Challenge Me Monday #51

Here is my submission for this week's challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut.  The challenge is green and gold on a square card.  Somehow out of all my cartridges (which isn't many)  I don't have one that has a shamrock on it.  So I busted out DS and welded three hearts and a "C" together off of the Jubilee cart.  Hope you all like it!  :)

Wacky Wednesday #23-Color Challenge

This is my first Wacky Wednesday Challenge at More Than Favors.  The challenge is to use the colors pink, green and brown.   I cut the boot from the Paisley cart and the flowers were cut from Pagoda.  These were actually the second set of flowers that I picked out to use.  The first bunch looked atrocious when I started putting the card together.  I hate that!  I have something in mind and then it just doesn't look right when I put it together.  But I think these flowers turned out pretty cute.  :)

Challenge Me Monday #44

This is for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #44.  I chose to use my poor neglected Pagoda cart.  :(  I also used some dazzles which I have had forever and never used.  I made this card for my mom, hopefully she won't check out my blog before I give it to her.     

My Pink Stamper Design Team 2011 Challenge

Here is my submission for the My Pink Stamper design team.  The challenge is to make something with your Cricut or Imagine with the colors pink, green and brown.  I hope you all like it.  I had fun making this card.  I love how the girl turned out, she's soo cute!

The recipe is:

Rock Princess  Keahi cut at 4 3/4 inches

Paper from The Paper Co.  for the girl and metallic paper effects by Canson for her crown

The green paper is also from The Paper Co.  

Embossed with Sizzix large snowball folder

The pink striped paper is a piece of scrap I had laying around

Bronze heart brad from Eyelet Outlet

Ribbons are basic spools from A.C. Moore

Sentiment is from an older stamp I have but I'm sure there are many sets that have this saying out there.  

And a little glitz on the crown.  :)

Sleigh Ride

Every year it seems like I have less and less Christmas decorations.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Well I have been making some each fall to fill in.  

This was a cheapo black frame that I painted white and then aged it with a smoky glaze.  Then I just took a piece of glittered card stock as a background.  I cut the sleigh and the holly from the Christmas Cheer cartridge and the snowflakes from Accent Essentials.  The mat was a plain white so I added a white metallic paper over it and wrapped it with silver thread.  

Now I just need to find the perfect spot for it.
I'm linking to these parties.
Show and Share Day at Just a Girl.

Goody Bags for a road trip

Road trips can stink when you have kids that are bored.  Yes?  So I'm trying to put together some things in a bag that they will get the morning we start off on our journey.  Because sometimes movies just don't cut it in the car.  I bought some plain red gift bags and decorated them Mickey style.

I used the cricut for the circles but I had to freehand the Mickey gloves.  Not an easy feat for me, the non-drawing person in this house.  Anything else artistic I can handle but I can barely draw a stick figure.  Anywho...I glued them on and added glitter.  I added a Disney phrase sticker on the backside and have started filling them up with coloring books, crayons, notebooks, autograph books for the characters to sign, a little toy.  Next week I will have another post on how to make a travel game which will also going in the bags.  :)

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #35 and Cricut Cardz Challenge #50

I used the wreath cut from Christmas Cheer and used the middle of the cuts as the extra ornaments. 

Check out the other great projects at Fantabulous Cricut and at Cricut Cardz Challenge

Birthday card

This was for my little red head's birthday last week.  She wanted the motorcycle girl from the Rock Princess cartridge on her card so, of course, I obliged.  :)  I added the flame from the flaming heart on the same cart.  Love this cart, so many possibilities with it!

Saint Nicholas already?

 I don't have many wall hangings for holidays.  Mostly figurines and other knick knacks to put around. I'm changing that and making my own holiday wall art.  I got this great graphic from the Graphics Fairy. Added some pretty scrapbooking paper on top of the mat.  And since the paper wasn't big enough to cover the mat in one piece, I put the lace and ribbon over the "seam".  Put it all in a frame I wasn't using anymore.  Easy, easy.

Vintage Looking Christmas Ornament

I know it's a little early for Christmas stuff but I've had this project sitting and waiting for me for a year now.  I made these as little gifts for my family last year at Thanksgiving but never made myself one.  (Isn't that how it always goes?)  It is made from an empty spool of ribbon, a little paint, a vintage looking Christmas card, scrapping paper, ribbon, and glitter glue.
Linking to these parties.

Sumo's Sweet Stuff  "Market Yourself Monday"

Thanksgiving card

I'm entering this card I made with both the Happy Hauntings cart and the Accent Essentials cart into the Falling Leaves challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog.

Yummy cupcakes

My daughter had her 7th birthday this last week and these are the cupcake treats I sent into school with her.  They turned out so cute, I couldn't help but post them on here.  :)  I used the Rock Princess cartridge to make the picks to put in the cupcakes.  

Sleepy Hollow Silhouette

I bought some inexpensive frames last week at Walmart for my daughters' school pictures but when I got them home I decided I wanted some nicer ones, or should I say more durable.  My husband likes the headless horseman cut out on the Happy Hauntings cartridge so I made him an awesome halloween picture.   A tip for this headless horseman cut (there are two different horsemen on this cart) is to double it's size if you want it large.  I cut it first at 7 1/2 inches and it was way too small.  For the size in the frame I cut it at 14 inches.  (the frame is 11x14)  The RIP was cut at 2 1/2 inches and I used some chalk on it to give it  a mossy look, although I'm not sure it shows in the picture.  The background paper was one I found at Jo-ann's in a clearance bin.   I'm entering Challenge #31 at Fantabulous Cricut and linking to these parties.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

Here is my entry for the winter challenge over at My Pink Stamper.  Hope you like it.  I had fun working on it and now I'm in the mood to make more Christmas cards.  Yay!  Maybe I can get ahead of schedule this year.  :)

Spooky ghosts

I was inspired to make something today and I wanted to use my Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge.  I went rummaging in the garage for a piece of wood.  As luck would have it, I found the perfect piece and then painted it black.  

I cut the Spooky phrase from the Happy Hauntings cart at five inches.  I tried it with plain white paper before I used my good scrap booking paper, just to make sure.  The ghosts, I cut one at five inches and the other at four inches.  

 Then I mod podged everything on.

 I sanded the edges for a distressed look and then used distressing ink around it.

To finish off I stapled wire to it and curled the ends of the wire and added a few ribbons.
Here are a few parties I'm linking to:

Anniversary card

This last week was my parents' 41st anniversary.  I made this card with Accent Essentials and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges.  I used DCWV paper from the Luxury Stack.  I love how it turned out.