Happy Birthday & Congratulations!

Hello, I have a couple cards here that I made for my Girlfriend! The first is a card for her Nephew, it's his 30th Birthday, and he is currently in training to be a demolitions expert!

I used Timber Riley and altered him a bit. I masked off the blade of the chain saw, and drew in some jeans and a t-shirt. He's coloured with copics. I'm hoping the piece of the chainsaw that's left will pass as a hand held detonater! I made a tiny hole with a pin, put 2 wires through the hole and taped then onto the back. Then I wrapped the wired around a toothpick to get the coiled effect.

I then ran these wires to the back of the hanging circle with the '30' on it...they're stickers from the Teen Angst pad.

The card base is black, with a layer of mose mustard and then dp from the Teen Angst pad. It reminded me of an explosion!

This card is also for my Girlfriend to give to her Neice, who is currently in training to be a Flight Attendant! I took several pictures, but they kept making her looked washed out, so this is the best of them!

I struggled with this one at first, but I'm happy with the final outcome! I went with the Easel Card design.

This is a Hanna image, she's actually a Nurse, but I hope she can pass as a Flight Attendant checking her passenger list! I coloured her with copics. She cut out & matted with petite oval nesties.

The card base is night of navy, with a layer of dp from Basic Grey's Wander. The sentiment is from Hanna's Everday Sentiments. The oval & the sentiment are popped up!

I also added a plane made with an EK punch. I layered a navy plane onto a vanilla plane, it's slightly off set.
For the bottom inside part, there's a white piece for writing on, dp also from the Basic Grey wander pad, and a skyline made with a MS edge punch.

I added a plane to this piece too!

Last day of March Break...boohoo!

Have a Great Day!

Laurie

Thanks for the Favor!

Hi Everyone, if you remember a little while ago I mentioned my Girlfriend was nice enough to leave her new cricut machine at our house while on vacation! So after an afternoon of playing with it, with Olivia, her friend and my Neice, I decided to see what other cartridges were available! Big mistake, this thing is growing on me!!! I ended up buying the Tags, bags and boxes cartridge! That's how I ended up making this tree, it's one of the boxes.

The technique lover's challenge this weeks TLC267 do me a favor, is to make a favor box or container. When I first saw this tree, I immediately thought of Timber Riley from Riley and Company! Wouldn't it be cool to give this as a Thank You to someone who's kind enough to tree your tree, bring you firewood, or lend you a tree trimming tool!

I used the cricut to cut the tree from certainly celery. Then using the itty bitty bg stamps, and certainly celery & old olive, I stamped on some texture and then sponged the edges. For the trunk, I used chocolate chip & the woodgrain bg stamp, then I sponged the edges with chocolate chip.

Timber Riley was stamped with black, onto white. I coloured him with copics. Added clothes, because it just seems wrong to cut trees naked...and dangerous! lol The image was cut and layers onto a nestie scallop circle.

I'd love to hear what you think, have a great day!

Laurie

Stamps: Timber Riley, SU itty bitty bg's, woodgrain bg

Paper: certainly celery, white, chocolate chip

Ink: memento tuxedo black, certainly celery, old olive, chocolate chip

Accessories: cricut-tags, bags & boxes, circle/scallop nesties, circle punches, copics, sponges, brad

Timber! and more DTGT09 Challenges!

I am so happy with the way this turned out. It's 5x5 and features the hunky Timber Riley! I tried a new fantastic technique & broke out the dusty sewing machine!

Doesn't the faux wood on the bottom look cool! hard to believe it's easily made with cardstock! I followed this wonderful tutorial by Kim on the SCS resourses page.

Timber Riley was stamped with burnt umber, onto very vanilla & coloured with copics. I used my new inverted scallop nesties, and sponged the edges of almost everything! lol

This fits 4 of the DTGD09 challenges:

DTGD09One_Happy_Stamper - sketch

DTGD09BevMom - sew unexpected (it really was)

DTGD09DeborahLynneS - Texture

DTGD09sf9erfan - for the boys

Stamps: Timber Riley

Paper: chocolate chip, old olive, more mustard, very vanilla, basic grey Mellow

Ink: burnt umber, creamy caramel, close to cocoa, chocolate chip, white craft

Access: inverted scallop/circle nesties, distressed stripes EF, EK leaf punch, sponges, brads, copics, stardust pen, button, thread, dimensionals

Let me know what you think!

Laurie