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Cute as a Bug

If I couldn't make a card here and there this week I would be crying .... I try only to think of the wedding and everything being beautiful.... but not of Madison and Cory moving all the way to Memphis!!!.... this is a Vicki/Jeannie challenge...I chatted with her this morning and said lets make a card...neither of us could pick a cut...so I gave Madison the Home Decor pamphlet and said pick one.... I should have known she would pick the ladybug ... she loves them...and she said we had to add glitter... I don't do glitter often Madison says I should use it on every card.... so challenged Vicki and she was up to it... I took a nap first and dreamed about this card...so here it is!!...inside it says "Madison, when you were born you were cute as a bug... on Saturday you will be the most beautiful bride on earth." .... yes yes I am crying now!!.... I hope that you like it...and I know that you will love Vicki's, she does beautiful work... Thanks so much for looking... I cherish your comments more than you know!! ...Its like I tell my boss at work... "I work on a need to know basis...I need to know you think I am doing good!" Hugs, Jeannie

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Home Decor

Ladybug cut @ 5 3/4 inches 5 times.

I cut it twice on regular cut in black... one I cut the dots out of so that I could add the glitter and pop-dot it from the black cut below... I ran the dots upside down through my Zyron to add the glitter ....I cut the ladybug once in red on shadow blackout...and once in white and grey on shadow.

I don't have design studio so on the white piece of paper I scored it just behind the legs from side to side and adhered it only above the score line so it would open.

George

Charm cut @ 2 inches in red.

I like this little charm I think I will use it more often!!...measured it and did my text on the computer in a box around the text 1/4 shorter on both horizontal and vertical sides... trimmed with scissors just outside the box... adhered to the charm.

Thank You Berry Much

Designed by Jeannie Phillips Southside, AL

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My son, John-Robert is RA Camp (Baptist Church Camp for boys) Co-Director this year... he started out as a camper at age 8, then a counselor at age 15, now look at him at 21 almost 22 ...I am really proud... anyway he text-ed me and said he needed a card for a lady that made the counselors a Berry Cobbler in a Dutch Over... and he wanted me to make one...he said that he knew I was busy with the wedding and they could buy one but that "you do a better job than a real card"... so I made him one... I needed to center myself anyway and cards are the best in the world for that!!... I hope the guys like it and so does the sweet lady... thank you so much for looking... I cherish your comments...I really really do!!... Hugs, Jeannie

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Christmas Solutions

Bear cut @ 4 inches, 6 times twice on shadow blackout.

I cut the pieced apart so that I could make him standing and 3-D

If I didn't have wedding stuff to do I would explain better.

Indy Art

Strawberry cut @ 2 inches, 2 times and twice on shift for the green part of the berry.

Fork Bow on a Hair Pick

Lots of Ink

White Gel Pen

Direction Posters for the Wedding

Spent six hours making 7 signs so that people could find their way to the wedding.... oh the glue I used!!!....and the tape from my tape gun...amazing how much a "big card" can take...lol...

Only 4 more days until the wedding!!! ... working on programs today...got them typed up, added this same cut in the outline cut to the front, got them copied on pretty paper now today I am adding ribbon ...to 11 of them!!! wish me luck.
Hugs, Jeannie

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Stretch Your Imagination

Bride and Groom cut @ 10 1/2 inches.

Storybook

Letters cut @ 3 inches.

Going Places

Arrow cut @ 6 inches.

39 Again

Designed by Jeannie Phillips Southside, AL

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This is my Cuttlebug Spot Design Team card for this week! .... we had to make a funny card and this is what popped in my head... I hope that it at least made you smile.... let me know if it did!! .... I made it almost 2 weeks ago so please forgive me I have lost my little sliver of paper that I put my instructions on....

I do know that the skeleton is from Paper Doll Dress Up and I cut it at about 5 inches.... I think the frame is from Storybook cut @ 3 inches.... and I have no idea which font cartridge I cut the numbers from.... I don't mind sharing...I just don't know... the dots on the background paper of from the Swiss Dot Cuttlebug Folder and the words are computer generated.

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Take It Slow & Get Well Soon

A sweetheart that I use to work with, Rebecca sent me a Facebook message complimenting the stew out of my cards and asked me to make her a get well card for a friend of hers.... of course I told her if at all possible that I would... now the getting it to her.... but here it is... I know that its a combination of several cards that I have done lately but I needed it quick ... before I got too involved in wedding stuff (6 more days!)....so I just when with this... I hope that Rebecca likes it!! ... I thrive on your comments!!...thank you so much for looking. Hugs, Jeannie

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Walk in My Garden

Turtle cut @ 1 3/4 inches.

I cut the turtle twice in green on regular cut... trimming off the middle legs on the top layer to make the front legs and back legs at different depths with pop-dots between the layers.... I cut the turtle shell twice on shadow blackout since I used the polka-dot paper...the bottom one is adhered straight to the top layer of the green turtle cut and the top layer is pop-dotted to that.

George

Circle with text cut @ 2 3/4 inches.

I did the circle text on the computer with grid marks to make a 2 1/2 inch circle of text... I added a dot to the center so that I could cut the circle around the text... I chose real dial size and center point and cut the circle around the text (the first time)...to make sure the needle was in the center when I move the blade housing over the dot...... then I pushed the silver part of the housing down to see if the blade touched the dot in the center of my circle text.

Mini Monograms

Scalloped Circles cut @ 3 1/4, 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 inches.

Storybook

"Alicia" cut @ 1 inch.

I cut "Alicia" on regular cut in green and on the layer blackout feature.

Lots of Brown Ink

Nanna's Nursery Paper Pack

Ginger's Birthday Cupcake

Designed by: Jeannie Phillips, Southside , Al

It's Ginger's, a dear friend of mine and the owner of the store where I work, birthday on July 9th....I won't be at work that day because I took this next week off for my daughter's wedding.... so I made Ginger's card so that it would be at work on her birthday!!.... I hope that she has a wonderful birthday because she is such a sweet person.... Vicki and I decided to make this one of our challenges, it seems we need each other anymore to even make a card!!....but that is a good need because we are having a blast!... I can't wait to see her card, her take on our cupcake/birthday collaboration... thank you so much for looking ... I cherish your comments! Hugs, Jeannie

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Home Decor

Cupcake cut @ 2 1/2 inches.

I cut the cupcake twice on shadow blackout once in yellow once in blue, the blue piece I cut away the top so I would have the bottom part as a background for the cupcake wrapper... I also cut it 4 times on regular cut...once in the poka-dot paper for the cupcake wrapper.... 3 times in pink to layer and layer and layer the iceing.

Scalloped Circles w/Swirl cut @ 1 1/2 inch and then 1 inch for the inside.

Scallope Circles cut @ 1/4 inch incriments from 1 1/2 inch to 2 1/2 inches some sizes cut twice.

Lots of Ink and lots of pop-dots!!

Pop-dots 1/16 inch and 1/8 inch were both used on this card.

Chick-Chat

Designed by Jeannie Phillips, Southside, Al

Click on any picture to enlarge. My friend Vicki on the Cricut message boards got asked to do 20 cards for a lady in the Pink Chick Society... kinda like the Red Hatters but a younger group... so we made our personal card challenge a Pink Chick card... I received my 3 new cartridges today, two of which I used on this card!!.. hope you like it.... I cherish your comments!!.. I really really do!.. Hugs, Jeannie

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Home Decor

Birds cut @ 3 inches...

one set on the flipped feature... I cut it each set once on regular cut in the light pink and twice on shadow blackout in dark pink... I cut out the center tail swirls on the light pink layer... the light pink layer is adhered directly to the next dark pink layer... the bottom dark pink layer is popped from the background paper the next layer is popped for that layer.

Stampin Solutions

Cup cut @ 3 inches...

I cut the cup three times on shadow blackout... the top layer has the handle trimmed off.. the bottom layer is adhered directly to the background paper... the next two layers are popped for the layers below them.

Computer generated sentiment.. hand cut tag.

Lots of brown ink.

Basicgrey Paper Pack

Bama Baby

Handmade by Jeannie Phillips, Southside, AL

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Vicki and I are still having so much fun picking out the same cut and seeing what each of us come up with... they are always so different.... so this has been amazing fun... Kat on the Cricut Message Boards ask us to do a baby card.... we said ok lets do that!!!....lets do a baby card... Vicki picked out the giraffe or the elephant... I looked at both and an idea popped into my Alabama head as soon as I saw the elephant...so we went with him... hope that you like my take!... I cherish your comments!!..thanks for looking!

Hugs,
Jeannie

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New Arrival
Elephant cut @ 3 inches 2x's on shadow blackout 1x with shift for just the head and on shadow blackout... I cut the tail off the very bottom layer... cut the second and forth leg off the middle layer... lots of ink and the Peachy Keene stamp for the face... each layer pop-dotted with 1/8 inch pop-dots.
Baby cut @ 2 inches... 3x's with shift for just the blanket...all in red... 1x on shadow blackout for the baby and the blanket in off white... one of the red blanket layers is directly attached to the baby and blanket layer... the back layer is just a red blanket attached to the background paper...then the baby w/ blanket pop-dotted from that...then the top blanket popped for that... using 1/8 inch pop dots again... Baby's face is a Peachy Keene stamp.
Mickey Font
"A" cut @ 1/2 inch on regular cut and shadow cut.
Circles are cut at 1 1/2 inch, 1 3/4 inch and 2 inches... 2 cut with punches the third cut on my Cricut... the bottom, grey circle is adhered directly to the background paper, the next two layers are pop-dotted with 1/16 inch pop-dots.
All other words are computer generated.
"Sawyer" is the baby's name that the card is for.
Black Ink

Turtle Friends

Designed by Jeannie Phillips Southside, Al

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Turtle Friends, so fitting for another one of mine and Vicki's challenges... Vicki picked this cut... and I picked Friends after looking at the cut... I though "Those realistic turtles oh Vicki you have got to be kidding me!". but that is what makes it a challenge isn't it... then I found my paper...and knew the front facing turtle was sitting on the back of the side facing turtle and I got excited and went to work... I hope that you like it... it was such a fun card to do.

Disclaimer: My thief of a cat took my directions!!!... she always takes my craft supplies... I have no idea why!...but this time while my card was drying she took my directions ... so this is from memory...

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Animal Kingdom

Side turtle cut at either 3 inches or 2 3/4 inches.

Front facing turtle cut @ either 2 inches or 1 3/2 inches.

I am thinking its the whole numbers but they are measuring the fraction numbers.

Zoobaloos

Grass cut @ 1 inch on real dial size... twice on layer feature for the front rows once on regular cut for the back row which I wish I had cut at 1 1/4 inch (the back row).

Jasmine

Corners cut at 2 1/4 inches on real dial size.

Inside corners cut @ 1 1/4 inches on real dial size.

Punched flowers w/Stickles for the centers.

Celebrate the USA

This week over at The Cuttlebug Spot we were to make cards that celebrate our great country, America... this is what I came up with... I used the I was so proud of this one when I finished!!... which was nice because I was really worried that I could come up with a fitting card... be sure and check out The Cuttlebug Spot for the wonderful wonderful cards that the other Design Team members made to Celebrate America...I hope that you like it as well... I cherish your comments!

Hugs,

Jeannie

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Base Camp
Stamp cut @ 3 1/4 inches.
USA cut @ 1 inch.
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Swiss Dots folder used across the top of the beige paper.
SCORE-IT
To make the straight lines down the paper under the Swiss dots.

You'll always be my baby!

My daughter, Madison's birthday is June 30th... she is getting married July 11th...and starting her first accounting job in August... I finally had to admit that she is all grown up!!.. she loves lady bugs and when I thought of this saying to go with the lady bug I had to make this card!!.. I hope that she loves it ...and knows how much that I love her!!... thank you so much for looking... I cherish your comments!

Hugs,

Jeannie

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Mini Monograms

Scallops cut @ 4, 4 1/4 and 4 1.2 inches.

Green circle cut @ 2 inches on real dial size.

(Circle text cut with a Making Memories Circle Cutter after I printed the text.)

Walk in My Garden

Lady Bug cut @ 1 inch once on layer cut in the red dotted paper and 3 times on regular cut in black... the very back black layer is adhered to the green circle with the head trimmed off... the second black layer is popped for the back layer with all its parts... the front black layer has the head and legs trimmed off is is popped from the second layer...the red layer is directly attached to the top black layer.

To glitter the circle text and the Happy Birthday Madison I ran the paper through my Zyron upside down after the text was printed and added Sugar Glitter.

A July 4th Birthday

My almost SIL, Cory (July 11th) has a birthday on July 4th.... I tried to think of something other than the 4th for his birthday card...but this one kept creeping up in my brain.... so I figured it was meant to be... there is no Cricut on this card...I can't believe that I could even make a card without my Cricut!!!... but here it is... the image is an old postage stamp image...I cut it in 4ths and framed each piece.. I used lots of pop dots...and made the fire cracker with my own two hands...and the paper trimmer of course...I hope he likes it..and that you do too... I cherish your comments!!...thank you for looking!

Hugs,

Jeannie

25 Years Safe Driving

Designed by Jeannie Phillips Southside, Al

My dear husband, Robby has been with UPS for 31 years... 25 as a driver...and today he got his 25 year safe driving diamond pin, a jacket and a plaque... I am so proud of him...and for him... later in the year we get to go to a special dinner and he will be in the UPS magazine for his 25 years of safe driving.... he needed a card...and lots of love for loving us enough to work this hard for this long because he loves his family... I hope he likes his card!!!.. thank you for looking.. ~~hugs, Jeannie

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Plantin Schoolbook

"Safe" cut 2 1 1/2 inche on endcaps.

"driving" cut @ 1 inch.

"25" cut @ 3 inches.

Lots of ink but not enough this time.

I'll Love You Forever

Designed by Jeannie Phillips, Southside, AL

Vicki and I are having so much fun seems we can't make a card without our duo challenges!!... This time I picked the elephant from Pooh & Friends.... and the sentiment "I'll love you forever" .. we decided to use the Nanna's Nursery paper again...I am running out!!...lol... I am so excited to see Vicki's card!!... they are always a treat, always!!.. the elephant proved a little challenging... but I was tickled to death wen I finished him!..Thank you so much for looking and for your comments...they make my day!

~~Hugs, Jeannie

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Pooh & Friends

Elephant cut @ 3 inches... 3 times....

I used a full cut for the bottom layer then cut away parts for the second layer and on the third layer I just used his front leg and arm.

I put pop-dots between each layer.

Mini Monograms

Scalloped circles cut at 4, 3 3/4, 3 1/2, 3 1/4 inches.

Circle cut @ 3 1/2 inches.

Plantin Schoolbook

All scalloped borders cut @ 3/4 inch.

Lots of Brown Ink

Nanna's Nursery

Boy paper pack.

RA STAFF

My son John-Robert is off to camp...where he lives in basketball shorts.... this time as Co-Director at camp...he is so excited... he started at age 8 as a camper...became a counselor at the age of 15... and now this year he is a Camp Co-Director... we are so proud and excited for him... ideas are bouncing off his head all the time to make it great ... it has been so fun to hear him talk about all his ideas to grow camp ever bigger... camp is where he accepted Jesus ... it has been the most positive, rewarding, fun experience for him and he loves it... I think he lives for it... and he is good at it... it will be why he will be a great teacher!!.. anyway this is a card (it measures right about 9 1/4 inches) for him to have his first staff to sign to remember his first year as on of the camp Directors...

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Basketball Solutions

Shorts cut @ 18 3/4 inches..used fit to page to get the size I needed.

Cut twice on shadow blackout and shift.

Once on regular cut in blue and once in yellow, trimmed the yellow to make the trim of the shorts.

Street Signs

"RA STAFF" cut @ 1 inch.

Pooh Flowers

Vicki and I had so much fun yesterday making our own challenge!!! the we just had to do another one... we chose the Pooh and Friends flowers on the "tiger" word page...and added Nanna's Nursery paper since we both had it... it was so so fun...I can't wait to see hers... this has really added a new dimension to making a card...different from a regular challenge... since we post at the same time...it gets really exciting!!... Hope you like both cards!!! Thanks for looking.. ~~Hugs, Jeannie

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Pooh & Friends

Flowers cut @ 5 inches once on regular cut, 2 times on shift for the layers.

The layers I cut once to add to the green where the flower cut out...the second I shaded with color pencils and pop-dotted from the first ones... I glued the bottom of the flower directly to the bottom flower and popped it in the middle.

The flowers and leafs of the first cut are popped from the paper but the stem is glued directly to the background paper.

Beyond Birthdays

Hello Friend cut @ 1 1/2 inches.

Nanna's Nursery Paper Pack

Lots of brown ink and a fork bow.

Goodmorning Sunshine

Vicki and I were chatting this morning as we often do...when said she loved this rooster and wanted to make a card with it..and drew a blank...I said she needed a sun and the caption "goodmorning sunshine" we decided with just that in mind we would both make a card and see how different or alike they turned out... this is what I came up with ... can't wait to see hers!... here is a link to Vicki's card!

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Animal Kingdom

Rooster cut @ 2 inches 3 times once in orange on regular cut...once in red and brown on the shift feature... then trimmed up where necessary to make his color scheme.

Lots of Ink!!

Computer generated sentiment.

Schools Out For Summer!!

I designed this card for my Cuttlebug Spot design team card... the theme this week is schools out or summer... and I was really struggling to figure out what to do...everything I thought of didn’t include any Cuttlebug folder that I had... then I took a different approach and decided to go through my head the embossing folders that I did have and how to use them in a card with this theme... the first folder I thought of what this one, the Alegro folder, and this card was in my head in about a second after that!.... I was so excited at how it turned out!!!.

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Indy Art

Guitar cut at 3 ½ inches. (I think..lots my scrap piece of paper.)

George

Stars cut @ 1, 1 1/4, 1 ½ inches on the siloete feature.

Drum SticksThere are 2 "!" cut @ 1 inch.

Heart is a punch...covers up my glue mess...lol.

CUTTLEBUG

Alergo Embossing Folder

Embossed once to de-emboss and once to emboss with the folder moved down to cover the blank spaces.

Tree Frog

I needed to make my dear husband, Robby a Father's Day card... he loves tree frogs...and with Okie's Sketch Challenge 1 this week... this is want ended up in my head... one of my family members didn't get it at all... one of my family members did... the center square is suppose to be a close up of a Tree Frog on the tree... I hope you get it...and that you like it!!...thank you so much for looking... Hugs, Jeannie

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Stretch Your Imagination

Tree cut on stretch @ 3 inches.

Zoobaloos

Green part of tree is Clouds cut @ 1 1/2 inches.

Grass cut @ 1/4 inches on real dial size.

SLICE

Animal Crackers

Frog cut @ 1 1/2 inches.

Lots of brown ink.. a few pop-dots.