Dreaming of a White Christmas

Since I'm still putting my craft room back together I thought I'd spend the rest of this week sharing some gems that I found while unpacking.  For example, today's Christmas card.

 

I originally made this card back in 2008 and loved it so much that I couldn't part with it.  I even inked the inside edges of the card and added a pooh snowman on the inside.  I made this card using the Pooh and Friends cartridge from Cricut.  Back then this was one of my favorite cartridges.

 

 

In 2010 I gave this card a bit of a facelift by inking the edges and adding some snowflake buttons before placing it in a picture frame for display.  I think this is the one item that I have made and held on to the longest.

 

To this day I love this little card, but now I think it's time to share and allow someone else to enjoy it this holiday season.

Purr-fect Day

I love having options when I'm pressed for time to create a card.  And that's the beauty with the way our cutting machines are now being designed as well as the cutting files.  Today we can simply print and cut an image where just a couple years ago it was unheard of.

 

Well today I give you a card created just so.  Not because I was pressed for time but because I loved the way the image looked and have to admit I was a bit nervous about doing it justice.  Of course I'll have to come back and paper piece it for another project.  That's just how I am.  But for now....

 

So what file did I use?  Why this is one of the new circus files fro Marjorie Ann Designs.  This one is called Circus Fun Two.  I also used the ornate card base 3 from SVG Cutting Files for the card itself.  And the flowers are from the Cricut cartridge Pooh and Friends.  I just cut a small slit in the hat so that I could insert the flowers and viola it's like my little girl is performing a magic trick to make those flowers appear.

 

My sentiment is from the recently released Critter Punnies by Cardz TV Stamps.  I thought this would pair up just fine with this card since I have my tiger on there.  Of course I realize those guys roar but I bet you they purr like a kitten when they're happy too.  After all they're just one big kitty.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the Any Holiday challenge over at Hiding in My Craft Room because this card was created for Mother's Day (if you look closely you can see Mother's Day on my background paper).

Thankful Thoughts

 

It's been a crazy busy weekend for my family this weekend.  We made an overnight trip to Mississippi so that our next to youngest son and I could compete in a Spartan Sprint together.  It was my second such event and for his birthday I bought our son a race entry so he could do it with me.  It was a 4.3 mile course with A LOT of water, mud and 18 various obstacles.  All in all we had a great time. 

 

Then today my husband wanted to play golf so he and I did that this afternoon.  And in between all that craziness I had to get just a little bit of cardmaking done.  There are a couple of challenges ending soon and I wanted to play along.

 

For my card I used this adorable Fall Scarecrows from Too Cute by Jessica.  I then added in the following cuts from Cricut cartridges:

 

     Football from Life's a Party

     Leaves from Simply Scarecrows & Pooh and Friends

 

After cutting out and putting all the pieces together I added a bit of twine for the scarecrow's hat band and threw a couple of skittles I found at Michael's in with the leaves that are up in the air. 

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Craftin Desert Divas stamp set titled Hey Pumpkin.

 

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:

 

Recipe Challenge - Die Cutting Divas - Ends November 10th (use 1  Ribbon/Twine, 2 Pattern Papers, 3 Pearls/Gems)

 

Anything Goes - Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Ends November 9th

 

Football Challenge - Bitten by the Bug 2 - Ends November 9th

Anything Goes - DL Art - Ends November 30th

 

Until next time here are a couple of pictures from the race my son and I ran this weekend......

 

Not sure how far we trudged through this body of water
but it got chest high about half way through.

This is the wall we had to climb coming out of the water

That's my son in front of me

Our final 'obstacle' the fire pit.

Having some after race fun.

 

When Pigs Fly

Welcome to another PDE Linky Party everyone!  This is going to be a great party and I simply cannot wait to see everyone's take on this challenge.  For the next two weeks we are playing with PUNS.  How fun is that?  Create a project.  Any project.  Use a pun.  Link it up and play along with us.

 

For my project I used cuts from the Cricut Cartridges Pooh & Friends and Children Around the World.  I kept racking my brain on how to create a flying pig and then I saw a picture of a pig holding balloons and thought well why not put the pig in a hot air balloon?

 

The stamped sentiment is from the newly released set titled Just Pigcause by Craftin Desert Divas.  Talk about some fun puns - she's got 'em over there.

 

And now that you've seen my take on this week's project be sure to check out all the others our design team has created for you.  Then after you've been amply inspired, create your own and play along with us.

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.

Mushroom Birthday Card

I saw a card this morning that used a mushroom as the focal point and it caught my eye to such degree that I wanted to make one of my own.  I kept playing around with different papers to use for the background and any patterned paper I chose was far too busy so I stayed with a clean piece of white.  Only problem with that was when I tried to take a picture.  ;o)

For this card I used:

Tinkerbell and Friends for the mushroom cut at 2 1/2"

Paper Doll Dress Up for the fence cut at 1" (I painted over the fence with white distressing paint and then lightly inked over it with a light shade of brown and gently used a distressing tool along the tops of the pickets)

Pooh and Friends for the sun cut at 1" and butterflies cut at 3/4"

Accent Essentials for my background - this piece was skewed to measure 3 3/4" x 5 1/4"

The cloud I had cut some time ago and then never used so it's from my non-used cut stash.  In other words, I have no idea what cart it's from.  lol

Once put together I turned this into a birthday card.  The inside sentiment says, "It's your day and I hope it's as special as you.  Happy Birthday!"

Secret Agent Birthday Card

This week was anything goes week for Cricut Cardz Challenge #38 and since I had a close friend who is celebrating a birthday this week I chose to use her card as my DT challenge.  I wanted to create something that was fun and humorous to try to match my girlfriend's personality.  Hopefully when she receives her card in the mail she'll love it. 

Late last week I received my new Happy Hauntings cartridge in the mail and when I started looking at the various cuts I was drawn to this little mouse in his cape.  My first thought was that he looked like a Sherlock Holmes wanna be and thus my card was born.  The little spy glass in his hands was created using the butterfly net outline from Pooh and Friends to which I adhered a piece of acetate to make it look a little more realistic. 

The shape of the card and the "shhh" are from Graphically Speaking.  I haven't used this cartridge much lately but was glad to be able to dig it back out because I almost forgot how much I like it.

Not shown in the pics is that there is a second page to the "file" that includes our birthday greetings.  Both of the file pages were cut using one of the shapes from George and were then stapled to the file.

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

Child's Birthday Pop-Up

My card this week is a combination of two challenges put into one creation.

The first challenge is the weekly Cricut Cardz Challenge which was to create a child's birthday card this week. The second challenge is from my recent blog candy challenge which was to make a pop up card using Mickey and Friends or Tinkerbell.

For this card I used:

Mickey & Friends for Mickey and the Mickey balloons

George for the other balloons

A Child's Year for the Happy Birthday

Pooh and Friends for the gifts

Cricut Sampler for the Birthday hat (originally from the Celebrations cart - I think)

St. Patrick's Day Pooh Style & Blog Candy

Good evening everyone. Today's theme for Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a St. Patrick's day card using any cartridge we wanted. Then earlier this week I found a new technique on Splitcoaststampers that I wanted to try called the Folded Paper Frame. So I thought and thought about how I could combine the two together and as I was looking through my carts - Eureka! it hit me.

So here's my card - only you can't tell from the picture that it really has dimension to it. I pop dotted the frame all around as well as Pooh so that it looks like he's really propped up in a window frame.

Where's the blog candy you ask?

Here's the deal. Last year I went through a creative slump and with all the stress from work and cold weather keeping me away from my Cricut I feel like I'm there again. So I need you to help me out.

To enter for a chance to win - Don't worry you don't have to become a follower - just look over the list of cartridges I own and then leave a comment with the following direction/s:

1. Name of cartridge you want to see me use in my design


2. Which cut/s on the cartridge to use


3. Theme (i.e. encouragement, birthday, etc.)


4. Do you have a particular style of card you want me to try (S-fold, Pedestal, etc)


5. Your Cricut MB name, a link to your blog or email address (so that I can message you if you are one of the winners)

Entries must be submitted by commenting on this specific post NO LATER THAN midnight March 14th

I will choose the winner at random on March 15th using random.org and will then contacted the winner for their mailing address.

In the meantime, here's a pic of what you could win......

Thinking of You - S Fold Card

Good morning, Happy Wednesday/Hump Day,

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to design a thinking of you card in an "S-Fold" fashion......Having never heard of an s-fold card before I had to ask where I could find directions. But so that you don't have to go searching I have the link for you right here:

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2010/01/s-fold-valentine-card.html

For my card this week I chose to use the Pooh and Friends cartridge for the:

Gopher cut at 2 1/2"

Clouds" cut at 1"

And then I used George for the:

boxes cut at 3 and 3 1/2"

Sentiment cut at 2"

Piglet Get Well - Card Challenge #22

Laney's assignment for me was: How about Pooh & Friends Use Piglet and make a Get Well Card

I saw this idea done originally with Pooh months ago and thought it was so cute that I chose it for this card.

The bed and the blanket are from the new Every Day Paper Dolls. The blanket was actually a towel that I cut around on to fit my needs.

Pooh's Pickin' Apples for the Teacher

Tonight's card was created based upon the homework assignment given by Vicki - the grand prize winner. Vicki said, "Here is your assignment. You are to use the SYI cart, Zooballo cart and Pooh and friends cart.Use the tree from SYI with the apples on it. Use the grass from Zooballo- this can be either the tall grass or the short grass, which is the shift lowercase feature or for extra credit use both the short and tall grassUse any character from The Pooh and Friends cart other than Pooh. You will also need to use the basket of apples from Pooh and Friends. For extra credit add either a piece of ribbon or other embellishment. the theme of your card needs to be a back to school theme"

I used all the cuts assigned above and chose to use flower eyelets as my extra credit embellishment. I will say that I'm not entirely sure I like the grass but it was required.

The inside quote says, "If an apple a day keeps the doctor away - will a basketfull make the teacher play?"

Hello Kitty Graduation Pop Up Card

My oldest daughter is getting ready to gradute in a couple weeks from the community college she's been attending in Brunswick, GA and has been accepted to Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah. Unfortunately I will not be able to attend the ceremony as my other daughter is in exams with her honors classes here at home. So I wanted to create a special card and set about last night on the design and cutting and finished putting it all together this morning.

For this card I used the following cuts:

Hello Kitty & cap - 4" (outfit cut to be in the school colors)

Hello Kitty in car - 3 1/2"

Tree from Camp Out - 4 3/4"

Sun from Pooh & Friends - 1 1/2"

Pennant from Locker Talk - 1 3/4" (cut to be in the school colors)

The road was created simply by cutting a stip of black paper the length of the card and then notching to fit around the pop up pieces so that it would slide in to the center of the card for placement.

Wanted to be Sure - Pooh Friendship Card

I was looking for quotes to use last night for a new technique that I wanted to try. But then I came across a quote from one of the Pooh stories and my original card was abandoned for this one.

I cut the bridge at 4 1/2" and Pooh and Piglet were cut at 2 1/2". The grass, water, and sand areas were cut twice, pop dotted and layered for a dimensional effect.

The inside sentiment says: Piglet sidled up to pooh from behind. "pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you" - A.A. Milne

A Bad Day of Fishing...

I finally had enough reward points to cash in for a new cartridge and I decided on the Cricut Sampler and today it arrived in the mail. And how perfect that it includes a couple of fishing themed cuts. So I sat down tonight and created this card.

For this card I used:

Going Places: Man fishing cut at 3" and two sets of waves in different colors and inked cut at 2 1/4"

Pooh and Friends: Sun cut at 1 1/2"

Graphically Speaking: Fish were scaled down to less than 1"

For the background I gently brushed a white ink pad across the page with a 'sweeping' motion so as to create a cloud type affect.

The inside sentiments says: A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.

Tiggerific Birthday Card

I haven't done much scrapbooking since my return to work....there's just been so much to catch up on that by the time I get home my brain is fried and I can't get a creative idea. Although I will say that I have had bits and pieces come and go for a valentine's day project that I am going to begin working on soon.



Nonetheless, I my babysister's birthday is tomorrow and my number 4 child's is next Sunday. So like it or not I had to begin doing something if I was going to get a card done in time for tomorrow's event. And surprisingly enough I pulled it off.....only problem was the I had one boo boo.....



With that said, I give you my Tigger 'Over the Hill' card......



For this I used Pooh and Friends and Graphically Speaking.

September through December

Whew - my 2009 calendar is now complete. And what fun I had designing and putting this together. Needless to say, I saved all my files for future re-makes. And I had an epiphany this morning too. When a month is over - don't throw the calendar page away - use it for a month themed layout. Viola! the calendar will now serve a dual purpose. How great is that?!?

For these pages I used the following carts:

Paper Pups

Stretch Your Imagination

Pooh and Friends

Graphically Speaking

Making the Grade

Zooballoo

I also used a leaf punch that came with one of my many kits last year.

Oh, after completing this project I came to another conclusion. While the 5 1/4" tall pages work great and fit in the case individually - they do not allow for the page holder to recline enough when all pages are lying in the tray with only one month displayed. So for my next calendar I think I'll scale back to a 5" tall page and see how that works. But then again I might decide what the heck and leave well enough alone.......

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

Pooh's Dreaming of a White Christmas

Today was a rather stressful day at work. So much to do and a very short period of time to get it done in. Needless to say I couldn't wait to get home, cook dinner and get to work on finishing this card that had been running around in my head.

I had been trying to figure out a way to use the Snowman from the Pooh and Friends cart for a while and then this idea came to me the other day. Yesterday I started laying it all out, and then last night my youngest daughter decided she wanted to switch bedrooms with her brothers. So instead of finishing my card I helped her. Of course I had a good time, but I really wanted to see this through as well.

So here it is - It's not exactly the way I envisioned it, but then again they rarely are. Sleeping Pooh was cut at 2" and the snowman icon was cut at 2 1/4" and pop dotted for a bit of a 3D effect.