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.

1st Birthday card for my niece

My little niece just celebrated her 1st birthday, and an occassion like that calls for a special card! She is such a sweetie, so cute and full of life! Her mommy definately has her hands full though! She is a lot busier than her older 2 sisters ever were! I love her to pieces!

I also am entering this card in My Craft Spot's Monday Challenge: It's Hot out there! (Use hot, bright colors on your project)

I used Once Upon a Princess to cut out the frame and tag. The main image is from A Child's Year. Inked the edges of the little girl and the tag, stamped a sentiment from My Creative Time stamps on the tag and attached it with Baker's Twine (and a couple of pop-dots), and finished off with a bit of doodling around the edges.

The twinkle in your eye!

Hello! I already missed the deadline for one of the challenges I was going to enter this in, so I thought I better get this one turned in before it was too late!

I made this card for the Throwback Thursday Challenge at My Creative Time - use an older cartridge, make it Christmas themed, and include material somewhere on your project. Also entering it in the Inking it Up Old School Challenge - use an "old school" cartridge. 

To start off, I'm excited to tell you how I made the background! It was something new that I tried for the first time! I used some canvas that I have been having a LOT of fun with lately! I took my Cuttlebug snowflake folder, sprayed it with dark Walnut Ink, then wiped ALMOST all of the ink off (the first time I didn't wipe it off enough and ended up with brown fabric!). I then laid my square of canvas inside, and ran it through my Cuttlebug. And when I say wipe most of the ink off - I mean it should look like there is NOT enough on it - then it will be right! I love the effect this has - and I'm sure I will be playing with this technique a lot in the future!

Anyway, I frayed the edges a bit, then stitched it to the background paper. I cut my image from A Child's Year (this was the second cartridge I ever owned! I still love it!), inked the edges, and added a bit of doodling. The sentiment frame is cut from Once Upon a Princess then inked, and the sentiment is from Emma's stamps. I tied it on with a bit of Baker's Twine.

I am also entering this in Made It Myself Monday's linking party over at You Had Me At Craft. Stop on over and check out all of the fun projects over there!

Cricut 360 - Date Night Invitation

Hello, and welcome to my first Design Team post for Cricut 360 - an AWESOME new challenge blog!!! To join in the challenge, and for a chance at the monthly prize, all you have to do is make an invitation of any kind (birthday, wedding, concert - use your imagination!) and link up on the Cricut 360 blog! Here is what you can win this week:

For my card, I decided to make an invitation for my husband - for a romantic date night! When you have kids, you learn REALLY quickly to treasure those opportunities!!! And it is something we try to make time to do as often as possible, knowing that we need to keep our relationship as a priority as well.

Anyway...for my card, I used the silhoette of the couple from Sweethearts cartridge. Inked the edges of the yellow shadow, and added some doodling, before pop-dotting from the background. I then cut the tag shape from Once Upon a Princess, and inked the edges of it as well. The sentiment is from a random stamp in my stash (possibly by Fiskars?) I used some felt for the banner, hand cut and glued down with Zip Dry glue. Added some Baker's Twine to the banner, and used some to attach the tag with the sentiment. Finished off with a litttle bit of doodling around the outside edge. 

Thanks for stopping by - now go link up your own invitation!!! Can't wait to see what you create!!!

Faith, Trust, and PIXIE DUST!!!

Good morning! Okay...I seriously had SOOO much fun with this card!!! Doesn't it just SPARKLE?!?!? I used my one and only Market Street stamp (that is gonna change I think!) to stamp the background - which is awesome in and of itself, because it is large enough for an A2 card! I then inked the edges, and added Glossy Accents and Martha Stewart course glitter. The Tinkerbell is cut with my Cricut using Disney Tinkerbell and friends, and again, covered with Glossy Accents and glitter. The sentiment frame was cut from Once Upon a Princess, inked and glittered as well, and stamped with a sentiment from Scrappy Mom's stamps heat embossed in white. Tied it on with some Baker's Twine, and pop-dotted Tinkerbell and the sentiment. Have a magical day!!!

Simple Father's Day Card

Just have a super simple Father's Day card today featuring My Creative Time stamps. I cut the frame shapes from Once Upon a Princess, inked the edges, added some buttons and jute twine, and pop-dotted it from the background. Easy Peasy!



Sweet Birthday Wishes!!!

Hello! I just realized that I almost was going to miss the Scrappy Mom's Terrific Tuesday's Challenge deadline - using Once Upon a Princess - so I decided to whip this together really quick! I also have been wanting to do the monthly challenge over on the Cricut Circle Blog, so I decided to incorporate that as well. It is a Tic Tac Toe challenge, so I picked the middle horizontal row of elements for this card. 

All cuts are from Once Upon a Princess. Both sentiments are from Scrappy Mom's stamps, and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I made a ruffle out of patterned paper, added ric rac along the bottom, and a bit of doodling and faux stitching. Have you noticed I LOVE kraft paper?!?!?!

Dragonfly on a Wobble!

Well...I had this all ready to post yesterday...but blogger has been down until now! Still not sure if it is going to work or not, but figured I would give it a try!

I made this card for two challenges, and a Design Team call. The first challenge is over at Random Flutters From Paper Wings: a birthday themed project. The second challenge is the Throwback Thursday Challenge with Emma: Use Doodlecharms (or an older cartridge if you don't have that one) and incorporate the color blue somewhere on your project. The last item is the design team call at Cricut 360: use lime green and any bug.

I am also linking this up with the Patches of Pink Link-up Party!

So, since I didn't have Doodlecharms, I decided to use Paisley, which had a dragonfly on it that was similar to one on Doodlecharms. I added a Peachy Face, some doodling, and put him on an Action Wobble. I had a hard time getting a good picture of the wobble, so sorry that it isn't as good as it could be! Hopefully you can picture it without too much trouble! I cut a tag off of Once Upon a Princess, added a sentiment from Emma's My Creative Time Stamps (LOVE theses!!!) and some Baker's Twine.

 

Drip drip drop little April showers...

This morning I saw the challenge over at Paper Playtime: Weather Challenge, and new exactly what I wanted to do! You see, I got these little dew drops on clearance at Michaels a few weeks ago, and thought they looked JUST like raindrops...so this cute little girls from Once Upon a Princess with her umbrella and raincoat sounded so much fun...especially when the idea to put Glossy Aceents on her coat, boots, and umbrella came to mind! (The second picture shows the Glossy Accents a little bit better!)

Now for the other details! I added a Peachy Face to my little girl (of course!), and a shaped background cut from Lacey Labels. Also used a sentiment from my first set of Scrappy Mom's Stamps. Finished with some doodling, and a little bit of Baker's Twine.



Bookmarks for my daughters!

So...my poor youngest daughter told me her tummy felt icky this morning - then she proved it! They have both felt icky this morning, so they are spending the day on the couch watching movies. I just realized today that they have never seen Anne of Green Gables - one of both mine and my husbands favorite movies of all times. Seemed like the perfect opportunity, so that is what they are doing. That movie still chokes me up!

Anyway, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to make a little something special for them, so I decided to fulfill a couple different challenges and make them each a bookmark to go in their school reading. We homeschool, so they are getting the day off today as a sick day - but they both LOVE to read, so this was a perfect surprise for them. They loved it too! I know they were sick because they didn't notice what I was doing until I gave it to them!

So, there are 3 challenges I am entering these in. The first on is over at the Cricut Cardz Challenge, to make a bookmark. The second is on the Cricut Circle blog's weekly challenge to use a fairytale figure somewhere in it. And the last challenge is also on the Cricut Circle, but the monthly challenge - to make a something either for, or in honor of, the children in your life.

I used Once Upon a Princess for all the cuts. The bookmark itself is one of the tag shapes, and then I picked a different princess for each of them, and dressed them up. Added a Peachy Keen Face, lots of doodling, and some Baker's Twine for their bows. Cut out the phrase from Once Upon a Princess, and added a tassel out of Baker's Twine. Here is a close up of both of them:

Thanks for looking - have a great day!!!



Happy Day...and Sympathy

I didn't notice until I was posting these, just how OPPOSITE they were! The first one is all happy, and the second one is sympathy! Guess that is how life is though, the happy mixed with the sad.

So the first one I was just playing with some stamps I had in my stash, and coloring with my Prismacolor pencils. Then I put the yellow frame around it (which is the negative cut of the Groovy card I made the other day!), and added a frame. Before I knew it, I was cutting out a happy sunshine (from Simply Charmed) and adding a Peachy Keen face, and some grass from Zooballoo. I added Glossy Accents to the grass and the rays on the sunshine, added LOTS of faux stitching, a little ribbon from my stash, and LOTS of bling with my Jolee's heat set tool. The grass and the sunshine are also pop-dotted from everything else for texture.

The second one isn't my favorite, but I figured I would share it anyway. Feels like it needs something, but I can't put my finger on what it is! Anyway, I used one of the tag shapes from Once Upon a Princess, and the flower came from Cindy Loo. The side border is a Martha Stewart punch. The frame on the inside is actually the shadow to the frame on the front, but I didn't like it there when it was all finished. So I cut a little off the top and bottom to make it fit better, and put it on the inside. Added some ribbon and a sentiment from my stash (not sure who it is by...) and a bit of doodling to finish it off.



Loads of fun!

I made this card for the montly challenge on the Cricut Circle blog. The challenge was to scraplift something from one of the posts on the blog. So...I picked a card made during the month of december, and took the layout, and instead of putting an elf on it, I put a tree, and didn't use Christmas colors. I really LOVE trees...so I like this card!

The tree came from Cindy Loo, and the background shape was cut from Once Upon a Princess using one of the tags cut out several times in just a little larger size each time. Added a sentiment from Pink by Design stamps, a ribbon bow on the side, some faux stitching, and inked everything. Thanks for looking - and I hope your day is "Loads of Fun!!!"



Birthday card for Olivia!

Hi there! Thought I would just quickly post the card I made for my daughters to give to a little friend who just turned 8 last week. Used Once Upon a Princess cartridge, and LOTS of glitter paper! Also added a little gem with my Jolee's heat set tool, some ribbon, and a flower. Used a stamp on some white paper, cut it out, and used that for the center of the flower. Oh yes - I almost forgot! Also used a Peachy Keen stamp for the face!