Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday!!

Today is my brother's 40th birthday!  My sweetie and I flew out to Colorado to surprise him.  We decorated his yard and house in the middle of the night and showed up on his doorstep this morning.  So much fun!!

This is the card I made for my brother's birthday:

I found this card shape and sentiment on the Life's a Party cartridge.  I put some pattern paper behind the candle images for a little color and faux stitching on the sentiment.

Thanks for coming by to check out my creation!  Enjoy the holiday!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray pad
Card shape from Life's a Party cut at 5.25 inches
Phrase from Life's a Party cut at 2.5 inches
White Sakura gel pen

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

Birthday Present Card

Happy Saturday!  I hope you are having a great weekend so far!  My sweetie got a last minute invite to play golf with a few friends this afternoon.  He was going to pass, but I told him to go - have fun!  Of course I had ulterior motives.....if he went to play golf, I'd be home alone, which means I could get some crafting done!!

I was inspired to make this card by my DT Sister Amy and the card she made for this week's Shaped Card challenge over at FCCB.  Check her fun card out HERE.  I loved the shape and the fun, shimmery papers Amy used, and she reminded me of the Life's a Party cartridge - a fun one that I haven't used in quite a while.  Here is my take:

I used the card feature on Life's a Party for the card base.  The card feature makes it so easy - no flipping and welding necessary!  :-)

I kept the card pretty simple - it's always tempting for me to try to bling cards up or make them girly in some way.  But this card is going to a guy, so I didn't add much.  I inked the edges of the tag with red ink, tied it to the card with red twine, and called it good!

I'm going to link this card up to the Anything Goes challenge over at Die Cutting Divas.  You still have some time to enter both challenges, so get to creating and link up your projects!!  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Recipe:
Pattern papers from American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray pad
Present from Life's a Party cut at 5.347 inches
Tag from Elegant Edges cut at 2.5 inches
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings set
Twine from The Twinery

Quick Birthday Card

Good evening!  I've been neglecting my scrap area and blogland lately it feels like. It's been so hot around here that I really haven't been motivated to do a whole lot.  I've been trying to get all my runs in as early as possible to avoid the heat, so I've been running at 4:30 or 5 in the morning some days.  It's been between 75 and 80 degrees at that early hour which is still pretty warm, but no question it's a lot better than running in the triple digit heat after work!!  With all the heat in the midwest, the fires out in Colorado, the floods up in Minnesota and down in Florida we're having a rough start to our summer.  I hope everyone is staying safe and escaping the worst of it!

I was in need of a birthday card for one of my aunts and got downstairs for a bit this evening.  I had an idea in my head earlier today and I was able to pull this card together pretty quickly.  I started looking through my scrap stash for a piece of pattern paper that jumped out at me and I found this flower print.  I love the bright colors, so I decided to go with that for a little bright summery fun.  Here's the card I came up with for her.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned paper from my scrap stash
Present from Life's a Party cut at 2.5 inches
Sentiment from TPC Studio's Greetings set
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
i-rock gems
White Sakura gel pen

Float Trip LO

Good evening!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

I'm still trying to get caught up on my scrapbook pages from last year.  I've made some progress recently and am pretty excited about these pages.  The biggest reason is because of the journaling.  I've seen people journal inside Cricut images or fun shapes and thought it looked really neat.  I decided I wanted to have my journaling on an image of a tent for this layout.

I laid the cuts out for the tent on my Gypsy.  This allowed me to figure out the height and width that I had available for my journaling.  Then I was able to adjust the alignment of my journaling on my computer so that it would fit inside the cut (or so I hoped!).  I know it would have been a lot easier if I had just hand-written the journaling, but I had a lot I wanted to write in a fairly small space!  I started by cutting out all the layers for the tent image (including the white layer that would have the journaling on it.  Then, before I removed the white layer from my mat, I put small pieces of tape along the top edge of the paper on the mat to hold it in place.  I removed the image, leaving the negative space behind.  I printed out my journaling and slid it underneath the negative image so that I could make sure that it would fit inside the image.  Once I had my journaling inside the image the way I wanted it, I set that paper in place and removed the negative image and tape I had holding it in place.  Then I cut the white layer of the image again, and it cut perfectly around my journaling.  I hope this made sense!!  I realize now I should have taken pictures of my steps so I could better explain this process to you!!

I'm submitting this LO to this week's Wacky Wednesday challenge over at More Than Favors.  The challenge this week is Vacation - create any project as long as it has a vacation theme.  Thanks for coming by to check out my project!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from EKSuccess
Title letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.75 inches
Date letters from Life's a Party cut at 1.5 inches
Tent from Campin Critters cut at 8.29 inches
Duck in canoe from Campin Critters cut at 3 inches
Black Sakura gel pen
Gems