Chantilly and 50

Hi there everyone!!!

I have had a SUPER busy month! with the Valentine treat bag orders, January ctmh orders and of course my mothers 50th Birthday!

I made her several items, I will post those up later this week. To start off, The family as a whole took her out to dinner this past week to one of her favorite restaurants. They asked me to make her a birthday card... go figure! I should have seen that one coming LOL!

Any way, her other gifts took so much of my free time between work, and family stuff you know how it is that I did wait until the day of the  dinner to put this card together. So I did the easy thing... a Mojo Monday sketch!! I was so excited that it was one that I really liked and saw that it had major potential. Plus I had been itching to get back into doing more mojo monday cards. If you dont know about mojo monday feel free to check them out HERE.

Ok so enough chit chat... here is my Card: 

I absolutely LOVE it!!!!! I love how when I am on a crunch for time... and dont have much time for contemplating my ideas and design, things just turn out SO much BETTER than expected!  Plus I used NEW products from the New Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book! It is available for your viewing online, Click HERE.

Here is the sketch from Mojo Monday that I followed:

Here is a close up of the detail, this card is 5x7

The inside reads: your one of the Wisest people I know.

Materials used:

1.  Chantilly paper pack
2.  Chantilly complements dimensional elements 
3. Black and Grey Glitter paper 
4. Bitty opaques adhesive pearls
5. Opaques adhesive pearls  
6. Just a Number Stamp set (D1514) 
7. Slate ink pad

Hope that you enjoyed my card! My mother sure did! :) Stay tuned for the rest of her gifts and another AMAZING card!

~Diana

Birthday Boy Badge

Good Afternoon everyone!

Today is my son's 6th Birthday and to celebrate it at school I got him an awesome cupcake "Cake" for  his class for lunch. Plus I made him this SUPER cool Birthday Badge!! I was quite impressed with it and so was he!!

I used the Super Hero paper (retired) from CTMH and Grosgrain Outdoor Denim ribbon also. I used my Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out the part the sentiment went on (Happy Birthday) and used my 1 1/4" circle punch for the "To Me!" part! I added a bit of Glitz glitter gel in red to the ribbon for a bit of color. What do you think??

playing with Cricut Craft Room

So today I decided to play round with my Cricut Craft Room (CCR) and so far I have to say that I really Like it!! We will see if I get to LOVE it.


Everything I made in this post was cut using the Art Philosophy Cartridge


I was trying to make some Lollipop covers for my Niece's Bday and I made a 2in tag with holes on each end. Turns out perfect width just not long enough. So I got this bright idea..." on the CCR you can just stretch the image" and VIOLA!! just like that I had perfect size Covers!! and I can arrange them on my mat perfectly side by side to fit more than I would if just cut straight from the cricut! :)

So after that I got to playing with it some more and thought lets try making a quick banner.... (why not).

So again used the CCR and used 5.5" triangles with the holes on each side on the top. I placed them side by side (one up and one down) as close as possible together... (a GREAT advantage from CCR). 


Then I cut Stars and arranged them the same way, kind like a puzzle where I tried to interlock them as close together as possible so more would fit on my mat. With in minutes I had my objects cut and I was ready to assemble!


I inked the edges of both triangles and stars. I used the 3d foam to stick the stars onto the triangle to give it some dimension.


I decided to spell my son's name out and just cut out some letters using the CCR in black and glued them onto the stars. 

Last but not least I strung on some sheer ribbon to tie it all together and VIOLA! done!

Not to shabby for first Banner... lol

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