Cricut Cardz Challenge #68

We're halfway through the work week now and that means it's Wednesday, Cricut Cardz Challenge day.  This week our challenge is to use a house image from any cartridge, a flourish and some lace.  I used the Cricut Lite Sugar and Spice cartridge for this cute little Victorian cottage image.  I used my Gypsy to make it into a shaped card.  My base card is made by welding two of the house shapes, flipping one and attaching them at the top then cutting them from kraft cardstock.  I also used the hide contour key to take out all the markings.  I cut another house shape from a medium brown cardstock and attached it to the front of the card.  I used a pale yellow textured cardstock for the house layer and textured white cardstock for the windows, door and trim.  I made the Welcome to OUR Neighborhoods with my computer and printed in brown ink.  The lace trim is added at the mid-section of the house and my flourish is above the attic window.  I cut it at 1/2" from the Cindy Loo cartridge and added a yellow rhinestone to the flower center.  I wish I had a cute little cottage like this to live in, on the shores of a pretty lake, in the summer, with the sun shining down.  Sorry, my daydream got away from me.  It's this miserable cold weather that's still hanging around here in Michigan.  Hope you can join the challenge this week at Cricut Cardz with a house card of your own.  Don't forget to add the lace and a flourish.

Easter Bunny Glitterbabe Image

Isn't this the cutest darn image?  I fell in love with it when I saw it on my good friend Stef's blog.  This is her image and you can find it here at her Glitterbabe's Shop.  This is a 5.25" square card (white cardstock) and I topped it with a scrap of Heidi Grace paper.  I colored my image with COPICS then matted it onto light blue cardstock and placed it on a scalloped square I cut from Bazzill textured cardstock with Cricut's Storybook cartridge.  I added a little ribbon and my tag sentiment is a Cutting Cafe Easter Mini word that I punched with a Marvy tag punch. 

BBTB2 Disney and Blog Hop

I can't believe it's the last Monday of the month already!  The month of March just flew by.  But, that's okay because it means Spring is here and the day's are getting warmer and brighter.  This week's hostess at BBTB2, Maria, asked the DT to use a Disney cut.  I recently got the Toy Story cartridge specifically to scrap this photo.  I also have a Buzz Lightyear photo that I will be using it for.  After doing this page and the Woody cut, I have to say, I may put off that other layout for awhile.  This was definitely the hardest layering I've encountered from a Cricut cartridge.  This guy is cut at 7.5" and some of the parts were so tiny I had a difficult time trying to figure out what they were.  The photo in the manual is way to small to get a detailed look.  Lucky for me I could look at this photo for reference.  My background cloud paper was printed with my Cricut Imagine Best Friends cartridge.  The title, photo frame and character are all cut from the Toy Story cartridge.

The Cutting Cafe Egg Sentiment Shaped Card

There's an adorable new shaped card set at The Cutting Cafe called Egg Sentiment Shaped Card Set.  It comes with an egg shaped card, scalloped edge topper, envelope with an egg edge, 8 patterned papers in two different sizes and 4 sentiment borders.  The adorable little chick I used on my card came from another Cutting Cafe set called Easter Set 1.  I was always fascinated with fuzzy, cute, cuddly chicks and ducks when I was young and was always trying to get my mom to let me get one at Easter time.  I never convinced her.  Now I understand they aren't house pets.  LOL  I cut my base card from white cardstock and topped it with the scalloped shape cut from Bazzill Basic Dots in yellow.  Then I printed and cut the black polka dot piece topping it with the shaped sentiment.  I cut my chick from a scrap of yellow polka dot and embossed the egg shell with Cuttlebug's  Swiss Dot folder.  For some reason this little chick made me think of the book Chicken Little that I loved so much when I was a child.  It must be a picture from the book that jogs my memory.  Anyway...I used dimensionals on the egg shell and a second layer of flowers. I added little tiny pearls in the center of the flowers that I colored orange with my Copics.  Here's a little hint for you when you're working with circle or oval shaped cards.  Trim a little off the bottom of the card back straight across and when it's standing it won't wobble. 

I will use this card for the following challenges:

• Aly's Sunday Challenge-Spring
• Daring Cardmakers-Book (Chicken Little)
• Pattie's Creations-Flowers and Pearls
• Southern Girls-Add an animal
• Stamp Something-Spring
• Totally Papercrafts-Cuddly and Cute

The Cutting Cafe Shaped Basket card

Here's a shaped card I made from The Cutting Cafe Easter Basket Shaped Card Template and Cutting File.  I used Bazzill pink textured cardstock for the base card, basket handles and front pieces.  My flowered backing paper is DCWV Girl Nursery Stack.  The banner on the front of the card is from another Cutting Cafe set called Easter Banners Colored Set.  This set comes with two sizes of the banners colored in pink and yellow or you can print them in black and white and color them to match a project like I did.  The eggs in the basket were just cut from scraps and I embossed and inked one of them to add a little texture. I also stitched the basket top with my sewing machine to make sure the front pieces didn't come off.  I finished my basket off with a bow and button. 

Paper Cutz and Three Patterned Papers

Friday---Hooray!!!  Made it to the end of another week.  Hopefully your weekend will include some time to craft.  Perhaps you can join this week's Paper Cutz challenge for a card, layout or project using three patterend papers.  This challenge gave me a chance to highlight my mini album I made for pictures of my 9th grandchild due in May.  I'm always making things for someone else and rarely do anything for myself.  I made this album for myself as a little brag book.  It's just as exciting to have the ninth grandchild as it was the first.  We will travel from Michigan to Virginia to see this baby, so a lot of family members here in Michigan won't have the opportunity to see the baby personally.  I will be taking lots of pictures to bring home to share and I wanted something cute to put them in.  I absolutely fell in love with this line of double-sided papers from Best Creation, Inc. called Safari Boy.  I love the colors, texture, shiny glitter highlights, patterns and adorable little animals. I purchased only four sheets to mix and match into a 6 x 6 album.  The first picture is of the front cover after binding it with my Bind It All.  Sorry for the glare on the photo, I put an acrylic sheet on top to protect the front and back covers.  I took pictures of the inside pages before binding so I could lay them flat.  Below are page two and three of the album and I used three of the patterned papers together on page two...a check, a diamond and the lion heads that I fussy cut for the edge.  The third page uses a polka dot for the banner.  I cut the banner from Cricut's Birthday Bash cartridge and the letters for the banner from Plantin' Schoolbook.  I added buttons to the corners of the journaling square and a little fussy cut lion above the banner.

For pages four and five of the album I used the checked background with the diamond border. I cut two scalloped squares from the Storybook cartridge and trimmed them with a little rick rack. The joy circle is cut from Lacy Labels and I added a journaling block in the other corner.

The striped edge I used on pages six and seven is a scrap from my bin that I thought coordinated well enough. I added a jounaling box and a sentiment then a couple more of the fussy cut lion heads. It doesn't show up in the photo but the word cuddly is glittered and there is glitter on the lions heads.

I punched a border for pages eight and nine with a Fiskars punch and added another journaling block and the adorable elephant with glitter.

For pages ten and eleven below, I used the other half of the scallop shaped paper piece that I used on the front and back covers then added the little alligator in one corner and a journaling block in the other and added a couple buttons to each. 

The last two pages, thirteen and fourteen, have scalloped cirlces that I cut from Cricut's Easter 2010 cartridge and added sentiments and bows on each circle. 

The last photo is the back cover.  I was able to put this album together in about four hours using all the pre-made elements.  I almost forgot to tell you that I used chipboard for the album pages to make it sturdy.  I hope you enjoyed looking at my album.  I sure enjoyed making something for myself and can't wait until I am able to see that baby and take the pictures to add to the album.

Cardz TV Bunny Challenge/Contest

There's a contest going on over at Cardz TV.  The challenge is to use a bunny on your card.  One bunny just wasn't enough, so I have a dozen.  If you're like me you have a million scraps.  I put some to good use here by cutting each bunny from a different paper.  My bunny is from Cricut's Create A Critter cartridge.  I decided that my bunnies would be viewed from the back so I could add cute little tail puffs on each of them.  This card is a 5.25" square.  I added a pink mat and a light green polka dot mat to the top of white cardstock.  My bunnies are cut at 1.25".  I added a computer generated sentiment to the inside of the card that says Hoppy Easter.