Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #300 - Mother's Day and Blog Hop

Happy Monday and welcome to our 300th Challenge! 

We are having a BLOG HOP to celebrate

Challenge #300
Make a project about Mother's Day!

One lucky commenter will be chosen (from all blog hop comments on each blog, plus this one) to win this-

a brand new Cricut Explore! Courtesy of 

of Denton, Texas

ALSO-

The FCCB Design Team is sponsoring TWO $25 gift cards at

Amazon!

We also have:

$15.00 Gift Certificate

And two $10 gift certificates to-

Dreaming Tree SVG's

To qualify for the gift certificates, 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.

There is a limit of three entries per person.

Be sure to visit each Design Team member leave a comment and become a follower - those will be put into a drawing for their blog candy (if offered).

Here is our blog hop list for Mother's Day challenge #300!

1. Michelle
2. Penny Light 
3. DIANA L. 
4. Karla Yungwirth 
5. Carol < YOU ARE HERE
6. Dorlene Durham  < GO HERE NEXT
7. Marie Flayer
8. Stacey
9. Sheila Harper
10. Lynn 
11. Cindy
12. Cynthia
13. Diana Lynn Martin 
14. Linda Israel

We can't wait to see your projects!

This is my project:

 

This year has been rough for me. I just lost my Mom this past November so I wasn't even sure if I was going to participate in this blog hop. I did though decide that focusing on the loss of my mother was not what I wanted to do...the pain is still too fresh for me. I decided that I would make a card for my daughter's Grandmother. She may no longer be my mother-in-law but I do still love her as if she were. Plus, my youngest daughter wants to make her own card of her own design for her, too.

 

I choose the hummingbird as the main focus of my card because I know she loves them.

 

 

I decided to keep the inside blank so that I can write my on message later.

 

 

I also created a coordinating envelop to accompany my card.

 

 

I used these items to create my card and envelop:

• Art Nouveau Cricut cartridge - the hummingbird
• Wild Card Cricut cartridge - the card and envelop
• Martha Stewart essentials paper pad - the pattern paper
• cardstock
• foam tape - behind hummingbird
• black brad - for the eye

I hope you enjoyed my Mother's Day card. Please remember to leave me a comment and follow on to the other designers. Have a blessed day.

Mother's Day 3-D Tea Cup and Tea Cup Card

I am super excited to share with you my Mother's Day 3-D Tea Cup and Tea Cup Card. I made these for my mom for Mother's Day. My mom loves strawberries and her kitchen is packed with strawberry décor. Recently my mom had decided to stop drinking coffee and start drinking tea, so I decided that would be my theme for Mother's Day for her. I already this fantastic paper from the Martha Stewart essentials paper pad that I knew would be perfect. Since I had a great experience when using the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge I decided to try to make the 3-D tea cup...it was super easy.

I cut the 3-D tea cup from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge using the fit to page feature on my Cricut Expression. I cut the entire cup from one 12 x 12 sheet of thick double sided paper. I lined the edge of the cup and saucer with a silver paint marker. Then adhered them all together. I think it turned out so cute!

I was able to fit 8 individual tea bags in the cup

 



Then I decided to make a coordinating card and envelop to go along with the tea cup. I cut and adhered the envelop for the doily card out from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge, again using the fit to page feature. The size ended up being 5 inches so I now knew that I needed to cut the card at 5 inches, too. I cut the liner out at 4 1/4 and also used the inside of that liner, flipped it, embossed it and adhered everything to the front of the card. I then went back to the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge and cut the tag feature out for the tea cup (can't remember size). I then stamped the front of the of the tea cup with "mom." I lined the edge of the tea cup with the silver paint marker. Then I adhered the tea cup to the front of the card with foam squares. I then cut a circle out for the inside, adhered it and just stamped it with "Happy Mother's Day." Lastly, I tied a green ribbon (from my stash) around the top of the card and done!

 

 

 

 

I used these items to create my Mother's Day 3-D Tea Cup and Tea Cup Card:

• Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut cartridge - 3-D tea cup and tea cup on card
• Wild Card Cricut cartridge - card and envelop
• Martha Stewart essentials paper pad - 1st time I used it and I've had it for years 
• Silver paint marker
• Swiss Dots embossing folder - card
• My Craft Spot clear stamp set "Jar Full of Flowers" - sentiment
• green ribbon (from my stash)

I am entering my Mother's Day 3-D Tea Cup and Tea Cup Card in the following challenges:

• DL ART - Thankful Thursday Challenge #155 - Mother's Day
• Little Scrap Pieces - Show it off Linky Party
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #250 - Celebrate Mom + DT Call
• Craftin Desert Divas - Craft it up Link it up - Mother's Day
• BBTB2 - Mother's Day Challenge
• (Pin)spirational Challenge #139 
  
• Decorate to Celebrate Challenge #99 - Anything Goes
• Stuck on U Sketches - Die Cut Challenge - Mothers
• CardzTV - 3-D Designers Challenge #8 - 3-D Mother's Day card

I had so much fun creating these Mother's Day 3-D Tea Cup and Tea Cup Card. I can't wait to give them to my mom...I know she is going to love them. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my projects. Happy "early" Mother's Day to all of you Moms, Grandmas, and Great-Grandmas!