FCCB #179 - Going Places and Blog Candy Winner

Happy Monday!  It's time for another fun challenge at Fantabulous Cricut!  This week's challenge is Going Places - we want to see your projects that include a Cricut cut image of something that gets you from one place to another (car, bike, plane, etc).

I decided to make a layout for this week's challenge.  My sweetie and I celebrated our first anniversary in Cozumel and went on a deep sea fishing trip while we were there.  Little did we know it wasn't really deep sea fishing season, but we still caught some fish and we had a great time doing it!

Sorry for the glare in the pictures.  I was having a hard time taking these photos.  The left page has pictures of the boat we were on and our two guides for the trip.  On the right page, I have pictures of my sweetie and I fishing and some of the fish we caught.

The title us cut from the Life is a Beach cartridge and the boat is cut from the Father's Day cartiridge.  I cut the title out twice, once in yellow and once in orange, then hand cut the fin, the dots for the i's and the apostrophe so the title with the fish wouldn't be one solid color.

The fish are all from the same image on the Life is a Beach cartridge.  I cut the image and its layer out 3 times in different colors so I could mix and match the fish to make them all different colors.

I also have the winner of my blog candy from the Fantabulous Cricut Vinyl Cricut Crawl to announce!!  The winner was chosen by random.org and the winner is..........#5!!

JulieSeptember 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM

I loved your lantern! The vinyl cut outs are so beautiful. Great idea!

Julie, please leave me a message with a way to contact you so I can get your stamp sets in the mail!  Congratulations!!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure to link up your project to the Going Place challenge at FCCB by Sunday evening!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill, Recollections and DCWV
Patten papers from The Paper Studio
Gone Fishin' title from Life is a Beach cut at 4 inches
Boat from Father's Day cut at 2.25 inches
Fish from Life is a Beach cut at 2.5 inches

Happy Father's Day

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!!  I ran with a good friend yesterday morning, then spent most of my afternoon and evening scrapping with another good friend.  This morning I played golf, and now I have a little more time to spend crafting.  It's been a wonderful weekend!

I decided I better get my Father's Day cards made since the day will be here next weekend already.  Man this year is just flying by!  I made this card for my dad, who is a  big golfer.  I used the sketch from this week's challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas as my inspiration.

I always think golf and plaid go together for some reason.  Anyone else??  I found this paper as I was flipping through my DCWV Stack 7 pad and thought it would be perfect for my dad's card.

I embossed the golf ball with the Polka Dots embossing folder, then adhered the golf ball to the image face down so the it would create dimples in the golf ball.

Thanks for coming by to see my Father's Day card!  I have two more I need to get made, and I'll be sharing those soon!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern paper from DCWV Stack 7
Golf club and ball from Father's Day cut at 2.17 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set
Polka Dots embossing folder

Father's Day Card #1

Good evening!  A little more craft time this evening and I got another project crossed off my to-do list.  Yay!  :)

The card I have to share tonight is the Father's Day card I'm sending to my Grandpa.  I kept it pretty simple, mainly because I was having a hard time thinking of a good image to use on a card for him.  My Grandpa is one of the first people to introduce me to the game of golf, so I definitely could have gone that route but I feel like I have made a few golf cards for him already and wanted to do something different.  So, this is what I came up with.

I'm submitting this in the challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion.  This week's challenge is Father's Day!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're all having a fabulous week!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Pattern paper from DCWV
Card base from Elegant Edges (2 5-inch images welded together)
Sentiment cut from Father's Day cartridge at 2.8 inches
Brown and white chalk
White Sakura gel pen

Birthday Explosion Card

Good evening!  This week sure went by fast!  We don't have too much planned for the weekend so far, but something tells me we will fill our time somehow and before I know it Monday will be here.  

Today is my sweetie's birthday and I wanted to make him a special card.  Have you seen the explosion boxes that some of the talented people out there have been making??  I've been seeing a bunch of them lately and I think they're so neat!  I did some searching and found some instructions HERE (scroll down about 6 entries in the forum for links to the PDF or Word document).  I modified my box slightly from these instructions, starting with a 9x9 square piece of cardstock for the base, scoring it at 3" and 6" along both sides.  For the lid, I used a 6.5"x6.5" square piece of cardstock, scoring it 1.5" in from each side.

I have seen some other exploding boxes that keep the entire square of paper in tact but couldn't find any instructions or tutorials.  If anyone can point me to some I would really appreciate it!!  Anyway, the possibilities are endless with these exploding boxes.  I've seen some exploding albums with 2 or 3 layers - how neat!!  I had fun with my explosion card and can't wait to try an album!

Thanks for coming by to check out my creation and I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Top of the box.

The 4 sides of the box.

Inside the box (I left the center square open so I could write a birthday message to my sweetie).

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio

Happy Birthday from Sweet Treats cut at 1.25 inches

Present from Sweet Treats cut at 1.5 inches

Party favor from Sweet Treats cut at 1 inch

Cupcake from Sweet Treats cut at 1.5 inches

Party hat from Sweet Treats cut at 1.5 inches

Golfer from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 2.5 inches

Golf club and ball from Father's Day cut at 2 inches 

Green and flag from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 2.5 inches

Golf bag and clubs from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 3 inches

Twine from My Craft Spot

Glossy Accents

Black and white Sakura gel pens

Lake Trip LO

Good evening everyone!  I'm trying very hard to get caught up on my layouts before the year is over.  I'm getting married in January, so with the wedding, reception and everything else that goes along with those I know I will be very busy for quite a while - and I have a lot of wedding-related crafting projects on the to-do list as well.  So, I'd like to be caught up on my scrapbook layouts for the year (if at all possible!) before the wedding.

Which brings me to tonight's project.....  My sweetie and I spent Fourth of July weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks with some of his aunts, uncles and cousins.  We spent time out on the lake and in the pool, and managed to get a round of golf in as well.  We had a great time - it's always fun to get away for a long weekend!  I borrowed some die cuts from my great friend Melissa to cut out the pictures and mats, so I'm sorry but I don't know the name of them.  The empty blue mat is for my journaling.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio
Title and date from Lyrical Letters cut at 1 1/2 inches
Golf ball and boat from Father's Day cut at 2 1/2 inches
Glossy accents on golf ball and red stripe on boat