Crafty Cardz Challenge Make A Wish

Crafty Cardz (formerly Cricut Cardz) Ch#126 "Make A Wish!"

Make a child's birthday card using any cartridge(s).

Starts: Wed, Feb 27 

Ends: Tues, Mar 12 @ Noon EST
Prize: 1 set of Cardz TV Stamps 

Here is my project for this challenge:


Happy Wednesday!  Whew, it's been a crazy week for me.  My daughter is here in Florida visiting from Michigan.  We've been hitting all the tourist attractions including Universal Studios and DisneyWorld.  My feet are killing me, I'm exhausted and we still have lots to do.  I'll also be going on a scrapbook store bus tour this weekend.  Can't wait for that.  Two days on a bus visiting scrapbook stores from Tampa to Orlando.  I'm so glad that Mary gives the Design Team our assignments in advance so I've had this card done for quite some time.  The theme for this week is a child's birthday card.  Since I have a grandson that will be turning two soon I got a jump on his card.  In case you haven't heard, Mary's made some changes to the Cricut Cardz Challenge and is calling it Crafty Cardz now.  That means you can now use other electronic cutters, Big Shots, Cuttlebugs and digi stamps to create for the challenges.  I still went with my Cricut for this card and used the Birthday Bash cartridge for my bear in the wagon.  I also used my Cuttlebug and a QuicKutz photo corner die and my banners were cut with a My Creative Time die from the Chocolate Greetings set.  My sentiments on the banners are from the Cardz TV Stamps Make a Wish stamp set.  I cut the number 2 from the Cricut Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge and glittered it up before adding it to the balloon for a little sparkle and shine.  I added a couple googly eyes to my bear, but they make the bear look a little scary so if I ever used this cut again I'd leave them off.

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Paper Cutz #82 Color Challenge

I was a little skeptical (okay, more than a little) when I got Mary's DT challenge for this week at Paper Cutz.  It's a color challenge using black, white, red, blue and yellow.  I saw those colors and thought, what the heck am I going to do with those colors.  I really had to put my thinking cap on since these aren't colors I would normally use together.  But then it just came to me...black and yellow...a bee.  I didn't have any stamp images of a bee (not unusual, I don't have that many stamps) so I looked at my Cricut cartridges and low and behold, my new Birthday Bash cartridge had a bee image on it.  I love polka dots so decided to use some polka dot papers I found in my scrap bin.  I started with white cardstock and made a standard A2 card, added a black mat, and a red polka dot mat.  I cut my bee at 3.5".  The sentiment came from the same cartridge.

BBTB2 Birthday Bash-Armidillo

I was excited to use my new Birthday Bash cartridge for this week's BBTB2 challenge.  Krista asked us to use the armidillo cut.  As it turned out, a bunch of the DT didn't have this cartridge, so the challenge was altered to include a bird cut as alternate.  I just so happened to need a birthday card for one of my teenage grandson's so the armidillo worked well for me.  I decided to use the phrase feature cut for my card and included the party hat from the tag cut (shift key on).  I got out my sewing machine to add some stitching to this card.  I used scraps to put this card together so I'm not sure where the patterned paper came from.  This is a 5 x 6 1/2" card so my phrase is cut at 4 1/4".  The hat is cut at 2".  I added a white pom pom and lots of doodling with a white gel pen to finish this guy off.