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!

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 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

Happy Birthday Sketch card

Happy Sunday!  I haven't checked in in quite a while.  The past week has been pretty busy - but fun busy, so that's okay.  :-)  I have had this past week off from work since I'm between jobs right now.  I start my new job tomorrow and I'm excited!  My sweetie and I decided to take advantage of my time off as well as the holiday and we went to the Lake of the Ozarks for a bit this past week.  We played golf, went out on the boat and relaxed by the pool.  A pretty great mini-vacation!  We're back home now and I'm back to crafting!!

This week over at Die Cuttin Divas they're having a sketch challenge.  I am in need of a few birthday cards and decided to use the sketch as inspiration.  Here is the sketch we were given:

Here is the card I came up with:

I pulled out my Beyond Birthdays cartridge (one I haven't used in a LONG time!) for the birthday present image.  I popped the star up using pop dots and popped the present up off the star using mini-pop dots but I wasn't able to get a good picture of the added dimension.

I think I'll head back downstairs for a bit more crafting!  Thanks for stopping by to take a look at my card!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Pattern cardstock from American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray pad

Star from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 3.5 inches

Present from Beyond Birthdays cut at 3 inches

Spellbinders Labels Eight die

Rub-on sentiment

Swiss Dots embossing folder

Ribbon from my stash

Wedding Album Cover Page

Happy Friday!  This has been a busy week for me and my sweetie and I have some fun plans for this weekend, so I'm doubly excited for Friday this week!!

As you may already know, I've been trying to get caught up on some of my scrapbooks lately.  One of the albums I've been slowly working on is an album of wedding pictures that family and friends took.  Faith Abigail did a wedding album series just a little while back.  I think she puts together fabulous layouts and was so excited to see her wedding album series since I'm working on my wedding album.  She put together a fabulous cover page for the album that you can see HERE.  When I saw her cover page I knew I was going to be scraplifting her design for my wedding album - I just loved it!

I basically kept all of the elements the same.  I think the only thing I changed was the font for our initials and the papers.  I really like the soft colors in the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3 papers, so I've been using those throughout my album. I recently placed an order for some scrapping supplies that includes some papers in the same color scheme.  I'm excited to get that delivery!!  :-)

I hope you've all had a fabulous week and a wonderful weekend ahead of you!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill
Pattern cardstock from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 3
Large frame and shadow from Elegant Edges cut at 10.5 inches
Small frame and shadow from Elegant Edges cut at 4.75 inches
Bells from Wedding cut at 3.75 inches
Monogram from Tie the Knot cut at 2.5 inches
Initials from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 1.25 inches

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  Do you have any special plans for today??  My sweetie and I are going out to dinner tonight, but that's about all for me.  We're keeping it pretty quiet this Valentine's Day.  :-)

I decided to break out my Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge and make a Valentine treat for my niece.  This was my first time using this cartridge and I must say I was a bit intimidated by the pictures in the handbook.  I tried to pick a container that didn't look too difficult to assemble in hopes I wouldn't overwhelm myself when it came time to try to put the thing together.  So I picked the box with the flip lid.  One of the lids already had a heart cut out of it, which is perfect for Valentine's Day!

 The box turned out to be really easy to put together.  I just may have to try more of these containers!  I cut a scrap piece of plastic film and attached it to the inside of the lid so there would be a clear window into the box and so the candy wouldn't fall out.

As you can probably tell from recent posts, I LOVE the images from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge.  I decided to pick some of those sweet images to decorate the box.

I filled the box with heart shaped Reese's and Dove candies.  I cut 1 inch circles in red and pink and stamped small sentiments on them which I attached to the bottoms of the candies with a glue dot.

I'm going to link this up to the "Be My Valentine" challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut.  Thanks for coming by to take a look and I hope you all have a lovely Valentine's Day!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from We R Memory Keepers
Box from Sweet Tooth Boxes cut at 11.25 inches
Koala, frog, owl and monkey from Create a Critter 2 all cut at 2.5 inches
Circles from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 1 inch
Sentiments from My Craft Spot's Always & Forever set
Swiss dots embossing folder
Stickles
Crinkle ribbon, twine and button from my stash

Christmas Bag and Tags

Merry Christmas Eve!  Do you all have fun plans with family/friends today and tomorrow??  We are spending time this evening with my sweetie's extended family and tomorrow we are hosting Christmas dinner for our parents.  I'm so excited to have my parents in town for the holiday and am looking forward to spending time in the kitchen with my mom preparing the meal.

I thought I would share some of the tags I made and also a coordinating gift bag.  I kept them all pretty simple, using my Santa's Village Imagine cartridge.

All of the tags are from Plantin Schoolbook.  I filled them with various patterns from Santa's Village and cut out coordinating images that I adhered with pop dots.

For the gift bag, I printed a 6x8 rectangle with a pattern from Santa's Village and again cut out a coordinating image.

Like I said, pretty simple!!  Thanks for coming by to take a look and enjoy your Christmas Eve!!

Recipe:
Pattern papers from Santa's Village Imagine cartridge
Tags from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4 inches
Penguins from Simply Charmed cut at 2 inches
Candy Cane from Simply Charmed cut at 2.25 inches
All other images from Santa's Village cut at 2 or 2.25 inches

Thank You

Good evening!  This week has been going by fast for me - perhaps because I'm excited for the weekend!  :)  My sweetie worked a little late today, so I was able to do some crafting before he got home.

This is one of the cards I made this evening.  I need a few more thank you cards and I was inspired by this week's challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  They're having a sketch challenge this week and I think those are so fun!  I tend to fall into patterns with my cards and they all tend to look similar, but following a sketch spices things up a bit for me!

Here is the sketch from the Die Cuttin Divas challenge:

And here is my creation:

Thanks for coming by to take a look!  I hope you are all having a great week!!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Pattern papers from DCWV

Branch and flowers from Pagoda cut at 1.1 inches

Oval from Plantin Schoolbook

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set

i-rock gems
Stickles

Pop dots

Glass Luminaries

Good evening!  I hope you are all having a great weekend!  We're having great weather here, and I've been taking advantage of it - getting outside to run, watch my sweetie's cousins play softball games, and working in the yard.  I also got a project done today that I've been thinking about doing for a while now.

I saw a project on the Cricut Circle blog a while back where luminaries were made out of recycled glass jars.  I decided to make something similar for my sweetie and I, based on our wedding.  I found some cheap glass vases at a home store near us and decided to use them.  I cut vinyl and adhered it to the glass jars.  On the first vase I put a bride and groom image on one side, and intertwined rings and our wedding date on the other.  On the second vase I put a sand dollar image on one side (we had a beach wedding and my sweetie found 6 sand dollars while we were there), and the site of our destination wedding (Turks and Caicos) on the other.

Then we sprayed both vases with frosted glass spray paint.

Next I carefully peeled off the vinyl, using an exacto knife to help get the edges started.

Finally, I added a tea light candle and turned out the lights!  

The pictures didn't turn out the greatest, but hopefully you get the idea.  We're so pleased with the final product, and love the way they look both with the candles lighting them up and without.  And the best part.....this was really a very easy project!  This was my first time using vinyl, so I was a little worried about how to cut it, how to get it on the glass, etc, but it was really simple.  :)

Thanks for coming by to take a look and enjoy the rest of the weekend!!

Recipe:
Glass vases
Vinyl
Frosted Glass spray paint
Bride and Groom from Wedding cut at 3 inches
Rings from Wedding cut at 2 inches
Date from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 1 inch
Sand dollar from Life's a Beach cut at 2.75 inches
Destination from Lyrical Letters cut at 1 inch

Iris Fold

Happy Friday eve!  I hope you're all having a great week!!  Do you have some fun plans for St Paddy's Day??  We're hoping to hit the local parade, something I've never done before, so I'm pretty excited!

The card I have to share today is something I created to fit a couple of different challenges.  This week over at Die Cuttin Divas, the challenge is to use the colors Green, Yellow, Black and White.  They have a bonus challenge of trying the Iris Fold technique.  I had no idea what the Iris Fold was, but one of the Die Cuttin Divas designers, Yvette, has a great tutorial on her blog.  Be sure to check it out HERE.  I love learning new techniques, so I figured I'd give this one a try!  :)

Over at My Craft Spot, the challenge this week is Manly Man Cards.  I always have a hard time with cards for guys because I want to add bling and sparkle to many of my creations, so this is definitely a challenge for me!

Here's my take on a manly man card, using the Iris Fold and the colors green, yellow, black and white.  I decided to make an easel card and I used my Gypsy and cut a rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook with the cupcake from Doodlecharms on top to create my image layer.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio, DCWV and  We R Memory Keepers
Rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 4 x 5.25 inches
Cupcake from Doodlecharms cut at 4 inches
Sentiment from TPC Studio Greetings stamp set
Black embossing powder
American Crafts twine
Button from my stash
White Sakura gel pen

Valentine's Pail

The project I have to share today is a clear pail that I decorated for Valentine's Day.  I plan to fill it with peanut M&Ms for my sweetie.  Peanut M&Ms are one of his favorite candies.  I put some in his Christmas stocking this year and have gotten in 'trouble' for eating some of them, so I figure I will replenish the stash.  I decided to decorate the pail for a cute way of packaging the candy.

Also, over at Die Cuttin Divas and My Craft Spot this week, the challenges this week is Anything Goes so I'm submitting this project to those challenges.  Thanks for coming by!

The entire length of decorated paper that's inside the pail.

The lid of the pail.

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio and We R Memory Keepers

Love Bug from Simply Charmed cut at 3 inches

Conversation Hearts from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5 inches

Hearts from Plantin Schoolbook cut at 2, 1.75 and 1.25 inches

Scallop circle from Sugar and Spice cut at 5.5 inches

Heart stamps and white embossing powder

Black Sakura gel pen and Glossy Accents

Various ribbons and twine from my stash tied to the handle

World Card Making Day!

Happy World Card Making Day!!  I hope all of you were able to create some wonderful cards today.  I haven't had time to check out many blogs yet today, but I'm looking forward to browsing around and seeing everyone's creations.

This afternoon, my sweetie and I went to a ninth birthday party.  After my morning run, I came home and put this card together for the birthday girl.  She's not a real girly-girl, so I stayed away from the more 'traditional' girly colors and images.  I also wanted to play around a bit and create something other than just a standard A2 size card.  This is what I came up with - thanks for stopping by for a look!

Recipe:
Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Card base is rectangles from Plantin Schoolbook welded together
Candles from Birthday Bash cut at 2.2 inches
Birthday cake from Smiley Cards cut at 3.5 inches
Bull from Birthday Bash cut at 2.75 inches
Number 9 from Birthday Bash cut at 1.95 inches
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment
Black, white and red Sakura gel pens for detailing
Stickles and glitter

Easter Bunny

Easter is this Sunday already, and I needed to make a few Easter cards.  This card will also work for a couple of challenges, which is always fun!  Over at Fantabulous Cricut, the challenge is to create a project with a bunny or a chick.  The theme for the Wacky Wednesday Challenge over at More Than Favors is Easter.  I decided to make a z-fold card with the cute bunny from Create a Critter.  Here is my creation - thanks for stopping by to take a look!

Recipe:
Solid Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned Cardstock from DCWV
Bunny from Create a Critter cut at 3 1/2 inches
Eggs cut from Doodlecharms at 1 inch
Grass from Plantin Schoolbook (used my Gypsy to size it appropriately)
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's 'Happiest Moments' set
Stickles