Kopy Kat Challenge

I love this challenge that we have for you over at Krafty Girls!

I always want to scraplift cards/scrapbook layouts and I feel guilty doing that for some reason!  No more of that, this challenge is specifically for you to scraplift a paper project from someone that inspires you.  It doesn't have to look exactly the same, but it's fun to see how close you can reproduce it.

My card came from the extremely talented Donna Mudinger from Popsicle Toes.

If you haven't seen her work, you must! She is a genius.  She layers everything beautifully!  I had a wedding coming up and remembered a wedding card that she had made that was so SWEET!

Here is my card:

The cutes are from Indie Art (Berries), Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art (scallop border for the dress), Art Philosophy(Rose), Classic Cricut Font (Ovals to create the dress and the tuxedo) and Billionaire (Bow Tie).

After I cut the shapes I ran the leaves through my crimper, same as Donna, embossed the outfits, and added some pearl buttons.  As a final touch I added a twine bow and rose to the "bride." I LOVED this card!

Here is my inspiration:

I tried to get every detail but I didn't have some of the materials available to me.  I think Donna's card is so much more beautiful, but I gave it my best try and was happy with the results.  By the way, I believe you can purchase this cut file.  I would recommend this because the layers were a bit difficult to figure out.  You can click HERE and see her post about this card.

I hope you have fun with this challenge!  Try to challenge yourself by choosing something that looks complicated.  It was kind of like trying to figure out a puzzle.

Thank you for stopping by!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge# 29

This week the challenge is to make a card using ribbon. We have an awesome prize for you this week!  It is a stamp set from My Craft Spot!  Make sure to visit the DT to get more inspiration and enter your card here. 

I was so happy to get to craft this week! I have been swamped with work lately getting ready for conferences.  Thank goodness I have a vacation coming up soon...which hopefully will mean a whole lot of crafting time. 

Here is my card:

I love the Rock Princess cart.  I especially love flowers on it! I have been wanting to use this strawberry image for a long, long time.  It was just waiting for the right card.  I love how it turned out!

This is my first time using Liquid Pearls!  Samantha (on the Birthday Sundaes DT) uses Liquid Pearls and I fell in love with the look, so I had to get some.  It took me over a month to finally find them at Michael's in this color.  The search was well worth it, the pearls were perfect for this card!

I added tons of pop dots to the strawberry and the flowers dimension.

This gorgeous paper in the background is from a new stack I just found at Michael's called French Country.  It has just the right amount of sparkle.  The ribbon and craft cardstock are from SU!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #24 Inspiration Photo

Hello everyone! First of all, I hope all of you in the path of Hurricane Irene are safe and sound.  My thoughts are with you and your families.

Today for our Birthday Sundaes challenge we have an inspiration photo for you right here:

Urban Comfort

I'm pretty new to the photo inspiration idea and I have to say that I am loving it!  What I find really fun is that you can take any element that gets your creative juices flowing and use it to create.  From this photo I was inspired by the pretty colors and the cupcakes.  

So here is my card:

I LOVE penguins and when I thought of this card and the colors, I knew I had to use this cute penguin!

Here is a side view.

How cute is this Peachy Keen face?  I added glossy accents to her lashes and to the cherry on her cupcake.

I added a bunch of pop dots to give her and the cupcake dimension.

I am loving this scalloped oval shape from Elegant Edges. 

Recipe: 

Elegant Edges: Scalloped Oval welded to make card base

Cricut Classic Font: Oval

Simply Charmed: Penguin

Slumber Party: Cupcake

SU!: Modern Label Punch, Crumb Cake card stock

Peachy Keen Stamps: Critter Faces- Large Set

Pink By Design: Sentiment

Twinery: Strawberry Sorbet Twine

Recollections: Yellow, pink, and white card stock

DCWV: Playtime stack- polka dot paper

Have a great weekend!

Berries for the Teacher

When most people think of school, they think of apples, I know I always did.  That was until last year.  One day one of my students, I will call him David, came to class and said he had something for me in his backpack.  I never would have expected his gift!  It was a little basket of strawberries!!!!  He had heard me saying that I loved strawberries and while he was out shopping with his mom, he asked if he could bring his teacher some strawberries.

At our school, gifts are not common because of the economic situation in our area.  Knowing that David cared enough about me to want to bring me a gift was more than enough, but to bring me my favorite fruit??? It was one of the kindest things I have ever seen.

So here is my card to remember this "berry" special day :)

Here is a side view.  I heat embossed the sentiment and dry embossed the background.

I added glossy accents to his eyes and to the strawberry to make it look all juicy!

I added stitching, twine, and pop dots for dimension.

This sentiment is from My Creative Time's 9th release.  The whole release is a must have!  Emma has such cute stamps but this release is the most versatile because it has a sentiment for pretty much any occasion and holiday.

I am so happy with how this card came out.  I don't think I will ever let this card go :)

Recipe:

Everyday Paper Dolls: Boy and clothes

Wild Card: Card Base

Simply Charmed: Strawberry

Cricut Classic Font: Circle

My Creative Time: Sentiment

PKS: Boy Mates Assortment-Face

Recollections: brown, blue, black, cream, red and white card stock

DCVW: Stripes, Dots, and Lines stack- Blue card stock

SU: Whisper White embossing powder

Twinery: Maraschino Twine

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Cricut 360: Back To School Challenge

Celebrate the Occasion: Circle Cards

Die Cuttin' Divas: Teacher

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #23- Color Challenge

Hello!  This week at Birthday Sundaes we have a pink, green, and white challenge for you.  You can also use neutrals as needed.  This is one of my favorite color schemes ever! You can see that in my previous work, and most likely in lots of my future work too :) 

This week Sue is generously offering the prize for the winner of this challenge.  It's a large Oval Scallops Nestabilities set. Please stop by and check out the DT's beautiful work and enter your card here. 

Here is my card:

Can you believe that most of this flower was meant to be green?  Yeah, I couldn't believe it either!  I basically cut this flower twice.  One in green and one in pinks.  I then cut the top of the flower off at the base of the stem and adhered the pink flower in its place.  So much prettier!

I heat embossed the sentiment and dry embossed the background with a SU! Stripes folder. 

 I also popped up the flower and added some stitching all around the card and some parts of the flower. Here is another view of this card.

This is Kristie's birthday month and our challenges are based around her favorite things.  This color scheme is awesome!!  I love this card!! 

Happy Birthday Kristie!

Recipe: 

Flowers Embellished: Flower

Cricut Classic Font: Circles

Sentimentals: Card Base

Pink By Design: Sentiment

SU: Whisper White card stock, Melon Mambo embossing powder

Recollections: Pink and green card stock

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!

Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hello! If you are arriving here from Candice's blog you are in the right place! If not, make sure you don't miss the fun starting at Birthday Sundaes.  You will be able to enter to win blog candy by posting on everyone's blog.  I will also be giving away something special here so please keep reading :) 

This blog hop is all about cakes and cupcakes! My inspiration for this card came from a project a did a couple of weeks ago.  I had just received Sweet Tooth Boxes and Flower Shop.  Two carts I was really excited about! I knew I wanted to make a rose and a cake box.  So I got to work right away and here is the result:

This rose took me a while to figure out how to make.  It started out as white cardstock.  I love how it turned out!  It looks way better in person but you can see the details pretty well here. 

Here is another view of this little rose.

So when it came time to make my cake/cupcake birthday card I thought about how this cake would look like if it was whole.  I instantly reached for Once Upon a Princess because I remembered that it has a beautiful cake and it used similar colors.  Here is my card:

I added some rhinestones, stitching, and twine for extra detail. 

I heat embossed the sentiment and then ran it through my Big Shot using the Polka Dot folder. I then added some pop dots to the cake to give it some dimension.

I was very happy with the final result! 

Recipe: 

Once Upon a Princess: Cake

Cricut Classic Font: Circles

Lacy Labels: Card base

Pink by Design-Birthday, Birthday 

Paper Studio: Pink and green textured cardstock

 Recollections-light pink, white, hot pink cardstock

SU! Crumb Cake cardstock and Whisper White embossing powder

Recollections: Rhinstones

Twinery: Pink Sorbet Twine

I am SOOO excited to be a part of the Birthday Sundaes Design Team!! I never thought I would be chosen!  Thank goodness my husband believed in me and encouraged me to apply.  It was so hard to keep this a secret!  But I couldn't reveal anything until today.  

In honor of being on this amazing Design Team, I am holding a giveaway!  

Take a look:

This is the Slumber Party lite cart.  It has such cute images on it, things like donuts, popcorn, soda bottles, pajamas, 3D projects, party favors, card bases..I could go on forever.  

Here are two ways you can win this really cute cart!

1. You need to be a follower. Please leave a comment here and let me know if you are an existing or new follower.

2. For an extra chance to win, all you have to do is go to my gallery (you can find it right below the name of my blog) and take a look at my cards.  Then leave a second comment here, telling me which card was your favorite and why. 

That's it! Super easy!! 

The winner will be chosen using Random.org and will be announced here next Sunday.  Don't forget to let your friends know about our Birthday Sundaes blog hop and my giveaway:) 

Next stop is with Vivi at http://vivienpapel.blogspot.com/ 

 Vivi has an awesome project for you! 

Here is our line up for today:

Start here: Birthday Sundaes

Michelle: http://passionatecrafter.blogspot.com/

Amber: http://my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com/

Kimberly: http://www.hellocutiecrafts.blogspot.com/

Sonia: http://www.scraps4fun.com/

Marlene: http://scrappincookie.blogspot.com/

Amy: http://amyscraftingspace.blogspot.com/

Sue: http://thescrappingsofsue.blogspot.com/

Jen: http://www.jenscraftcorner.com/

Samantha: http://hooliewoodcreations.blogspot.com/

Tara: http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/

Candice- http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/

Maribel- you are here

Vivi- http://vivienpapel.blogspot.com/

Cindy: http://cindyvernon.blogspot.com/

Joann: http://joboogie.typepad.com/

Tracey: http://trace-elementz.blogspot.com/

Thank you for visiting! 

Decorate To Celebrate Guest Designer Challenge #5

Recently I found out about this awesome blog where you can share creations that you make to decorate for celebrations.  You can visit here: Decorate To Celebrate.  I had made a cake for a birthday party and I didn't think it would fit into any challenges as far as crafting went, but I was approached by Amy from Decorate to Celebrate to enter their challenge.  I was so happy to have found a challenge where I could share my cake and cupcakes :) I LOVE challenges!  I really love that they have themes for each challenge, but they also accept any type of decorations that you create to celebrate all special occasions!

A few days after I entered my cake I was approached by Rhonda to be a guest designer for challenge #5.  I was so honored!!  Thank you ladies!!

The theme for this challenge is BBQ or block party.  If you have made BBQ or block party decorations, or any other type of party decorations, make sure you enter your special projects! 

My dad's birthday is coming up and he loves BBQ's so I decided to go with a BBQ theme.

Here is a picture of the banner I made.  Sorry my camera refused to focus:( 

On the left side I placed this little man. I love his red hair!

On the right side I placed this BBQ grill.  These images on the Block Party cart are so cute!

This font is so nice! It was easy to layer and it reminds me of Speed Racer for some reason.  It is from Life's a Party. 

I popped up all images and letters.  You can see it better here.

 

For the invitation I tried to pick something easy to make so that I could mass produce it.  I chose this hamburger from Simply Charmed. Turns out it wasn't as easy to assemble as I had hoped, but it's cute. The hamburger patty was embossed with the Swiss Dots folder and the lettuce was embossed with the Swirls folder.

Here is the inside of the invitation.  I was so excited when I finished it! I sent a copy to my mom and she gave me some bad news...the BBQ is for the 30th and my dad is turning 53 not 55... Oops! How embarrassing!! We had a good laugh over it!  

I want to thank Rhonda and Amy, from Decorate to Celebrate, for having me as a guest designer! I am soooo honored!  Please make sure you visit here: Decorate To Celebrate. 

Recipe:

Cricut Classic Font: Triangle (Stretched out with Gypsy)

Block Party: Man, grill, watermelon slice

Life's a Party: Font

Simply Charmed: Hamburger

Paper: Recollections

Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom

The challenge this week at Peachy Keen is to make a punny card using their faces. When I was looking at my sentiments, I saw one that said "Ketchup with you soon!" Right away I thought of a tomato with a cute face on it.  After I made the tomato my husband said she looked like Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom (I think it's an old Nintendo game) and I thought the name was perfect because this face is from the princess assortment from PKS! P.S. my tomato is WAY cuter than the video game version!  I think you will agree!

*By the way I went to Walmart today and all their Lite Carts were on clearance for $15! My BFF Jennifer and I had a small shopping spree :) I finally got Block Party which I am using today.

This card will be entered into the following challenge:
Let's Face it Friday: So Punny at Peachy Keen Stamps.
K. Andrew: Simply Sunday Food For Thought Challenge.
Anything Goes Challenge #100 at Paper Cutz Challenge.


I think Princess Tomato was able to make a business selling some ketchup:

I am nuts about this little face! I colored her eyes with white gel pen and added glossy accents to her eyes and lips.  Her cheeks are accented with pink chalk and freckles. 

The sentiment is embossed with SU! Whisper White embossing powder.  I just got this embossing powder and an embossing buddy, and the difference it made was AMAZING! This is a small sentiment and it embossed beautifully! (No I don't sell SU! stuff :) But I was completely impressed with how clean the sentiment came out so I highly recommend it.) I then dry embossed the background with the Swiss Dots folder. 

I finished off the card by adding some stitching and a small twine bow in Honeydew. 

Carts: 

Block Party: Ketchup bottle cut at 3.36 tall. 

Elegant Edges: Card base welded from a stamp shape cut at 4.22 tall. 

Cricut Classic Font: Squares stretched to fit inside the card base.  One cut at 2.87W X3.77 H and a smaller one at 2.58W X 3.52 H. 

SU!: Crumb Cake and Whisper White cardstock and Whisper White embossing powder

Recollections: Green, black, and red cardstock

Twinery: Honeydew Twine

Embossing Folder: Swiss Dots

K. Andrew: Sentiment from "Food for Thought" I curved the sentiment around my image.