Fantabulous Cricut Challenge # 306 - Anything Goes

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #306-Anything Goes!
Create a project that features anything in the Cricut Library!

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The prize is 4 digital stamps!

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

Here is my Project:

 

 

 

 

So I have kind of been really liking these décor pieces. I have now created 3, including this one. I have decided that I am going to create a décor piece for every season and every holiday. My youngest daughter has been really enthusiastic about helping me with them too. She is 7 and likes to press buttons. This is the décor piece we created for Summer.

 

 

I used these items to create my Summer Décor Project:

• Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge - waves, bikini, beach ball
• Pooh and Friends Cricut cartridge - sun
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - sand castle
• "Just Because" Cards Cricut cartridge - watermelon
• Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge - Summer
• Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge - popscicle
• Create a Friend Cricut cartridge - pool
• Glossy Accent - on the popscicle

I am entering my Summer Décor Project in the following challenges:

• DL ART - Thankful Thursday Challenge #208 - Anything Goes
• Cardz TV Challenge #6 - Anything Goes
• Come and Get it Challenge - Summertime
• Corrosive Challengenge - Anything Goes
• Bitten By the Bug 2 - Water Fun

I really enjoyed creating this Summer Décor Project. I hope you enjoyed it. Please visit Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and submit your own Anything Goes project.

Happy Mother's Day Center Step Card

 

 

Well, this Sunday will be Mother's Day and this is a card that I created with my 7 year old daughter for her MomMom (Grandmother). Her MomMom loves owl's so we decided that we had to use the owl from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge. We also found out that her favorite colors are mauve and country blue. We then choose our papers and this is what we came up with. You can't see it but I did use some foam tape behind the owl and branch.

 

 

I used these items to create my Happy Mother's Day center step card:

• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - owl and branch
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge 2 - flowers and Happy Mother's Day
• Foam tape - behind owl and branch
• DCWV Textured Cardstock Stack Pastels - mauve and pink
• other cardstock and pattern paper

 

I will be entering my card in the following challenges:

• Cut It Up Challenge #121 - Wings
• BBTB2 - Happy Mother's Day
• Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #316 - Mother's Day
• DL ART- May Linky Challenge
• Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #172 - Cards - optional Fun Folds
• CardzTV Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Happy Mother's Day center step card.

Have a blessed day!



Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #256 - Fun in the Sun

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #256-Fun in the Sun
Create a project that features outdoor summer activities.

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Bugaboo Stamps

The prize is 7 digital stamps!

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.


I have created a Summer scrapbook layout. These photos are of me and my youngest daughter during the Summer of 2011. My daughter was approximately 19 months old. This was the first time she showed any real enjoyment out of the pool experience.

 

My thought was to add glossy accents to the title and splash images but all 3 bottles I had were dead. I was out of time and had to finish the layout. Maybe in the future when I get some more I will add it to the page but until then this will have to do. I do like the way the scrapbook layout turned out and I hope you do too.

 

I used these items to create my Summer scrapbook layout:

• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - title
• Cake Basics Cricut cartridge - splash images

I am entering my layout in the following challenges:

• Cut it Up Challenges - #75 - Word Challenge
• Anything but a Card - Anything Goes
• Lasting Memories Layout Challenge - #248 - Together
• DL ART - July Linky Challenge - Anything Goes

This was a fun and easy scrapbook layout to put together. Hopefully my scrapbook layout has inspired you to create your own outdoors Summer activities project and enter it in at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge. Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Summer scrapbook layout.

Smile, Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday Shrek 2 Party 2 page layout

Today I bring to you my Smile, Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday Shrek 2 Party 2 page layout. This didn't start out as a 2 page layout but here it is and I think it works.

Page 1 is "Smile" because this page describes the photos I took of Jaidyn for her invitation. I actually did some hidden journaling behind the camera. Basically I made the camera into a shape card...pretty cool I think!

The journaling says, "It was October 30, 2012 and I had to get a good photo of Jaidyn for her 3rd birthday party invitation. So we went out front, with her favorite green shirt on, and I attempted to get a good photo. But Jaidyn would look everywhere but at me. The best one I got is the one in the frame. This is also the one I had put on her invitation. Not the greatest picture but definitely shows Jaidyn's personality." 

I also used an "old school" tool on the wooden frame. I used a texture plate called carpet to make the wooden frame look like tree bark instead of using the easy to use embossing folders.

I used these items to make "Smile" page 1:

• Shrek napkin and treat bag from the birthday party
• Pooh and Friends Cricut cartridge (1st time I used this cartridge) - for the frame
• Dreams Come True Disney Cricut cartridge - slime splat
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - camera
• Phrases Cricut cartridge (1st time I used this cartridge) - "smile"
• Brown, green, black and silver cardstock
• Fiskars texture plate (carpet) (1st time I used this plate)- on the frame
• Brown ink and marker - on the frame
• Brads - on the frame
• Glossy Accents - on the slime splat and camera lens
• Foam squares - under the slime splat and camera

Page 2 is the Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday invitation page , it displays the invitation I had made with one of the photos I took on page 1. One other cool thing I did was I used items from Jaidyn's party to create both pages. I used one of the napkins for the main images and a treat bag with Shrek on it. These were such fun pages to make...I really glad I kept those party items.

I used the items to make the Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday Shrek 2 Party page 2:

• Shrek napkin
• Christmas Cheer Cricut cartridge - trees
• 2 different colors of green and teal cardstock
• Brown ink - on the trees
• PARTY metal tag 
• The actual invitation from Jaidyn's party

I am entering my Smile, Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday Shrek 2 Party 2 page layout in the following challenges and linky parties:

• PDE Linky Party #16 - Kids Theme
• Shopping Our Stash - SOS #164 - Back in the Day - use an old school tool
• {Pin}spirational Challenge #120 - ANYTHING GOES
• Cut It Up Challenge - Inspired by a Song Challenge #51 -"Smile" or "Livin' la Vida Loca"
• Stuck On U Sketches - Die-Cut Challenge - Lights, Camera, Action - use a camera, filmstrip, etc.
• Red Carpet Studio Challenge - RCS #76 - Sixteen Candles - Birthday Project
• DL ART - August Linky Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Smile, Swing on over to Celebrate Jaidyn's 3rd Birthday Shrek 2 Party 2 page layout.

Mr. & Mrs. Triple Heart Shape Easel card

I am sharing with you tonight a wedding card that I made using a different style of shape/easel card.  I was inspired by a pin on pinterest Triple Heart Shape Easel Card Tutorial. I made this for my niece who will be getting married in less than a year. I am super excited about the way it turned out.

I used these items to make my Mr. & Mrs. Triple Heart Shape Easel card:

• Sweethearts Cricut cartridge - hearts and Mr. & Mrs.
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - bow tie
• black, white and lavender cardstock
• real black buttons - from my stash
• Stampin' Up Rhinestones 
• Swiss Dots embossing folder
• Stickles 
• Fabric Fancies flowers
• foam squares

I am entering my Mr. & Mrs. Triple Heart Shape Easel card in the following challenges and linky parties:

• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #141 - Shape Card
• DL ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
• CardzTV - Challenge #3 - Wedding card
• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge #217 - Anything Goes
• PDE Linky Party #13 - Many Layers

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Mr. & Mrs. Triple Heart Shape Easel card.

Tulip Happy Birthday Pop Up Box Card

This past Sunday was my Mom's birthday and I made this Tulip Happy Birthday Pop Up Box Card for her. I had to get my creative thinking on to make this card.  I knew right away I wanted to have tulips because they are one of my mom's favorite flowers. I also knew I wanted to make a pop up box card because I like that they can serve double duty as a card and decoration. Believe it or not, out of all of the Cricut cartridges I have there was not one single tulip flower I liked so I had to create my own. I looked through images on Google of tulips to get the general shape. I noticed the shape was kind of like an egg so I decided I was going to cut 3 egg shapes and layer them and OMG...it worked! I then needed to find a stem and leaves I liked. I found that some blades of grass would work for that effect. Now I absolutely had to use purple because it is mine and my mom's favorite color. Lastly, it was about getting it all cut out and put together. I am so pleased with the way this card turned out and so was my mom.

I used these items to create my Tulip Happy Birthday Pop Up Box Card:

• Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge - to create the tulips with the egg shape
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge - to create the stem and leaves with the blades of grass
• white ink - to highlight the tulips
• purple ink - Happy Birthday and sentiment on back of card
• My Craft Spot - Inside & Out - Set #2 clear stamp set - for the Happy Birthday and sentiment on back of card 
• Stampin' Up! 4 rhinestones - on front of card
• Mart
• 2 shades of purple cardstock
• white and green cardstock
• 2 different pattern papers
• Martha Stewart corner punch - Deco fan

Here are some close ups of the flowers and the back of the card:

I am entering this card in the following linky parties and challenges:

• Little Scrap Pieces Linky Party
• Craftin Desert Divas - Craft-it-up Link-it-up - Favorite Color 
• Craft Your Passion Challenge #218 - 3 or more embellishments - I used 4 rhinestones
• DL ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Tulip Happy Birthday Pop Up Box Card.

My 1st Shaker Card

Yes, you read it right, this is my very 1st shaker card.  I have been wanting to try one of these for a very long time and now I have. I did make some mistakes along the way but I learned from them and I feel very confident that I won't make those same mistakes again.

I used these items to create my shaker card:

• Design Studio
• Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge - snow globe (can't remember the last time I used this cartridge)
• Create a Critter - penguin (can't remember the last time I used this cartridge either)
• stickles
• glitter (have had for many years)
• Close to my Heart clear stamp sentiment - S110 Holiday Magic (never used before)
• ribbon (had since last year)
• iridescent snowflakes (have had for many years)
• Clear Craft Plastic (had since last year)

Here is a view of the bottom and inside of the card:

I am entering my shaker card in the following challenges:

• (Pin)spirational Challenge #39 - see photo below - open til 1/14
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Shaker Card - open til 1/14
• Go Fish Challenge #32 - Winter - open til 1/14
• My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #81 - Frosty Days - open til 1/14
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything New
• Party Time Tuesdays - PTT #102 - Sparkle, Glitter and Shine - open til 1/14
• Use it Tuesday Challenge #47 - Make it Sparkle - open til 1/18 by 10:am AZ time
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday - Winter Blues Challenge - open til 1/18
• Exploring Cricut - Baby It's Cold Outside - open til 1/19
• DL Art Thankful Thursday Linky Party - Anything Goes  - open til 1/31

I think I did pretty good for my very 1st shaker card (toot toot my horn). Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Penguin Snow Globe Shaker card.

Monster High Book Worm ATC/Bookmark

OMG!  It feels so good to be back creating.  I haven't been able to create in some time.  On June 29th I was diagnosed with breast cancer and on August 7th I had my 1st surgery to remove the cancer from my breast and they also diagnosed 2 of my lymph nodes with cancer, too.  So on August 21st I had my second surgery to remove more lymph nodes that thankfully came back negative!  Next week I have a couple of other tests before I start chemo and that I understand will be over the next 3 months then I have 6 weeks of radiation.  My underarm is a little sore but tolerable and I only feel at my best when I'm crafting (my therapy).

So today I bring to you a Monster High Book Worm ATC/Bookmark.  Even though my oldest daughter has been back to school since August 6th I figured since everyone seems to be having a Back 2 School challenge I just had to do something.  I decided to make an ATC but I also wanted to make it function as a bookmark too.  So I created a corner pocket for the ATC to slip over a corner of a page.  And of course it had to be Monster High for my daughter who loves all things Monster High!

I used these items to create my ATC/Bookmark:

• Design Studio (couldn't live without)
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge (one of my favorite carts) - worm
• Wall Decor and More Cricut cartridge - book
• Monster High stickers - book and heart
• recycled Monster High doll box - cut out Monster High shield
• Purple (my favorite color) zebra stripe ribbon - left over from my daugher's Monster High Birthday party
• Index card - background
• white gel pen - outline book

I am entering this ATC/Bookmark in the following challenges:

• DL Art - Happy Birthday Linky Party + GIVEAWAY! - open til 8/31
• BBTB2 - Back to School - open til 9/2
• Fantabulous Cricut - Back to School Cricut Crawl Challenge - make a project using School supplies (I used an index card) - open til 9/2
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #66 - use your favorite crafting items (I used my Design Studio, Create a Critter cart. and purple) - open til 9/3
• Wicked Wednesday ATC #47 - Back to School - open til 9/4
• Use it Tuesday Challenge #38 - Use That Ribbon - open til 9/7

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Monster High Book Worm ATC/Bookmark!

Rudolph Treat Bag/Ornament/Gift Card Holder

Today I share with you some little treat bags that I made for my daughter's 4th grade class for the last day before Winter break.  What I also discovered after making just one of these cute little bags was that it can double as an ornament for the Christmas tree or gift card holder.  The entire bag stands about 4 1/2 inches high, 3 inches wide and not quite 1 inch deep.  I made 28 of these for my daughter's class!!!

I used these items to create these treat bags/ornaments/gift card holders:

• Design Studio
• Plantin SchoolBook Cricut cartridge - for the bag
• Create-a-Critter Cricut cartridge - for Rudolph
• Martha Stewart punch - for the snowflakes
• Red stickles - for Rudolph's nose
• Misc. Christmas ribbon from Michael's

Here they are as ornaments on the tree:

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #89 - Present Time
• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge #36 - Christmas Treat and Gift Packaging
• Robins Creative Cottage #2 - Ribbons and Bows
• Cardz TV #2 - Crafty Christmas
• Craft Your Passion Challenge #87 - Anything Goes + Glitter
• Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Any Christmas Project
• Decorate To Celebrate #13 - Christmas Party
• Cooking With Cricut Challenge #63 - Sounds of the Season - Create a project featuring your favorite sounds or songs of the holiday season
• More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #61 - Christmas theme project
• Cricut Creative Cutter Room - Animal Theme

I had so much fun making these and the versatility of this project was a HUGE BONUS!!!  I can't wait to get them to the kids!

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed my Rudolph treat bag/ornament/gift card holder!

Have a Merry Christmas!

Give Thanks Basket

A new Thanksgiving traditional was started this year.  I wanted to do this last year but never got around to doing it but with the help of my 9 year old daughter Kaitlyn we finally did it!  I read somewhere about this project years ago and this is our "Give Thanks Basket."  Basically the basket is where you keep strips of whatever color paper you'd like (I choose red, green and white) and throughout the year you write on a strip of paper something you are thankful for.  Then next Thanksgiving you bring out the basket and read what your family has written on them throughout the year.  Lastly, you make a chain-link garland out of the written on strips of paper and use for your Christmas decorations on your tree or wherever you'd like.

I used these items to create my Give Thanks Basket (ALL of these items I had in my stash):

• basket (just one I had at my house)
• leaves (from a Fall garland that had fallen off) - hot glued to the outside of the basket
• wooden dowels -  for the sign
• jute packaging twine - for the sign
• Create-a-Critter Cricut cartridge - for the turkey
• Sesame Street Seasons Cricut cartridge - for the leaves
• Storybook Cricut cartridge - for the font
• Studio G glitter glue

I am entering this project in the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion Challenge #85 - Sponsored by Doodle Pantry - challenge this week is a photo inspiration, whether it be the colors, pumpkins, leaves, etc.
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #87 - Create a card or project with the words “Thank you” (or “Thanks”) on it 
• Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge Give Thanks - create a project reflecting something you are thankful for: family, friends, pets, crafting... It is open to your interpretation of something you are thankful for! 
• Paper Cutz Challenge #117 - make a card, LO or craft project for Thanksgiving, using a stamped, digital stamp or Cricut cut image of a turkey!
• Crop Stop Challenge #47 - Be Thankful - create a thank you card, thankful LO, or a thankful project
• Use It Tuesday Challenge #20 Giving Thanks - make a project that has to do with Giving Thanks
• The Cuttlebug Spot - Gobble Gobble Turkey Challenge - Your entry must have a Turkey

Here is our Give Thanks Basket during our Thanksgiving dinner:

Thanks for stopping by and viewing my Give Thanks Basket.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and now let's bring on Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving Napkin Holder and Place Card

I finally did it...a Thanksgiving project and in less than a day.  I made 6 of these napkin holders and place cards for our Thanksgiving table.

I used these items to create these:

• Design Studio
• Create a Critter Cricut cartridge -for the turkey
• Songbird Cricut cartridge - for the names
• Misc. Thanksgiving stamps
• BugBites - All Year Round stamps (Give Thanks and Happy Turkey Day)
• Orange and Brown stamp pads
• Studio G glitter glue (around the turkey's hat)

Here's a close up of the napkin holder and place card:

I am entering this project in these challenges:

• Cooking with Cricut Challenge #60 - Lets Talk Turkey
• More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #59 - Thanksgiving Theme
• Exploring Cricut Challenge #4 - make a card, layout, or papercraft using a turkey from any Cricut cartridge in any theme or colors
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #87 - Create a card or project with the words “Thank you” (or “Thanks”) on it
• Paper Cutz Challenge #117 -  "Let's Talk Turkey!" Make a card, LO, or craft project for Thanksgiving, using a stamped, digital stamp or Cricut cut inage of a turkey!

I am so happy with the way these turned out.  My original idea was to have the napkin holder and place card connected but they look great seperate.

Thanks for checking out my napkin holder and place card...have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Froggy Witch Halloween Easel card

Hey there fellow crafters I have a card I am sharing with you today that I created for my mom for Halloween.  My mom loves frogs...in fact in her backyard, by her pool she has frog land.  You'll find all types of frogs there, all except for real ones.  I knew right away what froggy I wanted to use and of course it would have to come from one of my favorite cartridges *Creat-a-Critter*

I am entering this card in these challenge:

• Cricut 360 - Spooky Halloween Blog Hop and Challenge - 10/26
• Crop Stop Challenge #42 - Halloween - 10/26
• Paper Sundaes Challenge #92 - Sundae Bar - create a project using black, sparkle, flowers, and distressing but you only have to use 2 to participate

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Cricut cartridge Creat-a-Critter - for the frog
• Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings - for the hat
• Martha Stewart punch - for the inside of the card
• google eyes
• Cuttlebug
• green and purple stickles - the hat and frog
• misc. stickers - for the inside of the card
• My Moments peel n stick ribbon
• open stock pattern paper from Hobby Lobby

Here's an up close view of the froggy's hat.  I show you this because my 9 year old daughter suggested I emboss the hat to make it look like the hat on the paper and this is how it turned out.  I think she had an excellent idea and it works perfectly.

Here's an up close view of the inside:

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed my Froggy Witch Halloween Easel card!

Halloween Owl Easel card

I'm sharing today a card I made for my mother-in-law.  She is a HUGE fan of owls and I wanted to make her a card for Halloween, especially this year because it is the 1st Halloween since her husband passed away.  I really just wanted to let her know that we are thinking of her, even on a silly day such as Halloween. 

I am also entering this card in a couple of challenges:

• Cardz TV Challenge #92 - "Hootie Halloween" - make a Halloween card using an owl from any Cricut cartridge and use any color you'd like
• Paper Playtime Ch #57 - use Black, Orange, and Purple on your project
• MAG Challenge by the Page #47 - use ONLY Cricut Cartridge Create-a-Critter page 25
• Love to Crop Challenge -Embossable You - Create a card, layout, or 3D project with embossing
• Craft Spot by Kimberly - Monday Challenge #29 - Color challenge (black with orange, purple or green)

I used these items to created this card:

• Design Studio
• Create-a-Critter Cricut cartridge
• Cuttlebug
• Swiss dots embossing folder - used on the outer layer of the owl
• Script texture embossing folder - used on the tree limb
• Stickles - black and purple on the owl
• Circle stencil - used to hand cut out the moon
• E-Z Rub On - for the bats on the moon
• Black, orange, 2 types of purple, white cardstock
• Pattern Paper - from Recollections Midnight Magic

The inside I used these items:

• white cardstock
• black brads
• Martha Stewart corner punch
• misc. Halloween stamps

Thank you so much for looking!