Space themed birthday explosion box

This was also for the eight year old, and the ONLY thing he wanted for his birthday was a telescope, so I knew I had to make this space themed.  He wants to study the stars, as he told us, and I used a cute cardstock from DCWV All About Boys for the base of the box.  The strips on top are scraps from the robot easle card in the last post, and the pieces on the inside are a loose sheet from Joann's.  The telescope and rocket ship are from Lettering Delights Outer Space simple shapes, and the star buttons are from Joann's.  To make the telescope 3-D, I cut three of them, and then took scissors to create small tabs to connect them together at the top.  Making it stand was not esay, but I took glue dots, rolled them up, and stuck the leg of the telescopes into the glue ball, then stuck it to the box.  There was a lot of improvising here, and I still do not know how I pulled this one off!!  LOL.

Anyway, thanks for visiting today!

Robot easel birthday card

Since we had the birthday party for my nephews on Saturday, get ready for a few of their cards, lol.  The first was yesterday, and here is the second.  This one was for the eight year old, and he picked out the paper at Michael's, not knowing it was for his card!  So at least I knew he would like it!  The robot is from Lettering Delights Funky Robots clip art set, and the stamp is SU!  This one was really simple and easy, so thanks for visiting today!

Lever birthday card

I just love this set from SVG Cuts!!  This is for my 13 year old nephew's birthday, and he is into skating!  I used the Breezy Backyard Lever Card set from SVG Cuts, Dude cartridge for the skater, and Batman cartridge for the Happy Birthday title.  This card is the pinwheel card, in case anyone wanted to know the style.  The star cardstock is DCWV All About Boys, the blue cardstock is from DCWV Guy Stack, and the inside striped is a loose sheet from Joann's.  The stamp is SU!, and the star buttons are also from Joann's. 

I think I have covered the details, so thanks for visiting today!

Birthday card - Imagine

My brother asked me to make a card for his Goddaughter, whose age he is not sure of, LOL!!!  Oh, brothers...Anyway, I think my niece said the girl is 7 or 8, so I am hoping this is age appropriate!  I used Best Friends for the girl and balloons background, and Yummy for the cake, presents, and sentiment.  I also pop dotted the gifts, although it isn't really noticeable here.  The inside has a mat with a light background patter from yummy, an SU! stamp, and some ribbon from Michaels.  I love how easy and quick Imagine cards are - I finished this off in about 10 minutes, at the most.  Sorry about the pictures coming out crappy also.  I have no idea why that happened.  Thanks for visiting today!

Christmas Lever Card

More Christmas in July!  This is a lever card from the SVG Cuts set Holly Jolly Lever Cards, and this is my first attempt from this set.  All papers are from the S.E.I. Christmas Mint collection, and the card base is a Recollections sheet.  The tag with the sentiment is a cut from Lettering Delights Delilah Tags, and the stamp is SU.  Oh, and just as an aside, if you have Make the Cut and have been out of the loop, you MUST go to the site and download the update.  It is amazing, and has some awesome new features, including the one that imported these layers already in the proper colors!!! 

OK, anyway, instead of using the flowers on the tree itself, I decided to put a couple up in the corners with some white gel pen and green gems to accent them a bit.  Finally, the ribbon on the bottom is just a $0.99 roll from Michaels.  I think that covers it all, so thanks for visiting today!

Christmas in July week!

I figured I would make a few things to "celebrate" Christmas in July, so here is the first.  I used the glitter technique known from many sources, and used Snow Angel with printable vinyl to print out three items for the front.  The flat front ornaments from Michaels are the best choice for these.  The glitter is all from MS iridescent super fine multi pack.  They just need some ribbons, and they are ready to go up on the tree.  These were a super simple, cute way to kick off the week, I thought!  Thanks for visiting today.

Wedding invitations - finished!!!

I finally finished my niece's wedding invitations and presented them to her Tuesday night, and she LOVED them, thank goodness!!  Lol.  This post is going to be pic heavy, so I hope it doesn't load too slowly, sorry!  OK, here are the details.  I used SU! Chocolate Chip and Tempting Turqoise cardstocks and inks, SU! Sweet Swirls wheel stamp, Recollections white cardstock and vellum, and ribbon from Michaels.  The reception cards and invites are printed, and the response card is a stamp I found on eBay, with the SU! Chocolate Chip ink.  The invites are 7.5" by 5.5" overall, the reception cards are 4x3, and the response cards are 2x3.  Finally, the embossing is a Cuttlebug borders set.  I think this covers all of the specs, so without further delay, here are all of the pictures.  Thanks for visiting today!

The entire suite laid out:

 Close-up of the invite:

 And the inside:

 Cloe-up of the reception and response cards:

 And finally, all 100 of them that I made!

Bridal shower card

Hi again everyone!  The last couple of weeks have been hectic, but Mom's bathroom is done, and my niece's wedding invitations are done also!  That was the other big project I was working on, and now that I am finished all of it, I can finally get a beach day in today!!  Woo hoo- first one of the summer!

Anyway, here is the card I made for her shower this past Saturday.  I decided to make a gate fold, and I used Chocolate Chip cardstock, Bride designer series special paper, and a stamp from SU.  I also used a small piece of DCWV glitter paper for the dress with some pop dots, just to give it dimension, and the patterned mat is DCWV also.  The sticker is from Sticko and the cuts are from Wrap it Up and Wild Card (phrase only).  I used gems in the color scheme of her wedding and a few pearls on the dress bodice, and she loved the card!  For some reason, the pic came out a blurry, sorry.  I will be posting the invites tomorrow, so thanks for visiting today!

On a brief hiatus...

...while I remodel my Mom's master bath!  My brother did the shower stall and tile, and I pretty much did everything else - drywall taping and spackling, sanding, painting.  Tomorrow I finish the painting, and hopefully by next Tuesday I finsih off the border and we can get the fixtures in.  I will post some pics when I am totally done, but crafting is on the back burner for now, lol.  Thanks for visiting, and I plan on squeezing some time in tonight to watch the season premiere of Big Brother.  Anyone else, besides Stacy and me??

Happy fourth!!

Good morning everyone!  I just wanted to take a moment to catch up and say Happy 4th!  First, I hope everyone has an enjoyable, safe holiday today and that you get a chance to relax and spend time with those you love!  My boyfriend and I will be hanging out in the heart of where it all started, good old Philadelphia (see picture below). 

Anyway, I have not been creating much lately because I have become OBSSESSED with this Casey Anthony trial.  At this moment, actually, I am watching the prosecution's rebuttal.  This is absolutely riveting stuff for me, and I would love to know if anyone else out there has been watching the proceedings at all.

I will leave you today with a bit of trivia regarding the picture below.  I recently went ot Independence Hall in downtown Philly for the first time.  You read that right - the place where our coutry first started, just 10 blocks from where I lived for 4 years, I had never been to until last week.  Yeah, I am ashamed of that, lol.  Anyway, this picture is of Thomas Jefferson handing George Washington his proposed declaration.  Trivia factoid 1:  Did you know that this actually happened on July 2nd, not the 4th??  Second factoid:  This scene is on the back of the $2 bill.  Yeah, I learned stuff when I went.  LOL.


Anyway, I truly wish all of you a wonderful holiday, and pray for justice for beautiful little Caylee Anthony.  I just hope today isn't the day Casey gets her freedom!!

Laptop decoration with the Imagine

I wanted so badly to use that printable vinyl, so here is what I did.  Of course, there is a story behind it.  Last week, while here for family Sunday dinner, my cat jumped onto my lap, but her claws are literally as sharp as hypodermic needles.  So, I put a pillow on my lap for her to lay on and knead in order to save my legs, now that it is shorts weather. She eventaully curled up and went to sleep on the pillow, and my sister-in-law looked back and said, "She looks like a little princess on that pillow!"  So.....out of my head popped this.  All cuts are from the Best Friends cart, and I changed some colors and layered it in order to customize it for me.  So, what do you think??  LOL!!!  Thanks for visiting today!

Imagine card

Good morning, everyone.  Here is another Imagine card I made to play around a bit, and I loved this cut on Kate's Kitchen.  I made it for my boyfriend, obviously, and I printed the frosting twice to get the extra layers and dimension, as well as using pop dots on the cupcakes and title piece - hopefully the side view will show that well enough.  The card base is DCWV Guy Stack, and I changed the backgroud pattern slightly.  The only thing I would like changed about the I is the flood fill.  I wish I could change colors of certain layers individually, without having it flood fill and lose detail.  But, oh well, I still love it, and plan to play with it a lot more in the coming weeks before I go back to work.  Thanks for visiting today!

Lever birthday card

This is a card from the SVG Cuts Breezy Backyard Lever Cards, and I was really intimidated by this set at first.  They looked really difficult, but it was actually really easy to put together, thankfully.  This particular card is a mixture of SU! and DCWV patterns, the inside stamps are from a Fiskars set from Joann's, and  the "Wonderful Son" is an SP & Company set.  Overall, the card came out to be a 5x5 square, perfect for my Mom to give my brother for his birthday this weekend. 

Thanks for visiting today!

Test cards

These are the first couple of cards I made with the Imagine last night.  They are both from Imagine More Cards, and I switched up the patterns a bit to practice with it.  The birthday card is for my brother, and the congratulations card is for a friend of mine who just graduated from nursing school.  The card base for the birthday card is from DCWV Guy Stack and the mat on the other is from the new Recollections 12x12 patterned paper packs at Michael's.  I know these are really basic and not much to look at, but I hope to get lots more time to play this week.  Thanks for visiting!

Oh. My. Goodness.....

I LOVE my new Imagine.  I am still slightly holding my breath in fear of it being defective, but I did the most recent updates, and so far I love it!  I was off taking my nieces on a tour of historic Philadelphia today, but I am going to finish up a second card tonight and post it.  It took me exactly 10 minutes to get up and running and make a card last night.  I was really excited, but my camera needed charging, so I will take a pic in a little bit and post it.  For now, I am loving this machine, and I ahve barely even scratched the surface of what I can do.

On another note, as requested by Barb (aka Snowmanlover), I have added the gadget to subscribe by e-mail feeds.  So if you prefer, it is located right under the followers.  Stay tuned for some Imagine work.

The Imagine is in the house!!!!

Unfortunately, I am not, LOL!  I am at my boyfriend's for the weekend, and the I arrived at my MOm's today, so there was no waiting by the door for Fed Ex.  Boo...but that's ok.  From all I've heard, I need to mentally prepare for these updates anyway - I have heard baaad things about update attempts.  Oh well.  After three days of trying to get the Gypsy updated, I realized I will not be able to use it with my I right now - it just got too frustrating with not going through properly.  Anyone else have that problem??

But I digress....I actually have a project today, can you believe it??  This is a graduation card for one of my students, whose party I went to last night.  I used CAC for the panda, since that is our school mascot, ACY for the cap, and Wrap it Up for the tag.  DCWV supplied the patterned paper, I used a few stickers for the title and embellishments, and the stamps are from a pack I got at Michael's.

Thanks for visiting today, and wish me luck trying to update the Imagine and Gypsy!!!  Ugh....haha.

A return, and a fun announcement

Wow....I cannot believe I have been off for almost a month!  I'm sure no one really noticed, but I have missed all of my blog friends!  I have been busy with finishing up end of the year stuff at school, working fundraisers for our department, and putting together our entire sports banquet.  Also, this week was the 6th anniversary of my Dad's death, and with Sunday being Father's Day, I usually fall into a funk this time of year.  Throw in the mix a biospy for my Mom (which came back clear, thank God!), and it has been a crazy few weeks.  I actually have made a few cards lately, but am too dissatisfied with them to even post.

However, I have a fun announcement.  After getting a little extra birthday money last month, and stalking eBay for a couple of weeks, I am getting my very own Imagine.  YEP!!  You read that right.  I am cautiously excited, though, because I have seen many mixed reviews on these suckers, so I am taking a wait and see approach.  Also, it seems that a lot of the PC bloggers have not used them much lately, so I don't know if that is a bad sign or not.  I would love to hear from any of you (if anyone is still even following me, lol) that have the Imagine, and all of your thoughts on it, good or bad.  I am hoping that this sparks my creativity and gets me going in the right direction again!  Thanks for visiting!

Explosion box #3

I told you we have a lot of family birthdays in the spring!  This one is for another niece, who hit the teen years last week!  I used the SVG Cuts box template, cupcake, and bird for the inside, and the patterned papers on the inside are DCWV.  The cardstock I used for the base is great, and I wish I had gotten more at Joann's during the sale a couple of weeks ago.  The one exception is the pocket on the inside - that is an SU! pattern.  The stamps are a combination of Scrapmaster's and Above Rubies Studios.  OK, I think that covers it all, so thanks for visiting!

Wow, it's been forever!

I can't believe it has been so long since I posted - oops!!  I have been making a ton of cards (7 in the last 2 days), but I just haven't been on the computer much lately.  Anyway, here is another card I made a la the just a note cart that I will never own (lol).  It is a birthday card for my brother to give to my niece, and I wasn't sure the colors and patterns went together, but I guess it turned out OK.  The phrase on the front is from Lettering  Delights sweet cupcake graphics set, the cupcake on the middle piece is from SVG Cuts Cupcake cards and Tags, and the balloons and flowers are stickers from Recollections.  Both patterend papers were loose sheets from Joann's, and the "My Heavenly Daughter" stamps is from Scrapmaster's line of clear stamps.  I love this set!!!

I made this card in MTC, and used the shadow feature and welded to create the card base.  Thanks for visiting today!

Mother's Day explosion box

Yet another sub-par explosion box, LOL!!  My brother called me a couple of days before mother's day, telling me that my niece, who is 14, requested that I make a card for her to give my SIL for mother's day.  What a sweetie!  Since she loved her explosion box so much, I decided to go ahead and make one.  And yet again, I missed the mark.  I used Lettering Delights' Mother Dear graphic set for the inside flowers, thanks, and I heart mom pieces, as well as the tag on the outside of the box, using the print and cut method.  The pink chipboard paisley element is a piece from DCWV Sweet Stack chipboard box, and the green paper used for the pocket and the lid is from SU!.  The patterned paper for the box is from a K&Co Valentine's Day stack this year, and the "Happy Mother's Day" is from the Mother's day cart (circa 2010).  I left the center square blank so she could write something of her own, as per her request. I think that covers it all, so thanks for visiting!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful moms out there!  I actually did the cooking for the whole family today (all 16 of us!), which is a first for me!  I hope all of you have a wonderful, relaxing day!!

I made this file from scratch in my Gypsy after seeing the "Just a Note" cartridge on the E2.  I will never own it, so I decided to get to work and start making my own cards in that style, and here is the first.  This is for my Mom, and I used the title from the Mother's Day cart and the butterfly from Wall Decor and more.  I just used basic shapes from Plantin, did some welding, and that was it.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, and can't wait to make more of these!  The papers are all K&Co and the butterfly stamps are SU! Itty Bits.

Simple male birthday card

I decided I was running out of ideas for themes for all of my brothers birthdays, so I decided to try a patterned card instead.  Then I saw the SVG Cuts Guy Cards, and thought, "Perfect!"  For this, I used DCWV new Plaids and Stripes stack, which is amazing, BTW, SU! buttons, and my own TTF that I got free from fontriver.com.  I put the words on the mat in MTC, changed their positions a little, welded, and lastly, created a shadow layer for it all.  My trusty white gel pen finished off the wording with a little extra, and that was it!  So easy, and I think it looks OK, right??  Thanks for visiting!

A Kreations by Kim original MTC file - scalloped gatefold card!!

My first one!  I saw a similar card in Cards magazine, decided to challenge myself by trying to make a file from scratch in MTC, and I did it - here it is!!  I know it wasn't rocket science or anything, but I was pretty excited.  I took a 6x6 square, welded two scalloped circles to it, then put the small circles in the scalloped areas to create the cutouts.  The butterfly is from SVG Cuts Edisto Island card set, and the papers are SU!  I needed to add something to the butterfly, so I got out my trusty gel pen and some adhesive gems from Michael's.  On the inside, all of the stamps are SU! except the "happy birthday' which I got at Michael's also. 

Not to be conceited or presumptive, but if anyone is interested in the MTC file, I will more than happily share it with you via e-mail.  Just leave me a comment with an e-mail to send it to, and I will gladly send it!  Thanks for visiting!

Happy Easter (and Passover)!!!!!

I just wanted to take a moment and wish all of my blogger "friends" a wonderful, happy Easter and Passover.  I had a wonderful Easter dinner with my Mom and boyfriend today (the rest of the brothers and their families were all elsewhere), and then my Flyers had an awesome win.  So, I enjoyed today, and I hope all of you did as well!! 

So embarassing, I should not even post...

My first explosion boxes are REALLY, REALLY bad. They are so elementary, it looks like a 5 year old did them. UGH! I ran out of both time and ideas on these, but they were for my niece and nephew for their birthdays. She is 14, he is 17, and the good news is, since they have never seen one, they kept saying how awesome the boxes were. I used a couple of double sided cardstock sheets from Martha Stewart's birthday stack, and some SU! and Recollections accent papers. The numbers on the bottom are cut from Celebrations, and the inner stickers are all Recollections, and the pockets on the outer squares were where I put the money!  I had so many cards to do last weekend that I got really lazy and used stickers as I ran out of time. Anyway, thanks for visiting today!

Cute lion birthday gatefold

I made this for my niece who is turning 14 this week.  She still likes some cutesy things, so this was OK for her, lol.  The lion is from Life's A Party, the card base is DCWV Animal Crackers, the animal print is a special pack from Recollections, and the inisde stamps are SU!  The outside stamps are from two different Clear Dollar Stamp sets, and the tag is from LAP also, with a couple of SU! buttons to accent it.  I also made the lion a wobbler with my homemade wobble springs, even though you can't tell from the pic.  I think that covers it all, so thanks for visiting!