Karen's Craft Creations

Today I am working no some paper flowers; I have been looking at a lot of how to videos lately to see who has the best technique.   I used an old mouse pad and my MS rolling tools.   I rolled the edges under and them the center to make it stand up. This flower is from Flower Shoppe the heart one. I used 2 at 1.5 in 1 of each of 1.25, 1, and .5. It could use another one at .75 but I think this one looks good. I inked all the edges, put a pearl in the center and added some Sizix Branch w/leaves, I have had this die for years and it always come in handy. The center doily is from SU, as is the background paper.  Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday.   Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2013/04/challenge-me-monday-158-paper-roses.html http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.se/2013/05/challenge-227-flower-power.html I am going to link up this card to http://www.pinkcricut.com/201...

Happy, Happy Thursday everyone hope you have a great weekend planed.   Long time no post.   I have been very busy with spring planting, and getting the outside of the house ready.   We love the wet weather we are having in North Texas, thank God, it was so dry here last year.   I hope to see some of my grand children play ball on Saturday, maybe I won’t have to take a blanket like last week. I wanted to use some new white prima flowers I got at M. I sprayed them with some mist I made.   It is very simple to make with just water ink drops and perfect pearls powder, I used SU ink. Mix all into a mini mister and tadda you have mist.   Be sure to put in a box or trash can to mist as it goes everywhere, let air dry or use a heat gun or dryer.  Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by. I will be entering this in the following challenge:  http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2013/04/mix-it-up-cardz-tv-challenge-27.html ...

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:...