Fantbulous Cricut Challenge #262 - Autumn/Fall

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #262-Autumn/Fall 

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Make a fall inspired project

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.

And, if you submit a project in our challenge that isn't a card, you will get two entries for a chance to win the prize instead of one! 

Here is what I made for this challenge:

 

I choose to make a Thinking of You Fall Treat Box.

 

I made this for my neighbor. I have been thinking of her recently because I know that she has been dealing with some serious health issues. So I found this cute little treat box on the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge. I decorated it with some pretty fall leaves made from an oldie but goodie leaf dies cut with my Cuttlebug. I also made a tag in the same fashion...I just added a sentiment, an eyelet and some jute to wrap it around the top of the box. Lastly, I added some candy corns and pumpkins to the inside of the box.

 

 

 

I used these items to create my Thinking of You Fall Treat Box:

• Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge
• Cuttlebug
• Leaf dies
• Thinking of You stamp
• Brown ink
• jute
• eyelet 

I am entering my Thinking of You Fall Treat Box in the following challenges:

• (Pin)spirational Challenge #150 - See Below



 

•  Cut it Up - Challenge #81- Back to Nature
• Decorate to Celebrate - Challenge #110 - Anything
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - October Linky

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Thinking of You Fall Treat Box. Now it's your turn, please head over to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and enter your own Fall/Autumn card or project.

Breast Cancer Awareness card

Today I bring to you a card I actually needed to make for myself.  I was diagnosed with breast cancer June 29 of this year and have been taking the neccessary steps to fight it and get rid of it!!!  I have also been following this fantastic blog called Link Up for Pink.   They offer challenges directly for Breast Cancer Awareness, plus much needed encouragement and support for those who are traveling down this road.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Link Up For Pink Challenge #5 - Sketch - use the sketch below to create your card (I think I did ok with this) - open til 9/6  



• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Use Pink - open til 9/6
• Use It Tuesday Challenge #38 - Use That Ribbon - the ribbon I used was given to me from the hospital when I had my 1st surgery for my breast cancer - open til 9/6
• Krafty Girls - Anything Goes - open til 9/8
• My Craft Spot Challenge #67 - Hope Is Rising - Sympathy and Encouragement - open til 9/10
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - with the optional extra to use a non square base card or project - open til 9/10
• Dawn - Dawn's Crafting - Welcome to my Challenge - Breast Cancer Awareness - open til 9/29
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday - 1000 Post Linky Party - open til 9/30

I used these items to create this card:

• ALL SUPPLIES I HAVE IN MY STASH
• White card stock
• 2 different kinds of pink pattern paper
• Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge - have had for ever and NEVER used
• Martha Stewart Punch Around
• My Craft Spot Stamps - sentiment
• Ribbon - given to me from the hospital during my 1st surgery
• Button - from my stash
• White Enamel Accents - create the look of pearls in the corners 
• Cuttlebug
• Swiss Dots Embossing folder

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Breast Cancer Awareness card.

Frankie and His Bride ATC's

So I am totally digging doing these ATC's.  I'm enjoying the fact that I can plan, design, create and finish a single project in a day and that's with many interuptions.

Today I bring to you the very nervous Frankie and his Bride.  He is bringing his bride a bouquet of sweet candy.  You can see the look of uncertainty...will she have me or not?  None the less, isn't he too cute!!! 

Our Bride has the same thought and brings Frankie a box of candy.  True love in the making <3

I used these items to create these ATC's:

• Wooden rubber stamp from Michael's $1.00 bin from last year
• Sharpie Markers
• while gel pen
• clear stamp from Bug Bites - All Year Round set - "for you, from me"
• clear stamp from My Craft Spot - Inside & Out - set #2 - "love you!'
• Martha Stewart corner punch
• msic. candy stickers that I layered on white cardstock then cut around them
• white card stock rolled for the stems of the candy bouquet and Frankie's Bride's dress
• orange floss
• foam squares - to raise the candy bouquet and box of candy
• orange brads
• Martha Stewart glitter - for Frankie's Bride's dress and crown
• gem
• misc. stickers
• Cuttlebug - dress
• Swiss dots embossing folder - dress

I am entering these ATC's in the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion Challenge #122 - Anything Goes - open til 8/12
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes - open til 8/13
• Wicked Wednesday ATC #44 - Frankie and His Bride open til 8/14
• DL ART - Happy Birthday Linky Party + GIVE AWAY! - open til 8/31

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Frankie and his Bride ATC's.

Mother's Day Heart Shape card

It took some searching but I think I found the perfect heart to create my Mom's Mother's Day shape card.  I found this heart on Wall Decor and More Cricut cartridge.  I used my Design Studio to first hid the contours of one of the hearts and welded it to the other heart, all cut from the pink cardstock.  I then cut the top (purple) heart and adheared it to the top. I applied some glitter glue to the flourishes.  I then used my Cuttlebug to cut 8 flowers, attached them together with a brad and began to shape the flower.  I added the purple ball to the center of the flower and applied some glitter glue to the edges of the flower.  Then I adheared the flower to the heart.

The inside I kept very simple and just used some stamps from My Craft Spot - Inside & Out 2 stamp set.

Just in case if you can't read it, it says, "Mom Thinking of you is one of my favorite things to do.

One the back I wrote the saying, "A mother holds her children's hands for a while...their hearts forever."
-- Author Unknown

I am entering this Mother's Day Heart Shape card in the following challenges:

• Go Fish Challenge #16 - Mother's Day Shape card - no square or rectangle - open til 5/14
• More than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #70 - Mother's Day - open til 5/15
• Cardz TV Challenge #107 -"There's no other, like my mother" - open til 5/15
• Creative Cutter Room - Design Time Thurdsday - Mother's Day - open til 5/16
• Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Challenge - Happy Mother's Day - open til 5/18
• Hooked on Craft Challenge #20 - Flowers - open til 5/26

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Mother's Day Heart Shape card.

Looking through the Window - Mother's Day card

Today I bring to you a Mother's Day card I created for my mother-in-law.  During the end of December my mother-in-law had made this statement on her facebook page, "So strange!!! I was looking out my kitchen window this morning thinking about Joe (her deceased husband) when this yellow butterfly flew on my deck and hoovered in front of the window a little while then flew away...Maybe it was telling me that I will be okay and next year will be a better one for me!!!!! I hope so anyway...."  Now this might not sound strange to some of you but since she lives on the east coast, seeing a butterfly in December is very strange.  Ever since that day I knew I wanted to create a window card for her...and this is what I came up with.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Locker Talk Cricut cartridge - for the window card***I know totally not expected!!!
• George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge - for the square cut for the window
• Indie Art Cricut cartridge - the butterfly
• Cuttlebug
• Swiss Dots embossing folder
• Studio G glitter glue
• foam squares
• Stampin' Up Ribbon and lace - for the curtain effect
• Glue Gun - to attach the lace to the ribbon
• Clear Craft Plastic - for the window
•  DCWV Spring Stack of pattern paper
• My Craft Spot stamps - Inside & Out Set #2

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• More Than Favors - Wacky Wednesday #70 - Mother's Day - open til 5/15
• Cardz TV Challenge #107 - There's no other, like my Mother" - open til 5/15
• Paper Playtime Challenge #74 - Die cuts - Bug Cards - I used a butterfly - open til 5/18
• Paper Sundaes #120 - Things with Wings - open til 5/17

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Looking Through the Window Mother's Day card!

Altered Jewelry Box - HDH131 Macabre Monday - CASE a Minion

So this week at Haunted Design House the challenge was to CASE a Minion.  Basically you are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that has been CASEd from one the Minion's DT offerings.  CASE = Copy And Steal Everything.  I chose to CASE Sultana of the Sinister Lynx aka Black Dragon, you can find her project that I CASEd HERE!!!  I fell in love with her jewelry box and I just knew I could at least attempt to create something similar.  Plus, this jewerly box will give my Halloween jewelry a new resting place until October every year from now on.

I already knew I had the cardstock I wanted to use.  The cardstock I used was in a Halloween pack from Recollections.  I picked up a very inexpensive wooden box from Michael's.  I painted the entire box with black craft paint.  Covered most of the box with the cardstock.  I sanded the edges down just a bit.  I applied a glossy Mod Podge over the entire surface of the box and let that dry overnight.  I then hot glued some really interesting black ribbon around the box.  I cut 16 little flowers out with my Cuttlebug.  I put 8 of those flowers together with a brad and began to shape the flower.  I created 2 flowers this way.  I also added a small black pompom to the center of the flower.  I then lightly brushed some silver glitter paint onto the edges.  I cut 3 leaves out with my Cuttlebug.  I added some Crackle Accents to the leaves but they didn't create the effect I wanted (I don't think the Crackle Accents liked the silver cardstock).  I cut out on my Cricut the scull from Happy Hauntings at 4 inches.  One was cut in the silver cardstock and the other in black, I hid the contours on that one to create a black out scull.  I attached the two together and then added Glossy Accents to give it some dimension.  Once I had all the pieces dry, I hot glued everything to the jewelry box along with some other embellishments...the spider was just something I had to add (maybe he'll keep some little hands out of my jewelry).

I am entering this Altered Jewelry Box in the following challenges:

• HDH #131 - Macabre Monday - CASE a Minion open til 5/6
• Forever Night Challenge - Freaky Friday Challenge #35 - create anything altered and creepy dark - open til 5/10
• Hooked on Craft Challenges #20 - Flowers - open til 5/26

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Altered Jewelry Box!!!

Sweet Puppy Love - Valentine

I did my final Valentine (I think), this one for my oldest daughter Kaitlyn.  She is a HUGE dog lover and the color pink, so naturally I had to incorporate those elements in her Valentine.  I think the little puppy dog on the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge is just too cute so I had to use it.  In fact, I only used the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge and I've had this cartridge for who knows how long and have NEVER used it.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Sweethearts Cricut cartridge (which I've had forever and I Never used it before)
• craft, pink, and grey card stock
• pattern paper
• heart brads - on the corners and used as dog tag
• misc. chipboard (which I've had forever) - the flower and heart
• gem - on the flower chipboard
• Google eyes
• brown ink - for the edges of the dog and chipboard
• Cuttlebug
• Swiss Dots embossing folder - for the large pink heart

Here are some close ups:

 This is where I thought a little sparkle was needed:

Here you can see the grey collar and the heart brad I used to look like a dog tag!

Then the perfect phrase to go along with the Valentine:

I am entering this Valentine in the following challenges:

• My Craft Spot - Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Our Creative Corner - Love is in the Air - Make a St. Valentine's Day paper craft item (card, scrapbook page layout, 3-D item, or an altered item) using the colors Pink, Grey, and Kraft - The add some sparkle to your paper craft item (rhinestones, glitter, metal) anything that shines!  And don't forget to include a heart-shape.
• Whimsical Design - Bringing Out the Old - Whimsical Wednesday - Create any themed scrapbook LO/card/project but you must use or include something old.
• Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #50 - Anything Goes
• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #97 - include a heart on your project

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Sweet Puppy Love Valentine

Love You - Minnie Valentine

Today I share with you a valentine I made for my 2 year old daughter Jaidyn.  Recently she was introduced to Mickey Mouse and Friends and she always says, "Minnie, Minnie, Minnie," when she sees Mickey or Minnie, so I just had to do Minnie for her.  Yes, I know another easel card, well I just can't help it I love this type of card.

I used these items to create this valentine:

• Design Studio
• Disney Mickey Font Cricut cartridge - for Minnie
• Lyrical Letters Cricut cartridge - for the "Love You"
• Martha Stewart punch set
• DCWV Nana's Kids printed cardstock - the polka dot paper
• Cuttlebug - for Minnie's bow
• Swiss Dots embossing folder - for Minnie's bow
• white gel pen - for Minnie's bow
• conversation hearts ribbon - I cut the hearts out to use in the corners

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Cartoon Characters - make a project using a cartoon character...Disney, Looney Tunes, Hello Kitty, Scooby Doo.... any cartoon character will do!
• Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #46 - Any Occassion (MUST use Polka Dots)
• Shopping Our Stash Challenge #35 - use a border punch or create a border detail
•  More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #63 Let's Get Animated - create any project as long as it has any kind of animated character on it.
• Docerela Shop - #5 Challenge - make a Valentine's Card/layout or 3D that includes a cut using our Cricut Machines. 

Here is an up close look at the individual parts of my card:

I can't believe it I actually got a valentine completed way in advance...WHOO HOO!  Now I must get some other projects going.  I have my oldest daughter's Valentine's to make for her class of 28, invitations to my oldest daughter's birthday and decorations to make for her party too!  I'm gonna be a busy little bee for the next month and a half...wish me luck!

There's No Time Like SNOW Time!

I created this card originally for a challenge but by the time I got to link it it was already closed :(  Oh well, I am though very happy with the way it turned out.  The challenge required you to make a card using a snowman and it had to include a border, something metal, and be monochromatic.  No matter, because a couple of new challenges are available:

• Paper Playtime #63 - Say it with sentiments - anything goes - my sentiment is in the inside of my card
• Creative Cutter Room - Design Time Thursday - anything goes but MUST Sparkle!!!

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Winter Woodland Cricut cartridge - for the snowman
• Martha Stewart punch set
• Cuttlebug
• D'vine Swirls embossing folder
• white sheer ribbon
• iridescent snowflake - on the ribbon
• snowflake brad - on the snowman
• Studio G iridescent glitter glue
• frosted lace Stickles
• (inside) - stamp from BugBites - All Year Round stamps

I'm not sure if you can see it but I used the iridescent glitter glue on the hat and scarf of the snowman and the frosted lace Stickles just around his body and eyes.

Well, I hope you enjoyed my little simple card and I look forward to sharing more projects in the future.

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!

Kaitlyn's Spooky Treat Bag

Kaitlyn is my 9 year old daughter and when I got my Expression a couple of years ago she inherited my Baby Bug and she has been non-stop creating.  She created this little treat bag ALL by herself.  I only tied the ribbon on for her.

These items were used to create this treat bag:

• Cricut cartridge Mini Monsters - for the treat bag cut at 5 1 /2
• Cuttlebug
• D'vine Swirls embossing folder - for the black belly of the treat bag
• ribbon
• google eyes
• eyelets

Here's a close up look at the embossing on the belly:

We are entering this project in a couple of challenges:

• Forever Night Freaky Friday Challenge #12 - Trick of Treat - your project should have something to do with Trick or Treating
• Forever Night Challenges - Trick-or-Treat Kids Challenge - children under the age of 18 are to create a Halloween themed project and can submit up to 3 projects (this is #1 for Kaitlyn)

Thanks for looking and my daughter would love to see your comments!

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!

World Card Making Day - Surprise Inside Birthday Card

I created this card in Design Studio.  I wanted to create a card that when you opened it there was an unexpected surprise inside and I think I did with this card.  The card is a 6 x 6 square card that opens in the middle.  I only used Birthday Cakes Cricut cartridge.  I used the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder on the ribbon of the present and went over the dots with a white gel pen and did some faux stitching around the green edges of the present.  I used a Happy Birthday stamp from My Craft Spot stamp set.  Last I added some buttons to 2 opposite corners. 

Here's the surprise on the inside flap...a cute little pink monkey that is stamped with Love You, also from My Craft Spot.  Again I used the Cuttlebug and embossed the face and belly of the monkey with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  I adhered some tiny google eyes to the monkey and some dots done with a white gel pen.

On the inside I cut out the Happy Birthday phrase, adhered all the layers and added some dots with the white gel pen.  I also did some faux stitching around the middle panel just to make it stand out a bit more. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you liked my little surprise inside card!