cricut Animal Kingdom.

The stamp set is Close to My Heart Follow Your Dreams and stamped with CTMH Outdoor Denim ink.  I used glue drops with glitter for the rain and put some black water color on a yellow cat to represent a tiger cat.

# 1 Nephew

I thought the Retrosketches Challenge and the Color My Heart Challenge went together perfectly.  I used the Cricut Cartridge Art Philosophy 5 in. outdoor denim-4 in. Indian corn blue-3 in. Honey Close to My Heart paper.  The "button" is Cricut  Artiste from CTMH Pacifica paper with a black #1 glued on it and a heavy coat of Liquid glass.  The ribbon is also CTMH Pacifica paper.  They word nephew is an old CTMH stamp Private Eye Tiny Caps in CTMH Pacifica ink. Since I only have one nephew, he is my #1 nephew.  He would be my #1 Nephew even if I had a dozen!  I will put a birthday sentiment on the inside and hope I get it sent to him on his birthday.

Follow your dreams

It is such a beautiful, happy spring day so for the Exploring Cricut Challenge I used the spring theme with red and yellow tulips.  The flowers are from the cartridges A Child's Year and Cindy Loo.  I added the bunny from the cartridge Easter for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge.  The birds are from the Cindy Loo cartridge and were put in for the Bitten By the Bug 2 Challenge. The grass is from the Easter cartridge and the tree from the Cindy Loo.  

The tree and the tulips were made by cutting one tree and the four tulips from green and one tree from brown and two tulips each from yellow and red.  I cut the green leaves from the green tree and glued them on the brown tree.  Tulips were made by cutting heads from the red and yellow and gluing them to the green stems and leaves.  Follow your dreams was stamped by using the Close To My Heart stamp Follow Your Dreams with CTMH Outdoor Denim stamp pad ink.  The birds, bunny and blooms have been covered with CTMH liquid glass.

Mama Bunny and Son

What a wonderful season!  Easter cards are so much fun to make. For the Color My Heart Challenge I chose the Cricut cartridge Artbooking for the frame, Close to my Heart juniper paper and embossed it with the Cuttlebug  Dot folder.  I used the CTMH stamp set Egg Hunt and used CTMH pencils in Juniper, Sorbet and Creme Brulee.  I also used the neutral color grey for the bunnies. To make the bunnies and the egg to standout a little more, I covered them with liquid glass.  I get my CTMH products from Katie's Corner.