No place like home

Howdy everyone!  It's time for another challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges and it's one of everyone's favorites: Anything Goes!

I made this card using both my Cameo and my Cricut.  Using my Cameo, I cut the center step card, layers, and banner from a file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons.  It was a free file, but now it's in the .99 store.  Well worth it! I mostly used plain cardstock, and the gingham paper is from the Basics stack from Paper Studio.

Next, I cut the mat with my Cricut from the Elegant Edges cartridge.  The same paper pack from Paper Studio had a piece of plain paper in the same color scheme as the gingham, so I used that for the shadow and plain white cardstock for the actual mat.  I cut the shoes from Wall Decor and More.  I used some burgandy Stickles to line the shadow of the shoe and filled the rest of the shoes in with Christmas red Stickles.  

To finish off the card, I stamped the saying "There's no place like home" with my Jessie's ABCs stamps from Lawn Fawn.

So...if you get a chance to make ANY crafts this week, link them up with us at Pause, Dream, Enjoy.  Anything goes!!!  This challenge will only be open for one week!

This will be my last challenge as a Design Team member with Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges.  I've very much enjoyed my time on the DT and getting to know the other fabulous crafters who I have worked with, and am so thankful for the opportunity to have worked with them all. They'll be continuing to have challenges under a different format, so I hope you continue to stop by and see all of the wonderful creations that they have for you!

Merci!

It's Friday yet again!  Time for another challenge at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges and another chance for you to play along with us!  

This week's challenge is:

Question: Do you hoard crafting stuff?

Theme: USE YOUR FORGOTTEN STASH ON YOUR PROJECT

I am not TOO bad at hoarding supplies.  That's mostly because I've only really been serious about crafting for just over a year, and I have a set budget that I keep myself to every month so that I don't go crazy with buying stuff.  Although, I think the people at my local Hobby Lobby are starting to recognize me, so maybe I'm fooling myself.  :)

The forgotton stash on this card is the "Merci" tag.  Back before I had my Cricut, in the days when my entire craft supply stash fit in one two shelf cupboard, I bought a couple of card making kits from the Target Dollar Spot.  The tag, and the patterned part of the tag behind it, are from one of those kits.  I had stuck them away in a die cuts drawer when I started making my own sentiments and doing more stamping, and completely forgotten about them.  

I used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder on the card back and added a strip of pink cardstock behind the tag to make it stand out.  Then I cut the Eiffel Tower from Wall Decor and More in pink and gray.  

What about you?  Do you have some forgotten stash that you could dust off to join us this week?  You can check out the blog at Pause, Dream, Enjoy Challenges to see what forgotten goodies the rest of the DT was able to find.

Sympathy Card

This is my first attempt at a sympathy card.  I wanted it to be kind of simple, because I didn't think it would be appropriate for it to be flashy.  I made the butterfly from Wall Decor and More and put it over an embossed paper that I had embossed with D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder.  I added some fabric ribbon from American Crafts for a little pop of color.

The inside has the sentiment With Sympathy from Calligraphy Collection.  I spent so much time and paper trying to find a size sentiment that wasn't too huge but also wouldn't rip when I took it off the mat.  It's still a little bigger than I wanted, but that's ok.  I may stick with more stamped sentiments on sympathy cards from here on out.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
My Craft Spot- Hope is Rising
Krafty Girls- Anything Goes

Fly Away

I've been liking Wall Decor and More more and more lately.  I decided to cut the airplane cut from Wall Decor and More at 3 inches, and I angled it up like it was taking off.  I used a piece of paper from the KI Memories Classic Prints stack.   

I stamped it with a brown stamp with a sentiment from Scripted Year by Pink by Design.  The yellow button at the bottom was a little finishing touch that I wanted to add.

I'm entering this in the following challenge:
Bitten by the bug 2- Fly Away
Die Cuttin Divas- Take Flight

Retro!

When I saw that Scrappy Moms was having a Retro Fun challenge, I was really excited.  I love nostalgia.  I quickly cycled through the possibilities from my childhood: maybe some neon?  an homage to Rainbow Brite?  After reading a recent blog post by Kayla Aimee I even briefly considered a Captain Planet theme.

However, with my 30th birthday rapidly approaching, I decided that to think of 80s culture as retro was a little too depressing for me at the moment, and thus decided to go back even further, beyond the scope of my life, into the past.  I went through my cartridges and found the perfect retro image on Wall Decor and More: a rotary phone.  Kids now don't even know what a rotary phone is, and how to use it, which makes me feel old.  I decided to go for a 70s feel, and the first colors that popped into mind were olive green and brown.

I had this great olive green patterned paper in my KI Memories Classics pack.  The flowers are light green, pink, off white, and two shades of brown.  Then I layered the off white paper with the brown ribbon on top of the patterned paper, to help give the phone some definition.  The phone itself has a little something extra- I added the brown behind the dial because I didn't like it being see-through.  I cut the corners with the Large corner rounder from EK Success to finish it off.  Pretty groovy, right?

I plan to enter this in the following challenge:
Scrappy Moms Stamps- Retro Fun

Fashion

This is a fairly simple card.  I wanted to make something fashionable, and for some reason I automatically went to black, white, and red.  I cut this dress form from Wall Decor and More at 5 inches, so there is just a little bit left above and below it.  I ran the white paper through a Quickcutz diamond embossing folder in my Cuttlebug.  It's kind of hard to see here on the photo, unfortunately.  Then I added black diamond bling on each corner.

I'm entering this in the following challenge:
Bitten by the Bug 2- Fashion

All the best

Wow, so Father's Day is my first holiday since beginning challenges, and it got a little overwhelming this week!  There are so many challenges about making a card for Father's Day!  To see the list of blogs I'm linking to for Father's Day challenges, look at the end of the post.  I think I did ok on this card, because my husband went way beyond his usual "oh, that's nice" comments when I showed him this one.  He asked questions about it and said a few times "I really like it." I might have even gotten a "wow."  ;) Cards for guys are hard, so it was feedback much appreciated.

I used Wall Decor and More for this card, because I wanted something that was masculine yet had enough flair that I wouldn't feel the need to bling it up too much.  I actually cut the layers three times instead of two- first I cut the main image with blue, then layered the shifted image (green) ON TOP of the main image instead of underneath it, then cut the main image again in white and only used the sails and flag to layer on top of the green.  The flag is colored in with a sharpie to give it a base of red underneath the burgandy stickles.  I tried about 100 different patterned papers with this card, and none looked as good as sticking it straight on the kraft color, so I added this green tag that I've had forever (I want to say it came with an old Paper Pizazz pack, maybe?) so there wasn't a big empty spot in the corner. 

I stamped the sentiment on the front with Joy's Life Everyday Occasions stamps.  I like these because you can be creative with the sentiment, and have it say whatever you want.  I can stamp "Happy Father's Day" on the inside with the matching Holiday Occasions set.  My husband really likes when there are sentiments on the outside and inside of cards, and clearly I like his approval on my masculine cards.   I even got to use my new brown ink (it's just the Hobby Lobby brand, but it's the small things that make life exciting).

Ok, here goes:
I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut- Father's day/Outdoors
Die Cuttin Divas- Father's day
Cardz TV- "So glad you're my dad" challenge
My Craft Spot- King of the grill/Father's day challenge
Celebrate the Occasion- Father's day
DL Art- A card for a man challenge

Wall art

Using the Wall Decor and More cartridge I got for Christmas (thanks, mom!) I made these pictures for our stairway.  DH had 4 8x10 frames from college and we had been meaning to put something in them. All cardstock is Bazzill. I cut the key, tree, owl, and compass. I wasn't able to get a good picture, sorry.