I had a blast making these cards. They were so simple. I cut the mellon pink with a scallop at the bottom to show the colors of the paper that I wanted to work with . The bucket, chicks, and Easter eggs come from the Doodlecharms Cartridge. The pup and the "Yappy Easter," and the dog tags come from the PaperPups Cartridge. I tied the dog tag with ribbon and I embossed the little easter eggs around the chick at the bottom. Finally, I cuttlebug embossed with swiss dots and inked the edges of the top and middle layer of the barrel. For last minute, late night work, I'm happy with the cards. 
I just love this dog from paperpups. He has his arms open ready for a big hug. I have him holding a dandelion from the storybook cartridge. The dandelion is double layered, embossed, and popped. I used the cricut studio for the sentiment. Funny enough, I just realized that I don't have my layered paper facing the same way. Yikes... I bet Carrie notices it right away.
This birthday card uses Walk in My Garden for the vase and flowers and I think storybook for the butterfly. She popped the flowers, cuttlebug embossed with swiss dots the brown cardstock and stamped the sentiment. The next card she made for her mother. It is one of my favorites.
Our family is excited that our Cousin, Jacob, is returning from his military, overseas deployment. We are having a big family get-together to celebrate, so this card is for 
him. To make the card, I was inspired by our childhood where Jacob had a fascination with guns. He enjoyed hunting and finding rare guns. He liked dogs as well, so that is why I used the PaperPups Hunting Dog. All the lettering is from the Opposites Attract cartridge, and it seemed logical to use the camo paper. All in all, I'm happy with this card as it looks like a guy card and it expresses our pride in what he does for a living.
I am so excited about how this anniversary card for Adam and Elizabeth has turned out. I used the Mojo Monday Blog Sketch for inspiration. The white paper is stamped with a three heart stamp from Hobby Lobby. The patterned paper Carrie picked out. Of course the dogs are from the Cricut Paper Pups cartridge. The lettering on the front and the inside is from the Cricut Storybook cartridge. The hearts are cut out from the same stamp used to make the pattered paper. Chris actually helped with this. He told me to use an exacto knife to cut the hearts out. I have no experience with the knife, so Chris volunteered to show me how to use it without cutting off a digit. Chris did get into the spirit of crafting and decided he wanted to re-ink the edges of the stamp. Plus he decided it should be sticking up - his words for using pop-dots. I'm giving the card to Adam and Eliz when we see them this wekend as their Anniversary is over Spring Break.
I made this card for a student who has mono. She will be out of school for 2 weeks, and the class wanted to send her a card. Good opportunity to make a get well soon card for me. I totally scraplifted this idea from DazyCutr on the Cricut Forum in the Paper Pups section. I stamped my paper to create my own pattered paper. I cut the flowers, bread tag, and water can from from Walk in My Garden. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the swiss dots. I inked the edges of the flowers and the paint can. This is the wet pup in Paper Pups. I need to get busy on an anniversary card for my brother and his wife. Can't wait to see what happens with that. TFL
