Theme Day Thursday - Apples or Fruit

 

How are all my crafty friends today??

I am getting ready to go in vacation next week

so I have been super busy at work!!

 

We are going to Chicago!!

My hubby works for Amtrak, and he got

picked to be in a safety video.

So the company is flying him to

Chicago for the video shoot and we decided

to make a vacation out of it!!

We have been there once before, so are really

looking forward to visiting again.

And one stop I am going to be sure to

make is to the Archiver's Store!!

We do not have Archiver's in California.

 

Anyway, enough chit chat, on to my project.

Today is Theme Day Thursday, and the theme today

was to use an apple or any fruit cut.

I decided to combine the theme with a swap

I am participating in.  For the swap, I was to make a

fall card with an embellishment.

 

Here is my card.

 

All my cuts are from an oldie but a goodie "Doodlecharms"

The basket was cut at 2.80" out of kraft cardstock.

I embossed it with the Distressed Stripes Cuttlebug folder.

I then inked it with Tea Dye Distress Ink.

The bands on the basket were cut in grey and I

added brads as the rivits.

 

 

My apples were cut at 1.5".  I cut the base layer in green

and instead of cutting the piece for the stem,

I just used a marker to color the stem brown.

Now, my favorite kind of apple is a Gala Apple.

So I decided to make my apples look like Galas.

I cute the top layer out of yellow, and then used

Fired Brick Distress Ink and pounched the color

on.  I also embossed them using the Swiss Dots Folder.

I just love the way they turned out!!

The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper

"Fruit and Veggie Puns".

The pattern paper is from an old

CTMH paper pack called "Twitterpated".

 

Hop on over to My Cricut Craft Room

to see more fun fruit projects!!

 



Theme Day Thursday - ABC Carts

Hello and welcome to Theme Day Thursday with

My Cricut Craft Room. 

Today we were asked to use one of the ABC carts. 

Kate's ABC's, Nate's ABC's or Noah's ABC's.

I used Kate's ABC's and Animal Kingdom.

Here is a sneak peak:

The word Baby and the banner pieces

 were cut with Kate's ABC's.

I added some liquid pearls to the

word Baby and some Glossy Accents to the

letters in the banner. I kind of messed up because

I was in a hurry.  I tried using my heat gun to dry

the liquid pearls, and they exploded!!! 

So do not try this at home...LOL

 I made this card for one of the girl's at work.

We had her baby shower yesterday and the theme

in her babies room is monkey's!!

She loved the card!!

This cute monkey head is from Animal Kingdom.

She is mounted on an action wobble.

I stamped the eyes with Peachy Keen's

Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed stamp set.

The adorable crochet flower was from

Tatiana Belova's Etsy Shop.

She hand crochets these herself!!

I added a piece of lace and inked all the edges.

The adorable pattern paper was a gift from

our wonderful leader Erica!!

It is from Echo Park "Bundle of Joy".

Hope you liked my card as

much as the recipient did!!

Please stop by My Cricut Craft Room

 to see what the rest of the design team created today!!

Theme Day Thursday - Use any Cart - National Day ofr Prayer

Hello and welcome to another

Today's we could use any cartridge  and the

theme is National Day of Prayer.

My nephew's daughter is making her first

holy communion this month, so I decided

to make a card for her.

For this  card I used Simply Charmed and Once Upon a Princess.

Here is a sneak peak.

The cute little girl was cut from Simply Charmed.

She is the bride cut from page 72.

I cut her and some of the layers

at 4.5".  I did not use all of the layers

and I did hide the bouquet placement

lines using my gypsy.  There were a

few pieces that I had to snip off from

the back layer that were for the bouquet.

I also hid the face features and used the

Peachy Keen Princess Faces to stamp

her sweet little face.

I embossed her dress using the Textile Texture

Cuttlebug Embossing folder.

I added some gems to her headpiece and

her dress.

The background paper is from the

Best Creation "Walk in My Garden" line.

I cut the purple label from Spellbinders

Curved Rectangle die,

and embossed with Cuttlebug

Language of Love folder.

I tied a bow with a piece

of glitter tulle.

The tag is from Martha Stewart.

I stamped the sentiment from

K Andrews "Amazing You"

and "Owly Hoo Sentiments" stamps set.

I embossed the sentiment with

tinsel embossing powder.

For the inside of the card

the sentiment was cut using the font

feature on Once Upon a Princess.

I am really happy with the way the card turned out, and I

hope Becky likes it too!!!

Please make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room

to see the rest of todays projects.

*** 100th Post**** Theme Day Thursday

Wow, today is my 100th post!!!  Never thought that when I started my blog, that I would be so into the blogging world!!!  I now have over 100 followers and I probably follow more than 100 blogs myself!!!

Anyway, Happy Thursday and welcome to another

For today's theme we were to create

something with easter eggs and grass.

Here is a sneak peek of my card.

I used a few cartridges for this card!!

The bunny was cut from Zooballoo at 4.4"h

The grass was cut from A Child's Year at 3.3"h

and the eggs were cut from Art Philosophy at 1.5"

 I added stickles to everything!!  I also embossed
everything using several different folders.

The sentiment is from Bugbites AllYear Round stamp set.

I got the cute ribbon at the top of the card from

Erica when she visited California last week!!

Thanks for stopping by, and please hop over to
My Cricut Craft Room

to see the wonderful creations from my design team sisters today!!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
1. http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-sheri-crafts-challenge-81-easter.html
2. http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/03/challenge-me-monday-104.html
3. http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/2012/03/wacky-wednesday-68-easterspring-theme.html?showComment=1332995292926#c3631316980600118891
4. http://www.kraftygirls.com/2012/03/for-peeps-sake-challenge-4.html
5. http://gofishchallenges.blogspot.com/2012/03/go-fish-challenge-13.html

Theme Day Thursday - Spring Seasonal Cartridge

Hello, and welcome back to another

For today's project we could use either

Bears and Ducks or use any

Spring Seasonal Cartridge.  I chose to use

the Spring Fever Seasonal Cricut Cartridge.

This cartridge is filled with some of the best

spring images from various other cricut cartridges.

I had originally designed a totally different card, but then

I received a package from the wonderful

Erica from http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/!!

Inside my package of stuff I had ordered from her store,

(FYI, she has some fantastic prices!!) Erica had thrown in

some extra goodies.  She sent me some beautiful paper from

the Bo Bunny Back to Basics line.  I had to redesign my

whole card so I could incorporate this paper!

Here is a sneak peek.

I cut 2 different butterflies, one a side view and one a

full butterfly.  I cut the side view butterfly twice,

but I flipped one of them using my gypsy.

The bottom layer was cut from glitter paper and

the top layer was cut from DCWV paper.

Now, when I was running the top layers through

my xyron toapply adhesive, I accidentally ran on

piece in backwards!!  Oh my, what to do??  I did not want to

cut another piece.  So I decided to apply glitter to the side

 I accidentally ran through.  I loved the way it looked,

so I then ran the other two pieces through

the "wrong"side and applied glitter to them too :)

I beleive that I cut the butterflies out at 1.5"

The scroll that th butterflies are sitting on was cut

from the same cartridge at 4.5". 

The brown mat was cut using an MS border punch.

I finished the card up by adding a tag cut from the

Teeny Tag Greeting Stamp and Die from

My Creative Time and I addd some twine

Thanks for visiting, and please head on

over to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ 

to see what the rest of the design team has to share today.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - Spring/Scallop Theme

Theme Day Thursday - Use Peachy Keen Stamps

Oh I have been waiting for this day!!

The theme for today was to use one of my most favorite things, Peachy Keen Stamps!!

I love, love, love using Peachy Keen stamps on my projects.

I decided to make a St. Patty's Day card, using the

Peachy Keen February Stamp of the Month.

This stamp set is filled with the most

adorable St. Patty's Day images.

Now I used Art Philosophy and

Mini Monograms to make the base of the card.

All other images are Peachy Keen Stamps!!

I cut this window card out with my gypsy by first

putting the scalloped card base

from Art Philosophy on the mat, at 8"w x 9" h.

I then placed 3 scalloped squares on the

front of the card base.

The squares are 2.52" w x 2.8" h.

So the result was a window card!! 

Of course I saved the scalloped

squares to use on another project.

Next came the stamping!!  I stamped 2 of the

4 leaf clovers on to green cardstock.

I stamped the hat onto white cardstock and the

 face onto a blush colored cardstock.

I colored the hat using my Stampin Up Markers

and highlighted with a metallic gel pen.

I added some glossy accents and chalk to the face.

I outlined the 4 leaf clovers with lime green stickles.

The LUCKY sentiment is also from the same set!!

The pattern paper is from a holiday pack by Papercraft.

The two clovers and the leprechan were

mounted onto action wobbles.I finished the card off

with some crinkle ribbon from Praire Bird Boutique.

I hope you enjoyed my card today, I know it make me smile!!

Thanks for visiting today and please make sure

to stop by My Cricut Craft Room

to see what fun things the rest of the design team has created today

I will be entering this card into the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - Challenge #46 Make Us Laugh!

Krafty Girls - Lucky-Challenge-2

Little Scrap Pieces - Challenge-use-green

Theme Day Thursday - Cartridge - Elegant Edges

 For today's Theme Day Thursday, we could make a
Seasame Street project or use the Elegant Edges cartridge.

I chose to use Elegant Edges since I do not yet

own any of the Seasame Streets cartridges!!

For this card the two base images are from Elegant Edges. 
I thought the layer with the sun cutout

would be perfect for using with my new
Peachy Keen February Stamp of the month.
The first layer was cut at 5.69"w x 4.65" h
The layer with the sun was cut at 4.23"w x 5.4"h
I embossed this layer with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
The clouds were cut from Create a Critter at 2"
I added some yellow stickles to the sun

The pattern paper was from my scrap pile,
so not sure where it's from!!
All other paper is Coordinations.

Here is a close up of the rainbow which

I stamped and cut out from

Peachy Keen's February stamp of the month set.

I colored the rainbow with my Stampin' Up markers.

As you can see, my coloring has a long way to go!!

I covered the entire rainbow with Glossy Accents to make it shiny.

I embossed the clouds with Cuttlebug's Divine Swirls folder.

The face stamp is from the same Peachy Keen set.

I finished  my card off by tying some twine at the top and adding a sentiment from

My Creative Time's "Teeny Tag Greetings" die and stamp set.

I inked all the edges with my brand new

Sweetheart Inkers from We R Memory Keepers.

I am loving these inkers!!

Please stop by My Cricut Craft Room

to see what the rest of the team has created today.

I am entering this in the Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge #51

Theme Day Thursday - BLING

Today is

over at My Cricut Craft Room, and today's theme is

  

As I was sitting in my craft room, trying to

think of an idea, I saw this

I bought this cute shoe plaque to hang in my craft room as it is the same colors as my room. 

 I used this shoe as my inspiration for my card today!! 

I knew I had the perfect paper to replicate this shoe!!

I usually make 5 x 7 cards, but I decided to make this card a standard A2 size. All the paper I used was from my scrap pile.  The background paper is Coordinations Whitewash cardstock in pink.  I embossed it using a Sizzix folder and then sanded it so the pink comes through. 

I also distressed the edges using my CTMH edge distresser. 

The shoe was cut from Forever Young. 

I used the pair of shoes from page 54, I just hid one of the shoes using my Gypsy. 

The shoe and all layers were cut at 4"

Here is a close up of the shoe.

What do you think, did I capture my inspiration??

For the label, I used Elegant Edges, the image was from page 67.  I manipulated it with my Gypsy to cut at 1.56" w x 3.3" h, and turned it on it's side.

The sentiment is from My Creative Times

"Classy & Fabulous" stamp set.

I added a little twine, some ribbon, and lots of bling!!

I sure hope you enjoyed my card today, and please make sure you step on over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the rest of the wonderful design team has created today!!

Theme Day Thursday - Birthday

Welcome back for another Theme Day Thursday over at My Cricut Craft Room



Today's theme was BIRTHDAY!!  And what perfect timing, my youngest stepson had a birthday yesterday.  My husband and I met when his youngest boy and my boy were 10 years old and they played on the same soccer team.  That was 16 1/2 years ago!  So my stepson just turned 27 and my son will be 27 in July.  Man they are getting so old, which means we are getting really old...lol.

So here is a sneak peak of my card:

For my project today, I used 3 cricut cartridges.  I made a card and a gift card holder.

Here is a list of supplies I used and cartridges:

Cricut Cuts

All Mixed Up - numbers cut at 1"

Art Philosophy - card base and frame cut at 9" x 4"

Celebrations - candles and all layers 2.75"

present 2.5"

happy 2"

DCWV Dots, Stripes and Plaids Paperstack

DCWV The Colorful Life Paperstack

My Creative Time - Gift Card Holder Die & Gift Card Sentiments Stamp Set

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Brushed Courderoy

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders

Stickles in Orange Peel

Here is a picture of the card:

And here is a close up of the gift card:

I will be entering this card in the challenge over at Birthday Sundaes this week!!

I hoped you enjoyed my card and gift card today and please stop by My Cricut Craft Room 

to see the rest of the design teams projects!!

Theme Day Thursday - Art Philosophy

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For today we could use a Valentine's Die Cut or the Art Philosophy Cartridge.  Well Art Philosophy is my favorite cartridge, so of course I picked that!!!  I am so excited to share this project with you because I almost always make cards, but today, I decided to try something different.  For the last several months I have been seeing alot of people making banners and I have been wanting to try one.

Here is a sneak peak!!

I use Art Philosophy for all cuts except for the leaves.  Those were cut from Mother's Day Bouquet at .75".  The banner pieces were cut at 5" from page 39 using the Layer and Decorative Layer features.

The letters were cut at 2" using the font feature.   Here are pictures of the rest of the letters

As you can see I made more flowers.  I just love making these flowers.  I used the flowers from
page 70,once again using the Font Feature, they were cut at 3" & 2.5".
I cut them from cream, hollyhock and pattern paper.

I made a bunch but only ended up using 4 of them, but now I have some already made for another project!!

All paper for this project is from the Close to My Heart "More to Adore" paper stack.  This is more paper from my stash that I am trying to use up before buying more!!  I just love this paper stack.  I inked the edges of all layers using CTMH Choolate stamp pad.  I sptritzed the flowers and the letters with Glimmer Mist in Petal Pink and Walnut gold.  I added some pearls and gems.
Here is a picture of the finished banner.  It is hanging on the wall of my cubilcle at work!!

Well thanks for hanging in there with this long post!!  Make sure you check out the rest of the design team project over at My Cricut Craft Room

Theme Day Thursday - Laundry

Welcome back and thanks for visiting.  It is Theme Day Thursday over at My Cricut Craft Room

 



 

Todays theme is LAUNDRY!!

 How fun is that!!  I love that Erica is challenging us to think outside of the box. 

 

So here is my project for today

I just think this card came out so cute!  I love the colors.  I actually used 3 cartridges for this card.  For the "laundry", I used Country Life Cricut Cartridge.  Plus, I used the banner feature key!!  The images I cut are on pages 59, 61 & 66.  They were all cut at 1.5".  I hung them on the line using twine. 

The word "just" was cut from Just Because Cards at 1.5"  The phrase "hanging out" was also cut at 1.5" from Simply Charmed.  The paper is DCWV Dot, Stripes & Plaids paper stack.  I added some more twine, plus a couple of bling flourishes from Recollections.  I also used a Martha Stewart border punch and inked the edges with a Studio G stamp pad.

Thanks for visiting and Happy Crafting!!