WYEGW - Use Tag Feature or Stickles

 Hello my crafty friends!!! 
Welcome back and thank you

for visiting.For this weeks
Would You Ever Guess Wednesday,

we were asked to use the tag feature
or to use stickles.  Now, I thought that I had
signed up to use the tag feature, so I made
a tag using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.

Then when I looked at the sign up sheet,
I realized that I had actually signed up to
use stickles!!  Well it is a good thing I used
plenty of stickles too...LOL.

Once again this post is very picture heavy!!

So, I was reminded on one of the blogs that I follow
about the chipboard tags that came with the
Art Philosophy bundle, so I decided to use
one of them this week.

A friend of mine had knee replacement surgery
back in March, and her recovery has been very slow. 
She is finally feeling better and I will be
meeting her for lunch today, so I thought
I would make her a little gift.

Here is a sneak peak!  This beautiful flower was
cut with the flower petal die from My Creative Time,
I added  glimmer mist, stickles, and a
glitter brad in the center..

I started by cutting out Tag 5 and the layer from
page 70 from Art Philosophy at 4".

All the paper for this project is from
My Minds's Eye "Fiddlesticks" 6 x 6 paper pad.

The sentiment is also from My Creative Time,
Floral Sentiments stamp set.

I added some Martha Stewart glitter

embossing powder in Sugar Cube.

I distressed the paper

using Tim Holtz Distress Ink

in Milled Lavendar and Antique Linen.

I added lots of bling using stickles in

Lavendar, Diamond and Platnium. 

The butterfly was from my stash.

Next I cut the Treat Bag from page 39 of

Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2

at 11" I used plain lavendar paper to cut the box

and then covered it with pieces

from the MME Fiddlesticks pack.

 I cut this tag from the
Spellbinders Fancy Tags die,
which I then embossed and stenciled. 
The sentiment was put together
using K Andrews "Winters Wishes" stamp set. 
I also embossed using the MS Glitter
Embossing powder,

you can't see it in the picture,
but it is very sparkly.

These flowers were cut using the

Rolled Flower Die from My Creative Time.

The back was kind of plain,
so that is where I stuck the tag!!!
For the bow on the tag
and the handle on the bag,
I used a piece of lace trim
that I had.  It was white,
so I inked it with the
Antique Linen Distress Ink
to gived it an aged look.

I filled the treat bag with Dove Chocolates

because there are my friend's favorite!!

Please be sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room,

to see the rest of today's projects!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Scrap Creations - Bingo Challenge

Heart 2 Heart Challenges - Distressing

Drive In Car

Hello Friends,

I just had to share a quick post with you.  The other night my grandson Tristan called and asked if I could make him some stickers for his "car".

Every year at is church, the Awana's have a "Drive In" night for the kids.  They make play cars that they sit in while a watching movie!!  What a fun and adorable event!!  They look forward to this all year.

So Tristan loves the movie CARS, so he wanted a Lightning McQueen Car.  They did a great job making the car, but they needed the numbers and lightning bolt for the sides.

In steps Grandma and her crafting supplies!!! 

I cannot remember what cart I got the lightning bolt from, but I cut it the largest I could on a 12 x 12 mat, I beleive around 11".  The numbers for 95 were from the Cricut Classic Font Cartridge.  I welded them together with my gypsy. I added glitter to the lightning bolts.  I cut two of each.

Here is the finished product.  I think they did a great job!! 

They hand cut the eyes and mouth!!

I know Tristan is going to have a great time at the drive in tomorrow!!

WYEGW - Use the Phrase Feature or Flocking

Welcome back for another



This is a very long post with lots of pictures, so I hope you hang around til the end!!

In case you were wondering, on Would You Ever Guess Wednesday, the design team is to use only the Feature Keys and not the main image on the Cartridges.  We can also use a Cricut Cake Cartridge for a paper project or a regular cartridge for a cake project.

For this weeks WYEGW, we were asked to use the

phrase feature on any cartridge.

We could also choose to use Flocking on a project. 

I did both!!

For my project today, I used a phrase from the Florals Embellished Cartridge

and a little bit of George and Basic Shapes.

Here is a sneak peak:

The phrase I chose is Best Wishes from page

64 of the handbook.  Now I wanted to make a

shaped card using the phrase that I chose. 

The phrases on this cartridge do not have a

shadow feature, so I had to create my own.

So, using my good old gypsy, I brought the phrase

onto my mat.  I hid as many of the line that I could,

but I still had gaps that I did not want. 

So this is where I used squares,

rectangles and other shapes from the

George and Basic Shapes cartridge to fill in those

gaps and then I welded everything together!! 

I then copied the image, flipped it and

then welded that to the first piece and voila!! 

I have my shaped card base!!

Here is a picture of the whole mess on my gypsy!!

Now, I tried cutting the card base out of

pattern paper, but it was just too busy, and plain

cardstock was too plain!!  So what I did was create

my own pattern paper with a soft pattern. 

To do this, I used a background stamp,

some versamark ink, some

clear embossing powder and my heat gun. 

I just love the way it came out!!

 Here you can see how the paper looked with and

without the stamped and embossed background!

It is hard to see, the the background has a

raised, shiny look to it, so it is soft and subtle,

but really makes a big difference. 

I am definately going to use this technique again!

So, here is my finished card:

I am really happy with the way it turned out. 

I added some liquid pearl dots.

The black fuzzy dots on the butterfly is black flocking.

Thanks for hanging in there with this uber long post!!  Make sure you stop by

My Cricut Craft Room to see all the other wonderful projects today.

Here is a list of the supplies I used:

Florals Embellished (phrase from page 64 cut at 6.5"w x 3.11" h)

George and Basic Shapes

DCWV Lemon Flower Paper Stack

Close to My Heart Adorable Backgrounds Stamp Set

Versamark Dazzle Ink in Frost

Zing Clear Embossing Powder

Doodlebug Flocking

Liquid Pearls in Buttercup and Silver Pearl