HIMCR Super Scraps Saturday - You're A Doll

I am LOVING Super Scraps Saturdays over at HIMCR!!! It really forces me to use my scrap stash and I realize that I still have some awesome choices of paper as I look through them!  I would venture to guess that we all have awesome paper in our stashes that we can pull from to create cards or layouts, so I hope that you will join us this week for our challenge!  We also have a fabulous sponsor for the week - Freckled Fawn.  They were so nice as to send the DT some of their unique and fun embellishments to use on our projects, and I really liked incorporating them on my card.  My card is made using the Paisley cartridge, Elegant Edges, and Mini Monograms.  I also put my doll on an Action Wobble - so so so FUN!!!  I have a video that shows how the card all came together, so I hope that you will watch!  And please stop by HIMCR and link up your projects using your SUPER SCRAPS!!!

FCCB Challenge #181 "Have Your Cake"

 

It's another week for a FABULOUS challenge over at FCCB!  "Have Your Cake!"  Yes, eat all you want so that you have plenty of inspiration and energy to create a card, layout, or project featuring a cake or cupcake.  Naturally, I think of a Birthday card when it comes to cakes and cupcakes and that's just what I made for this challenge - a fun girly birthday cake for a fun girly pre-teen.  I did have my niece in mind when I first started this card, but it turned out WAY too girly and she is such a tom-boy that this wouldn't have worked for her.  (I've got to come up with something soon though, her birthday is next month!)  Anyway, I used Sweet Treats (LOVE) for my cake and my paper comes from DCWV Birthday 6x6 paper pack.  I also used a sketch from the MojoMonday archives.  I have put together a video for you to see how this card came about, hope you'll check it out!  And I hope you will join us over at FCCB for this FUN challenge!!!  I am also going to be entering this over at Exploring Cricut for the Birthday Celebration Blog Hop they have going on, and even though I didn't add a button, brad, or jewel, I did add Stickles to the flame of my candle...so it kinda works for the challenge :)

BBTB2 - "Fall Leaves Are Falling"

 

 

Can you guess how I'm feeling? Excited, yes, excited again because I am posting my first DT project for Bitten By The Bug 2!!!  I am now designing for another one of my favorite challenge blogs, and I couldn't be more thrilled!!!  So the challenge this week is "Fall Leaves Are Falling", and they certainly are where I'm at - how about you?  I LOVE fall and I had fun making this Thanksgiving card that captured the essence of the season.  I used Designer's Calendar for THE perfect maple leaf, and I used Elegant Edges for the mat on the front.  I did emboss the mat with The Paper Studio's "Leaves" embossing folder and my patterned paper comes from Doodlebug Designs "Happy Harvest" 6x6 paper pack (LOVE).  I have a video to show you how the card came together, so I hope you'll watch!  And I hope you link up with us over at BBTB2 this week!

 

Trick or Treat

 

I am excited to have some Halloween Decor (finally) and I have Decorate to Celebrate to thank!!!  The challenge they have going on is to create a decoration or favor for a Halloween Party.  I host a family party at my house each year and I get to show off this cute Trick or Treat sign I made!  The base is chip board and I attached them together by using a hole punch and tying ribbon through them.  I used Simply Charmed for all my images, Lyrical Letters "Jack Sprat" font for my letters, and my paper and ribbon is from The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby).  I will also be linking up over at Little Scrap Pieces for the Fun Linky Friday.

 

Here are some close up looks at my sign: 

Monster Bash

I am so excited to post my first Design Team project for Hiding In My Craft Room!

The Challenge for this week is to use Halloween Colors - you don't have to make a Halloween project, just use the fun colors associated with Halloween.  There is an awesome Halloween Bundle up for grabs too!  So be sure to get your cards or layouts linked up over at HIMCR!

For my project, I made the invitations to my family's Halloween Party that is at my house every year.  It's just a front and back (not a card, but still A2 size).  I used Create-A-Critter 2 for the little monsters and bats.  The phrase is also from that cartridge.  I used paper from The Paper Studio's All Seasons II pack and cut around the edges with a pair of zig-zag scissors, also from The Paper Studio.  The black and white circle ribbon was just from my stash, not sure where/who it's from.  I printed the actual invitation off my printer and used the "chiller" font.  I really LOVE these little monsters and hope my nephews and nieces get a kick out of them too!  I will also be linking this up over at An Inky Situation for the color challenge going on over there.  Thanks for checking in!!!

 

Cut It Up Challenge #29 - Think Pink (Breast Cancer Awareness)

Cut It Up Challenges

Challenge starts October 4 and ends October 16, 2013 at noon EST

Use Pink on Your Project and Use a Die Cut

Our Sponsors for the week are

My Scrap Chick - $10 Gift Certificate and

Cute As A Button - $20 Coupon Code

 



 

It is Breast Cancer Awareness time!  Time and time again, I am shocked and amazed at how many people I know get diagnosed with cancer - any form, really.  My husband is a cancer survivor, he was diagnosed June 2012 and went through a year of hell, for lack of a better term.  But he made it!  And so many others I know fight and survive.  My mom just told me of a friend of hers that was just diagnosed with breast cancer, has had a double mastectomy and will start chemo in a week or so.  She asked me to make her some cards to pass on to her friend throughout this next little while for some encouragement and to make sure she knows she has a support system. 

So for my project I used the Cricut Pink Journey Cartridge and made some "pass-along" cards.  They are just a 3" x 4" one-sided card.  All the cuts are from this one cartridge, my papers are from My Mind's Eye and Basic Grey and then I embellished them with We R Memory Keeper's Baker's Twine, Recollection's Flat Back Pearls, and Prima Flowers.  My mom thought they were perfect, so I am happy with that!  I had my first mammogram this summer and I would encourage any of you, if you are over 35 to get one too!  You can never be too safe, and you just never know - one day you could be celebrating your birthday, the next day you are admitted in the hospital undergoing chemo.

I hope that you will join us over at Cut It Up Challenges for this special challenge, and your card doesn't specifically need to be about breast cancer, we just want you to incorporate pink in your project!

I am also going to be entering these in over at CardzTV and Link Up for Pink.

Woot! Woot!

So, I'm excited about this card that I made for my SIL! I was following a couple of challenges, but it ended up being the perfect card for her! LOVE when that happens!!!  Anyway, Paper Playtime and An Inky Situation issued challenges to use Red, Blue, and Yellow and to use an Owl, respectively. So I started going through my cartridges and realized that I had never used the owls from the Paisley cartridge before and they are super cute! I basically followed the colors from the handbook to create my owl, check out my video for all the details! My patterned paper comes from Doodlebug Designs "Happy Harvest" and I even have the owl on an Action Wobble! So FUN!!!  Can't wait to give this to her, but it will have to wait until the news is no longer a "secret" (my mom is no good at keeping them).  Here are the pics of how the card turned out...