Thankful Thursday Fall Challenge

This week at Crazy About Cricut, we were challenged to make a project that Falls open. I chose to make a gate card, but you could also make a Jacob's ladder type book or an accordion book or something like that. Just use your imagination! I found this this adorable little turtle at www.whimsiedoodles.com/freebies.html and I made a birthday card for my sister in law who loves turtles.
I dry embossed the two panels on the front of the card and then inked them to match the turtle shell. Loved those fun dots! Then I used my pencils to color in the turtle and added some red stickles to the flower for some sparkle.

I added some button accents and a flower on the front of the card to keep it closed and it was a fun, easy card to make.

Now you'll want to head over to Crazy About Cricut and check out all the awesome Design Team projects and enter your fun family project!

Have an awesome 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!

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!

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!

Birthday Wishes

My little girl's 10th birthday is coming up soon, and this darling Magnolia girl just reminded me of her when she was still little. She's so cute with her little pigtails and pretty dress! I love how feminine this My Mind's Eye paper is and the glitter accents on the paper are great too!

I cut out a scalloped shape out of vellum just because I couldn't fully cover up the beautiful paper. I used the Designed to Delight spring cupcake and used my Copic markers and watercolor pencils to color everything in. Then I added some star dust stickles, pearls, and flowers.

I printed out the Birthday Wishes on vellum, used an EK Success border punch, and finished it off with some silver twine and flowers.

Challenges that inspired me:
Birthday Sundaes - shaped card
Crazy 4 Challenges - add twine, floss, string, etc.
Designed to Delight - orange and pink
Paper Sundaes - easel card
My Craft Spot - how sweet it is
Getting Cricky - faces
Magnolia-Licious - color & image challenge
Crafty Creations - use anything sparkly

Hope you're all having an awesome day!

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #18

This week at Celebrate the Occasion, we were challenged to come up with a project that had a birthday theme that included a party hat. I used My Mind's Eye Lime Twist - Life of the Party collection. This paper is so bright and happy, it just asks to be a birthday project! :) I used one of my new favorite cartridges, Birthday Bash and created a flower box using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.

I used some tulle and the party hat sentiment to decorate the box, along with some more of the fun paper.

Then used some more tulle to tie around the 6x6 card with a bow at the top to make it look almost like its own gift box. I loved that cute little cupcake, so I used it for the main image on my card.

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, June 19th, 11:59pm (EST). The winner will be selected and entered into the monthly drawing! For the month of June we are giving away a "Peachy Keen $20 gift card!! Have a great day!

Challenges I entered:
Cooking with Cricut - pick your poison
Birthday Sundaes - wet or dry embossed birthday card
Scrappy Moms - sweet treats

Kitty Card

My daughter made this adorable kitten card for the Card Makin' Mamas challenge! She is one of the Guest Designers this week and she was given the challenge to make a card using one of the digistamps they sent us. She chose all the papers and cut them out herself, she colored the kitten and flowers using her colored pencils, and made the cute little bow for the kitten! The only thing I had to help with was the striped bow, and let's face it, bows can be hard for everyone to make! She was so cute saying that she was going to give it to her friend this weekend because she's going to her birthday party. I was so proud of her for wanting to do this and it's so fun to see her creativity come shining through :)

Have an awesome day!

Birthday Car

I've been trying to make some more masculine cards for my card supply so I decided to do a birthday one since those are the ones I need most. I didn't really mean for the image to look like Lightening McQueen but I guess the new Cars movie has been on my mind since my son brings it up daily, so that's what ended up on the card :)

I tied waxy flax around the card a couple of times, because it looked a little more masculine to me than ribbon. Then I used my Sew Easy and punched some holes so I could sew the zig zag - I thought it mirrored the embossed paper really well too!

Challenges that inspired me:
My Craft Spot - tie one on
Birthday Sundaes - anything goes
The Paper Variety - for or about a special man in your life
Papercraft Star - follow sketch and masculine card
Card Makin' Mamas - use your scraps
Designed to Delight - masculine, no flowers

Have a great day!

Surfer Birthday Card

Using My Minds Eye's Breaking Free adventure Series I cut the 12x12 in half to make a 6x6 card. I used Star 1 from George and Basic Shapes and cut several out to layer and make the sun. I used stickles in crystal and frosted lace for the clouds and the wave. The sun and MME surf board are popped out with demensionals. The Birthday Wishes on the surf board is a Karen Fosters rub-on transfer Happy Birthday series.

I am linking up with Celebrate the Occasion and Die Cuttin' Diva's

Have a great day!

- Paper Panther

Star Happy Birthday

I made this card using the Camp Out solutions cricut cartridge for the stars and then various papers from the My Mind's Eye Just Dreamy line.

I used pop dots to raise up the different levels of the biggest star just to give it a little more dimension. I made this card for the masculine card challenge at Celebrate the Occasion and then for the Die Cuttin' Divas star card challenge too. I love their challenges, they always get my creative juices going!

If you haven't used the Sew Easy stitch piercer from We R Memory Keepers, it's definitely worth a look! I just rolled the piercer along with the zig zag attachment and it made the holes in the paper perfectly spaced so I could just come back and sew the line in with my different color threads. It was perfect for this stitching!

Create a Critter Elephant

My youngest is turning 2 this month so I made this card for her :) I hope you enjoy it. She really likes elephants right now. Is it possible to watch Dumbo a million times a day to the point you dream about it at night? Pink Elephants *shudder*

I used the crown from Once Upon a Princess Cartridge on page 25 Font Shift

The elephant is a Create a Critter Cartridge and on page 55.

I am linking this up with Celebrate the Occasion

and

Patti-Lynncreations.

Once Upon A Princess Cupcake

I used the Once Upon a Princess Cartridge. The cute cupcake is on page 50 (cupcake-3)

The pretty paper is by Stampn' Up. I can't remember the name of it, so if you know- please post a comment of it- it is beautiful.

Bazzil, and inked with distress ink Aged Mahogany.

Entered in the CardzTv Challenge.

-Paper Panther