Paper Cutz Challenge #65

This week Mary asked the Paper Cutz design team to make a breast cancer awareness card.  You're probably all tired of seeing my breast cancer awareness cards by now, but it is the cause that is the most important to me because I am a SURVIVOR.  This is the last breast cancer card I will post this month, I promise.  For my card I used a digital stamp set from The Cutting Cafe.  Here is the link for the ribbon card if you would like to get it for yourself and here is the link for the sentiment and the pink flowered ribbon on top. 

The Cutting Cafe

This is the first card I've been able to make since arriving home from our month long trip in our RV.  It is so nice to be home in my design studio/craft room.  I missed all the stuff that I didn't take with me.  I love how this card turned out.  I used The Cutting Cafe's THANKSGIVING DAY...PRINTABLE STAMP SET for this card.  The frame that says Happy Thanksgiving and the sentiment are the stamps I used.  This printable stamp set has 26 images including the most adorable little turkey, though I didn't use it on this card.  But I've got some ideas in my head for that little guy. 

This is a standard A2 card made from kraft cardstock.  I cut the scalloped edges and the scalloped circle using my Cricut Mini Monograms cartridge.  I like to use my fit to page feature to cut out a big scalloped square.  Then I just cut pieces of it as I want depending on my design.  It is nice to have these big squares on hand for cards.  Sometimes I just take a bunch of different colors of cardstock and cut out several at a time as long as I have the machine on and ready.

I got to add a little zigzag stitching to my card today.  I never get to take my sewing machine with me when we travel because it takes up too much room.  I'm planning on looking for a small machine that will travel well before we take off for Florida for the winter months.  I saw a really cute one while we were traveling that would be perfect, but I couldn't get it because I had to buy a new laptop and printer while we were gone after my computer crashed and my printer cord broke.   It was really inconvenient of them to both break like that.  LOL  My poor husband...he was planning on getting me a new laptop for Christmas.  I guess I shouldn't say poor husband.  Now he doesn't have to shop for me!!!

Thanks for dropping by today.  Make sure you head over to The Cutting Cafe to take a look at Regina's latest stamp sets.  She just came out with a Christmas Bingo set sure to be a hit with my grandkids...the Halloween Bingo sure was.  I'll be working on Christmas Bingo tomorrow.  Starting in November I will be posting a great Christmas Album that I have been working on.  It is another great Cutting Cafe set called Christmas Daily.  This is a quick and easy album to put together for your children or better yet, grandchildren.  You make a page for each day in December until Christmas and can add photos or journaling for each day.  I can't wait to give the one I'm making to my two granddaughters.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #48

For this week's Cricut Cardz Challenge Mary asked us to make a Thanksgiving card using any cartridge and any colors.  I used Designer's Calendar for this Give Thanks sentiment.  I used cream cardstock and dp from DCWV Amber Autumn.  I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the bottom half of my A2 card then added the dp to the top.  My border stamp is a Fiskars punch.  I cut the Give Thanks at 2.5".  As you read this, my husband and I are headed home from our month long RV trip.  We should be home by this evening.  It was a fantastic trip visiting the states of Alabama, N. Carolina and Virginia.  It will be nice to be home and in my craft room again.  My Cricut Imagine machine came just a couple days before we left on our trip and I really didn't have the chance to play with it much.  I had no idea it would be so big and I wouldn't be able to take it with me when I traveled.  I can't wait to play with it some more. 

BBTB2 Banner Challenge

Now here is something that was a blast to make. This is my banner I made for the BBTB2 challenge this week.  Our incredibly talented DT member Beth asked us to make something using the banner feature from Country Life. I don't have that cartridge so I used my Celebrations cartridge to design this Halloween banner for my fireplace mantle. I cut my triangle pieces at 7.75".  I used Don Juan for my letters with the shadow feature on and cut them at 5".  My little ghosts on each end was cut from Paper Dolls Dress Up at 5".  This was really quick and easy to put together by stringing the pieces onto ribbon.

You can see in this close up that I added a big bow on each end and a button tied on with hemp cord.  I also added some doodling with Sakura 3-D gel pens in white and black. I made a shadow for my ghost from grey cardstock using my Magic Matter because there is no shadow feature on PDDU.  If you've never seen the Magic Matter Tool it's a small metal disk with a whole in the center that you stick a pencil through and then just trace around your image onto paper. Really easy for those cuts that don't have a shadow. This project was so much fun to make I'm already planning another similar project for Christmas. Just imagine the possibilities for all the other holidays. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

The Cutting Cafe HALLOWEEN TREATS FOR YOU

 Now here's a sweet Halloween Treat idea.  I made this little treat bag for a friend that I will be visiting tomorrow.  I used a couple digital stamp sets from The Cutting Cafe to make this.  The first set I used is the HALLOWEEN TREATS JUST FOR YOU set.  From that set I used the bag topper piece with Happy Halloween printed around the edge and the cute little tag that says A Little Something Just For You.  The second set I used is the HALLOWEEN MINI COLORED set for the little candy corn that is pop-dotted in the center of the circle sentiment which also came from the hALLOWEEN TREATS JUST FOR YOU set.

My printed paper in the background with the candy corn on it is from a Cloud 9 Specialty paper stack.  I added a small orange button that I threaded onto purple ribbon.  I know my friend is going to love this little treat I made for her.  If you're thinking of filling little treat bags for Halloween this is the set for you.  This HALLOWEEN TREATS JUST FOR YOU printable stamp set features 32 images...black and white and colored images..The Candy toppers come in two different sizes..(only one size is shown)...they come in approx. 4.5 by 5 inches unfolded (half of this when folded) & approx. 3.5 by 3.5 inches unfolded (half of that when folded).

Paper Cutz Challenge #64

This week's Paper Cutz Challenge is for a Halloween card using stars, circles, diamonds or crescents.  As you can see I used a star background paper which came from The Cutting Cafe and it's called Halloween Mini Colored Set.  The sentiment circle is from the All Around Halloween set also from The Cutting Cafe.

I used my Cricut to cut the black scalloped circle and the black circle under the witch shoe image.  I added a little doodling with a white 3-D Sakura gel pen.  It doesn't show well in the picture but I added a little Stickles to the shoes.  Then I added the black furry stuff (I'm sure there's a name for that stuff, but I don't know) and a green polka dot ribbon.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #47 Breast Cancer Awareness

Cricut Cardz Challenge is having a Breast Cancer Awareness challenge this week.  It wasn't my week to have a DT card, but of course, I couldn't let this challenge go by without adding a card since I'm a SURVIVOR.  I used the Stand and Salute cartridge along with The Cutting Cafe's Think Pink digital stamp set to create this card.  My background paper is Melissa Francis breast cancer paper called Hope.  I used the frame cut from the Stand and Salute cartridge and cut it at 6 1/2" from pink cardstock with the fit to length feature on to make it fit on a standard A2 card made of white cardstock.  Before placing the frame onto the card I covered the front with the dp.  I printed "Think Pink" and placed it onto pink cardstock.  The circle sentiment was simply printed and cut out then  mounted with dimensional tape.