Happy Birthday!

You can never have enough birthday cards, right?  With fall comes the end of our family's season of no-birthdays.  Winter and Spring are full of birthdays almost every week.  So having a stockpile is going to be very helpful for me.  For my stockpile cards, I tend to go pretty plain, because I don't know exactly who they're going to be for.

This A2 card has some cupcake patterned paper along the bottom.  I believe it's from a Paper Studio stack. Then I cut the cat jumping out of the cake from Birthday Bash at 5 inches.  I stamped the sentiment from My Craft Spot's Birthday Wishes stamp set.  Now I have a cute card to pull out when I have one of those "so-and-so's birthday is TOMORROW" moments...especially if we're in the process of moving whenever that may be.

I plan to enter this card for the Cricut Chirp Challenge Blog's Birthday Bash challenge.

Hope squirrel

I think I've mentioned before that one of the things I love about the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge is that they have little hands that can be holding anything.  This cute little squirrel is supposed to be holding a number 1.  Instead, I cut a pink ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and have the squirrel holding that.

I put my squirrel on some patterned paper I had in my scraps.  Then I added some Fruit Punch Stickles to her tail for a little extra sparkle. I stamped the word "Hope" in the bottom corner with My Creative Time's "Inspiring Words" stamp set and then put three little gems underneath that match the color of the squirrel's fur.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Die Cuttin' Divas- Shimmer, Glimmer, Gloss
Cardz TV- Let's hear it for the girls

Creepy Crawler

Will this be my last Halloween card of the year?  Every time I start to feel Halloweened out, I get one more good idea...so who knows.  The background of this card is cut from Elegant Edges.  I seriously need to start pulling that cartridge out more often.

I cut this little bug from Create a Critter 2 at 4.75 inches.  He's really easy to put together because he's only three layers!  Then I stamped the sentiment up the side with my brand-spanking new Lawn Fawn stamp set- Harold's ABCs! 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Cut it Up Challenges- Eek! Boo! Ahh!
Cardz TV- Fall-oween
My Crafting Channel- The g'houl times
Exploring Cricut- Happy Halloween
My Craft Spot- Little Monsters

Get Well Wishes

Today I have a "Get Well" card to share.  It's just a regular A2 card, with patterned paper from Recollections.  I put a green ribbon around the top to compliment the green in the pattern.  The bandage was cut at 2.5 inches from B is for Boy.  I popped it up on foam adhesive, and then added the felt star (which I can't remember where I got it from) on another foam square.  

The sentiment on the bottom is from my new "Alphadot" set from Paper Smooches.  It was so fun to stamp with!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Little Scrap Pieces- Use Blue
DL.Art- Sympathy or Get Well Card

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.

Boo

I am on such an embossing folders kick lately! I just got this one in the mail today- it's the Spiderweb folder by Darice.  I had to use my flash on my camera to get a picture where you could see it.  It's a perfect addition to my newest addiction.  :)

Because I wanted to showcase my new embossing folder, I cut the card in black at 4.25 x 5.5 inches.  Then I cut a piece of bright orange paper at 4 x 5.25 inches.  The black paper that I embossed is cut at 3.75 x 5 inches.  I ran a piece of green ribbon across the bottom as an accent

The word "boo" and the dog are cut from Paper Pups at 2.5 inches.  I used the shadow feature to cut the purple so that the white outline would stand out against the word.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Paper Playtime- Welcome to BooVille
My Craft Spot- Emboss it!
More than Favors- Halloween
My Crafting Channel- The gh'oul times

Batty for You

I'm continuing my digi stamp exploration.  These are from Alley Way Stamps.  I used some patterned paper from my stash as the background.  I printed the bat and the sentiment on vellum, then cut them out.  The bat was colored with colored pencils and then glued onto white paper so that you couldn't see the patterned paper through it.  I used some stickles to outline the bat's wings.  Oddly, the stickles color that best matched the purple colored pencil was actually called Pink.  I love that little bit of sparkle.  He's popped up with adhesive squares for a little extra dimension.  

The sentiment on vellum was glued onto a strip of purple paper.  I used some orange washi tape to cover up the spot where you could see the adhesive through the vellum.  :)

I'm entering this into Alley Way Stamps' Be Inspired Challenge and My Crafting Channel- The gh'oul times.