Karen's Craft Creations

I got around to working on my thank you cards yesterday.   Now that my daughter is working I am watching the grandkids.   We are having lots of fun swimming and playing around the house.   I love these cuts for the art nouveau cartridge they turned out so nice, this is the flower on page 31.   The first one I fixed using the template at 365 cards sketch 151.  The paper pack is DCWV latte matstack and some Martha Stewart pearls. Thanks for stopping by hope you have a great week. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://365cards.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-151-super-sketchy-sunday.html http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ http://www.tammyscrapincorner.com/2012/07/weekly-challenge-21-anything-goes-with.html

Yesterday I had a chance to work with my gypsy a while and get some cuts laid out from the Art Nouveau cart. These cuts are just wonderful and they turned out nice too. I prepared my machine with a new blade so that the thin cuts would come out well. I put them in my gypsy on different pages based on color. That way I could load one piece of paper at a time and gets lots of cuts, 9 in all. I did the same thing with the florals embellished cart and hope to get some good cuts from there in the next few days. In the next few days I will be putting together some cards. I noticed that the poppy and the rose are very different in the way they stand out. I will be inking all my edges on the next set, it really made a big difference. My church is having a fund raiser for a new building and I am making thank you cards.   Hope you enjoy this, these are beautiful cuts.   The rose on page 24 and the water lily on page 27 were cut at 2 inches; all the others were cut at 3 inch...

Wow it has been a while since my last post.   Summer is such a busy time, with the grandkids out of school and living right next door; we have such a great time.   Today I am working on a card for my best friend’s husband.   I found this stamp at M, I am not sure who they are by, I already took them out of the original package.   I used SU early espresso ink and DCWV “the natural stack” paper.   I always have a hard time with cards for guys; I just can’t find a good theme.   I used the computer for the sentiment and the inside of the card. Hope you like this and have a wonderful Wednesday.   I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://365cards.blogspot.com/2012/07/day-130-super-sketchy-sunday.html

You can sure tell it is summer the grandkids are in the pool almost every day.   We have gotten some much needed rain this morning.   I saw the kids in the pool a little while ago and my grandsons teeth were chattering, he got out not long after that.   Today I am working on a card for my Mother’s birthday, she will be 77 on Saturday.   My sisters and I are going to surprise her with a gift she has wanted for years, can’t say now she looks at this. I have a package of these super nice K&Company flowers and they went very well with a sizzix die I had, all the paper is SU. Hope you have a wonderful remainder of the week. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-5-pearls-and-swirls.html http://houseofgilli.blogspot.ca/2012/06/bright-gilli.html

Wow it had been a long time since my last post. My mom has not been doing well and has had a few doctor appointments to go to after she got out of the hospital last week. I was going through some of my boxes, after moving last year I still have a lot of stuff packed away. After 30 years in one place you get a lot of STUFF, I am still sorting through it to see what I can give away. I found a few of photos that need to be put in the album. The first photo was taken outside the Grapevine community center in 2000. The second photo was taken in Rhome, TX at a Christmas get together. We haven’t changed much but we are still, even after 38 years, very much in love. I used flower shoppe for the flowers and cut a flourish from home accents and added some leaves from a sizzix die along with some pearls from say it in crystals.  The circle with hearts cut is a MTC file. Hope you have a wonderful remainder of the week. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in...

Today I am working on a few things.   I had time to take a photo of my craft room for the Cricut blog. Also as this week is teacher appreciation week I took some time to make a few cards for the grandkids. I stopped by the Subway and picked up some gift cards to go in them. Teachers do so much for the kids. Our children are with them almost every day, and they have such an impact on their young lives. It is so important that we support the good ones. I made a side step and then 2 regular A2 cards. I designed everything in the CCR and used carts: A Childs year, Doodlecharms and Locker Talk. These turned out super cute, I found some scraps of paper from a DWAV paper pack, long gone, and that had a school theme. Sorry that the top photo is so out of focus, I would retake the photos but that are already gone. Hope you have a wonderful evening and be sure to come again.

Today I am recycling a used coffee can to put my color pencils in.   I put an old mouse pad in the bottom so the points will not get broken on the metal bottom of the can.   This makes it much easier to find the color I am looking for.   I decorated it with flowers from walk in my garden cartridge and a butterfly from home accent.   Hope you have a great Wednesday.   Come back often and see what else I have made. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/04/save-earth-cricut-crawl.html