Jake and the Neverland Pirates Birthday

Hi There,


I was recently visiting my grandson for his 4th birthday. Birthday theme was Pirates or more specifically "Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Mom did the decorating. Notice the multi colored cake. Steph food colored the batter. So cool.

The map and yellow pirate chest paper printed from Buccaneer cartridge. The images of the crab, mermaid, Happy Birthday and ship mast also cut from Buccaneer.
The sea monster cut from Pirates and Mermaids.
Old West and Black letter for font.

 

 

Cuttlebug folder bubbles to emboss sea monster.

 

Sizing
Buccaneer - Mermaid 3"
                    Happy Birthday Matey 3"
                    Crab 1.8"
                    Anchor 2.75"
                    Mast 4.5"
Old West - Jake .8"
                   Neverland Pirates .5"
Pirates & Mermaids - Sea Monster 3"
Black letter - and the .4"
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Frayed Burlap & Rusty Hinge to ink the sea monster and red mats.
Twine, Dimensionals, misc pattern paper and cardstock
Machine Used: Cricut Imagine
Designed by: Yvonne Balmer

Thanks for stopping by.

Yvonne

For My Great Niece

Good Morning,

I made this little onsie card for my new niece almost two months ago now. I need to get it in the mail.
The sweet little babe arrived 7 weeks early but is doing very well. She is just gorgeous.

To make this I used standard instruction from the web for the onsie. It's basically a folded rectangle. Then you make the triangular cuts for the for the sides and armholes. The legs and neck edge are done with a circle punch. The pockets and oval punch or in this case I used my spellbinders and cut the ends off.  The lacey edges on the neck and legs were a circle scallop punch with the centre cut out.
I did had a bib to the onsie cause I thought it was cute. That was done with spellbinders. If you have a cricut it would be very easy to create the circles too. Placed eyelets  to look like snaps and a little stitching.

Well I really must get this project into the mail. Fortunately the outfits I've purchased she won't be growing out of them anytime soon.

To my Canadian family and friends...Enjoy your long week-end!

 

Yvonne

My Little Black Dress

Morning,

Hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day!  I've been away for awhile. I was away for a little while visiting the Grandchildren. That was so much fun. Xavier celebrated his fourth birthday and I got to see Korben start crawling. I must admit I had a hand in that one. lol After I returned home I had a knee surgery but it is doing very well.

This is just a sweet little card made it Stampin' Up supplies. Basically it is a die cut. The bodice was stamped and the rest cuttlebugged.

Hope to be back soon with another card.

 

Yvonne

Birthday Cake

Good Day!

Just a nice quick card today. Used Stampin' Up products. Looks like lots of layers but really small pieces of layers.

Something to keep in mind is rounding just a couple corners can really change the look of the card. Softens it a little and keeps them from seeming so symmetrical. Everybody knows I like symmetry. lol

Here's to a great start of the week and by the end of it I'll be seeing my Grandsons!

 

Nana

Brotherly Love

HI There,

Another scrapbook page of my favorite topic. Grandsons.

The first photo was taken just after Korben was born. It was so funny because Mom & Dad had told Xavier how important it was to hold his brothers head cause babies couldn't do it for themselves.
As soon as they set Korbon in front of Xavier he immediately grasped his head...it looks more like he's got him in a wrestling hold. lol

Cartridges Used:
Paper Doll Dress Up - Frog 3.5" & 4.2"
Art Philosophy - hearts 1" & 1.2"
Elegant Edges - Banner 9.25 x 1.85 (Utilized CCR to customize the size and also be able to create a shadow layer as there wasn't one)
Boys Will Be Boys - Font .6 & 1.3 (Even at .6 it cut very well)

All stitching with a brown micro pen. Green paper inked with Distress Ink Crushed Olive. The ant stamp from Stampin' Up - Bugs & Kisses

 

Yvonne

PS - Getting close to  my trip to see those boys in person! Just think of the new photos I can take!

Better Late Than Never....Right?

Morning,

Yes, I do know Easter has come and gone but I forgot to share these cards. The card size is 4 x 4 and they are donated to the local Veterns Hospital to place on their food tray  on Easter.

Coloring was done with copics. Some of the images are stamped but many of them I found clip art on the internet and resized and printed then colored. Duck and Easter basket were stamps.
The last entry was an image from a scrapbook program I have so all I needed to do was print it.

When you're doing multiple cards using similiar designs it gets hard to come up with different ideas. I know, I'd save myself a lot of headache if I would just mass produce them all the same. What can I say, I like variety.

I think the bunny with the Happy Easter egg and the chick with flowers are my favorite and those were from the internet. So you see you can make cards even if you don't have stamps. Everyone has crayons somewhere. I'm just thinking here....never tried it....but you could probably color these images in on your computer through a program like paint or photoshop. Hmmmmmm?

Have a Great Day!

 

Yvonne

Dashing Through The Snow

Hi There,

I know winter still isn't over in some parts of the country although I'm glad I don't have any snow. I've had my share of the white stuff and will have more opportunities to live in it in my future.

Daddy & Xavier are out enjoying some sledding time. Apparently Xavier doesn't enjoy speed, yet!

Blue cardstock for the background. The snowflakes paper was purchased.

The word snow was cut using Speaking of Winter.  The white letters were glittered as well as the tops of the torn white paper. The brads that are in the centre of some of the snowflakes were covered in glossy accents and then glitter applied.

Animal Antics for the lettering. Art Philosophy for the banners. Using the text mode on CCR I typed the words and sized them to fit on the yellow banner ( I did this using two separate layers). With the gel pen inserted in the cricut  I drew the lettering on the cardstock. I DID NOT unload the paper afterwards. Because I had positioned the words overtop of the yellow banner I changed out the gel pen for the blade housing and then cut the yellow layer.

Joys of the Season for the sleigh and mittens cut. The snowball created using puffy paint.

The negative cut from the red banners used on the page.

Can't seem to find the cartridge I cut the snowflakes from, however they were covered in glitter and the printed on Grafix Rub-Onz for the journalling.

 

Even though this is a wintery page I'm wishing everyone a Happy Easter.

 

Yvonne