Cute as a Button

This is a two page 8"x8" layout. The background paper is from the Sweet Stack by DCWV. I wrapped one of the pages with a pink ribbon, then tied a bow and adhered it to the ribbon. I topped off the bow with a button from my stash. The title, "cute as a button" is from Kate's ABCs and cut at 2." I used another button from my stash for the center of the flower. I cut mats for two photos. The one on the left hand page is for a 3 1/2"x5" photo and the one on the right is for a 4"x6" photo. I cut both layers 1/8" larger than the previous layer and then wrapped them with some ribbon. The lamb and the bear are from the Sugar and Spice Lite cartridge. I cut the lamb at 2" and flocked it with some pink flocking and used some black pearls for eyes. The bear is cut at 3." I used a Peachy Keen stamp for her face and used some tropical tangerine Stickles on her bow. The pink outfit and safety pins are both from New Arrival. The outfit is cut at 3 1/2." I used a button for the center of the flower on it as well. The safety pins are cut at 2." I added some tropical tangerine Stickles to the heart on one of the safety pins and used glossy accents on the two pink ones. I used pop-dots to adhere all the images to the layout, except the saftey pins.

I made this layout for the following challenges:

• My Creative Time: make a layout, use any Lite cartridge


• Paper Cutz: buttons & bows


• Paper Sundaes: childhood memories


• Scrappy Moms Stamps: New Arrival


• ABC Challenge: S is for Sugar & Spice


• Sentimental Sundays: treasured memories

Flaunt It Fridays Challenge #19

It is Friday and that means that it is time for another challenge at Flaunt It Fridays! This week the challenge is to use Simply Charmed and flaunt the fish 2 cut. As soon as I saw that this was the cut to flaunt I knew I wanted to make a layout from a halibut fishing trip I took with my husband and a couple of our friends.

This is a double layout, each page is 12"x12." I used a patterned cardstock from DCWV, the Textures & Finishes Stack. The pictures are 4"x6" and matted using a Debbie Mumm patterned cardstock, cut at 4 1/2"x6 1/2." The title is cut from All Mixed Up, using the shadow feature, and cut at 1 1/4." The fishing rod and fish on the left page is cut at 4." The fish on the right hand page are cut at 4" for the smaller two and 5" for the larger one. I used my Gypsy to only cut out the fish and hide contour on the fishing pole part of the cut. I cut a large brown rectangle at 4"x8" and a cream one at 3 1/2"x7 1/2." This is where I will do my journaling, when I figure out exactly what I am going to say. :)

That is my project...now it is your turn! Head on over to Flaunt It Fridays and check out what the rest of the design team has come up with for this cute little fish and get inspired. Then create your own project and link it up. I can't wait to see how you flaunt it!! :)

Hello Kitty

This is a triangular tri-fold card. When folded it measures 4" square. When it is opened completely it measures 4"x12." I used a dark blue cardstock for the base of the card. The button patterned paper is Debbie Mumm and I've had it in my stash for a couple of years. I tied it with a ribbon which is also from my stash. The Hello Kitty image is from Hello Kitty Greetings, cut at 3 1/4." I put pop-dots only on half of the image so that the card would still open. I added a button to the bow and x-mas red Stickles to the button and bow and glossy accents to the rain jacket. I finished it off with a couple of buttons to the corners. I made this for the following challenges: 365 Cards: "Fancy Folds" - triangular tri-fold Picture Perfect Creations: riding hood red, not quite navy, so saffron My Sheri: buttons Paper Playtime: weather Cooking with Cricut: "Cash in Your Stash" - use stuff you've had for more than a year (buttons, ribbon, patterned paper) Whimsical Wednesday: "April Showers Bring May Flowers" - use an umbrella, rain boots, flowers or rain drops

Shaped Easter Card

Here is an egg shaped card for you today. The card base was made by welding two of the scalloped egg shapes from the Easter cartridge together. The eggs were 5 1/4." I then used Easter again to cut a plain egg shape from yellow cardstock at 5." I embossed it with the Spots & Dots embossing folder. I used a 3/16" hole punch to punch holes in the scallops of the teal egg. I cut two strips of cardstock, one from green at 3 5/8"x2" and one from black at 3 5/8"x2 1/4." I then used a Fiskars border punch to create the scalloped border. I embossed the green layer with the Polka Dots folder. The little boy is cut at 3" from A Child's Year. I cut him once regularly in teal cardstock and once in black cardstock using the shadow feature. I then adhered him to the card with pop-dots. For the inside of the card I cut two more plain eggs from the Easter cartridge, a green one at 5" and a yellow one at 4 3/4." My sentiment is from Hero Arts and I stamped it with moss green ink by ColorBox.

This card was made for the following challenges:

• BBTB2: Easter cartridge - eggs


• Cards for Men: Easter


• Celebrate the Occasion: Easter or Spring, use a punch


• Color Throwdown: teal, summer sun, celery


• For Fun: pick at least three colors: yellow, pink, blue, purple, green


• Papercraft Star: Easter inspired, at least one of the colors - light blue, yellow, pink, teal

You Rock!

This is a cute little pop-up card I made today. The card is 4 1/2"x6 1/4." I used a dark brown for the card base. I then cut a piece of cream cardstock at 4"x5 3/4" and rounded the corners. I embossed it with a Fiskars texture plate, called basketweave. I adhered it to the card base, then wrapped it with an orange ribbon. My mushroom is cut from Sugar & Spice at 2 3/4" and the hedgehog is from B is for Boy, cut at 1 3/4." I used pop-dots to adhere the hedgehog. I stamped the senitment in coffee bean ink by Tsukineko. On the inside I cut some more of the dark brown cardstock at 8"x5 3/4" and created my pop-up part. I also cut some cream cardstock at 4"x5 3/4" and adhered it to the inside of the card. The fox is cut from Birthday Bash at 2 1/2." I gave him a Peachy Keen face and adhered him to the pop-up part of the card. I stamped my sentiment, which is from Fiskars, in coffee bean ink by Tsukineko.

I made this for the following challenges:

• Cupcake Inspirations: woodland animals cupcakes


• 365 Cards: "Fancy Folds" - pop up cards


• Clean & Simple: sketch #135


• Die Cuttin' Divas: use two different cuts from two different cartridges


• Scrapbookaholic by Abby: use an animal and the color orange

Ice Cream Cone

This is a 4 1/4"x5 1/2" card, using white cardstock for the base. I cut some pink and yellow plaid cardstock at 4"x5 1/4" for the next layer. I wrapped it with some pink organdy ribbon and some yellow grosgrain ribbon. I then adhered it to the card base. The label is cut using a Nestabilities die and my Cuttlebug. I stamped the senitment onto the label. The ice cream cone is from Straight From the Nest and cut at 3 1/4." I embossed the cone using the Tiny Mosaics folder, added some glitter to the ice cream and finished it off with some glossy accents on the cherry. I pop-dotted the ice cream cone to the card. A sweet and simple one. Enjoy!! I made this card using the "Super Sketchy Sunday" sketch from 365 Cards and used the photo inspiration for theme and color from Birthday Sundaes

Song in My Heart

This card is 5 1/2"x4 1/4." I used black cardstock for the card base. I cut some white cardstock at 5 1/4"x4" and then emobossed it with the Allegro folder in my Cuttlebug. I ran some black ink over the embossed image for some added texture. I cut a strip of the glitzy black cardstock at 1 1/2"x4 1/4." I used George and Basic Shapes to cut a 2 1/2" circle from the same glitzy black cardstock. I cut two white hearts, both at 1 3/4," but I used the shadow feature on one of them. I ran the regular white heart through my Cuttlebug. I used the Allegro folder again, but this time I rubbed black ink on the folder so the ink would transfer to the heart and the embossed image would stay white. I used pop-dots to adhere the embossed heart to the shadow heart. I then tied the card with a black ribbon and added three white pearls. For the inside, I cut a piece of white cardstock at 5 1/4"x4" and stamped my sentiment in black ink. The stamp is from Fiskars and the black ink I used for everything was Staz-on ink by Tsukineko.

I made this card for the following challenges:

365 Cards: inspired by the sponser (Heartsong Designs)

Card Patterns: sketch #110

Card Creations & More Challenge #7

It is time for another "So Saturday Challenge" at Card Creations & More by C! This week is challenge #7 and the challenge is to "create anything spring related." For this challenge I decided to create a fun spring layout. I thought it would be a perfect way for someone to showcase pictures from a garden. The layout it 12"x12." All the patterned cardstock and paper is from the DCWV Flower Shower Stack. I used the green patterned cardstock for the base of the layout. I then cut the flower cardstock at 10"x10" and adhered it in the middle of the green cardstock. I cut mats for three photos. The larger one is matted for a 4"x6" picture, with the green mat cut at 4 1/4"x6 1/4" and the blue mat cut 1/8" larger than that. The smaller ones are matted for 3"x3" photos. The green mats are cut at 3 1/4"x3 1/4" and the blue mats are 1/8" larger. The large sunflower is cut at 10" from the Bloom cartridge. I added some embossing to the center of the flower with the Swiss Dots folder. The mushrooms are from Cindy Loo. The larger one is cut at 2 1/2" and the smaller one was cut at 2." I used some glossy accents on the mushroom caps. The gnome is from Freshly Picked and cut at 5." The title, "Grow a Garden" is from Give a Hoot and cut at 2 1/4." I used the shadow feature on all my cuts to make them stand out. I adhered everything right to the scrapbook page, except the gnome and smaller mushroom...those are adhered with pop-dots for some dimension.

Happy Easter Layout

This is a 12"x12" layout. I used a glittery pink cardstock for the base of the page. I used George and Basic Shapes to cut a white circle, using the fit to page feature, it was cut at 10 3/4." The flower border on the left side of the page is cut from Paper Lace. I used the cut to length feature, cutting it at 11" long. I used a pink cardstock for the base layer and white cardstock for the other layer. I then covered some of the flowers with icicle Stickles. I added blue gems to the center of the small flowers. The photo mats are cut to fit 3 1/2"x5" photos. The white layer is 3 3/4"x5 1/4" and the pink layer is 4"x5 1/2." I wrapped them each with a blue ribbon. The sentiment is cut at 3" from the Easter cartridge. The bunny is also cut from Easter, at 5" and I embossed his bow with the Swiss Dots folder. I used pop-dots to adhere the bunny to the page. The Easter basket and eggs are cut from Doodlecharms. The basket and pink and blue eggs are cut at 4." I embossed the basket with the Argyle folder and a Simply Charmed Companion folder. I also embossed the eggs, the blue one with Seeing Spots and the pink one with Spots and Dots. The white egg is cut from Doodlecharms, but I cut it using the real dial size feature and cut it at 2 1/2." I then cut a shimmery brown egg at 2 3/4" (real dial size). I adhered the pink and blue eggs to the basket and adhered it to the page, but just around the edges. That way you can pull out the white egg and use it as a small journaling spot.

I made this layout for the following challenges:

• Whimsical Wednesday: Easter or spring layout with a critter or bug


• For Fun Challenges: bunny


• Papercraft Star: sketch


• Paper Cutz: use an image of a bunny, lamb, chick or Easter eggs


• Cricut Cardz: create project for Easter

Celebrate with Cupcakes

This is a super simple card, but I really like how it turned out. It is 4 1/2"x6 1/4." I used white cardstock for the card base and rounded two of the corners with a corner rounder from EK Success. I then cut some shimmery dark blue cardstock at 4 1/4"x6," rounded two of the corners and layered it on the card base. I stamped the image, which is from TPC Studios, onto white cardstock. I colored only part of it in, using a light blue on the cupcake wrappers and a glittery blue for parts of the icing. I cut out the image, it actually had a candle in the middle cupcake, but I cut it off. I then cut a piece of shimmery white cardstock at 3"x4" and rounded two of its corners as well. I then adhered that to the card base and the cupcakes to the white rectangle. I drew in two blue lines using the same blue marker that I used to color in the cupcake wrappers. I used Stamped to cut the senitment at 2." I cut it in shimmery white carstock using the shadow feature and in the shimmery dark blue cardstock regularly. I then adhered the sentiment to the card so that it overlapped the white rectangle. Nice and easy! Enjoy!!

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Die Cuttin' Divas: sketch


• Alphabet Challenge: W for White with One Other Color


• 365 Cards: "Just a Touch" - color two parts of stamped image with two different colors

Flaunt It Fridays Challenge #18

It is Friday and that means it is time for another Flaunt It Fridays challenge!! This week the challenge is to flaunt the sheep cut from Country Life. For my project I decided to create a corner bookmark. I used a 4"x4" piece of black cardstock and marked it at 2" on three of the sides. I then scored it on the diagonal and folded it over. I adhered the flaps down and coverd it with a triangle of white cardstock that I embossed with D'vine Swirls. On the front I adhered a piece of grass patterned paper that is 1/8" smaller than the black piece. I then used another white embossed triangle at the top. The sheep is cut at 2 1/2." I flocked the white part of him with some white flocking powder and used a black pen to draw in the swirls. So that is how I flaunted the sheep from Country Life. Head on over to Flaunt It Fridays and check out how the rest of the design team flaunted it as well. Then, create your own project using this cute little sheep! I can't wait to see how you flaunt it!! :)

House Mouse Cards

Here are a couple of cards I made today using House Mouse stamps! The first one is a 5"x7" card. I used a shimmery blue cardstock for the base. I then cut a piece of white cardstock 1/4" smaller. I then embossed it in my Cuttlebug, using one of the Winter Frolic Companion folders and adhered it to the card base. The umbrella is from Pagoda, cut at 5." The sentiment is from Cindy Loo, cut at 3" using the fit to length feature. I just used the "get well" and tossed the "soon" part of the sentiment. I added glossy accents to the sentiment. My image was stamped on some white cardstock and colored with my Prismacolor colored pencils. I then trimmed it down and cut a mat from shimmery blue cardstock 1/8" larger. I adhered it to the card base using foam tape. I made this card for these challenges:

• Card Patterns: sketch #109


• Sentimental Sundays: "Let's Get Wet"


• Crafty Creations: rain showers


• Cooking with Cricut: April showers


• The Paper Variety: April showers photo inspiration

My other card for today is 4 1/2"x6 1/4" and made from kraft cardstock. I cut a piece of light blue cardstock 1/4" smaller than the card base and embossed it with the Cherry Blossoms folder. I cut another piece of kraft cardstock at 4 5/8"x3 3/8" and some orange cardstock at 4 3/8"x3 1/8." I layered them together to be the mat for my image. I stamped it on white cardsock and colored it with my Prismacolor pencils. I then trimmed it to 4 1/4"x3" and adhered it to the mats I created. I adhered that all down to the card base. I then wrapped it with some light blue ribbon and some orange ribbon. I then stamped my sentiement in pearlescent sky blue ink by Tsukineko onto some kraft cardstock. I cut it at 1 1/4"x5/8" and cut a mat for it from some orange cardstock, which is cut 1/8" larger. I used some pop-dots to adhere that in the middle of the ribbon.

I made this card for the following challenges:

• Tuesday Morning Sketches: sketch


• ABC Challenge Blog: R is for Ribbon


• Color Throwdown: orange, soft sky, kraft


• 365 Cards: use an image the represents pure contentment

Peacock

This is a 5"x7" card, made from white cardstock. I cut some mint green cardstock at 4 7/8"x6 7/8" and some shimmery white cardstock 1/4" smaller than that. I embossed the roses onto the white cardstock using one of the Once Upon a Princess Companion emobssing folders. I cut a strip of glittery blue cardstock at 2"x5" and a strip of mint green cardstock at 1 1/4"x5." I emobossed the green strip using the D'vine Swirls folder. I then used some eucalyptus Stickles on the swirls. The peacock image is a stamp from Hero Arts. I stamped it on some white cardstock and colored it with my Prismacolor pencils. I then added some orange pearls and orange peel Stickles to the image and stamped the sentiment. I cut it out in a 4" circle and matted it with a 4 1/4" glittery blue circle. I adhered that to the card and trimmed off the part of the circle that hung over the edge. I sprayed some Prima flowers with coral reef and sea glass Glimmer Mist and added some green pearl brads to the centers. I then adhered the blue flower to the card and pop-dotted the orange ones. I finished off the outside of the card with some pearls at the top. For the inside of the card, I cut some glittery blue cardstock at 4 7/8"x6 7/8," some orange cardstock at 4 5/8"x6 5/8," some mint green cardstock at 4 3/8"x6 3/8," and some white cardstock at 4 1/8"x6 1/8." I adhered them all down to the card base and stamped my sentiment and image onto the white layer. Both stamps are from Hero Arts. I then used my Prismacolor pencils to color in the peacock feather and finished it off with some orange peel Stickles. I made this card for the following challenges:

• 365 Cards: blue, orange and green color scheme


• Just Us Girls: sketch


• Celebrate the Occasion: anything birthday, must have a flower

Butterflies

This card is 5"x7." I used a dark pink cardstock for the card base. I then cut some shimmery white cardstock 1/8" smaller and mounted it to the card base. The patterned squares are a cardstock sheet from the Flower Shower Stack by DCWV. I cut out six of them to create a rectangle of 4"x6." Three of the sqares had flowers in the middle, the other three were just patterned. I cut out three butterflies from Serenade, all at 1 3/4." I then adhered them to the middle of the patterned sqares. I cut some glittery green cardstock 1/8" larger than the patterned rectangle and adhered that all down to the card base. The sentiment is cut from Beyond Birthdays at 1." I adhered it to the bottom of the card base and covered it in mystic green Stickles to finish it off. This card was made for the following challenges:

• 365 Cards: "Up in the Air" - incorporate 3 things you might find up in the air on your card


• BBTB2: Mother's Day 2010 cartridge, specifically one of the sayings (I don't own this cartrigde so I used Beyond Birthdays)


• Clean & Simple: sketch #134


• My Sheri Crafts: "April Showers" - I couldn't help thinking of "May flowers" and springtime with this theme, so that's what I went with :)

Pink Hat

The card base was the only cardstock or paper that wasn't a scrap on this card, everything else was cut using scraps I had in my stash. I used white cardstock to create the card base, which is 4 1/2"x6 1/4." I then cut some black cardstock 1/4" smaller and embossed it with the Polka Dots embossing folder. I cut a 6" half circle from a pink patterned paper and adhered it to the card base. The hat is cut at 2" from Forever Young. I also cut some white glitter cardstock using the shadow feature. I then attached a K&Company flower to the hat, covering the flower that was on the die cut. I cut it a mat from black cardstock at 4 5/8"x2 1/4." I then doddled around the edges with a white gel pen. I cut another mat from the white glitter cardstock at 4 7/8"x2 1/2." I then stamped my sentiment and heat embossed it with some glittery pink embossing powder. I adhered that all down to the card base and added some flowers. The white flowers are Prima and I sprayed them with some sparkle Shimmer Mist. The pink bling flower was from my stash as was the bling I used in the center of the larger flower.

I made this card for the following challenges:

• 365 Cards: "Super Sketchy Sunday" - sketch


• Fantabulous Cricut: "April Showers" - use an umbrella or hat


• Picture Perfect Creations: basic black, melon mambo, blushing bride, whisper white


• Crafty Hos: "Scrappy Birthday" - use scraps to create a girly birthday card


• Paper Sundaes: spring blossoms


• Birthday Sundaes: anything goes birthday

Happy Easter Chickies!

Here is a fun Easter card for you all! This one is 4 1/2"x6 1/4." I used a blue metallic cardstock for the card base, then cut some striped cardstock 1/8" smaller and adhered it to the card base. I cut some dark purple cardstock at 5 7/8"x2 3/4" and some shimmery white cardstock at 5 3/4"x2 5/8." I embossed the white cardstock with the Polka Dots folder. All the chicks are cut from Simply Charmed at 2 1/4." I flocked each chick with yellow flocking powder and used some Blueberry Slush glitter from Martha Stewart. I added some black pearls for their eyes and finished it off by tying a yellow ribbon around the card.

For the inside of the card I cut some light blue glitter cardstock at 6 1/8"x4 3/8" and some purple cardstock at 6"x4 1/4." I then cut some white cardstock 5 3/4"x4." I then used a stamp from Inkadinkado for the sentiment. I used embossing ink and some purple embossing powder. I heat set it and over heated part of it to give it a varigated look. I then used Simply Charmed again to cut out just the cracked egg, cut at 1 1/2."

I made this for the Jitterbuggin' "Spring Fling" contest. The rules are to follow the sketch, make an Easter card and use your Cricut. There will be voting to see who is the winner of this contest, so please vote for my card if you like it. Voting runs from April 16-April 19. :) I also made this card for the Paper Cutz Challenge, which is to make an Easter card. Finally, I used the cupcake photo at Cupcake Inspirations as a color inspiration, for some of the colors, and because I really liked the little chick on the cupcake in the lower left corner. Enjoy!!

Flaunt It Fridays Challenge #17

It is time for another Flaunt It Fridays challenge! This week is challenge #17 and we are asking you to flaunt the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge. Specifically we are flaunting the "disguise bird." When I saw this little guy my first thought was that he was perfect for a surprise party invitation. I decided to make a criss-cross card. I used a light blue cardstock for the criss-cross part of the card. I then cut a couple of triangles 1/4" smaller than the flaps, from a patterned paper. The little bird is cut at 3," using both regular and shadow features. I flocked the main part of his body with navy colored flocking. I added crackle accents to his wings and glossy accents to his sunglasses and I used a grey pen on his mustache. The "shhh..." sentiment is from Smiley Cards and I added the three dots using George and Basic Shapes and welding it all together on my Gypsy. I also used my Gypsy to weld the "it's a surprise" sentiment, which is from Mickey Font. Both the sentiments are cut at 1." The inner card is cut at 5 1/4"x3 3/4." I used a shimmery blue cardstock for the outer layer and white cardstock for the inner layer, which is 1/4" smaller than the blue. I punched a hole in the top and added a polka dotted ribbon. I placed a brad through the hole as well. I finished it all off with some doodling on the sentiments. There is my project, I hope you all like it! I also hope you check out all the other projects that the rest of the design has come up with! Now head on over to Flaunt It Fridays, check out all the fun projects, get inspired and create your own project! I can't wait to see how you flaunt this fun little disguised bird! :)