Sweet "Rwinchies"

A lady on the Cricut message board hosted a "rwinchie" swap. She had different groups and the only one I was able to sign up for was the sweet group. Rwinchies are just round twinchies! :) (I had to ask what a rwinchie was.)

I had originally signed up with the intentions of doing something with cupcakes. However, I came across this SVG file and knew that I HAD to use it for the sweet group. Isn't it just sweet?! The kids are cut at around 1.25".

The scalloped circle is also an SVG file.

I used a pink Sharpie and faux stitched around the circle. I then adhered the kids with the teeniest, tiniest little pop dots I have ever seen and will never work with again!

After putting the kids on, it still looked plain. Soooo...they sat for awhile...

And a little longer...

And a little longer...

Then, one day I was digging around and the pink ribbon fell on top of the rwinchies that were sitting on my desk. And voila! A bow tied from pink ribbon and attached with a tiny, red heart brad as the finishing touch.

So sweet...


(I laid my faithful laptop's hard drive to rest a few weeks ago, and with it went ALL of my SVG and SCUT files. So, I have no idea where the boy & girl and scalloped circle cuts came from.)

Another Birthday Paint Can

I love making these! This is the fourth one that I have done, and I look forward to making many, many more.

This can is for Ethan. He just turned 3. He is so stinkin' cute! His mom was going to make a volcano cake, but ended up making a present cake instead. I went ahead and made the can as I had originally planned.






All cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up except for him name, which is from Plantin Schoolbook.

'Thanks' Card

My mom wanted to give a couple of ladies in her office 'thank you' cards. Of course, being the crafty, do-it-all person that I am, I volunteered to make them for her. Oh, I had a number of days to make them, but what did I do? Yep, I waited until the last minute.

Here's what I came up with:



The cloud background was a high-res image that I found through a google search. I printed it on 4x6 glossy photo paper which I cut down to fit on, yep - you guessed it, a Paper Studios kraft card.

The branch is from Winter Woodland and the flowers are from Walk In My Garden. I cut the flowers in two different sizes, curled the petals inward and glued one on top of the other. These were glued on top of the branch.





The 'thanks' is from Walk In My Garden as well and is cut from the same red and yellow that the flowers are cut from.

Simple. Fast. Quick. Procrastination.

Another Birthday Card

I made this birthday card for a very, very dear friend of mine. As we would say in high school, she's my BFF. lol

Let me tell you about Tamara. Tamara is a 'best friend' in every sense of the term. She has always been there for me and all the ups and downs of my life. She was there for me during my break up with my ex, when I moved out of my mom's house right before my 18th birthday, she was a shoulder to cry on with recent issues with my ex, through the happiness of meeting my husband, the births of my children, a sounding board for all my issues, fears, accomplishments, downfalls...I hope that I have been there for her as she has been for me. I have been blessed with the bestest best friend ever!

Tamara's husband calls her "Walela", which I believe means "hummingbird" in Cherokee. (Tamara and I are both Ponca Indian and Sky is Cherokee.) So, I made her a hummingbird card.

The image is Inkadinkadoo's Hummingbird with Flowers rubber stamp, stamped with Stazon. After cutting the image with Martha Stewart's Circle Cutter, I colored and shaded it with watercolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits. I Stickled the inner part of the flowers as well as portions of the hummingbird.





I took a length of green ribbon and pulled a strand of it along the edge to ruffle it. After it was long enough to circle the image, I cut another circle the same size. I stapled (yes, stapled!) the ribbon around the blank circle. I then adhered the hummingbird stamp onto the ribboned, plain circle. This assembled piece was then adhered to the top of paper from my stash. A length of flower ribbon was glued to the back side of this paper before the whole piece was glued to purple card stock.





The inside of the card said "Happy Birthday", printed on white card stock in purple ink. This was layered on top of green card stock.




Happy Birthday Tamara!

Here's Jamie's card made with the same stamp.

Birthday Card

The same weekend we celebrated my in-laws' 50th, we also celebrated my sis-in-law's 49th birthday. Is that not awesome?

So, being the crafty, procrastinating type, I made her card. And here it is:





The cupcake is a twinchie made by wilsonarts from the Cricut messageboard. I love it! It was from a 'rwinchie' (a round twinchie) swap that I participated in a while back. I'll have to post a pic of the twinchie I made. We were in the 'sweet' group.

Anyway, back on topic.

I used a Paper Studios kraft card again (yes, I have a ton of them). For the background, I layered pink card stock and some cool, dotted paper from Hobby Lobby. (Before adhering the dotted paper to the card stock, I tied a knot in pink ribbon and taped the ends on the back side of the dotted paper.)

I decided the card needed some more oomph. That's where the white dotted thing came in...I can't find the roll to tell you exactly what it is, but I found it in the sewing department of Hobby Lobby. I cut it to length, then slipped it through the knot. I did have to tack it down to the ribbon with glue.

The inside of the card was a simple "Happy Birthday" printed on white card stock in pink ink.

Anniversary Card

My parents-in-law are extremely blessed to have celebrated their 50th anniversary this past February. They are such an inspiration to me! I pray that my husband and I will be able to celebrate our 50th, still in love (hopefully more!) as the day we met.

Being the procrastinator that I am, I made this card the night before after finishing a few pink inchies.




I used a kraft card from Paper Studios. The pink background is card stock that was stamped in white with Stampibilities Swirls and Curls stamp. I then traced EACH AND EVERY SWIRL with a clear/crystal Stickles color. That took awhile but turned out oh so pretty!

As the Stickles dried, I stamped another shade of pink card stock using Timber Brown Stazon ink and an Inkadinkado clear stamp set (either the Flourishes or Butterflies & Birds set). I then stamped, in white, each of the trees with a different stamp from the set(s) - 1 with a heart, 1 says 'bliss' and 1 says 'dream'. I then used my 1" paper punch to punch them out and adhered 2 pink rhinestones at the top.

I tied a knot in the brown ribbon, then taped the ends on the back side of the pink card stock. I matted that with brown card stock and glued the inchies over the brown ribbon. I had to hold each inchie down until the glue dried enough that they didn't keep popping up.


The inside of the card simply said "Congratulations." I printed the sentiment on white card stock, in brown ink and used a script font.

Simple, but elegant. I think. :)