Cut It Up - Non Traditional Christmas Card

Happy Friday!!!

Hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving

and are recovering from the food overload :)

And if you are like me and avoid Black Friday

at all costs, then it would be the perfect time

to join in our challenge over at Cut It Up!

Challenge #59

Non-traditional Christmas cards.

*****  Please pay careful attention to the requirements for this challenge. *****
1.  Create a Christmas card.
2.  The card must NOT be SQUARE OR RECTANGLE.
3.  NO red or green.

(And don't forget to include a die cut!)

This challenge runs from November 28, 2014 until December 10, 2014 (noon EST)

This challenge is sponsored by:

As Cute as a Button

Prize: $20 Coupon Code!

Here is my project:

I used Art Philosophy for this shape card

and the mats.  The star is also from this cartridge.

I used Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

for the black mat.

I wrote Silent Night with a Black Gel Pen.

This was a bit tricky coming up with

a card without using Red or Green.

I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Decorate To Celebrate - Anything Goes!

Happy Wednesday!

Welcome to another Anything Goes Challenge

over at Decorate To Celebrate!

For my project today

I created Thanksgiving Home Decor

from Wood Letters.

I bought these letters at a local crafty wood cut out store

and then found some fun fall papers to decorate them with.

I painted the wood with some brown acrylic paint,

traced the letters on the paper and hand cut them out.

Then I glued them on with some Mod Podge.

I sanded the paper around the wood to get clean edges.

The "a" was cut out of brown vinyl using the Jasmine Cartridge.

I just love how it turned out.

I hope you will join us over at Decorate To Celebrate!

And I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Thanks for checkin' in!

Give Thanks - BBTB2 and FCCB Weekly Challenges

Hey All!

Happy Monday!

Today over at BBTB2 and FCCB we have challenges

all about Giving Thanks!

Here is my project:

I used Celebrate with Flourish

to create this card.

The papers are all from Colorbok (Wal-Mart)

and the stamp is from a little $1 set I picked up

at JoAnn's.

I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanks for checkin' in!

BBTB2 - Anything Goes!

Happy Monday!

Today over at BBTB2 we have a new challenge starting -

Anything Goes!

Create any project featuring any Cricut die cut.

Here is my project:

So I wanted to play around a little with the

Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More 2 cartridge because

I finally ordered the Scoring Blade.

Now, I don't know about some of the boxes on this cart -

they seem ridiculously difficult and some don't make any sense,

but I really like a lot of the ones they have.

And I really LOVE the tags on this cart.

I haven't played around with the phrases

because I don't have the pens yet,

so that is next on my list to get.

Anyway, this is one of the treat bags

as well as one of the tags on the cart.

The scoring blade really does make a difference

when putting these together,

but I have found that I need to use Multi-Cut 4

to get the score lines to be the most beneficial

in folding the boxes up.

I used a Fiskars stamp for the sentiment

and some twine from American Crafts.

The paper is from DCWV Pocket Full of Posies.

I like the size of this treat bag

and can't wait to give it out :)

I hope you will join us for our Anything Goes

challenge over at BBTB2 this week!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Cut It Up - Let's Talk Turkey!

Happy Friday!

Seriously time FLIES!!!

I can't believe Thanksgiving is less than 2 weeks away now!

In honor of this holiday and the

bird we love to eat

we want to see your projects featuring a

TURKEY!

over at Cut It Up!

Our Sponsor:

Craftin' Desert Divas

One Stamp Set

Personally, I am all about the sides on Thanksgiving,

not necessarily the bird :)

But here is my project:

I used the turkey from the Animal Kingdom cartridge.

All my papers were in my scrap stash,

so they are from different packs.

My sentiment is from CardzTV "Going in Circles"

I did follow the sketch from Mojo Monday this week.

I hope that you will join us for our challenge

this week over at Cut It Up!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Decorate To Celebrate - Pumpkin Home Decor

Happy Wednesday!

Welcome to another Anything Goes challenge

over at 

Decorate To Celebrate!

I have a fun, easy, and inexpensive decor project

to show you today...

If any of you have scraps of 2x4 hanging around,

this is a perfect way to get rid of it!

Just cut them down to the sizes you want

and stack them to create a pumpkin.

I painted the blocks with some orange acrylic paint,

found some fun orange pattern paper and used

Mod Podge to glue them on to the blocks.

I did use some wood glue to adhere all the blocks

together.

The stem is a 2x2 scrap piece of wood

that I painted green.

The rafia bow was adhered with a glue gun.

SO EASY!!! 

So I hope that you will join us over at

Decorate To Celebrate

and show off a project or two!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

FCCB & BBTB2 - Thankful

Happy Monday!!!

Today over at BBTB2 and FCCB

we have some fabulous challenges starting!

One is a sketch, the other is to use a pumpkin....

So over at BBTB2 our Sweet Caroline (dun dun dun)

sorry a little Neil Diamond is on the brain :)

Yes, the most talented Caroline has issued us

all the challenge to use a pumpkin on our projects

AND

FCCB

Challenge #236 Sketch Challenge

This Weeks Sponsor

~This Weeks Challenge~

Sketch Challenge

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.

Now for my project after

combining the two :)

I have never used the pumpkin from Freshly Picked,

so I wanted to give it a try.

I really love the leaf/stem on this cut.

I inked around all the edges with

various colors of ColorBox Chalk Ink.

My paper is from My Mind's Eye and

the pearls are from Recollections.

The sentiment is from CardzTV "Many Thanks" stamp set -

LOVE LOVE LOVE this set!!!

And I stamped it with Frost White Colorbox Pigment Ink

I am also going to enter this in over at

Die Cuttin' Divas

Little Scrap Pieces

CardzTV

I hope that you will join us over at BBTB2 and FCCB this week!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

BBTB2 - Football Season!!!

Happy Monday!!!

I hope you all have recovered from the weekend!

Today over at BBTB2 we have a super fun

challenge all about FOOTBALL!!!

Our lovely Brenda has chosen this theme and

I couldn't be happier!

I LOVE FOOTBALL!!!

So I decided to create a Good Luck card

with a Broncos theme (LOVE the Broncos!)

I used Create A Friend for my little football player.

I used pieces of paper from my scrap stash

and the "Good Luck" sentiment comes from

a TPC stamp set.

The enamel dots are from Recollections.

I hope you will join us this week over at BBTB2!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!