September Card Club

Monday, September 12 at 4:30 at school in the media center

Wednesday, September 14 at 7:00 at my house

Hope to see you there!

Summer Cleaning Card Special!!!!!

I just spent all day cleaning my house inside and out.  I'm trying to have a clutter free house before I head back to school in a week and realized that I need to find some happy homes for some of my cards.  

For $12 I will mail you 10 of my handmade, fabulously wonderful cards! That is $1.20 a card! (We all know how much boring store bought cards cost...) 

If you're local, and can come to my house to get your cards or I work with you and could bring them to school (hint,hint) then you can get 10 cards for $10! 

If you're interested tell me what themes you would like and I'll get them on their way to you ASAP!

I'm offering this deal until I run out of cards, so hurry before they're all gone...

Facebook Drawing #1

I did a drawing for my first 50 fans on Facebook.  My winner, Jeanne' Mason, of AZ won 5 handmade cards!  Well, you see, I'm really generous and instead sent her 12!  Here's what she got. If you want to be part of future giveaways, become a fan of Cropadial Designs on Facebook!

Card Swap Cards

I had so much fun making these cards for the Scrapbooks Etc card swaps next month.  They told me what lines of paper to use, but otherwise they are 100% my designs!

Paisley Cricut Card Challenge

So I've followed Two Scraptastic Gals for a few months and watched the challenges and thought it would be fun to participate, but never did.  Since I was Cricuting last night, it didn't take much more to just make another card for their challenge this week.  (It also helped that my sister Mindy had the cartridge!) 

So the challenge was to use the Paisley cartridge on a card.  And since the baby's arrival might be THIS VERY WEEKEND!!!!  I've been in a pretty big baby mood- hence, the baby card.   This was another card made a lot easier by using the Gypsy and a bunch of scraps.

Cards by the Cricut

One of my resolutions this year is to use my Cricut a whole lot more.  My mom got me the Gypsy for Christmas (who could resist all those $100 deals?!?!), so I've been using that some too.  (I've found it helps when the baby is sick of me sitting up, so I can relocate to the recliner and plan my mat before I cut without the back pain.)  These four cards were for an Easter card swap on swap-bot.  I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

I used Gypsy Wanderings for this one.  It really has an odd mix of images- holidays and then general stuff like keys and hearts and stars and stuff.  I wish I had a box for it so I could see them all rather than on that tiny little Gypsy screen!

I didn't even use my Cricut for this one, just my Cuttlebug and favorite Stampin Up die.  There was a card like this on the cover of Papercrafts this month, so that's where I got my inspiration.

I used Celebrate with Flourishes for this card.  I love that cartridge, but it drives me crazy how every image has four colors in it!  But with the help of the gypsy and a bunch of paper scraps it wasn't too bad.

I can't remember for sure, but I think I used Just Because Cards for this little chick and Mini Monograms for the scallop circle.  Let me tell you that getting those words to print on my computer to match with the card was quite the undertaking!  I'm rather proud of myself to see it worked out.

February Scrapbook Club

Wednesday, February 9

7:00 pm

January 2011 Club

 

Wednesday, January 12 @ 7:00 pm

December Club

Wednesday, December 1 @ 7:00

November Club

After a few months of serious computer and internet problems, I'm back to a functioning scanner and access to the rest of the world!  (However, I lost my stitching software, so I had to do it myself in PSE and I'm not too good at it yet, but you get the idea.) Here are the photos for November's club.  Wednesday, November 17 @ 7:00 at my house.

 

Swap Cards

A few weeks ago I went to visit my friend Colette in California.  We always scrapbook when we get together!  So I got my next three cards for the card swap all done!

Halloween- I swear the ric rac is actually a matching color orange- dumb scanner!  That Halloween stamp was only a $1 at Michaels!

Thanksgiving- Okay, how awesome is it that I used a stamp I had bought for wedding cards on this Thanksgiving card!?! I think it totally worked out!  Sorry the flower got all smooshed in the scanner.  Both stamps- only $1!

Christmas- the card opens up and you have room inside for a CD if you want or just a long note. Used the Cricut- yay!

The best thing about all of these cards is that I had everything I needed to make them!  I didn't have to buy anything!  The Christmas cards were even left over from card club last year and I just had to cut the letters!

May's Scrapbook Club: Wednesday, May 26

April's Scrapbook Club: Wednesday, April 28

Card Club this month

Father's Day Card

So this is the card I made for card swap next month. The theme is Mother's/Father's Day. I really wanted to do a masculine card and ended up pretty closely copying a card from a magazine. I changed the papers and colors and medium- but it looks just about the same. I made sure to use my Cricut and Design Studio and I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

One more birthday card

I forgot to upload this one too. Used some stickers from Hobby Lobby and a bunch of paper I already had- those are the best cards to make (from stuff sitting in the scraproom already!).

Cards

So the last few months, I've been a card frenzy! Here are some of my latest creations.

These two I made using my sister's new Cricut cartridge "Life's a Beach." I have a Cricut and that's great, but I feel I don't use it to its potential. So for these two cards I made myself use the Cricut. I'm still not too comfortable using it in cards, but I'm working on it.

This one, I sort of "lifted" from a card my friend Jamie made for a card swap. I actually bought the paper at Hobby Lobby (I loved the colors) and wanted to find a way to use them- I used her layout just changed the papers. Easy and totally CUTE card!


I made this card from leftover pieces from scrapbook club last month. Nice and bright card.
And as you can tell I need to expand beyond birthday cards! :-) Sometimes I do, but those just seem to sell the best.

February Scrapbook Club: Birthday Month!