Hello Kitty Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day! This is my first Valentine card of the year. Hopefully it won't be the only one, but as I schedule this post at 9pm, Sunday night, I fear it may be. I'm studying for the Hawaii bar exam, which is in 8 days so there hasn't been a whole lot of crafting time. However, fortunately or unfortunately, shopping doesn't take much time, so I've acquired a whole bunch of new goodies, especially cartridges (including Hello Kitty Greetings), paper, and card stock that I will definitely be having a blast with post bar exam.

On Saturday, I was able to stop by the Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Expo at Blaisedell on Saturday and purchased some gorgeous Valentine's/love-themed paper. The so-called "expo" was tiny, perhaps 12 vendors. I spent a whopping hour, including parking time and locating the "Hawaii Suites," which are not even attached to the main arena. Anyway, this is the card I made for my auntie. The Hello Kitty Greeting cartridge is surprisingly more difficult than it looks because everything has a mandatory black line (read space) around it. There is no way, at least not one that I could discern, to make a contiguous bow. I'll have to mess around with my Gypsy, to see if I can work around the outline that way, but for now I'll have to deal with the line. There are some super-cute images on the cart, however, and I'm not even a Hello Kitty fan.

Enough chatter for now. Here's my card. I hope you have a chocolate-filled day!







Materials Used
Papertray Ink cardstock and ribbon (5x7 card)
Little Yellow Bicycle - Sweet Love collection
My Pink Stamper - Happiest Moments
Swiss dots Cuttlebug folder
Hello Kitty Greetings (cut at 5")
Stickles
ATG, foam tape, Zig 2-way glue

Moo-chas Gracias Cow Thank You Card

Happy Sunday, all. Yes, this is a Christmas gift thank you card, which went out in the mail last week. No, I didn't wait all this time, only a few days. Apparently, the gift giver mailed it to my Chicago address so it took some time to reach us (and was finally hand-delivered). This is actually the first time I think I've cut the cow from the Create a Critter cartridge. I LOVE him! I know it was pointed out broadly on the web that the booklet is incorrect and layer 1 and 2 are reversed, but if you have a Gypsy, as I do, the correction has been made. Thus, I didn't have any trouble cutting it out.







Materials Used:
Create a Critter (cow cut at 4 inches)
Papertray Ink cardstock (A2 card base) and ribbon
My Pink Stamper - Even More Punnylicious
K & Co paper (Que Sera Sera stack, I think) cut at 4 x 5.25"
foam tape,Scotch Quick Dry, ATG

Superbowl XLV - Good Luck Steelers

I'm late for a superbowl party, but I wanted to throw this card up before the game was over. I made it using Everyday Paper Dolls (football stuff), Straight from the Nest (grass), and Gypsy Font. The cardstock and twine is Papertrey Ink. I also got to use my new Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Faces. Inside I used MS Arch Lattice punch. Go Steelers!