Birthday Fishes Joy Fold Card

Hello Crafters, I hope all is well with each and every one of you.  I have been very busy making this card times 6.  Yes that is right 6 times for a card swap I am in.  As I went along making this I kept adding in new things and more layers.  I still have some assembling to do on the other 5 but this one is DONE finally, lol.  I love the way it came out though so it was worth all of the extra efforts over the past two days.  I have to say I am very happy it is almost over though.  I started out wanting to make my first

Joy Fold card, as I recently saw one on a blog hop I hopped and then my imagination took over........

well this is what I came up with.

Sorry I had to use a clip to hold it closed

This adorable fish and fish bowl I recently purchased from

Little scraps of heaven designs. The sand at the bottom I spritz with Tattered Angels

Glimmer Mist -  Vanilla Breeze.  The Tag on the left

is cut from Plantin Schoolbook - Tag 1 page 78.  I took it into Design Studio

and sized the tag to 5" x 2 3/4.  I added some fun fibers to the top.

the Birthday fishes sentiment I did in my Craft Artist, I printed on blue paper

then I lined it all up in sure cuts alot 2 and then cut out the tags around the sentiment.

Is this not too cute? it looks like the little fisherman is fishing in the fish bowl.

Fisherman is cut at 4" from Everyday Paper Dolls, page 70.  The adorable Peachy Keen face

- wide eyed kids, I colored in with white gelly roll and colored gel pens. 

All of his clothes plus the fishing pole are also cute at the same settings.

The fishing line is white embroidery floss.  Then you open the last part and Voila...

There is a sad worm, cut from April Showers at 3/4, on a hook at the end of the fishing

line over looking a pond with a big red fish jumping up out of the waves to get him.

the hook is from Paper Doll Dress Up -  page 17, only it was a hand hook for a pirate.  I cut it at

4" then punched a 1/8" hole in the center and then trimmed around it to give it the look

of a fishing hook.  It actually came out pretty good but the worm covers most of it.  the

water is a blue paper cut at 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 and then corner chomped 1/4".  I then ran it through

cuttlebug, tiny bubbles folder.  The cute little waves are from svgcuts, cut at 2" wide.

the Red Fish is from Everyday Paper Dolls, accesory 3 no shift, cut at 3/4" -  page 70.

I added blue paper with corners chomped behind the fish bowl to leave room to

sign and add a sentiment to the inside of the card.

I have entered into these Challenges
Tuesday throw down - Punny Sentiment

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything but Square
Patches of Pink - Link Up Party

Thank you so much for stopping by,

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.

Please leave me a comment as we all enjoy

reading them so much.

Happy Crafting,  Eva :0)

I will be doing a giveaway later this evening

so keep a look out for that!!!

Basketball Birthday Card

Good Morning Crafters, I hope you all had a great weekend.  I did, the Zoo

with my little Grand Kids on Friday, School Shopping with them on Saturday,

and Birthday Party with the older ones yesterday, Fun Fun!!!

So here is the Birthday card I made for the Birthday Boy yesterday.

He plays Basketball and his uniform is Green & White.

So I used the Everyday Paper Dolls for the Boy and the hoop and net

Everything is cut at 5".  I cut the Basket ball too but was not happy

with it so I used my Craft artisit and computer for the basketball.

I sized it to the same size the cricut one was, then printed it, cut it

out and the ran it through my cuttlebug in the tiny bubbles folder.

I used a simple shape for the red oval from Sure cuts alot 2.

The stamped sentiment , "happy birthday" is from my

Card Maker Kit of the Month Club, Birthday wishes kit.

I used Peachy Keen stamps for the face, wide eyed kids - 1 1/8".

I used my white gelly roll pen for the whites in the eyes and also

to outline the uniform in white.  I used paper from my stash for the

wood floor, I think I bought it at Hobby Lobby.

For the inside of the card I again used my Craft Artist and computer

to create the sentiment and also placed a smaller version of the basketball

to match it up with the front of the card.  He liked his card and said the

boy on the card looked like him.  I love the paper dolls carts!!!

Entered into Challenge:
Fantabulous Cricut - #74 Birthday Bash

Well thank you to everyone who stopped by and looked at my

latest creation.  I hope you will leave a comment, as I really love to read

them.  Also if you like what you see here become a follower, I

love making new friends.  Make sure to leave me a link so I

can come visit you too.

Have a Wonderful and Crafty Day!!!

Eva :0)

Zoo Hanger - Baby Shower Gift

Hello all of my Crafty Friends,

I saw this idea on the Oh Baby Blog Hop and fell in love!!!

Nancie over at A Little Piece of Me by Nancie, did this project

and it was so gorgeous I just had to try my own version.

I know my Niece will love this, any new Mom would.

I am going to make another one for a different shower soon,

but this time I will use Winnie the Pooh Characters.

I cut the Hanger from Cricut Cartridge Everyday Paper Dolls page 34. I selected fit to page on a 12 x 12 mat and it cut at 33”. I used a thick chipboard and I do not have a Deep Cut Blade, (need to get one though) so I chose to cut it a second time using the load paper & repeat last key features. It still did not cut clean through, maybe I should have cut 3 times, I used my craft knife to go along the edges again and then went over all the edges with a sanding block to clean up all of the edges. I then cut the Green polka dot paper to layer over the top again using the repeat last key.

I used Frame 1 from My Mom’s Attic Freebie at SVGCUTS

for the Green Frames (Size - 3.798 x 3.798 cut 12 times).

I used the simple shapes from Sure cuts a lot for my blue Squares

in the center of the frames (Size - 2.896 x 2.896 cut 12 times).

Click on the Banner at the top of my Blog to go Directly to SVGCUTS.

The adorable Animals are from the Jungle & Zoo Pals Paper

Piecings set at Little scraps of Heaven.

I used Sure Cuts Alot and cut each at these dimensions.

The Lion I cut at 11.355 X 5.099

The Giraffe I cut at 11.274 X 7.583

The Elephant I cut at 10.480 X 7.266

The Bottom Frame with the age in it, I printed the words

from My computer on Green paper, I then ran it throu my Cricut.

I used the Center Point feature and was able to cut around each word.

I chose the To/From tag from my Cricut Lacy Labels Cartridge.

The outer edge cut in blue I cut at 1" and the inner was the

layer feature cut at 1" and used the center point around the words.

I popped the word frame up on Pop ups.


I am entering this into these challenges.
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything But a Card
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Distressing
Scrapalicious USA - Anything other than a Card

I hope you enjoyed looking at this project as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Please leave me a comment, I really love reading each and every one.

Thanks for stopping by and Have a Super Fun Crafty Day!!!

Eva :0)

Fisherman Birthday Tri-Fold Shutter Card

I have entered this card into the Quick Cards Men's Challenge over at Cardmaking and Papercraft.com I loved the Shutter card so much I thought I would try another one.  This one with a fishing theme for my Son in-Law.  It really turned out Super Cute I think.

On this card I used the Shutter card technique from Cricutology.com and added lots of fun fishing stuff.  I Started with a White cardstock for the base.  Placing the base in landscape view - Score at 2 inch and 4 inch, then rotate page 1/2 turn and score again at 2 inch & 4 inch.  now place base on your paper trimmer in the portrait position, cut  at the 1 1/2 inch mark, cut only from top score line to bottom score line which is from 2" to 10 ", flip base and repeat.  Accordian fold your card, now pulling the middle section toward you refold and crease with your bone folder.  I used different blue background papers, here are the dimensions you will need to cut for your panels:
2 times 1 3/4 X  5 1/4
2 times 1 1/4 X  3 3/4
2 times 1 3/4 X  2 1/4
4 times 1 3/4 X  1 1/4
1 time    3 3/4 X 2 1/4
I inked the edges of all the pieces with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Ink.  On 5 of them I embossed with my CuttleBug and used the Tiny Bubbles folder.  On two of them I embossed with the Happy Birthday mini embossing folder and then inked it with the Walnut Stain, rubbing it over the raised letters.  Paste each panel in it's appropriate place. The Fisherman & fishing pole and the 4 big fish were cut on my Cricut E2, The large fish cut at 2 inches & the other three cut at 1 1/4 inches with the Everyday Paper Dolls Cart.  The other fishing pole in the middle with the fish was cut from the Just Because Cards Cart.  The Grass Border was a cut file I got from PDC and used my Sure Cuts A Lot (Scal) Software to cut on my Pink Expression.  The fishing line is some hemp cord that I picked up by Crafters Square.  Paste all of your cut files on the card.