Karen's Craft Creations

Happy, Happy Friday everyone hope you have a great weekend planed.   I hope to see some of my grand children play ball on Saturday.   I pulled out the ornamental Iron2 and flower shoppe cartridges today to make this card.   I also used SU paper, glossy accents and a little glitter. I went to JA Tuesday, they have some great savings on their craft items that are mostly 50% off, I really stocked up on adhesive.   I have tried a lot of different adhesives to close and put these rolled flowers on a card, a lot of them don’t hold very long, the flowers are just too heavy.   I have found that hot glue is the most reliable way to make it stay where you put it.    Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/2013/02/3-d-rose-challenge.html http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/2013/03/inspire-me-fridays-98-anything-goes.html http://p...

Happy Monday everyone.   I have been thinking about what I wanted to do for some of the challenges this week. I have Teddy Bear Parade; however, everyone else seems to be using it. I wanted to be different, although I will make a card for the grand-kids that has the bear on it. I made my card from the forever young and paper doll dress up cartridges.   All the paper is from DCWV and I pop dotted the hat and the shamrock up from the card.     Hope you have a wonderful week. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2013/02/ctv-stamps-dt-challenge-25-luck-of-irish.html http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/2013/02/monday-challenge-88-pop-it-up.html http://www.linkupforpink.com/2013/02/challenge-no-10.html

Today I am still working on getting my supply of cards back to a, have a card ready, level.   I sent 60 cards to Operation write home today, thanks to all the swaps I received at the SU regional meeting.   There were some nice fronts in there and I had to spend a day to put them on cards and then put the OWH labels on the back and stuff the envelope.   Sending to them is one of the main reasons I make cards. Today I have one that I made for several challenges.   Hope you like it; this one has several cuts from the new Cards cartridge currently for use, free, on the Cricut craft room site.   There are some nice cards on this one; however, you could make them yourself if you have the time.   I used SU paper and a new punch from recollections punch I picked up at Michaels last week. Hope you have a wonderful remainder of the week. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/2013/0...

Today I am working on getting my stock of birthday cards back up.   With mom being sick, before she passed, I didn’t work in my craft room very much.   Then right after she passed I didn’t feel like it.   I really need to get back to work.   I went to SU regionals on Saturday and the friend that took me tried to get me to sign up, I don’t think so, I love my Cricut too much. I like my SU stamps and the paper is awesome, but I don’t want to only use it.   There are just too many great things out there for scrap bookers and card makers. Back to the card I made. I made this with a garden theme for the challenge at pink by design.   I love magnolia stamps. I only have 4; but I use them often. Here is one that I colored with Prismacolor markers, added a few rolled flowers from the Flower Shoppe cartridge and some pearls.   I think it turned out good and will add it to my card box.   Thanks for stopping by have a wonderful week. I will b...

Sweethearts is one of my most favorite cartridges and I love to use it on all kinds of crafts.   Last year I made my husband a wonder candy bouquet and put several of these cuts on sticks with the candy, it was so cute (see post   http://www.karencraftcreations.blogspot.com/search/label/valentines ).   This year I will be giving this card I made from the sweethearts cartridge.   I used a stamp from a Fiskars pack, a retired CM heart punch, some Bo Bunny paper I got last year and some bling.   I really like the way this turned out.   Thanks for stopping by.  I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.se/2013/02/challenge-215-love-is-in-air.html http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-challenge-time.html http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/challenge-130-hearts.html http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2013/02/midway-reminder-challenge-37-valentines.html http:...

Today I am still working on valentines’ cards.   I made this one using a heart and circles from George and the words came from lyrical letters.   I really like the way it turned out. I think I will give this to my son.   He is always so helpful on the farm.   My husband had I can always count on him to help out whit the heavy lifting.   The paper is from Bo Bunny, I got it last year, and SU.   I added a few pearls to make it elegant.   Hope you like this one.   I had a lot of fun with the design.  I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.se/2013/02/challenge-214-anything-goes.html http://gofishchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/02/go-fish-challenge-34-i-love-you.html http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2013/02/terrific-tuesday-challenge-valentines.html http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-challenge-time.html

Today I am working on a few valentines for the grand-kids.  My wonderful husband gave me the create a critter 2 cart for Christmas.  I just love the critters in this cart they are so cute.  I have 6 kids to make cards for, and I told my grand daughter I would make her a mail box. I guess it is time to get out the tags bags boxes and more2 cart. The paper is K& Co. and Bo Bunny, I got last year.  I used a little Stickles on the frogs crown and lettering. I love the way these turned out, hope you enjoyed them too. Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you week is a great one.  Today is Wednesday, don't forget to go to worship service.   I plan to enter these designs in the following challenges: http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/2013/02/inspire-me-fridays-94-anything-goes.html http://raisethebarchallenge.blogspot.ca/2013/02/challenge-129.html http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/challenge-13-anything-goes.html http://ppp-makeitmond...