Cut It Up! Friendship

Happy Friday!

Welcome to another challenge for Cut It Up!

This week we want to focus on Friendship!

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My Project:

I decided to follow a card from the cartridge

"Just Because" Cards.

All the cuts are set at 8" and it is a good sized card.

I love the pink and green papers together.

My base pink paper is from Echo Park.

The green overlay paper is from DCWV.

The papers I used for the owl and saying were just

in my scrap stash.

I think this is a fun friendship card :)

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

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Happy Friday!!!

What a week! How's yours been?

Well, in honor of April Fool's Day today

Cut It Up wants to see funny projects

for the new challenge:

Cut It Up!

Include a Joke or Riddle

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My Project:

So I have to admit this card is not new,

I made it 3 years ago, but it is perfect for April Fool's

AND it is one of my most favorite cards I have made :)

So my card isn't necessarily a "Joke" or "Riddle",

but it is an unexpected answer from the old adage of

"when life gives you lemons"

But it is definitely my Motto...

Drum Roll Please.....

Ha, bet you didn't see that comin' ;)

LOVE IT!!!

Anyway, I used Simply Charmed for the lemon/limes.

I also used Just Because Cards for the glass image;

I used vellum to create a shinier effect.

The b/g papers are from Echo Park and DCWV.

 I inked up the edges with some Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink

and used ribbon from American Crafts.

I printed the phrases out from my computer.

If you love Diet Coke as much as I do

and haven't tried limes with it...

I highly recommend it,

I has made my life much happier :)

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Cut It Up - Grandparents Day

Happy Friday All!!!

I am so looking forward to this weekend to start,

how about you?

Well, we have another challenge starting over at Cut It Up

and the most talented Cindy has chosen a super fun theme!

Challenge #52

Grandparent's Day

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My Project:

What a fun day to honor our grandparents and parents!

I actually don't have any grandparents left, they have all passed on,

but my kids have my parents and my husband's mom to wish

a Happy Grandparent's Day to!

So this is the little gift box I decided to make my MIL to

thank her for being such an AMAZING Grandma to my littles!

My FIL passed away before my kids were born, but

I still wanted to honor him with this box, too.

I decided to use the family tree and stencil phrase

"Families are Forever"

from the "Just Because" Cards cartridge.

Our family knows that we will see my FIL again,

and we truly believe that families can be together forever,

so I thought this would be a perfect way to include my FIL in this day.

The box comes from Life's A Party and I cut it out at 2 3/4".

All the paper comes from Close To My Heart, as well as

the embellishments (Skylark collection), except for the

rhinestones, they came from Michael's.

This box will be filled with Dark Chocolate

(my MIL's favorite)

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

and show us how you celebrate

Grandparent's Day!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

FCCB - Bug Out!

Hey All!!!

I know it's Tuesday, but this post is for the

Monday challenge over at FCCB.

Do you ever feel like you are a day late and a dollar short?

For me, lately, it seems like ALL THE TIME!!!

So sorry about that :)

Anyway....

FCCB

Challenge #222 Bug Out

This Weeks Sponsor

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Winner will receive the Bug a Boo Stamp set

~This Weeks Challenge~

Bug Out

Create a project that uses a bug

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.

Here is my project:

For this card, I used papers from My Mind's Eye Rosy 6x6 paper pack.

I inked around the edges of my pattern papers

with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.

The cute little ladybug comes from the "Just Because" Cards cartridge,

and the mat is from Elegant Edges.

My flowers are from Studio G (Wal-Mart)

and the rhinestone centers are from Michael's.

The mat and the ladybug are both popped up with some foam tape.

My sentiment "Just Because" comes from American Crafts.

I hope that you will join us over at FCCB

for our challenge this week!

I am going to enter this card in at Die Cuttin' Divas,

I followed the sketch for the challenge over there.

I am also entering this in DL Art's August Linky Party.

Thanks for checkin' in!

BBTB2 - BEE-utiful Summer

Happy Monday!!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Today over at BBTB2 we are starting

a new challenge all about BEES!!!

There are so many cute bee images on

so many fun cartridges,

it was tough to decide which one to use!

I haven't used the bee on the

"Just Because" Cards cartridge,

so that's what I chose!

My paper comes from Prima Marketing "Doodle Deux"

that I picked up from Hobby Lobby.

I used vellum for the wings of the bee and popped

the image up on foam tape.

I cut the scallop circle from Mini Monograms

and the circle from George.

The enamel dots are from Recollection's (Michael's)

and the sentiment comes from Craftin' Desert Divas

newest stamp set Lil Bit Buggie.

I even have a video to show how it all came together!

I am also entering this into Little Scrap Pieces.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

FCCB Challenge #198 - Sketch Challenge

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge over at FCCB!

Challenge #198 Sketch Challenge

Sketch is from Card Positioning Systems 

This Weeks Sponsor:

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least one Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

My Project:

So my MIL asked me the other day to start working on some more birthday cards for her to give out to family throughout the year...I LOVE doing this for her, so of course I got started right away!  I was super excited to be able to use a paper pack I got for Christmas from Santa too - Carta Bella's Giddy Up! pack is so fun!  I have a niece that is totally into riding horses and so I made this card with her in mind for my MIL to give to her for her birthday in May.  That was long-winded :)

Anyway, I used Summer Celebrations for the lasso/rope (3") and just cut off the Yee Ha! that comes with it. I did cut the shift phrase at 2" for the YeeHa! in the bottom corner.  I also used "Just Because" Cards for the boot and cut it out on flip at 2 1/2".  The three rhinestones are from Michael's and were the perfect addition for this cowgirl card.  The inside of the card was pretty simple, just a white cardstock mat with the sentiment stamped in the top corner - the sentiment comes from a Fiskar's set.  I used a piece of the pattern paper from the front to dress up the bottom and cut the saddle from the Toy Story cartridge at 2".

I hope my MIL will use this card for my niece because I think it turned out super cute!!!

And I hope you will join us in the fun sketch challenge going on over at FCCB this week!!!

I'm also entering this card into CardzTV Birthday challenge.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

HIMCR #134 - Something For/About A Loved One

HIMCR Challenge #134

Something For/About A Loved One

Sponsor:

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My Project:

Hello!!! How is everyone's Saturday going? I am hoping to have a very productive one :) But this week over at HIMCR we have a challenge that might take you away from being productive outside the craft room!  We want you to create a card or project for or about someone you love.  The DT had the opportunity to choose from some of the Template Dreams kits for this challenge and I just had to work with the "Nuts For You" kit! SO CUTE!!! The squirrel is so stinkin' adorable and the papers and embellishments are to die for!  So this is the card I came up with.  I am not good at, nor have patience for, "fussy cutting", so I kept it to a minimum with this card.  I did my best around the flowers and popped them up on some foam tape, but the squirrel, yeah, she got to stay in a straight edge square :)  I decided to cut the "nuts about you" stencil from "Just Because" Cards on my Cricut, and popped that up on some foam tape as well.  I think it turned out pretty cute and I am thinking I will give this one to my husband for Valentine's Day, along with a jar of some type of nut.  He would like that :)  Anyway, I hope you are able to join us for this challenge and be sure to check out the DT's projects - they are always amazing!!!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

FCCB Challenge #180 - Fall Is In The Air

This week over at FCCB we have an awesome challenge all about Fall!!!  We want to see your projects that have to do with "Fall is in the Air".  I don't know about you, but when October hits, I get so antsy to do a TON of projects for the rest of the year for fall and all the holidays.  For this challenge I wanted to do something a little different and decided to try out a Double Side Step card.  I looked on YouTube for a tutorial and found a bunch! I just picked one and gave it a go.  I knew I wanted to use the cute scarecrows from Simply Charmed and use my Peachy Keen Stamps for their faces, but that was about it.  Then I remembered on "Just Because" Cards there is a corn stalk image and it all came together!  So my scarecrows are cut at 4", I used Everyday Character Faces from PKS to make the cute faces, some flat back smooth pearls for their overall buttons, and I found some buttons in my stash for their hats.  The back row of corn stalks are cut at 7" and the rest of them are cut at 7 1/2".  I ran the yellow corn through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and cut some yellow grass from Plantin Schoolbook at 3/4 inch.  The "happy fall" phrase is also from Simply Charmed.  My patterned paper is from All Seasons II 12x12 pack from Hobby Lobby.  I think it turned out pretty cute and it works great as a home decor piece too!  I hope you are able to join us this week at FCCB and link up your projects!!!

Here are the dimensions for the Double Side Step: Paper 7 1/2 x 8 1/2; With the 7 1/2" side at the top of your cutting board, set paper at the 2" mark then cut between 2 1/8" and 7 1/2".  Flip paper over and do the same thing.  Then score between cut lines at 2 1/8", 5 3/8", and 7 1/2".  Score the length of the card at 4 1/4".  I hope that makes sense!!!

FCCB Vinyl Education Week - Challenge #177 Vinyl Project

Welcome to Mollie's Motif and the FCCB Vinyl EDU Cricut Crawl - Fantabulous Cricut's version of a Blog Hop!! This week we are challenging you to create a project using vinyl you have cut using your Cricut. We have a fabulous sponsor, Cricket Vinyl Supplies. If we get 100 participants in this challenge, Cricket Vinyl Supplies will give away a Cricut Expression package that includes a Cricut Expression machine, deep cut blade, Jasmine Cricut cartridge, ten 12” x 12” assorted sheets of matte vinyl and one 12” x 12” gridded transfer tape. How exciting is that?? SO SPREAD THE WORD!!!

If you've come from Kim over at ogdendoll.blogspot.com, 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 ALL our DT members' blogs, and there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant who submits a project using vinyl at FCCB!

For my project I decided to put together a subway art type tile to add to my Fall Home Decor.

 

I used quite a few different cartridges:

"Fall" comes from Create-A-Critter 2; cut at 3"

"Give Thanks" and pumpkin image come from Designer's Calendar; cut at 2 1/2" and 2", respectively

"PIE" comes from Just Because Cards; cut at 8"

"Gobble" comes from Create-A-Critter; cut at 1"

"Good Times" comes from Paisley; cut at 2"

"Preserve" comes from From My Kitchen; cut at 2"

"Family & Friends" comes from Life's A Party; cut at 3 3/4"

Scarecrow image comes from Celebrate with Flourish; cut at 4"

Leaves image comes from Celebrate with Flourish; cut at 3" (with layers)

 

All my vinyl was cut using the following settings:

Deep Cut Blade set at 5"

Speed set at minimum

Pressure set at medium

 

I bought my tile from Home Depot for less than $2 and all my vinyl came from Cricket Vinyl Supplies (LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!).  And if you would like to purchase some vinyl from them, you can get a 15% discount this week by using the coupon code fantabulous!!!

 

I have put together a VIDEO for you too!

 

 

 

AND I have some BLOG CANDY for one lucky FOLLOWER!

Just follow my blog and leave me a comment for your chance to win some FUN Halloween SWAG!

 

 

THANKS so much for stopping by!!!

This project is also going to be entered in at Little Scrap Pieces for their Linky Party.

Your next stop is Amy at thestampingtree.blogspot.com.  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!! And make sure you share with all your blog/crafting friends about the AWESOME giveaway and have them link their projects up too!!

Happy Crawling!!

Here is the line up in case you get lost :

Robin http://robinscreativecottage.blogspot.com

Jilliene http://jillienedesigns.blogspot.com

Heather http://scrappingrunnercreations.blogspot.com

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

Jackie http://luv2scrappp.blogspot.com

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

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

Amy T www.craftingwithamy.com

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

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

Rebecca craftingmisfit.blogspot.com

Catarina http://blog.docerelashop.com/

Kim ogdendoll.blogspot.com

Emilymolliemugsblog.blogspot.com

Amy HS http://thestampingtree.blogspot.com

Rohttp://rodonner.blogspot.com/

Lynn http://mycardsnstuff.blogspot.com

Michelle http://justanutterpapercrafter.blogspot.com

Many More Miles...

 

Oh, the dreaded Masculine Birthday Card...Just Kidding! But seriously, why are they so much harder to make? Luckily, I had an awesome 6x6 paper pack from Echo Park "This & That Charming" that has some awesome masculine papers in it.  Just Because Cards cartridge has the awesome old timer truck and it just all came together very nicely.  I printed the sentiment from my computer just on some white cardstock and thought it was a perfect saying.  The truck is popped up with some foam tape and I tied some hemp twine around the bottom, to serve as sort of a "dirt road".  I am so happy with how everything came together and am excited to give this to my MIL to give to one of her brothers.  I will be entering this card into the HIMCR,  Little Scrap Pieces, and Craftin' Desert Divas challenges.

Thanks A Melon

I was excited to make a tag this week for Paper Playtime's challenge, I don't make too many and I will be able to use this to give to some friends of ours for a BBQ they are hosting at the end of the month.  I like how there is plenty of room on the back to write a little note.  I think it would be cute to present this with a actual watermelon when we show up.  I used Just Because Cards for the slice of melon and stencil, and Sweet Treats for the tag and topper.  I used some paper from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found 6x6 pack and inked around all the edges with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress ink.  I am also entering this into Craftin' Desert Diva's challenge of "Summer" and a challenge blog that I just found (don't know why it has taken me this long to find) Hiding In My Craft Room; the challenge there is "Red and Green".  Thanks A Melon for stoppin' by!

FCCB Challenge #162 Memorial Day

Another fabulous challenge has begun over at FCCB.  This week we are celebrating Memorial Day, so head on over and link up your project.  My card is probably off the mark a little with the traditional Memorial Day cards, but it fits perfectly with how I view Memorial Day.  For as long as I can remember, my dad's side of the family would gather together at our ancestors' gravesites at our local cemetaries and talk about family history.  This card is representative of those memories.  I also firmly believe that families are forever and that there is life beyond our journey here on this earth.  I know I will see my grandparents and ancestors again.  Anyway, I just love all the flowers that adorn the graves and how beautiful the cemetaries are on Memorial Day, so this is the card I came up with.  I used "Just Because" Cards for the mats, tree, and stencil saying.  I used SongBird for the flowers and blinged them up with some rhinestones.  Hope you join us this week and I can't wait to see your projects!

Happy April Fool's! FCCB Cricut Crawl

Hopefully you have found yourself here after crawling along the FCCB April Fool's Cricut Crawl!  If you haven't checked out the DT's fantastically fun April Fool's projects, you should head on over there to start it!  So, my little card isn't a "joke", but it is an unexpected response from the usual addage of "when life gives you lemons".  And this is totally my philosophy as of right now in my life.  I know soda is horrible for you health wise, but to me it is my sanity on this crazy cancer rollercoaster my little family is on.  I LOVE Diet Coke with Lime, or as it is known in my house DCL.  When I was looking through my new cartridge Just Because Cards I was inspired to create this card from the "Lemons into Lemonade" phrase/cut and cut the glass image out of vellum paper.  I used the lemon cut from Simply Charmed for my lemons and limes.  The colorful diamond paper is from Echo Park's This and That Graceful 6x6 pack.  The green and white is from DCWV Nana's Kitchen mat stack.  The yellow and white polka dot paper on the lemons is from a Wal-Mart paper pack.  I inked around the edges of my sentiments, lemons, and base card with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink and popped up the lemons and sentiment on the front with some dimensionals.  I hope you are having fun on the crawl, and keep at it, there are still some fabulous projects ahead!