Karen's Craft Creations

This week my granddaughter has wanted to make flowers. We found some awesome ones at Silhouette online store.  They are a little large; however,  they look great, and she is happy with them in a vase or her hair for school. We are working on some other ones and a vase we found. Hope to have them finished soon.  Hope you enjoyed looking at these and come again.

Today I am working on a scrapbook page from this summer.  The kids haven't has very many days in the pool, we have had a couple of mild weeks and the water hasn't had time to warm up. This is one of the good days. I have some other photos for the second page. These cuts are from the silhouette. I did them as a print and cut. The Good times label is from the Cricut Imagine. Hope you like it, come again soon. Challenges entered: http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/summer-challenge-anything-goes.html http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-72-summertime.html http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2014/07/anything-goes_29.html http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.com/2014/07/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-46.html

Today I am posting two cards with different styles. They are the same flower image but stamped and colored differently.   The first is a regular black ink and pencil colored. This one is softer and the color has a brushed quality.        The second is embossed with black powder with spectrum noir colored (PP3, PP5). This one is very bold and has a great shine; however, the color looks a little plastic. I just can’t get the hang of blending….no matter how hard I try.         The white backgrounds are both Cricut cuts from elegant edges, I welded a border to a triangle from storybook. Hope you like seeing these two techniques together and come again. Challenges entered: http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-23.html http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-99.html http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/2014/07/weekly-challenge-add-ribbon.html http://littlemissmuffetch...

Today I have made a scrapbook layout for the photos I took last night and the ones I will take today. I worked in Cricut craft room to make the header, if you would like the file just let me know. The fireworks are from stand and salute, the little boy is from A child's year and the font is songbird. I like the way it turned out my photos are going to look great.  Have a happy and safe 4th.   Challenges entered: http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/show-us-your-colours.html http://www.lisasomerville.com/2014/07/happy-4th-bloggers-challenge-red-white.html http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-101-anything-goes.html http://jellyparkchallenges.blogspot.com/2014/07/red-white-and-blue-challenge-jellypark.html http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/2014/06/hi-anne-here-posting-today-and-on.html http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/07/challenge-70-red-white-and-blue.html http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/search/label/Challen...

Today I am having trouble with my imagine. I can't seam to get my machine to work with CCR. It will print the image but then it will push out the mat and not cut.  Very frustrating. I did get this image to print, along with the background paper. Hope you like this and come back soon.

Today I am working with some new cards using the imagine. I haven't used it an several months but it is always fun to go back and see what is in the booklets. Hope you enjoy this, and have a wonderful evening.   Challenges entered: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2014/06/fccb-challenge-217-anything-goes.html http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.com/p/new-challenge.html http://thepinkelephantchallenge.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-pink-elephant-challenge-tpe257.html   http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/  

Today I am getting ready for my Mother’s day with a spring strawberry plant for the Silhouette store.  This turned out so cute, it only to me 3 hours to put together, of course a lot of that time is spent inking all the edges. I think my daughter will like it in her kitchen. I thought about putting candy in the pods, but thought the grand kids would take it apart too soon for her to get a good use out of it. Here is my list of items used: The paper is from a Stamp n Up. Real red and old olive are the two primary colors. The silhouette item for this plant is 57287; I went on Jamie Lane web site, Bits of Paper, to get the assembly instructions. I am entering this in a blog challenge: http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/2014/05/anything-goes.html http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/2014/05/ttcrd-challenge-may-6-12.html http://simplychallengedchallenges.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/anything-goes-challenge-4-10-2014.html http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogs...