Feeling a little....green!

 

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #202 Use the Color Green

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Be Wild and Free stamp set

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

I know, you were expecting St. Patrick's Day...sorry. I decided to use my Mark's Finest stamps instead.

I used the Family set to create my card. It's bigger than I usually make, 5 x 7. It's weird how making something a different size can throw off your crafty balance. It was a bit of a challenge for me.

The cuts are from the Art Deco Cricut cartridge. I find that this stamp set and cartridge pair really well. The patterned paper is from K and Company and the solid is Recollections. I stamped the image in several different colors and types of ink before I finally decided on Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress ink. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Have a great St. Patrick's Day and wonderful week! We start spring break at the end of the week and I'm really looking forward to it!!!

Pick a Holiday

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #200: Pick a Holiday

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$10.00 Gift Certificate

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

This is my project for the week. I gave it to a friend at work for her birthday. I think she liked it as there was a reference to a certain type of kitty (see the belly) on the inside sentiment. 

I used the Create a Critter cartridge and cut the cat at 3 1/4". The belly is flocked to create the "soft" part of the card. It's on an Action Wobble to add a little more fun! I tried to add a little video clip but it won't upload from my camera, bummer.

Supplies:

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge

Recollections card stock

DCWV patterned paper

Action Wobble

Stardust glitter pen

Recollections bling and flock

Pay attention to yourself!! (not craft related)

We all get so busy doing things for others, keeping up with work, thinking "if I don't do it who will", that we forget to pay attention to the things our body is telling us. Do yourself, your family and your friends a favor and STOP IT!!

A good friend of mine had a brain aneurysm burst on Friday. Thank God she was on the operating table when it happened. She is struggling, but is still fighting!! Please pray if you are so inclined.

The pay attention part is from some information we have all learned over the last few days. She had been having headaches for a few days before the incident that sent her to the hospital. Here are some statistics from The Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

Pay attention and go get checked if you have:

• Localized Headache
• Dilated pupils
• Blurred or double vision
• Pain above and behind eye
• Weakness and numbness
• Difficulty speaking

Get help immediately if you have any of these symptoms:

• Sudden severe headache, the worst headache of your life
• Loss of consciousness
• Nausea/Vomiting
• Stiff Neck
• Sudden blurred or double vision
• Sudden pain above/behind the eye or difficulty seeing
• Sudden change in mental status/awareness
• Sudden trouble walking or dizziness
• Sudden weakness and numbness
• Sensitivity to light (photophobia)
• Seizure
• Drooping eyelid

• Brain aneurysms are most prevalent in people ages 35 - 60, but can occur in children as well. The median age when aneurysmal hemorrhagic stroke occurs is 50 years old and there are typically no warning signs. Most aneurysms develop after the age of 40.
• Women, more than men, suffer from brain aneurysms at a ratio of 3:2.

A little sketchy...

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #198 Sketch Challenge

Sketch is from Card Positioning Systems 

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

I used the Art Deco Cricut cartridge for my card today. The image I used seemed to call for something of that era. The paper is from Graphic 45 and I used it to pull the rest of the colors. The border in the background is "border #2" from the cartridge. I cut it at 1 1/4" and then trimmed the ends a bit because it was still a little long. (I think sometimes I forget I can change the images after they are cut.)

The image is from the Family set from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps. It can be found here. I love the vintage images on this set. I am anxious to make some more cards with it!

I hope you come play along with our challenge this week. Have a great day!

Red, white and...PINK!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #196 Seeing Red
Use red (pink or white)

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 Winner will receive the Got Candy stamp set.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. I hope that you will all visit FCCB and join in this week's challenge.

For my project this week I used CCR. Love Struck 2010 was the "cut it free for a week" cartridge and I took advantage of that and made a couple of cuts specifically for this week's project. I'm not a Valentine's Day fan so I would probably never buy this cartridge. It was nice to have access to it when I needed to use it!

The cut from Love Struck is the border on the left. I used Glossy Accents on the red to make it stand out a bit more. (The red layer on the card and the banner flags is the same paper without it.) I embossed the background of the stamped image with white embossing powder and glossy accents on the heart. That piece is on foam tape. There is a piece of ribbon behind the border to help it stand out . It's easier to see in person than in the picture.

Materials:

Recollections cardstock

Love Struck 2010 Cricut cartridge and CCR

Sampler 2 Love stamps/dies - Stamps of Life

Martha Stewart Embossing powder

Darice embossing folder

Ranger Perfect Medium

Glossy Accents

ATG gun

Foam tape

Challenge #194

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #194 Use a Snowman

Create a Project that uses a snowman!

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Winner will receive the Conversation Candies stamp set

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

Be sure to visit the FCCB blog to view the other DT members' projects and to join in the challenge.

Here is my project for this week:

It's been Florida cold (it actually froze a couple of nights) the last week or so which makes it so much easier to think about snowmen!

I used the wonderful Doodlecharms cartridge for the snow globe and cut it at 3 1/2".  The snowman is from Stretch Your Imagination and was cut at 2" (some of those pieces are itty-bitty!). The blue paper is the super glittery stuff from DCWV. The shine just doesn't show well in pictures. I put some Glossy Accents on the base of the snow globe to give it some dimension. There is some silver glitter pen on some of the dots in the background to mimic snow.

We have the day off school today to celebrate Martin Luther King day, I plan on enjoying it! I hope everyone has a great week!

Welcome!

Happy Monday. It's time for another Fantabulous Cricut challenge.

Challenge #192 Use a Sentiment

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Scrappy Mom's Stamps

  Winner will select a stamp set of their choice.

~New Design Team Announcement~

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and that Santa left you all some crafty love in your stockings! We are very excited to announce our new design team members.  To celebrate we are having a blog crawl, which is FCCB's version of a blog hop.

If you get  lost along the way, the lineup is listed below. Once you've done the crawl, make a project using a sentiment and add it below.

Amy HS The Stamping Tree

Emily Mollie's Blog 

Faith Scrapbooker PhD 

Heather Scrapping Runner Creations

Jackie Luv 2 Scrapp

Lynn My Cards N Stuff

Michelle Just a Nutter Papercrafter

Missy Quick Chick Designs 

Nikki Crafty Calamities 

Rebecca Crafting Misfit 

Elizabeth Unik by Yes

Cindy Creating with the Heart 

Pam Stamper at Heart 

Karla Creative Love Affair 

LB Cool Beans by LB

Jilliene Jilliene Designs

Joneita Create with Joneita

Kim Kim's Kreations

Pam O Reflections of my Art and Soul

Here is my project:

I used the Suburbia cartridge for my lady and the sentiment. The silhouette is cut at 3 1/4" and the sentiment was cut at 3/4".  I'm trying to break out of my comfort zone this year and use colors and things that I wouldn't normally pick. The background behind the silhouette is a green color that is not one of my favorites, but it went quite nicely with the purple. After I embossed that piece, I decided to use the debossed side for a more retro look. I cut 2 strips of the border with a MS punch and layered and offset them. The pearls are K & Co. 

I will keep this short because I know there are many great stops on this crawl so go and enjoy! Your next stop is Michelle Just a Nutter Papercrafter.  If you get lost along the way you can always go to Fantabulous Cricut and find the main crawl list (like the one above). Enjoy and welcome to the new DT members.