Valentines idea's for rockers!!!

I made this card for my husband for his birthday, he got guitar heros on tour (yes, the drumsand everything, i was so pleased with 3 boys in the house......!!!) so I decided to make him a guitar shaped card!!!

I used indie art for the cut and welded 2 guitars together in ds, there are lots of little fiddly bits to it but it was great fun to do. I wanted it to look kind of real so I used silver metallic thread for the strings. The strings are attached with some 3d glaze. For the inside I used a bit of the left over cut so it didn't look too plain!!

I used double sided patterned cardstock as it made it a really easy way to get some colour into the guitar that was co-ordinated!!!!

I thought all it would need to make it a valentines card would be a change of sentiment to 'Valentine, you rock my world'

Lily-boo's boutique fairy.

Here are a couple of cards I made with one of my big sister sam's brand new valentine fairy image stamps ( this one is available to buy for just £1, which I think is around $1.40 ish!!).

I love this fairy, she is so versatile!! she perched beautifully on top of a rock on my hearts pop up cards (more valentine inspiration guys!! lol !!) and sat gorgeously on the edge of the polka dot card ( think that one is my fav!).

I can no way colour as well as my big sis but I am still pleased with my effort!! I added a little sparly 'fairy dust' ( ok, ok its glitter glue really!!) and the paper is funky hand paper, I think it is 'salt and pepper'

Heres the link for funky hand, the link will take you straight to the sat and pepper page!!!:http://www.funkyhand.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=25

And if you want to buy the image of the fairy (oh please do!!!!) click on the paypal link below. I have popped a picture of her uncoloured as she will be!!

Thankyou for peeking at her, she's so thoughtful sat there with her heart.

File will be e-mailed asap

The cuttlebugspot challenge entry!

I had so much with the challenge I am taking part in on the cricut mb that I decided to get brave and do another one. I went to the cuttlebug spot and thought I would have a go at that one ( you should see the designers cards,they are awesome) so here is my go at the challenge.

I used the spots and dots folder to emboss the party hat card that I designed on my cricut ds and found some 'manly' double sided cardstock in my stash. I liked it so much when it was done that I made another one, they are always handy to have incase a male birthday creeps up on me!!!!!

I hope it is good enough for the challenge, I am not really used to doing them so I am not 100% sure whats the done thing!!!! lol !!!

more valentines inspiration!!

well, I couldn't get my blog to load pictures last night so I thought I would try it before I go to work!!!!

****All credit for the bases of these cards must go to Susan, please click on the link to her blog in my bloglist on the right hand side (Susan blue robot). If you haven't been before she shares her knowledge of the cricut and some amazing cute files and is so giving, her tutorials are great and if you have any questions she answers them so quickly. She really is a lovely lady.

So here are some of the first cards I ever made when I got my cricut and downloaded the trial version of ds, I thought these cards had a 'love' feeling to them!!

The cute guy in the kebab card is my little mo but you could easily change the photo for a valentines greeting!!

grrrrr, can't upload pictures on my blog tonight!!

grrrrr, I have been trying to upload some more valentines ideas for you all but my blog just won't let me do it. I will try again tommorrow xxxx

lacy's shadowbox card

Many, many thanks to Lacygilbertson from the cricut mb for this gorgeous shadow box file. I thought it would be a good addition to the valentines card inspiration I am going for at the moment!!!!

I made this card a while ago from a cut file that Lacy shared on the mb, i loved it and made one as a thankyou to Lacy for the file, i am sure if you pm her she will still have the file.

Envelope shaped card that could be a 'Love Letter' card?!!

I thought this one might make a good 'Love Letter' card with a few hearts instead of the flowers?!!

Explosion box 'I love you'

I was sat thinking last night what I could post today, I decided on posting a few cards I have made that I think would make lovely valentines cards if they are changed from the birthday greetings to a valentiney one!!!!! I thought it might inspire anyone stuck for ideas that are a little different!!
This is the explosion box I made for my dad to give to my mum on her birthday, He was so chuffed with it.

I am taking part in my first challenge!!!!

oooh I am so excited!!!! I am taking part in my first challenge on the cricut mb, heres a copy of our rules!!! (shamelessly copied and pasted from nilda's op!!)
This is our January teams... you can decide on a team name on your own... and if you want a team captain.its up to you ... here is how this will work
1. Create a LO or Card with the numbers 2009 .
2. Your creation must have 2009 cut from a cricut cartridge
3. When you have your project ready to post , your team must create a Thread with the Title " January Cricut Team Challenge (your team name).
4. Every team member needs to post under their same team thread (no individual threads..this will make it easier for voting )
5. All projects need to be posted no later that January 29th, voting will be open the 30th and 31st. ..anything posted after the 29th will not be considered for voting
6. very important.... Have fun Fun Fun

Paper Perfection ........... Red Hot Cricut Peppers
TBug ............... . Nilda
sockmonkeykitty ...........grammat
JaniceSchmidt ...............KweenScrapper69
goatesgirl .................DanielleP
jackierussett.................amysangels2
CPKarateMom.................Nicky
~Carla~...................Me&LiliCie
Nancybeth..................Inspired*Scrapper
Mom2ZZ...................designsbydawn
loopylou.................**Familystrong**
buggincrazy.............Twizzie

Both teams have their own thread for posting their creations (lou seriously considers posting only the link for team one with an evil smile and laugh........lol!!!!) here are the links:

TEAM ONE.
http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=3663110

TEAM TWO
http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=3666941&mpage=1&key=&#3668301


Check out my teams logo (team one)one the right hand side column!!My big sister, Sam, is amazing and she drew the fairy, it is part of a portfolio we are putting together to make into image stamps to sell but we are slow!! Rebecca added the words and hey presto a little logo was born.
Don't forget to check out the links and vote!!!!

Finally posting little mo's birthday card!!!

Hellloooo everybody!!! I am finally getting round to posting little mo's birthday card for you!! Sorry but it is not a great photo as the card has been held by my little man and is a little squished!! (oh well, at least I know he liked it!!)

He loves Go Diego and here in the UK we don't have too much Diego stuff around so I headed straight for the nickjnr website (the US one has some really cool craft things on it for little guys) and clicked on Go Diego and there were some scrapbooking page downloads (ooooh!!!) so I printed them out on some card and printed a couple of Diego's to layer him up a little ( the rope was fiddly!!!!lol!!!)

Mo is at that age where he loves seeing his name on things so I popped some foam letters on the front and glittered glued them (because he sparkles my life so I felt he needed bling!!)

It is a really simple card but really has been well loved my little man!!!