BBTB2 Patriotic challenge

I can't believe it's almost time to celebrate the 4th of July as you can tell with my BBTB2 challenge post for today.  It seems like Easter was just a few weeks ago.  My life has been so complicated since then.  We bought a permanent place in Florida, traveled back to Michigan with the camper and have had nothing but problems since arriving at the beginning of May.  We've never had any problems with our camper, but they've hit full force since arriving.  When we first arrived our hot water tank broke.  So that repair was about $300.  Then we started having electrical problems--two batteries, two converters and hundreds of dollars later hopefully they are all fixed.  I've had a ton of health issues since we got here, too.  If it's not one thing it's another. 

So here I am again this week saying this was not the project I intended for today, but with all the problems I've encountered lately I'm lucky to have a project at all.  I was planning on making a banner to hang outside on my camper for the holiday.  Instead I have a card with a banner on it.  Having the electrical problems seriously cut into my available time to use my Cricut, along with trips to visit our kids.  Maybe I should invent a battery operated cutter.  I had to put this card together so quickly I don't even remember what cartridge I used for the banner pieces.  I think it was Something to Celebrate, but don't hold me to that.  The lettering came from the Varstiy Letters cartridge.  My papers are We R Memory Keepers. 

We just returned from a two day trip down to see my granddaughter in her first ballet concert.  Since her costume was red, white and blue I thought this would be the perfect post to add a couple photos of her (even though they're not the best quality).  She was so cute up on that stage and surprisingly graceful.  She tends to be like a bull in a china shop.  How she managed to keep from getting a hole in her tights I'll never know.  We enjoyed our time spent with her and her little sister.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you'll have the opportunity to join us this week at BBTB2 for our patriotic challenge.  You may use any Cricut cartridge on the patriotic project but it must be a new creation and have at least one Cricut cut on it.

Cardz TV Stamps Challenge #10 My Guy Father's Day project

We're making Father's Day projects this week at Cardz TV Stamps.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a big fan of creating cards for guys.  So Mary picked a great challenge for me this week with her My Guy theme.  I used the Cricut Something To Celebrate cartridge to make this shaped card.  I almost feel like I cheated because I totally used the manual to put this card together.  This cartridge has shaped cards on it and I followed the colors exactly as they were displayed in the manual.  That made this one quick and easy to put assemble.  I used the Cardz TV stamp set called Ticket Talk 2 for the sentiment in the center of the ribbon and on the tag which I cut from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge, I used the Cardz TV Stamps set called It's A Guy Thing.  I'll be giving this card to hubby for Father's Day.