Bee-lated Birthday Card

Happy Thursday!  I hope you are all having  good week.  After two weeks in a row with a day off in the middle of the week, I'm just trying to get used to having to go to work for more than two days in a row.  Is anyone else struggling with this??

I hate having to make belated birthday cards, because that means I missed someone's birthday, but sometimes it happens.  Here's a quick belated birthday card I made recently.

I love all the images on the Create a Critter cartridge, especially this little bee.  I hid the face cuts on my Gypsy so I could use a cute Peachy Keen face instead.

I popped the bee up on some fun pattern paper and added a My Pink Stamper sentiment.  Quick and easy!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy the rest of your week!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from DCWV and Recollections
Pattern paper from American Crafts Color Crush pad
Bee from Create a Critter cut at 3.75 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Even More Punny-licious set

Christmas Tags

Happy Friday!  I'm enjoying a few days off work, spending some quality time with my sweetie.  But I'm also spending time "playing" and crafting!!

I thought I would share the Christmas tags I made.  These were pretty quick and easy to make, and the recipients of our Christmas gifts really seemed to like them.

The tags and their shadow images were cut from Plantin Schoolbook.

All of the images came from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge - there are so many adorable images on that cartridge!  I modified some of them in Cricut Craft Room, removing face cuts, for example, so I could use Peachy Keen stamps instead.

I added glitter and Stickles to most of the tags for a little bling.  Pretty simple, but a cute touch to Christmas gifts!

Thanks for coming by today!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Core'dinations
Pattern papers from The Paper Studio
Tags from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 3.5, 4 and 4.5 inches
Images from Create a Critter 2, all cut at 3 inches
Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Face Assortment

FCCB #189 - Beyond Red and Green

Happy Monday!  It's time for another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!!

Challenge #189 Beyond Red and Green

Create a holiday project that does NOT use red or green

This is great challenge - perfect for the holiday season that is now upon us.  Create any holiday project, without the colors red or green, and as always - use at least one Cricut cut!!

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Winner will receive the Polka Dot Sentiments stamp set

For my project, I made a holiday card using one of the cute snowmen on the Winter Frolic cartridge.  I used a Peachy Keen stamp for his face and added a little embossing to his hat.

I printed the background paper using my Imagine and the Christmas Wish cartridge.

Be sure to visit the FCCB blog and enter our challenge.  Remember, you need to use 1 Cricut cut to be eligible for the prize. Also, please visit our wonderful sponsor!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill, DCWV and Recollections

Pattern paper printed from Christmas Wish Imagine cartridge

Snowman from Winter Frolic cut at 4 inches

Sentiment from Hero Arts Holiday Sayings set

Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Face Assortment

Swiss dots embossing folder

First Birthday Card

Hello everyone!  I hope you're all having a great week!!  The weather has cooled down a bit here, so I'm thrilled about that - no more triple digit heat indexes!!

One of my sweetie's cousins recently celebrated her first birthday.  Her mom sent out the cutest invitations, which inspired me when I created her birthday card.

The invitations had a polka dot background and a couple of butterflies on it.  I'm not sharing the actual invitation because it also included a picture of the cute birthday girl and I wasn't sure how her mom felt about having her baby's picture shared on the internet.  I hope you all understand!!

The colors of the butterfly are similar to one of the butterflies on the invitation and I managed to find some polka dot paper with the same colors too.  I embossed the yellow layer of the wings and gave my butterfly a sweet Peachy Keen face.  A crinkle ribbon bow topped off with a twine bow and button finish off the card!  :-)

I also want  to remind everyone about a fantastic challenge coming up at Fantabulous Cricut on Monday.  We have a wonderful sponsor - Cricut Vinyl Supplies.

Cricut Vinyl Supplies is offering a 15% discount, on top of their already low prices, to help you prepare for the upcoming challenge.  Just use the discount code: fantabulous and stock up on some vinyl!  On top of that, if we get 100 entries to our vinyl challenge the week of September 9, Cricut Vinyl Supplies will be giving away a Cricut Expression!  How fantastic is that?!?

In addition, we will be having a blog hop to kick off Vinyl University Week and you'll have a chance to win blog candy at every stop along the hop!  Check out Cricut Vinyl Supplies and make sure you have vinyl on hand to play along with us next week!!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope to see a lot of vinyl creations next week linked up over at Fantabulous Cricut!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Butterfly from Create a Critter cut at 2.75 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character Face Assortment
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set
Crinkle ribbon, twine and a button
Crop-a-Dile corner chomper

FCCB 175 - Heat Wave

Happy Monday!!  I'm sure you all know what Monday means - time for another fun challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut!  This week's challenge is Heat Wave - create a project using something associated with the summer heat.  This challenge is perfect timing for me here in the Midwest.  We've been pretty spoiled for most of the summer - temperatures haven't been too hot and we've had a few rainstorms here and there.  But the past week or so has been a different story.  It's been hot and humid and it looks like it's going to be that way for at least the next week or so!

Earlier this summer, my sweetie and I went down to the Lake of the Ozarks and stayed with some of his family.  We had a great time out on the boat and playing around the pool.  I made this card thank you card for them.

We spent a good bit of time out on the lake, just floating and relaxing and when I saw this image of the girl floating in the inner tube it reminded me of floating out on the lake.

I embossed the water for some texture and added a tiny crystal gem to the flower on the girl's cap.  I used the hide contour feature on my Gypsy to hide the cuts on her face so I could use one of my cute Peachy Keen face stamps.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creation! Be sure to link up your summer creations to the Heat Wave challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut by Sunday evening!!

Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill, Recollections and We R Memory Keepers
Girl floating from Pack Your Bags cut at 3.5 inches
D'vine Swirls embossing folder
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character Face Assortment
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Life set
crystal gem

Ladybug Valentine

Happy Monday!  I hope your week is off to a good start!

This week over at Die Cuttin Divas they are having a sketch challenge.  Sketches really used to scare me, but I've really started to enjoy them.  Here is the sketch we were given for the challenge:

I had one more Valentine I wanted to make, so I decided to use this sketch for that card.  Here is what I came up with:

Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Recollections

Pattern cardstock from My Mind's Eye Love Me stack

Frame from Elegant Edges cut at 3.5 inches

Ladybug from Create a Critter cut at 2.25 inches

Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids assortment

Sentiment from My Craft Spot's Always & Forever set

Black embossing powder

i-rock gems

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!  Did you all have a fun and safe holiday??  My sweetie and I rang in the new year with most of his extended family.  We had a great time playing games before toasting the start of 2013.  I hope you all had a great holiday too!

The project I have to share today is the thank you card I used for my Christmas thank yous.  My sweetie's dad and step-mom gave me a Cuttlebug and some Spellbinders dies for Christmas, so I had to make use of those.  :-)

I'm going to submit this in the challenge over at Go Fish - create a snow/winter themed project.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Shimmer cardstock from DCWV
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Four die
Girl from Winter Frolic cut at 2.5 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
Sentiment from Heidi Grace Designs Greetings set
Silver embossing powder

Gift Bags

Hello!  Can you believe Christmas is less than 2 weeks away?!?  Are you ready??  We are nearly finished shopping, but I've only just started our Christmas cards.  I'm hoping to get them finished up by the weekend and in the mail by Monday - wish me luck!!

Today I am sharing a gift bag I made using a tutorial I had found quite a while ago.  I have seen a number of people make bags like this, most recently Gigi over at The Cricut Bug.  You can find the tutorial for making these bags HERE.  The bags are easy to make and work perfectly for those small gifts you're giving - I'm putting soft fuzzy socks in them.

I'm going to link these up to this week's Wrap it Up challenge over at My Craft Spot and also to the Thankful Thursday Red and/or Green challenge at DL Art.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Pattern and glitter cardstock from DCWV
Snowman from Jolly Holidays cut at 3 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Faces Assortment
Fiskars Threading Water border punch
Crinkle ribbon

BOO!

Good evening!  I hope you are all having a wonderful week!  The weather here has been warmer than usual, so we've been enjoying some extra time outside - we have to take advantage of it before it turns cold for good!!

The project I have to share tonight is a Halloween decoration I made for my front door.

I started with letters that I bought from Hobby Lobby that are about 1 inch thick and 6 inches tall.  I painted the sides and backs of the letters with black acrylic paint.

Then I traced around the letters on the back side of pattern papers and cut them out by hand.  I used Mod Podge to adhere the pattern papers to the front of the letters.

Finally I cut out various images with my cricut, stuck them on the letters and tied the letters together with orange crinkle ribbon.  Pretty easy and now we have a fun Halloween decoration for the front door!

I'm going to enter this project into two challenges.  The first is over at Go Fish, where the challenge is to create a 3D Halloween project.  I'm also going to submit this into the Little Monsters challenge at My Craft Spot where you must include a monster on your project.

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my creation!!

Recipe:
BOO letters from Hobby Lobby
Black acrylic paint
Mod Podge
Pattern papers from The Paper Studio
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pumpkin from Create a Critter 2 cut at 3 inches
Spider from Doodlecharms cut at 3 inches
Ghost from Simply Charmed cut at 3.5 inches
Green monster from Create a Critter 2 cut at 3.5 inches
Bat from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5 inches
Orange monster from Mini Monsters cut at 3 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Monster Mash Assortment

Get Well Soon Card

Happy Thursday!  I hope you are all having a fabulous week!  Mine is going well - most of all I'm looking forward to this weekend.  I have a fun scrap night planned with one of my best friends  - something we haven't done in quite a while and I can't wait!!

The card I have to share today is one I made for the girl who lives two houses down from us.  She was so excited to tell us that she was finally riding her bike without training wheels.  Well, not two days after she shared that exciting news with us, my husband saw her sitting on her front porch with her dad, and the poor girl had a cast on her foot.  He asked what happened, and what do you know??  She fell off her bike and broke her foot!!  Poor thing - so soon after finally getting those training wheels off too!

I just had to make her a card and this is what I came up with.  All the images came from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.  I created the cast by cutting the 'bed' image that looks like the little pajamas with the footies.  Then I just cut off one leg and the tip of the toes and voila - a cast!  I cut the bike image out twice, once in grey and once in black, then fussy cut the tires and seat for the layers.

I'm going to submit this card into this weeks challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut, which is 2012 Olympics - make a project with a sports theme.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my creation!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Girl, dress, bike and crutches from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 3.75 inches
Sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
i-rock gems
Brown chalk
Black and white Sakura gel pen

CTO #73

Hello and happy Friday!  I feel like I am finally getting some crafting mojo back and have been trying to spend more time downstairs working on projects but I'm also pretty addicted to the Olympics!  I have been staying up later than usual watching coverage on tv and trying my hardest to avoid spoilers on the internet all day.  Are you all going through this too or is it just me?!?  :)

This week over at Celebrate the Occasion, they're having an I Scream for Ice Cream challenge.  I thought I'd make a quick birthday card that would work for this challenge.  I decided to make this card a #10 size card so that I could fit 3 ice cream cones easily across the front of the card.  These cones are from Simply Charmed but I didn't cut all the layers because I wanted to use some cute Peachy Keen faces on them.  Thanks for coming by to take look.  Now back to the Olympics!  LOL!!

**I've just learned of a new challenge blog - Tuesday Alchemy and this card fits their current challenge.  I'm going to link up there as well.  Thanks Corrinne!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV Sweet Stack
Ice Cream cones from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids assortment
Tim Holtz Burlap embossing folder
Brown chalk
White Sakura gel pen
Pop dots

Summer Fun Thank You

Happy Monday!  Did you all have a fabulous weekend?  And are you as addicted to the Olympics as I am?!?  My sweetie and I had a great time down at the lake with some family - we played golf, swam, went out on the boat, and most importantly we got some much needed R&R!

I made this thank you card to give to my sweetie's aunt to thank her and her family for letting us stay with them and enjoy the weekend with them.  I'm going to submit this into the challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas - Summer Fun.  I created a mini-scene with images that make me think of relaxing along the beach or by the pool.

Now I'm off to watch some more Olympic coverage!  Hope your week is off to a great start!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Chair from Life's a Beach cut at 3.4 inches
Sun from Pack Your Bags cut at 2.5 inches
Flipflops and sunglasses from Pack Your Bags cut at 1.8 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character faces
Rub-on sentiment
i-rock gems
pop dots

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

Seize the Cupcake

Happy Saturday!  I hope you're all having a great weekend.  I had some time yesterday afternoon and decided to get my Imagine out.  I got my Imagine for Christmas and have barely used it.  Recently I've purchased a few cartridges for it, so I decided it was time to get it out and play with it a bit.  It's a little overwhelming at first, but I must say I really love it!  All the pattern papers you can print that coordinate so well with the images....it makes it easy for projects to come together pretty quickly.  I have a lot more to learn about that big machine, but I think I'm going to have fun doing it!

The card I made I created for a few reasons.  I need to get some cards created for some birthdays coming up and there's a couple of challenges I wanted to participate in.  Over at Fantabulous Cricut, the challenge this week is Buttons and Bows - make a project with at least one button and bow on it.  The Die Cuttin Divas challenge this week is Use Pastel Colors.  Here's what I came up with.  Thanks for coming by to take a look and enjoy your weekend!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Patterned cardstock from Better Together Imagine cartridge
Cupcake from Better Together cut at 3.5 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamp's Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment
Sentiments from Hero Arts Cupcake set
Crinkle ribbon
Twine from My Craft Spot
Button from my stash

Thinking of You

Happy Saturday!!  My weekend is off to a good start, and I hope yours is too!

The card I have to share today is something I created for a couple of reasons.  First, the challenge this week over at Die Cuttin Divas is a recipe challenge - use fabric, feathers and/or flowers on your project.  Second, Madison over at Funky Cards is collecting cards for a young girl named Trinitie, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.  Madison is asking for cheerful/thinking of you cards that will be passed on to Trinitie.

Here is my creation!  I have seen a number of people use tulle on their cards along with ribbon and think it looks so neat, so I decided to add some for a little extra something and also to fulfill the fabric request of the Die Cuttin Divas challenge.  I love the Peachy Keen face stamps, so I decided to add those to the tulips I cut out to make them a little more cheerful.  Thanks for coming by to take a look and be sure to stop by Die Cuttin Divas and Funky Cards!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from my scrap stash
Tulips from Simply Charmed cut at 3 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Characters set
Floral Flourishes embossing folder
Rub-on sentiment
Ribbon and tulle from my stash
I-rock gems
Pop dots
Glossy Accents

Gingerbread Thank You

Happy Friday everyone!  About a week ago we got an unexpected package in the mail.  When I opened it I found the cutest framed picture of my step-niece's baby boy who was born in September.  I thought it was so sweet that she sent us his picture and of course had to make one final holiday thank you to send to her.  This is what I came up with.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look and have a wonderful weekend!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Gingerbread man from Jolly Holidays cut at 4 inches
Face from the Everyday Character Face Assortment from Peachy Keen Stamps
Ribbon from my stash
Rub-on sentiment
Stickles and Glossy Accents

Monday Challenge #39

Good evening everyone and Happy New Year!!  I hope 2012 is off to a good start for you all!  I got an Imagine for Christmas and have spent quite a bit of time the past two days trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing with that thing.  I think I'm catching on, but haven't made anything to share just yet.  I'm sure I will before too long though!

This week over at My Craft Spot, the challenge is Winter Wonderland - you must use glitter.  I needed to get some post-holiday thank you cards made to send out to family and friends and added a bit of glitter to my project so that I could participate in this challenge.  I think it worked great to help add a little something to the 'snow' on my card.  Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio

Snow angel from Winter Frolic cut at 3.25 inches

Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment

Sentiment from Hero Arts Everyday Sayings set

Glitter and white Sakura gel pen for the eyes

Party Like a Rockstar

Good evening!  I hope everyone had a nice holiday and weekend.  Did anyone find any great Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals??  I didn't do any shopping over the weekend, but I know there were quite a few deals out there!

The project that I have to share tonight is a birthday card for my brother.  My brother played the guitar as we were growing up, and he still enjoys playing from time to time.  When I saw the rocker guy on the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge, I immediately thought him.  Here's the card I came up with.  Thanks to my good friend Melissa for the idea of tying strands of embroidery thread to the guitar for the strings!!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Rocker guy and guitar from Everyday Paper Dolls cut at 3 1/2 inches
Ribbon from my stash
Face from Peachy Keen Stamp's Everyday Character Face Assortment set
Sentiment from Pink By Design's Rock On set
Embroidery thread, Glossy Accents, white Sakura gel pen

Monday Challenge #30

Happy Saturday!  I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend so far!!  I have a fun night of crafting with a couple of great friends ahead of me tonight, which I'm really looking forward to.  I got a head start on some projects this morning, too!

This week over at My Craft Spot, the Monday Challenge is a 3D Halloween challenge.  Last year I decorated a clear pail for Christmas as part of a class I took.  I had been debating creating one for Halloween because I've seen so many cute creations out there in blog land lately.  This challenge sealed the deal for me, so I went out and bought some clear pails and got to decorating.

I started by putting together strips of paper to line the inside of the can.  The top layer is red at the request of my sweetie who said that he thought red was best because it looked like blood.  Okay!?!  LOL!

I added this little pumpkin-guy, and chose this face from my Peachy Keen stamps because I thought he looked a little mischievous.

 I attached this cute bat with a couple of glue dots on one wing so that he sticks out from the pail a little bit.

 I added a rosette with a little pumpkin to the lid for a little something extra, and decided to give the little pumpkin a scared expression.

Thanks for stopping by for a look!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Bat from Simply Charmed cut at 1 3/4 inches
Pumpkin-guy from Mini Monsters cut at 2 1/4 inches
Pumpkin from Simply Charmed cut at 1 1/2 inches
Martha Stewart Drippy Goo border punch
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character and Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortments
Black and white Sakura gel pens
Google eyes and ribbons from my stash