Prince Charming's Conversation Hearts

 

Today I’m going old school.  Pulling out the Cricut cartridges and creating a Valentine themed memory box for my husband.

To create the box I cut:

·         2 pieces of foam core board 9 "x 9" for the top and bottom of the box

·         4 pieces 1" x 8" for the sides of the box

·         1 piece that was 1.25" x 9" to use as the brace for the lid

I then covered the pieces with blue cardstock and on the inside I chose a valentine theme paper to use as my "accent". It was a double-sided print so I used one side for the lid and the other for the bottom of the box.

For the cover of my box I embossed two sheets of white and red paper with the Cuttlebug hearts folder and then created my background square. Prince Charming and Sleeping Beauty were cut at 7" from Happily Ever After. I didn't care for the way the eyes and lips cut so I painted those in and added some red glitter to Beauty's lips.

 

 

For the conversation hearts I cut a fry box from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.  The hearts on the box are from Doodlecharms.  The large one I cut at 3” and the smaller ones I cut at 1”.

 

 

To make the "conversation hearts" I cut hearts from Happily Ever After.  These were cut at 3" and then inked. To get the verbiage on them I formatted text boxes the size I needed in Word, did a 'test' print and then placed a small amount of tape on the paper, placed the heart accordingly and then printed to add my verbiage. The font I chose is from dafont.com and is called fontdinerdotcom luveable.

And now I'm off to enter my project into the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Valentine's Day - Ends February 14th

Bitten by the Bug 2 - Valentine Hearts - Ends February 14th

DL Art - Pink, Red and Hearts - Ends February 24th

Die Cuttin' Divas - Love - Ends February 14th

You Make My Day

This week I've posted a couple of projects I created using SVG files but today's project goes back to Cricut.  Today is challenge day over at Cardz TV and this week it's all about giving thanks.  Our project directive for this week was to create a Thank You card.

For my card, I used the duck border cut from Doodlecharms.  I cut several of them so that I could cover the front of the card with the design.  The word Thanks is from the Cricut Sampler cartridge.  And my stamped sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set Simply Said.

Easy Peasy.......Now it's your turn.  Create your thank you card and then hop on over to the Cardz TV and link up so we can see what you create.

Good Luck Shamrock

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to the second of our card challenges over at Cardz TV. This week we were tasked with creating cards for St. Patrick's Day.

For my card I used:

Doodlecharms for the jar.  I cut two layers.  The base/shadow from a gray shade of paper and then the top of the jar I cut from the protective film of an old cutting mat.

A Child's Year for the shamrock, which I covered in Martha Stewart Peridot glitter.

Sentiment from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled Simply Said.

I then adhered the shamrock to the base layer of the jar and stamped my good luck sentiment below that. I then covered that with the clear layer, and stitched the cuts together.  Add in a little baker's twine tied around the top of the jar and viola - I have a focal piece for my St. Patrick's Day card.

And now that you've seen my card you should check out the other fabulous designs our team came up with for this week's challenge.  Then create your up, link up and play along with us.

I can't wait to see what you create.

Summer Harvest Just For You

 

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to another Go to Galz Challenge over at Cardz TV.  The week our projects are all about celebrating the summer's harvest.  For my take on this challenge I want to share a quick and simple card I threw together using some of the older cartridges.  

 

For this one I used:

Accent Essentials for the scalloped square

Pooh and Friends for the Apple basket

Doodlecharms for the Apples

 

The stamped sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set "Love in a Jar".  And now that you've seen my project for this week, be sure to create your own, link up and play along with us.  I can't wait to see what you make for this week's theme.

Love......In a Jar

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you're ready for an awesome challenge this week because the Cardz TV Stamps design team has put together some fabulous projects for you this week.  The challenge is simple, just make a card, layout or craft project using something you'd put in a jar.  See, told you.  Easy Peasy.

 

For my project I just the Doodlecharms cartridge for my jar.  Cut one cut from cardstock and another from a clear vinyl so that I could have more of an actual jar look. 

 

The hearts inside the jar were cut from the Love Mini Book cartridge during Cricut's cut it free for a week preview.

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Love in a Jar stamp set, which can be purchase at Cardz TV Stamps.  Just click on add to cart button on the right side of the page and off you go.

 

In the meantime though be sure to check out the other projects our team has created this week then create your own, link up and play along with us for your chance to win.

You've Got Mail

Happy Weekend everyone!  I don't know about where you are but it's going to a beautiful day here in the Panhandle of Florida.  It's been a sunshiny week and I'm told we're in for a sunny weekend too which is perfect since I have a 5K mudrun to get to later this afternoon.

 

Until then though I'm participating in another fun filled blog hope along with the Cardz TV Design Team.  Our them for this hop is "You've Got Mail" and we are featuring this fabulous Snail Mail stamp set.

 

If you started at the beginning of the hop and landed here from Essentially Yours With DeNetra then you're still on target.  If you haven't started at the beginning be sure you do so after you're finished here and I'll give you the full line up momentarily.

 

But first, for my card I decided to take a plain and simple approach.  I used two cuts - both from Doodlecharms.  I fancied up the mailbox in that I used some pretty printed papers and then set it all up agains a plain coordinating background.  Told ya'.  Plain and simple.

 

So now that you're through looking at my card and if you've been following along you next and last stop for the day is with Candied Cards.

 

If you did not start at the beginning here is our full line up.  And don't forget, when you're done, create a project, link up and play along with us.

 

Cardz TV

Moe Creations

Expressions By Elaine

The Queens Card Castle

Sarah's Stamping Stuff

Purple Monkey Moments

Cards by Shelly

It's Me Susan P

Imagine What You Could Do

Crafting With Mimi

Essentially Yours Wit DeNetra

Spot of Sanity --- you're already here

Candied Cards

 

Hot Chocolate Anyone?

I have been busy crafting away this past week trying to get myself ready for my craft show season which starts next month with our local Oktoberfest.  And the one thing that I promised myself I'd have plenty of were the hot chocolate holders that went like crazy last year.  I only made a dozen of them because I wasn't sure how they'd do and let me tell ya, I was sold out in the first hour.  Of course it'll be my luck that I'll be ready for them this year and they won't sell as quickly.  If that should be the case that's okay because they'll still make great gifts!

With that here's my first batch of hot chocolate holders.  I took my pictures in groups by the cartridges I used to help make it easier for everyone to see.

First up in the lead picture above we have the ones that were made using the  Joys of the Season cartridge.

These were all made using Jolly Holidays - one of my favorite Christmas cartridges to date.  Then again, they're all my favorites so who knows what I'm talking about.  (grin)

These were made using Winter Frolic, Doodlecharms and Life's a Beach.....hey I live in Florida so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use a couple of flamingos this year...........

Oh and lest I forget, I used the mug cut from Everyday Pop Ups and George to create the slit for my packet of hot chocolate to slip into.

Thank You Teacher

Today's card was originally created for a DT challenge over at Just a Scrapping but with my unending headache over the weekend into the first part of the week I go turned around and finished too late to have it included.  But that's okay because I can still share it with all of you here!!

For this card I printed the word Thanks on a scrap piece of paper I found.  Remember kindergarten?  I was thrilled when I realized that the type and size font I chose for this lined up pretty pretty perfect with the paper.

As for my cuts...I used Locker Talk for the ruler and Doodlecharms for my apple.  Before adhering the apple to my card though I coated it with a good coating of glossy accents to help give it a little shine.

The buttons are some that I picked up at Walmart quite some time ago.  I admit I have a thing for playful buttons and love using them when and where I can as embellishments.  Not just on my papercrafting but also on my plastic canvas. 

Since we have either just begun or are getting ready to enter the back to school phase I'd love to see any teacher projects you've created.  Just leave me a comment with a link to your project and I'll come take a look......

Birthday Snap

As I was thumbing through the pages of the current issue of Paper Crafts Magazine I saw a crab shaped card that had the phrase "oh snap" on it.  Immediately this card caught my eye and I knew that it was going to be inspiration for a card to come.

Today just happens to be that day.  One of my girlfriends is celebrating her birthday this week and given her 'snappy' personality - not crabby but fun and quirky - I wanted to use that phrase for her card.  At the same time I'm also creating a card for the Bitten By The Bug 2's Water Theme Challenge.

For this card I used:

Life's a Beach for the font, birds and the little mound upon which my palm tree sits
Create a Critter for the crab
Doodlecharms for the palm tree

My beach was created using sand paper and my little mound was also cut from sand paper.  I also embossed my water to help give it a bit of a wavy look.

Birthday Cupcake

It's time again for another installment in our bi-weekly Cricut Cardz Challenge.  This week is challenge #103 and our directive this week was to create a birthday card using any cupcake or cake cut we desired from any cartridge we desired.

For my card I  used Just Because Cards for the scrolled type frame.

And I used Doodlecharms for the cupcake.  To add some flair to the card I decided to try a technique I learned a while back using puffy paint to give the frosting a more realistic look.  However, I quickly discovered that this works best with the Tulip brand paints (which I was out of at the time).  For this technique you apply enough paint to cover the desired cut.  Then using a heat embossing tool you gently heat the paint so that it bubbles up and then lays back down.  Be careful though because it is easy to burn the paint.  Just turn the heat embosser in circles as if swirling the paint and hold it only close enough to the project to heat it.

Once the paint dried and I could put the cupcake together I adhered an action wobble to the back.  And so that the cupcake would not become 'unbalanced' on the card, I pop-dotted the candle flame.

Now I would like to encourage you to take a look at all the other beautiful cards created by our Design Team.  Then once you're overflowing with inspiration create your own card, link up and play along with us.

Hanging with my Gnomies

Happy Wednesday everyone.  Today is Cricut Cardz Challenge day for this week's challenge we were directed to use fruit on our card using an cartridge/s and color/s we desired.  For my design team entry I chose to use apples as my fruit.

I just received the Freshly Picked cartridge in the mail (I cashed in some of my Cricut reward points for this one), and decided to give it a go for this card.  My gnomes were all cut at 2 1/2".  The apples and basket are from Doodlecharms and were scaled to a size that was comparable for my gnomes.

Now that you've seen my project for this week's challenge be sure to check out the other exciting entries from our Design Team - then create a card of your own, link it up at challenge #86 and play along with us.

Glitter is Glam Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

Today's card is for a challenge this is going on over on the Moxie Fab World blog where the challenge is to use glitter in an "innovative way".  I'm not entirely sure just how "innovative" this is but it's the card I created as my challenge entry......Now I realize it's not a Christmas or wintery card but that's part of the fun.  You know, break out of the mold of what most everyone else is doing and go for the unexpected.  :o)

For this project I used Doodle Charms for the spiders cut one at 1 1/2" and the other two at 1" - I inked the heads with a blue metallic ink and used a red fabric paint for the eyes and pop dotted to the bodies for dimension.


I also used the spider web from PPDU which was cut at 5", ran through my Xyron and then covered with my black glitter fibers.

To place the spiders to the web I used orange cross stitch thread to mimic the webstring and then pop dotted the spiders to the card.

The font used is called spider bite and was downloaded from dafont.com

Snowman Gift Tags

Here's another little challenge for you.  This one is for the All Wrapped Up Challenge going on until Monday the 11th, and the 'directions' are to "create a paper crafted gift bag, tag, box, gift wrap, etc. that for the holiday season".  So I thought why not give this one a try as well (and there's still two more going on that I'm thinking about playing with).

For this one I re-created an old favorite using my Gypsy and the Gyspy Wanderings cart.  Yep the good ol' snowman soup tags.  This is always a fun classic for giveaways at Christmas time and the variations are endless see?

These others were created a while back using Doodlecharms, TBBM and I don't remember which of the Christmas carts.

And okay, I've only created three so far but I tell you they are endless...........

Ghoul School - Early Halloween

I realize it's a little early for Halloween cards, but I had this extra bus cut from the graduation cards I made for my niece.  It's been sitting on my desk for a couple weeks staring me in the face.  Taunting me.  Waiting for me to decide how I would incorporate it into a card. 

I really wanted to use a monster or alien for my "ghouls" but I felt that if I cut them as small as I'd need it would take away from them.  Then I remembered the crazy cartoonish pumpkins on Stretch Your Imagination and thus my card was born.

Not only did I use SYI for the pumpkin ghouls but also for my spider.  The bus is from Doodlecharms and my font was created using Robotz.

Graduation Announcements

I have finally completed the order I had for graduation announcements.  Fortunately it was for a family member so that allowed me a little extra time.  By the time all was said and done though I created three different style cards.

The school bus card was made using Doodlecharms for the bus cut at 4", Every day paperdolls for the heads and graduation caps cut at 2", and Mickey Font for the school's acronym welded and cut at 3/4".

The Hello kitty card was made using only Hello Kitty cut at 4". 

The time card was made using Graphically Speaking for the clock face and the word time.  I'm sorry but I don't remember the sizes I used for this one. 

Snowflake Pop Up

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to make a card using one or more things that begin with the letter S. I chose a snowman and snowflakes. And I used a combination of Cricut and Sizzix this week.

A couple weeks ago I purchased one of the new snowflake pop up dies from Sizzix when they were on sale at 40% off. And this card was inspired by the picture that was included with that die.

For the outside of the card I used Winter Woodland.

For the inside I used

Doodlecharms for the snowman,

George for the window frame

and Speaking of Winter for the snowman's hat

Pumpkin Poop Treat Cups

So tonight's project is one that I am doing for my daughter to hand out to her friends for Halloween this year. I was searching around the net one day for Halloween ideas since I've never been one to really decorate or make cards for the "holiday". But this year I decided to do something different and make some of the cutesy items (I'm just not into the gore). Anyhow, while searching around I came across a poem for Pumpkin Poop and knew that this would be the project for this year.

Fast forward, a couple days ago I showed my daughter four different pumpkin faces and asked which one she wanted? When she saw the one from Doodlecharms her face lit up in a big smile and she said that one. From there this project was created.

For this I used:

Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More for the nut cup - cut at 6"

Doodlecharms for the Pumpkin - cut at 3"

Tags, Bags, Boxes and More for the tags - reshaped to resemble candy corn and then cut at 2" and 1 3/4"

Snowman Soup - Double Pocket Fold Card

Here's another one of my card challenges. The assignment for this card which was from Diane:

Cart: Christmas Cheer

Cut: Candy Cane

Theme: Christmas (that was kinda obvious) I would love to see what you'd come up with using this cut. I've had a couple of ideas for it, but have never actually done anything with it.

I decided to try a new card fold technique that I've had flagged for some time now. It's featured in the resources/tutorials section of the splitcoaststampers website and is surprisingly easy to create.

Of course this card would be perfect to give away along with a Snowman decorated coffee mug filled with a pouch of cocoa, marshmallows and a peppermint stick!

Sesame Street Birthday Pop-up

Today is my niece's first birthday and I wanted to:

use the Sesame Street cartridge,

make a pop-up, and

try the pop-up layering technique

With that said this is the card that I created. Not too terribly bad for a first attempt, but it was time consuming. Will I try it again? Of course! I loved the way that it turned out - even if it isn't "perfect".


My only complaint - every picture I took washed out the colors.........I really need to invest in a better camera.

My finished card measures 6 1/2" x 5". The characters were each cut at 2 1/2", the cake and the balloons were cut at 1". The banner was computer generated but is also at 1" tall.

If you would like a copy of the tutorial please see the tutorials tab.



UPDATE: I am so excited because this card actually made the August 3rd edition of the Cricut Chirp newsletter. This is the 2nd time that I have had this honor and man is it exciting to see that my work was chosen with all the hundreds of projects that were posted on the boards that week. http://www.cricut.com/newsletters/volume.aspx?ID=195

CD Calendar for 2009

This is a project inspired by one I saw on the Cricut message boards a couple weeks ago. And since Thursday was the last day of my vacation I decided to sit down and give it a try.

With everything else going on - family in town, all the kids out of school, etc., etc. - I was only able to get the first four months completed......

For this project I used a regular CD case (not the slimline). All pages are cut to 4 5/8" by 5 1/4". So far I have used the following cartridges:

Graphically Speaking

Pooh & Friends

Paper Pups

Making the Grade

Stretch Your Imagination

Mickey & Friends

Doodlecharms