Disney's Frozen Elsa Inspired Birthday card

So my youngest daughter's 5th birthday was last weekend and she had a Disney Frozen party. A while ago I had been researching my Cricut cartridges for something I could use to make a Frozen birthday card. I found the perfect image on Paper Doll Teen Scene Cricut cartridge that would work for an Elsa image. I hadn't used this cartridge yet and I was a little intimidated by it. Let's just say there a many cuts you have to do for these paper dolls, so very time consuming. I also found on Life's a Party Cricut cartridge a castle that would work great for Elsa's frozen castle. I cut the castle card feature at 11 inches out of white cardstock...I wanted it to be as big as possible. I then cut the castle layer out of blue cardstock. Then I decided that Elsa needed to be pretty big too so I cut her at 5 inches. I also made some alterations to her dress to look more similar to Elsa's dress in the movie. Once I had all of that put together and attached to the card, I added the iridescent snowflake sequins and the other iridescent sequins. Lastly, I printed Olaf out from my computer and hand cut him out and attached him the inside of the card. I then added the Happy Birthday stamp.

 



I used these items to create my card:

• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - castle card
• Paper Dolls Teen Scene - Elsa
• Iridescent snowflake sequins
• Iridescent sequins
• Diamond and Glitz Bazzill cardstock
• Shimmery blue and white Recollections cardstock
• Computer generated Olaf image
• Happy Birthday stamp

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

• BBTB2 - Anything Goes Challenge
• DL ART - November Linky Challenge - ANYTHING GOES

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Disney's Frozen Elsa inspired birthday card.

 

31 Days of Halloween Activities Calendar/Countdown to Halloween Day 27

 

So I have been working on this project pretty much the last 3 weeks, I guess I should have started it last month. Oh well, I guess we will get the full effect next year.

 

Below is a photo of what this started as, just a simple wooden country calendar. I only wanted to use the base, so I removed the top and bottom portions and tossed out the middle wooden piece too.

 

Once all of the pieces were gone I spray painted it all black.

 

 

I then began cutting and putting together all of the paper pieces.

 

 

I used these items to create my 31 Days of Halloween Activities Calendar:

• Up-cycled very old (was lost in my garage) wooden country calendar
• Phrases Cricut cartridge - the Happy Halloween at the top
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge - the house and ghosts
• Monster Bash Cricut cartridge (1st time used) - the tree and moon
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - the tombstones
• Designer's Calendar - numbers
• Orange eyelets
• Computer - printed out Halloween activities for the back of the tombstones
• Nails - to hang the tombstones on
• Black Ribbon - to hang up the calendar

 



 

Here is a pic showing some of the tombstones revealing the activity for the day.

 

I am entering my 31 Days of Halloween Activities Calendar in the following challenges:

• Shopping Our Stash - SOS #174 - Halloween
• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #86 - Anything Goes
• 3 Girl Jam Challenge - Halloween
• Red Carpet Studio Challenge - #81 - Haunted Mansion - Halloween inspired project
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #234 - Halloween
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday Challenge #143 - Halloween
• My Sheri Crafts Challenge #145 - Black Magic - Halloween project

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my 31 Days of Halloween Activities Calendar.

Party Time Layout

I created this page in record time today, about 3 hours, and that included drying time for the stickles and glossy accents. I made this for a birthday gift for a friend of my daughter's. The birthday sleepover was tonight and I needed to get it done in a hurry. I spent all week taking care of my mom and her house that it was just not possible to even look at it until this morning. I was a little bummed because I thought I had a nicer zebra print paper but I couldn't find it or I had already used it. I am though very happy with the way it turned out.

I created a hidden tag for journaling.

Here are just some more close ups:

I used these items to create my Party Time Layout:

• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - pink and zebra cuts and "CELEBRATE"
• Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge - tag
• Pink and black stickles
• White gel pen
• foam squares - behind the "CELEBRATE"

I am entering my Party Time Layout in the following challenges:

• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #228 - Tag You're It
• BBTB 2 - Celebrate Cricut Challenge - Use Any Cricut Cut
• My Sheri Crafts Challenge - #142 - Birthday
• DL ART - September Linky Challenge - Anything
• 3 Girl Jam - September 2014 Challenge - Happy Birthday

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Party Time Layout.

Happy New Year 2013 Party Hats

Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone is starting the new year off to a good start! I'm happy to be giving you a look at my first project of the New Year! I created a couple of New Year's party hats to help ring in the new year with my girls!

Here's is my youngest daughter wearing her hat proudly!

And here is my oldest daughter, looking a little bit tired just before midnight, wearing her hat.

Now since my youngest daughter went to sleep I borrowed her hat to wear, with my oldest daughter, while the New Year's Eve ball dropped!

 

I used these items to make my hats:

• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - hats
• Lyrical Letters Cricut cartridge - "Happy New Year" and "2013"
• feathers (stash)
• ribbon (stash)
• Martha Stewart glitter (I've had for over a year)
• DCWV the Glitter cardstock stack (I've had for probably 2 years) - hats
 

I am entering my party hats in the following challenge:

• Use it Tuesday Challenge #46 - 2013 - open til 1/4
• Exploring Cricut - Welcome 2013 project - open til 1/5
• Party Time Tuesdays #101 - Celebrate - open til 1/7
• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #41 - New Year's/Winter Party - open til 1/8

 

This was such a fun and easy project, I will for sure be making more party hats in the future! Thank you for stopping by and checking out my New Year's party hats!



St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card

So you might think this is just a St. Patrick's Day card...well you're wrong!  This is actually a birthday card for a sweet little girl who is turning 1 on St. Patrick's Day!  Earlier in the year when I first saw this Cricut cartridge I just knew I had to have it and I got it as apart of my Valentine gifts...YAY ME!!!  I just love all the Sesame Street characters and so does my 2 year old daughter.  I know I will get many uses from this cartridge and this is just the beginning.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio
• Elmo & Friends Holiday Cricut cartridge - Elmo
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - "Happy Birthday"
• Hannah Montana Cricut cartridge - 1st
• Martha Stewart flocking powder (ladybug) - Elmo
• brads
• "celebrate" wooden stamp (Michael's $1.00 bin)
• ric rac
• foam squares - just to pop up Elmo

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting When We Can Challenges #12 - Big Birthdays - 1st Birthdays are BIG Birthdays in our house
• Little Scrap Pieces Challenge - Use Green

I had some challenges with this card but all in all I am pleased with it.  I know the little girl who is turning 1 will never know what challenges I had.  It was a fun card to make and who can resist Elmo!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my St. Patrick's Day - 1st Birthday Elmo card!  

HDH #109 - Inner Workings

I created this 3D coffin to enter into the challenge over at Haunted Design House - HDH #109 Macabre Monday - Inner Workings.  The challenge was to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that either is quite literal (clock works or guts) or just simply decorate the inside of your project as well as the outside.  I personally will NEVER be buried out of my fear of bugs...I HATE ALL THINGS CREEPY CRAWLY!!! 

Here's a look at what's inside:

The "inside" of my coffin represents the "inner-workings" of the coffin and what happens to the body after a long period of time.

Here's a close up...I just love that little skeleton!

I used these items to create this 3D coffin:

• Design Studio
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge - 3D coffin (measuring 7 1/2 inches in length) and the inside of card feature
• Indie Art Cricut cartridge - for the cross on the top of the coffin
• plastic skeleton from a Halloween garland
• Red fabric from an old costume and polyfil for the bed of the coffin
• Martha Stewart crushed red flock for the inside, top of coffin and red craft paint

Thanks for looking!  I hope you enjoyed my little project!

Things That Go Bump in the Night

I just had to create this card when I saw what the challenge was over at Cardz TV for challenge #91.  I already knew in my mind it had to be zombie related because I love zombies and they scare the heck out of me.  The other part of this card was very important to me because I wanted the hand to come out of the ground.  Then I remembered I saw back in one of my magazines a gift bag someone had made that did exactly what I wanted my hand to do.  This is my attempt at what that person created.

I used these items to create this card:

• Design Studio 
• Life's a Party Cricut cartridge for the tombstome
• Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge for the ghost, the hand, the name "Willy Rot"
• Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge for the dirty mound
• stickles
• brad
• Color Box ink
• stencil brush
• white gel pen
• pop-dots
• black pen
• foam squares
• misc. Halloween stamps
• straw
• floss

I am also entering this card in Paper Cutz Challenge #109 titled "Caution - Ghost Crossing!"  The requirements were to make a card, LO or craft project for Halloween using a Cricut cut, hand stamped or digital stamped ghosts, and the colors black, white, purple and orange ONLY!

I am also going to enter it in Lia Stamp Challenge #3 - move around which required the project to have a moving element and hopefully I achieved that here!!!  When you pull up on the ghost the hand rises from the grave...creeeeepy!!!
I am also entering this card in Getting Cricky - Simply Sunday Challenge which is anything Halloween!

I'm so excited this project was so much fun and it turned exactly the way I planned it...I hope you like it as much as I do!

****This was an article in Paper Crafts October 2008 and is where I got my inspiration from...I hope this is helpful to those of you who want to try this project.  I made my own alterations to achieve my card but by no means is it perfect.**** 

***If you click on the image you should be able to zoom in if your having trouble reading the article***

Here Lies the Bride - HDH104-I Was Framed

It's been a while since I created an altered frame but I was inspired by the lastest Macabre Monday Challenge - HDH104 I Was Framed  over at Haunted Design House.  The challenge was to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece that uses or includes a frame somewhere in the creation.  Well, I decided to do an altered frame.  During Halloween time I display past pictures of my family all dressed up in their costumes and I hadn't done one yet for this picture so this was the perfect time for me to do it.  The picture is of my Mom dressed as Frankenstein's Bride.  This picture was taken during a Halloween party my brother threw in 2004. 

I created the altered frame using these items:

•  $1.00 wooden frame from Michael's
• 2 different colors of gray cardstock
• craft paint
• Halloween moss
• plastic spiders

I used these Cricut cartridges:

• Life's a Party for the gravestone
• Beyond Birthdays for the opening of the frame
• Plantin SchoolBook for the lettering
• Storybook for the swirls on the gravestone

I created the gravestone cuts in the Design Studio.  I cut the letters at 1/2 and the swirls at 3/4.   I adhered everything onto the frame and then applied the paint.  Lastly, I used a hot glue gun to attach the moss and spiders.

Of course another fun and exciting project, and I can't wait for more!!!