Yay! I've got the cricut again

I'm so obsessed with cricut's now - not far enough having saved enough money now to buy my own but luckily I have a good friend who was willing to let me look after hers whilst she is on holiday.  I really wanted to borrow it for cutting out the numbers and letters for the cards below - it's so time consuming to cut them out by hand.
One of my best friends asked me to make these months ago but I've run pretty close to the wire - they're for her Grandad's 90th birthday next week - one from her and one from her Mum.  The brief was simple - hers had to have 90 and Grandad on.  The other should have 90 on it too, preferably with Dad and maybe with some kind of musical theme.

So here they are

Background paper  Bella Boulevard - Sweet Celebration

Shapes cut from 'Sweet Treats' Cricut cartridge (5 inch) using coredinations cardstock.

Alphas by Pink Paislee

Card Candy

Letters and numbers cut from stash leftover paper using cricut 'Winter Woodland) 3 inch numbers and 2.5 inch letters.

Front background coredinations embossed with Cuttlebug 'happy birthday'

Manuscript paper - from stash - left over from my GCSE music (circa 1990)

The music is 'happy birthday - badly done by hand

Balloons by Jolees

Pocket Gift Card Holder

One of my work colleagues leaves at the end of the week. I was going to offer to make his leaving card but it was bought before I got chance so I've decided to make a nice holder for the hmv card we got him as a leaving present.

Its a pocket card with a slight twist in that I've used the inner part to hold the gift card.

Papers by Crate Paper.

Oh no! Not another pocket card

These poscket cards are "all the rage" over on the MSE cards forum so I thought I'd have a go with a slight twist. I wanted to say thanks to my friend Emma for letting me 'look after' her cricut for her whilst she was on holiday and also for buying me some embossing folders for my cuttlebug whilst she was out there. So I've made a thank you pocket card but instead of putting the inner card in I've done her a few embossed pieces of card and card blanks (as she doesn't have cuttlebug). Papers are basic grey - Infuse;Spice (foreground) and purify (background. Lettters are also basic grey - sugared.

Thanks to Crafts by Carolyn for the template.

The other card is a goodbye card for a colleague who is leaving work to start a phd - one of those tricky male cards but I think its ok. Main paper is Crate Paper; Static-Reaction

MSE 'Male Card' Challenge Cards

What a day! '& son' has been off school today with a poorly tum. I've been trying to work from home but think I'm coming down with something too. Mum's had a fall and is currently in A&E so to take our minds off things we've both made our fathers day cards for the MSE challenge.

These boots are made for walking

2 cards for a male in the family who's keen on the odd stroll '& son' followed my lead - he'll soon learn that's not necessarily a good idea!

I was hoping to use up some old OS maps that I bought at the car boot ale as background paper but realised soon after opening that they had all been marked so I downloaded a local map online and printed it out. The boots are clip art from MS office online.

I'm a little disappointed with mine mostly becaue I'd thought about it a bit too much and knew exactly how I wanted it to look but then circumstances conspired against me. In particular, in my head, my string was a bit thicker - it looks a bit weedy.

Never mind, it's the thought that counts!