Bicycle Card

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

I have been busy for the last two weeks with yard work and Spring cleaning. I finally made time to play with my Cricut to make this card. Card measures 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" and is cut from white cardstock.

Paper is from The Paper Studio Country Road paper pad.

Cricut Cartridges:

Spring Fling - Bicycle is cut 3.75" wide.  Cricut Pink Crystal pen is used for the drawing. I love the pinks!

Country Life - The Simple Life is cut 2.25" wide.

Phrases - Thinking of you is cut 4" wide. This is used inside the card.

Inside of card.

I like the way this turned out! Hope you enjoy!

Challenge:

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 266 Bike Month

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My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 162 Country Strong

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Today begins a new and fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts. Our design team sister Peachy has chosen for the theme of Ch. 162- Country Strong. Since August 2-8 is National Farmer's Market week, Peachy asked us to create a card or project with a farm/country life inspiration. Living in a farming area, I am able to enjoy many pretty scenes. My thoughts turned to creating one of those pretty little scenes and of course, I had to have a barn! 

The card measures 5" x 7" and is cut from white Colorbok card stock. I layered the card with a 4 7/8" x 6 7/8" Recollections Light Blue Distressed paper to create the sky background. All other papers are from the scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

Country Life - Barn scene is cut 5.5" wide, Tractor/girl is cut with the shadow at 2.34" wide, Phrase Farm Raised is cut 2.50" wide, and Chicken is cut 1.31" wide.

Every Day Paper Dolls - Grass is cut 7" wide.

Wild Card - Sun is cut 1.50" wide.

Now it is your turn to play along with us! Visit My Sheri Crafts to see the pretty and inspiring projects made by the design team and our guest designer! For more information, please visit the individual blogs and leave us a little love. We look forward to seeing your cards and projects!

I am pleased with my little country scene! Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for your visits and comments!

Warm Wishes

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Brrr! It has been cold in my area! Hope everyone is staying safe and warm with all the winter weather that is happening throughout the country. Staying inside has given me time to play with the Cricut Explore and Design Space. I have enjoyed playing with some of the free images that was available with the Explore purchase.

The white cardstock card measures 5"x 6 1/2". The pretty patterned paper is Paper Studio Pine St. Square from Hobby Lobby. I really did not need to buy more paper but I could not resist a few more Christmas and Winter pads. Being on sale just convinced me! Remaining papers are left over from other projects. This is my play with the sketch from Die Cuttin Divas.

Cricut Cartridges:
Winter Frolic - cup
Cricut Craft Room Basics - 2 Oval mats
Country Life - Warm Wishes and shadow
Holiday Cakes - mittens

Cuttlebug Embossing folder Sledding is used on the white mat and the mat is pop-dotted on the card.
Lace and pearls are from my stash of supplies.

I am playing along with the following challenges:
Die Cuttin Divas - Ch.197 January Sketch Challenge
FCCB - Ch. 242 - Winter Fun.  Always fun to have a cup of chocolate or coffee in winter.
The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 243 Baby It is Cold Outside - Photo Inspiration

Photo inspiration

 





BBTB2 - Favorite Cricut Cut. Gosh, it is hard to choose a favorite cut. I do like tea cups and have made several projects including tea cups. However, there is one image cut that I love and use on each card that I make. You will not see it on the front, but can find it on the back of the card. It is the G monogram from A Child's Year. I use that as a personal touch! Then I write Glenda's Cards and add the year on the monogram.

 



Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you enjoy my project!

 



Simple Pleasures

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Today I am sharing a card that seems to be out of my color comfort zone. Most of you know that I love working with pinks, and of course, red and purple. However when I saw the weekly color challenge at  

The Shabby Tea Room, I was inspired to search for aqua and yellow papers.

My card measures 5" x 7" cut from white cardstock. Patterned papers are from paper pads that I have had for quite some time.

Cricut Cartridge: 

Country Life - Page 60 - Pitcher is cut 3". Pitcher is pop-dotted on the yellow mat. Phrase is cut 1.25"

Spellbinders - Nestabilities Eyelet Circles on the yellow dot paper

Martha Stewart Daisy Dot Edge Punch is used on the white layer.

Sew Easy Fancy floss - Baker's twine primary

Crinkle Ribbon from Karen at Little Scrap Pieces

Pearls and buttons from my stash and lots of inking complete the look.

 Challenge:

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 169 Shabby Sunshine using aqua, yellow, and white/cream and include twine

Frosted Designs - Punches

My Sheri Crafts - Ch 89 Picture This

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Yay! It was a short work week and Saturday is here! Time for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! Challenge 89 is Picture This! Our talented design team sister Sandy chose this week's theme and asked us to use the above picture as inspiration for our projects! These are pretty colors and several things came to mind including picnics, parties, and foods! I chose to use a strawberry!

Using Cricut Craft Room and the Cricut Country Life cartridge, I tried welding for a shaped card. The strawberry is on page 56. Using the shadow feature, I welded two shadow images on the side for the shaped card. The cut was 4.75". Regular cuts and layers were cut at same size to finish the card.
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots on the strawberry
Spellbinders: Nested Sentiment Dies
Just Rite Stamps: Myriad Pro 50 pt. for the word Sweet
Paper Studio gemstone flower brad, Sew Easy fancy floss for the bow, and Versa Magic gingerbread inking.

Photo of inside of card. Sentiment will be added later. Maybe a cute birthday card!

Visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the beautiful and inspiring projects by the design team and guest designer!Visit the individual blogs for information on the projects and leave a little love! We do appreciate the visits and comments on our blogs!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your projects inspired by the pretty photo! Remember one person will be chosen to be the next guest designer and several Ooh La La awards will be given.

Thanks for your visits and comments!

Challenge:

Little Scrap Pieces - Make it Sweet-any treat you enjoy during summer. Strawberries

                                                          

Down on the Farm Scene

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Happy Mother's Day! Hope you are having a great day!

It was a rainy day here on Saturday. After housecleaning and laundry, I was able to play with my Cricut and design this card with the farm scenes. This really took a lot of time with the cutting and layering but I am happy with the results. I enjoy living in the country and enjoy the country scenes!

The card is cut from a piece of white Colorbok cardstock at 8" x 9" and  folded in half to make a 4" x 9" tall card. The background paper is Recollections Light Blue Distressed. I was happy to find this in my stash and thought it would be good for the sky. All other papers are from my scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

Country Life - Looks like I am showcasing this cartridge as I added many of the images to the card.

Page 43 and 44 - Hen 1 and Hen 2 cut 1.25". I first cut the images smaller but the paper kept tearing in the Cricut so I had to increase the size.

Page 52 - Apple tree cut 2.75

Page 58 -  Barn cut 2.75"

Page 58 - Phrase Down On The Farm cut 1".

Page 63 - Windmill cut 2.50". Of course it had to be cut in yellow and green!

Page 72- Countryside on shift cut 2"- one was cut on flip. This is the greenery at the bottom of card. Using the layer1 on shift, cut two greenery at 1".

Page 73 - Wildflower image on shift for the green grass cut 1.5". This is the 2 light green grasses at fence.

Create a Critter

Page 29 - Sun cut 1.5"

Page 69 - Red Flowers (Accessory key) cut 1.5"

I used lots of inking which was a tough job with the smaller pieces. I had more on my fingers than on paper!

Challenges:

My Craft Spot - Ch 55 - Down on the Farm (farm animals, barn, country, etc.)

Simply Crafts -  Create a Critter Cartridge - Sun

Hope you enjoy my card!

Fantabulous Cricut - Ch. 98 Fun with Puns

Welcome to Glenda's Cards! Thanks for stopping by today!

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Today is time for another fun challenge at Fantabulous Cricut! Challenge #98 is Fun with Puns..create a card or project with a funny title or phrase.

My card is 6 1/2" x 5" white cardstock. The pretty patterned papers are from Recollection Printed Scrapbook Paper pack of 24 sheets. When I saw these papers, I knew I had to do a strawberry theme card for a special person. Solid papers are from my stash. The design is based on a sketch from Page Maps Sept. 2011.

Cricut cartridge:

Country Life - Page 56 Strawberry. This was cut using Cricut Craft Room and cut at 2.75"h. Strawberry is pop-dotted on the mat.

Phrase "Berry Sweet" was cut 1"h.

Cuttlebug:

Swiss Dots - Strawberry

Divine Swirls - White Mat

Please visit FCCB to see all the pretty and inspirational projects by the design team! We love for you to leave a comment on our blogs! Now it is your turn to play along with us. Remember you must use a Cricut cut and follow the theme. Deadline for entering will be midnight Sunday Feb. 19.

Hope you enjoy my card!

My Sheri Crafts - Sew Simple

Hi and thanks for visiting today! Today begins a fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts with "Sew Simple"! We are adding sewing to our projects. This can be real or faux stitching. I am playing with a sketch from Page Maps. I liked the design with the strips of paper on the background and thought this would add to my sewing theme.
My card is 5" X 6 1/2" white cardstock and is layered with a stitched-look paper from Martha Stewart. Again, I am happy that I was able to incorporate papers from my scrap stash!
Cricut Cartridge: Country Life
Page 65 - Quilt cut 2".
Page 67 - Phrase - From my Heart cut 1".
Martha Stewart Punches- 
Embossed Pop Up Daisy and Layering Daisy for the large flower
Flower Shower - I added small flowers to the center of the yellow blocks and the green check block on the little quilt....My quick applique!!
Edges of the green background paper are sewn with the sewing machine and Gelly Roll pen for the faux stitches. Quilt is pop-dotted on the card.

Now it is your turn to show off your stitching! Our challenges run for two weeks. Deadline for entry will be midnight CST Sept. 30. We look forward to seeing your projects! Remember a winner is chosen to be the guest designer for the next challenge and "Ooh La La" awards are selected too!

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!

This Little Piggy

I have missed playing along with some challenge blogs and I have been determined to get a card made this weekend.

At Jitterbuggin' Sheri asked us to celebrate National Pig Day (March 1) by making a card with a pig on it. I was unaware of the holiday, but it sounded like a good reason to make a card! Also we are to use 2 different patterned papers, add some buttons, and we can use any sketch. I just received Cricut Country Life cartridge and was happy to see a pig image on it! Hope it is Ok to have two pigs!! This image is on page 40 and was cut at 2 1/2 inches using the regular, layer 1, and layer 2 features. Lots of inking and for a little embellishment bling, I added two gemstones on the bows. The sentiment is also on the same page and was cut at 1 3/4 inches using the phrase and shadow features. I handcut the small banner piece and pop-dotted the sentiment on it. Two tiny matching buttons are from my stash of goodies.

For the papers, I was able to incorporate 4 patterned papers. I used 5 solid papers on the card which include the pink for the pig noses and darker pink for the mouth. This does not show too well in photo. The double-sided papers are from a Martha Stewart Playful Pink paper pad. Brown and black are Colorbok.

Martha Stewart edge punch was used on the lavendar gingham paper.

I love it when I can enter a card in more than one challenge. I was so excited that Cooking with Cricut Challenge 19 is Double Take! We are to use 2 pieces of patterned papers (perferably different patterns), 2 pieces of solid papers (perferably 2 different colors), 2 embellishements and a Cricut or other die cut machine cut. I believe I have all that covered...and I have 2 Pigs!! Will that count extra!

You still have time to join in the fun for both these great challenges! So head over to the blogs and enter your project!

Thanks for visiting! Your comments are always appreciated!

My Sheri Crafts -- Guest Designer

Thanks for stopping by today! I am so excited and yet a bit nervous!! Sheri asked me to be the guest designer at her challenge blog My Sheri Crafts this week. This is the first time for me to be a guest designer. Thank you so much Sheri for giving me this special opportunity!!
When Sheri told me this week's challenge theme was "All About Boys", I really got nervous!! What! No pink, lace, flowers, and all those things I love!! Ok, so it is Boys! I thought of my young grandsons and would you believe the first thing that came to my mind was a mud puddle!! Because I have limited Cricut cuts for boy/masculine themes and no mud puddles, I chose one of my favorite cartridges---A Child's Year!

It is the simple pleasures that often become our fondest memories!

The card is 5 x 6 1/2 white cardstock which is layered with a 5 x 6 1/2 piece of pretty stripe designer paper from Paper Pizazz Floral Backgrounds paper pad. Yes, I did say Floral! The boy with the dog is found on page 62 of Cricut A Child's Year cartridge..this is the shift key. It is cut at 3 1/2 inches. I also cut the shadow feature at the same size. The background mat is the card feature using the shift key and is cut at 5 1/2 inches from Brazzill paper. For dimension, I used pop-dots to mount the boy/dog image on the mat. Lot of inking! The phrase "Simple Pleasures" is from Country Life page 60 and is cut at 1 1/2 inches. I love that phrase and think it works well with A Child Year's cuts. The phrase is the only cut that is not from A Child's Year!

For the inside of the card, I used the boy/dog image on page 63. This was cut at 2 1/2 inches. I will be needing a birthday card, so I chose to use the phrase "Happy Birthday" found on page 71 of ACY. It was cut 2 inches.

I thought the little dog gift tag would be a nice addition to my gift. This is the tag feature found on page 62 and cut at 2 inches. (Notice the little dog in left hand corner on the inside of the card---it it the cut out piece from the tag.) The word "to" is found on page 74 and the word "from" is found on page 75. Each word was cut at 1/2 inch. For the tag tie, I used some blue fibers that was in a blog candy package from a sweet blogger friend! I just love it!

I hope you enjoy my "All About Boys" project!

Please visit My Sheri Crafts for great inspiration from the Design Team and enter your project in the challenge! Thanks again Sheri and Design Team!

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