Tri-Fold Cards - LOVE THEM!

I was quite inspired by Erin Lee Creative's Tri-Fold card that she made for the My Pink Stamper design team. I jumped over to her blog and low and behold she had a tutorial on how to make them! I decided to give it a try. I just grabbed some fun paper I had and went to work. It took me a couple of days to mull over how to embellish each card, but in the end I think each one turned out very cute. Now I'm not sure if I can part with them!!! I will just have to make some more!

Just call me "Craftin' Kerri"!

Well, I am on a roll today! I needed to send my sweet friend, Sandra, a new picture of Karli. I haven't seen or talked to her in awhile, so I thought I would also send her a hand-made card. I used my favorite cricut cartridge, Create a Critter, for the little lamb (and giraffe on my last post). I matched my lamb with some cute pink, white and black ribbon, added a little bling to her bright pink hairbows, and used a Martha Stewart punch to the coordinating bright pink strip of paper on the bottom. I stamped it with the sentiment "Miss Ewe" from MPS Punnylicious stamps and Voila! Hopefully she will love the card and I will hear from her soon.

Color Challenge with My Pink Stamper

So today I decided I would participate in the Color Challenge over at The Pink Stamper. The challenge is to create a project using the colors pink, brown, ORANGE, and green. ORANGE.....those of you that know me, know I hate ORANGE (and the reasons why)!! Well, I love pink and brown together and pink and green together, but where does the orange fit in? My first thought was my favorite zoo animal, the giraffe. But then how would I use pink and green? I went to my stash of ribbon (see last post), and found this cute orange ribbon with green polka dots. (Did I just say cute orange?!) That was my inspiration. I figured the dots in the ribbon would work with the dots in my giraffe. Now my thought was how I was going to incorporate pink. Since this was Robyn's (My Pink Stamper) challenge and her favorite color is pink, I would think outside the box and make my giraffe pink! When going through my paper I came across this adorable giraffe printed paper I used for the background! (This is my favorite part about the card.) I included a stacked journal box and added a My Pink Stamper stamp that says "What's Up?" to finish it off. (The top layer is really green, but it looks blue in this picture for some reason.) Robyn will be selecting one entry with random.com to win one of her newest lines of stamp sets called Buggy Puns. Fingers crossed that I win. I really, really want these stamps!!

My messy mess of RIBBONS!

Tammy over at Creative Critters has asked the question of how we scrappers organize our ribbons. Well, I don't! It's one big mess of jumbled up ribbon. I thought I would really like the bag with all the little holes in it to poke the end of my ribbon out. But as you can see...it's not workin' for me! So after looking at all some of the other craftin' girls' method of storing ribbon, I decided I better get organized. I plan on purchasing some of the ribbon cards and storing them in the plastic container. Not sure how long it will work for me, but it's more organized than what I have and definately less messy!

Throwback Thursday Challenge - Fun in the Sun with Doodlecharms

This is my first Throwback Thursday Challenge from Emma's My Creative Time Blog. I knew I had to do this challenge when she said to use "Doodlecharms". This is an oldie, but a goodie! I love the border features, especially before I had the Design Studio and Gypsy. Also, it was to be a scrapbook layout and as you can tell I really need to do some catching up since I am 2 years behind!! All the images are from the Doodlecharms cartridge except for the phrase Fun in the sun, where I welded that together with the All Mixed Up cartridge. I added some stickles for some sparkle and added in Karli's pictures! You can click on the picture for a better view.

Mom's Birthday Card

I made my mom the cutest birthday card and forgot to bring it to her when we celebrated her birthday. :( Her favorite color is blue so I did as much blue as possible. I wanted to use Robyn's (aka My Pink Stamper) Punnylicious Stamps so I chose to cut out an owl for the card. After putting it all together I remembered that she hates birds! It was too cute though, so I gave it to her a couple days after her birthday. She loved it!

Dad's Day Card

My friend, Robyn, is doing a Father's Day challenge over at mypinkstamper.com. The winner of the random drawing will get a Cricut Expression! Although I have an Expression already, I would love to have an extra so I can keep it at school. So, I created a card that used the word DAD welded together, embossed the green background with my Cuttlebug (Marcus loves this little machine) and added a stickled motorcycle! The inside reads - Ur Cool! I think he will love it!