Charisma,Fantabulous Cricut,PapertakeWeekly,PileItOn

The Challenges--

• Charisma (http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ )-Something for the kiddies
• Fantabulous Cricut (http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/) - Balloon & Birthday
• Papertake Weekly (http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ ) -Lilac & Lemon
• Pile It On (http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/ )-Pastel colors

I have four daughters with birthdays in April so I decided I needed to get busy making their birthday cards. Here is the first I made for the above challenges. While checking the entries for cards on the Cricut Cardz Challenge (of which I am on the Design Team) I came across a card that mentioned the brand new Cricut challenge site Fantabulous Cricut. I hadn't heard about it, probably because I don't spend much time on the message boards at the Cricut website. How could I pass that up, it's what I'm all about. For their first challenge they asked for a card incorporating two things, balloons and the word birthday. My balloons came from the Celebration cartridge and they're cut at 1 1/4" from a yellow print paper that has been in my stash forever but I don't know where it came from. The same goes for the purple print that I used for my package which I cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge at 2 1/2". My circle sentiment came from The Cutting Cafe. This week's Papertake challenge wanted a card using the colors of lilac and lemon and since they are pastels this card also works for the Pile It On challenge. Last but not least Charisma cards is looking for something for the kiddies. I used some yellow and lavender Stickles for a little sparkle and shine.