April Calendar using Cricut Easter and Cricut Designer Calendar

It’s Good Friday and I hope your Easter weekend will be filled with Family and Friends. If you have been following my blog for the past couple of months, you know I do a calendar as my first post of each month. This month I wanted to show that when you detail you die cuts it makes the world of difference.



I used chalk inks, glimmer mist, fine tip markers, and a couple of felt butterflies. I am a firm believer of a heavy hand in inking—I love the highs and lows you get. I layered two colors of green for the grass and placed the rabbit behind and used a brand for the rabbit’s eye. I cut the Easter egg with two colors. For the yellow layer I also used yellow glimmer mist to give it a little shimmer!

Come back next week to see the projects I made with and Asian Flair—since I am overseas I thought this was a great opportunity to showcase Cricut Pagoda and the Asian Cuttlebug Bundle.

Hope you have a Happy Easter!

Bryan

What a cute face....using Cricut Easter 2010

Happy Monday--after a crazy weekend of snow in Texas and an insane amount of crafting, I am gearing up for a very busy week with lots of excitement in store!
Today I have a layout--that's what I said--a Layout!!!!!
The composition is pretty simple but it is the cute animal faces that really make this one special--


I used Kraft paper for the base and two sheets of My Mind's Eye paper (left over from Easter cards from last week) The faces are right off the Cricut Easter Cartridge--I had to cut the lamb and bunny a couple of times to get my layers the colors I wanted but it was worth the extra cuts and a but of wasted paper.
Here is the bunny

Here is the lamb

Here is the duck

I hate google eyes but these I simply could not pass up--they have EYE LASHES!!! I got them at Joann's if anyone wanted to pick them up.
I also used a little felt rick rack and some shaped brads to accent the photo and journal blocks. The rick rack is only attached with the brad so you can place the picture with out having to rip tape or chance the ripping of the paper.

Well I hope you all liked this one---
By the way--be sure to be a part of the Everyday Cricut Ustream event Joy and Melanie are putting on Thursday night. You can click on the blinkie for a quick trasnfer over to their blog! Make sure to check it out!

Hippity Hoppity....using Cricut Easter and Cricut Songbird

Well we are half way through another week--where does the time go!!!! I have three beautiful neices and one ball of energy nephew! So this means that when I get to do projects for my nephew I really enjoy it! So this one is for him.

I saw the background paper (which is from Jillibean Soup) and fell in love--I first thought it was clouds but it is rabbits--so I used it as the sky! Using Cricut Songbird I cut the fence in shadow as well to make it really pop! I must admit that this is another cut I altered--this fence has a bird perched on the middle section and I cut it off and used a corner rounder to make the tops all look alike! I cut the rabbit from Cricut Easter in white and the shadow in pink--then I inked the edges pretty heavy to cover the pink around the edge and allow the ear to look a bit more real. I pop dotted the rabbit so the front was not all flat.

I used the rabbit paper again on the inside and cut the topnote from Cricut Songbird in solids. I used another Michael's 1.00 stamp here--I thought it worked perfect with the card. A little silver embossing really helps pop that sintinment.
Thanks for stopping by today-
Bryan

Happy Easter using Cricut Easter, Cricut Songbird

Well if you have not noticed, I have jumped into card making head first! I promise After April you will see lots more layout! Between work, preparing for this massive trip, and a few other special projects time is SUPER LIMITED!
In regards to cards, I like a good mix of fancy fold and the simple standard half fold. Today is a fancy fold--this is my first attempt at this type of card and I think it came out perfect for one of my nieces!

The patterned paper is from My Minds Eye and I used Core'dinations for the solids. I left the two middle sections untouched to help balance it out and leave me a place to write a little note.

I am pretty new to stamping as well--used a Michale's $1.00 special holiday stamp for this one and added some pink pearls to really make it girly! Here is a detail

I think she is going to like it!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a Great Monday!
Bryan