Cut It Up Challenge #40 - GREEN (St. Patrick's Day or Spring)

Cut It Up Challenges

Challenge #40

GREEN (St. Patty's or Spring)

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Thank Goodness It's Friday, right!!!

Seriously, when is the last time you saw that all written out :)

But, YAY for Friday!!! And not just because it's the weekend, 

but because we are starting another challenge over at Cut It Up!

We want to see all things GREEN!!!

You can do a St. Patty's Day card or a Spring card.

I decided to make a Good Luck card - that's close enough to St. Patrick's Day, right?

I have a video to show you how it all came together so I hope you'll watch!

And be sure to head on over to check out all the Design Team's creations - you won't be disappointed!!!

I am going to be entering this card into the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge, Pause Dream, Enjoy Challenge, Everyday is an Occasion, CardzTV and More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday Challenge.

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

A Ruby Tuesday

Happy Tuesday! Over at Die Cuttin' Diva's a new challenge started today - "Ruby Red".  And although I don't use Red very often, I did enjoy making this card.  I found some fun patterned paper in my stash that I thought would work great.  It is from a 6x6 Colorbok (Wal-Mart) paper pack, so it's a bit thinner but I put it on a heavier mat and it worked out great.  The layout is courtesy of Mojo Monday, so this will be entered in their weekly challenge as well.  I embossed the brown mat with Paper Studio's Quatrefoil folder, the cream mat was embossed with Swiss Dots.  The red mat is a shiny ruby red, but the camera doesn't capture it too well.  The last challenge I am entering this into is Use It Tuesday's Birthday challenge.  I cut the cute cupcake from Sweet Treats and embossed the cake with Divine Swirls.  I also used foam tape to pop the image up a bit.  Part of Use It Tuesday's challenge is to use hoarded crafting supplies, and I have to say I have had these two red buttons for over 2 years!  So today, I am using them - finally!  Hopefully you can join in on one of these three fun challenges!

So Lucky!

This little leprechaun puts a smile on my face.  As my little boy gets older I am finding more joy in all of the holidays.  Decorating the house and doing fun crafts with him has just been so uplifting.  I have been using all of my cards to decorate my house. I should be sending them out, but no; I hoard them for myself :) I will be entering this card in a few challenges - Celebrate the Occasion "Luck of the Irish", BBTB2 "So Lucky Shamrock", Craft with Cutters "Irish Eyes are Smiling", and Die Cuttin Diva's "Try A Sketch".  I think we all know where "Darby O'Gill" comes from, the Simply Charmed cart.  The shamrocks are cut from Designer's Calendar.  I used the embossing folder Quatrefoil for the three smaller mats.  I inked around the edges with ColorBox Creamy Brown Chalk Ink, and used dimensionals to pop up my image.  Hope everyone has a Happy "Green on Seventeen" as my 4 year old now calls it.

Kiss the Cook!

I was so excited about this challenge!  I have been wanting to make a recipe card for my sister-in-law since last month and just hadn't gotten around to it.  Well, it's done now!  Thanks FCCB!  The challenge this week is "Kiss the Cook".  Anyway, my husband and I love the Vietnamese soup called Pho (pronounced Fuh).  My husband's best friend introduced it to him 15 years ago, then I was introduced to it on one of our first dates.  It's definitely one of our favorite dishes.  It has also become a favorite with my husband's brother's family.  We got together with them in January to show them how to make it, but I never gave my SIL a written recipe.  This will be perfect for her!  I'll probably laminate it before I give it to her.  It's very simple, but it works.  I used Create-A-Critter for the bowl of noodles, George for the PHO, and I embossed the mat with The Paper Studio's Quatrefoil (maybe that was a typo on the label and it's supposed to be Quarterfoil) embossing folder from Hobby Lobby.  I really like how it turned out.  Maybe there are a few Pho fans out there in my blogiverse :)