Witch You Were Here

Yep, you read that right.  Nothing like a little play on words as we begin the middle of the week slide towards the weekend.

I've eyed this sentiment off and on for a while now but finally decided to use it and Cricut's Teddy Bear Parade had the perfect cut to go with it.  

I cut this cute bear witch out using printed papers from Michael's Recollections Halloween mat stack.  The background paper is from My Mind's Eye Halloween (Scary Sparkles) mat stack.

The bat hovering by the sentiment is a button from a set called Fright Night Halloween Specialty that I ordered from Factory Direct.  

And finally the sentiment is from the Trick or Treat stamp set over at Cardz TV Stamps.

Baby Bear

It's a beautiful, chilly morning here in Florida and what better way to start the day than to warm the heart with a precious baby card?  That's right today is another Cardz TV Card Challenge and today it's all about new babies.  

For my card, I used the Teddy Bear Parade cartridge and the Cardz TV Stamps set Beary Sweet.  I stamped my sentiment with some of Tim Holtz's distressing powder in worn lipstick.

Quick, Easy and Effective.  And now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge be sure to check out the creative designs our other team members came up with for the challenge.  Then after you've been amply inspired, create your own new baby card, link up and play along with us.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Christmas Gift Tags

This my first official "Christmas" project of the season.....the snowman globes being my first "winter" project.  lol

 

For these tags I used the shipping tags like you can buy at an office supply store and marbled them using the shaving cream technique. 

 

For my cuts I used the following cartridges:

 

Bears from Teddy Bear Parade

 

Star from Create a Critter 2

 

"To" and "From" are from Christmas Cheer

 

The stamped sentiment on the bottom of the star tags is from the Cardz TV Stamps Happy Days stamp set.  The stamp on the bear tags is from the Beary Sentimental set from Maymay Made It.

 

I love making these gift tags.  They're so easy to do and the size is perfect for all occasions. 

I Love You Like....

.....KaPow!

And so my super-bear Valentine was born out of a sentiment.  I downloaded this great little graphic from Paper Crafts Connection blog section of sentiments.  Then over the last couple of days I've been playing around as I have time trying to decide just how I wanted to design my card around the sentiment.  This is what I came up with..........

From Teddy Bear Parade I cut the superhero bear at 2 1/2" 

From Gypsy Wanderings I cut the hearts at 1/2" and 3/4"

My paper background is from one of the Marvel comic scene pages.  How perfect is that?  And on the inside is my sentiment.

Talk about a fun and easy card to put together.  I just love it when a card comes together this easily.  Don't you?  And for a bit of extra fun I'm going to enter this one in to the Love is in the Air Challenge over at Just a Scrappin.  You should come play along too.

Beary Cupid Valentine

It's been a little while since I pulled out my Teddy Bear Parade cartridge so this weekend I decided it was time to break it out for a Valentine's Day card.  For this one  I cut my little cupid at 2.5" and spotlighted him by cutting triangles in a circular fashion, peeling them back and adhereing with some foam dots.

On the inside I used this great sentiment that I downloaded from PaperCrafts Magazine. 

There are several to choose from so you should go check it out.

It's All About the Bears - Day 2

Happy Sunday everyone.  I hope that extra hour of sleep has found you well rested today because we are on day 2 of our Teddy Bear Parade Blog Hop.  So if you having begun your jouney with my blog, please take a moment to start at the beginning of our hop with Janis of Pause Dream Enjoy.

If you came here from Suzanne's blog, Zannie Berry you're in the right place! Before you begin please keep in mind that some of our Parade hoppers were affected by Hurricane Sandy and therefore are without power.  So if you land on a blog that does not showcase a project please come back here so you can move on to the next stop on the list.

 

For my Teddy Bear project I chose the turkey cut.  Now my original idea was to do a cute little card where the turkey is disguised and tells you to eat more pork, chicken and beef.  But as I started putting the card together I had one of those V8 moments because it finally dawned on me that this was a bear dressed like a turkey and not the other way around.  Talk about DUH!  So instead I opted for this beautiful Autumn paper as my cute little turkey's backdrop.

 

And now that you have checked out my project for this fabulous blog hop, your next stop along the Teddy Bear trail is with Sandra at 365 Days of Cricut.

And if you'd like to start at the beginning of our hop and go to the end OR  in case you get lost along the way here is out entire lineup:

 

DAY 1: Saturday, November 3rd

1. Janis ~ Pause Dream Enjoy

2. Lucy ~ Love to Create

3. Sheree ~ Boots and Bling Time

4. Laura W.~ Scrappinsweetie's Escape

5. Tara Barnes Bruening ~ Craftin Desert Diva's

6. Tracy Matos ~ Tracy's Cricut Corner

7.Sharon ~ Mee Mees Creations

8. Kathi ~ Kards By Kathi

9. Mary ~ Cardz TV

10.Michelle ~ Purple Monkey Moments

11. Elaine ~ Expressions by Elaine

DAY 2: Sunday, November 4th

1. Lucy ~ Love to Create

2. Michelle ~ Purple Monkey Moments

3. Candice ~ Stampin' Pearls with Candice

4. Sarah ~ Sarah's Stamping and Stuff

Suzanne - Zannie Berry

Barbara - Spot of Sanity - You're here

7. Sandra - 365 Days of Cricut

8. Cathy ~ Crafing with Mimi

9. Sharon ~ Mee Mees Creations

10. Julie ~ Cricut Chick

DAY 3: Monday, November 5th

1. Lucy ~ Love to Create

2. Crazy About Cricut

3. Melissa ~ Moe Creations

4. Gloria ~ Girlia's Cards

5. Sarah ~ Sarah's Stamping and Stuff

6. Robin L. ~ Create A Lattee

7. Sandy S. ~ Simply Crafty Creations by Sandy

8. Rachelle ~ Creations by Rachelle

9. Sharon ~ Mee Mees Creations

10. Michelle ~ Purple Monkey Moments

11. Jessi ~ My Life in Arts n' Crafts

 

 

So what are you waiting for?  Start hopping and enjoy your trip along the Teddy Bear Parade. 

But before you go, how about some blog candy?  Up for grabs is a pack of SEI die cut accents and brad pack from their desert springs line, a packet of various sundries from their field notes line and a chalk ink block.  All you have to do is leave a comment telling me one thing that you are thankful for as we approach Thanksgiving.  Comments must be received by midnight Monday as I will chose a winner using random.org and post the winner on Tuesday morning.  So be sure to check back here on Tuesday to see if you are the lucky winner.

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......

Boo Ha Ha Ha

Happy Friday everyone!  If you're like me you can't wait for the weekend to get start so you can get cracking on all those great projects you've thought about throughout the week.  But first we have to start and end our work day.  So before we begin the work day I wanted to share with you a quick and easy card I created for this week's Pause Dream Enjoy DT challenge.  I'm also entering this one in the black, orange, and purple challenge that's going on over at Hiding in My Craft Room.

This week our directive was to create a project on which we used the word Boo.  Luckily for me I had this great chipboard tag in my stash that worked perfectly with this ever so cute Teddy Bear Parade cut.  I just cut this little guy out at 2 1/2", put him together and away I went.......I told you it was quick and easy......just what I needed this week.

Now that you've seen my creation for this week's challenge pop on over to Pause Dream Enjoy and check out all the other wonderful creations our team put together for your enjoyment and inspiration this week.  Then create your own, link up and play along with us for your chance to win

Come play with us!

...

Quick & Easy Birthday Card

Happy Tuesday everyone.  I have another quick and easy birthday card for you today.  Remember when I told you yesterday that I had cut out several items on World Cardmaking Day?  Well this is another of the several Teddy Bear Parade cuts that I made.

Of course it didn't hurt that I had a scrap piece of this wonderfully perfect paper to use for my background.  Isn't it great when you have that perfect piece just lying there in your stash waiting for the right card?  This is one of the many reasons that I don't throw out any of my scraps.  Seriously, you should see my scrap bin and shelves - I'm overflowing in them......

As you can see this was another of my one cut cards and you know that's okay because teamed up with this paper I didn't need another cut. 

So have you added the Teddy Bear Parade to your cartridge stash yet?  I'm having so much fun with this one - kinda like the Create a Critter cartridges - one and two.  And these days it's difficult to choose which one of the three I want to play with more............

Send in the Clown Birthday Card

Since Saturday was World Cardmaking Day I spent my morning cutting various goodies while all the men in the house were still snug in their beds.  I started at 6am and a couple hours later had to break to begin cooking breakfast and doing my normal Saturday routine.  But throughout the day I was crafting away - like when everyone was watching football or playing video games.

Saturday was also my youngest daughter's birthday, and that means I have have three twenty somethings running amuck in the world.  Needless to say I'm longing for the days when they were all younger and I didn't feel quite so old.  LOL

But I digress and what would a birthday celebration be without a bright, cheerful, clown to make everyone smile?  This one is from the recently released Teddy Bear Parade and given that it is the only cut for this card it made for a nice, quick and easy one to put together.

Christmas Card Holder - Altered Project

I've been working on this project for the past week and half and am now ready to share this fun project with you.  These card holders were inspired from a Holiday Cards & More magazine published by Papercrafts a couple years ago.  I've been searching for the holder so I could make my own and as luck would have it Hobby Lobby delivered a sale email to my inbox that just happened to have them featured!!!  You might be able to find them in the store but since the closest one to me is an hour away ordering them online was well worth the shipping costs.

So I started my project with this........

And after a couple coats of white acyrlic paint, I had this.....

After the inside and sides were dried, I turned the caddy upside down and painted the underneath.  Once that was dry I took them outside and sprayed them down with a sealant to help protect the paint.

The next step was finding the right papers for each of my caddies.  Once selected I measured the rectangular sides, cut the needed sizes and then traced the two ends onto the left over paper.  In all one 12" x 12" sheet of paper was all that was needed.  After inking the edges of the paper I used Scotch quick dry adhesive, I glued my papers in place, carefully trimmed any excess and then lightly sanded all edges.

Now for the fun.  Deciding what cuts I want to use to embellish my caddies!  I wanted to use cuts that would enhance the papers used.  While some were easy choices, others were not as easy as I anticipated.

All caddies of course have the same folder.  I cut these from Grapically Speaking and repurposed an actual manilla folder for the job.  After cutting the folders I ran each one through the printer and used the Christmas card font from dafont.com.

I then used the following cuts between the four caddies:

Teddy Bear Parade - Elf Teddy Bear (pictured above)

Christmas Solutions - Santa (after several attempts to cut his glasses I gave up)

Create a Critter 2 - Snowman

Christmas Cheer - Candies and Stocking

Oh, and that card you see in my caddy - here it is in full view.

I originally cut this little bear out for one of my caddies but with the antlers he was too tall.  So I combined him with this tree cut from one of my Sizzix dies.



I hope you enjoyed seeing my project and if you make some I'd love to see what you did so come back and tell me about it.....