BBTB2 Lovestruck Couples Heart

This week at BBTB2 our sweet DT sister, Susan, asked us to create using the couple's heart from the Lovestruck cartridge.  I don't have the cartridge so I pieced together my couple's heart using the Sweethearts cartridge.for the couple and the Cindy Loo cartridge for the heart.  I had intended to use my Gypsy to weld the two cuts together, but my Gypsy ran out of juice and I could not find my cord to recharge it.  It's simply ridiculous to lose anything under my current living arrangements.  I live in an RV and there are so few places for things to go missing.  So I had to cut the pieces individually and then hand piece them together.  Not exactly a smooth look, but it was the best I could do at the moment.  Anyway, my base card is kraft cardstock, with a red mat and a background mat of Jillybean paper.  I added a kraft cardstock scallop I cut from the Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge and embellished with a little red and white twine and red pearls.  You might be interested in knowing that after I finished the card I found out where my cord for my Gypsy was.  My husband picked it up and put it with his charging cords.  When he found me frantically looking through cupboards and drawers he asked what I was looking for.  When I told him I couldn't find my cord to recharge my Gypsy he said, "oh, that must be that cord I picked up the other day and put in my drawer. I thought it was the cord for my Skycaddy."  (His little toy he uses out on the golf course).  Mystery solved.  I hope you'll join our BBTB2 challenge this week.  Remember you don't have to use the Lovestruck cartridge.  You can substitute another cartridge, but must make a new creation for this challenge.

Cardz TV Stamps Valentine Blog Hop

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and the Cardz TV Stamps Design Team is hopping this weekend.  We're highlighting Valentine projects using some of the different Cardz TV Stamp sets.  I've used Mary's Sweet Talk stamp set.  I love this set because it features individual words that can be combined into phrases.  This is a little project that I put together to give my husband for Valentine's Day on Tuesday.  Do you ever look at something you have and think that you could repurpose it.  My little project started with a container I picked up at the grocery store on New Year's Eve.  I wanted to make a romantic dinner for my husband and I that night so I picked up some steaks to grill.  While I was in the meat section I passed by a display of shrimp cocktails placed into these cute containers.  The shrimp were hanging around the center that was filled with cocktail sauce.  I could not bring myself to throw the container away after our dinner because I thought it was so darn cute and I knew I could find some other purpose for it.  So I washed it out and put it in a cupboard.  A couple week's later I was shopping in a Walgreen's pharmacy and at the checkout counter there was a display of individual cupcakes for purchase.  It hit me right away that I could take that cupcake and put it into that saved container and decorate it up for Valentine's Day.  I purchased a red velvet cupcake because I thought it was the perfect color for a Valentine's treat.  To decorate the plastic container I cut a heart border from my new Cricut Ribbons and Rosette's cartridge.  I wrapped it around the cup portion where I was going to place the cupcake.  I cut a tag from Tags, Bags, Boxes and more to stamp my sentiment on.  I took the individual words from the stamp set and stamped the phrase You're my Cupcake onto the tag in warm red chalk ink.  I added a ribbon and attached it to the container with a glue dot.  Then I needed a card to go along with the treat.  I used the Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge to make my card.  Of course, what would be better than a cupcake card. 

I made my base card from white cardstock, the cupcake bottom from red cardstock and the frosting from pink cardstock.  I used the same sentiment but stamped it all the way across the frosting layer.  I added some pink glitter to the frosting and some red glitter to the heart for a little sparkle.  Almost looks good enough to eat, huh?  I know you'd love the chance to win two sets (your choice) of Cardz TV Stamps so make sure you leave a comment on the Cardz TV blog.  Of course, I'd appreciate it if you'd leave me some love here, too.  Have fun hopping and have a sweet Valentine's Day.

The Cutting Cafe Candy Sentiment Set

Looking for a fun presentation for some of your favorite candies.  This week at The Cutting Cafe the Design Team is featuring projects made with the Candy Sentiment Sets.  There are individual sets made to go with Jelly Beans,  Boston Baked Beans, Jolly Ranchers, Lollipops, Pop Rocks, Red Hots, Sugar Babies, Tootsie Rolls, Crushed Soda and Star Bursts.  There are background papers that print out approximately 8 x 10" to go along. The matching sentiment tags have catchy little phrases on them.  My husband and I are jelly bean freaks so that's the set I used for my treats.  I also used the Jelly Bean Goody Bag Holder Cutting File and Template.  This little treat bag couldn't be simpler to put together.  First I printed out the jelly bean background paper, then loaded it onto my cutting mat and cut the goody bag holder out.  I filled a cellophane bag with jelly beans, wrapped the holder around it and tied it together with a yellow gingham ribbon.  All I needed to do after that was print the sentiment tag, cut it out and attach it with some twine.  Easy peasy.  These would make great treat holders for Easter Baskets or classroom treats when jelly beans are a little more accesible.  The whole Design Team's projects will be posted on The Cutting Cafe Blog by Thursday so you'll want to head over and check them out for more fabulous candy inspiration.

BBTB2 Sweethearts Tag

Time for a new challenge at BBTB2.  This week's hostess is the ever sweet Shelly and she asked the DT to create a project using any of the tags on the Sweethearts cartridge.  Now I know that there are other people like me that often don't use their cartridges to their full potential or don't even realize some of the features on the cartridges.  That was the case for me with the tags on Sweethearts.  I didn't even realize there was this tag feature and had never used it.  What a quick and easy way to make a tag for a gift.  Just because the cartridge is called Sweethearts and you tend to think of love or weddings doesn't mean you can't adapt it to some other celebration.  Here I've used the tag with a gift on it to make a birthday tag.  I simply cut the shadow for the tag at 4" from kraft cardstock.  I cut the background layer of the tag from a patterned paper and then cut the top layer from white cardstock.  I embellished with a pearl at the center of the bow on the giftbox, added a strip of the print paper, then added a jute bow.  Finsihed it off with a stamped sentiment and I was done.  I hope you can play along with the challenge this week.  Please make sure your project is new.  If you don't have the Sweethearts cartridge you can use a tag from any other Cricut cartridge.

Cardz TV Stamps Tickled Pink

Today at Cardz TV Stamps Mary asked the Design Team to create a Tickled Pink card.  I immediately thought a baby girl card would be perfect.  I loved this little baby I cut from the Cricut Something to Celebrate cartridge.  It made me think of the pink blanket I wrapped all four of my girls in when they came home from the hospital.  That was a long time ago since the girls are 38, 34, 32 and 30 now.  Geez, how can that be?  Anyway, I started with a white cardstock A2 size card and topped it with a pink mat from the DCWV Sweet stack.  Then I went to one of my favorite cartridges Elegant Edges for my fancy mat.  I cut my little baby at 3.5" again using my DCWV mat stack.  A little rick rack and a pink bow embellish her pretty pink blanket.  Then I added a happy Peachy Keen face.  My Sweet Baby sentiment is from the Cardz TV stamp set called Sweet Talk and you can find it here.  Now, I know you'll want to make your own Tickled Pink card for the challenge to have a chance to win a Cardz TV Stamps set of your choice.  The challenge will run from today, Friday, February 3 to Sunday, February 5.  Have fun creating.  You can link your card at the Cardz TV blog.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #101 Be My Valentine

This week's theme at the Cricut Cardz Challenge is Be My Valentine.  Mary asked the Design Team to create a card with a Valentine theme using any Cricut cartridge and colors.  All my Valentine cards this year are made with Jillibean Soup patterned papers, kraft, red and white cardstock.  I was very excited to use my new Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge.  Of course, I had to use the rosette with the the heart edging.  I cut my scalloped heart from the Sweethearts cartridge at 2.25" and added a little doodling with a white gel pen then attached it to the rosette.  My sentiment is from Mary's Cardz TV Stamp set called Sweet Talk and you can find it here.  Just to be a little different when I put the stamp on my acrylic block I gave it a little curve.  I hope you'll join the challenge this week with your own Valentine project.

The Cutting Cafe All About Valentine's

This week at The Cutting Cafe the Design Team members are doing Valentine Projects.  There are lots of great Valentine sets to choose from at The Cutting Cafe.  I decided to work with a circle sentiment from the All About Valentines set.  I'm making all my Valentine's cards this year using a kraft, red, and white color scheme.  My patterned papers are all Jillibean Soup.  I started this card with a kraft cardstock base in a standard A2 size, topped it with a red mat and a checked mat then rounded the top corners.  My scalloped heart was cut from the Cricut Sweetheart cartridge at 3.5".  I added a 1" polka dot strip wrapped with twine.  Next I used a doily from Martha Stewart and printed my circle sentiment right onto the doily.  I added the doily to the card with pop dots to finish it off.