Throwback Thursday Challenge - Bug theme

Whew! Made it - and not a bit too soon either! Here is my entry for the Throwback Thursday Challenge over at My Creative Time:

I used Give a Hoot for the cute little bee, and put a Peachy Keen face on him from the March Kit of the Month. 

Used some papers from a couple of the new My Minds Eye 6x6 paper pads, and did some inking with Tim Holtz distress inks. 

The sentiment on the bottom is from one of Emma's stamp sets - one of my favorites! LOVE the birthday ones and use them all the time!

Finished off with a bit of ribbon I had in my stash! That's it for me tonight! I'm heading to bed!!!

Peachy Keen Guest Design Week - Day 4

If you are looking for my Patches of Pink Design team post, scroll down, or click HERE.

Good morning! So hard to believe that the week as guest designer on the Peachy Keen Blog is almost over! Been having so much fun with my Peachy Keen stamps! For today's post, I played with my newest set of face stamps, In Stitches Face Assortment. (Hint: I also have a bonus project at the bottom of this post using this same set!) I think these are so fun and different from any of the other faces - they have such a homespun look, that I just HAD to use lots of kraft paper!

I used a cut off of my cricut cartridge, Give a Hoot. I hid some of the layers on my Gypsy, and inked the edges of each piece with Tim Holtz distress ink in Frayed Burlap.

I also pop-dotted several of the layers, as this picture shows a little better. The background is also pop-dotted, as well as run through my Cuttlebug.

I used my white gel pen to do lots of faux stitching, and added a sentiment from My Creative Time stamps.

Here is the set that I used for today:

In Stitches Face Assortment - $25.00

And, just a reminder, Peachy Keen has allowed me to select a prize to give away, and what could be better than your own spending money?!?!? So...leave a comment here, and on the Peachy Keen Blog for two chances to win a $25 gift certificate!!!

And if you made it all the way down here, here is another project I made using this set. I am busy making applesauce, dried apples, and frozen apple slices at the moment. Day before yesterday, I picked up a 900 pound bin of apples (yes...you read that right!) and boxed the majority of them up single-handedly (my back is reminding me how bad an idea that was...) to split with several other friends. Actually, my 7 and 8 year old daughters helped a lot - they are such good kids! I kept 4 boxes for myself, each about 35 pounds. Got a total of over 25 boxes!!! Yikes! Anyway, this card seemed appropriate!

I used the accessory feature on Pop-Up Neighborhood, the Circle Exclusive cartridge. Did lots of pop-dotting on this card as well - I think it adds so much dimension!

Also did a lot of stitching (again) with my white gel pen, and inking on everything!

The sentiment is from Unity Stamps and just had to add some jute cord on the handles!

Thanks once again for stopping by, and for all of your sweet comments! I have been reading each and every one! I will see you back here tomorrow for my 5th and final post for the week!!!

Cricut 360 - Challenge #8 - Back to School!

Good morning! It's Friday, which means it's time for another challenge over at Cricut 360! Make sure and hop over to see who won last week's prize, and who the top 3 picks for the week are. Our new challenge for the week is all about...you guessed it - Back to School! Can't believe it is that time already! I homeschool both of my girls, and I really don't feel ready for the summer to be over yet - but I don't know if I ever would feel that way! So...here is my card to celebrate that it is almost here!

I used Give a Hoot to cut out the apple, added some inking and stitching with my white gel pen, and used some Glossy Accents and Martha Stewart chunky glitter in the center of the apple. The background is just a rectangle of paper that I punched the edge on with an EK success punch and ran through my Cuttlebug. The tag was cut from Once Upon a Princess, and the sentiment is from Unity Stamps.

Added some more inking and stitching around the edges of the card, some bling with my Jolee's Heat Set tool, and some buttons and jute cord. Also pop-dotted the apple when attaching it to the card!

Hope you enjoyed looking - now head on over to the Cricut 360 blog to see what the rest of the Design Team whipped out, and to link up your own creation for a chance to win this weeks prize! Can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

I am also entering this in three challenges - this weeks Cricut Cardz Challenge - back to school with the 3 R's - ribbon, rhinestones, and the color red (the jute cord counts as ribbon, right?), and this weeks challenge over at Bitten By the Bug 2 - make a project using the Cricut, a stamp, and the color red. The last challenge is the Unity Stamp Company Challenge, Back to School. And one last one - the Learning Curve Challenge over at Paper Issues.

Cricut 360 Challenge #4 - The Great Outdoors

Hello, and welcome! It is time for Challenge #4 at Cricut 360! Once again - I had such a blast browsing all the great entries to last weeks challenge! Thanks to all who participated and joined the fun! This week, the challenge is to create something to celebrate The Great Outdoors. (Check out the bottom to see what you have a chance to win this week!)

I made this card for my husband's birthday - that's why it's so simple and manly! Those are some of the hardest cards for me to make, and I am always looking for ideas! It is amazing how difficult it is to be a girl and still make something that a guy would like! My husband loves getting outdoors, going for a drive in the mountains, camping, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, fishing - you name it! And I am a total tree person - that probably sounds funny, but wherever we travel, I'm always noticing the trees and how cool they all are. So that's how this card came about - it's perfect for him!

I used Give a Hoot for the tree, tore some pattern paper for the bottom of the card, and used a sentiment from Scrappy Mom's Stamps. Finished off with a little faux stitching around the edges with my white gel pen. Also pop-dotted the tree from the background for a bit of dimension.

And...here you have it! This is the prize for this week! So make sure and head over to Cricut 360 to link up your project celebrating The Great Outdoors!!!

Inspiration Challenge - Built a House!

First off, I want to say that this card is very special to me! This past month, I sold enough cards to build my first house for a widow in Burundi!!! Yep...$600...and a women and her children if she has any, have a roof over their heads, dignity restored, and living proof that because of the Lord, a miracle can happen! So, I wanted to make a card to enclose the check I will be mailing to Sister Connection.

Over on the Cricut Circle blog, they are having a challenge to use something from the Circle Magazine as inspiration, and make it your own. As soon as I saw all the little house projects, I knew JUST what I wanted to do - especially since I had this card to make! So...this card in particular jumped out at me. Here is the photo of the card from the Circle Magazine:

And here is my take on it! I used a LOT of cartridges on this one! The house came from Kate's ABC's, and the hills were from Country Life. The grass is cut from Zooballoo. The sunshine is from Give a Hoot, and is actually one of the flower icons, but it looked like it would make such a cute sun that I had to give it a try! The clouds are cut from Pooh and Friends. I did some more machine stitching, a bit of doodling, and finished off with a stamped sentiment from my stash.

 



Chocolate Survival Kit #5

Okay...here is the next one! This one is for the Let's Get Campy Challenge over at Getting Cricky with K Andrews!

For this one, the letters once again are from Nursery Rhymes, and the rest of the cuts are from Give a Hoot! Lots of doodling and faux stitching as well.



Anniversary card for my parents

So...Mom and Dad - if you happen to be looking at this - don't scroll down until I hopefully see you later today and am able to give it to you (a day late!).

On Monday evening, as I decided to turn the calendar over to February, I all of a sudden remembered that my Mom and Dad's anniversary was on the 1st!!! It was too late to make it that night, but as I went to bed, this idea popped into my head...so it came together pretty quickly in the morning! I am also entering it in the Valentines project challenge over at 40:31 Creations, since it is definately perfect for a Valentines card, even though I am using it as an anniversary card.

The cute squirrels came from Give a Hoot cartridge, and I added some stitching and wiggly eyes to them. The little thought bubbles are from a Unity Stamp set, and I just hand wrote in the sentiment. I couldnt' quite find the right ribbon that I wanted for the top, so I just took one I liked, and wrapped it with Baker's Twine to make it match like I wanted. Added some faux stitching around the outside. Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad - I think 42 years this year if I counted right!!! Love you!



Baby boy card or invite

Good morning! My best friend came over the other day to make baby shower invitations for her sister-in-law. Since she only needed to make 12, we decided they could be a little more elaborate than we would normally do for a large number. NOTE TO SELF: 12 invitations can still be a lot!!! Anyway, I think they came out really cute anyway! The first one is what we originally came up with, and then changed our mind a little, so the second one is what we actually ended up going with for the invitations. I'm saving the first one for a baby card though anyway!

The train came from New Arrival, and the banner cut on the first one is from Give a Hoot - resized on my Gypsy. The stamp on the first one is from a Pink by Design stamp set, the second one is from something in my stash...not sure what it was from. We added some ribbon for the tracks, LOTS of inking and some doodling.



Owls and birds

Couldn't resist making a couple more cards with my Unity Stamps yesterday, snuck in between homeschooling my two daughters and all the other things that get thrown at me in a day! These were really quick though - so that helped!

On the first one, I colored it in with colored pencils for the birds, and a brown scrapbooking wide tip pen for the brown parts on the tree. Cut the leaves on my Cricut from the Give a Hoot cartridge, and covered them with Glossy Accents - not sure if that shows on the picture or not. Finished with pearls and ribbon.

The second one came out so elegant! Stamped the images on pattern paper, added some pretty lace, a flower, and buttons. Different than what I normally make, but I really like how it came out.

Thanks for looking!



Thanksgiving Place Cards...

My sister is hosting Thanksgiving this year, and she asked me if I would make some placecards for the table. Well, live has been busy enough, that last night was the first chance I got to sit down and do them. I decided to make them as simple as possible, since I needed to make about 24 of them! However, I learned...that what looks simple when you try it on one of them, still ends up being a lot of work when you multiply it by 24!!! But it's okay, it was still fun!

I hope these match her colors alright, since all I had to go on was that she was decorating with green and silver! I started off with a card from Birthday Bash cartridge, and added another shape from Birthday Bash for the name plate. Used my hole punch to put holes in the side, thread some ribbon through, and tie in a simple knot. The leaves on the bottom came from the cartridge Give a Hoot, using the border feature. Doodled with a Sakura Gelly Roll pen called Silver Star - love how glittery it is! Finished by adding some Glossy Accents over the leaves.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! I am so thankful for all the ways God has blessed me - this year, and always! I praise Him for more things than I can possibly list here! Blessings to you and your family!!!

Thank you card

I love the color combination on this one! This is for the weekly challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog. There were four colors you had to use, and it had to be a thank you card! I loved the colors, so it was an easy card to make this time. Heart and bird are from the Give a Hoot cartridge. The ribbons were my initial inspiration, since I had ribbon in all of the right colors in my stash. Added a stamp sentiment, and a small flower stamp all over the background of the heart, as well as some dots with my Sakura Glaze pen.