Blue and White - what a combo!

Happy Friday fellow crafters! I am so happy Friday is here. One of my close childhood friend's just celebrated a birthday and she is having a get together tomorrow, so I had to make her a card. Her favorite color is baby blue. Celebrate The Occasion challenge #23 is to make a card for any occasion using the colors - you guessed it, blue and white! What a match made is crafty heaven, lol. Here's my card:

My friend is a 70's chick at heart so Groovy Times was a no brainer. I chose the dress and cut it and all its layers at 3" and the boots at 2". It is an A2 size card. Base cardstock is a scrap, the white is Recollections and the polka dot is from Echo Park's- Dots & Stripes Candy Shoppe 6X6 pad. My sentiments are from Scrappy Moms' Sweet Somethings (Sweet & Sassy) and Simple Sentiments (Happy Happy Birthday). I stamped using Stampin Up's Night of Navy. I added Star Dust Stickles to the platform of the boots and the hem of the dress and sleeves. I used my I-rock and added bling to the hanger. I had trouble cutting out the hanger on the dress so I added the shadow and it needed something, lol.

So that is my card and I hope my friend likes it. Please check out CTO and play along if you can; you have until Sunday 11:59pm to enter. Have a great weekend.

Monogrammed Bag

Good Morning Crafters! First off, I am the winner for challenge #83 on Cricut Cardz Challenge! I am entered into the drawing for July, YAY!!! I am super excited for my first blog win and so thankful to CCC for their great challenges.

Now on to today's business which is challenge #84. This week's task is to make a monogrammed card using any color and any cartridges you prefer. Now, I did not make a card but a gift bag to hold a gift card. I recently saw a tutorial on More Than Favors of Sarah, from My Pink Cricut on youtube, who made a treat box. You use one 8 1/2" X 11" sheet of cardstock to make it - with no cutting! Folding was a little tricky so I played the video while making it, lol. I recently went to Michael's, which is rare because there are not many in NYC, and Recollections now makes printed cardstock packs. When I saw the turquoise zebra striped print, I knew I had to make a treat box out of it.

Isn't that print fabulous? I also used a black polka dot from another patterned set from Recollections, a black and white, vintage looking set. I cut the print scallop at 3.25" and the white at 3.75" using Mini Monograms. I cut the L from Storybook at 2.5". I used Martha Stewart glitter and my Xyron to bling it out, lol. I colored a white flower with a Bic Mark It marker and used a pearl brad. The other two I used clear rhinestones from Recollections, I believe. I used my crop-a-dile to punch the holes and black ribbon from my stash to secure it.

I chose L because a friend of mine, named Lee, will be celebrating her birthday soon and I can put her gift in this bag. She loves bling and pretty so I immediately thought of her when I decided to make this project. I love how the glitter looks in real life! It is so pretty! So I hope you enjoy and forgive me for bending the rules, lol. The challenge ends Tuesday at Midnight, so you have time to enter. Take care and have a great weekend!

Pink Stamper Design Team Call!!!

Hello Fellow Crafters! Robyn from My Pink Stamper is having a Design Team call to showcase her awesome stamp sets. I don't have any yet but they are on the top of my when I get extra money I can buy list, lol. I tried in the winter so when the announcement came up, I said, "What the heck?! I'll try again," LOL. The rules are as follows: any project using these colors - orange, green, brown, turquoise and another color (optional) of your choice; it must be made specifically for this call and you have to have a blog for at least three months.  There are other rules that you can read on her site. Here is my card:

Recipe

Card Base: 5.5" square card base with layers of 5.25" and 5".

Cartridge: Groovy Times. Image and its layers cut out at 4.25".

Paper: Stampin Up (Bermuda Bay, Green Galore), Recollections

Patterned Paper: Echo Park, A Walk in the Park; DCWV Citrus Stack

Ink: Ranger Distressed Inks in Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade

ETC: Irock gem and tool for eye; turquoise stickles for wing; buttons from

 my stash.  Ribbon is also from my stash. Stampin Up dimensionals.

I love the colors of this card! I just got Groovy Times and when I saw this image, I knew it would be perfect for the color scheme of this challenge. I used patterned paper to give detail to the image. I love A Walk in the Park paper pack so I used it in the image and for the 5" matte of the card base. I inked the edges of it with the Spiced Marmalade. The yellow in the card is patterned paper from the Citrus stack and I inked the edges with Mustard Seed. The brown in the card is a metallic brown from Recollections that is so pretty in person. I wish it had shown up more. It was pretty easy to make except for gluing all the layers for the image together. Totally worth it though. 

Thanks for looking and all the support in your wonderful comments. I appreciate it! I hope I am picked but creating is the best part of it and that's what counts! Have a great day!



CCC #83

Hello crafters! I know, I know - I've fallen of the crafting wagon again, lol. At least a full month hasn't gone by. I've been enjoying summer with the family. I do keep up with the challenges though and Cricut Cardz Challenge #83 inspired me to make a card. The challenge is to make a card for a grandparent using any cartridge or colors you like. I chose Cindy Loo.

Recipe: Base is 4.25 by 5.50 using white Recollections cardstock. I cut Frame 12 from Cindy Loo at 3.5" out of sage Shadow by Stampin Up. I cut the flourish out of Pretty in Pink. I used my white gel pen on the frame and Cotton Candy Stickles on the flourish. I cut patterned cardstock from DCWV's Luxury Stack at 4 X 5.25. I placed the frame where I wanted it to be on the patterned CS and cut out a rectangle using an Exacto knife so the white could show through. I punched out butterflies using a Martha Stewart punch on the cut out rectangle and used the same Stickles to make their flight swirl (not sure what you call it so I am going with flight swirl, lol). I stamped Happy Birthday from a Paper Studio stamp set.

Super simple card but I think it turned out pretty and my grandmother would love it. I think the older generation sometimes prefer simple over bells and whistles. So that is my card. Please check out the challenge; you have until Tuesday, 7/19 midnight to get your project in. Enjoy!

My First Tag!

Good Evening Crafters! I made my first tag a few nights ago but this weekend was so hectic, I am just getting the chance to post it. I plan to enter this into three challenges this week, two of which end soon, LOL. Talk about cutting it close.

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I created this tag in my Gypsy using: Tags, Bags, Boxes and More; Create a Critter, Plantin Schoolbook and Accent Essentials. Over at Cricut Chaos Challenge the cartridge chosen for challenge #22 was TBBM so that is why I used that cart. Tags are also the theme for Wacky Wednesday Challenge #42 at More Than Favors, which made me choose a tag to work with. At Celebrate The Occasion, challenge #19 is celebrating summer so the project must have a sun in it, so this gave me the idea for my scene.

I cut the tag out at 5.25" out of turquoise card stock I had in my stash (all papers are scraps except the sun). I cut the clouds from Create a Critter at 0.75 and 1.00 and used Icicle stickles on them. I cut the snail and all its layers from CAC as well at 2"; I used Glam Pink stickles on the snail. I cut the grass from Plantin Schoolbook at 1.12" and cut it down to size. I cut the sun at 2.18" from Cosmo Cricket's DeLovely 6X6 pack. I used Accent Essentials for the image and I inked it with Mustard Seed distressed ink. I also used a little Tumbled Glass around the edges of the tag. I punched out some butterflies using my Martha Stewart triple butterfly punch. I put Milled Lavender distressed stickles on the purple butterflies. So that is my tag!

I hope you like it and I hope you get a chance to play along. There's not much time though, LOL.

Happy Father's Day

I can't believe it is the middle of June! This year is flying by. In honor of Father's Day, challenge #79 on Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Father's Day card using any cart and color scheme you like. I made a few cards to give out and here is one of my favorites:

I have been using pretty much the same colors all week - it is what is on my messy desk at the moment, lol. Plus, I like to use up my scraps. This is a 5" X 5" card cut from Paper Trey Ink Kraft cardstock. I believe the scalloped square ( SU Mellow Moss) is from Accent Essential cut at 5"; I don't have my Gypsy with me today to tell you for sure. I also inked the edges with Bundled Sage distress ink. I cut the hammer and screw driver from Boys will Be Boys at 4", including the circle background using the orange, yellow and silver found in this weeks projects. I got the Mr. Fix it Stamp from the dollar bin at AC Moore. I stamped it in SU Summer Sun. If you've been reading my blog, I am a huge stickles person so even though it is a man card, I had to use stickles! I used Mustard Seed Distressed Stickles on the screw driver. I honestly think I have every color of stickles made, LOL.

So that is my card. I am giving it to my step dad because he is truly a Mr. Fix it. If we have a problem or something needs to be done, he is the man to go to. If you have a great card you made, this is a great challenge to enter it in as there are no restrictions. I hope everyone has a great Father's Day with the special fathers in their lives. Happy crafting!

Sweet Treats and Scrappy Moms Stamps

Hello everyone! Yay, another post in the same week. I am on a roll, lol. I am trying anyway. It is Terrific Tuesday Challenge time over at Scrappy Moms and the cartridge selected this week is Sweet Treats. This has to be one of my most used cartridges and one of my favorites so I had to play along. I tend to make a lot of birthday cards, so this is my go to cart. Here's my card:

The base is Early Espresso from SU cut landscape A2; the patterned paper is from K & Co. Birthday kit. I cut the sundae and all its layers out at 3.75". I used Recollections silver for the bowl and the other papers are Recollections too (except for the brown). I used Yellow and Orange Peel stickles to make the flame. I used Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch to make it look like the ice cream is melting on the card. I used the sentiment from Scrappy Moms' Sweet Somethings stamp set, stamped in Early Espresso ink.

I love how this card turned out. I didn't do too much but it worked because of the metallic of the bowl and the glitter on the flame. Now it's your turn to try your hand at using this fabulous cartridge to participate in the Terrific Tuesday Challenge. If you don't own Sweet Treats, you can use a similar cut from SVG or another cartridge. The most important part - is to have fun! Happy crafting!