BBTB2 - Travel/Road Trip

Happy Monday!

Today over at BBTB2 we have another

challenge starting....

Travel/Road Trip

I decided to focus on travelling via air not road :)

This fun plane is from Everyday Pop-Up Cards.

All my papers are from my scrap stash, and I followed

a sketch from Mojo Monday.

The sentiment is from Craftin' Desert Divas.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

BBTB2 - Birthday!

Happy Monday!!!

School is out this week?!?!?

NO WAY!!!

Well, this week over at BBTB2 the challenge is

all about Birthdays!

May is my Birthday Month, so I had no

problem with creating a fun card!

I just love this present cut from Everyday Pop-Up Cards.

I chose papers from my Scrap Stash

and my sentiment is from Fiskars.

I added a few pink flat back pearls for

embellishment and think it turned out pretty cute.

I hope you will join us over at BBTB2!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Decorate to Celebrate - Thank "U"

Happy Wednesday!

Welcome to another challenge over at

Decorate To Celebrate!

It's another Anything Goes Theme,

so link up your projects :)

My SIL asked me to help her with some Thank You's

for her Professors at the University of Utah.

She is graduating this Spring with a Master's

and I am so proud of her dedication and hard work

with getting her degree while managing a

household of 5 kids ages 18 - 8.

She's a superwoman!!!

Anyway, I used Outdoor Man for the "U",

Everyday Pop Up Cards for the Grad Cap,

and the sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.

It was super easy to put together,

and good thing too because I made 20 of them :)

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Decorate To Celebrate - You're Invited!

Happy Wednesday!

Welcome to another Anything Goes Challenge

over at Decorate To Celebrate!

My awesome sister asked me to help make some

Bridal Shower Invites for her co-worker

and this is what I came up with....

I used Everyday Pop-Up Cards for the dress,

Divine Swirls for the embossing, and Sweethearts

for the sentiment tag.

The background paper was from Hobby Lobby.

The Bride-To-Be loved how they turned out,

which makes me so happy :)

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Cut It Up - Word!

Happy Friday!!!

This summer is flying by!

Today over at Cut It Up

a new challenge has started!

Challenge:

Word!

Focal Point is Word or Sentiment

Sponsor:

As Cute As A Button

$20 Gift Certificate

My Project:

For this challenge, I pulled out the largest of my sentiment stamps

to decide which one I would use.

I found this "Lovely" stamp from My Creative Time's

"Life is Good" stamp set.

This is a fabulous stamp set, awesome sentiments

and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fonts!!!

So with this sentiment, I wanted to create a "Lovely" card

and found this AMAZING cut on the Everyday Pop Up Cards

cartridge. It even had a shape card feature to match :)

My papers come from S.E.I and I thought they were

just "Lovely" :)

I hope that you will join us over at Cut It Up!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

BBTB2 - Summer Trees

Happy Monday!!!

Hope everyone had a fabulous 4th!!!

Today over at BBTB2 a new challenge has started

Summer Trees!

Don't you love finding awesome shade

under huge trees in the summer!

It's the best!

It makes me happy, happy, happy!

So for my card I decided to use

this awesome tree from Everyday Pop Up Cards.

I have never used this cartridge for the Pop Up feature,

but the images are AMAZING on this cart!

I paper pieced the background from some scraps I had.

The sentiment is from CardzTV "This N That" set.

I topped the card off with some flat back pearls.

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

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

CardzTV Blog Hop - Merci Beaucoup!

Welcome to Day 2 of the Anything Goes Blog Hop!

I hope you were inspired by all the designers yesterday!

The 3-D team had some AMAZING projects!!!

You have probably gotten an awesome look

at all the things you can do with the new stamp sets

Mary has released too!

"Many Thanks"

"Summer Fun"

"More Critter Captions"

and

"Picture This"


You can order any of these stamps sets
HERE!

Mary is also going to be giving away 2 sets of

CardzTV Stamps to one commentor

picked by random.org and

who is a follower of CardzTV.

If you have hopped here from 

Gerda ~ http://www.cardscreations.blogspot.com

you are in the right place!

And this will be the last stop of the Hop!

But if you want to start from the top here is the line up:

1. Mary ~ http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/ 

2. Linda ~ http://www.craftingwithnana.blogspot.com/

3. Rheba ~ http://www.rhebat.blogspot.com

4. Beth ~  http://thecraftyscrapyard.blogspot.com

5. Rhonda M. ~ http://bluepoohbear753.blogspot.com

6. Lena ~ http://www.lenascreations.blogspot.com/

7. Anne-Marie ~ http://www.scrapdoll7creations.blogspot.com/

8. Gerda ~ http://www.cardscreations.blogspot.com

9. Emily ~ http://www.molliemugsblog.blogspot.com

Now on to my Project:

I absolutely LOVE the "Many Thanks" stamp set!!!

It is a beautiful set of thank you sentiments!

I was so excited to use "Merci Beaucoup!" too!

I have a friend who went to France on her LDS Mission

and she has been such a wonderful friend and support to me

that I wanted to make her a card.

I cut the Eiffel Tower from Everyday Pop Up Cards and

the circle and scallop circle were cut from Mini Monograms.

My b/g mat and pink mats come from My Mind's Eye,

the paper I cut the tower out of comes from

Bo Bunny Isabella Collection

and the gray b/g strip comes from ColorBok (Wal-Mart)

Natural Expressions

The flowers are from Prima, and I added

pearls from Recollections to the center.

The silk ribbon was just in my stash.

I did pop up the sentiment and tower with foam tape

and inked around the edges of my mats with

Close To My Heart Slate Ink.

Thanks for hoppin' in!!!

Craftin' Desert Divas - June Release Blog Hop!!!

Welcome to our fourth Craftin Desert Diva's stamp release blog hop!!

If you've come from Miss Mayra's blog,

you are in the right place!

I'm super excited to share with you in full the CDD June release stamps.

There are four new stamps that are being released today

in the Craftin Desert Divas Shop and are available now for purchase.

So without further ado here are the latest stamp sets:

Holly Day Punnies - you can purchase them HERE

Be Inspired - You can purchase them HERE

Bring On The Cake - You can purchase them HERE

Say It Big - You can purchase them HERE

How about a sale??!!

Use the code JUNE for 20% off your ENTIRE order!!

Tara is giving away one stamp set each day

& Too Cute by Jessica is giving away

$25 gift card to her store (regular priced items)

PLUS, every purchase qualifies for this FREE

Happy Birthday Bears pattern from TCBJ...

And now for my project.... 

I used the fabulous stamp "i love you!" from Tara's new Say It Big set.

I LOVE this stamp so much!!!

My paper is from My Mind's Eye "Love Me" 6x6 paper pack,

the twine is from We R Memory Keepers, and

the enamel dots are from Recollections.

The hot air balloon is from Everyday Pop Up Cards.

I did ink around the edges of my paper

with some Color Box Charcoal Chalk Ink.

So FUN!!!

Now hop on over to Jessi to see her fabulous project!

A complete blog line up is located for you below in case you get lost along the way.

Winners will be picked from a different blog each day,

so the more you comment the more chances you have to win.

And be sure to check out all of Tara's stamps at

Craftin Desert Diva's Shop

and join us on FB at the CDD Gallery

We'd love you to share your projects using the CDD stamps!!!

  

Today's Line Up:

Craftin Desert Divas - http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/
Kathy - http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Lisa B. - http://www.our2angelsinheaven.blogspot.com/
Lisa F. - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/
Karen - http://craftedwithlovebykaren.blogspot.com/
Migdalia - http://craftingwithcreativem.blogspot.com/
Georgiana - http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/
Krystle - http://krystlescraftyniche.blogspot.com/
Mayra - http://mayrasdesigns.blogspot.com/
Emily - http://molliemugsblog.blogspot.com/
Jessi - http://www.mylifeinartsncrafts.co/

Jessica - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Too-Cute-by-Jessica/196421370434846?ref_type=bookmark 

Sneak Peak Day 4 - "Say It Big"

How much have you been LOVING the Sneak Peeks?!?!

Welcome to Day 4 of our June stamp release party!!

Each day we will be giving you a sneak peek

at one of the four new stamp sets.

Then, on Tuesday and Wednesday,

we will have a blog hop with prizes each day.

The design team has some amazing creations

to finish up the sneak peeks!!!

Today we are showcasing the "Say It Big" stamp set.

All of the new stamps are 4x6 and Made in the USA.

Stamps will be available to order on Tuesday.

We hope you will stop by our store Craftin Desert Divas Shop and 

our Craftin Desert Divas Gallery Facebook group.

We would love for you to join usand share your creations with us

using Craftin Desert Diva's stamps.

In this group we show previews first, have giveaways and much more!!

Here's my project I created:

I used Everyday Pop Up Cards for the flower box

and Elegant Edges for the scalloped border.

The paper comes from My Mind's Eye

In Bloom 6x6 paper pad and

the oval pearls are from Hobby Lobby.

Here is a close up of the stamp

LOVE it!!!

Sneak Peek Giveaway!!

All you have to do is leave a comment on each of our blogs!

You are NOT required to comment on EVERY SINGLE blog,

but the more you comment on, the better chance you have for winning!!

Just click on the DT's name to get to their blog.

Tara will announce today's winner tomorrow.

The winner will be picked from a different blog every day,

so be sure to visit and leave comments.

Thank you all so much for joining us today

and be sure to join us for the 2 Day Blog Hop that starts tomorrow!!!

FCCB & BBTB2 Challenges

 Happy Monday!!!
and welcome to another week
of fun challenges over at FCCB & BBTB2!

FCCB

Challenge #215 Sketch Challenge

This Weeks Sponsor

Online Card Classes

~This Weeks Challenge~

Sketch Challenge

Create a project inspired by the sketch below:

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.



And over at BBTB2 our challenge theme is Graduation.
Create a card or project for all those graduates in your lives!

Here is my project:

This grad cap comes from Everyday Pop Up Cards.

I think it is the perfect cap!

I used the Swiss Dots embossing folder for my white b/g mat,

and my papers were all in my scrap stash,

so I'm not sure where they are from :)

The stamp comes from CardzTV "Happy Days" stamp set.

I am also going to enter this in over at Die Cuttin' Divas

for the Black plus 1 color challenge.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

BBTB2 - Birthday Cakes

Well, it's Monday.

Hope your weekend was great and that you are ready to start the last week of April!!!

Today over at BBTB2 we have a super fun challenge for you - Birthday Cakes!!!

I myself am not a fan of cake - never really liked it - I've always LOVED Cheesecake and I do love a good pie - but cake and cupcakes have never been a temptation.  Call me weird, I know, but that's just me :)

I do, however, like to use cakes and cupcakes on my cards because there are SO MANY cute cute cute images on all the different cartridges Cricut has made.  So the cake I chose is from Everyday Pop Up Cards, and I know I have been using this cart on all of these challenges lately, but I LOVE it!!!  So fun!

Anyway, my pattern paper all comes from Crate Paper "Party Day" 6x6 pad,

and I really like the antique/aged look to the this paper.

The tones are so nice and now that I am writing this

think I should have inked up all my edges - Oh, well!

I rounded all my corners with The Paper Studio's Large Corner Rounder

and my sentiment stamp comes .from TPC's Greetings stamp set.

I just had an old button in my stash and tied some jute twine through for a bit of embellishment.

I hope that you will join us this week over at BBTB2 for this fun challenge!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Monday! Monday! Monday!

Another week is upon us and that means....

Challenges!!!

I LOVE challenges and am so grateful to be apart of some of the best DT's around!

So today I have one project that I have created for three challenge blogs

First Up

Craftin' Desert Divas!

"Anything Goes!"

Sponsors:

Fresh Squeezed Stamps: "Mother Knows Best" Stamp Set

Lovebug: $10 Gift Card

Fleurette Bloom: $10 Gift Card

Next Up:

 
FCCB

Challenge #204 Sketch Challenge

This Weeks Sponsor

Stamp set of Winner's Choice

~Design Team Inspiration~

~This Weeks Challenge~

Create a project inspired by the sketch below:

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.

Last but not Least


BBTB2
Spring Showers
(Any kind of shower - rain, baby, bridal - get creative!)

My Project:

I decided to use my new Everyday Pop Up Cards cartridge for this card.  The umbrella is a super fun and easy cut.  My paper comes from Heidi Grace "Sunshowers".  I have a video to show you how it all came together, so I hope you'll watch!

I will also be entering this into Die Cuttin' Divas and Little Scrap Pieces.

Just Arrived...

My son's preschool teacher just had a baby and I wanted to make her a card for my son to give her.  I followed the sketch from Mojo Monday. I used Everyday Pop Up Cards Cartridge for the onesie and DCWV Nana's Kids mat stack for the paper.  I embossed the onesie with Swiss Dots and popped it up on some foam tape.  My twine is from We R Memory Keepers.  I really like how this turned out!

I am also going to be entering this into CardzTV and Cuttin' and Stampin'.

Thanks for checkin' in!

BBTB2 - Flower Challenge

Happy Monday!!!

Welcome to another challenge over at BBTB2!!! This week we want to see Flowers! There are so many Cricut Carts that feature flowers, this one might be a challenge to narrow it down to which one to use :)

For my project, I used the flower/flower pot from Everyday Pop Up Cards. I recently purchased this cartridge when JoAnn's was having their 19.99 sale. It has some amazing cuts on it, but I don't know if I will ever use the pop up feature - we'll have to at least try it out, right?

My paper comes from Heidi Grace and my ribbon is from American Crafts.  The sentiment is from a Fiskars mini set.  I love the bright fun colors of this card and it has made me long for Spring even more :)

I hope that you will join us this week over at BBTB2 for our Flower Challenge!

I am also going to link this up over at Exploring Cricut, Little Scrap Pieces, and My Craft Spot.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!