Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #296 - St. Patrick's Day

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #296-St. Patricks Day
Make a project about St. Patricks Day, such as Shamrocks or Leprechauns

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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.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

Here is my project for St. Patrick's Day

 

I used these items to create my St. Patrick's Day décor piece: 

• Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge - March, 17, clover
• Create a Critter 2 Cricut cartridge - Happy St. Patrick's Day, Pot of gold, Horseshoe, Rainbow
• A Child's Year Cricut cartridge - Hat
• Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge - Leprechaun
• misc. pattern paper

 

I will be entering my St. Patrick's Day décor piece in the following challenges:

• DL ART- Thankful Thursday Challenge #199 - Green
• BBTB2 - You Lucky Ducks - use the word "lucky" itself or items that represent luck (horseshoes, four leaf clovers or a rabbit's foot)
• CardzTV - Anything Goes 

I hope you enjoyed my St. Patrick's Day décor piece and I hope you stop by Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and join in on the fun!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #292 - Something New

 I AM BACK!!!

It feels so good to be back creating again. I'm also so happy to be back designing again for Fantabulous Cricut.Challenge Blog. So let's get going.

Challenge #292-Something New
Make a project using a new technique, cartridge, embellishment, etc.

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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.

Any project that doesn't use a Cricut element will be deleted.

Here is what I have created for this challenge:
 

 

So if you don't know already from my previous blog post, I was unable to create or blog for over a year. During that time I became a caregiver to my elderly mother. She passed away in early November and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces. I had very little help but for those who have helped me I thought I'd create a little thank you card to show my appreciation.

 

My inspiration for this card was my Mom's kitchen window and 1 of her cats. She had 5 cats, 3 dogs and 3 fish at the time of her passing and I took them all in. So I now have 11 cats, 6 dogs, 3 fish and a bearded dragon. I feel the image of the black cat gazing out the window into the sky was a reflection of how I, and my mom's beloved pets, feel looking to find her in the heavens.

 

I used these items to create my card:

• Spring Cottage Cricut cartridge *my Something New* - window cut at 4 1/2
• A Child's Year Cricut cartridge - cat cut at 2
• ZooBalloo Cricut cartridge *my Something Old* - clouds cut at 1 3/4
• Fiskers texture plate (carpet) - texture on the "wall"
• Cardstock: white, kraft, black, sky blue
• Card dimensions 6 x 4 1/2

 

 I am entering my card in the following challenges:

• Cut It Up Challenge - #112 - Out-with-old-In-with-new - ZooBalloo - Old cartridge Spring Cottage - New cartridge

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my card today. I hope you join in on the fun over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge.

Oh Christmas Tree

I am super excited today that I have been given the opportunity to be a Guest Designer for My Sheri Crafts. The challenge this week is #147 Oh Christmas Tree and you are to make a card for Christmas which must include a tree on it. This is what I made.

Here is a side view...you can see the dimension I added by putting a second layer on top with foam squares.

This is the inside...I kept it plain and simple with "Merry Christmas"

I used these items to create my card:

• A Child's Year Cricut cartridge - children with tree image
• Bright Pink Recollections cardstock
• White Recollections cardstock
• KI Memories - Joyful Twinkle background paper
• 3 Snowflake brads
• 3 Rhinestones from Stampin' Up - added to the snowflake brads for a little extra sparkle
• Foam squares - added to the image for some dimension
• Merry Christmas clear stamp
• Green ink from Color Box Petal Point

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

• BBTB2 - Anything Goes Challenge
• Fantabulous Cricut - Challenge Me Monday #237 Embellish Me - Use 3 Embellishments
• DL ART - Thankful Thursday Challenge #144 - Anything Christmas
• Cardz TV - Challenge #5 - Color My Christmas - Make a Christmas card using ONLY Red, Green, White and Pink

This was such fun being chosen a Guest Designer for My Sheri Crafts, I hope to get to do it again another time. I hope you enjoyed my little Christmas card and I thank you for visiting,

You're the Best! Teacher Appreciation card

I think this is the last teacher appreciation project for this year.  We've had a rough last 2 weeks with my youngest having Strep last week and me and my oldest just having a really bad sickness this week.  Plus, Tuesday our dear bassetthound Lady passed away.   She had been going down hill quickly since the weekend so we knew it was coming.  We were able to say our goodbyes and she went in her sleep Tuesday night.  Today we buried her and our youngest really couldn't understand why we put Lady in a bag and in a hole, she did though repeatedly say,"Bye Bye Lady."  I'm relieved and sad but I know she's in a better place and not in pain anymore. 

R.I.P. Lady!

This card is going along with the other projects I made this week for my daughter's 4th grade teacher.  I was inspired by another blogger to make this card into not just a card but a post-it note holder, too. 

I used these items to create this card:

• Post-it note - from the dollar store (2 pk.)
• Calligraphy Collection Cricut cartridge - "You're the Best!"
• A Child's Year Cricut cartridge - apple
• Green and red Stickles
• Martha Stewart white glitter - on the "You're the Best!"
• white gel pen
• Misc. clear Thank You stamp - on the Post-it note
• foam squares - behind the apple

 Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my Teacher Appreciation card.

Hey Pumpkin Pie card

Well, I'm kinda bummed...I originally was going to enter this card in Bitten By the Bug Pie Challenge-Paper Dolls Dress Up but I missed it so I have decided to enter it in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #73 - Piece of Cake! Create a project with a cupcake (or another baked good) .

Here are the details about this card:

I used Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge for the pie cut 3 times at 1 3/4 Real Dial size and then hand cut the pieces to make a pumpkin pie.
I used A Child's Year Cricut cartridge for the pumpkin cut at 2 1/2
I inked all the edges with Color Box inkpad
I stamped the pumpkin with a stamp I found in the dollar bin at Michael's.  I drew in the lines on the pumpkin, colored in the lettering with a LePlum maker, and stickled the small pumpkin
I used brads and twine for some decorative touches.

On the inside I used a stamp from My Craft Spot

Thanks for looking!!!

Teacher Appreciation Basket

I made this basket for my daughter's 3rd grade teacher for Teacher Appreciation Day.

I got the basket from Michael's for only $3.50, added some ribbon I already had, placed some craft foam in the bottom, covered it with some leftover Easter grass, put in some Granny Smith and Pink Lady apples, and last made the sticks.

I used these Cricut cartridges:
George and Basic Shapes for the star cut @ 3
Cricut Sampler for the Thanks cut @ 3
A Child's Year for the 2 apples cut @ 3
Doodlecharms for the watermelon cut @ 3
Locker Talk for the A+ cut @ 1 3/4
Graphically Speaking for the chalkboard cut @ 3 1/2
Celebrations for the banner cut @ 4
Wild Card for the #1 Teacher cut @ 6
Alphalicious for the You're the Best cut @ 2

Too many carts I know but I think the end product turned out pretty good.  I learned from doing this project that in the future to use less carts.  Using this many carts was very time consuming!

Here's the Basket and the card together!