FCCB 194 - Snowmen

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #194 Use a Snowman

Create a Project that uses a snowman!

This Week's Sponsor

Winner will receive the Conversation Candies stamp set

I was thinking of all the cold weather we've had this winter here in the Midwest when I made this card.  I found this sentiment on one of my Christmas stamp sets and knew I was going to use it on my card.

I cut the cute snowman from the Winter Frolic cartridge.  You can't tell in the photos, but the solid papers are all shimmer papers, so the card has a pretty shine to it in person.

I embossed my sentiment with silver embossing powder and framed it with a Martha Stewart corner punch.  A cute Peachy Keen face stamp and some twine finish off my card.

Be sure to visit the FCCB blog to view the other DT members' projects and to join in the challenge. Remember, to qualify for the prize you must use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from DCWV
Pattern Paper from The Paper Studio
Snowman from Winter Frolic cut at 4.5 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Christmas Wishes set
Face from Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Face Assortment
Martha Stewart Aspen Snowflake corner punch
Silver embossing powder
Twine from The Twinery

FCCB 192 - Use a Sentiment

Happy Monday! It's time for another Fantabulous Cricut challenge!  We are very excited to announce our new design team members.  To celebrate, we are having a blog crawl, which is FCCB's version of a blog hop.

Challenge #192 Use a Sentiment

This week's challenge is to use a sentiment.  It could be a phrase from one of your Cricut cartridges, or a stamp - just be sure to incorporate a sentiment and at least 1 Cricut cut somewhere in your project!

This Weeks Sponsor

Scrappy Mom's Stamps

  Winner will select a stamp set of their choice.

I decided to create thank you cards for this challenge, using one of my Scrappy Moms stamp sets.  I found this cute beaver on the Winter Frolic cartridge.

I stamped my sentiment with white ink, then used holographic embossing powder to give it a little extra shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creation!  Here is the lineup for the Cricut crawl.  Once you've visited all the stops, make a project using a sentiment and link up back over at FCCB!

my HS The Stamping Tree

Emily Mollie's Blog 

Faith Scrapbooker PhD 

Heather Scrapping Runner Creations

Jackie Luv 2 Scrapp

Lynn My Cards N Stuff

Michelle Just a Nutter Papercrafter

Missy Quick Chick Designs 

Nikki Crafty Calamities 

Rebecca Crafting Misfit 

Elizabeth Unik by Yes

Cindy Creating with the Heart 

Pam Stamper at Heart 

Karla Creative Love Affair 

LB Cool Beans by LB

Jilliene Jilliene Designs

Joneita Create with Joneita

Kim Kim's Kreations

Pam O Reflections of my Art and Soul

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from DCWV and Recollections
Beaver from Winter Frolic cut at 3 inches
Martha Stewart border punch
Twine from The Twinery
Sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps Everyday Greeting set
Ranger holographic embossing powder

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!!

~This Weeks Sponsor~

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

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

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!!  I'm so happy to be spending this holiday with my sweetie and our parents.   My parents moved to Arizona almost 2 years ago.  That was the first time I have lived more than 30 minutes from my parents, outside of my college years, so it was very difficult for me.  I love when we're able to spend time together!

I thought I would share the cards I sent out for Christmas this year to friends and family.  I go in to the holidays thinking I need to make a simple card to send since we send out nearly 60 cards, and inevitably it ends up more complex and time consuming than I was planning.  Does that happen to you??

I just love Peachy Keen face stamps and knew I had to use one of the faces from the Winter Faces Assortment I got not too long ago.  I think those faces add so much character!!

I wish you all a safe and wonderful holiday!  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:
Shimmer cardstock from DCWV and Core'dinations
Solid cardstock from Recollections
Snowflakes embossing folder
Snowman from Winter Frolic cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Christmas Wishes set
American Crafts ribbon
Crystal gems

Christmas Card Holder

Good evening!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and that your week is off to a good start.  My weekend was busy, but also productive - I managed to get quite a bit of crafting done!

One of the projects I completed this weekend was a Christmas card holder.  My sweetie and I didn't have a good way to display Christmas cards that we have received.  I saw a creation on Pinterest that I thought would be great - a wreath made out of painted clothes pins on wire shaped in a circle.  Have you seen the one I'm talking about?

Cute, huh?  Well, I got the clothes pins, painted them, strung them on the wire, tied my bow.....all was going fine until I tried to get it on my wall.  No luck.  I just couldn't get the clothes pins to behave, my circle turned in to an oval, and it just looked all wrong.  Ugh!  So, back to the drawing board (also known as Pinterest and Google LOL!!).  

I got some inspiration and this is what I created:

I am much happier with how this turned out!  (Sorry for the bad lighting in the pics - it's been cloudy here the past few days so the light wasn't good).  I cut the frame shape twice out of thicker cardstock and glued the ribbon that will hold the cards between the two pieces.  To hang my sign, I punched two holes with my Crop-A-Dile Big Bite and reinforced them with eyelets, then tied a ribbon through them to create my hanger.  

I am going to link this up to the Holiday Choice challenge over at Decorate to Celebrate.  Thanks for coming by to take a look!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Recollections

Pattern and glitter cardstock from DCWV

Frame and shadow from Elegant Edges cut at 11 inches

Seasons Greetings from Celebrate with Flourish cut at 4 inches

Presents from Winter Frolic cut at 2 inches

Ornament from Winter Frolic cut at 2.3 inches

Stocking from Jolly Holidays cut at 2.3 inches

i-rock gems

White Sakura gel pen

Ribbon 

A Good Friend....

Happy Saturday!  I hope everyone has a fun weekend ahead of them!  A little over a month ago, my sweetie and I got married in Turks and Caicos and this evening we are having a reception here in town to celebrate with our friends and family.  This week has been a little stressful for me as I've been worried about a lot of the little things in preparation for tonight.  I think we're ready though!

This week over at Celebrate the Occasion, the challenge is "Thinking of You."  The card I made for this challenge is one that I am going to give to a good friend of mine who has helped me a lot leading up to not only the reception tonight, but also the wedding last month.  She and I used to work together and had a "Starbucks Friday" ritual.  She no longer works for the same company, but we still try to get together once in a while for our Starbucks fix!  The sentiment is perfect as she has listened to me vent so many times about various things over the past few months.  I wanted to let her know how much I appreciate her listening to my rants as well as all of her help.

Thanks for coming by and I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from DCWV
Coffee cup from Winter Frolic cut at 3.5 inches
Crinkle ribbon
Sentiment from My Craft Spot's Friends and Neighbors set
Black Sakura gel pen
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

I Feel the Love - November/December

Good evening!  Can you believe it's already December?!?  I sure can't!  Where has the year gone??

The project I have to share tonight is a Christmas card I made for the I Feel the Love project for November and December.  Madison is collecting Christmas cards that will be taken to the Pediatric Oncology Unit at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, CA, where they will be delivered to children who are spending this Christmas in the hospital.  Please visit Madison's blog HERE for more information about the project.  I think Madison's project is so touching and inspirational and hope that all of you can find some time to participate.  Thanks for coming by!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Patterned cardstock from The Paper Studio
Reindeer from Winter Frolic cut at 3.25 inches
String of lights from Create a Critter cut at 1.8 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Christmas Wishes set
Google eye and Stickles