BBTB2 Just Because Cards Gingerbread Man

It's the last challenge of the year at BBTB2.  This week our talented designer, Julie chose our challenge.  She asked us to use the Gingerbread Man from Just Because Cards.  Now remember if you don't have this cartridge there are other cartridges with Gingerbread Men that you can use.  I made a cookie jar shaped card using my Gypsy.  I love making shaped cards as you can probably tell if you follow my blog.  This cookie jar is on the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I used the Cookies Label from the same cartridge.  My base card is kraft cardstock and I welded two cookie jar shadows to create it.  My printed paper on the front of the card with all the cute cooking theme is Creative Imaginations. I cut another rolling pin and mitt from the paper so I could layer them.  My gingerbread man was cut at 2.75" and I used a white gel pen to add his frosting trim.  For the inside of the card I cut another jar shape and used the hide contour feature so I could use it to place my sentiment on.  My sentiment was done on my computer.

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful, joyous and blessed Holiday Season with your families.  I hope you make wonderful memories.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

Here's something I don't do very often...a scrapbook page.  Even though my papercrafting habits started with scrapbooking, I enjoy making cards much more.  I suppose it's because by the time I started scrapbooking, my five children we're all grown and the grandchildren had started to come along.  I'm so far behind it seems like an impossible task to manage 38 years worth of pictures.  It occured to me not long ago that I really don't want to leave this earth with the task undone.  So I've vowed to get back to the scrapping in the new year.  It is my goal to have an album done for each of my children for Christmas next year as a gift for them.  This page however, is the first page of the family Christmas album that I'm starting. When I saw that Robyn had a challenge today over at My Pink Stamper I thought I'd play along.  I used the Winter Frolic cartridge to cut the Christmas bulbs.  I used the fit to length feature with the dial set at 11 1/2".  The title is also from the Winter Frolic cartridge and it's cut at 2".   

Paper Cutz Challenge #72

We're celebrating the New Year at Paper Cutz a little early with a challenge to use a banner.  I thought, what better to put on my banner than 2011 for a brand new year.  Hopefully, this card will help me recall what year it is.  For some unknown reason I always have a difficult time remembering the odd numbered years.  I think it's because all five of my children were born in even years.  At least that's what I tell myself.  I always go into my checkbook and add the year on several checks so I won't mess up.  LOL  I used the Cricut Celebration cartridge to make my banner.  The banner feature comes with the numbers cut into them so I thought it was the perfect choice.  I cut each one at 1.5".  I cut the shadow from a bright lime green cardstock and the numbers from black cardstock.  My background paper is Creative Imagination.  I cut the Happy New Year from Cricut's Celebrate With a Flourish. 

BBTB2 Joys of the Season Wreath

Our BBTB2 challenge this week was chosen by Julia.  She asked the DT to use the wreath from Joys of the Season.  It was a pretty simple cut and I just couldn't decide what to do until I was sorting through a bunch of my buttons and decided to use them to embellish.  I seem to have an overabundance of light green buttons.  About a week ago I decided to take my new Cricut Christmas Cards cartridge and cut out all the base shape cards so I would have a stack of ready made cards to use for Christmas.  This is the first one I've used, plenty more in the stack.  I also used the cartridge to cut the word Joy.

The Cutting Cafe To My Neighbor

Here's a quick little gift that I put together for a few neighbors.  I used The Cutting Cafe's HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO MY NEIGHBOR PRINTABLE STAMP SET.  I started out with a tin of these luscious mints from Trader Joe's.  I took a one inch strip of patterned paper and put it around the the tin.  I printed the stamp and added some holly and berries I cut from my Cricut Winter Woodland cartridge.  Tied on the gorgeous gingham ribbon and added the tag.  Easy peasy!  Took me about 10 minutes. 

Now I have to tell you, if you go to Trader Joe's now to look for these tins, they've discontinued them.  But they do have some luscious dark chocolate wedges with caramel in them and wedges of just plain dark chocolate.  The tins are the exact same size and will work equally as well.  If you just want the mints because they look yummy (and trust me they are) they sell them in 2 oz. bags now with no tin.  Guess they weren't as popular to anyone else as they were to me.  Glad I bought mine a month ago and put them away for little Christmas gifts.

Paper Cutz Challenge #71

This is my little Snowman Soup project for this week's Paper Cutz Challenge.  Mary asked us to use a snowman this week in our design.  This fantastic snowman image and poem are from The Cutting Cafe's Fun with Frosty the Snowman printable stamp set.  I simply printed it and cut it out.  I paper pieced the hat added a little glitter for the fur trim and a white pompom.  I colored his nose using a Copic marker.  The background paper is DCWV and I just lined the inside of the clear paint can with it.  I used a piece of the dp for the lid and added a sparkly silver and white snowflake.  Then I added assorted ribbon, lace and trims onto the handle.

Inside the can are the makings for a great cup of hot chocolate.  A package of Supreme hot cocoa mix, a few mini marshmallows and mini Hershey kisses that I placed in clear bags and added paper toppers to, and two mini candy canes.  Can't you just imagine what it will taste like?  This makes a cute little gift for co-workers, teachers or friends.

 Here's a close up view of the poem that you can get from The Cutting Cafe using this link.  This set comes with 31 images.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Don't forget to check out the rest of the snowman designs from the Design Team at Paper Cutz.

The Cutting Cafe Hangman

Are you looking for a stocking stuffer for a child or a quick gift?  I made this with a printable stamp set from The Cutting Cafe.  This Hangman Set comes with a sheet of four hangman cards with the alphabet printed at the bottom for crossing off and several sentiments.  I also used the Greeting Card folder as a holder for the game cards. I ran off six sheets of the cards (for 24 total) and cut them to 4.25" x 5".  The same size as a greeting card, perfect to fit into the Greeting Card folder. My dp is Paper Studio. I trimmed one of the hangman cards to use for the front of the folder and scattered the sentiments around, attaching the circle sentiment with a ribbon, jute cord and a button.