My Sheri Crafts Ch. 82 - MSC Turns Two!

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Thanks for stopping by today! We have an exciting challenge for you at My Sheri Crafts. We are celebrating a birthday! Yes! My Sheri Crafts Turns 2! Happy Birthday! Time for fun and celebrating! Let's do fun birthday projects for toddlers or kids under 5. We want to see bright colors and fun projects--no elegant cards.  Sheri created a cute birthday button for the party! We would love for you to share it on your blog!

When I was thinking of what to do for this challenge, my thoughts turned to the fun Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge! This cartridge has a card feature with some great card shapes. I have not used this cartridge very often and I enjoyed playing with it for this card.

Using the Cricut Craft Room and the card feature on page 36, the card is cut at 5.25" from red cardstock. The word Birthday is part of the cut image. Finished size when folded is 5 1/2" width x 5 1/4" height. Card feature on shift gives the layer with the word bash. The polka dot paper is from a birthday kit. I layered a scrap of green glitter paper under the word opening.

The little monkey is the main image on page 36 and is cut at 2.875" x 2.75". He seems to be peeping from under the blindfold! Such  a cute cut! For a festive look, I decided to add a little hat. The hat is found on page 21 and is cut at 1 1/2". To add more fun to the monkey, it is attached to an Action Wobble.

Other supplies include inking and a white Gelly Roll pen used on the letters.

Now it is your turn to play along with us at My Sheri Crafts. Stop by the blog and see all the fun and festive projects that have been created by the talented design team and our guest designer Jessica at Cricut after Dark. We appreciate your comments and encourage you to become a follower if you are not already.  Remember several Ooh la la awards are given and one person will be chosen to be the next guest designer!

Hope you enjoy my fun and bright card! Happy Birthday My Sheri Crafts!

Easter Basket

This is my first try using the cute basket on Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge. I used a 12 x 12 inch piece of yellow cardstock and set my Expression on Fit to Page. The top edge of the basket measures 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 and the height is 3 1/4. Nice size little basket!

Cricut cartridges:

Create A Critter - Rabbit on page 26 cut 3 1/2 inches. Rabbit is on an Action Wobble. It is so cute when it wobbles! Flowers on page 66 cut 1 3/4 inches.

Easter 2010 - Basket and Egg. Egg is cut at 3 inches.

Plantin Schoolbook - Grass on page 69, using the shift key cut 3/4 inches.

Papers are Colorbok Textured Cardstock, lots of inking, and pearl on the egg is from stash.

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - Colors pink, green and yellow

My Sheri Crafts - Bunnies

Bitten by the Bug 2 - Easter 2010 Egg

Hope you enjoy my project!

Flaunt It Fridays Birthday Bash Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to Flaunt It Fridays Birthday Bash Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from talented Stacey of Stacey's Creative Corner, you are in the right place. If not and you would like to start at the beginning go directly to Flaunt It Fridays.

This week we are flaunting the little bunny with present on page 27 of the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge.

For my project, I made a cute little Easter basket for a Red Hat Lady. I found a great tutorial at SplitCoastStampers.The base of the basket starts with one piece of 4 3/4" x 7 3/4" piece of cardstock. One piece of 1" x 11" piece of cardstock is needed for the basket handle. You will need one 1 1/2" x 15" of patterned paper to decorate the basket and one 7/8" x 11" of patterned paper to decorate the handle. See the tutorial for the complete directions! I used the Martha Stewart doily lace edge punch on a piece of the purple paper and glued it around the top edges of the basket. To secure the handles of the basket, I used Red Hat Society brads. The little bunny is cut at 2 3/4 inches using a lavender piece of K&Company Designer Mat Pad. I used an Action Wobble on the bunny and placed it on the basket. It is so cute when it wobbles. Here is a close up view of the Wobble and my cute little brad.

For my second project, I chose to make a card to go along with the basket.

These projects are my first time to use the Birthday Bash cartridge. I was pleasantly surprised to see a cut for a crown! This is the card/tag cut on page 47 and is cut at 5 3/4 inches. For the remaining cuts, I used the Layer 1 and Layer 2 on page 56 cut at 6 inches. First I tried 5 3/4" (same as card size) but it was too small, so I used a size larger. I trimmed off a bit of the red check paper for a better fit. Hmm, guess I need to learn to use a Gyspy! Of course, Red Hat Ladies like bling! I added little red hearts which was a Valentine clearance, Recollections gemstones, and Diamond Stickles. For the inside of the card, I used the phrase feature on page 56 to cut Royal Wishes at 3 inches. "For you" phrase is found on page 34 and is cut at 2 1/4 inches. This is photo of the inside of the card. I hope you enjoy my projects! 

Now for a little blog candy! I have a package of Special Moments scrapbook stickers, a package of Miss Elizabeths Scrapbook Embellishments-Travel theme, and 5 mats that I have embossed with some of my favorite Cuttlebug folders.

To be entered in the drawing for my blog candy, you must leave a comment on this post. Please leave a way to contact you if you are my winner. USA or Canada mailing address only due to cost of postage. You do not have to be a follower, but if you enjoy my work and would like to be a follower, I would appreciate that!

The hop will stay open all weekend. I know the talented ladies have some great projects to share with you. I will announce my winner of the blog candy on Monday!

We invite you to play along with the challenge by entering a project using the bunny/present. If you do not have Birthday Bash, you can use a similar cut from another cartridge!

Just a reminder, Peachy Keen Stamps is sponsoring the Grand Prize giveaway which is Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed Assortment. Now we all love Peachy Keen Stamps! To be entered in that giveaway, you must leave a comment of each of the blogs in the blog hop.Next on your stop is the talented design team member Sharon at MeeMee's Creations. I know she has wonderful projects to share with you. Below is a list of all the participants in the blog hop.

1. Flaunt It Friday's http://www.flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/

2. Sandra http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

3. Lisa http://www.crop-and-create.blogspot.com/

4. Sheandra http://www.lawyersscraptoo.blogspot.com/

5. Pam http://simply-pam.blogspot.com/

6. Stacey http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/

7. Glenda http://glendascards.blogspot.com/    That's Me

8. Sharon http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com/

9. Amanda http://www.myscrappinobsession.com/

10. Celeste http://ccscards.blogspot.com/

11. Carley http://www.the-real-icarley.blogspot.com/

12. Jenny K http://kozfam5.blogspot.com/

13. Laurel http://www.blog.littlepeaceofmyheart.com/

14. Corri http://www.buglvr.blogspot.com/

15. Monica http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/

Paper Playtime - Technology

Glad you dropped by today! It is Monday and time for another fun challenge at Paper Playtime! Our challenge this week is to use a Technology image. This could be a computer, phone, iPod, car, Robot, etc.

My card measures 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 and was cut from white cardstock. I cut a piece of designer paper 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 from the So-So Sweet Paper pack by the Paper Studio and layered it on the card base. For the image, I chose the MP3 player on page 62 of Cricut Paisley. It is cut at 4 1/4 inches using a piece of blue paper from the Bazzill Basics Paper Pack. The image shift key and layers 1 and 2 were used to complete the player. The word jammin' and the music notes on the lower left edge of the card are also on the same page.
The white mat is from Colorbok and was embossed using the Cuttlebug Allergo folder. I attached an Action Wobble Spring to the MP3 and then attached it to the white mat to give it movement! This is my first time to use an Action Wobble and I think it is so fun on this card. I used Martha Stewart inking and pop-dots on the word jammin'.

Now, we would love to see your paper projects using a technology theme! Check out all the amazing projects by the talented design team for some great inspiration! We are happy to have Michelle's Scrapbooking & More as our sponsor this week!