BBTB2 - Arbor Day / Trees

Happy Monday!

Welcome to another fun week over at BBTB2!

Today's challenge is all about Trees!

I used this fun tree from Straight From the Nest.

Once again I searched through my scrap stash

for all my papers and came up with this layout.

I used my Large Corner Rounder from Hobby Lobby

and some jewel embellishments.

The sentiment is from a Fiskar's set.

Please join us over at BBTB2!

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Cut It Up! - Sweets for My Sweet

Happy Friday!

Welcome to another challenge over at

Cut It Up!

Our theme for this week:

Sweets for my Sweet!

Our Sponsor:

As Cute as a Button

$20 Gift Certificate

My Project:

I wanted to try a Tri-Fold Slider Card

as outlined in the Straight From the Nest

Cricut Handbook.

It's a lot bigger than I am used to making :)

I cut the corner embellishments and

the cupcake silhouette slider from

that cartridge too.

Anyway, I chose my papers from DCWV

Sweet Treats paper pad and The Paper Studio's

Glitter Paper pad.

Even though the picture doesn't capture the

blue of the background cupcake paper,

it looks great with the brown :)

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

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Cut It Up - Back To Nature

Happy Friday!

Today over at Cut It Up we have an awesome

challenge for you!

Challenge #81

Back To Nature

Use any Die Cut that you would find in Nature

Sponsor:

As Cute As A Button

$20 Gift Certificate

My Project:

For this challenge I decided to make a Sympathy Card.

I love using nature images for these types of cards.

This tree is found on the Straight From the Nest cartridge.

The paper is all from My Mind's Eye "Reunion".

The sentiment is from Fiskars.

The enamel dots are from Recollections.

I hope you will join us for this challenge.

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Cut It Up Challenge #37 - Through the Woods

Cut It Up Challenge #37

Theme: Through The Woods (Anything that evokes wood, Wood-grain pattern paper or embossing folder, a die cut tree, or woodland creature, wood veneer...)

Challenge Starts: Januray 24, 2014

Challenge Ends: February 5, 2014 @ Noon EST

Sponsor:

Scrappy Moms

Prize: Stamp Set Winners Choice

My Project:

I decided to use the fun owl from Straight From the Nest cartridge and paper from DCWV Green Stack.  I also followed the sketch from Mojo Monday for the week and will be linking this up over there.  I will also link this up at Little Scrap Pieces for the Fun Friday Linky Party and Pause Dream Enjoy for the Friendship challenge.

I have a video to show you how it all came together...so please check it out!

Hope you will join us for this fun challenge over at Cut It Up and be sure to check out all the DT's projects for inspiration - they are all AWESOME!!!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

HIMCR Challenge #126 "Freestyle"

Challenge #126

Freestyle!

 

 My Project:

 

This week at HIMCR we have, I think, one of the hardest challenges "Freestyle".  Don't get me wrong, I love being able to do whatever I want, but it's so hard to decide what I want to do!  That's why I think other challenges are easier, because they give you a direction of what to create :)  So for my card, I wanted to use another new cartridge I bid and won on Ebay - Straight From the Nest.  I got a screamin' deal for this cartridge, so I was super excited to add it to my library!  I just decided to use the very first cut - this adorable little bird.  I also wanted to use the corner feature on this cartridge, so I used the scalloped corners.  My yellow base mat I embossed with the Birds and Swirls embossing folder and the scalloped mat that my bird is on is from Elegant Edges.  Both the scallop mat and bird are popped up with some foam tape for added dimension.  I also embossed the wing of the bird with Swiss Dots.  I basically used scraps for my pattern papers and my sentiment stamp is from a Fiskars mini stamp set.  The flat back hearts I am pretty sure are from Recollections from Michael's.