2025 May - June

 May brings many birthdays. First one on the calendar is by brother who is a motorcycle rider.  With inspiration form Dawn's Stamping Thoughts I made my version of her card she featured back in March of 2017 on her blog.  I used Stampin Up Balloon Adventures and One Wild Ride stamp images, with a print then cut sentiment on the inside.  I went to my local Harley Davidson dealer and purchased the decals (two on one sheet) that I put on the inside. I found the metal image paper at Scrappy Chic (local craft store). Since this is perfect for my Son In Law as well, I made two.  His birthday is in early June.

My husband turns '70' this year.  I got my inspiration off Facebook - Cricut Paper Crafting - from Mary Lou Devore Hery.  She posted a similar card.  Everything was done in Design Space, the words were using a pen in my Cricut.

My sister's birthday is the same day as my husband.  I found this card at Hallmark but had to put my own touched to it.  I copied the front and cut out the cups and saucers, embossed them with clear embossing powder to give them a china look,  I added a little extra glitter with Wink of Stella on one of the flowers and the vase.

I found a similar card on line to get inspiration to create this card for our great nephew's 21st birthday.  Most is done in Cricut Design space and cut out.  The font on the front and part of the inside is Waltograph with the one "Hello 21" using two sets of offsets.  

I created the next two card with March 2025 Stampin Up Paper Pumpkins kits that I altered.  This on I used window sheet to attach the floating bees inside.  Both are for great nieces having birthdays.

I made another card with this same set with inspiration from a Stampin Up demonstrator (forgot her name).  It was perfect for my great niece who is studying to become a librarian with the bookmark.

While I've made a similar card previously, it is a great masculine card for my brother-in-law.  Used both Cricut and embossing machine with some ink blending. The gears that appear blue are a metallic copper color but the glare doesn't make them appear that way.

I got my inspiration for this card for our great-great niece from The Pink Buckaroo - a Stampin Up Demonstrator.  It uses Darling Dino's set that was designed by another demonstrator I follow Dina Gibbs - Stampin wtih Di.  I embossed the Happy Birthday with white embossing powder, added stickles and Wink of Stella to add more glitter.

One of our great nieces is expecting her first baby.  The baby shower invitation was Classis Pooh themed.  I found a similar card online for inspiration for this card. The background on the front is embossed with a heart folder, the Pooh characters are print then cut (three times) and popped up on foam dimensionals. I only need two on the cover so I added the extra set to the envelope.  The CONGRAT is adhesive letters I found in my stash. The inside hive shape is from March's Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin and sentiment and image are print then cut with my Cricut.  The bathing Pooh is from Disney Pooh Font Set Cartridge.

June is always a month of graduations.  This card is a box card an SVG file from Lori Whitlock.  I asked my great niece her colors (she was homeschooled) and she said light blue.  The words are print then cut on Cricut.

One of our neighbor's son's is graduation so I created this shaker card that I have made in the past.  I changed the high school, year and color to his school colors (same school our daughter graduated from in 2007). I struggle with shaker cards getting them just right to my liking and had to rework this one a couple of times to get is just right.  The Celebrate and 2025 are cut along with their offset behind them.  The words are print then cut with a couple of added embellishments I had in my stock.  The shaker bits are from Dollar Tree.

I made two similar cards using an old Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin from June 20222 - Pick of The Crop with the pieces I had left.  One was a flat card with the raised awing and this one below is a step card.  I forgot to take a photo of the other one before I sent it off. Backgrounds were created with blending brushes and Stampin Up inks.

I saw this sympathy card on a blog post and decided it was so pretty I had to try to create it.  I like to have extras on hand when needed.  All of it is print then cut using my Cricut.

I designed this card for a co-worker / friend who has been battling cancer for over ten years now.  She recently entered into hospice.  I've sent her cards regularly (cheer - thinking of you), this was the first cancer specific.  I found the images and saying on line (DonnaBellas Angels).  The butterflies I've had for several years from Dollar Tree.  She contacted me when she received it said she loves the butterflies.

2025 March - April

I created this card with inspiration from Karen Titus from Stamping on the Back Porch.  All is done in Cricut Design Space.  Sentiment is written with the pen option.  The base of the card is from Elegant Edges cartridge and the princess bear is from Teddy Bear Parade cartridge.

I created this card for one of our great nephews turning 19, all done in Cricut Design Space. Inside is a print then cut.

I love making card with Dreaming Tree files.  This is from Tiny Tots - Lion.  I struggled a bit on this one and it has a flaw but I'm sure my great-great nephew that I created it for won't mind.

Great nephew is a hockey player so I designed this card for his birthday with inspiration I saw on a Kokorosastudio Facebook post.  I found images on line, uploaded into Cricut Design Space and did print then cut.  I used clear embossing powder, and heat set on the front background ice to make it shine like ice.  A touch of Wink of Stella on the red light to add a little glitter.

Our daughter and son-in-law will be celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary at Disney World this year, so I designed this card using Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridge and Design Space to create this card.  Inside I used pen in Cricut.  Will put cash in the pocket inside.

While I made this card for a great nephew turning two in March, I have another great nephew turning 2 in April so I made two of these cards that were created in Design Space.  I found two sets of  CAT toy front loaders for them to go along with.

I like to send St. Patrick's Day cards to special people in my life and created these three using a die set I got from Deb's Deal who I follow on Facebook - Top of the Morning to you! I didn't use the two beer mugs and replaced them with the "LUCK" banner I created in Design Space.  The insides are print then cut using uploaded ideas I got on the web.  I brought the papers at Hobby Lobby.

Brother in law is having surgery, I found this image on line and uploaded it to create this card.  I used print then cut feature, popped up the "in need of repair vehicle".  The car on the inside is from Stampin Up Racing By stamp set that I uploaded onto the computer, adjusted the color to attempt to match the vehicle on the front and added as a print then cut.

I bought this card (Hallmark) that I really liked.  Keeping with my handmade card tradition I then copied the front to use as background and fussy cut out the of the actual card face elements.  I colored the edges of the cut out to match the image so that the white edges didn't show and put back on card, some are raised on foam dimensionals.  I also cut out around the words and raised them up.  For inside I used Stampin Up dies to cut out the sentiment.