Jennifer's Creations

I'm Back

2010-04-24T20:13:00.002-04:00

Hello all,

It has been a long time since I posted. I have been a little preoccupied playing farmville on facebook. My new "spring resolution" is to start back on my card making and scrapbooking.

It is supposed to rain tomorrow so my goal is to make a card for mother's day. Now that I have written it down I will have to follow through. It will make me accoutable now!!!

Thanks for all the followers that have stayed with me and I hope to have more items posted soon.

Jenifer

Anniversary Card for my Parents

2010-01-26T21:25:00.002-05:00

This is Wedding Anniversary Card that I made for my parents. I used Printing 101 for the "Happy Anniversary", DS to weld them together, and Stretch Your Imagination for the Bride and Groom. I used my cuttlebug to emboss the white part and a little glitter on the Bride's Dress. They really liked the card. I found a nice saying for the inside at www.verses4cards.co.uk.

This is a great site for lots of different sayings if you are at a loss for words.

I'm Still Here ....

2010-01-26T21:20:00.002-05:00

It has been a while since I posted on my blog and I have been slack at updating

and reading my comments. I want to thank everyone who is following my blog.

It is nice to know that there are people that are interested in my work.

My Scrap Space

2009-12-29T21:11:00.005-05:00

My Newest Craft and Scrap Space

Here are a few pics of my newly created space. I had a walk-in closet that was just holding a bunch of junk. I purged and reassigned homes for all that stuff and added my craft stuff in it's place. It is a 4 ft x 5.5ft space and it has all that I need. I used upward storage to maximize my space. Thanks for taking time to look at my space.

My Workspace - my DH put a shelf above it for storage and a LED task light. The Sterilite container holds my 8.5 x 11 card stock, my ribbon is rolled around cross stitch spools in the "tackle box" style container, I used a 5 x 7 index card holder for my cuttlebug embossing folders, my Cuttlebug, and the picture box is holding my stickers.

My Computer Armoire and my JetMax Storage.

My Cricut sits on top of my computer armoire.

My Paper Storage sits on top of the Jetmax cubes. I used a 12 x 12 Cropper Hopper storage for the full and half sheets and 2 sterilite 3-drawer containers for scraps.

Top drawer holds my clear unmounted stamps and stamp pads. It also has all my extra scrapbook adhesive.

Middle drawer holds my pens, hole punches, and misc tools.

Bottom drawer holds my personal trimmer, Martha Stewart glitter, Cricut tool kit (under my trimmer), and misc tools.

Middle Cube was originally a paper cube with the dividers. I kept one in place and used my Creative Memories paper dividers to store my patterned paper. I have a sterilite container with my 8x8 DCWV paper packs, and misc magazines, paper, etc.. to the side.

The Bottom cube is a paper cube but I use it to keep other things organized. It holds my 12" trimmers, cricut 12x12 mats, Martha Stewart Score Board, extra pages for my current album and another album with pages.

Diaper Pouch Fold Bag

2009-12-14T21:35:00.004-05:00

I made these containers for stocking stuffers for my co-workers.

I used the Diaper Pouch Fold from SplitCoastStampers website.

I used diecuts of gingerbread childrens decorated with

Martha Stewart glitter.

Our 2009 Christmas Card

2009-12-09T22:20:00.003-05:00

I made a simple card this year. I used the Christmas tree from Christmas Cheer, cotton for the snow and a gold star brad for the tree topper.

My 1st Tri-Fold Card

2009-12-09T22:18:00.003-05:00

I have to admit this was not an easy card for me to make.

I had a few bumps along the way but in the end I think it

turned out pretty. I used the Happy Birthday Cuttlebug

folder on the pink pieces and added some paper flowers

for that little extra something.

Male Birthday Card

2009-12-09T22:15:00.003-05:00

So I know it has been a while since I posted. So here is a card that I made for a friend of my Husband. Male cards are very hard for me to do but I like the way this one turned out.

My Co-Worker Turned 40.....

2009-11-02T22:42:00.003-05:00

My Co-Worker turned 40 today. I made her a card and a lollipop basket.

She is a HUGE Pluto fan so that made the card easy to come up with.

The basket was something that I came up with a little at a time.

I altered her a clock but forgot to take a picture.

Cartridges used: Mickey and Friends for Pluto

Paper Pups for "Happy Birthday"

Scrap paper for the background.

Inside: Have a Dog-on Good One.

Cartridges used: Doodletype

$1 Tree basket, left over ribbon and lollipops.

She loved it.....

Recent Cards...

2009-10-10T18:36:00.002-04:00

Here are a couple recent cards that I created for a few birthdays in the family last week.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Party - 4th bday party

2009-07-17T17:01:00.003-04:00

Our daughter wanted a Mickey Mouse theme birthday last year. I didn't have my cricut then but we did a lot of the decorations ourselves. Here are a few things that we did.

My Mom made the cake...

I made the headbands you see on the girls heads. They are made from plain white plastic headbands I got from ACMoore (2/$1.00). Then I took the sturdy felt and cut the ears out. I made a sleeve for the headband out of fabric felt and then hand sewn on the ears. They were a big hit.

Since we had the party at the park we had to make the shelter stand out (not really but we did anyway LOL). Here is a close up of wooden characters that we painted. We projected each character onto a piece of wood. Then cut them out, painted them, put a clear coat on top, then finally mounted to a stake so that we could hammer them into the ground. We tried to get each kids' picture with the characters.

Here is the view of the shelter from a distance. I guess we did stand out. LOL

July 4th Door Decoration

2009-07-01T15:45:00.003-04:00

I didn't have anything Patriotic for the 4th of July so I decided to make something. I had the container that I have been using for a while now but I repurposed it for this.

I haven't gotten the Stand and Salute cartridge yet so I had to improvise. I used the fireworks from Happily Ever After (Mulan) and stars from George. It is had to see but I used glitter paper for the the fireworks and card stock for the stars. I had 2 small flags lying around so I added them to it.

More Cards....

2009-06-26T14:32:00.003-04:00

My husband asked me to make a Thank You card for a resident at the apt complex he works because she brought the whole staff lunch on Monday. So I thought this would be a great time to try to Joy fold card. I should have made it a bit bigger than the instructions but it was just fine.

Thank you to Beate Johns from splitcoaststampers for her tutorial. Now to try to figure the dimensions to make it a bigger card HMMM....

Here is a card that I made for my DD to give to my Dad. I got the idea from ShellyWorld from the PAF forum. **Thanks a bunch**.

I have to admit I thought that it was a bigger card than it turned out to be - those pesky cameras LOL. Anyway - my dad liked it and still has it displayed.

Father's Day Cards

2009-06-20T15:57:00.005-04:00

Here are just a few of the cards that I made this year for Father's Day. I created 5 so far but only took pics of 3. I hope all the Fathers in my family have a GREAT day.

First is a card that made to give to my husband. He is handy with tools and just finished building our storage shed so I thought that this would be perfect. I downloaded the cut file from Ruelysi (Thank you). But I ended up doing this from the downloaded pdf files from melstampz.blogspot.com. (Thank you too). I altered it to be a card instead of a "belt bag". I used tool diecuts left over from my CM stash. The inside says "You build the foundation to our family"

Second is a card I made for my dad for my husband and me to give him. I used the waterfall tutorial from Kathy Logan at Splitcoaststampers to create it (Thank you). It took me some time to figure it out but I did and I love the card. The background paper is DCWV and the 4 sayings are "A Father, Listens with is heart, Speaks with Hugs, Teaches by Example." Hope he likes it.

Lastly is a card that my daughter will be giving her daddy. She wanted to make him a softball themed card so we found big baseball stickers WM, I hand cut the field, mounted it to some baseball saying background paper, cut DAD from PS and that was it. Pretty simple but I think he will love it since he plays softball for a team at work. The inside says "You're a homerun hit out of the park" She is so excited to give it to him. Thank for looking at my creations.

2009-06-13T08:24:00.003-04:00

My daughter has a party to go to today and the little girl is a Flamingo fan. Thanks to Laurinda from the Cricut Message board for her cut file. Here are the things I made her....

I bought a cheap towel from WM and used the Freezer Paper Method to add the flamingos and her name. I used fabric paint from the WM craft dept. I didn't quite make them even but I think it turned out pretty good.

This is a 4x4 card with simple paper and the same flamingo cut except I added the wing and used a pop dot to make it stand out.

I hope her friend likes it.

Wonder Woman Birthday Card

2009-06-10T21:37:00.002-04:00

My daughter had a bday party to go to and the little girl is a big Super Hero Fan. I didn't know how to make a Spiderman or Batman so I found a Wonder Woman made karen-p from the cricut.com PDDU forum and used that as inspiration for a Girl Super Hero Card.

Wanted to Share...

2009-06-10T20:56:00.006-04:00

It has been such a pleasure for me to be able to download CDS files from others that I wanted to add one for everyone to download from me. So here is the cut file for my banner flags that I created for my daughter's birthday banner. I used GBS for it. You can get 2 flags from one sheet of 12x12 paper. I hope everyone enjoys it.

Here is the link to my file :

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=86a7b0b288f481880c814df2efeadc50e04e75f6e8ebb871

Here is a screen shot of what it looks like.

More Decorations from my Daughter's Party

2009-06-02T20:51:00.002-04:00

I created these with the HEA and DCT cartridges. They are cut at 4.5" - 5". I used them to hag from the top of the canopy. They were laminated so that the humidity didn't wrinkle them.

Daughter's Birthday Party

2009-05-26T17:18:00.004-04:00

This year our Daughter turned 5 so we of course had a big party. She wanted a Princess Party but she also wanted to include the boys so the theme ended up being Knights & Princesses. I made the invitations on my computer using a Medieval Font. I had to be frugal so we made a lot of the deocorations. We bought the Fisher Price inflatable bouncer on sale for a little more than it would have been to rent one. My mom made her cake and we used things that we had around the house for the kids to play with. They had a GREAT time.

Our daughter's costume for her party.

We wanted the boys to be able to "slay" the dragon so we used the Dragon from the Cricut Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge. I used my markers and "cut" it on regular copy paper then projected it onto a piece of 1/4" plywood, then painted it the colors my daughter chose, we staked it in the yard. The boys had a FUN time slaying the dragon - they even broke the wood.

Since my Mom has made cakes since I was little she has of course made all of my daughters cakes. This year she made the castle cake. Everyone gasped over it.

I made the banner for her party using CDS to make the banner flags and added the Disney Princesses from Happily Ever After and Dreams Come True Cartridges. I also added the "extras" to fill up the empty space on the banners with the letters that spelled out HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY.

Miscellaneous Cards

2009-05-26T17:01:00.007-04:00

OK - I have found that a daily blogger I am not. But when I do add a post I add a lot at once. So here we go.
My daughter's classroom had a lot of birthdays in May (including her's). I knew that buyig aard and a gift for each one would have killed the purse strings. So I found inexpensive gifts and made the cards from things I had around the craft room.
Here are a few of the cards....

New Card

2009-04-06T21:05:00.004-04:00

My daughter got invited to a birthday party for one of her friends. We wanted to make her a special card. The invitation was Ariel so we thought that it would be a perfect fit to do an Ariel card. Inside I wrote - "Have a Swimmingly Fun Birthday".

I'm Back

2009-02-21T20:53:00.008-05:00

Seems like forever that I have posted on my blog. I gave myself some time off since the January Card a Day Challenge. Took a long weekend trip to Florida, and of course Valentine's Day has come and gone. I have only worked on a couple of things so far this month but will start full swing again next month - as I will be making a lot of things for my daughter's 5th birthday. Wish me luck.

Here is a card that I made for a good friend of mine. It was made from DCWV Color Block Prints paper and Random flowers that I rec'd from a RAK. I used a stencil for the lettering.

Here is the treat bag we made for my daughter's Pre-K class. I used Jen Balcer's (?) tutorial on Split Coast Stampers to create the bag (2-5-7-10) and used my Cricut to cut 24 hearts using the Quantity Button (what a great function).

Challenge Card #31

2009-01-31T21:44:00.003-05:00

Card #31
I did it 31 cards in 31 days. This card was inspired by the ribbon I found at a local pottery store. I stamped black dots on red card stock, added the ribbon to outside. The inside I stamped red dots and drew my own lady bugs on the red background. I came up with the saying/poem for the card.

This challenge was GREAT. I have made a lot of my family cards for the year but I still have a lot more to go. I want to thank Jennifer Wuthrich for the challenge and for getting me going.

Thanks for sharing this experience with me.

Challenge Card #30

2009-01-30T21:46:00.004-05:00

Card #30
I used some of my RAK paper flowers and stamps from Carol on this card. Still trying to figure out how to make my cards pop a little more so this one is lacking something but I think it is still cute.

Challenge Card #29

2009-01-29T21:45:00.005-05:00

Card #29

This is just an extras bday card. I cut happy birthday out of glitter card stock, for another card, and it didn't cut all the way through so I just pulled off the top layer. It left the negative so I used glitter glue to pop the negative and used deco scissors to cut around it. I matted it on a piece of patterned paper and used extra cuts from both on the inside.

Challenge Card #28

2009-01-28T21:50:00.005-05:00

Card #28

I think this card is cute. It is made with Chip from MAF and Relax from Paper Pups. I had cut these months ago and have been trying to use what I have already cut and these seemed to work together.

Challenge Card #27

2009-01-27T21:43:00.002-05:00

Card #27
This card is made with a Roo form PAH that I cut before Christmas and had it in a pile of extra stuff. I thought it was a great pose to have for a Big Bday Wish for my daughter to give to her grandmother. Enjoy.

Challenge Card #26

2009-01-26T21:44:00.004-05:00

Card #26
I made this card from a frame that I cut from the PAF cartridge and was lying around in a drawer. I used it as a tag holder and printed my message on the pieces of paper thanks to BarbaraRouse's instructions on her blog. Here is the link... http://spotofsanity.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-print-on-die-cut-shapes.html.
It is a different type of "card" but I like the way it turned out. Enjoy

Challenge Card #25

2009-01-25T23:02:00.001-05:00

Card #25

A Card for our daughter for Valentine's Day.

Challenge Card #24

2009-01-24T22:02:00.004-05:00

Card #24
Simple Bday Card with Genie from Aladdin. He is one of my favorite characters - maybe because I like Robin Williams. He is cut at 5" (which didn't seem that small but it has lot of little pieces.)

Outside

Inside

Challenge Card #23

2009-01-23T21:49:00.003-05:00

Card #23
Just a simple Father's Day card. I had the sticker laying around and I cut a piece of patterned paper to fit and that was that.

Challenge Card #22

2009-01-22T22:08:00.003-05:00

Card #22
Nothing too spectactular but I think it turned out OK.

Challenge Card #21

2009-01-21T22:25:00.004-05:00

Card #21

My daughter calls my mom "Mana" and my grandma "Great Mana". Great Mana calls Allie her litle princess so I made this card for my daughter to give to her for Mother's Day. Enjoy.

Challenge Card #20

2009-01-20T22:48:00.002-05:00

Card #20
This is a card for my daughter's 5th bday. It is not exactly how I thought it would be so it will probably change before her bday. Enjoy!!!

Challenge Card #19

2009-01-19T21:33:00.004-05:00

Card #19
I was trying to use some of the cuts I had laying around and came up with a Get Well card using Sleepy.

Challenge Card #18

2009-01-18T21:45:00.004-05:00

Card #18
My daughter told me she wants a Princess Party this year so I started thinking of all the things my Cricut can do and save me $$. I came up with her Thanks you Note Cards. I will write the message and she can sign her name in the space below Thanks. Enjoy.

Challenge Card #17

2009-01-17T10:07:00.002-05:00

Card #17
My DD wanted to do a Valentines Day card for her Daddy so we chose Paper Pups and did the Puppy Love Dog Card. She chose the colors and the glitter she wanted to use. Enjoy.

Challenge Card #16

2009-01-16T22:39:00.004-05:00

Card #16

Anniversary Card for my in-laws...

Inside...

Front...

Challenge Card #15

2009-01-15T21:23:00.005-05:00

Card #15

Challenge Card #14

2009-01-14T22:20:00.002-05:00

Card #14
Easter Card for our Daughter

Challenge Card #13

2009-01-13T22:14:00.005-05:00

Card #13
I used CDS & George to create the Card with Grandpa cut out of it. Then I added paper behind to add the detail to the letters and some odds and ends stickers that I had laying around. Enjoy.

Challenge Card #12

2009-01-12T22:09:00.003-05:00

Card #12

This one is a card made without Cricut. It wanted to make it easy for my 92 year old Grandmother to read. I thought that typing it would make it easier for her. Enjoy.

Inside....

Challenge Card #11

2009-01-11T22:12:00.004-05:00

Card #11 (1/11/09)

This is a simple Mother's Day Card.

Challenge Card #10

2009-01-10T22:04:00.004-05:00

Card #10 (1/10/09)

This is a Bday card for my Mother in Law who is a Mary Kay Director. I used the MK colors for the purse from MAF. On the inside I used the lipstick and nail polish as accents to our birthday greeting.

Challenge Card #9

2009-01-09T22:44:00.004-05:00

Card #9 (1/9/9)

This is just a simple Valentine's Day card for my husband. We went to Disney World for our honeymoon so this image seemed right. I used the words from the verse of our 1st dance as the message on the inside.

Challenge Card #8

2009-01-08T20:54:00.004-05:00

Card #8 (1/8/9)
This is a card for my daughter to give to her grandmother. Her Grandmother is a Mickey Fan so this was a GREAT card for my daughter to give her. It opens from top (mickey holds the flap). The inside has the same background paper but has a piece of white paper for my daughter to sign her name. Enjoy!!

Challenge Card #7

2009-01-07T22:02:00.005-05:00

Card #7 (1/7/09)

For my FIL - He loves to fish. I used brown paper (for masculinity), added patterned paper to look like water, added a sticker of a canoe and oars that I had and made Mickey & Happy Birthday with my Cricut.

Challenge Card #6

2009-01-06T22:07:00.004-05:00

Card #5 (1/6/9)

Challenge Card #5

2009-01-05T22:19:00.003-05:00

Card #5

This is a bday card for my niece Dalyn. I used CDS to create the card.

Challenge Card #4

2009-01-04T21:58:00.003-05:00

Card #4 is an Anniversary Card for my parents this saturday. I didn't use Cricut on this one.

Challenge Card #3

2009-01-03T22:57:00.005-05:00

Card #3

My brother is a HUGE Tarheel Fan so I used the Trial version of CDS and welded the NC together to look like their logo. It was my first time using CDS - might have to buy the full package now.

Challenge Cards #1 & #2

2009-01-01T22:30:00.008-05:00

OK so I was reading the Cricut message board and ran across Jennifer Wuthrich's post with a Challenge to make 1 card a day for the month of January. So I took her challenge and I will try to make all my family's birthday, anniversary, etc... cards this month. I am going to post them as I complete them. Enjoy.

Card #1 (1/1/09)

Card #2 (1/2/09)

Advent Calendar

2008-11-21T22:37:00.003-05:00

Here is our Advent Calendar I created out of a 12x12 scrapbook page, 2" SYI envelopes 1" black numbers and misc. Christmas themed stickers from my box.

2008 Christmas Card

2008-11-18T14:15:00.004-05:00

Our 2009 Christmas card using my Cricut Expression Machine. I used Platin Schoolbook for the envelope and Pooh and Friends for the Snow Frame for the front of the card.

Envelope: Platin Schoolbook envelope cut at 4" out of blue

Card: Grey Card Stock for card 4 x 8

PAF SnowFrame cut at 3.5" Layer 1 = white Layer 2 = blue

Jazzed up the card using just plain silver glitter glue from crayola.

2008-11-14T17:24:00.004-05:00

Here are a few of my Cricut Creations.

Birthday card using Disney Princess Cartridges
Thinking of you Card for my daughters friend - Cinderella is a favorite character.