CTO Christmas Shape Card/DT Call

I have totally enjoyed being on this awesome design team, and now it's time to submit my last Design Team entry to Celebrate the Occasion. For the challenge this week, we are making Christmas cards, but they have to be in a different shape. I chose this great ornament from the Cricut Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cart. Then I just stamped the corresponding image and added some sparkle with stickles, pearls, and ribbon.

I found the perfect sentiment and my card was done!

We're having a new Design Team call! Applications will be taken until Tuesday, December 20th, so make sure you enter your amazing projects at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to join our awesome Design Team!! To enter the challenge, all you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, December 25th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a great day!

CTO Christmas Challenge/DT Call

This week on Celebrate the Occasion, we're celebrating Christmas, but for the challenge there's NO GREEN allowed! I made this adorable scottie on my cricut using the Just Because Cards cart. For the sweater, I flipped the scottie over and traced out the body on the plaid paper. Then I added some Snow-Tex for the fluffy white trim. So cute!

It's that time of year again and we're having a new Design Team call! So make sure you enter your amazing projects at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to join our awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, December 11th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a wonderful day!

CTO Thanksgiving Challenge

We're ready to celebrate Thanksgiving at Celebrate the Occasion! For this week's challenge, make sure you use buttons for your Thanksgiving project and have fun with it! I used a great digital image and colored it with my pencils, stamped my sentiment, then added some fun papers, ribbon and buttons :)

Make sure you come join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, November 27th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

CTO Veteran's Day Challenge

Welcome to our Celebrate the Occasion challenge this week! We are making Veteran's day projects and I chose to do this card with the wonderful Rockets Red Glare paper by GCD Studios. It's a great time to remember our Veterans and the proud men & women that are fighting for our freedoms right now.

Don't forget to come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, November 13th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a wonderful day!

CTO Fall Challenge

This week at Celebrate the Occasion, the challenge was to make a project with a fall theme. I chose to make a layout about my pumpkin patch trip with my kids. We had so much fun!



Don't forget to come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, October 30th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a great day!

CTO Red, White, and Black Challenge

For the challenge this week at Celebrate the Occasion, we were challenged to make a project using Red, White, and Black. It was perfect timing because my other cousin is getting married this weekend and those are her colors! I used the swirl embossing folder for this card and then used some star dust stickles to make the swirls stand out a little more.

I used Close to my Heart stamps to create the background image and then I stamped the hearts and popped them up on foam squares. I used red stickles on the swirls and diamonds on the hearts to add some bling.

For this fun 3D flower, I used the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge from Close to my Heart. It creates a spiral and then I stamped the swirl image on it. Then you just roll it into a flower shape and I added the diamond brad to finish it off.

Don't forget to come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, October 16th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a great day!

CTO Challenge Card

Welcome to another great challenge at Celebrate the Occasion! This week, the challenge is to make a project for any occasion, but it must have a ribbon. I have a few cousins getting married in the next few months, so you might see some more wedding cards from me in the next few weeks :) For this card, I used papers and stickers from the Bo Bunny Gabrielle collection. It's SO beautiful and the colors happen to coordinate perfectly with one of the weddings! I loved the back of this paper too, so I folded over the side and tore it and then inked the whole thing. I used a pearl trim for the border and then added a lace trim for some added interest.


I cut this scalloped oval out on my Cricut using the Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cart and then printed out the sentiment on my computer. I added the border which was a sticker from the Bo Bunny collection and added little brown pearls and the ribbon for the accents.

Then I used star dust stickles to give the butterfly some sparkle. Hope they like the card! Now come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, October 2nd, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a fantastic day!

CTO Tall Card Birthday Challenge

Good morning everyone! The Celebrate the Occasion challenge this week is to make a tall card with a birthday theme (must have a present). I used my Close to my Heart paper and the Art Philosophy cricut cart to make this card. I cut out the tag card at 9" high and then cut out all the embellishments too. Such a versatile cartridge!

The Art Philosophy cartridge came with a few different stamp sets that match the cutouts perfectly. It even tells you right on the stamp sheet what size to cut the image so that it will fit. I love the way the present turned out! I tucked my present inside the card and made a money holder out of it. It worked out great!

Make sure you come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, September 18th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Have a fantastic day!!

CTO Birthday Sketch

Welcome to another Celebrate the Occasion challenge! This week, we were given a great sketch and a birthday theme. So fun! I love sketches, they always bring out some great creativity and it's always fun to see how people interpret them! I used some beautiful My Mind's Eye paper, some great ribbon and lace trim, and a gorgeous Prima flower I found, and hopefully I achieved the elegant look I was going for.

You may notice that this picture is different from the one on the CTO site, but after I sent in the picture I noticed that the dragonfly charm had fallen off, so I tied it on and took another picture. He's not going anywhere now :)

Make sure you come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, September 4th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the drawing for the month!

Challenges:
My Craft Spot - "sew" much fun
Die Cuttin' Divas - fall colors

Have a wonderful day!

Easy Celebrate circle card

Paper Panther here: Today I have my card from the Celebrate The Occasion Challenge blog Design Team! Circle card. Any themse- sounds easy right? It is.on this card I made flags by using toothpicks sand ribbon folded across it and bound with glue dots- yay for glue dots! The celebrate is a chipboard piece.
I plan on giving it to my 5th grader after her first day of school today. Hopefully she will survive :)
Now go and enter your circle card!! Have a great day!

Celebrate the occasion blog

-Paper Panther

CTO Cupcake Birthday

This week at Celebrate the Occasion, we're celebrating birthdays using an easel card! For this card, I used some My Mind's Eye paper from their Lime Twist collection. I used a new cricut cart I got called Art Philosophy and it coordinates with Close to My Heart stamps! It's so awesome! Right there on the stamp set, it tells you what size to cut the image on your cricut so the stamp will fit perfectly! I cut out a scalloped circle and regular circle from the same cart and then popped up the cupcake with some pop dots after using pink stickles on the frosting. So fun!

This little saying is perfect too :)

Make sure you come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, August 21st, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the monthly drawing for the month of August, we are giving away a PaperTrey Ink $25 gift certificate!!

Challenges:Fantabulous Cricut - piece of cake


Have a great day!

Back to school tags for backpacks

Paper Panther here, I will have 3 kids in school this year~! A 5th grader girl, a kindergarten boy, and a preschool girl. That just leaves me and the 2 year old- until the baby comes in January. I am hoping for many naps :) I have wanted to do this project for a few years, and having the Celebrate the Occasion challenge be a school one, I felt this is a perfect project.My 5th grader did not want anything 'not cool' so she chose shiny lips from the dcwv rock star pack. Then, since she is a ballerina, she put some fun ballet stickers on.
My preschooler is such a girly girl- I did not let her help since she would have chosen the entire scrapbook collection- I did let her pick her favorite princess stickers.
Kindergarten boy is a huge star wars fan and he picked his stuff out himself. I used the packaging of the creative imaginations star wars kit.

I used a tag and folded it in half. My ATG gun is awesome and holds the paper on like it was born there. But I will still laminate them for durability from weather and other kids. I left the back folded over and blank. I am going to write in their name and information and then velcro it closed. That way if the pack does get lost- it is all right there.
So, the back fold had to be decorated too :)

I hope you enter the CTO challenge this week also.

Paper Panther

CTO Wish Upon a Star

This week at Celebrate the Occasion, our challenge is to make a project with the theme Kid's Birthday. I used paper from the Close to My Heart Zippidee collection and made this fun birthday card with a Disney theme. My whole family is full of huge Disney fans so I'm sure it won't be too hard to find someone to give this to in the near future :)

I used a chipboard star in the sentiment and sponged it with Honey colored ink. I also strung some blue waxy flax through the buttons and added this great fuzzy trim also from Close to my Heart. It was a fun card to make using all these bright colors!

Make sure you come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or other project and post it by Sunday, August 7th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the monthly drawing!

Challenges:
My Craft Spot - You make me smile :)

Have a great day!

CTO Design card blue and white

Paper Panther here and I am thrilled to be on the Design Team for Celebrate the Occasion for another term. The challenges this term are even better than before if that is possible and I hope you join Rayna and I in playing with them There are also returning design team members and some very talented new design team members worth checking out. Here is my project this week: The challenge is White and Blue

I used white cardstock for the base of the card and ran it through my sizzix texture boutique purse embosser using the Sizzix Tim Holtz Retro embossing folder.

Instead of making this card grungy, I wanted more of a sweet and shabby look. I used Tim Holtz distress ink in Tumbled Glass to color the white blue and I tore white card stock into 3 circles and then tore little triangles in the the sides, inked and layered it making a flower. I used a blue jewel in the center I then balanced the flower out with two beaded flower brads from K&Company. I used glittered swirls in between the flowers. I left this card blank so I can use it for just about any occasion.

Okay, now is your chance go to Celebrate the occasion and enter your white and blue creation today!

Celebrate the Occasion New Design Team!!

Paper Panther and I are SO excited to welcome the new design team members on Celebrate the Occasion!! We have had so much fun being on their design team this last term and we're thrilled to be selected to be on the team for another term!! There are some great challenges coming up that you will not want to miss!

Make sure you go over to Celebrate the Occasion and check out the all new design team and their fabulous ideas. These talented ladies deserve some comment love so head on over to all their blogs and congratulate them on a job well done!! Have a great day!

Design Team Call & Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #22

Welcome to another Celebrate the Occasion challenge! This time, we're doing Christmas in July but it must be a shape card! But also this month, Celebrate the Occasion is doing a Design Team call, so if you want to have a great time making projects for their awesome challenges, head on over to their site and see what you need to do to be a part of this great and talented group of ladies! It's been so much fun to be on their Design Team!

For my card this month, I used the Joys of the Season cart and welded the two ornaments together with my Cricut Design Studio. I used some grungeboard letters and inked them up and the added some stickles for some sparkle. Then I found these cute flowers that looked so Christmas-y to me so I added those too :) Topped it off with some ribbon, and we have Christmas in July!

Make sure you come and join us this week at Celebrate the Occasion for this fun challenge and to check out all the fabulous work from the rest of the awesome Design Team!! All you need to do is create a card, layout or project and post it by Sunday, July 17th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the monthly drawing for a "Block Party" cricut cartridge, sponsored by design team member Kristen!!

Have a wonderful day!

Design Team Call

Celebrate the Occasion is having a Design Team Call!! This is a great blog to inspire creativity and I can not believe the prizes they were giving away the last few months!! We have LOVED being on the design team!! We hope you enter to be on it too :) Just go to Celebrate the Occasion to find out how. Have a great day!!

Christmas in July

Yes, I know America just partied like it was 1776 and that fireworks and snowflakes don't really go together... but it is Christmas in July all ready, and over at Celebrate the Occasion we are pulling out the Christmas glitter here (minus the red) I chose to make a Christmas Tag. The rules were no RED. This was tough. I pulled out my Christmas stash of scrapbook supplies and found that pretty much every little embellishment or paper I had had red. Hmmmm. So I improvised. I used glitter paper and stickers, stamps, pearls, rub ons, lace, a prima bauble, a flower I made from an old book that fell apart when I was reading it, and a clock I cut from bobunny paper. Here is my lack of red end result. It was a challenge this time for me, but I love a good challenge and thanks to the creative celebrate the occasion team- you can see what the rest of the design team came up with.

I hope you all go and enter the Christmas in July challenge with NO RED- it was a blast and I can't wait to see what our creative followers come up with :)