Easter Scene

Today I thought I'd do something a little bit different and create a fun scene/picture for Easter. I had a lot of fun playing around and creating this too.

 

So here's what I did.  I used:

• the Mickey & Friends cartridge for the sun
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• the Easter cartridge for the grass, basket, eggs and grey bunnies; and finally
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• the Simply Charmed cartridge for the tree, birds, and baby in the bunny outfit

I ran the bunny outfit and my two little grey colored bunnies through my Xyron and then covered them with a bit of flocking to add some texture.  It doesn't show up well in the picture but you can see it in real life.

 

Then I decided to emboss the tree trunk to add a touch of a different kind of texture. 

 

And of course I had to cut a couple of extra Easter eggs to "hide" in the grass because what's an Easter scene without some hidden eggs?

 

Now I'm off to enter my project into the following challenges this week:

 

DL Art - Easter - Ends March 23rd

 

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Easter - Ends March 27th

DoubleClick Connections - Use a bunny, basket or eggs - Ends March 29th

You're a Mean One.....

 

I have to admit it.  Other than Rudolph and the Miser Brothers the Grinch is my all-time favorite Christmas character.  So as I had some free time I decided to create a Christmas shadowbox that was inspired by this T-Shirt I saw when I was at Universal Studios last month. 

 

 

And it all comes just in time for some great challenges that end this week as well.  (But more about those later.)  First let me tell you how I created my shadowbox.  I started with an 11 x 14 frame that I picked up from Michaels.  Then using Excel I created the line-up back drop on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of white cardstock.

 

The Grinch cut out is from the Krafty Nook and the Ornament in the Grinch's hand is from the Cricut cartridge Simply Charmed.

 

To create the mugshot placard I simply cut a piece of black cardstock and had my Cricut Explore write the verbiage.  The Grinch and Who-ville Police Dept. verbiage I cut out from vinyl and adhered to the outside of the glass.  The font used in both cases is called Grinched and I downloaded it from dafont.com.

 

And now I'm going to enter this shadowbox into the following challenges:

 

Christmas Carol Inspired - Die Cuttin' Divas - Ends December 21st

     not necessarily a "carol" but it is one of my favorite Christmas songs....

 

 

 

 

Christmas Ornament Challenge - Bitten by the Bug 2 - Ends December 21st

 

Anything Goes - Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Ends December 21st

 

December Linky Challenge - DL Art - Ends December 31st

Elf,  (project inspired by the holiday season) - Red Carpet Studios - Ends December 31st

December Celebration Project Book

Happy Friday and four days till Christmas......Today is the start of a brand new challenge at

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges where we are celebrating.  This week was a kind of anything goes week in that we created any type of celebration project we desired.  As you can see I stayed with a Christmas theme and created a journal of sorts.



 

 For this project I used my Bind it All and my Cricut.

The covers for my journal are the pre-made 6" square chipboard covers  that I cut down to 5" x 5 1/2". I then cut 6" squares from the cover papers and then folded over the edges and added a solid red square to complete the inside cover. The journal pages are all white with the exception of the two 'divider' pages.  (Now that I think about it I should have added some verbiage on a few of the pages to help liven it up and get the journaler thinking. Hmmmmm, I'll have to do that next time.  ;o) )

 

Instead of adding a tab to the divider pages I chose to make a tag using the Christmas Cheer cartridge and added a ribbon to act as the tab.

 

The Santa on the cover was cut from Simply Charmed. I flocked his hat and coat and embossed his beard and hair.

And now that you've seen my project be sure to check out all of the other wonderfully done celebration projects our team created for you this week.  Then after you've been amply inspired, create your own, link up and play along with us. Our Sponsor for this week's challenge is

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Prize: 1 Stamp Set of the Winner's Choice

Here's my project for this challenge:

Come play with us!

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Santa's Coming Gift Bag

So what do you do when you have a small gift that needs 'special' wrapping?  Why create your own wrapping of course!  And so for those small gifts that need giving I have created my gift bag with tag all in one.

 

For this project I used TBBM, Simply Charmed and a few scraps from my handy dandy scrap drawers.  (This my friends is why I never throw my scraps away.)

 

I cut the 'shopping bag' from TBBM stretching the cut so that it was 11 1/2" long and a little over 6" high.

My Santa and Chimney are from Simply Charmed. The chimney was cut at 4 3/4" and Santa was cut at 4".

To create the chimney I embossed the bricks and then inked over them with fire brick red distressed ink. The snow cut was covered with MS snow glitter. 

To create Santa I embossed his beard/hair and flocked his hat and coat. The gift tag in his hand was cut from TBBM at 1" with the words "For You" printed on the tag.

 

Oh and wait, it gets better.  You ready for this?  I made this one so that Santa can "go down the chimney".....

 

All I did was pop dot the chimney to the front of the gift bag thus leaving room for Santa.  Pretty nifty 'eh?  lol

 

 

 

Last of the Hot Chocolate Holders

FINALLY!  I have finished my hot chocolate mug holders that I needed to get completed for the upcoming show in a couple of weeks.  There were only 6 left to do but after making so many I started forgetting what cuts I'd already made and what ones I still wanted to make.

Enter Teddy Bear Parade............with this being a new cartridge I knew I hadn't made any with these cuts yet and went to work getting them done. 

Then I also decided to use the gingerbread from Stretch Your Imagination as well as the Santa and mitten from Simply Charmed.

And since I used scraps from my stash I'm going to enter these last holders into the Super Scraps Saturday challenge over at Hiding in My Craft Room.  If you have some scraps you should come play along......

Egghead

This week I am going to be preparing to move my craft room to another room in the house.  My husband and I talked yesterday and decided that we are going to do a three room shuffle.....one of the rooms being the one I began in years ago.  Before I move in though I am going to apply a new coat of paint to the current dull off-white walls, and paint them blue.  Of course I wanted to be sure that I had some projects completed so I could continue to share with all of you during this time of transition so I spent half of my weekend creating simple cards for Mother's Day and Easter.

That said, I'd like to share one of them with you now.......

This one was created using the Simply Charmed cartridge.  Very easily done, but with the right paper it has a clean and crisp look that says complete......at least for me.

Easter Egg Holder

Happy Wednesday everyone!  This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge is to use a cupcake wrapper or holder but I wanted to use mine for something other than a cupcake.  But what?  After some thinking I thought why not use it as an egg holder.

Then, I remembered a post I did last month for some Easter Egg Buddies I made using plastic canvas and plastic eggs.  In that post I wondered if I could re-create them using my Cricut.  Well, here's my attempt at doing just that.

For this project I used:

Easter 2010 for the cupcake wrapper cut at 2"

Simply Charmed for the baby chick cut at 1" and pop dotted to the wrapper so that it would stand out straight on the wrapper

Simply Charmed for the ears on my egg.  I cut the head of the baby bunny twice - flipping one for the backside.  Removed the face portion of the head and then hot glued the ears around the egg as seen in the picture.

Now it's your turn to come and play along with us.  Create  your project using a cupcake wrapper from any cartridge and link it to the CCC #70 by Tuesday, April 19th.  I look forward to seeing what you've created.

Baby Onsie Mini Albums

I just finished these albums today after beginning on them a couple weeks ago and then setting them aside.  My poor brain just couldn't decide what it wanted to do for the embellishing and even though they are now complete I'm still not entirely sure about all the pages.  There are a couple that are my favorites though.....

For this project I cut the onsie out using the Sizzix Bigz XL Baby Onsie die.  It's a discontinued die, but I was able to find it at my local AC Moore which was great since I was able to use a 40% off coupon on the purchase price.  Each page was cut from chipboard and then back with paper from the Brenda Walton BW Small Wonders stack from K&Company.

For the picture mats I used cuts from Accent Essentials and George

Most of my other cuts are from New Arrival with the following exceptions

Baby in the Stroller is from Simply Charmed

 These pages with the stroller, feet, and crying baby are my favorites

Crying Baby is from Car Decals

The diaper pins were stickers from my stash.

For the covers I cut both "boy" and "girl" and will make those into stickers so that whoever receives the album will be able to tailor it to their baby's sex. 

The binder rings used are 1" book rings or loose leaf binder rings which can be found at an office supply store.  These size rings only allowed for a 6 page album so next time I'll need to increase the ring size.  The eyelets are 3/16" or 4.7mm which are the larger ones and allow for smooth movement of the rings as pages are flipped.

Tree of Love

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a masculine card for Valentine's Day using any colors and cartridges we desired.  For my entry I chose to make a card that would be given to a man rather than from a man.  And while it's not very manly looking it does have the frog that you've got kiss in order to find your prince. 

So for this card I used:

Sweethearts for the tree (I also embossed the trunk), the frog and the small hearts

Simply Charmed for the heart with a smiley face

Baby's Menu

It's been a while since I've been able to do any papercrafing so I'm excited that I had some today!  And I finally broke down and ordered the new Car Decals cart so as soon as that comes in I'll make myself take time to do some more.  LOL

So today I made a baby card using Simply Charmed and A Child's Year.  I thought it was  cute idea and it's a take off of one I'd seen a year or so ago but I don't remember where.

The bottle's were cut at 1 1/2" tall and the letters (which were welded together) were created at 1" but then scaled down to actually cut at .65" in Design Studio.

Thanksgiving Gift Bag

I had a plain, brown paper bag lying around so I decided to dress it up.  The background paper is from the DCWV Autumn Splendor mat stack and the edges were inked using the color Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

The turkey is from Simply Charmed cut at 5 1/2".  The feathers were debossed and the body was embossed.  To add a little texture I used paper flowers folded in half for the wings.

Happy Thanksgiving was cut at 2" from Thanksgiving.

The leaves in the corners are Mulberry paper rose leaves from the Recollections Boutique Fleur line.

Prayer Bugs - Inspired by.....

First of all I must give credit where credit is due as the original idea for these little cuties came from Jean's Crafty Corner.  Last month she had created these and I thought it was such a great way to spread encouragement that I scraplifted her idea and ran with it.

For my bugs I used Simply Charmed and cut the lady bugs at 2 1/2".  The little heart buttons I found at Michael's for a package of 20 for $1.99. 

Thank you so much Jean for this wonderful idea.  The ladies have really enjoyed receiving these.

Fall Leaves - Offset Scallop Gallop Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

I've never created a card for one of the challenges on Moxie Fab as I've always been too intimidated.  However, this particular challenge instilled a sense of intrigue and I had to give it a try.  And even though this is my first attempt at such a card I think I kind of like it.

I used:

Accent Essentials to create my scallops cut at 1"
Simply Charmed for the tree and 3 extra sets of leaves cut at 4"
Simply Charmed for the clouds and the sun cut at 1 1/2" and 2"