Snow

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge is to do a project with snow. I have started making tags for some family members that I can put a pocket on for a gift card. Shipping can get ridiculous, especially since it's going 2000 miles.

The both tags were cut from Plantin Schoolbook, the white at 6 1/2" and the blue at 6". The bear is from Joys of the Season as is the large snowflake. The tree is a leftover cut from a different project. There is "snow" glitter on a few of the embossed snowflakes and the ground beneath the bear. The silver flakes are made from DCWV Glitzy glitter paper. It's super sparkly, but I can never get my camera to get a good shot. The embossing on the blue was done with a Cuttlebug folder.

Christmas Tag

The challenge the week at BBTB2 was to make a gift bag or tag. I obviously chose the tag;-) I think it's going to my brother-in-law for Christmas. The plan is to make a pocket on the back to hold a gift card. I know I have a cartridge that has a pocket cut, but I couldn't find it and my computer was not near my craft room. I'll check My Cut Search when I'm done posting so I can finish the little guy.

 I used Plantin Schoolbook for the tag (love that tag), and cut it at 6 1/2". The snowman was from Best Images of 2010 and he was cut at 3 1/2" The snowman was cut from stash paper scraps, which I am always glad to be able to put to use. The background paper is from an older DCWV holiday stack. The tag was embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. It really added some dimension to the tag, it was boring flat. The green border is from a Martha Stewart punch and the top trim is from Scrapbuck and the bottom from Michaels. Scrapbuck has some great stuff and I can shop without killing my budget, love that! I thought about putting the snowman on an Action Wobble but decided it might not hold up in the mail so went with foam tape instead.

I hope everyone is enjoying getting ready for the holidays.

Wild Side

The challenge this week at Wobble Wednesday's is to use an animal and show your wild side. This hedgehog isn't very wild, but I love it and wanted to make it a little more masculine this time (I've used it before in brighter colors). The card is A2 size and the cut is from the 4 Legged Friends cricut cartridge cut at 2 1/2". The patterned paper is from DCWV. The solid is mostly stash except for the shimmery brown, it's Recollections. The faint gears on the kraft paper is stamped with the Stampers Best Gears background stamp. I used Versamark ink and heat set it just to give it a watermark effect. It's not a perfect image, which is good as I wanted it to look more worn. There's faux stitching between the 2 layers of paper. The sentiment stamp is from the K Andrew Designs "Guy Talk" stamp set. There is a bead for the eye instead of the little paper piece that was supposed to be there. And, of course, it's on an Action Wobble....I'm attempting to upload a video but am not having much luck:(. Ok, it's there but not great. You get the idea....

Not a card!

     This is an unusual post for me.  First of all, it's not a card.  Second, I'm entering it into more than one challenge, I don't usually manage to get that accomplished.  This is for the Simply Sunday challenge at Getting Cricky where the challenge was to make something for summer.  It's also going to the Wobble Wednesday challenge (not a card) and the Fantabulous Cricut challenge (bug). 
    I made this for a friend who graciously has our annual end of the year party at her house every year.  We sit on her patio and discuss the school year and laugh at the silly stories we all have.  It's a good time!  

Action Wobble from the side

    The flower pot is a kids pot from Walmart that has a removable liner. I traced it in the purple paper and punched some pink circles, stamped them, glued them and then put it all back together.  The flowers are all cut at 3" from the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge.  The bee is cut at 3" from the Pooh and Friends cartridge and it's on an action wobble!  It's cute when it bounces around.  The stamps are from the K Andrew Designs Summertime Splash stamp set.  There are two so she can use one or both. The twine is also from Kristal, she just started carrying it, it's nice and thick and only 5 dollars for a roll! The circles on the pot were cut from one of Emma's (My Creative Time) dies.  The circle on the top was punched with a Fiskars punch.  The paper is DCWV and from one of the color packs from JoAnn's.  I don't have the package for the stamps on the pot and I don't remember where they're from.

Sew Fabulous at Getting Cricky

This card is for the Simply Sunday: Sew Fabulous challenge at Getting Cricky with K Andrew. The picture doesn't do the paper justice. It is all DCWV from 3 different stacks. The background is from the Black Current stack, the red is from the Performance mat stack (there's music behind the flowers), and the dress form is from the La Creme mat stack. The black on the bottom of the dress form is flocked and you really can't tell. I cut the dress form out last week from the Forever Young cartridge and don't remember exactly how big it is, I think 3 1/2". I used the labels 4 Nestability to cut the background. The corners are rounded (1/4" corner chomper) and the back layers are all adhered with ATG tape. The ribbon is from my stash and the bling (from Ebay) was attached with my I-rock. I didn't put a sentiment on it because I couldn't decided what kind of card it needed to be. I will add it when I decided where it's going.

National Scrapbook Day - MPS cupcak challenge

This card is for the cupcake challenge at My Pink Stamper. It was the first one of the day. I got started late, consequently I'm behind and have decided to pick a few to do and be happy with what I finish.

This card is 4" x 5 1/2". The papers are predominantly DCWV. I think the cupcake is from Simply Charmed. It was cut at 4 1/4". The sentiment was stamped with MS pink ink and cut out with the labels 4 Nestabilities. The cupcake is on an action wobble which adds a little extra fun to the card. I didn't put anything else on the background because there was so much going on with the paper.