My Craft Spot Challenge - Buttons and Bows

Good morning! It's my week to share some Design Team Inspiration for this weeks challenge over at My Craft Spot - this week it's all about Buttons and Bows! Here is what I made:

I used my Cricut and Everyday Pop-up Cards cartridge to make the flowers and pots - using some cardstock, and pattern paper from a Simple Stories 6x6 paper pad. 

I ran my flower pots through my Cuttlebug using a Papertrey Ink Impression Plate (Linen) for a bit of fun texture. Tied some Trendy Twine from My Craft Spot around each of the pots. I love the pink and brown twine! Also added some Papertrey Ink buttons to the center of the flowers.

The sentiment came from the Sweet Sentiment Set #2, and I inked the edges of the main layer of cardstock with some Tim Holtz distress ink. I also tucked a bit of Milk Chocolate crinkle ribbon behind the flower pots. 

Hope you will hop over to My Craft Spot and join in by linking up your own creation with buttons and bows! Can't wait to see what you make!

Happy Birthday - and I'm over on the Peachy Keen Blog!

Good morning! I'm over on the Peachy Keen Blog this morning - and here is the card I'm sharing! 

I used my poor neglected Cricut, and my Everyday Pop-Up Cards for the cake, and Formal Occasion for the frame.  

I added a face (with some Copic highlights) from the Peachy Keen February Kit of the Month: 

PKSC-02 February 2012 - $39.95

And...I put him on an Action Wobble!!! Action Wobbles are also available at Peachy Keen - and they last a long time, so it is a wonderful investment! They add so much fun to a card! Here are a couple shots of it in "action" (hee-hee!):

The sentiment is also from the February Kit - it is amazing to me how versatile these sets are! I don't think I will ever run out of uses for them! I tied some twine from Papertrey Ink, as well as a Papertrey Ink button right above the sentiment, with a simple knot so it is masculine enough. 

All the paper I used is from Authentique - and I inked just the edges of the frame with Tim Holtz distress ink in Tea Dye. Finished off with some stitching with my white gel pen on the cake pieces.

Thanks so much for visiting me today! Hope your week is off to a fabulous start!!!

I love you more than CHOCOLATE!!!! (And that MUST be a LOT!!!)

I did it! Managed to get another few challenges together - and dusted off my Cricut for the first time in quite a while! I've been doing a lot of stamping lately, and just hadn't been using the Cricut that much - but I definitely need to pull it out a little more often again! I think it is getting lonely! 

Anyway, this card is for the Throwback Thursday Challenge over at My Creative Time, Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World, The Pumpkin Spice February "My Style" Contest, My Craft Spot's Valentine's Challenge, More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday "Love is in the Air" Challenge, and the Fantabulous Cricut "Love is in the Air" challenge to include a heart. Whew! That is a lot of challenges! Here is what I made:

Here is the inspiration photo from Moxie Fab World:

And the challenge over at My Creative Time was to make a Valentine's card using any cartridge. So, I used my Everyday Pop-up Cards cartridge, and some of Emma's stamps! 

All the paper's are from Crate Paper's Paper Heart 6x6 paper pad - I think this is my favorite Valentine's line of papers right now! They are so pretty!

I cut out the box of chocolates, inked the edges of everything with Tim Holtz distress ink in Tea Dye, and assembled all the layers, adding a doily behind for fun, and pop-dotting the chocolate box above that. 

The tag for the sentiment was cut from Sophisticated cartridge, and I glued some Baker's Twine in the new Cantaloupe color around the edge.

This picture shows the dimension a little bit better: 

The card is 5x5 - don't know why, but I've been loving the square cards lately! 

Oh yes, I also used some crinkle ribbon to tie the sentiment on, after attaching it with pop-dots! 

And the final touch was a bit of doodling around the edges.  

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Well...off to see what else I can create today! See you again soon!

Black, Orange, and White - and Pay it Forward Challenge

This is my first time playing along with the Play Date Cafe Color Challenge. I just loved the color combo, and couldn't wait to play with it! I am also going to enter this in the Pay It Forward Challenge on the Moxie Fab World. Here is what I came up with:

And here is the color combo from their website:

I used Everyday Pop-up Cards to cut out the butterfly, then stamped Market Street Stamps Pretty Perfect Grid over it in with orange ink. Added some cute antenae with some Baker's twine from the Twinery, and pop-dotted him from the background.

The background shape is from Sophisticated, and I ran some Baker's twine around the edge of the white piece, tied a bow at the top, and added an orange button from my stash.

The sentiment is from Hero Arts, and the background of the card is another Market Street background stamp - Punched Tin.

Thanks for stopping by - that's all for me for now! 3 posts in a row - I was BUSY!!! Now I'm gonna go make some more to post soon! See you again soon!



A couple more Scrappy Mom's sneak peaks...

Good morning! I meant to post these yesterday, but ended up waking up with the stomach flu - YUCK! I felt better by the end of the day, but wasn't really doing to much, so I just decided to save these for today! I also wanted to make sure and remind you that Scrappy Mom's Stamps is still offering FREE SHIPPING through this Sunday the 16th! Don't miss that opportunity if there is something you have been wanting for a while!

Anyway, I have this card I made using Everyday Pop-up Cards - and lots of pink! Inked the edges of the dark pink with dark pink ink, and the light pink with light pink ink and pop-dotted the balloon from the background. I used my Martha Stewart score board to do the edges, and added some stitching. It is kind of driving me nuts that my stitching along the bottom got a little crooked though! It actually looks worse in the picture than in real life - but I still might have to redo that part of the card! Oh well...

I will be linking this one up as well to the Link-up for Pink Party over at Gaby Creates.

This second card I used A Child's Year for all the cuts. The black polka dots are a background stamp from Unity Stamps, and I added some crinkle ribbon as well.

Here is a picture of what I put on the inside - one of the icons that I cut out once in green and once in red - did some snipping with my scissors, and layered together for an inside embellishment. You can also see the pop-dotting on the front image.

I also made this for the Blogiversary sketch challenge over on the Cricut Circle Blog. Here is the sketch that I followed:

And here are the 2 new sets of Scrappy Mom's Stamps that I used for my sneak peaks:

Thanks again for visiting today! See you again soon!



Twin girl baby shower card

Good morning! I just wanted to quickly share a card I made that a friend requested (so she can see it too!) So here you go Jennifer! She asked me to make a card for a baby shower for twin girls, and said the mom does pink and brown and butterflies. So here is what I came up with:

I used the sketch from the new Chick Challenge {with Ippity} blog:

The card base was cut from Elegant Edges, as were the background and circle, and all of them were inked. Even the butterflies were cut off of Elegant Edges. The little onesies came from Everyday Pop-up Cards. I inked the edges, then covered them in glossy accents and Martha Stewart glitter, and covered the butterfly with glossy accents. The banner and sentiment are Ippity Stamps (the only set I own...yet!), and there is a bit of crinkle ribbon, and some Baker's Twine. Also had to add more glitter around the edges!

I am also entering this in the monochromatic color challenge over on the Cricut Circle Blog. I am assuming that it is okay, since the brown counts just as a neutral color?

So, there you go! Hope this works okay for you Jennifer!

Cricut 360 - Challenge #13 - Pastel Baby

Hello! Welcome to another Cricut 360 Challenge! This week we are doing baby cards, using pastel colors and embossing. I had been wanting to make this card for a while - so I was pretty excited to get it out of my head and into paper! Here is what a made:

I used Elegant Edges to weld a card shape together, as well as for the frame. Ran the frame through my Cuttlebug with my favorite embossing folder - Swiss Dots. Inked the edges of each of those pieces.

The cute pregnant mommy is cut from Everyday Pop-up cards. Love how simple that image is to piece together. Pop-dotted her from the background as well.

The sentiment is from one of Emma's My Creative Time stamps - this is a huge part of why I bought this set! I thought it was such a cute sentiment! It doesn't show up as well on the pattern paper as I wish it did, so if you can't read it, it says "Goodbye Tummy, Hello Mommy." Isn't that sweet???

Thanks for stopping by again! Make sure and head over to Cricut 360 to see what the rest of the design team put together, and to link up your creation for a chance to win this weeks prize! Can't wait to see what you make!