Cricut Challenge 10B: Country Life

My dear friend, Jeanne, from Kansas who is a loyal blog reader (we'll see if she is really paying attention!) asked me to make a farm type card for her.  A friend of hers is retiring from full time banking and farming to just full time farming.  He farms wheat.  Wheat does not grow in Georgia.  We have cotton, watermelon, peaches, and peanuts!

I have known Jeanne for over 30...wait, NO...40 YEARS.  We went to junior high school together in Frankfurt, Germany back in the wonderful days of the Cold War when there were lots of  US troops and support personnel based in Germany.  We had such a good time over there and did all kinds of fun and dumb things....like lighting fireworks and throwing them out of a third story window after they were lit!
Her parents didn't know about that, though....and mine never found out either.  We hid the evidence!

It's amazing Jeanne and I have kept in touch all these years.  Remember snail mail?  That's how we communicated for about 30 years...and we pretty much always stayed in touch.  When we both got on the WWW we have been able to keep in even closer touch.  Technology is amazing, isn't it?

So, I pulled out the Country Life cartridge once again and made this card:



And except for the card base (which is 5.5 by 8) and the Kraft mat on top I pulled out my neatly organzied (and more importantly) LOCATABLE scrap box  (because it's in my nice, neat and organized room!) and used pieces of this and that to make the rest of the scene.  Some inking was done although not shown in this picture.  I used a small button on the door....some foam tape to pop up the farmer and the monstrous wheat and used a Paper Trey Ink sentiment that says "Happy Retirement"....all things I had on hand!  I like that!  Although I do like shopping for new stuff, too, of course.

Speaking of shopping run to your local Joann, Etc. today.  All single sheet 12x12 paper is 5 for $.96.  That includes the wonderful Core'dinations cardstock.  My Joann's had the new Tim Holtz distress Core'dinations

cardstock in some wonderfully fabulous new colors....there are 36 new colors available....I got 2 of each! :) 

Paper addict, I know....I confess...

Happy July 4th to all Americans...my husband and I were talking last night about a very memorable 4th of July for us.  We had taken my son who was about 12 at the time to Washington, DC and went to the Mall area to watch the national fireworks.  We were just in front of the Washington Monument...the White House was to our right and the Lincoln Memorial with the reflecting pool was straight ahead.  We really enjoyed the show...with about 500,000 other people! It was really crowded but was worth it....not that I will ever be inclined to do it again but was an experience that my son still talks about today. 

Happy Crafting!

Cricut Challenge 10: Country Life

I LOVE THIS CARD!  You know how it is...sometimes you just make something and just love it!  I loved this finished card so much that when I showed it to my husband I asked him if I should just send it to him so that we could keep it in the family!!!  I have issues...I know...I know...

Today's cartridge is the really cute Country Life.  The more I look at it the more I see some really cute things on this cartridge.  First of all there are some really cute country images...farmers, farm animals, foods, vintage looking images, as well as a great fonts, a banner and other nice features. 

I did another card from this cartridge back in April....you can see it here if you'd like.

For this SEW SWEET card I used papers from DCWV Linen Closet (including the cardstock stack)

and a sheet of chocolate brown cardstock I happened to have on hand.  I always love when I can find things to use I have on hand! 

I used my Gypsy and my Expression 2 and cut all images and layers at 4 inches (this card is actually a 5x7 card).  It assembled nicely...I just used my Zig 2 Way glue pen (the greatest)

 and all those little babies just adhered nicely!

The measuring tape and the Sew Sweet sentiment are Unity Stamps (love that brand...those stamps are such great quality!)...and are cobranded stamps with Cosmo Cricket and are from the Material Girl sets.  The top label is an EK Success punch and the label that I used as a mat is the Fillable Frame Die from Paper Trey Ink.

I added some metal flat head beads and did a little pen work on the sewing machine as well as a little dark brown satin ribbon I picked up at JoAnn, etc.

and that's it.  It really is SEW cute!  I don't think the picture does it justice but trust me....it is adorable if I say so myself.   Don't you just love that vintage sewing machine?  It reminds me of my grandmother.... :)

Happy Crafting!

Living the Country Life

I'll admit it...I'm not really a country girl...I'm perfectly happy in the city...I love buildings, exhaust fumes and people!  But I do enjoy the out of doors and can enjoy the countryside for an afternoon or two...
I am also enjoying the series being posted at one of my favorite blogs, Creations With Christina. Christina has made 3 different cards this week with the Cricut Cartridge, Country Life including one made with her Gypsy.  I have yet to make 2 of the cards she has shown but I did make this cute little clotheline card tonight.  It is also from the Country Life cartridge and  has LOTS of pieces.  I think if I made it again I might make it large enough for a 5x7 card!  That way my pieces would be bigger, of course... There is nothing very fancy about this card although it did take a while to put together once the pieces were cut.  I added a little bling and used a sentiment from a Stampendous stamp set.  Not so Easy Peasy because the little "clothespins" were little INDEED and difficult to pick up and work with...but I love a challenge!  Sometimes with my scissors, tweezers, glue, and other assorted tools I feel like a surgeon!  I think I need a scrub nurse to hand me my instruments..."SCALPEL"...or maybe "GLUE STICK!"  Wouldn't that be great?! :)