Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #10

For this week's challenge at Celebrate the Occasion the idea is to make a project with a birthday theme (use this sketch).

So here is what I created! I used some Close to my Heart paper called Groovy Blossoms that I've had forever and designed the card around the sketch. I used the cute little dalmatian from the Paisley cart and pieced him together and then the 'happy birthday' from Create a Critter.

I used stickles for the flower on the sidebar and for the little star on his chest just to make it sparkle. Then I used a brad and some fiber to make sort of a tag out of the flower and popped it up on a pop dot.

Make sure you join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge! All you need to do is create a card, layout or project and post it by Sunday, April 24th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into their monthly drawing and they will be giving away a "SIMPLY SWEET" cricut cartridge for the month of April!!!

Challenges:
Cooking with Cricut - use something that has been in your stash for at least a year
Die Cuttin' Divas - "Tag" you're it
Crafty Creations - paper piecing
Birthday Sundaes - anything goes birthday
Card Makin' Mamas - spring colors

Paisley Owl Birthday

I love this paper from Close to My Heart - it's from the Twitterpated paper packet. It's so cute and woodsy and it inspired me to make this card using the owl from the Paisley cartridge.

I used the shadow feature to make the little owl stand out from the background paper. There was a lot of paper piecing, but I love all the layers to him. The buttons are also from the Twitterpated set and are made from chipboard, then I just added some ribbon and waxy flax to add some dimension.

I had to use the cute little mushroom somewhere so I just put it inside the card :)

I did a few different challenges with this card:

Die Cuttin' Divas - use silhouettes/shadows.
Card Makin Mamas - birthday
Two Scraptastic Gals - use Paisley cartridge
Simon Says Stamp - use brown & cream

Hope you're all having a great day!

Valentine's Card

Based on the My Mind's Eye sketch, I made a card for their challenge and for the Die Cuttin' Divas, More Than Favors, and My Pink Stamper Valentine's challenges. I love MME paper and I used three different papers from their Laundry Line. I really liked this saying from their chipboard accessories and the lace border is a rub-on from the same line. I cut out the heart using the Paisley cricut cartridge - that cartridge has so many cute things, so versatile! Hope you all have some fun Valentine's activities planned! Have a great day :)

Whoo Loves You?

I used Create a Critter for the cute little owl and then some big googly eyes. I also used Paisley for the heart - I used my Cricut Design Studio to layer a 4" heart and then a smaller one inside to make the cutout. I printed out the Whoo Loves You? and colored it in with marker to add some more yellow. I'm doubling up challenges again and using white, blue, and yellow for More Than Favors and then for the Cricut Cardz Challenge, it's a Valentine's card for a man too. So much fun doing challenges!

Dance Princess

For the Die Cuttin' Diva's and Made by Momo challenges, my little ballerina was my inspiration. She loves to dance and I love seeing how happy it makes her to dance like no one is watching.

Happy Birthday Turtle

Happy Birthday to Robyn at the Pink Stamper! I love the Paisley cartridge turtle and this was the perfect chance to get to use him! I pleated some paper for the center strip and used the Cuttlebug Spots & Dots embossing folder to give some texture to the sparkly Gemstones cardstock from Coredinations. The rest of the paper is from the My Mind's Eye Penny Lane collection, all their paper is great. Hope you like it, have a great day!