Feliz Cumpleaños Madison Card

I feel so honored to have been asked to participate in this
wonderful celebration for
Super Kind and Sweet Madison!!

Gaby here to wish you a

And a

I had started by wanting to create a volleyball layout, but I saw Melin's.  I later thought I will have to create something with that oh so sweet picture of Madison and the glasses, but Abby was first and did a great job with it...so I decided to create something I had never created before.  That is how I came up with this card.  I really hope that you like it Madison!

There is so much I want to say, but am a cry baby (emotianal person~ that has gotten my share of teary eyes reading the oh so sweet comment the other talented sweet crafter have left prior to my post), so I will conclude by saying that

You Are My Sweetest Friend Madison!!

Cricut cuts:
Everyday Cricut for outer scallop (Cricut emblem because Madison loves her Cricut)
Sports Mania for Volley Ball (because Madison loves the sport)
Base Camp (for 16)
Cake Basics (for word Sweet)

A Card, A Purse with Cards... and another Card

My sister Gladys text me on my way home from work asking me if she could come over after she dropped my nephew to attend Grad Night at Disneyland so that we can make a card for our niece Vanessa who is graduating tomorrow (or shall I say today!). Of course my reply was yes.

We made more than a card. We made a purse and three cards to go inside the purse and a Pot Flower card.

Oh, our niece loves Tinkerbell and we had but a few hours to improvise and create...

I suggested items that I had previously create with other papers...

First the Pot Flower Card

Than a purse with cards

We created a purse using 12x24 card stock from Provo Craft

I found a sheet of Tinkerbell vellum so we hand cut the purse flap

I had the ribbon but it did not have wire, so we improvised and used some wire I had and sandwiched it between to pieces of ribbon.

We than created three cards with envelopes to go on the inside of the purse for her to give as she pleases. The Disney Tinkerbell cart was used to cut the flower (Duh, I forgot I had the cart before we cut the other flowers and it was too late to redo.)

The inside of the cards read "small is the new Big" from the Tinker cart.  We thought it was so appropriate since my niece is very petite (OK, short!).

I almost forgot to mention that our 7 year old niece Arianna also wanted to participate in the fun, so we gave her some stickers, paper, glue, etc. and with a little help this is what she came up with!

Thanks for visiting!

Cricut Cake - Black, White and Teal

A GabyAbby creation (we like the sound of that! lol)

My BFF Abby and I created/decorated our second cake using the Cricut Cake. We created this cake for Yessie's  Bridal Shower (my niece/ahijada, the same niece I have been creating an album for. You can see the layouts I created by clicking on my labels --Two-Page Layouts).  We used her wedding colors. 

We cut the letters using Base Camp in Duff black fondant. It says "it all started with a kiss".  It was what was inside her "save the date" announcements.

We had some Oopsies or Booboos that are being blamed on the person who baked the cake!!! and we are sticking to it!!! lol

Abby and I did not bake the cake. It was a tad soft, but we did our best to fix and create a decent cake (if I might say that!)

The Bride and Groom to be. (He forgot to wear the black, white and teal!! lol)

They liked it!! (I think the bottom cake was red velvet, the middle chocolate and the top lemon?)

Flower Pocket Pot Card

My first quick attempt at the Flower Pot Card....

I did find plenty of ooopsies !!  First you must have a double sided paper (same color) otherwise when you flip the front of the pot you can end up like me with a white front... I improvised and like the results. I added a piece of matching print piece to the front flap or front of pot.

Second oopsies! I did not cut flower with Sizzix as the instructions ask for, not problem! I cut with Cricut and Basic Cakes Cart. The oopsies is that I cut too big! no room for leaves, but I still like the simplicity of it.

Third oopsies!!  Do not use Memory Dye Ink pad for sentiment with textured paper, my stamping does not look that nice, but I, on the inside sentiment filled in with a brown sharpie marker. I'm ok.

Fourth oopsies!!!  when attempting to punch double paper with EK, stop!!! it will not work, but I fix and all in all I am very happy with the end result!!! At least now I know what to do or not to do for next time! Because there will be a next time!! I really think this is a beautiful card (better in person) and you should check this link for different options and variations with video tutorial!!Flower Pocket Pot Card Tutorial Also, Linda Kaiser from The Paper Boutique has made a beautiful Flower Pocket Pot Card and provided the link on her site for the tutorial mentioned above.

First Cake using Cricut Cake

It was fun and messy!!! and some wasted frosting sheets!!!!!

My BFF Abby invited me over so that we can decorate our first cake using the Cricut Cake together!

This is me (top) learning how to work with fondant! (the white powder is powder sugar so that the fondant won't stick to your surface!)

This is the end result! Abby brushed brandi! yes, brandi so it becomes shiny and you see no white powder!

We discovered that the fondant cuts beautifuly, but not the frosting sheets.... or was it that larger size cuts such as the 2" edge you see cut beautifuly with fondant, but when we tried cutting a "happy birthday" layered sign/sentiment, it ruined the frosting sheets... it would cut nice going one way, but as soon as the Cricut Cake came back to cut the rest of the sign/sentiment it would pull the frosting sheet and mess up the whole thing.   I think we tried 3 times before giving up and just cut RINA in bigger letters!!