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Today I'd like to share my final Anti Valentine's Day card with you.  As you can tell from the picture this is another quick and easy card.  That's one of the things that I like about the Cricut cartridge Suburbia.  If I need a quick go to this cartridge has it since it's all silhouettes.  Just like the Child's Year cartridge.

 

The stamped sentiment on my card is from the Jaded Blossom stamp set titled Cupid is Stupid.

 

 

 

On the inside of my card I used another sentiment from the stamp set and also cut a couple more martini glasses to go with it.

Love Letters

Today I'd like to share with you the project that I made for my husband's Valentine's Day gift.  I found these wonderful little 3 in x 4 in paper bags at Michael's and just knew I had to have them.  Especially since they were on sale 50% off.  I loved the idea that they had the space for journaling on the bag and thought they were the perfect size for making tags and hoped they wouldn't be too big to fit in one of the mailbox tins I had.  After discovering that they weren't too big off to work I went.

I used a variety of cartridges on this project including:

Going Places for the globe

Create a Critter 2 for the owl, phrases and bee

Handyman for the hammer and nails

Paper Dolls for the moon and stars, and the weights

Graphically Speaking for the smiley face

Suburbia for the fan

Indie Art for the dice

Wild Cards 2 for the boat

Mini Monsters for the monster

TBBM2 for the tags

This is a picture of the front of the tags

And this is the back of the tags.  As you can see I printed different sentiments to coincide with the graphic on the front of the tag.

Once they were all put together I matched them up with the paper bag that also had the sentiment written on it.

Then in to the mailbox all but 4 went.  Throughout this week I've left one tag in different hiding spots (truck, lunch bag, bowling shoes, shaker cup) for my husband to find at some point during his day.

For my mailbox - I cut a strip of 4 x 12 paper, wrapped it around the box (cutting out a spot for the flag).  I then traced and cut out the pieces for the front and back.  The stamped sentiment is from Cardz TV Stamps snail mail.

Tomorrow I will place the mailbox - along with a Mine Craft Creeper plush (he's a huge Mine Craft fan) I picked up - in the front seat of his truck.......

Love You Because Mini Album

For Valentine's Day I always make a little something (besides a card) for my husband.  Not because we can't afford gifts but because 1) it's hard to surprise him since we do everything together and 2) I want it to come from my heart and not a big box store.  So this year as part of his gift I made him a mini album listing some of the reasons I love him and I wanted to share just a couple of the pages with you.

This was an easy album to make.  For my pages I cut 3" circles from chipboard and backed each side using paper from the SEI Think of Me mat stack.  Then using my Crop O Dile I punched holes for my ring binder to hold them all together.

My cover features that cute little Teddy Bear from the Teddy Bear Parade on an action wobble. 

On the inside I alternated using pictures and cuts from Create a Critter along with my "reasons".  

The mats I used for my "reasons" are from the Cricut Alphabet, one of the E2 Anniversary built in cartridges.  

The heart is from Cricut Alphabet and the Sexy verbiage is from Suburia.

And since I used a variety of scraps on this project I'm going to enter it into the Super Scraps challenge over at Hiding in My Craft Room.  There's still time to play as the challenge ends tonight.

Seriously

Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to another Cricut Cardz Challenge.  Can you believe this is our 118th challenge?  My how the time flies.....

This week's challenge is Anything Goes.  You can make a card, project, layout - ANYTHING - so long as you use your Cricut. 

As you can tell I chose to make a card......I had to since I just received the new Suburbia cartridge in the mail a couple days prior.  I've been looking at this cartridge and salivating and on World Card Making Day I just HAD to dig in.  And just like the Child's Year cartridge, Surburbia is going to be a fun one.

Both my silhouette and the word seriously were cut from Suburbia.  At first I was going to use the question mark with the word and try to come up with some smart alek sentiment but I changed my mind.  Instead, I chose to make this an enouraging card and used the following sentiment:

Everything will be okay in the end.  If it's not okay, it's not the end.  (Author Unknown)

Now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge hop on over to Cardz TV and check out all of the other fun and exciting projects our design team created for you this week.  Then after you've been amply inspired, create your own, link up and play along with us.

I can't wait to see what you make this week.