Happy Bird-day Card

 Here is a cute spring birthday card I made for a couple of challenges this week.  I used my new favorite cartridge...Create-a-Critter 2!  See below for a list of some other supplies I used.

Supplies:

Bird cut at 3 in. using Create-a-Critter 2

Flower cut at 3.25 in. using Elegant Edges

Card base is A2 size using Papertrey Ink card stock

Mat, flower backgroud, hat is from MME Love Me

Bird, wing, ribbon is from DCWV Citrus Stack

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper

Bakers twine

pop dots

button

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut-Challenge #150 Fun with Puns

My Craft Spot-Challenge #88-Pop it Up

Thank You! How Exciting!

Today was such an exciting day!  I was so honored to be featured on Fantabulous Cricut today!  It is such an awesome blog filled with great ideas, and I am thrilled beyond words they spotlighted my little blogspot!  Thank you Arin!!  Thank you everyone for all your sweet comments and for signing up for email updates!  I can't wait to share more with you all!
Jaren

Valentine's Day Candy Cards

 I could not wait to make these Valentine's Day cards for my daughter and son's classes.  I had been dying to try out my new Create-a-Critter 2 cartridge, and I recently purchased my first set of My Craft Spot stamps.  These stamps came from the Build a Valentine set....LOVE IT!  It is great for boys and girls, and as you can see I couldn't just stick with one stamp.  I had to use a lot of them!!

 Supplies:

For card:  Cut a 6 x 3 rectangle and score/fold at 3" to form a 3 x 3 card

Place white 2.75 square mat on front and inside right cover

after taping bakers twine underneath.

Create-a-Critter 2 cartridge-critters cut at 2" to 2.25"

My Craft Spot-Build a Valentine stamp set

small clear bags

Recollections card stock

bakers twine

Stickles

chalk

For candy:  After filling bag with a small amount of candy, it was a little too wide for the card.  I folded it lengthwise a little more.  I then folded the top over the inside white mat (letting it stick to the ATG tape on the back side of the white mat) before gluing the mat down.  This allows the bag to be sealed behind the mat and hang down.

I'm entering these Valentine's cards in the following challenges:

My Craft Spot-Monday Challenge #85 - Valentine's for kids!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #147-Queen of Hearts