Decorate To Celebrate! Valentine's Style

Happy Wednesday!!!

Welcome to another Anything Goes Challenge

over at Decorate To Celebrate!

I know, I know, Valentine's is over,

but I had to share a fun treat box I made...

This Scepter Box is found

on the Life's A Party Cartridge.

I cut it at 9 1/4".

The heart design paper is from American Crafts.

I just used some craft, pink, and white card stock

for the mat.

I filled it up with some chocolate covered raisins

tied the top together with some fun ribbon,

and WHALA...

a perfect Valentine's to give to a special someone!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

Cut It Up! - Sports

Happy Friday!!!

AND Happy Labor Day Weekend!!!

So excited to get the heck out of dodge for a few days :)

Do you have any fun plans for the weekend?

Well, if you find yourself with some extra time on your hands,

join us over at Cut It Up for our new challenge!

Sports

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My Project:

So there are 6 days left until NFL kickoff -

SO EXCITED!!!

And my son just had his first Flag Football game last night -

SO FUN!!!

Needless to say Football is on my brain and it's what I

had to base my card on for this challenge :)

I used Life's A Party for the football and phrase cut.

My paper is from a 4x6" Brag Pad

"Little Sport" by Heidi Larsen.

I picked it up in the clearance section of Hobby Lobby :)

I popped the football up on some foam tape

and added a little enamel dot in the bottom corner.

I think I may give this to my son's coach as a thank you

when the season is over.

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

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

BBTB2 - Welcome Baby

Hey All!!!

Happy Monday!!!

Today over at BBTB2, we have started a new challenge!

New Beginnings - create a baby card

My Project:

I found this cute monkey on the Life's A Party cartridge

and thought it was so adorable!

The paper is all from DCWV and the

Sentiment stamp is from American Crafts.

I cut the sentiment tag from Elegant Edges.

I had some buttons in my stash that I thought went well

and then added some twine from AC and We R Memory Keepers.

I hope you will join us this week for our new challenge!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

FCCB & BBTB2 - Don't Be Afraid!

Happy Monday!!!

So sorry I have been MIA for the past little bit!

Ever have those times when life just gets the better of you

and you don't seem to have a handle on things,

well, thankfully I have recovered!

So we have a couple new challenges starting today

over at FCCB and BBTB2 that I hope you will join in!

The Fabulous Jayne has chosen our challenge this week over at BBTB2

all about Gift Boxes.

AND

over at FCCB

Challenge #234 Halloween Projects

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Halloween Projects

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:

I created a Coffin Gift Box just in time for Halloween Week!!!

This box comes from the Life's A Party cartridge

and I decorated it up with some skeletons and spider/web

from Create A Critter 2.

I also added some fun enamel dots, tulle and thread.

The sentiment comes from a $1 stamp from Studio G.

I inked around the edges with Slate Ink from CTMH.

Now it's all ready to be full of some fun treats

and given away as a Halloween gift.

Happy Halloween!!!

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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$15 Gift Certificate

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!!!

BBTB2 - One For The Boys (Football/Sports)

Alright, so this week's challenge maybe "One For The Boys" where we need to create a masculine "sporty" card, but, bag that!  I'm a HUGE Football fan and we host the SuperBowl every year at our house, so this one's not just for the boys, but for me too!  Just kidding, but seriously, I decided to use this opportunity to create the invitation for the SuperBowl in February.  And, I am banking (or just REALLY hoping) on the Bronco's (my favorite team) going to the SuperBowl and decided to use their colors for the inside of my invite.  I used Life's A Party for the shape card, the "Game Day" phrase, and the "date/time/place" words.  If you haven't checked out this cartridge, it's really awesome, SO MANY options!!!  I decided to emboss the football with Swiss Dots for some added texture and I think it turned out pretty great!  I hope you are able to join us this week over at BBTB2 for our masculine challenge and can't wait to see what you come up with!

HIMCR Challenge #122 - Fall Colors!

Challenge #122 - Fall Colors!

HIMCR

 

Up For Grabs:

$5 Gift Certificate - Digital Images

Template Dreams

 

My Project:

...And We Are Living In A Digital World, And I Am A Digital Girl...(if you can figure this musical phrase out to a popular 80's tune, more power to ya!)...But seriously...I am NOT a Digital Girl.  I have little to no experience, so this challenge was a CHALLENGE!!!  But I did figure it out - YEAH!!!  And Template Dreams made it that much easier, except what to use - they have SO MANY templates to choose from and if you are a Digital Crafter, you have to check them out!

 

Anyway, I may not be a Digital Girl, but I am a HUGE Football Girl - LOVE when Football season starts - one of the many reasons I love Fall.  So I had to choose "The Big Game" template.  SO MUCH FUN!!! I loved the little button/brads that they had so I printed them on regular white cardstock and cut them out.  I also loved the paper choices, it was hard to choose, but I narrowed it down and printed two out on some white cardstock as well.  Because I LOVE my Cricut, I did use the phrase "Go Team" from Life's A Party, cut at 1 1/4".  I threw some twine around the paper and decided to just tie a knot - more masculine than a bow.  I popped the button/brads up on some foam tape and called it AWESOME! Not too shabby for my first time playing around with digital stuff.

 

The challenge over at HIMCR is to create a project using Fall Colors - and even though my card isn't the traditional Fall colors, Football is definitely a Fall activity.  I hope you are able to join us this week for a fun challenge and be entered for your chance at a gift cert over at Template Dreams.

 

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

3D Project - FCCB Challenge #157

Another week of fun challenges, starting with FCCB!!!  This week you need to make a 3D project.  My son just started his first year of soccer and his first game was on Saturday.  Each week, the parents rotate and bring treats for the team.  I decided when it's my turn I am going to make these fun glasses from the Life's A Party cartridge, and give them to the kids (along with juice boxes and granola bars).  I basically used the same colors as in the handbook.  I played around a little bit with the sizes, I first put in an 8 1/2" x 11" in the bottom corner of my mat, moved the blade to the top corner of the paper and Set Cut Area.  I then used Fit to Page to see how big they would be.  I am pretty sure it calculated the size to 5", but I did think that was a bit big, so I just cut them out at 4" instead.  I have tried to get my son to sit for pictures while wearing them, but he doesn't like to pose, so there isn't a picture of him, but they do look pretty cute on my 4 year old.  Hope you have fun making your projects this week!  Check out the other Design Team member's creations over at FCCB!

Thinking of You

I am really loving MojoMonday's!  I love finding inspiration through sketches!  It really helps me think outside my little creative box that I find so limiting at times.  The sketch challenge this week is awesome, please go check it out if you haven't already!  The other challenge I am entering this card into is BBTB2's 3D Rose Challenge.  So I had to improvise on this challenge because you were supposed to use the Art Philosophy cart or any other cart with 3D flowers.  And although I would love to own the Art Philosophy cart, it's a little pricey for me.  If anyone knows if it is available for less than $90 please let me know.  I was only able to find it on the Close to My Heart website for that amount.  Anyway, instead of using a 3D flower image, I made my own using Accent Essentials.  There is a fun flower cut, it's Accent26S on the cart, that I thought could work as a 3D flower.  I cut multiple cuts at different sizes to layer, alternating the petals then rolling them up a bit after I fastened them with brads.  They turned out pretty well I think.  The base card is cut from Life's a Party, the circles and smaller scallop are cut from Mini Monograms.  I inked around the edges with none other than Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress ink and popped the sentiment up.  I really like how this turned out, I love when what you are working on just kind of comes together so nicely.  Hope you enjoy!