Koala Scrapbook Border

Hey Deer Friends,

         I hope you are having a great week so far!! : ) It's been raining hard here the past few days and now all the surrounding towns are flooded. : ( Hopefully all the water goes down soon.

So, todays project is a vertical Koala Border with a Mother and a baby Koala. I used the Cutie Katoodles Koala from Kadoodle Bug Designs.

I just love Kadoodle Bug Designs Cutie Katoodle files, they are just so stinkin cute. I wanted to create something that was Mother related since Mother's Day is coming up, so I used the Koala file.  For the Koala bears, I used just the Koala file and cut the legs and arms facing one direction. I wanted it to look like the Koala was holding onto the tree. I did the same thing for the baby Koala but faced it the opposite way. The tree is from the same file as well I just increased the size. I made the sentiment in Cricut Design Space using a font called A Red Bucket.

Below is a complete list of supplies and materials used to complete this project:

Paper Piecing

KaDoodle Bug Files:  Cutie Katoodles Koala
Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge: Flower
Font: A Red Bucket

Cardstock:  Core'dinations & DCWV Pastels

Colorbox Chalk Cat's Eyes Ink: Black

Stampin Up: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, & Pretty in Pink

Dew Drop Memento: London Fog

Adhesive: Atg Gun, Zig 2 way glue, foam adhesive, & red sticky tape.

Sentiment: Made it myself with font Listed above.

White Gel Pen: Uniball Signo
Black Micron Ink Pen

Stampin Up: Pink Chalk

Martha Stewart Punch: Vintage Doily Punch
Pink Crystals for middle of flowers

I hope you enjoyed this project today and be sure to check the blog again soon.. I'd love to hear from you.  

Have a blessed week !!! : )

Fox Birthday Card!!

Good Evening Everyone,

I hope you had a great Tuesday!! : ) This evening I want to share a birthday card I made for my Mom. Her birthday was Sunday, but we aren't celebrating until tomorrow so my Brother and Nieces can be there as well. I used the Girly Girl Fox and the Woodland Foxes files to create this card.

So, last week I kept struggling to figure out a birthday card to make my Mom. I've been making cards since 2011 and I always make something different. Finally, Friday night I figured out I'd make one with a Fox on it holding a cupcake. I looked through the fox files on Kadoodle Bug Designs website and I thought the one with the girl fox holding nail polish would be perfect. I just replaced the nail polish with a cupcake. I thought the Fox would look cute in the woods so, I used the Woodland Foxes file to create the tree stump and the mushrooms.

**** I want to make note of something before I start the project steps I used. For some reason my Cricut cut out pieces in different sizes. I'm not sure what happened but it did this recently on another project too. So most pieces cut out smaller than they were supposed to and a few pieces cut out at the normal size. I had cut everything out and put everything away before I saw that it wasn't the right size so I went with it. Below I'm going to give you the sizes I designed it at since I don't know the size it truly cut it at.****

To make this project I used the steps below:

• The bases are from the Cricut Alphabet Doily # 7
• Blue base was cut at  6.08 x 6.02
•  Darker Purple base was cut at 5.62 x 5.57
• Light Purple was cut at 5.63 x 5.57
• The Purple ring was cut at 4.61 x 4.57.
• I sliced the circle into a ring so it created a border around the fox and stump.
• Then I got a little purple happy and sponged the background lightly with purple. And inked the blue doily circle and the ring in purple as well.
• I inked the stump with shades of brown and embossed it in gold with a woodgrain stamp.
• Then I stamped and embossed the Happy Birthday Sentiment on the background.
• The grass is in Design Space under Spring Seasonal.
• The Fox is cut at 2.2 x 3.25.
• Then I added Nuvo drops on for the nail polish and the sprinkles on the cupcakes.

Below is a complete list of supplies and materials used to complete this project:

Paper Piecing

KaDoodle Bug Files:  Woodland Foxes & Girly Girl Fox

Cardstock:  DCWV The Cardstock pack Brights 8 x 8  & Stampin Up

Colorbox Chalk Cat's Eyes Ink: Brown, Black, Wisteria, Fresh Green, Moss Green, Dark Peony, Rose Coral, & Rouge.

Stampabilities Ink: Sable & Violet.

Studio G: Blue 

Adhesive: Atg Gun, Zig 2 way glue, foam adhesive, & red sticky tape.

Stamp Set: Stampin Up Woodgrain background Stamp & Sky is the Limit Birthday Sentiment.

White Gel Pen: Uniball Signo

Micron Black ink pen: 01mm

Embossing powders: Wow Purple Metallic & Stampin Up Gold Glory

Nuvo Drops: Crystal Drops Red Berry & Crushed Grape

I hope you enjoyed this project today and be sure to check the blog again in a few days because I'll upload the gift I made my mom. If you like my work you can follow my blog.  I hope to see you soon!

Have a blessed week !!! : )