BBTB2 Heart challenge

 This week's challenge at BBTB2 is to use more than one heart and the Lovestruck cartridge.  I don't have this cartridge so I used hearts from the Sweethearts cartridge. The heart I used is on page 72 of the manual.  I made this tri-fold card using my Gypsy and welding a circle and a rectangle together, then folding it in thirds.  My base card is made with a pink cardstock from Colorbok the back is white which allowed me to add my sentiments in red for the inside.  My DP is Cloud 9 Be Loved.  This card when folded is the same size as an A2 card.  My heart on the front is cut at 3".  I used red cardstock for the shadow layer, pink for the top heart layer and white for the doily looking layer.  The cute litte printed heart ribbon is from Michael's.  I embellished the front with pearls centered in each scallop, a heart charm and some doodling with a Sakura 3-D white gel pen.  Next came the first inside layer.

I traced the front flap onto my DP and hand cut it for the left side then added a piece cut 4 x 5 1/2" on the right side.  On top of this I added a scalloped circle cut from Mini Monograms at 5" from white cardstock and trimmed it so it fit under the front flap without showing.  I added the Hugs & Kisses sentiment (found on page 36) which I cut from red cardstock at 2 1/2".  Of course, I couldn't let it sit without adding some doodling using red on the scallops and white on the sentiment.  Now it was time for the inside.

Using my Gypsy I searched for an appropriate I Love You.  I found exactly what I was looking for on the Lyrical Letters cartridge.  I cut this sentiment at 4" from red cardstock and again added some doodling.  Finally I added the Happy Valentine's Day stamp from Inkadinkado that I purchased last year at JoAnn's from the $1 bin.  I stamped with red ink and then traced over the top of it with the 3-D red gel pen.  This may well become my signature shape card, I love it so much.  I suppose someone will come along and tell me there is a cartridge that has a card on it this shape, but since I made this one by welding two shapes together, I kind of feel like it's all mine.  I just love how this one turned out.  Thanks for stopping by.

Paper Cutz Challenge #76

Wow! I can't believe it's Friday already and the last Friday of the month.  Wasn't Christmas just yesterday?  We've moved on to the next holiday...Valentine's Day.  Mary asked us to create something for Valentine's Day using cake, cupcake, cookies or candy.  I had this great shaped card from The Cutting Cafe that came to mind immediately.  This is the CANDY SHAPED CARD SET AND PDF TEMPLATE.  I printed, cut and assembled.  It's that simple...well, not quite, but almost.  I added a lot of glitter in both pink and crystal, added a little stitching, a heart I cut with my Cricut and a heart button.  Finished it off with some white organdy ribbon.  Hope you get a chance to play along with our sweet challenge this week.  I'm sure we're going to see some yummy stuff.

My Pink Stamper Imagine Pink Wednesday Challenge

My Pink Stamper has a challenge going for a card with something yummy on it for Imagine Pink Wednesday.  I used my Imagine to make this yummy cake card.  Base card is A2 white cardstock with a piece of green cardstock on top.  The polka dot paper note card was printed and cut from my Imagine along with the sentiment and piece of cake.  I cut all the layers and added pop dots for dimension.  There are a lot of things I like about the Imagine machine.  Being able to print my own paper from white cardstock is right up there at the top, but I also enjoy being able to whip up a card in no time at all with all the elements so easily at my disposal.  From start to finish, this card took six minutes.

Just For Fun

I don't often have the time to play along with any challenges anymore just for FUN, so I'm taking a break and making something just for me, 'cuz I want to.  I checked a few blogs for challenges and these are the ones I've decided would work for me:

Crafty Cardmakers-Flowers
Daring Cardmakers-It's All About Me
Freshed Brewed Challenges-Photo Inspiration
Mojo Monday-Sketch
Penny's Challenges-Anything
Stamping Vacation-Pick 3-Buttons, Chipboard, Floss

I have to say my real inspiration came from my blogging buddy Stef (aka Glitterbabe).  Yesterday she posted a card using chipboard and said that she never used it.  Well, neither do I.  So I challenged myself, on the spot, that today I was going to make something with chipboard.  Stamping Vacation has a Pick 3 challenge going where you have to pick three items to use on your card from a list.  Chipboard is one of the items (I also used buttons and floss).  I have this big box of chipboard that's been sitting in my studio for about five years.  Every once in awhile I get the box out and look through it, then put the lid back on and put it away.  I guess I'm put off by the fact that I have to do something with it.  Can't just use it looking like plain old cardboard.  So this morning I got it out, having decided to go with a flower theme for Crafty Cardmakers, grabbed some petals and went to work.  I covered the petals with a bright pink paper from Me & My Big Ideas, trimmed and chalked the edges.  I went with pink after seeing the photo inspiration at Freshly Brewed with pink flowered bedding.  I knew I needed to use bright, vibrant colors because after all this card is all about me, just like Daring Cardmakers wants.  Not to say I'm a bright color person.  I used them to cheer myself up because it's another dull, dreary winter day in Michigan.  I hate, hate, hate winter.  I'm looking forward to Spring, which is still quite a way off.  So now I had all my elements and decided to use the fabulous sketch from Mojo Monday. 

I placed my petals into a flower shape and mounted them onto a doily.  I added a little bow to one petal and a button with floss to the center.  I know a  lot of people just put the buttons on without adding floss and leave the holes showing.  It's the type A personality thing that just doesn't allow me to do that.  I can't stand to see those holes sitting there with no thread in them (or maybe it's my sewing background).  Then I stamped my Happy Spring from Stampendous onto the same pink petal paper, trimmed it and added a pop dot under it.  Now doesn't this card just shout Spring.  Now I just have to put my blinders on and not glance out the window to see the bare maple tree and snow and I'll be all set.

The Cutting Cafe Pillow Box SVG

I was so excited today to find out that Regina at The Cutting Cafe has converted some of her files to SVG.  I just got SCAL software from my husband for Christmas.  This is part of the PILLOW BOX SET that comes with a plain box, heart, star, circle and frame cut outs.  I was looking for a container of some sort to put these yummy candy coated dark chocolate mints in.  They came from Trader Joe's.  I whipped this together in about 10 minutes.  I cut the box and added acetate to the window before assembling it.  I tied a bow around the end, added a tag and heart button.  The tag came from another Cutting Cafe set called VALENTINE'S DAY MINI WORDS.  I used a tag punch from Marvy.

BBTB2 Once Upon A Princess Butterfly Layout

It's Monday and time for another BBTB2 challenge.  This week's challenge is to use the butterfly from Once Upon A Princess found on page 59.  I use this cartridge often to scrapbook little girl pages. This is my youngest grandchild, Paige.  She's a tiny, dainty little thing with the biggest blue eyes.  She is 17 months old now and just grew out of her 9 month size clothes.  She is very precious as the title says.  She was born premature after my daughter was in a car accident at the end of her 7th month of pregnancy and has overcome numerous developemental struggles.  She still has kidney problems but we're hoping she will eventually outgrow them.  According to her pediatrician they have not gotten any worse, but stay the same.  She had a MRI last week to check the development of her brain.  We are waiting for those results.  But she is walking now which is very encouraging.

I have to thank our fabulous design sister, Lori, for choosing this cute butterfly for our challenge this week.  I had already decided to use this title for this picture so it worked out perfectly for me.  I used white, pink, purple and blue cardstock for the elements on this page.  I think the background paper is from Paper Studio, but it has been in my paper rack for a long time.  I just stumbled upon it the other day.  I know what you're saying... I hear it from my husband all the time, "you don't even know what paper you have".  I'm old, I have a bad memory.  It's not because I have too much.  LOL  My butterflies are cut at 2 1/2 and 3 inches.  The title is cut at 4 3/4" and is found on the same page as the butterfly.  I scattered all the little hearts that were leftover cuts from the butterflies around the page.  I couldn't stand to throw them away.  I hope you can join us at BBTB2 for the butterfly challenge this week.  Remember, if you don't have Once Upon A Princess you can use a butterfly from another Cricut cartridge.

More Dr. Seuss Baby Album Pages and ultrasound of grandchild #9

My next installment of my Dr. Seuss album for grandchild #9 comes with an announcement and great news.  We finally know what sex the new baby will be.  Clearly you can see in this fantastic ultrasound picture we got yesterday.  We're very excited that finally we have a baby that will carry on the family name.  Since our first four kids were girls their names changed with marriage.  But now our son is having a son and we're thrilled.

Sorry, couldn't help doing a little bragging.  Anyway on to the layout pages.  These two pages will be for pictures of all the proud family members.  This baby has three sets of grandparents and three sets of great grandparents to meet, not to mention lots of aunts, uncles and cousins. 

All the miniature books were downloaded from Seussland.com.  The title was printed with a Dr. Seuss font as well as the quote.

Thanks for looking in.  My next pages of the scrapbook will feature Horton the elephant and his little friends.  Check back in a few days to see it.