FCCB #236 - Sketch Challenge

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Challenge #236 Sketch Challenge

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Sketch Challenge

I used this sketch to inspire a birthday card.  The candle image is on the Birthday Bash cartridge.

I plan to use this birthday card for a guy, so I kept it pretty simple and only added Stickles to the flames of the candles.

I hope this sketch inspires you and that you'll join in the fun with us this week!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you use.  Thanks for stopping by!

FCCB #235 - Anything Goes

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Challenge #235 Anything Goes

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The son of one of my sweetie's best friends recently celebrated his first birthday.  The theme of the party was Mickey Mouse, so I made this card for him.

The number 1 is from the Birthday Bash cartridge and the Mickey Mouse image is from Mickey and Friends.  I kept the card pretty simple since it's for a one-year old!

I hope you'll join in the fun with us this week and link up your Cricut projects at FCCB.  Remember, anything goes, so as long as your project has at least one Cricut cut, you qualify for the prize!  Thanks for stopping by!

FCCB #230 - Shape Up

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Challenge #230 Shape Up
Make a shaped card (any shape but rectangle or square)

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Shape Up: Make a shaped card

I decided to make a fun birthday card this week. I found the shaped card and the cute hippo on the Birthday Bash cartridge.  The card shape came with the "celebrate" already layered on it - perfect!

It's hard to tell in my pictures, but I added Glossy Accents to the sentiment and glitter to the ice cream.

I hope you'll join in the fun with us this week and make a shaped card!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it isn't obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!

FCCB #228 - Tag You're It

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Challenge #228 Tag You're It

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Tag you're It

Create a project that uses a tag

For my project, I created a birthday tag.  A number of family and friends have birthdays coming up, so I know this will come in handy on someone's gift!

I cut the tag and the shadow from Plantin Schoolbook, and the cupcake is from Birthday Bash.  I glittered the cherry, and it's hard to tell in the picture but I also put Glossy Accents on the sprinkles.  I stamped my sentiment on a hand cut banner and finished the tag off with some ribbon.

I hope you'll join in the fun with us this week at FCCB!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!

FCCB 222

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Challenge #222 Bug Out

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Bug Out

Create a project that uses a bug

For my project, I used the Birthday Bash cartridge to create a belated birthday card.  I thought the image of the bee holding the gift bag worked perfectly with my sentiment!

I decided to give my bee a little character and used a Peachy Keen face stamp instead of the regular face cut of the image.

I hope you'll join in the fun with us this week!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!

FCCB #216 - Color Challenge

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Challenge #216 Color Challenge

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Color Challenge

Create a project that uses the colors purple, yellow and gray

This weekend, my sweetie and I attended a surprise birthday party for a good friend of mine from work.  We started on the same day, and were working on the same project for a short while, and became great friends during that time.  Her mother came in town, which she was expecting, but so did her brother and sister-in-law, which was another surprise!  So fun!!  Anyway, on to my card......

I defaulted to one of my favorite cartridges for birthday cards - Birthday Bash.  I saw the cute mouse coming out of the present, and thought, "How perfect for a surprise birthday party!"

I added some faux stitching to the present and a twine bow along the side finished off my card.

I hope you'll join in the fun with us at FCCB this week and link up your purple, yellow and grey projects.  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!!

FCCB #203 - Bye Bye Birdie

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Challenge #203 Bye Bye Birdie

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Bye Bye Birdie

Create a project with a bird on it.

One of my dear friends has a birthday tomorrow and she loves owls.  As I was flipping through some of my handbooks looking at different bird images for this challenge, I came across this fun owl image on Kate's ABCs.  My girlfriend loves owls, so I thought this would be perfect for her.

I thought the shape of this image lent itself perfectly to a circle or square shaped card, instead of the usual A2 sized cards I usually make.  I found this fun scalloped circle shaped card on Birthday Bash.

It's hard to tell in the pictures, but I added Glossy Accents to the stars and the whites of the owl's eyes.  I tied a double bow with crinkle ribbon and added a twine bow and button to finish off my card.

Be sure to join in the fun at FCCB this week and link up your projects that include a bird!  Remember, to qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:

Cardstock from Recollections

Scallop circle shaped card from Birthday Bash cut at 10 inches

Owl on branch from Kate's ABCs cut at 3 inches

Crinkle ribbon

Twine

Button

FCCB 185 - Anything Goes Cricut Crawl

Welcome to Scrapping Runner Creations and the Fantabulous Cricut Blog Crawl - FCCB's version of a blog hop!

This week's challenge is Anything Goes, so let your imagination run wild!  Create any project, using your Cricut, and link up over at Fantabulous Cricut by Sunday evening to join in the fun.  This week's sponsor is Blitsy.  They are giving away a bag of crafty goodness to one lucky challenge participant.

I created a banner for my brother's 40th birthday, which is just around the corner.

My brother lives in Colorado, and my sweetie and I are surprising him!  We plan to get to Colorado the day before his birthday, and in the middle of the night, we'll head over with his stepson to decorate his yard and front door with signs that he will find when he wakes up on his birthday.  Later that day, we'll show up on his doorstep!  I'll probably keep the banner to hang up inside, but if the weather is nice enough I may leave it on his front porch.

I had some great DCWV pattern paper in my stash that was black, grey and silver, which I thought was perfect for the occasion.

I used Birthday Bash for the flag shape.  The shape already had holes in it for the ribbon, which made it really easy!

And of course I had to incorporate "Over the Hill" somehow!  I found this tombstone image on the Life's a Party cartridge.  I hid the RIP and swirl that is on the top layer using my Gypsy, then I used one of the fonts on Lyrical Letters to spell out Over the Hill, welding the letters together so they would be easier for me to place on the tombstone.

Be sure to visit each of the Design Team members' blogs to see their projects.  If you get lost along the way, you can go back to FCCB blog or see the list below of all the participating blogs. When you are done with the crawl, go back to the FCCB blog and link up your project!  Remember, to qualify for the weekly prize from our fabulous sponsors, you need to have at least 1 Cricut cut on your project.

We are also opening up a DT call.  Please see the FCCB blog for more information!

Blog Crawl List:
Cindy - Creating with the Heart
Jackie - Luv 2 Scrap
Kim - Kim's Kreations
Amy HS - The Stamping Tree
Emily - Mollie's Motif
Heather - Scrapping Runner Creations
Lynn - My Cards n Stuff
Missy - Quick Chick Designs
Nikki - Crafty Calamities
Rebecca - Crafting Misfit
Michelle - Just a Nutter Paper Crafter
Catarina - Docerela Creations
Joneita - Create with Joneita
LB - Cool Beans by LB
Amy T - Crafting with Amy

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Banner flags from Birthday Bash cut at 7 inches
Circles from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4.2 inches
BIG 40 font from Pooh Font cut at 3 inches
Tombstones from Life's a Party cut at 7 inches
Over the Hill font from Lyrical Letters cut at 1.5 inches
Black ribbon

Anniversary Card

Hello!  Are you all having a good week??  My week started off great - we had weather in the 80s and I was enjoying some time outside.  Today though, a big turn for the worse..... cold weather, rain and now this evening.....snow!!  In May!!  A very strange occurrence around here!  I thought spring was finally here, but I guess I was wrong!

Anyway, on to my project.....

I made this anniversary card for my grandparents.  If my calculations are correct, they have been married for 66 years now.  Such an inspiration!

I wanted to make something a little different than an A2 card, so I decided to use the scalloped circle card base and layer from the Birthday Bash cartridge.  I thought it went well with the heart image with the scalloped background from the Wedding cartridge.

I'm going to link this card up to this week's Wedding Bells are Ringing challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2. Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Cardstock from DCWV Shimmer Stack
Scallop card base from Birthday Bash cut at 3.25 inches
Heart image from Wedding cartridge cut at 5 inches
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
Sentiment from My Craft Spot's Happily Ever After set

FCCB 155 - Color and Shape Challenge

Happy Monday!  I've been MIA this past week because I was visiting my parents down in the Phoenix area.  I promise to do some catching up on everyone's blog in the next day or so though!!

It's time for another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!  This week we're having a color and shape challenge.  We want you to use the color yellow and a triangle somewhere on your project.

All of my cardstock was printed using the Better Together Imagine cartridge.  I got my triangles from the bird on the banner image on Birthday Bash.  I simply cut the bird off and cut the triangles apart so that I could play around with them to get them to fit on my card the way I wanted.

I stamped my letters on the banner, then glued the tops of the triangles to brown twine and attached twine bows to both ends using glue dots.

I'm looking forward to seeing your creative creations using the color yellow and a triangle shape!!

Recipe:
White cardstock colored using Better Together
Banner from Birthday Bash cut at 3.2 and 3.45 inches
Fiskars Basic Font stamp set
Brown twine

2nd Birthday Card

Happy Saturday!  I hope your weekend is off to a good start!!  I ran this morning with some good friends - we got sprinkled on a little bit but it wasn't too bad, so we were happy about that!  This afternoon my sweetie and I are headed to a 2nd birthday party for a couple of our friends' little girl.

I needed to get a card made and thought I would make one that fits a challenge.  Over at Bitten by the Bug 2, the challenge this week is to use the card feature from any Cricut cartridge.  All of the cuts for this card are from the Birthday Bash cartridge - including the card base!  :-)

I think this giraffe on roller skates is just a fun image!  In the handbook, he's holding the number 3 in his mouth.  I used the font from Birthday Bash to cut out the number 2 and the shadow to put in place of the 3.

I added a bit of glitter to the spots on the giraffe and a double twine bow to finish it off.

Inside, I stamped the sentiment using My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set.

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my card.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Pattern paper from my stash
Card base from Birthday Bash cut at 5.25 inches
Giraffe from Birthday Bash cut at 3.9 inches
"2" and shadow from Birthday Bash cut at 1.25 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set
Twine from My Craft Spot
White Sakura gel pen
Glitter

Birthday Card

Good evening!  I don't know where this past week has gone!!  I managed to get all our Christmas decorations up over the weekend and there are a few other projects my sweetie and I have been working on around the house, so the time is just flying by!!

There are a couple birthdays in my family this week, and they are both guys.  As you may remember from previous posts, I struggle with masculine birthday cards.  I think I did okay with these ones though - what do you think??

Here is the first one I made:

I kept it pretty simple and the only bling I added was the Stickles on the candle flames.  :-)  I'll be back to share the second card with you soon - hopefully tomorrow!!  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Candles from Birthday Bash cut at 2.75 inches
Sentiment from Scrappy Mom's Everyday Greetings set
Twine from My Craft Spot
Stickles

Have the Happiest Birthday!

Good evening!  I'm enjoying the start of a three day weekend by spending some time crafting.  Yay!!  :)  The weather is supposed to be nice this weekend, so I'm hoping to spend quite a bit of time outside as well.

This week over at Celebrate the Occasion, the challenge is Birthday and you must use twine and at least one button.  My card stash is always in need of birthday cards it seems, so this is perfect for me.  I went to my go-to cartridge for birthday cards, Birthday Bash, and started flipping through the handbook for an image I haven't used yet.  I saw this bird on the banner and thought it would be perfect to add some twine and ribbons to.  This is what I came up with.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Mat paper from The Paper Studio
Bird on banner from Birthday Bash cut at 3 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Fabulous Phrases set
Twine from My Craft Spot
Buttons from my stash
Glitter
Black Sakura gel pen

PKS Sketch Challenge

Good evening!  I hope you are all having a great week so far.  The weather here in the Midwest has been nice - nice and hot that is!  Summer has definitely arrived!!  To stay out of the heat this evening, I spent some time crafting inside.  I needed a birthday card for one of my uncles and I saw a sketch challenge over on the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge blog.  I love the cute PKS faces and the added touch they give to Cricut images.  This challenge gave me all the inspiration I needed to get my uncle's card made.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Party hat from Birthday Bash cut at 3 inches
Banners from Birthday Bash
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
Rub-on sentiment
Black and white Sakura gel pens

MCS #58

Good evening!  Where has the time gone??  I feel like I blinked and we're already 11 days into June!!  The weather here has been fabulous and I've been enjoying it, that's for sure.  Lots of golf with my sweetie and tending to the flowers and plants in the yard.  Unfortunately, not much time for crafting but my list of projects keeps getting longer and longer!  I finally got downstairs for a while today and got a couple things crossed off my list.

The card I have to share tonight is a birthday card for our sweet neighbor girl who turns 9 in a couple of weeks.      I went to my go-to birthday cartridge, Birthday Bash, and saw this cute butterfly with the number 9.  Perfect!  On that same page of the handbook, I used the font image for my card base, welding it to a simple rectangle.  I put the butterfly on an action wobble for a little extra fun.  I'm submitting this to the challenge over at My Craft Spot - Birthday - What's your age? (Must include a number.)  Thanks for coming by to take a look and I hope you're all enjoying some fabulous weather like I have been!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Butterfly and number 9 from Birthday Bash cut at 3.25 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
Black, White and Clear Star Sakura gel pens
Crinkle ribbon
Action wobble

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #66

Good evening!  I hope your week is going well.  I'm excited that tomorrow is Friday and that we have a three-day weekend ahead!

This week over at Die Cuttin Divas, their challenge is Buttons, Banners and/or Birthdays.  My birthday card stash is very low and I have a number of family and friends with birthdays in the next few months.  I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to start building up my stash again.  I got my inspiration for this card from Pinterest, which originally came from Courtney Lane Designs.  I tried to keep this card simple and guy-appropriate - always hard for me.....I think I did okay.  ;)

Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Banner shape from Birthday Bash cut at 3.7 x 5.0 inches
Frame shape from Elegant Edges cut at 2.75 and 2.5 inches
Rub-on sentiment
Ribbon from Pebbles, Inc.
Twine from American Crafts
Button from my stash
Black Sakura gel pen

FCCB #108 and MCS #53

Good evening!  This has been a busy week and it's going by so fast - I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday!  I finally found some time to get downstairs and do a little crafting earlier this evening.  I put together a card for my grand-nephew's first birthday.  His birthday isn't for a few more months, but there are a couple challenges going on this week that gave me some inspiration for his card.

Over at Fantabulous Cricut, the challenge this week is On the Go - make a project with a car, bike, train, plane, etc.  The challenge at My Craft Spot is Things that Go - make a card or other project and it must include things that go (car, bike, boat, etc).  I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get this sweet little boy's birthday card made - and what little boy doesn't like dump trucks??  I decided to make my card base the number 1 (welded together with my Gypsy), added the dump truck, some twine and stamped a sentiment inside.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:

Cardstock from Recollections

1 from Birthday Bash cut at 5 inches

Dump truck from Beep Beep cut at 2.4 inches

Cuttlebug embossing folders - Swiss Dots and Polka Dots

Twine from My Craft Spot

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set

Black and white Sakura gel pens

Yappy Birthday

Good evening!  I hope this week is going well for you all.  It's going by fairly quickly for me, which is great because I'm really looking forward to this weekend.  I have a scrap night planned with one of my bf's and we're hoping to get a lot of creating done!!

Today is actually her birthday!  We were able to meet for lunch with her husband and another friend of ours so we could wish her a happy birthday.  And something tells me we may have to celebrate a little more when we get together this weekend!  :)

I'm submitting the birthday card I made for her in this week's challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion.  The challenge this week is Birthday - shape card.  I found another fun shape in the Birthday Bash handbook to use for the card base.  And I've been eyeing this dog image for a while now - I think he's just so cute!  I know my friend is a dog-lover, as she has a sweet little Yorkie of her own, so I decided it was finally time to use this image.  Thanks for coming by and I hope you're all having a wonderful week!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Card base from Birthday Bash cut at 8.5x5.5 inches
Dog from Birthday Bash cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Even More Punny-licious set
Crinkle ribbon
i-rock gems
Google eyes
Black and white Sakura gel pens for stitching
Glossy Accents