Beach Scene

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After playing with red, white, and blue papers for a couple of weeks, I was happy to add a little pink on this beach scene card. The card measures 5" x 6 1/2" white cardstock. It is layerd with a patterned paper found in my scrap stash. I think it is K&Company. Solid blue paper is Recollections and all other papers are also from the scrap stash. No, I still have not made a dent in the stack!!

Cricut Cartridges:

Formal Occasion - Beach scene is cut 5.99" wide 5" high. While doing a Cricut Craft Room search for a tree, I saw this little scene with the palm trees and decided to play with it!

Pack Your Bags - Sun Bather girl is cut 2.25" wide. The phrase Peace and Quiet is cut 2.52" wide .86" high.

Challenge:

BBTB2 - Summer Trees 

 I enjoy playing along with Cricut challenges. While searching for the required Cricut image, I find so many images that I may not would have noticed and tried. This is one of them! I like the way this turned out! It does look peaceful and quiet!

Hope you enjoy! Thanks for your visits and comments!

 

Formal Occasion Dress

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It has been awhile since I have posted, but I found a little time to work on a shabby chic card. Inspired by the photo inspiration challenge at The Shabby Tea Room, this is the results.

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" using some pretty K&Company papers and other papers from my scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridge is Formal Occasion. The dress is on page 27. I trimmed some pretty areas off a wider piece of lace and added it to make the fancy dress. Small pearls complete the dress. A leftover piece of the lace is used in the lower left corner of the card. Dress is pop-dotted on the script mat.

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Label 10 is used for the scrip paper mat which is pop-dotted on the card.
Spellbinders Eyelet Circles is used for the sentiment mat.
Just Rite Dare to Dream set - sentiment - Dare to Dream
Just Rite Custom Dies- Corners at the top of card. Yes, I hid the right corner with the sentiment..could not find a place to put that mat!!

Recollections floral embellishments accent the pretty papers. I like to make my flowers using the Cricut machine but these bought flowers seemed to be a good choice today.
A crinkled ribbon bow and a Wimpole Street Creations fabric doily complete the look. I discovered a bag of these doilies that I had purchased many years ago from a fabric shop at a very good discount price. Thought it was time to use one!

 Close-up photos

 Challenges -
The Shabby Tea Room - Challenge 180 Material Girl - Use colors from the photo inspiration and include flowers and material.
Crafty Creations Challenges - Ch. 236 Shabby Chic
City Crafter Challenge Blog - Wk 173 - 1,2, 3- I stamp, 2 different papers and 3 embellishments.

Thanks for stopping by today! I appreciate your visits and comments!

 

Have a Lovely Day

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I have been playing with the Cricut and pretty laces again! Inspired by the photo and the design team's pretty work at The Shabby Tea Room, this is my results! Card is 5" x 7" cut from white Colorbok cardstock. The pretty papers are from DCWV The French Country Stack.  As you can see, some of these papers are glittered. Edges of the papers are distressed to give a shabby chic look.

Cricut Cartridges: 

Formal Occasion - Page 45 Fan is cut 3" from white and the pink paper. I have been wanting to try the fan image for some time and thought this would be a good focal point for the card. I ran the pink paper through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder. A strip of lace is gathered and glued around the edges. After the lace was attached, I found another piece of lace that I wanted to add. I hand cut the pretty lace and layered it over the pink paper. That is right! I covered up most of the embossing- but I do like the looks of the fan now. Fan is pop dotted on the card for dimension.

Mother's Day Bouquet - Flower 8 is cut 1.5' and 1.25" from white card stock. Flower is attached on the fan. In the center of the flower is a pretty gold metal filigree button with a pink stone.

Just Rite Stamps- Be Happy Set - "Have a Lovely Day" is stamped with Biscotti ink.

Recollections - Gold rhinestones are added on the fan and on the lace corner.

A white crinkled ribbon bow completes the look!

Photo inspiration 

Challenge:

The Shabby Tea Room - Ch. 178 Lazy Days. Use colors from the photo and include a metal element.

I incorporated the blue, green, and white colors. Also gold from drapes and I used pink for the flower. Hope I did not use too much pink! Metal button!

 

Now who wants to relax in such a pretty setting as in the photo and maybe use the lacy fan!

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My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 113

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It is time for another fun and inspirational challenge at My Sheri Crafts. Challenge 113 is Happy Birthday America. Our talented Sarah asked us to make birthday cards. This was a perfect opportunity for me to play with red and purple for a Red Hat Lady.

The card is 5" x 6 1/2" cut from white cardstock. 

Spellbinder's M Bossabilities - Splendid Design B is used on the purple background paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Kate's ABC's - Page 28 hat is cut 1.5"

A Child's Year - happy birthday cut 1.75"

Formal Occasion - Page 41 Shoes are cut 2"

Cheery Lynn French Pastry used on the gingham mat

Other supplies include Recollection red gemstones and purple flower.

Be sure to visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the pretty birthday cards by the design team and our guest designer. For more information on the projects, please visit the individual blogs. 

Now it is your turn to play along with us. Several Ooh La La awards will be given and one person will be selected to be our next guest designer. We look forward to seeing your birthday cards!

Thanks for your visits and comments!

BBTB2 - Fashion Show

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Thanks for stopping by today! Hope your Monday is off to a good start! 

At BBTB2, it is time for another fun and inspirational challenge. Our talented design team sister Rebekah is the hostess and she chose "Fashion Show" for the theme. We are asked to use any fashion themed cut from any Cricut cartridge on our card, layout, or project. Sounds fun, huh! Well, put your sunshades on and I will tell you about my card! How about Zebra flair and a Red formal dress!

Cricut Cartridge: Formal Occasion

Working with Cricut Class Room, I welded 2 frame layers to make this unique card shape. The card is welded at the top. The image is on page 25 and uses the frame layer on shift cut at 5". The card is cut from Colorbok white cardstock. Frame layer on shift is cut again at 5" using the zebra print paper by g.c.d. studios Swirls and Curves. Frame layer no shift is cut from Red Recollections paper for the red accent edging. I like the shape of the card with all the swirls and curves!

Page 25- Dress is cut 3" and pop-dotted on the card base.

Phrase "Winter Formal" is cut at 1.25". This uses 4 different cuts to get this look. I offset this a bit on the top edge of the card and glued it.

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots used on the dress layers.

3 Girl Jam - Holly Berry crinkle ribbon for the bow. 

Stop by BBTB2 and see all the amazing projects by the design team. For more details on the projects, please visit the individual blogs and leave some love for the designers! We love your visits and comments!

Now it is your turn to play along with us. Remember, this is a Cricut challenge and you must include a Cricut cut for the fashion theme of the challenge. Also, this is a new challenge and we ask that you do not submit any posts that have been posted on your blog before today's date Monday July 16.

We look forward to seeing your Fashion themed cards, layouts, or projects! Remember our Window challenge is still going on too. If you have not entered, we would love to see your window project!

I appreciate your visits and comments!

Winter Trees Birthday card

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Welcome to Glenda's cards and thank you for stopping by today. A big Thank You to my new followers!

I just received the Cricut Formal Occasion cartridge and was excited to play with it. After seeing the tree challenge at Birthday Sundaes, I made a snowy, winter birthday card. We seldom see snow in our area and we are always excited to see a little snow!

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" and layered with a K&Company paper. The Winter image is found on page 64 and is cut at 3 1/2". I added an additional shadow with the blue paper cut at 3 3/4. Papers are from my stash.
Edge punch is Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake and I placed the cut out snowflakes at random on the card. Ribbon is Walmart Holiday Time. The little banner is hand cut, inked, and stamped with a Studio G stamp.

Hope you enjoy my card!

Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes -- Ch 35- Include a tree and must have Birthday wording on front.