Boolicious Treat Purse

It was a lazy day here in our house today as I am recuperating from a cold quickly turned to infection.  My wonderful husband let me chill out and play in my craft room all day.  Yep, no chores - no nothing unless I wanted to.  Not even cooking......

 

I have to admit though that for a while I sat at my computer in a fog.  I kept trying to decide what I was in the mood to create and I'd start something then quickly trash it when I didn't like the way it looked.  After a couple hours of that I finally got in to a groove and was able to complete a couple of projects.....this being one of them.

 

For this treat holder I used the purse invitation from Girls Makeup Party. 

 

 

On the inside that cute little ghost is from a cut file I got over at Too Cute By Jessica.  The pumpkin on the candy is from Designer's Calendar and the bat is from Happy Hauntings.

 

The stamped sentiments are from Peachy Keen Stamps (outside) and Jaded Blossom (inside).

 

And now with that I am going to enter this in to the purse challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2.  Nothing like a last minute entry huh?

Cauldron Treats

I haven't been able to get much paper crafting done the past few days as I've been busy with my loom knitting in preparation for my first craft show in a couple of weeks.  However, I did take some time today to put together this cauldron treat holder from SVG Cuts. 

 

I was amazed at how big this cauldron was once it was completed and it's sturdier than I expected too.  I love the way it all came together.  It was easy to do and I enjoyed trying to decide what folders to use for the embossing on my panels.  In all I used four different ones.

 

For my candies I admit I didn't wrap and pretty up all of them - nor did I have enough to actually fill my cauldron.  (Remember, I said it was larger than I expected.)  But I did decorate up a couple handfuls of various candies.  For this I used scraps of paper from one of my Recollections Halloween mat stacks.  I love this particular pack of paper and I am going to be very sad when it's all gone.  I love the prints and colors - not too cutesy but not too creepy either. 

 

On my wrappers you'll notice a couple of bats and pumpkins.  The bats are from the Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings and the pumpkins are from Designer's Calendar.  The stamped sentiments are from three different sets by Jaded Blossom:  Halloween Candies 2 and Spooky Labels.

 

The label on the front of my cauldron is a mini tag from yet another mat stack - Recollections Journal Tags.  The sentiment on my tag is also from Jaded Blossom - this time using the Pick Your Poison set.  And those black 'dots' on each side of my tag.  Those are skittles from the Back to School set by DoubleClick Connections.

 

And now I'm off to enter this project in to the following challenges:

 

Jaded Blossom - Any Treat - Ends September 21

 

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Mix and Match 3 patterned paper (used for my candy wrappers/decorations) - Ends September 14

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Think Fall, use Fall Colors - Ends September 13

Dad's Day Card & Blog Candy

I'm not really sure why it is but I seem to find it easier to create cards for Father's Day than I do Mother's Day.  To make that statement even more ironic I find it difficult to make masculine cards in general.  Confused yet?  I know I am.

 

With Father's Day one week away I wanted to share another card with you and I also thought it would be fun to have a blog candy giveaway at the same time.  But more about that in a minute.

This was an easy to put together card.  I used the following cartridges:

 

Christmas Noel for the bear

Designer's Calendar for the tie and "Dad's Day"

 

The paper is from my scrap stash and I hate that I have no more of it because it's just soooo perfect!

 

Now about that giveaway.  I thought it would be fun to give away a set of Father's Day stamps from Fresh Squeezed Stamps. 

 

 

 

To win all you have to do is leave a comment telling me about your fondest dad memory.  Comment by next Friday, June 14th and I will choose a winner on Saturday, June 15th.  All I ask is that you live in the US for postal reasons - sorry.

 

My fondest memory is from when my dad was stationed over in Iceland (I was about 12 or 13) and we used to exchange cassette tape messages back and forth in the mail.  One of those times included a small hand-written note from my daddy telling me he loved and missed me.  Needless to say I still have that note and it is forever in one of my photo albums.

February Calendar

So while my husband was playing Call of Duty as he so often does on the weekend I sat in my craft room going through some freebies I recently won in a challenge and came across a magnetic calendar kit from SEI.  As I pulled out the papers and stickers I thought this is great but I really want to 'scrap' my pages and so I created my page for the month of February.

For this page I used one of the pages from the K&Company valentine mat stack.  Cut the February from Designer's Calendar and the cute little cupids from Seasonal Characters.

Now I just have to decide what I'm going to do for my other months......

Attitude of Gratitude Challenge

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to another Cricut Cardz Challenge.  This week we are making Thanksgiving cards with any cartridges/colors we want...........

 

..........and since I loved the way this one turned out years ago when I made it I decided to do a little re-make.  Don't you ever feel like doing that sometimes?  That's why I tend to save all of my cut files - I have 100's of them sitting in my folders and every so often when my brain is stumped for a design I reach in to my old bag and do a re-make.

 

So for this card I used the Designer's Calendar for all of my cuts.  I created the calendar using Microsoft Word (tables and word art can be great things lol).  Put them together and you get this wonderful little Thanksgiving card.

 

And now that you've seen my design for this week's challenge be sure to hop on over to Cardz TV to check out all of the other awesome projects our team created for you this week.  Then create your own, link up and play along with us........C'mon, you know you want to.

It's About Time

The weekly challenges at Cricut Cardz Challenge begin back today and our first one was to create a New Years themed card using a clock cut from any cartridge.  I chose to use one from Graphically Speaking. 
I also used Designer's Calendar for my numerals.

And now that you've seen my quick, easy to put together card let's see your take on this challenge.  Just click on the link above, play along and upload a link to your card.

Boo House

This week's challenge for Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a halloween card using the card feature from any cartridge we desired along with any color scheme we choose.  Of course there was always the card features on the Mini Monsters cartridge, but that's too easy.  So I pulled several other carts off my shelf - looked at the options offered and when I saw the house on Wild Card I knew I had to use that one.  And after I made the house cut I was ecstatic because I didn't realize that the door would cut so that it could open and close.  Yippee!!!

So for this card, I made the following cuts:

House from Wild Card cut at 5 1/4"

Spider web from Wild Card cut at 1"

Ghosts, Cat and Boo! from Happy Hauntings cut at 1"
Spider from Designer's Calendar cut at 1"

My ghosts were cut from velum and then inked lightly with a blue ink to help them stand out on the card while remaining "translucent".  Of course the one on the rooftop shows up better in the photos than the one on the inside....Oh well.

The cat and the spider were flocked to add a little texture to the card. 

Unknown Blessings

This week's cricutcardzchallenge - #40 was to create a card using scalloped circles, squares, ovals or rectangles.  I chose to go with scalloped circles as the card that I had originally created for this challenge using rectangles just didn't seem to really meet the criteria.  So I scratched it - not really, I just didn't use it for this challenge (see my Beware card below).

For this one I used:

A Child's Year for the Pilgrims cut at 3"
Accent Essentials for the scalloped circles cut at 4" and 3 1/2"
Designer's Calendar for the turkey cut at 1 1/2"

Now that you've seen my "creation" why don't you create a card of your own and come play along with us.  Just click on the link above to do so.      

2011 CD Calendar - November & December

Yeah!  I finally completed this project and must say that I love the way that it all turned out.  With all the wonderful cartridges that have come out over the last year or so there's no end to the possibilities of what can be created.  And yet for these last two months of November and December I chose to use the following cartridges and cuts:

Designer's Calendar for the names of the months

Designer's Calendar for turkey and leaves
A Child's Year for the silhouette of the girl creeping down the stairs
Christmas Noel for the window

Speaking of window, when I created the window I used acetate to place between the frame and the silhouette so as to give the illusion of a real window.

And since this completes the entire 2011 calendar year I thought I'd give you a shot of all the pages in one picture.

2011 CD Calendar - September & October

Yeah!  I am almost done with my current calendar project.  I just wish that our home remodeling was going as well.  It rained on us all weekend and because of that it left us in a holding pattern because we are at the point where we need to get the front door replaced but in order to do that we need to get the new deck built and even though we got the deck up we only managed to get four of the boards nailed down before the heaven's broke open.  Oh well, such is life and we'll get it done this evening I'm sure.  :o)

In the meantime though I was able to complete two more months of my calendar pages.  For these two I used:

Designer's Calendar for the names of the months
Graphically Speaking for the 'couple' reading the book
SYI for the tree
Punch for the leaves
A Child's Year for the trick or treaters
Mini Monsters for the fence which I also embossed with the script folder from cuttlebug and inked
Paper Dolls for the moon and stars

And I love the background papers I used for both of these but I am so sad because I'm almost out of them and can't find them anymore......

CD Calendar - July & August

Here are the next two months in my calendar "installment".

For these months I used:

Graphically Speaking for the flag & independence day

Designer's Calendar for the names of the months

Locker Talk for the school bus and bus stop

2011 CD Calendar - March through June

I was so elated that I was able to complete four months of my calendar project yesterday.  Especially since I wasn't sure I'd even be able to get two of them done.  We were finally at a point in our remodel where I could buy the sealant for our walls (we're leaving the wood au'natural) so that I could get them done.  So off to Home Depot I went and then returned home to spend a few hours "painting".  But I did it!

For these pages I used:

A Child's Year (March)

Pooh & Friends for clouds (March)

Sizzix dies (April)

Accent Essentials (May)

Sweethearts for flowers (May)

Christmas for the bear (June)

Life's a Beach for the chair (June)

Designer's Calendar for the tie (June)

Designer's Calendar for the names of the months

2011 CD Calendar Pages

I decided yesterday that it was time to begin working on some 2011 CD calendars because if I waited too long they just wouldn't get done.  (Kinda like what happened for 2010)  So I pulled up my old templates from 2009 and started to rework some of them to include the cartridges I've purchased since then.

By the time all was said and done I was only able to finish January and February for two calendars.

I used:

Designer's Calendar for the names of the months
Stand & Salute for the fireworks on Jan.
SYI for the wine glasses
Sweethearts for the girl on her scooter

Today I'm working on March and April and will be incorporating some of my Sizzix dies as well.  Not sure how far I'll get since I also have to get some "painting" done in our living room that we are in process of remodeling.

Happy Halloween & CCC #37

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a card using only the colors blue, black, white, orange and yellow.  Try as I did I could not get myself away from Halloween mode - I mean really think about those colors.  What theme could be more perfect?

For this card I broke out a pack of mat paper I purchased on clearance last year at Michael's that was too cute to resist.  It's Halloween from Recollections - now this was only used for the outside of the card.  The inside paper was single sheet paper I found at either Michael's or AC Moore.

Since both papers had spider webs I decided to use that as my main focus and cut the spider webs from the Mini Monster's cart.  The web was then painted with a black metallic paint and covered with black glittery fibers.  I also painted the web on the inside of the card with black metallic paint but chose not to use the fibers.

My spiders are from Designer's Calendar.  The larger spiders I dabbed onto a light sandy colored ink pad and the smaller ones I painted with the black metallic paint.  I then used a red paint (the blue just didn't show up too well) for their eyes.

Mother's Day & Robotz

I know, I know.  I need to get off the Robotz kick and get back to playing with my other cartridges.  In all fairness though I did use Designer's Calendar along with Robotz on these cards.

Today's cards are part of the cricut cardz challenge for this week - week #22 to be exact.  Rather than being serious and elegant this year I opted to be more cutesy and fun.  Especially since the gifts I made for both mom's are altered Memory games.   But more of that coming in the next post......

New Year's Celebration CCC Challenge

This week's challenge for Cricut Cardz Challenge was to use any cartridge and colors we wanted to create a New Year's theme card. Since New Year's is supposed to be a time of joy, anticipation and celebration I was thinking fireworks and the brilliant displays of color seen during the show. Going with that idea I chose a colorful background on which to base my card.

Then I wanted to capture a couple of images that go with the theme but at the same time I didn't want to over do it. So I went with "fireworks", wine glasses and a calendar to tie them together.

For this card I used:

Designer's Calendar for January cut at 1.5"

Graphically Speaking for 2010 cut at 1"

Stand and Salute for the fireworks cut at 1.5"

Stretch Your Imagination for the wineglasses cut at 2"

The calendar was created in Excel.

Thanksgiving Card

Happy Wednesday. We are now in the final stretch with T-minus eight days and counting before we get to enjoy the bounty of all that Thanksgiving will bring. Every year our family takes a jaunt to Birmingham so that we can spend time with my husband’s family. It’s always a time of fun and fellowship and we look forward to it every year.

So while we wait for Thanksgiving to arrive I want to share with you this week’s card for the Cricut Cardz Challenge. Our direction for this week was to make a Thanksgiving card using any cartridge and colors we chose.

My card was made using Designer’s Calendar for all my cuts. The calendar was created in Microsoft Word and then printed onto colored cardstock.

To see all the other wonderful cards created by the DT hop on over to: http://www.cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/

God So Loved

This card was inspired by a plaque I saw in one of our local indoor flea markets recently. And given that the new "theme" for the Bitten By the Bug contest is: thanksgiving, gratitude, blessings, being thankful/grateful I thought what better to be thankful for than a Lord and Savior who willing gave His life for me?

For this card I used:

Going Places for the globe

Designer's Calendar for the cross

The background paper is Tim Coffey Fall Script.