My first Cuttlebug Brocade Window card

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My Cuttlebug folders arrived! Whenever I saw the great sale on some older Cuttlebug folders at Cricut, I jumped at the chance to purchase the Emboss Plus 5" x 7" Brocade Window at $1.99. I wanted to buy more of the Emboss Plus folders, but they were already sold out.

This is my first card using the Brocade Window and I really like the looks! Card is 5" x 7" cut from a cream Recollections cardstock. The cut and embossed window is from The Paper Studio Light Burlap. For the window opening I used The Paper Studio Eloise Floral and the flowers are also cut from this paper.

Cricut Cartridge:

Mother's Day Bouquet - Flowers are cut using Flower 8 at varying sizes. 

Martha Stewart Fern punch used for the greenery. I do not know the name of that punch so I call it greenery punch. If you know the name, please tell me!

Like most of us, I have bought crafting items that I seem to hoard!  Last year, I bought pretty paper pad, brads, buttons, die cuts, and trinkets of Bo Bunny Little Miss collection. For today's project, I chose to use the dress form and the green scroll die cuts from the collection..love those colors! Dress form is pop-dotted on the card.

Other supplies from my stash include the Venice Lace Collection motif, crochet doily, the button that is in the doily and the Love button which is pop-dotted on the card. These buttons have been stashed a long time. Recollection Pearls and Michael's ribbon trim for the bow complete the look. Of course, lots of inking!

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Flowers

Celebrate the Occasion - Ch. 112  3 Flowers, 2 buttons, 1 Ribbon,

CWC - Ch. 134 Lace

Paper Playtime - Ch. 10 Button or Brads  May 13 - May 26

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 166 Sweet SpringTime- Use pink, green, white or cream, and a sewing element

Hope you enjoy this card! Maybe you are inspired to use some of those crafty items that you have been hoarding! Thanks for your visits and comments!

Patriotic Triple Twisted Easel Card

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Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone has enjoyed a fun day! I had crafting time and was able to work on a card for some fun Patriotic challenges. I have not had much time to participate in challenges lately and I enjoyed working on this card!

The card is my first triple twisted easel card. Searching on You Tube, I found a video by alissandme who shares great instructions on making this card. The card is made from a 8 1/2" x 11" white cardstock. It is scored and folded down the center at the 4 1/4" mark. For all the details, view the video. Several videos are available on You Tube.

Patterned papers are Recollections and most of the solid papers are from the scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges: Working in Cricut Craft Room

Independence Day - Looks like I was trying to showcase this cartridge because of the many cuts I used.

Flag- cut 1.75", Firework2 cut at 2.5", Liberty Bell cut 2.75", Banner1 (half-circle) cut 1.5", Banner4 cut 2". Two of these were cut to use as the stops for the side panels. Freedom cut .875".

Wild Card

Page 59 - Star was cut 3.75 from vellum for the middle panel. I did not want to hide all the patterned paper. Red and blue star was cut 1.75". Phrase Celebrate was cut 4.25".

There are no shadow cuts available for the two words that I used so I hand cut a shadow for the words...something I did for scrapbooking before I heard of a Cricut machine!

Cuttlebug:

Star folder was used on the red and blue star.

Other supplies include Pop dots for the Cricut cuts, 3 Girl Jam ribbons, and Versa Magic gingerbread ink.

Close-up views of the side panels---

Challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion - Ch 69 4th of July

Cooking With Cricut - Ch 93 Red, White and Blue

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch 72 Red, White and Blue- Bonus- Add a Patriotic symbol

Exploring Cricut - Red, White and Blue

FCCB - Ch 118 Fireworks, Sparkler or other big boom project

Little Scrap Pieces - In honor of the Fourth, Use a Star

Paper Playtime - Red, White and Blue

SOUS - Flag Die Cut

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Seeing Stars 

3 Girl Jam - Link up for beautiful bows project

Hope you enjoy my first Triple Twisted Easel Card! Thanks for your comments!

A Teacher Card

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Thanks for stopping by today. Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Today I am sharing a card made for a couple of challenges! With the school term ending date fast approaching, the card will be for a grandson to give to his teacher. I am playing along with the sketch challenge at Die Cuttin Divas.

Card measures 5"x 7" cut from white cardstock. Patterned papers were in my stash given to me by a friend.

Cricut cartridges:

Plantin Schoolbook - This is the oldest cartridge in my cartridge library..it came with the first Cricut purchase. It has images that work well with my card. Page 77- Award is cut 3". The A, plus sign, and letters to spell Teacher are cut at .75".

Wow! that is it -- one cartridge today!

Other supplies:

Martha Stewart Ribbon Loop Edge Punch

Apple button from my stash.

Dew Drop Versa Magic inking

This is a simple card but I think the teacher will appreciate it!

It certainly is bright - do I get A+ for the colors!!

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch 63 Sketch

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 84 Teacher Appreciation Day

I appreciate your comments!

Please come back tomorrow as I will be making my first post as a design team member at BBTB2! Time for a new challenge and we hope to see you there!

Patchwork Easter Card

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I am playing along with the fun sketch challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas. I decided to make an Easter card so I can play along with a few more fun challenges!

The card is 5" x 5" white cardstock and layered with a 4 3/4" square of lavender paper. The nine little squares are cut at 1 1/2". Easter papers are from a friend and other papers are left over from previous projects. This is a good sketch for using small pieces of paper. The fun is laying out the patchwork design! The ribbon is interwoven on the squares for a bit more color and design.

Cricut Cartridge:

Easter 2010 - Egg and shadow are cut at 2 1/2".

Other supplies:

Easter dimensional sticker is from a Walmart pack of handmade stickers. This has been in my stash for a year-maybe two. I thought the sticker would work well with the different colors in my card.

Ribbon is American Crafts - another after Easter clearance!

Paper Studio pearls

Egg is pop-dotted. Versa Magic inking.

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 59 Sketch

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 80 Easter theme

FCCB - Ch. 105 Egg

My Craft Spot - Ch 50 Easter

Simply Create Too - Ch 10 - Eggs &/or Bunnies ends 4/12

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Celebrating Easter

Krafty Girls - Ch 4 - For Peep's Sake -Easter

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your comments!

Music Card

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This fun card is made for a few challenges requiring a music theme. It is inspired by the song "Spring Fever" by Elvis. The first few lines starts with "A little bird, he told me so. He said come on, get on the go. Open your eyes, the sky is full of butterflies."

I got busy with the Cricut and some fun cuts.

Card is 5"x 6 1/2" white cardstock. Patterned paper is The Paper Studio Girls Live To Rock. Solid papers are from my stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

April Showers - Spring fever is cut 1.25". Butterflies are .375"

Groovy Times - I have not played with this cartridge in awhile but when I saw the dance couple, my thoughts turned to maybe a guy with a guitar. The dance couple is on page 24.  I used hide contour in Cricut Craft Room to eliminate the girl. The guy is cut 4".

Also on page 24, the silhouette feature on shift was cut for the white mat at 4.125".

Page 53 - Guitar is cut using Layer 1 and Layer 2 at 2".

Cuttlebug:  Allergo Folder is used on the white mat.

Other supplies: Inking and pop-dots for the guy and guitar.

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 57 Music

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 78 Spring Song Inspired Challenge

Hope you enjoy this Spring song inspired card! I used several music features while trying to keep the Spring theme with some Spring colors. I know it is a bit different but it was fun to make!

St. Patrick's Day Iris Folding

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I am sharing another St. Patrick's Day card inspired by a few challenges! When I saw the color challenge and bonus technique of using an Iris Fold at Die Cuttin' Divas, I got busy! I have worked with Iris Folding before and really enjoy using the technique and seeing the results. However that was before my blog was started so I do not have a photo.

Cricut Cartridge: I worked in Cricut Craft Room.

A Child's Year - Page 31 Card Feature. Card is cut 5.986"width x 9.278"h. I like the shaped edges of the card plus the effect of the cut out shamrocks. Needing a cut out shape to do the Iris Folding, I chose the hat (Icon Feature) on page 31 also. Using CCR and size 2.5", I used the hide contour feature to hide the hat band and shamrock. Then, I placed the hat in the location on the card so the hat opening would be cut out of the card by the Cricut. This is a first for me and I am really pleased with the results!

For the Iris Folding, I used a triangle shape template that is available at Circle of Crafters. The triangle and square templates have been donated to the public domain. Instructions are given to make your own patterns from scratch. Other patterns can be found at this site. Remember they are copyright protected.

Cutterbug: Swiss Dots on the black hat band.

Other supplies:

Papers: White Colorbok cardstock for the cardbase. Green glitter paper is from a Birthday pack. I thought this would be pretty for the eye of the Iris and the paper showing under the shamrocks. The St. Patrick's Day papers were given to me by a friend.

Sew Easy Fancy Floss (Baker's Twine lemonade). This is my first time to play with this product. I like this on cards, but I had trouble with the twine untwisting. The yellow buttons are from my stash.

Martha Stewart inking.

Challenges:

DieCuttin' Divas - #56 Colors- Use Green, Yellow, Black and White. Bonus-Iris Folding

Cooking With Cricut - #77 St. Pat's and Rainbows

Little Scrap Pieces - Luck of the Irish
Wacky Wednesday - More Than Favors - Ch. 67 St. Patrick's Day (ends 3-27) 

Whimsical Designs  - #45 Going Green - Use Green (ends 3-21)
Scrapalicious - A Cut Above  (Some sort of special cut)

Close -up view of the hat using three patterned papers for the folding and the glitter paper for the Iris!

                                   

Hope you enjoy my card!

Large Valentine Card

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Hope you are having a great day! I have been busy with Valentine's cards but have not completed all I want to do. Is anyone else running late with cards!

I recently received a beautiful card from a card exchange. It is a large size card and covered with so many beautiful details! Thank you so much Beckie and thanks for inspiring me to try a large card!!

This Valentine card is made from a 8 1/2" x 11" red Recollections cardstock and scored in half to make a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" card. White layer is 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Zebra print paper is 8" x 5". I am playing along with the sketch challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas this week.

Cricut Cartridges:

Victorian Romance - I just received this cartrige and I am loving the pretty images! I was using the Cricut Craft Room and the heart is cut at 4.5". Love is cut at 3.0"w x 1.694"h. I adjusted the size until I was pleased with it. Good thing about the CCR!

Elegant Edges - White mat is the Shadow feature on page 39. Sorry, I did not record the size but it measures 6 1/2"h. I cut the image in half to use on the card so I have an extra mat for later use.

Cuttlebug: Polka Dots folder on the white mat.

Martha Stewart Lace Hearts edge punch was used on the red paper. I added the cut out tiny red hearts on the white mat to add a bit of color.

The flower ribbon brad is from Spare Parts. I thought that was so cute so I just had to buy the package and then discovered the package was on sale!!

Challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Ch. 51 Sketch

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 72 Grown-Up Valentine Must use black and brad.

Whimsical Designs - Ch. 42 Red , White and one other color of choice

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Valentine's Card or project

My Craft Spot - Ch. 43 Valentine's Day

Simply Create Too - Ch 6 Red Hot
Creative Cutter Room - Valentine's Day
Docerla Creations - Valentine's Card

Hope you enjoy my large card filled with Love!

Valentine Sweets Store

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Surprise! I have a project to share with you today that is not a card!

I recently bought the Cricut Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge and immediately knew which would be my first project to try. I had so much fun being a paper carpenter and I am really pleased with my results. Designer double-sided patterned papers are from K&Company Kelly Panacci Valentine Pad that was bought last Valentine. For the house, I chose the pretty little hearts paper. I was working with the Cricut Craft Room and No 4 Store on page 26. I noticed the handbook shows the store image is the third cut on top line, but it is marked incorrectly. The store is actually the fourth key on the keypad. Cuts were at 10".

To make the store you must cut the main image twice and then there are four layer cuts which have several different pieces. On one layer cut, I used the hide contour feature and separated the images so I could use different papers for some of the images.

I used the Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes folder on the white door facing.  Do you like the pink polka dot door!  The heart on the door is hand cut from one of the pieces of designer paper.

Here is a view of the back of the store building. I love the little window. I run the white paper through the Distressed Stripes folder also. The flower pot and flower cuts are on one of the layer cuts. I added some Recollections Floral Embellishments flowers. On some of the flowers, I added two layers of flowers, a yellow button and some pop-dots for dimension.

This is a side view of the little store. I thought the pretty striped paper would be good for the roof - actually reminds me of a storefront awning!  The Sweets signpost was a little taller than I wanted--it went up in the awning so I cut some of pole off. For an extra spash of Valentine look, I added a ribbon bow from ribbon that was in my stash!

I cut the word Sweets twice and placed the word on each side of the sign. A piece of Cricut cartridge packaging was cut and glued inside the windows.

Hope you enjoy my little house of love! I will  place some candy in it and use it for a Valentine party  decoration!

Challenges:

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 70 Anything but a Card with Yellow and Polka Dots

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Use stripe paper

Whimsical Designs - Love is in the Air- create a love themed home decor project

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch 50 - Anything Goes

Frosted Designs - Recipe- 3 Patterned papers, 2 buttons and 1 word title ( Hope I do not have too many buttons)

Decorate To Celebrate - Valentine party project

My Craft Spot - Anything Goes

Exploring Cricut - 123 Choice- 1 ribbon, 2 Cricut cuts, 3 brads, jewels or buttons

Passionately Artistic - Linking Party

Ribbons and Rosettes

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Today I am sharing my first project using the Cricut Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge! Ooh, I like this cartridge! It has so many pretty images. It took me two trips to my closest Michael's (which is over 40 miles away) to be able to find this cartridge...they did not receive any for the Thanksgiving sale. But now I have the cartridge!

My card is 6 1/2" x 5" cut from brown Bazzill cardstock. Designer papers are from the Basic Grey Eva Collection Kit. This beautiful pack was blog candy from My Sheri Crafts and I have been hoarding these gorgeous papers for over a year. Do you ever come across pretty papers that you do not want to cut?  That happened with this paper pack. However, I love all the colors and thought it would work perfectly for my project so I cut it!!

Cricut Cartridges:

Ribbons and Rosettes - Page 25 Doily, Doily Medallion and Medallion Shadow are cut 1.50". I cut the Doily feature 5 times. After gluing the 5 pieces together, the rosette measures 3" wide. The score lines on the doily cut are 3/4" apart so the rosette height measures 3/4" high. The rosette is pretty on the card, but the card will not fit in an envelope. This would have to be a personal delivery!

Nate's ABC's - Page 21- Font 1 feature is cut at .75"

Wild Card - Page 69 Congrats is cut 4.50" I hand cut the brown mat and added green gemstones in each corner.

The pink patterned border is an embellishment paper from the paper pack. I cut it to fit the brown mat. Brown ribbon is from stash!

My talented friend Diana at DL.ART  http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/ is celebrating her 1'st Blogaversary with a blog hop, a project link up, and a great Cricut cartridge giveaway. You must visit the designers in the blog hop to find the key words for items that must be included on your project and link up your project to her blog by midnight Jan. 6. I am really cutting this close! Congrats Diana on your achievements! Looking forward to seeing all your pretty work this year!

I am also sharing the card at these challenges.

Challenges:

Cooking With Cricut -  Ch. 67 Something New -- Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge

Getting Cricky with K. Andrew - Simply Sunday Challenge- It's a Celebration

Hope you enjoy my card!



My Favorite Card of 2011

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Today I am sharing my favorite card of 2011. This was my very first side step card and was made in Feb. 2011. You can see the original post here. I am so happy that this card won in a few challenges that I had entered! Thanks to all of you who have viewed and commented at the original post. That posting is the most viewed post of my 2011 work.

Cricut cartridges are Lacy Labels and Sweethearts. Paper is K&Company..love that paper! Cuttlebug folder is Hearts. More details can be viewed at the original post.

I will share the card at a couple of challenges that are reflecting on favorite 2011 projects.

Challenges:

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 66 Year in Review - Share your favorite project of 2011

Whimsical Wednesday - Happy New Year or Favorite Project.

Hope you enjoy!

Noel - Christmas Rose

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Today I am sharing a final Christmas card that just was finished in time for this season. I wanted to make many more cards but my time was so limited. Maybe I should start now for next year!

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" red cardstock. Designer papers are K&Company Yuletide.

Cricut Cartridges:

Christmas/Noel Solutions - Sign post, Noel, Bow

Flower Shoppe - Flower -- I thought a Christmas Rose would be pretty for this card!

Other Supplies:  Holiday Craft Time ribbon, Recollections gemstones, Versa Magic Gingerbread ink, Martha Stewart punch for the greenery and sign post was pop-dotted on card.

Challenges:

Cooking With Cricut - Ch. 65 - Holiday Florals

One Stop Craft Challenge - Ch. 163 - Winter Wishes

Simply Create Too - Ch. 3 - Shape It Up  ( Rose)

Hope you enjoy this card!

Colors of Fall

Hi and thanks for your visit! I love the colors of Fall and enjoy making cards with a Fall theme. I was excited to receive the Cricut Simply Scarecrow cartridge so of course I had to choose a scarecrow for my card! Card is 5" x 6 1/2" and layered with same size patterned paper.
Cricut cartridges:
Simply Scarecrow-- Lady scarecrow is cut 4". Crow is 1.75". Three images of the crow are available on this cut but I used only the larger one. Fall is cut 1.25". These cuts were done on the Expression2.
Wrap It Up - Page 45 - Fence is cut 4 3/4". My first cuts of the fence and grass were 5" which put the fence a bit too wide for the card. I resized and cut 4 3/4" for the fence, but used the 5" cut for the grass.
Stretch Your Imagination - Page 44 - Pumpkins cut 1 1/2" and 1" using the blackout function.
Page 48 - Leaves were cut using varying sizes.
Cuttlebug:
Distressed Stripes on the fence and  Divine Swirls on the pumpkins!
I used lots of inking, 1/8" and 1/4" pop dots for the dimension, buttons, and raffia for the bows.

Challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion - Ch 36 Fall
Cooking With Cricut - Ch 57 Scarecrow, Hay, Crows and sketches.
Paper Playtime - Ch 58 Say It With Sentiment, and use buttons and bows
2 Sisters Challenge - Pumpkin Patch -must include a pumpkin
 http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/  - Die Cut Challenge - Fence
Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Fridays Linking party

Photo showing the layering! Happy Fall Y'All! Hope you enjoy my card!

Sweet Treats!

After a little yard work this morning, I thought making a card would be more fun! So here is another birthday card which I will enter in a couple of challenges!

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" and was inspired by a sketch from Page Maps March 2011

Cricut cartridge: Sweet Treats

Page 25 - Cupcake cut at 3"

Page 62 - Phrase Sprinkled With Fun cut at 1 3/4".

Paper - Birthday extravaganza with glitter by the Paper Studio. Love the glitter!

Message ribbon is Martha Stewart bought on clearance at Big Lots several months ago.

Fiskars Scallop scissors were used for the scallop cuts on the mats.

Cupcake and phrase are pop-dotted.

Challenges:

Cooking with Cricut - Challenge 55- Cake, Cupcake or Teddy

Die Cuttin' Divas - Challenge 36 - National Dessert Day - any dessert

Hope you enjoy this card!

Apple Harvest

It seems forever since I was able to participate in a challenge. There have been so many great challenges lately and I have been missing all the fun. I finally was able to get a card done this weekend for a couple of challenges!

My card is 5" x 6 1/2 " white cardstock and is layered with a pretty Recollections pink patterned paper.

I was trying to include apples and a wheelbarrow into my project. I opened Cricut Freshly Picked cartridge for the first time and saw this apple frame. Well, immediately I decided to frame a wheelbarrow! Have you noticed the interesting frames on this cartridge...some would be great on scrapbook pages.

Cricut Cartridges:

Freshly Picked - Page 28 - Apple frame cut 4". Page 54 - Hat cut 1 3/4". For Apple Harvest, I used the Words feature on page 28 for the Apple and Words feature on page 59 for Harvest. Both were cut at 1 1/4".

Walk in my Garden - Page 107- Wheelbarrow cut at 1 1/4".

Cricut Essentials (preloaded on E2) - Page 45- Corner cut at 1.25"

A Child's Year - Page 49 - Apples cut 3/4"

Lots of inking! Hat and phrase are pop-dotted! Patterned papers are Recollections (24 in pack). I love all these colors. For the reds and kraft color, I use papers from my scrap stack. I used both the Expression and E2 on this card.

Challenges:

Bitten by the Bug2 - Walk in my Garden wheelbarrow. Of course, if you do not have this cartridge, you can use a similar cut from another cartridge.

Cooking with Cricut - Ch.# 53 - Apples and Honey

Link Up for Pink - Linking party - Pink as main color for Breast Cancer Awareness

Hope you enjoy my card!

Cooking With Cricut Guest Designer

I am very excited to be guest designer for Cooking With Cricut today! I was very surprised to receive the invitation and of course, loving the challenge blog, I am happy to be here with you! Cooking With Cricut is one of the first challenge blogs that I began participating in after I started my blog. I always look forward to the weekly challenge and participate as I can. If you have not visited the blog, you are missing out on a lot of fun! The Chefs are always cooking up beautiful and inspiring projects! I want to thank everyone at Cooking With Cricut for the honor of being a guest designer today!

My fun with the Cricut began in 2009 whenever I purchased the Expression. As most of you know I am a member of the Red Hat Society. I started scrapbooking our fun meetings and travels. That soon led to cards and blogging!! What fun! I am always buying red and purple paper. I enjoy finding a cartridge that has great cuts for my Red Hat friends. I was so happy to find Forever Young - hats, dresses, gloves, shoes, purses---perfect! Today, I am sharing a Tri-Shutter Card featuring some of the pretty cuts from Forever Young!

The card starts with a 5 1/2" x 12" piece of red cardstock. There is a great tutorial on SplitCoastStampers for making a Tri Fold Shutter Card. This card style is perfect for using your beautiful designer papers. I am using purple cardstock and the designer paper is K&Company Red Hat Society which I have been hoarding for some time. I find it very hard to find reds and purples. I have used several Cuttlebug embossing folders to add a bit of dimension. Swiss dots is used on the purple background papers. Do you notice the little purple flower on the hat? It is embossed with Bloom Dots and the hat (page 63 cut 1.50") is embossed with Swiss Dots. The purple gingham mat is embossed with Divine Swirls. The mat cut is actually the flower 3 on page 66 using the shift key and cut at 4.25" The flowers are on page 69, cut 1.25" and layers are pop-dotted.

With the card opened, you can see more of my selected cuts. The Cricut has really been chirping this week! I have used ten different images on this card plus the layer and shadow features! The shoes tag is found on page 54 and cut 1". I thought it was so cute and I just had to make room for it. DMC Memory Thread is used for the hanger and the tag is pop-dotted on the mat. Ooh la la cut .75"-page 57 and glasses cut .50"-page 47.

I used Model 14 on page 37 cut 3 1/2", cutting first in ivory and again in red. I trimmed the red hat and red shoes off and glued on the model. Dress is embossed with the Cuttlebug Textile folder. Shoes cut 1.75"- page 54, purse cut 1.75"-page 56, gloves cut 1.50-page 45. Of course, Red Hatters love bling-must have rhinestones! Lots of inking, ribbon and rhinestones from my stash!

This is an easy card to make but it does take time cutting out the mats and layers. Above photo is the card laying flat. Hope you enjoy! Again, many thanks to Cooking With Cricut for the great opportunity!

To see more projects using cuts from Forever Young, you can view Cricut Forever Young under Labels -left side bar of my blog!

Paper Playtime Ch.52 - Cool Off With Water



Thanks for visiting today! It is time for another fun challenge at Paper Playtime. Challenge # 52 is Cool Off With Water. As most of the country has been having very high temperatures, it is refreshing to find a way to cool off! I do not have a sailboat but when I saw this cute cut, I wanted to use it for my card. Wanting to have a colorful card, I chose red, white, and blue papers from my stash. I used the Cricut cartridge Just a Note which is preloaded on the Cricut Expression 2. The cuts are on page 50. Using the card feature, the card is cut 5.50" from a navy blue cardstock. Let's Sail Away cut at 5.50" using red cardstock is the shift key on the card feature. I cut the sailboat first from silver cardstock at 5.50" using the card layer feature and again from the red and blue papers using the card layer shift function. I had trouble getting the correct size for the layering of the letters. If I used the same size for the layering, the individual letters would have been very large. It seems that all sizes would be the same for the complete card, but it did work that way. I do not use Design Studio nor Gypsy so I had to keep making adjustments. I think it was 3 inches that I finally used to cut the letters.

To add more dimension, I used the Cuttlebug Houndstooth on the sails and Divine Swirls on the blues for the water.

Above is a photo of the card opened. The solid blue is actually the backside of the card. The two side panels fold in toward the front of the card. Hope you enjoy my card!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! We would love to see your paper projects showing any type of way to cool off with water. We are happy to have My Pink Stamper as our sponsor for this challenge. The prize is a clear stamp set "Music Speaks". To see the design team's great projects, visit Paper Playtime. Be sure to hop over to their blogs and leave some love!

I am sharing this card at Cooking With Cricut  Challenge #45- Sailboat.

Brrrr!

How about a little Christmas in July! With our recent extremely high temperatures, I thought it would be "cool" to make a Christmas card. After visiting some challenge blogs, I chose some themes to incorporate so I can participate in the challenges.
My card is 5 x 6 1/2 inches from white basic cardstock. I cut a 1" x 6 1/2 piece of white Colorbok for the edge of the card. My papers are all from my scrap stash. I used the Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake edge punch on the edge of the red designer paper and layered it on the 1' x 6 1/2". Then it was glued to the front of the card.
I am so excited how the Cricut cuts turned out on this card. Not only did I use the Cricut to cut the images, but I also used Cricut Colors ink markers to draw the gloves and word Brrrr!. I will admit that I used my older Expression for the color markers. There is a lot about the Expression 2 that I have not tried yet!
Using a white DMC Memory Thread, the gloves are connected to the Anna Griffin decorative brad to appear as if they are hanging. If you are not familar with DMC Color Infusion Memory Thread, it is a fiber wrapped wire that is be used on sewing projects. It is great in our card making too. I found the Memory Thread at Michael's on the aisle with the regular DMC thread for embroidery/cross-stitch.
Lots of inking! Pop dots- 1/16" on the mat and 1/8" on the gloves!
I think the card turned out pretty cool!
Cricut Cartridges:
Joys of the Season - Mittens on page 51 cut 1 3/4"
Winter Frolic - Sentiment "Brrr!" on 33 cut 1 3/4- Phrase and shadow features

Challenges:
Sassy Lil' Card Sketch - Sketch (Maybe I did not get too carried away with the sketch.)
Cooking With Cricut - Cricut markers or a sun if you do not have markers.
BBTB - Joy of the Season Gloves
Craft Us Crazy - Christmas in July
Christmas Card Challenges - Faith/Christmas in July
2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Christmas in July
If The Shoe Fits - Ruby
Hope you enjoy!

Red/Purple Birthday Card



My card today is for a Red Hat Lady and will be entered in some fun challenges!

Cricut Cartridges:

Wild Card - Doily card on page 52. I cut the card from red Recollections cardstock at 5". Using the Liner feature, the purple paper is cut at 5" and the purple/white gingham paper is cut at 5.50". This gave me a larger gingham circle to lay over the solid purple paper.

Cricut American Alphabet - This is one of the preloaded cartridges that came on the Expression2. I like the shoe which is the second image on first row. I think it works well for a Red Hat Lady! The purple layer is the blackout feature and is cut at 2.25". Using the shift key, the main shoe image is cut at 2.25".

Cuttlebug Folders:

Happy Birthday - purple mat; Swiss Dots - shoe; and Birthday (4 pack) -Celebrate on the hand cut tag.

For some extra bling, I added the Recollections Glitter Velvet Purple ribbon, Recollections rhinestones, and a Just Picture This Red Hat brad. Lots of Martha Stewart purple inking and the tag is pop-dotted.

Challenges:

Birthday Sundaes - #16 Anything Goes and include birthday wording

Die Cuttin' Diva's - #22 Sketch

Cooking with Cricut - #41 Anything Goes Cricut

Emma's Throwback Thursday  - Use Wild Card or Just Because and embossing

Frosted Designs - Recipe - ribbon or trim, rhinestones or pearls, charm

More Than Favors - Wild Card

Enjoy!

Farm Raised

It has been awhile since I have able to join the fun at Cooking With Cricut and I am happy to participate in this week's challenge. In honor of June being National Dairy month, Challenge #40 is to create a project with a cow on it or a project with black and white and a small amount of a third color if you do not have a cow. I live in the country and I chose to make a little country scene for my cow!
The card was cut from blue cardstock and measures 5 x 6 1/2". White fleck paper is cut 4 3/4" x 6 1/4".
Cricut cartridges:
Nate's ABCs - Page 64 -Farm cut 4.50" and Clouds cut 1.25"; Page 63- Grass cut 1.75"
Country Life - Page 45 - Cow cut 1.25"; Page 32 - Farm Raised cut 1.50"
Cuttlebug Folder: Distressed stripes - Barn
I used lots of inking and pop-dotted the cow.

Hope you enjoy!

A Gator Party

My youngest grandson will be turning six soon and his mom surprised me by having an early birthday party. He is a big fan of Swamp People, a documentary television series on The History Channel. He enjoys watching the alligators and he decided to have a Swamp People theme for his party. I have been busy for the last few days working with gators!

My card was cut from blue Colorbok Textured cardstock at 9 x 8 inches for a tall card. When folded this will be 9" x 4" and will fit in a business size envelope. As you see, I turned my card. 

Cricut Birthday Bash is used on all cuts.

Alligator- page 28 cut 2 1/2". I used the Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles folder on the gator for a little dimension.

Hat - page 53 cut 2"; Balloon - page 67 cut 2 1/2"; 6 - page 26 cut 1/2".

It's Your Day - page 67. Oops, guess the gator ate the paper with that cut size!!

I hand cut the corners at the top of the card and used ziz zag scissors on one side. Inking, wiggle eyes, and a bit of doodling complete the card.

For treat bags, again I used Cricut Birthday Bash. The toppers are the Card/Tag feature and the alligator is the shift cut on the Card/Tag feature found on page 28. Both are cut at 2 1/2 inches. The alligator treat bags are the example shown in Birthday Bash at the beginning of the handbook. Again I embossed the alligator and added the eyes. I made 20 of these and used 5 different colors for the toppers - red, green, blue, white and khaki as shown. Also used different shades of green for the alligators. These were for 5 and 6 year olds and mostly boys so I did not decorate too elaborately. My daughter took all the bags before I could take a photo of the different colors.

Now this is my little cutie with his birthday cake! His mom was able to get the cake decorating kit from the History Channel store and she had his cake made. Cypress knees, cattails, alligators, and the boat with people are so cute! Everyone enjoyed the party and the cake was yummy, even if it had gators on it!!

Challenge:
Cooking with Cricut - #30 Celebration Project with at least one balloon. My card has one balloon!!
Decorate to Celebrate - Party Time

Hope you enjoy!