Christmas in July

There is a challenge over at Whimsical Designs to create a card or project for Christmas.  It's never too early, right? Well, maybe.  Anyway, I used this opportunity to try out my new We R Memory Keepers SewEasy.  It is going to take me a bit to master, but I think the stitching turned out okay on this card.  It also takes a while to sew, the sewing machine is much faster, but I do like the look of this stitching a little bit better.  Just need to keep practicing.  I was also able to use my new cartridge (new to me) Christmas Cheer, an oldie, but I have always wanted it and since it was retired I haven't been able to find it.  That is until I found a huge blowout of used cartridges at a local craft warehouse and nabbed it for $20.  So this sleigh is cut from that cart and I popped it up with some foam tape.  I cut the tag from Elegant Edges and inked around the edges with Color Box Blue Iris chalk ink.  The paper is from My Mind's Eye Dear Santa stack. Another funny thing about the timing of this challenge, my friend just moved to Washington and she just sent an email with her new address saying to make sure and send Christmas cards, well, she's going to get this next week.

FCCB Challenge #168 Cute As A Bug

I am so excited for this week! I finally hit 100 followers last week and I always told myself if ever I get 100 followers, I would post a video. So, here is my first video for Mollie's Motif!

 

 

 

This video shows the card I made for the FCCB Challenge #168 Cute As A Bug.  There are so many carts out there with cute, cute bugs and insects, the hardest part about this challenge will be which one to use!  That's what I discovered anyway.  But I ended up using the cute snail on the Live Simply cartridge.  I also used a scallop/flower cut from the same cart to put behind the snail shell.  I used two paper packs from DCWV - Hippie Chic and Shimmer Mat Stack, both of which I got from JoAnn's on clearance for $5.  I used foam tape to pop up my little snail and sentiment and I just freehanded the cutting around my sentiment tag.

 

The inside of my card is a simple mat from the Hippie Chic stack and orange/peach cardstock from Recollections (the same as the base mat on the front of my card and sentiment tag).  The little flower is also from Live Simply.

I hope you are able to join us this week for our challenge over at FCCB! It was a fun challenge for me and know it will be for you!  Thanks for checking in!

And The Rockets Red Glare...

I am so proud to be an American! This country is fabulous and even though I don't agree with how things are run sometimes, there is no where else I'd rather live!  I love the 4th of July holiday to remember how great America truly is! I also LOVE fireworks, and that brings me to my card.  This fun rocket is found on the Something To Celebrate cart.  I wish I had Stand and Salute, but once again I got in the game a bit late and a bunch of carts are retired that I wish I could have in my library.  I used CardzTV "Happy Days" stamp set for the sentiment and K & Company embellishment stickers.  I went through my scrap stash to find the papers, but the majority of it is DCWV.  The worded paper is from Hobby Lobby.  The layout is courtesy of Mojo Monday for their week's challenge.  I am also entering this card in BBTB2's challenge as well as Little Scrap Pieces, Cut it Up Challenge and Paper Playtime.

FCCB 4th of July Cricut Crawl - Red, White & Blue!

Welcome to Mollie's Motif and the 4th of July Fantabulous Cricut Crawl - Fantabulous Cricut's version of a Blog Hop!!

In honor of the 4th of July holiday, we're having a Red, White and Blue Crawl. Each Design Team member has created a fabulous project using Red, White and Blue as the main colors, and of course at least one Cricut cut!

If you've come from Connie at Connie Can Crop, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to see all the fabulous Design Team creations head on over to Fantabulous Cricut HERE to start at the beginning.

Make sure to check out each DT member's blog! There will be Blog Candy along the way at some of our DT members' blogs, and there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant who submits a "Red White and Blue" project at FCCB!

For my project I kept it pretty simple! I used some muted Red, White, and Blue colors instead of the bright traditional colors.  I cut three stars from George, embossed them with Swiss Dots, then inked them up with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.  I found some fun 4th of July paper at Hobby Lobby and used my We R Memory Keepers SewEasy for the stitching along the side (I'm still trying to master that tool).  I did ink the edges of my base card with some of the same ink as the stars and I don't have a distressing tool, but I did use my fingernail to rough up the edges a bit (anyone else do that?)  Anyway, thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you are enjoying our "crawl"!!!

Your next stop is Felicia at Sweet Creative Mess. Make sure to visit all the stops along the way and when you get done, make sure you link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post!!

Happy Crawling!!

Here is the line up in case you get lost:

Amy HS http://thestampingtree.blogspot.com/

Amy T www.craftingwithamy.com

Angie http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com

Catarina http://blog.docerelashop.com/

Cindy http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com

Connie http://www.conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Emily molliemugsblog.blogspot.com

Felicia Sweetcreativemess.blogspot.com

Heather http://scrappingrunnercreations.blogspot.com/

Jackie http://luv2scrappp.blogspot.com/

Jilliene http://jillienedesigns.blogspot.com/

JoNeita http://createwithjoneita.weebly.com/index.html

Kim ogdendoll.blogspot.com

LB http://www.coolbeansbylb.blogspot.com/

Lynn http://mycardsnstuff.blogspot.com

Michelle http://justanutterpapercrafter.blogspot.com/

Missy http://www.quickchickdesigns.blogspot.com

Nikki http://craftycalamities.blogspot.com/

Rebecca craftingmisfit.blogspot.com

Robin http://robinscreativecottage.blogspot.com/

Three's A Bling!

This week over at Die Cuttin Diva's they have challenged us to create a Birthday card using three embellishments; My Creative Time has issued the challenge to "Bling It Up"; and of course the sketch is from Mojo Monday (LOVE this sketch!).  So this is what I came up with.  I used George for the circles and Celebrations for the gift cut.  The flowers and bling are from Michael's.  All the paper comes from the We R Memory Keepers 6x6 Anthologie pack (LOVE it!).  Thanks for stoppin' by!

Happy 4th of July!

I can't believe that the 4th of July is just around the corner!  I love the 4th, I'm a bit of a pyro, so fireworks are so much fun for me!  Plus the year is half over, it's crazy!  Anyway, there are a couple challenges I am entering this patriotic card into.  I absolutely love the sketch over at Mojo Monday, and I am sure I will be using it for a few more cards.  And Paper Playtime has a Red, White, and Blue challenge.  I only used my Cricut for the stars (George), the rest is just fun patterned paper.  Hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th!

Frame It! FCCB Challenge #166

Yeah for another fun week of challenges! And over at FCCB we are challenging you to Frame It!  I was excited for this challenge because I have never used a frame on a card!  And as I was trying to figure out if my mat should or should not show from outside under the frame, I thought, there is no right or wrong when you are creating - you can just do whatever!  I decided to leave the mat and just round the corners.  I used Elegant Edges for the frame and I used Serenade for my bird.  I recently added Serenade to my library of cartridges and I really love the flourish on this cart.  I added some bling to the frame and stamped a small sentiment "thinking of you".  The patterned paper is from a 6x6 paper pack from ColorBok (Wal-Mart).  I hope you join us this week over at FCCB!!!