Warmest Wishes - Penguin

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With a little Cricut play time, I made a card to play along with a few challenges. The card is 5" x 6 1/2" white card stock. The pretty snowflake patterned paper is from Recollections Starry Night paper pad. Solid papers are from the scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Penguin is cut 2.5" high. This image is shown in Cricut Design Space using the pinks colors. Of course, I love working with pink so I had to use pink!

Savory - Cocoa cup and spoon is cut 1.25" high. The Explore did not cut the cocoa image that goes in the cup without tearing it. After several failed attempts, I hand cut that piece of brown. I would recommend these images be cut at a larger size.

Wild Card - Warmest Wishes is cut 2.50" wide.

Winter Lace - Snowflake cut 1.75" wide.

Cuttlebug - Snowflakes is used on the two hand cut snow banks. Also used on the pink bow for a little dimension.

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Penguin

Die Cuttin Divas - Ch. 249 _ Brrr! Hot Cocoa, Please!

FCCB - Ch. 268 Snow

Little Scrap Pieces - Saturday Linky Party

DL.ART - #172 Penguin or Black, Yellow, & White
DoubleClick - Ch. 40 Anything goes
Decorate to Celebrate - Ch 2 Anything Goes

Hope you enjoy the card!

Thanks for your visits and comments!

Cricut Pumpkin Pie Box

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Inspired by a couple of challenges for a pumpkin project, I searched in Cricut Design Space for a pumpkin image that I had not cut previously. I chose to go with the pumpkin pie box. Rather than solid colors, I used some pretty patterned papers from K&Company. The pumpkin print is an embossed double-sided paper. The pumpkin is cut from the reverse side of the paper.

Cricut Cartridges:

Thanksgiving Table Decor - Pie box is cut 6" wide. The pumpkin image is included. The pumpkin image has no leaf or vine. I edited a couple of images from the following cartridges to make those cuts.

Doodlecharms - Curly vine on pumpkin is cut 1" wide.

Simply Charmed - Leaf is cut .75" wide. 

Holiday through the Years Iron On - In Everything Give Thanks is cut 4.25" wide. In Everything is used on one side of the box while Give Thanks is used on opposite side of box.

I added a little twine bow and some Gelly Roll pen doodling on the pumpkin. This makes a cute little treat box -- I will add some candy before giving to the recipient.

Opposite side of box!

Challenges:

BBTB2 - Pumpkin

Cardz TV - 3D - #4 - Pumpkin

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Sat. Linky Party 

Paper Sweeties - Photo inspiration
Decorate to Celebrate - Ch. 112 Anything Goes 3D

Thanks for your visits and comments!

My Sheri Crafts - Ch 165 Thinking of Fall

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It is time again for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts. Also my time to choose the theme. I am ready for cooler weather. I enjoy seeing the pretty pumpkins, scarecrows, and leaves , etc. For Challenge 165- Thinking of Fall, I ask that you include a scarecrow and/or pumpkin on your card or project. The card is 5" x 6 1/2" and cut from a rust cardstock. Patterned papers are Recollections Autumn paper pad that I bought several years ago. Solid papers are from scrap stash.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Scarecrow is cut 3.49" wide, 4.15" high. I added tiny buttons.

Disney Pooh and Friends - 3 Pumpkins cut 2.25" high.

Freshly Picked - Pumpkin sign is cut 2.4" wide.

Wild Card - Autumn is cut 3" wide. Smaller leaves cut 1.00" wide.

Designers Calendar - Oak leaves cut 1.07" wide.

Please visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the pretty projects made by the design team and our guest designer. For more information, visit the individual blogs. We look forward to seeing your projects with scarecrows and/or pumpkins.

Challenge:
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 389 Autumn Leaves

Thank you for your visits and comments!

Double Twisted Easel Card

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I am happy to share my very first Double Twisted Easel Card. Yay! Another card style marked off my "To Do" list! Several tutorials can be found on You Tube. Thank you Kimmy for the video you share!

The card started with a 8" x 8" piece of dark green cardstock. I used a pretty shamrock paper for the layers. A different shade of green is used for the shamrocks and mat base.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Page 32- Leprachaun 1 is cut 2.75". Page 33 Pot of Gold is cut at 2.75".

Elegant Edges - Page 62- Image Clover and shadow cut at 3.25".

Create a Critter - Page 58 - Phrase Lucky is cut 1".

A Child's Year - Page 31- Icon feature on shift for the Shamrock. It is cut 1".

Cuttlebug:

Script Folder used on the white mats behind the leprachaun and pot of gold.

Divine Swirls - Leprachaun's hair. Swiss Dots on the hat, jacket, and the black pot.

For a bit of interest, my little guy has green eyes. I placed a small piece of green paper under the eye cuts and added a bit of red for the mouth. He is pop-dotted for dimension. The shamrock is also pop-dotted and placed under his hand to look as though he is holding it!

The pot of gold is a bit large but don't we envision big pots of gold!! I also made a smaller version but decided to use the larger size. I think it resembles the rainbow fading in the distance! How do you like my gold! I used some Recollections gemstones!

I chose to use the clover image from Elegant Edges for its shape for the white and green mats. This piece is pop-dotted and is used to hold the two easel stands in place. Green buttons are from my stash. I used a white pen for the stitching on the word Lucky! Pretty gingham bows complete the look.

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - ch 101 Shamrock or Color Green

BBTB2 - Shamrock and color Green

Little Scrap Pieces - A button and Bow

Creative Cutter Room - St. Patrick's Day

Whimsical Designs - #45 Color Green

Krafty Girls - Ch. 2 St. Patrick's Day theme

Passionately Artistic - Linking Party

The Paper Variety - Tic Tac Toe  I used Emboss, Create a Card, and Die Cut

Paper Issues - Go Green or go Home

Hope you enjoy my Double Twisted Easel Card! I am linking this card to My Sheri Crafts. The challenge this week  St. Patrick's Day! Make an easel card and include a Shamrock! You still have time to enter your project!

My Sheri Crafts - Ch. 80 Happy St. Patrick's Day

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Happy Saturday everyone! Time again for a fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts!  Challenge 80 is Happy St. Patrick's Day - Make an easel card and add a shamrock. I enjoy doing easel cards! Of course, several variations can be done. You can find a tutorial at SplitCoastStampers for the basic easel card. I made a Twisted easel card and you can find Mary's tutorial at Cardz TV.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Page 32 Leprachaun is cut 2.75".

Elegant Edges - Page 62 For the white mat and green mat, I used Clover-s (image on shift) is cut 3 1/2" and shadow feature is cut at same size.

A Child's Year - Page 31  Shamrock is cut using the Icon feature cut at 1.75".

Phrases -  Page 45 "Happy St. Patrick's Day" is cut at 1.25" using Phrase 3 main and shadow keys.

Cuttlebug:

Polka Dots Folder on the white mat

Swiss Dots - Hat; Divine Swirls - Hair; Houndstooth- Jacket

Other supplies: Acton Wobble under the Leprachaun for some fun movement and he is holding the shamrock with a piece of Baker's Twine. Shamrock and mats are pop-dotted. Recollection gemstones.

Be sure to stop by My Sheri Crafts and see all the great easel cards by the design team and guest designer. We appreciate your visits and comments at our individual blogs too! We look forward to seeing your easel cards. Remember you must add a shamrock! One winner will be selected to be our next guest designer and several Ooh La La awards are given.

Challenges:

Simply Create Too - #8 I'm Sssoooo Lucky

The Friday Mashup - #48 Who's Feeling Green

Scrapalicious - Anything Goes

Hope you enjoy my Twisted Easel card! I appreciate your comments!

Fantabulous Cricut Ch. 100 - FCCB Color Challenge

Welcome To Glenda's Cards! Thank you for stopping by today!

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!

Happy New Year 2012

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As the new year quickly approaches, I finally find time to post a New Year's card. The card is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" from white Colorbok cardstock and is layered with a green glitter paper. The green, pink, and yellow papers are glitter papers from the Paper Studio Birthday Extravanganza paper pack.

Cricut Cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Page 75 Party Horn cut 3.75"

Cuttin' Up - Page 75  Let's Party cut 1". 2012 - I think is .50".

Cuttlebug Folder - Tiffany - I decided to frame the little whimsical party horn. I was excited to find this pretty folder at Michael's during my last shopping spree!

Challenges:

Cards by Jovan - New Year's Challenge. If you would like to play along with this challenge, be sure to check out Jovan's post and great giveaway. The deadline has been extended to Monday.
Cricut Cutter Room - Design Time Thursday - Sparkle Time. Anything goes, but it must sparkle--Glitter or Stickles. I hope all my glitter paper shows in the photo!

I want to take this time to wish you a very Happy New Year! I appreciate all your support and comments! I am looking forward to another fun year of crafting and visiting with my blogging friends!

                                                    

Orange, Green, and White

I am playing along with a few challenges today. The 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card is made using Card Patterns Sketch 123.

Cricut Cartridge: Simply Charmed - Page 39 Flower is cut 1.75"

Cuttlebug Folder - Happy Birthday

Paper: Colorbok - white; Martha Stewart Classic Woodland - Green Pattern; scrap stash for the oranges.

Lots of inking, flower is pop-dotted, button and Memory Thread.

A simple card but I am pleased with the way it turned out.

Challenges:

Card Patterns - Sketch 123

Birthday Sundaes - #17 - Orange, Green and White

M.A.G.  #34 - Simply Charmed Page 39

Berry Sweet Ice Cream Cone

This is only my second time using the Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge. I wanted to try the card feature and I chose the ice cream cone on page 34. It is cut at 7 inches using a buff color cardstock. All my papers are from my scrap paper stash. I used several Cuttlebug folders for added dimension. The Houndstooth folder is used on the lower part of the cone and Divine Swirls on the pink and chocolate layers. For the strawberry, I used Swiss dots and lightly inked the dots with green.

I cut the Layers feature using brown paper and again using green paper. Then I trimmed off top piece of the brown so I could have green color for the strawberry leaf. To sparkle things up a bit, I applied Stickles Lime Green on the leaf and Stickles Frosted Lace on the chocolate for the appearance of white chocolate dripping over it!! Yummy!!

For the sentiment, I used the word feature on page 47 on Simply Charmed. Berry Sweet is cut 1" on regular and shift  key.

Hope you enjoy!

Challenges:

Paper Cutz - #99 Ice cream cone, popsicle, ice cream sundae or milk shake

Tacky Tuesday's Challenge 8 -  Cool treat and word sweet

Chillin' with Melon

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Happy Monday everyone! Welcome new followers! Many thanks to you for your interest and choosing to follow my craft making!  I appreciate all the comments and visits to my blog! I have been having blogger problems. For several days, I have been unable to see my followers. I could see the number of followers on my dashboard, but no photos. Also, I have not been able to see followers on other blogs or able to be a follower. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem. Hopefully this will soon fix itself because I certainly do not know what to do.

I wanted to play along with BugBites Grillin' and Chillin' Bug Hop Part 2. It was so exciting being a team member on the first week of the bug hop with the focus on Grillin'. This week it is all about the Chillin'! I enjoyed all the projects presented by the talented designers. The requirement is to make a project with the chillin' theme and it must include one of the hidden critters that we found during the hop.

One of my ideas for chillin' is a huge slice of ice cold, sweet watermelon.....gotta love it!

Card is 5 x 6/12.

Cricut cartridges:

Simply Charmed - Watermelon page 46 cut 1 1/2"

Lacy Labels - White and green mats. Oops, I did not record the size.

A Child's Year - Phrase "Sweet" page 72 font feature cut 1 1/4 "

Walk in my Garden- Ladybug page 119 cut 1/2". Do you see my tiny critter!!

Cuttlebug:

Swiss dots folder- white mat.

Papers - Colorbok, Recollections

Lots of inking and the watermelon is pop-dotted on the mat.

Hope you enjoy! Try to think cool! We have been having 100 degree temperatures for several days and predicted 100 again today! I may have to buy a watermelon!

Teacher Appreciation

My youngest grandson will be graduating kindergarten in a few days. He has really done well! This card is made for his teacher. The card is 5 x 6 1/2 from a Recollections pack. I used two different papers for the background that I have had for quite some time. The top border is from a chalk board looking paper. The corkboard paper had the yellow and blue mat blocks and I cut the paper to take advantage of those blocks.

Cricut cartridges:

A Child's Year - Apple/silhouette is on page 49 and cut at 2 1/2 inches.

Simply Sweet - Phrase "thank you" is on page 74 and cut at 2 1/2 inches. I thought the style of the letters would be good on this card.  Letter "a" on page 32 cut 3/4 inch; letter "b" on page 33 cut 3/4 inch; letter c on page 34 cut 3/4 inch.

Simply Charmed - Pencil on page 53 cut 2 inches

Cuttlebug Folder:

Measure by Measure - Numbers on the chalkboard mat

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - Teacher Feature- card or project for a teacher and use red on it

BBTB2 - Apple core from Preserves cartridge. You can use any apple core or apple from any cart if you do not have Preserves. I do not have that cartridge.
Throwback Thursday Challenge -- Use Doodlecharms (or an older cartridge if you do not have Doodlecharms) and color blue somewhere. I used A Child's Year and Simply Sweet.

Hope you enjoy!

Flaunt It Fridays - Simply Charmed

Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great week! I am glad it is Friday! That means it is time for another fun challenge at Flaunt It Fridays! This week we are using Cricut Simply Charmed cartridge for Fish 2 (shift button) on page 41.  My card is  5 x 6 1/2 and is layered with a Recollections striped paper. The fish and pole are cut at 3 inches. I used the words that are also on page 41, thinking it would be a cute anniversary card. "Caught me" is cut at 3/4 inch. Using Create A Critter, I cut the water that is on page 44 at 1 3/4 inches. The white mat is embossed with the Polka Dots folder. Lots of inking and the card is finished!

Check out the amazing projects by the design team at Flaunt It Fridays for inspiration. We invite you to Flaunt the fish cut with us! Remember if you do not have this cartridge, you can use one with a similar image. Our monthly grand prize is Joy's Life "Lots of Pun" stamp set. Wow! I would like that prize! We look forward to seeing your paper projects--card, layout, altered item, etc. You have until midnight Thursday to submit your project.
Hope you enjoy my card!