From drab to fab- little plates

I have been want to do this quick project with my cricut forever!!! I have been going in thrift shops looks for small plain white plates with gold around the edges. I have seen a few but nothing seemed worth it. Most of the time the price or quantity wasn't right. So this weekend as you know I went to a garage sale in the bins I found these not so great plates and the light bulb went off. My project can finally be done! I love them the only thing I didn't account for was how big the pattern in the center was but the worked out thank goodness.

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Father's Day cards

Sunday I had the house to myself and I used my time kinda wisely (of course I could have been cleaning, but that's no fun).  So my bestie wanted me to join her a stamp camp that a friend runs and its always been kinda far from me and during the winter driving at night in the dark really wasn't an option.  So now that its lighter longer I was thinking I might just try to make the trek (of course all depends on how I'm feeling and if I'm working a lot this week or not).   I decided that just in case I would make cards to swap so I sat down pulled out some close to my heart paper an inkadinkadoo stamp ("Happy Father's Day") and my gypsy and get to work.  I started with Close to my Heart's Passages workshop kit (which there was like nothing left.  I promise that's a first for me).  I dove into what was left which was the paper with all the emphera looking stuff on it (postcards, journal pages) stripe, barn red cardstock and brown bag cardstock.  I add some bazzill Dark brown cardstock for the matting and the diecut image.  I basically went into this project mimicking my mother's day cards.  Hey stick to what you like.  I do like what came out and making 12 cards takes some time.  I even stamped the envelope to kind of match.

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Mother's Day cards

I made up these cards for mother's day one was for my mother.  They were pretty simple.  The top one was made using white paper, distress ink and a Tim Holtz's background stamps.  I then cut the cameos out on the cricut using the Heritage Cartridge.  Then I punched out the "tag" using an ek punch distressed them then stamped using another Tim Holtz's stamp and stamped the sentiment (inkadinkadoo) I put the sentiment on using 3-D foam and added some pearl bling.  

On a side note I'm loving the new ek punches that fold down.  I wish there was a way to trade in all my punches for them.  They need to do a trade in program.  I'm not going to dump all my punches (which isn't too much by the way).  I have my cricut and I love my cricut more then anything.  I can cut just about anything out on it which is great, but once and awhile I want a quick and easy shape for a card or project, so I have a small collection of very basic shapes and to be honest I use them just enough to justify picking up a special one here and there.  Which leave me with a question for you...

Do you own punches and if you do what is the one you use the MOST?  Which do you you use the least? 

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June's Altered Tag

Front

Back

This tag has been staring me in the face for weeks now.  I had the men and the tag front sitting on my table along with the vintage truck.  I knew I want those element on the tag in some way but I wasn't sure how to get it the way I wanted.  So I just starting placing and pulling stuff to make a tag I was proud of.  So today I sat down and said to myself "You are going to finish this!"  and of course I did.  So here is what I basically did.  I started with a blank manila tag I stamped the background with one Tim Holtz's new stamp sets (I'm not sure the name of the set and I don't feel like walking to my craft room to figure it out.  Its the one with the stamp of the three men, which I also used).  I then took distress ink in Peeled Paint and Broken china and turn the manila tag green and blue. Then I made my June pattern paper using my calendar stamp set from CTMH and added peeled paint distress ink so it would match the tag.  The next thing I did was I color the truck Aged Mahogany (again with distress ink) and to tie it in with the rest of the tag I used a very light amount of the mahogany around the edge of the tag itself.  I then glued the strip of DCWV gear paper (which measures  3/4 inch)  and then my June paper (which measures 1/2 inch).  Then I set my men on the tag and decided it needed more so I went to my stamp collection and found a CTMH stamp set with a pocket watch and embossed it using copper embossing powder. I still thought it was too plain so I went off to my gypsy and looked through my Heritage cartridge and found the tree I used.  I cut it out on white paper and then used Vintage Photo and Walnut stain distress inks to color it (which I should have colored the paper first then cut it out).   I glued the tree down then Foam dotted my men in place.  So as you can see my truck ended up pushed to the back of my tag, so I used it like I wanted to but I just couldn't work it into the front.  I repeated a few techniques on the back.  I really like how it turned out.  Now I'm going to move on to July and hopefully I will share it very soon.

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