Fun in the Sun

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to use a summer apparel or accessory cut from any cartridge.  I thought, and I thought about this one but I kept drawing a blank as to what I could really do with summer apparel.  Problem was nothing came to mind.  Sooooo, I chose to use "accessories".

For this card I used Life's a Beach for the umbrella and the adirondack chair.  Everyday Paper Dolls was used for the towel and the beach ball is just a sticker I found in my stash.

My 'beach front' was made using sand paper to give it a more textured look and feel.  Being from the Panhandle of Florida where we have some of the World's Most Beautiful Beaches I would have loved it even more if I could find white sandpaper.  Oh well..........

Prayer of Encouragement

Just picked up the Chore Chart lite cartridge the other day and I admit I wanted it specifically for this cut.  However, I waited for Walmart to mark it down because I just couldn't justify paying that much for one cut.

The dove is from Joys of the Season.

Inside Sentiment says:   In those times when I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows where to find me.  - Neva Coyle

Over What Hill?

I finally broke down and ordered a few new cartridges this week and was elated when I won Life's a Party for only $18 on ebay.  I've been toying with buying this one for some time but for that price I just couldn't pass it up..............and I'm glad I didn't! 

Since my husband's on call this weekend we haven't really left the house and thus I've gotten a few cards made.  For this one I used Life's a Party for everything except the grass which I cut using Zooballoo.  I created the splatter effect using Distressed Ink in vintage photo and a brayer.  At first I wasn't sure if I liked how it looked but it's grown on me.

So what do you think?  Isn't this just a cute card?  Especially with that little buzzard sitting there looking things over.

Graduation Congrats Pop-up

My oldest child is graduating from college soon and called the other day asking if I would please make her graduation announcements for her.  Well that of course prompted my newly found need/desire to purchase the Happy Graduation cartridge that was released a while back.  I mean up until now I didn't really feel the need to purchase this cartridge but I'm glad I did.

For my first project using this cartridge though I decided to do a Congrats card.  Now combine Happy Graduation with one of the wonderful Sizzix pop up dies and you get a great gift giving surprise.  I'd been drooling over this die as well but finally quit talking myself out of buying it.

So what do you think?

Pregnancy Congratulations Pop Up

By now you might have noticed that I LOVE pop-up cards.  Well here's another one that I put together this weekend to add to my arsenal.  I used the recently released Everyday Pop-ups cartridge for my cuts:

Bundle of Joy was cut at 3"

Pregnant woman cut at 4 1/2"

 

When I initially put this card together I had forgotten all about the PDF diagram file that Joy had posted on her blog over at Obsessed with Scrapbooking and kinda messed up.  But then I remembered that I had downloaded the file, opened it up, figured what I did wrong and viola.

If you haven't made a pop-up card before I'd love to see you give it a try.  They're a lot of fun......Hmmmm I think I'll have to come up with a challenge for us to all play along in......stay tuned for dets.  lol

Elephant Crayon Holder

Dusti over at Scrappin with Cricut was so very kind and invited me to come play along in her No Cards or Layouts Monday Challenge #3 and I thought it would be fun so instead of waiting for a couple days to post this other plastic canvas project that I've completed I'll just post it now.

This was another one that I had a lot of fun doing, but sometimes it's a pain in the tail trying to match things up like the legs for these silly elephants.  Yeah, that was a lot of fun.  But all in all I think they turned out cute and am pleased with the end result.

And now that you've seen what I'm entering into the challenge why don't you hop on over to Dusti's blog and enter a no card/no layout project of your own so that we can see how crafty you are.  ;o)

Flip Flop Tissue Box in Plastic Canvas

It's been a while since I've shared one of my plastic canvas creations so today I wanted to share with you another tissue box cover I finished.  I figured since it's that time of year and I live in Florida where it's always flip flop weather this was a natural project to create.

I love the way that it turned out with all the colors.