BBTB2 - Birthday and Pearls

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Happy Monday! It is time for another fun challenge at BBTB2! Our talented design team sister Stephanie is the hostess this week and she chose the theme Birthday and Pearls!

Many of the Cricut cartridges have a card feature with pretty and unique shapes. I chose to use a card feature for the base of my card for this challenge. Papers are K&Company double-sided papers which work really well for the card feature.

Cricut Cartridges:

Damask Decor - Page 64 - Gift. Using the Card Feature on shift, the image is cut at 5" for the card base. Card feature without shift is cut using another patterned paper for the top of the card.The gift shaped card will be a nice birthday card!

Wild Card - Page 61 - Phrase Happy Birthday is cut 6.5". This sentiment is seen inside the card. A personal message could be written on a mat and placed on left side of card.

Other supplies:

Seems like I am on a rosette kick lately! I wanted to dress up the front of the card and I found this small rosette which was too small for a prior project. It is made from papers from the same paper pack. Love these double sided papers because they coordinate so well! The rosette is cut 3/4" and measures 1 1/2" finished. I hand cut a small banner to place under the rosette.

Pearls are from my stash. Inking is Versa Magic Gingerbread.

Inside of card

 Be sure to stop by BBTB2 and see the beautiful and inspiring projects made by the talented ladies for this challenge. For more details on the projects, please visit the individual blogs and leave some love! We appreciate your visits and comments!

Now it is your turn to play along with us. We want to see Birthday cards and Pearls! Remember BBTB2 is a Cricut challenge and you must use a Cricut cut on your project and you must mention in your blogpost which Cricut cartridge you used.

Your comments are appreciated!

Just Rite color challenge

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Thanks for stopping by today! Today's card is inspired by the Just Rite Challenge # 075 - Color Challenge of Aqua, Apricot, and Orange. When I saw the colors for the challenge and the design team's pretty and inspirational work, I thought of some K&Company double-sided papers that I have had for a long time. Sometimes a friend and I will buy paper pads and divide the papers. These are such papers and I do not know the name of this particular K&Company pad. These are not colors that I normally use, but I enjoyed working with the papers and colors for the challenge!

Card is 5" x 6 1/2" brown cardstock and is layered with a patterned 5" X 6 1/2" designer paper. The design is a play with one of the sketches from June 2012 PageMaps.

I know you are seeing a lot of rosettes on my projects lately but I enjoy making rosettes. The designer paper is cut 1" and scored at each 1/4". An aqua blue brad is placed in the middle and then I added the rhinestone for a bit of bling!

Cricut Cartridge: Lovely Floral - Butterfly cut 1.75". Stickles used on the butterfly for a little bling. Would you believe I could not find the appropriate size rhinestones in my stash!

Just Rite - Friendship Nested Sentiments. Yay! I received a few more stamps!

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Class Scalloped Rectangles Largest used on the mats and third largest used on the sentiment mat.

Spellbinders M-Bossabilities - Splendid Design B

Trims are from a friend! Thanks so much Charlotte. I enjoyed working with the pretty trims on the card!

Other supplies include aqua rhinestones and Versa Magic Gingerbread inking. The Sentiment mat and butterfly are pop-dotted.

Be sure to visit Just Rite challenge blog and see all the great inspiration by the design team. You have until Wednesday June 27 at 6:00 P.M. Central to enter your project!

Thanks for your comments!

Celebrate

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Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Today I am sharing a masculine card made for the Just Rite Challenge. My card is 5" x 6 1/2" cut from Bazzill Carob Cream cardstock. All the other papers are from my scrap stash. I have limited amount of Just Rite and Spellbinder products, but I wanted to play along and this is what I came up with!

Cricut Cartridge - Wild Card Page 69 Frame feature for the award cut at 5".

Just Rite Stamps - Just a Note set. I chose the Celebrate stamp to use in the middle of the award. I cut a 1 1/2" X 12" strip of plaid paper to make the rosette which was attached to the Cricut award image.

Spellbinder Classic Scalloped Square Large - I used the two largest sizes for the two mats.

Cuttlebug: Measure x Measure. I used the star folder to bring out the stars in the Just Rite stamp.

Other supplies include Versa Magic inking. Brown mat and the award are pop-dotted.

This card will be used for Father's Day. I think the design will also work for a birthday or one of those "You are a Star" day!

The Just Rite Challenge 074 is still going on and if you would like to play along, you have until Wed. June 13 at 6:00 P.M. Central to enter your project! Check out all the fabulous designs and new products featured by the Design team! I must work on increasing my inventory of these pretty products!

Thanks for your comments!

BBTB2 - Rose Challenge

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Thanks for stopping by today! It is time for another fun and inspirational Cricut challenge at BBTB2!

I am so excited to be hosting my first challenge! Did you know June is National Rose Month in the United States? In honor of the Rose, our challenge is to create a card, layout, or 3-D project with a Cricut rose.

The rose can be from any Cricut cartridge.

I chose to do a 3-D project for this challenge using the Cricut Giant Flowers Cartridge. The rose image is on page 12. Using Cricut Craft Room, I cut the rose images at 3.50" from red Recollections cardstock. The rose requires a lot of cutting, but at 3.50" size, I was able to get all the cuts on one sheet of red cardstock. Directions for layering all the pieces are found in the handbook on pages 24-26. The green leaves are cut from a scrap piece of green cardstock. This is my first time to play with this cartridge. I must admit my first rose did not go together too easily because I could not see clearly the 15 little cut dashes that the petals went in to. After cutting the images again, I used three different colors of markers to mark a tiny spot at the location of the three different sizes of rose petals. That worked much better for me!

Guess you notice that I have a Red Hat Lady color theme going on! The gathered red lace rosette was in my goodie stash that I have had for quite some time. I added purple bows. A dowel rod was wrapped with green floral tape and inserted through the center of the rose and placed in the vase. For a little more Red Hat Lady flair, I wrapped a bracelet around the base of the vase.

Close up of the rose!

For an additional display, I made a purple nosegay holder using the Cricut Victorian Romance Cartridge cone image. This image was cut at 8.50".  I decorated the cone with ribbon, lace, pearls, red rhinestones, feather, a little red hat, and a tassel that were all in my stash. Red braiding was used to make the handle. Now I have a pretty hanging holder to show off my pretty Red Rose! I am sharing a photo of the red crochet doily that my Mom made for me! I love it!

Hope you enjoy my projects focusing on the Rose. Now it is your turn to play along with us! The design team members have created beautiful projects showcasing the Rose for inspiration. Visit each blog for details! We look forward to seeing your lovely projects! Remember you must use a Cricut Rose, but it can be from any Cricut cartridge. One person will be selected to receive our Project of the Week badge!

Challenge: The Paper Variety - Anything but a card or layout
I appreciate your comments!

My Sheri Crafts - Father's Day

Welcome to Glenda's Cards!

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope your weekend is going great! It is time for another fun challenge at My Sheri Crafts. This week's challenge is all about Father's Day..Let's Celebrate the Men in our lives!

My card measures 6 1/2" x 5" and is cut from a piece of kraft cardstock. Papers are from my scrap stash. Yay! I have been trying to use as much of the left over papers as I can, but the stack is still huge!

Cricut Cartridges:

Celebrate with Flourish - #1 Dad is cut 3.5".

Wild Card - Page 66 Phrase - Happy Father's Day cut 8". This is seen on the inside of the card.

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots used on the light blue papers.

Other supplies:

Martha Stewart - Iron gate Edge punch

Star ribbon is a gift from a special friend. Thank you so much Charlotte! I love it and when I saw the ribbon, I thought it would be perfect for this card!

#1 Dad is pop-dotted on card. Versa Magic Gingerbread ink.

Photo of inside of card. I made this card for my grandchildren to give their Dad. I left the light blue paper at the top plain so the kids could write a message and sign the card.

With Father's Day quickly approaching, this is the perfect time for you to join our challenge and create a card, layout, or project for Dad! Be sure to visit My Sheri Crafts to see all the great inspiration by the design team. You can visit the individual blogs for more details on the projects! We appreciate your visits and comments on our blogs!

Remember one person will be chosen to be the next guest designer! It could be you! Several Ooh la la awards will be presented.

Challenges:

Exploring Cricut - Father's Day - use 2 Cricut Cuts

Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Happy Father's Day or Masculine card