Have a Tweet Day!

This week we have a fun challenge for you!  It is called "Bird's of a Feather" and all you have to do is include some type of bird related elements on your card.

Here is my card:

Here is a side view:

I popped up this little bird to give it some dimension.

Recipe:

Elegant Edges

Create a Critter

SU!: Cloud Embossing Folder

Paper: SU! and Recollections

Now please join us at Krafty Girls and make sure to visit the rest of the Krafty Girls Team.

Little Mermaid

I had a chance to craft tonight and I played along with the challenge at My Creative Time.  The Throwback Thursday challenge is to use a kid friendly cart to make a card with a kid theme.  I used three of my favorite child friendly carts for this one.  Once Upon a Princess, Twinkle Toes, and Create a Critter.  I have been wanting to make the mermaid on the Princess cart for a long time and this was the perfect opportunity to use her.  

The base of my card was made from Twinkle Toes.  I used the heart shape and welded it to make the base.

I saw this seahorse in Create a Critter and thought it would make a perfect friend to this little mermaid. I used the eye from a PKS face for her eye.

The craft cardstock was embossed using the Perfect Polka-dots embossing folder and I heat embossed the sentiment.  This cute sentiment came from the "My Favorite Sayings" set from MCT. 

I also added a tiny pearl necklace using liquid pearls.  That was really tricky to do because the beads had to be really small.  

Her cute face is from the Princess Face Assortment from PKS.  I added lots of dimension and some inking around the scalloped heart.  I did this with a Q-tip and a regular ink pad.  I tried to do this with a sponge at first, but I couldn't get into the small areas.  It was easy to get to them with the Q-tip.

Recipe:

Carts: Once Upon a Princess, Twinkle Toes, Create a Critter

Sentiment: My Creative Time- My Favorite Sayings

Faces: Peachy Keen Stamps- Princess Assortment

Paper: Recollections, Stampin' Up

I am linking up to:

My Creative Time: Throwback Thursday

Frosted Designs: Embossing

Little Scrap Pieces: Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #28

For my GIVEAWAY click HERE.

It's time for a Birthday Sundaes challenge! This week the challenge is to use buttons on your card.  Super easy!

I found these cute buttons at Michael's just in time for this challenge.  They came in a cute container in a variety of colors and sizes for $1.  I can't believe I didn't have any buttons in my stash.  

You can click here to view the DT's cards and to play along with us!

Here is my card: 

This preppy sheep is on her way to a birthday party.  

The sheep came from Create a Critter.  Her sweater is just the gray layer that was cut in pink and trimmed to look like a sweater.

Do you see her gift bag?  I cut a square and wanted to put real tissue in the bag.  I didn't have tissue paper, so I found a plastic grocery bag and cut a small piece and arranged it to look like tissue.  I love how it looks.  I hope you can see the detail, it looks much better in person.  The handle is made with twine.

I added pop dots to give the card more dimension.  The card base is from the I Love You a Latte cart.  The punch is from SU! and the pattern paper is from DCWV.

Thank you for visiting and I hope to see your creations soon :) 

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #25- Whimsie Doodles

Hope you are having a great Labor Day weekend!  This weeks the challenge is to create a card with a birthday sentiment!  Fun and easy! You can enter your card here.

One lucky winner will get a $10 gift certificate to Whimsie Doodles and they have a special offer for you! 

Just use discount code Birthday10 at the Whimsie Doodles online store and receive 10% off your next order! Code expires 30 days from today.

We were able to pick from a some images and I chose this cute fish.  I took inspiration from one of my previous cards for this card.  

When I saw this cute fish I thought about him in a fish bowl coming out of a castle!  This is the card I made:

I imagined this fish being a gold fish.  I used SU! markers to color this image.  I think he turned out real cute! The castle and fish bowl are from Create a Critter.  

The sentiment came with this image! I used a punch from Joann's to punch it out.  I put some glossy accents on his eyes to make them shine.  I love his party hat!

Head over to Birthday Sundeas and check out all the awesome cards the DT has created using Whimsie Doodles images.  Thank you for visiting!

Buggy Apple

This is a back to school project.  I am a teacher so when I think of school, I think of seeing my friends again and how we help each other out.  

When I graduated my mother in law gave me a tape holder with a worm sticking out of an apple! Inspiration central!! I made my card and was ready to post it yesterday, but I forgot my camera at work so I couldn't :( Then today I had it all ready just to find out that blogger was down:( I was so happy to finally be able to post it! 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

PKS Let's Face it Friday- Shaped Cards

Getting Cricky- Positive Thoughts

Die Cuttin' Divas- #27 Garden Challenge

Challenge 72-Let's Get Buggy at Fantabulous Cricut

Celebrate the Occasion- Back to School

All Sorts Challenge Week 115-Red Card
Crafty Catz #94- Back to School
Scrapbookaholicby Abby- Back to School

Here is my card:

This helpful little worm will come out whenever you need help:) 

OMG! Look at this cute wormy face! I added glossy accents to her eyes and they look all juicy!

Here is a side view.  I faux stitched it all around, embossed the background with a polka dot folder and heat embossed the sentiment. 

I finished it up by adding a twine bow and some pop dots for dimension.

Recipe:

Create a Critter: Apple, worm

Wild Card: Scalloped card base

Cricut Classic Font: Circle

My Creative Time: Sentiment-My Favorite Sayings

Peachy Keen Stamps: Worm Face- Large Set

Twinery: Maraschino 

Thank you for visiting!

Squirt's Birthday Card-My Pink Stamper DT Call

Finding Nemo is one of my all time favorite movies! I'm a Hello Kitty/Disney fanatic:)

This image was calling my name! 

After making this card I realized that it followed the guidelines of the My Pink Stamper DT challenge!
I don't know if I stand a chance with all those talented people who are applying but it would be a huge honor to be chosen!!

The challenge is to use the colors organge, green, brown, turquoise and a color of your choice.  I have the four basic colors there and I'm thinking white would be my extra color.  You can also enter this challenge here!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
My Pink Stamper DT Call: My Pink Stamper

Anything Goes Challenge #18 at Birthday Sundaes.

Shaped Birthday Card Challenge #24 at Die Cuttin Divas.

I welded two fish bowl shadows to create this card base.  Squirt is cut at 2.5 inches.  

I am so thrilled to have twine now! I don't know if it's because blue is my favorite color or what, but I love this color. It's called Caribbean.  I embossed the sentiment in white.

I'm not sure if turtles belong in a fish bowl... but he looks cute in there!

Recipe:

Best of Pixar Cart: Squirt at 2.50

Create a Critter Cart: Fish Bowl, water and sand cut each cut out at 5.23

Twine: The Twinery- Caribbean (best color ever!!)

Sentiment: Pink By Design-Birthday, Birthday

Water DP: Paper Pizazz- Pool Water (from Joann's)

Recollections: White, brown, orange, and black cardstock

Core'dinations: Crushed Olive Distressed 

DCWV: Green #3

Hello Sunshine!

I got totally inspired by Cyndy at Arcy Scraps yesterday, when she made a magical spinner transforming card! It was too cute! I had wanted to make a card with a sun for a challenge, and it turns out that challenge was already over :( But I still wanted to work with a sun.  So at 2 a.m. I thought about this card and got up to make it! I'm going to miss being able to do that when I'm back to work!!

I'm going to enter this card into the following challenges:
Challenge #56-Peachy Keen Stamps Tuesday Sketch
Summer Fun Challenge at Die Cuttin Divas
Fun in the Sun Challenge #44 at More Than Favors-Wacky Wednesday
Challenge #100-Anything in the sky at Paper Cutz




So here is my creation. (I cannot believe this cut was hiding in Wild Card this whole time!!)

In order to change the faces you just spin the tab on the side on the right and voila! 

I didn't tell my husband about the little transformation trick and I changed the face every time he walked by! He thought he was imagining things :)

This princess assortment from Peachy Keen was too cute not to use!

Here is a side view.  I added two layers of pop dots to really make the sun pop.

This is a greeting from the This and That stamp set from Emma's My Creative Time.  I love this font!!

Carts: 

Wild Card-Card Base

Create a Critter- Sun

Recollections for the white, craft, and yellow card stock

DCWV Playtime stack: Blue Sky

This and That from My Creative Time: Sentiment

PKS: Princess Assortment

Christmas Card

Hello! Today I got together with my best friend, Jennifer Ruiz, and we each made some projects for challenges! It was so fun getting together with someone who loves to craft!

I was so happy with the final result for my card.  At first I made the base so huge that my little creatures didn't even show up.  Does this happen to anyone else? Or am I just a mess?  :)

The edges are all inked with my brand new Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink.  This stuff IS as good as I heard.  It's kind of hard to see it in the pictures :(

I'm entering this card into Celebrate The Occasion Challenge #22-Shaped Christmas Cards and My Craft Spot's Challenge #16-Ink it up.

Thank you so much to everyone for letting me know when my cards can also go into other challenges! I really appreciate that :)

Looks like these penguins took a joy ride! 

My husband said that it would be funny if they looked like they all pilled up and one was upside down.  You can see him better here-

Jennifer was kind enough to supply me with some Baker's Twine.  It adds so much detail!  I need to get some ASAP!

I popped everything up with pop dots.

Recipe: 

Card stock: Recollections and My Paper Studio

Sentiment: SU!

Reindeer: Create a Critter

Sleigh: Winter Woodland

Penguins: Winter Frolic

Base: Tie The Knot

Ink: Tim Holtz- Vintage Photo

Twine: Maraschino 

Folder: PC Polka Dots

Thank Ewe

Hello! Today I made this card using Create a Critter and Wild Card.  The font is from the Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art cart.  I LOVE this font! It cuts well at a pretty small size, this was at less than an inch, about .60, and I didn't have any problems with tearing.

The ribbon is from SU! clearance rack.  It was around $7 originally and I think I got it for $2.99.
I also embossed the pink background with the Perfect Polka Dot folder.

I am entering this card in the Cricut 360 Challenge #2- Thank you cards,  morethanfavors challenge using Wildcard and diecuttindivas challenge-22  Head over to these sites, they have great work that will inspire you!

Can I just say that I am getting a little obsessed with challenges?!  I love challenges because they get me to use more of my carts (which justifies me buying more..) and I have so much fun planning and making my cards! I hope you guys like it:) 

Summer Fun!

Today Hello Kitty made a huge sandcastle:)

This is a shaped card, the castle was from Create a Critter. I took two Castle shadows and welded them together to make the base of the card.

Hello Kitty is from the Hello Kitty Font cart and the Star Fish is from Pack Your Bags.  The handle and the little shovel is from the Simply Charmed cart and the bottom of the bucket is from Gypsy Wanderings. 

I'm entering this card into the Bitten By the Bug  Star Fish Challenge, the Sunny Days challenge at My Craft Spot, cookingwithcricut challenge-41 - Anything goes and The Summer Time Fun challenge at gettingcricky.com.

Here she is wearing her little polka dot bathing suit! 

I love how the little shovel looks.  I was so happy it was on a cartridge!

Owl Invitation

I made this card specifically for the cricut360 challenge.  The challenge is to use any cut on any cartridge to make an invitation.  They have pretty awesome design team members, you should check them out!

For this invitation I used a few cartridges to create the extra elements my little owl needed for her BBQ.  The chef hat is from the Winnie The Pooh cart.  I stretched it with my Gypsy and welded the word "cook" into it from the Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art cart.

I made the spatula and the apron with my Gyspy by welding several shapes from the Gyspy Wanderings cart.

It turned out super cute!  Here are some pictures:

Carts:
Owl: Create a Critter (One of my all time faves!)
Apron and Spatula: Gypsy Wanderings

Paper:
Black, white, craft, dark brown: Recollections
Blue: Tim Holtz; Broken China
Light blue: Recollections