Ice skating

Hello from the arctic tundra!  At least that's what it's felt like here this week.  In the spirit of the weather, I decided to make a card about ice skating.  I cut the image from the Celebrate with Flourish Cricut cartridge, including the shadow.  Then I used some Cotton Candy stickles to make the snowflakes shine.

For the background paper I used some patterned paper from Recollections.  I thought the swirls reminded me of how it might look on the ice after the skating was done.  I ran a few layers of washi tape over the bottom (extra layers makes it less transparent) and used a tag I punched out to stamp the sentiment.  The sentiment is from My Craft Spot's Winter Wonderland set.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Craftin' Desert Divas- Winter Linky Party
Simon Says Stamp Challenges- Wednesday Challenge, Ice Inspiration
Fantabulous Cricut- Use a sentiment

Mother's Day

Hi friends!  I hope you've all had some happy crafting.  I finally pulled my Cricut out- for the first time since our move- and did some creating.  I made an A2 card on off-white cardstock.  Then I layered on some MME chevron paper, then some Bo Bunny Double Dot paper on top of that.  I used an embossing folder to emboss some vellum- did you know you could do that?- and layered it on top.  Then I used more of the MME chevron paper to create some banners.

I cut the rose from Celebrate with Flourish.  I didn't use the top layer, instead I just drew on the swirls with my versapen.  The sentiment is on the branding strip from the MME paper, which I love because it's still got the chevron pattern but it has the off-white coloring, and I stamped it with a sentiment from AmyR stamps.  I added some gems in the four corners and it was finished!

This card is being entered into the following challenges: 
Fantabulous Cricut- Mother’s Day                                                                                                                  

Bitten by the Bug 2- Mom is the best                                                                                                              

Exploring Cricut- Mother’s Day                                                                                                                        

Paper Playtime- Emboss                                                                                                                                  

Die Cuttin Divas- Sketch                                                                                                                                   

Celebrate the Occasion- Happy Mother’s Day

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day tends to get a little overlooked in my house, because it's also Sophie's birthday!  Still, I recently won a set of St. Patrick's Day stamps from Mary at CardzTV, and it inspired me to remember that March 17th is more than just my dog's birthday.  :)

I used a white A2 card base.  It looked so stark against the shamrock paper (from Paper Studio's All Seasons 2) that I decided to ink up the edges a little.  I just used my regular green dye ink, nothing special.  Then I put down some green Ric-rak ribbon.  I cut the shamrocks from Celebrate with Flourish, only using the shadow and the base cut.  Then I went around the shadow with Star Dust stickles.  I love how the clear-ish stickles colors can spice up anything!

I finished the card off with a stamp from my new St. Patrick's Day stamp set. 

This card is being entered into the following challenges:
CardzTV- Luck of the Irish
All That Stickles- Star Dust

Spoooky

Time for another Friday challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy!  This week's challenge is:

Question: Do you love a good Ghost Story or Campfire Scary Story?

Theme: MAKE A PROJECT "NIGHT" PROJECT (Owl in tree; ghost in mansion)

I don't like ghost stories! I don't like being scared at all.  Maybe that's why my Halloween projects are usually some sort of cutesy thing.  

This challenge was a real, well, challenge for me.  I wanted to get away from my cute Halloween images.  I don't have any of the Halloween specific cartridges, so I went to Celebrate with Flourish.  This is about as spooky as I get.  I cut the image at 4 inches and included the shadow feature.  I love that this cartridge has shadows.  None of my other Lite cartridges do.  Here's a tip: if you're overdue for a new blade in your Cricut but putting off changing it because you're cheap, don't try to cut anything from Celebrate with Flourish at a small size.  It didn't cut too smoothly.  I realize it's my own fault, but thought I would pass along my little tidbit of wisdom so you all can save yourself the headache.  :)

I embossed the actual card front with my Spots and Dots Cuttlebug folder.  I added some bats paper from All Seasons 2 (by Paper Studio) as an accent.   

Come play along with us at Pause, Dream, Enjoy!  Head over and see what the rest of the Design Team has for you and then add your own creation!

I'm also entering this into the My Crafting Channel- The gh'oul times challenge.

The Great Pumpkin

It's Friday, so it's time for another challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy!  This week's challenge is:

Question: Do you decorate for Halloween?

Theme: MAKE A PURPLE & ORANGE PROJECT

I do decorate for Halloween, just barely.  The only thing that I really put up for Halloween is my banner.  I'm thinking when we get into our new house I'll start making banners for every holiday/season, because I really liked making it.  

For my very first card as a Design Team member at Pause, Dream, Enjoy challenges, I decided to use my Celebrate with Flourish cartridge.  I cut this pumpkin at 3 inches.  The background paper is from the DCWV All Girls stack.  The card itself is white, with purple inked around the edges (although you can't really tell in the picture). 

The orange strip of paper along the bottom is punched with the Fiskars Threading Water border punch.

Now it's your turn!  Head over to Pause, Dream, Enjoy to see what the rest of my DT sisters have for you and to play along with us!

I'm also entering this into the My Crafting Channel- The gh'oul times challenge.

Back to school backpack

It's back to school time!  For this project, I thought I'd make the backpack treat bag from Life's a Party.  I cut it on my Expression at Fit to Page, which ended up being 8.5 inches.  I don't do a lot of the Cricut 3D images, so I was proud of myself for figuring out how to put it together.  I added a few shoulder straps to the back with glossy accents and leftover cardstock.  

For the sentiment, I cut at 1.5 inches from my Celebrate with Flourish cartridge.  I didn't want to go with the usual red/blue/yellow back to school colors, so I picked oranges and purple and did the shadow in grey.  I finished it up by tying it closed with some homemade orange bakers twine.

I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:

Scrappy Moms Stamps- Back to School

Die Cuttin Divas- Color Challenge