My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 154 National Humor Month

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Today begins a new challenge at My Sheri Crafts! Did you know that April is National Humor Month? Our design team sister Sarah selected Humor as the theme for Challenge 154. She asked us to create something funny!

I do not make a lot of funny cards. It took me awhile to search my available Cricut images to find this goat and saying. So this is what I came up with! Card measures 5" x 6 1/2" cut from brown Bazzill cardstock. Blue and patterned brown papers are Colorbok.

Cricut Cartridge is Nate's ABC's. Goat, grass, and sign scene are all one cut which is 5"w x 3.54"h.

For a little interest, I added a button with a Memory Thread bow.

Now it is your time to play along and share a funny card with us. Please visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the cards made by our guest designer and design team members. For more information, visit each individual blog. Don't forget to leave a little blog love! Several Ooh La La awards will be given and one person will be chosen to be our next guest designer. 

Maybe my card will bring a little smile today!

Thanks for your visits and comments!

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 116 Back to School

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Today is the start of a new and fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! It is my turn to choose the theme for the challenge. With the start of a new school year fast approaching for my grandkids, I began thinking of school projects. Challenge 116 is Back to School! Include a school bus or school house! It must be school related!

For my project I chose to make a 12" x 12" scrapbook page! The paper pack is DCWV School Days. The white background sheet was trimmed down 1/4" on each side and layered on the red dot paper. I cut out the middle section of the red dot paper and used that part for the border cuts on the photo area. Just a way of using more of the paper! The sketch is my play with a Page Maps Nov. 2011 sketch.

 

Cricut Cartridges:

Elegant Edges - Page 25 Border on shift cut 2.25" from the solid red paper. Page 47 Border on shift cut 1.25" and the second one cut at .50" from the red dot paper.

Nate's ABC's - Page 22 Bus is cut 1.5"

Other supplies include the yellow Baker's Twine on the photo mat and 3rd grade is a sticker from the stash. I started scrapbooking before Cricut so now I have two drawers of stickers that are being forgotten. Time to use some! 

After the first day of school photo is placed on the photo mat, my grandson will print his name under the photo. A perfect way to preserve his handwriting at that age!

Be sure to visit My Sheri Crafts and see all the pretty projects by the design team and our guest designer. For more details, please visit each individual blog. We appreciate you leaving us blog love!

Now it is your turn to play along with us! We look forward to seeing your school projects. One person will be chosen to be our next guest designer and several Ooh La La awards will be given.

Thanks for your visits and comments!

BBTB2 - Back to School

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

It is time again for another fun and inspirational Cricut challenge at BBTB2! Our talented design team member Brenda is the hostess for our Back to School challenge. You can use any Cricut cartridge for your card, layout, or project, as long as it is about going back to school! We ask that you mention the name of the Cricut cartridges used for your project in your blog post.

For my project, I decided to do a scrapbook page. Earlier in the year, I received a DCWV Assorted Open Stock paper pack entitled School Days. This page is Foil Learning Tree from that pack. I thought Cricut cuts would accent the cute apple tree and the letters around it which are printed on the designer paper. It is not very noticeable in the photo, but the apples are a red foil paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Wrap it Up- Page 27  School house card is cut 6.50". While cutting some school house images for an earlier posted project, I cut two cards giving me the extra card for this project.

Nate's ABC's - Page 22 Bus cut 1.50". Page 68 Pencil cut 2.5". Page 49 - Grass is cut 2". The letters A, B, C and numbers 1, 2, 3 are cut at 1".

Celebrate with Flourish - Back to School is cut 2".

Photo of the inside of the card! I will add a photo of my grandson who started the second grade and the journalling later. I do not have the photo yet.

Other supplies: The Paper Studio ribbon...looks like it need ironing!

Transparent photo corners are used on the back part of the schoolhouse card. I did not glue it down on the page. 

Versa Magic Gingerbread inking.

Visit BBTB2 to see all the creative Back to School projects by the design team. For more information about the projects, please visit the individual blogs! We appreciate your visits and comments.

Just a reminder that our challenges are now weekly, so get busy with those projects and share with us!

We look forward to seeing your creations! One project will be chosen for the Project of the Week badge!

If you would like to see my other projects using Cricut Wrap It Up School house cuts, click here! 

Challenges:

Exploring Cricut - Back to School - include the box of 8 Crayola colors

Thanks for your visits and comments!

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 86 Summer Lovin'

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Yay! It is Saturday and time for a fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts! Our talented design team sister Peachy chose "Summer Lovin" as the theme for this week. Your project can be a card, layout, altered item, etc. With the kids now out of school for the summer, I made a kid friendly card!  My little guys like to kick off their shoes, play in the yard, and see what they can get into! That can be a lot!

My card measures 5" x 6 1/2" cut from brown Bazzill cardstock. The other papers are from my scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridge: Using Cricut Craft Room

Nate's ABCs

Page 52 - Boy 1 cut 3.5". X is cut .778"x.75". Phrase "is for X-tra fun" is cut 1.50".

I have not used the ABC cuts on this cartridge so I thought this one would be a fun sentiment.

Playtime is always X-tra fun!

Other supplies:

Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Flora

Inking

Stop by My Sheri Crafts and see all the different projects for "Summer Lovin" created by the design team. For more information about the projects, please visit the individual blogs and leave a little love.

Now it is your turn to create a project for this week's challenge. Remember several Ooh La La awards are given and one person will be chosen to be our guest designer!

I appreciate your visits and comments!

Fantabulous Cricut Ch. 100 - FCCB Color Challenge

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Hope each of you had a great weekend! Time again for another fun challenge at Fantabulous Cricut! This week we are celebrating the 100th challenge! Wow! How exciting and Congratulations! Challenge 100 is Color Challenge - Use the 3 colors associated with FCCB - Green, Purple and Turquoise. How fitting is that!!

I am so excited to be participating in this 100th challenge and yet it is a bit sad for me because this is my last challenge as a design team member. I have had so much fun working with Robin, Amy Jo, and the talented designers for the past few months. I want to express my appreciation to Robin for allowing me 2 wonderful and fun terms at FCCB! Congratulations to the returning designers and to the new design team members!

Now to my card! I started with a 8 1/2" x 11" white cardstock and folded it in half to make a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" card. Going through my stash of paper, I came across this pretty crafting theme paper that I thought would work good for the challenge. All the solid papers were in my stash also.

Cricut Cartridges: Working in the Cricut Craft Room

Nate's ABC's - Page 69 - Scissors cut 1.75". Page 70 - Glue cut at 1.75".

Simply Charmed - Page 54 - Word feature for "Craft Day" cut at 1.569" w x 1.375" h.

Plantin Schoolbook - Letters and shadows cut .75".

Cuttlebug: Hearts folder for the white mat. I wanted to create more focus on the hearts in the designer paper and also my love for crafting!

Martha Stewart - Butterfly Pop-Up Edge Punch. Designer paper has such pretty butterflies and I had to cover most of them up! I used some of the punched out butterflies on the white mat.

Other supplies include inking, rhinestones, pop dots, and buttons with bows made of DMC Memory Thread.

Now it is your turn to play along with us at Fantabulous Cricut. Please visit the blog to see all the creative projects by the design team. I am sure you will be inspired to play along with our color challenge. Remember you must use Green, Purple, and Turquoise plus a Cricut cut on your project!

I want to thank my blogging friends for all the support and friendships made while I have been serving on the  design team! The motto on the FCCB blog states, "Share, Create, and Inspire". You may notice on the designer paper on my card the words inspire and create. I love that piece of paper! I hope the projects that I have created and shared with you have been inspiring! I know I had a Fantabulous time!!

Best wishes to all at FCCB!

Thank you for your comments! I enjoy reading each one!

Ribbons and Rosettes

Welcome to Glenda's Cards! Thanks for visiting today!

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!



Paper Playtime Ch# 50 SUMMER

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had a great weekend! It is time again for another fun challenge at Paper Playtime. Challenge 50 is Summer! So many things came to mind when I saw the challenge theme and it was hard to decide which idea to use. My thoughts kept returning to things that my kids and grandkids enjoyed during the summer. There is a wooded area behind my house and the boys always had lots of fun camping and sleeping in a tent in that area. So I began to look for something with a camping theme.
First I want to tell you about my card. I have seen pretty Twisted Easel cards and decided I wanted to try one! Mary at Cardz TV has a great video showing a Twisted Easel card. Be sure to visit Mary for all the details.
I started with a 4 1/4" x 9 3/4" piece of buff colored Colorbok cardstock. This makes an A2 card. While checking out the clearance items at Michael's last week, I picked up a Colorbok Summer Fun scrapbook kit that was reduced to $2.99. When I saw the words Camp written on one of the papers, I had to purchase the kit. Don't you love it when you have something in mind and things just seem to come together! Now I have papers and embellishments for scrapbooking some of those photos.

Cricut Cartridge: Nate's ABCs for all cuts
Page 50-- Tent cut at 2.75". I use Font 2 image on shift (looks like a cloud, but it is my sentiment mat) cut at 2.50".
The word Explore is the Phrase feature and the regular and shift cuts are cut 1.25".
Wow! One cartridge and one page! I am really enjoying this cartridge and all the features. Oh! Did you see the little hat and dog on the phrase! Such a cute cut!
Papers: I used Recollections Metallic Shimmer gray paper for the kids to give the appearance of their shadows inside the tent. Paper for the word Explore was in the kit. Rest of papers are from my scrap stack.
I pop-dotted the sentiment mat to hold the front in place and used lots of inking!

Now it is your turn to make a Summer project and play with us at Paper Playtime. We are happy to have our design team member Pam sponsoring this week. Check out these goodies and get those projects entered in this fun challenge.
Sponsor: Simply Pam
Prize:  Making Memories - Whimsy Embellishment Kit (Has 100 Buttons, Die cut shapes, Chipboard Alphas and 40 Printed Flowers) Total of 214 pieces plus a cute box it's in.
Also Making Memories Hul-la-ba-loo 5"x7" Mini Book Kit (Has a spiral bound mini book, Cardstock, Trims, Stickers and Die-Cuts)

Hope you enjoy my first Twisted Easel card! It was really easy and I will be making more!
I am also sharing this at Fantabulous Cricut this week for the "Let's Go Camping" theme!

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!

Nate's ABCs - Bunny Rabbit



I have seen really cute cards made using Cricut Nate's ABCs cartridge, so I had to join in on the fun! For my first cut using this cartridge, I am using the rabbit for an Easter card for my grandson. The card is 5 x 6 1/2 and is layered with plaid paper. The rabbit and all the layers are cut at 3 inches. This is found on page 34. For the mats, I used Font 1 shift key on page 50. The cream mat is 4 inches. There is no shadow cut so I cut the green mat at 4 1/4. Not quite perfect but it works ok.  The Cuttlebug folder Houndstooth was used on the cream mat. Lots of inking and the mats are pop dotted on the card. The Martha Stewart Bunny Hop edge punch was bought on clearance last year and has been waiting to be used. I punched the edge of the brown paper and then scored it with the Martha Stewart scoreboard. I am pleased with the results. A couple of corner punches and my card is finished!

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - #56 Do the Bunny Hop - bunny or a chick

Cards for Men - #8 Easter

Cooking With Cricut - #26 Easter

Hope you enjoy my card! Your comments are always appreciated!