Mother's Day Card

Happy Mother's Day!  I made this card for my Mom.  The card base and scallop boarder are from Just Because Cards.  I welded the scallop with a rectangle to make the background.  The hearts were cut from Create A Critter and the font is Songbird. 

Recipe Challenge

This was the last challenge from National Scrapbooking Day that I was able to finish before the deadline.  (I had a project planned for each challenge but the time got away from me!)  This challenge required that we use the following recipe:

Use 3 Cricut Image cuts
3 Patterned Papers
A butterfly, bird or bug
Stitching
The color Yellow

I cut out grass from Gypsy Wanderings and the Easter cartridges.  The bee is from Just Because Cards (I cut the wings out in vellum and Cuttlebugged the top layer with my trusty Swiss Dots folder.)  I used a punch for the sun and I hand stitched the bee's trail.  I ended up using four different patterned papers which is double my record, so this was a stretch for me.  This card is for my aunt's birthday who refers to herself as the "Queen Bee."  Naturally I give her a bee card for her birthday every year.  :-)  I also used stickles on the bee's stripes and outlined her with a yellow glitter pen.

Something Old, Something New Challenge

This challenge required us to use an older Cricut cartridge and a newer Cricut cartridge.  I used Sport's Mania for the baseball player.  I cut him out in several colors so he would resemble a San Francisco Giants player.  (This card is for my uncle's birthday.)  The card base was cut for Just Because Cards and the background image is the Card layer from Letter Envy.  I thought that it looked like home plate.  :-)

Cricut Craft Room Challenge for the Circle Blog

This layout was made with the Cricut Craft Room and the Cricut Craft Room basics.  The challenge was to use 3 image cuts using the Craft Room.

Here is the banner that I made for my brother's graduation from law school.  The banner is from Birthday Bash (cut at 6.1 inches.)  The font is from Varsity (cut at 2.6 inches.)  The blue background is from Storybook (cut at 4.14 inches.)  This is the larger version background that I cut too small and used in the Mess on my Desk challenge.  I embossed it with my new star Cuttlebug folder and then inked it.  The hat and diploma are from Happy Graduation (cut at 2.8 and 1.7 inches.)  The stars are from Hannah Montana (cut at 2.7 inches.)  I'm happy how this turned out, but it is a little too masculine.  (Good for my brother though!)  My sister graduates next month and requested that her banner be "prettified."  I look forward to over-doing it with glitter and all things bright and shinny!  :-)

I made this card for my brother who graduated from Law School this afternoon.  I'm very proud of him!  The letters are from Varsity and the hat is from Happy Graduation. 

Create

I wanted to include an updated picture of my "Create" frame from the Letter Envy 2 hour challenge.  It took all night for the glossy accents to dry!  I'm happy how it turned out and will find a way to display it near my work space.  I like how the stickles turned out with the glossy accents over it.  It preserves the "wet" look of the glitter.

Cricut Circle Blog: The Mess on Your Desk Game

So this game required that you use only the materials on your desk and/or in your wastebasket to create a tag or a card.  We also needed to use at least one Cricut cut that we previously discarded.  Unfortunately I had just cleaned up all of the scrap paper from the last challenge but luckily I was finishing up a card for my brother's graduation and left this graduation paper on my desk.  The  banner at the top of the tag is part of the border cut from the scavenger hunt.  I just added some doodling with my white gel pen to add some detail.  The star and the flourish (stickled now) are also from scavenger hunt.  Yesterday I was working on a graduation banner for my brother and I cut the blue background paper too small.  I have a stack of these (already embossed and inked) on my desk.  I recut them at a larger size for the banner and kept these smaller ones around simply because I hadn't had time to put them in my "unused Cricut cuts" box.  Luckily I did because this tag was screaming for something else and I realized I had them tucked away on the corner of my desk.  The ribbon is also from the card that I made this morning.  I plan to use this tag on a scrapbook page of the graduation.

Cricut Circle 2 Hour Challenge: Silly Scavengar Hunt

This was a fun game.  We have two hours to cut out a list of images from our Cricut cartridges.  The cuts need to be at least two inches.  We only need to cut out the base image, but I couldn't resist adding some layers on a couple of the images.  I would have done more, but I'm a slow crafter and am running out of time!  Here is the list of images that we needed to cut and what cartridge I used:  heart (Create a Critter), Furry Animal (CAC), Cloud (CAC), Star (Cricut Classic Font), Insect (CAC), Tree (CAC), Phrase (Happy Birthday from CAC), Flower (CAC), Border Piece (Elegant Edges), Frame (EE), Bird (CAC), House (I used the dog house from CAC), Winter Icon (I used the snowflake from It's Cold Outside), Leaf (CAC), Flourish (Home Decor), Sweet Treat (I used the Ice cream cone from Everyday Paper Dolls), Tag (Tags, Bags, Boxes and More), Bag or Box (TBBM), Transportation image (I used the cute train from CAC), and finally the first letter of my first name (The "A" from Alphalicious.)

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Letter Envy Circle Challenge

I made this for the Circle Blog's 2 hour challenge.  Everything was made using the Letter Envy Cartridge.  The Crest was cut at 4.5 inches (it is found with the letter "S" in the handbook.)  The "C" was cut at 2.6 inches and "reate" was cut at 1.8 inches.  I welded the shadow together with my gypsy and added stitching, stickles and glossy accents (which is still drying!)  I also used the cuttlebug folder "Dots." 

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