Pay it Forward Easter Card request

Hey Ya'll! I did my first pay it forward home made card project and wanted to share it with you. The requester Dottie asked for a easter card. I used create a critter, wild card and just because cards cartridges for this design. I also used my cuddle bug on the flowers on the envelope and the top layer of the bunny. I also flocked parts of the bunny. I hope you like it!

Happy Birthday Cuz Jamie

My cousin was born on New Years Eve!! Happy Birthday Jamie!! I hope you have a great day.

For christmas I got 3 different sets of the my pink stamper "puny-licious" stamp sets so I'm going to be on a roll with my create a critter cart. I don't think I'll ever get sick of it. (ask me in 3 months) I love the colors I picked for this card. I normally have a hard time meshing colors but I think I did a pretty good job on this one. Yay!! Soo cute!!! I hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Here is the before (Love Love Love my gypsy!!!)

Amy Designs Christmas Cards

I got these cards done back before thanksgiving and I've been waiting forever to post them!! I finally sent them out this last week to my family and friends.

This one I sent to my good friend Ashley (I think I did a previous post on this one)

This one I sent to my BFF Meghan!!!

This is a general card I made for a few family members

I will be giving this one to my grandparents when we see them this week before they fly south for the winter. I thought the Santa in a innertube fit perfectly! I will miss you guys!!!

I call this one my masterpiece card. It's got the most bling blaooow!! I loves it!!! 

My Eyeball Secret

To make my create a critters eyeballs come to life I use a really simple 2 step procedure. The only things you will need once your critter is made is a while gel pen and some glossy accents.

First I just put a little dot of white in the middle of the eye and let that dry. Then I put a generous amount of the glossy accents into the whole area of the eyeball. I let that dry overnight and then if need be I do another layer the next day and let that dry for a whole 24 hours as well. The pic below is the finished product! Isn't it adorable?!!



Here is a side view to show the demension of the glossy accents. I love glossy accents!!!

 Do you remember my first christmas card from one of my first blogs? I used my bff christmas present martha stewart glitter glue and blinged out rudolph and then I also used my glossy accents to do his eyeballs.

 Here is a close up



Making the old school.... New School!!!

Well I guess my old school really isn't that old school if you really think about it. I just started getting my scrap on this last april!! I busted out my sons baby scrapbooks and they are all "pre" cricut and you can totally tell. All I did was cut up such beautiful paper, photo mat the photo with very blunt corners and maybe put a 1 inch border with some patterned paper on one side. They do look nice but there not me anymore. So I'm dusting them off and pulling the pages out and adding some cricutbling to them! This is gonna take me a long time. But so far the benefits are looking amazing. Check out my first page! I revamped my sons very first easter by using the create a critter cart and the storybook cart. Materials used were Stampin Up cardstock and DCVW glitter pack. Thank you for taking a peek.

Sending Cards to my cousins

I made these cute little cards for my son to send to his cousins up north. I used my all time favorite cart create a critter!! I used my box of scrap paper it has stampin up, dcwv, k&company, me&my big ideas, generic micheals and hobby lobby cardstock and the list goes on. I also used pop dots and my two favorite glues are the blue stick (that's what I call it) and my pink atg gun. They are the best (for me) glues to get the cleanest cricut characters. I also inked a sentiment and inked the edges around the shape of the sentiment. I really enjoy making cards for my family and friends.

It's official my favorite cart is....

You've probably already guessed it from all the fun I've been having but silly me I like to think that I'm so

versatile with all my cricut cartridges. Here is a look back at my very first card I made with the create a critter cart. I made this one for my good friend Ashley when her family moved. I was so proud of my creative way of using the sentiment "Home Tweat Home" hardy har har get it??!!! Side note: I am still so new to all this card making stuff that I don't know any of the card vocabulary, like what is an A2 card? This card that you see here is like 6X9 hahaha!!! I had to go to michaels and buy there biggest envelopes and of course they didn't have anything less than a 10 pack. So now sometime in the future there will be more blogs with more big cards cause you can't waste big envelopes!

This next card is one of 9 invitations I made for my mother in law. She asked me to make them for the annual family turkey dinner this year. 

On the inside is my very first attempt at inking. I inked the edges of the cream colored card stock to give it some what of a distressed look. I used a paper towel and a 99 cent ink pad from hobby lobby. I think it turned out pretty darn good!

These days I'm using Inkssentials and not the paper towels anymore! hahaha It's a really good tool for inking the sides of your frames or distressing things. It's pretty much the only inking tool I use. If you see ink in any of my projects this is the tool that did it. The tool and my crafty hands!

And last but not least my first try at a Christmas card. Of course I used create a critter!!! This is another size botched card. I'm glad I found the perfect size cards for me now and that I've been creating away! Whoo hoo!!!

Thank you card

I made this cute little thank you card for my inlaws. I used the create a critter cart from the cricut library. I love that cartridge. The cuts are so easy to assemble! I've seen these stamps called peachy keen stamps and there on the top of my christmas list this year. There stamps for the faces for all the characters on this cart. They also have stamps for the mini monsters cart that I want too. Gotta save my pennies and be good for santa!!! Anyone out there that has these stamps that can give me advice on what sizes are good to get for card making would be greatly appreciated!!!

Box O Scraps

This is my first post!!! Allthough it's my first atempt at joing the cool world of blogging it's not my first attempt at joing the oh so awesome world of scrapping, card making and the wonderful world of cricut!

I made this card last night or should I say this morning. The whole process ended at about 1:30AM. I got started at about 11:30 with this idea in my head that I need to make a card out of my left over scraps that I have in a 13X15 container. Their kind of just sitting there starring at me saying, "Hey Amy were still pretty play with us!!"

So I made this card for my cousin and totally forgot to take the pics before I wrote the note on the inside. I won't make that mistake again! hahaha!!!

Here is an attempt at the supplies list. I used the create a critter cart (loves it!!) from the cricut library. I cut the squirrel out at 4 3/4 and the nut is cut at 1 3/4. DCWV for the background paper on the front and inside of the card and for the sentiment on the inside of the card. A mixture of cardstock used for the squirrel Stampin Up, Hobby Lobby store brand, Michaels store brand I think it's called Recollections. I also used alot of pop dots! Gotta love em! I hope ya'll enjoy my rambling and my crafts!!! Thank you for checking me out.