For The Birthday Boy

I did things a little different this time. If you have been following me the past few days, you know that I've been challenging myself by picking a number that coordinates with one of my Cricut cartridges to use in a challenge. Well this time, Random Generator picked a number for me (my son was not around today to ask him) for my cartridge. I used Random Generator again and had the number coordinate with a page number for that cartridge. THEN I looked at the challenges that I have been considering. This is what I came up with: Celebrate The Occasion "Child's Birthday"and Die Cuttin' Diva's Blue, Silver and White.

My card:

and the inside:

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Blue, Silver, White/Blue Core-dinations and Patterned Paper
Cricut Cartridge New Arrival Truck, page 119 (Blackout Base, Shift Base and Blackout Shift)
Cricut Design Studio
CardzTV with Mary Clear Stamps Make A Wish, "Birthday Boy"
Studio G Clear Stamp Happy Birthday
Queen and Co Pearls Brilliant Blue, 2 Large and 1 Small
Blue Ribbon
Sanding Paper (for Core-dinations Paper)
Mounting Tape

Hope you try to challenge yourself in a new way...it makes you really think! Happy crafting...

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Purple People Eater FCCB Challenge

The challenge at Fantabulous Cricut this week was called "Purple People Eater". (Use purple on your project and a monster or a bug). SVG Attic is the sponsor this week and we were asked to use one of their images. Since I do not have the software, Amy Jo (FCCB Coordinator) was kind enough to cut one of the images and send it to me. I enhanced it and made the card below... (Thank you Amy Jo).

Finished Card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Materials:
Cardstock: White, Olive Green, Light Green, Purple, Black, Orange and Two Different Patterned Papers.
SVG Attic Image Spooky Friends, Bride of Frankenstein
Cricut Cartridge New Arrival Diaper Bag page 105, (Shift Base)
Inkadinkado Clear Stamps All Hallow's Eve/Halloween Spider Web
Scrappy Moms Clear Stamps Bewitched, "Hand over the candy and no one gets hurt!"
Sizzix Embossing Folder Vintage Holiday (Top Corner)
Studio G Mini Punch, Spider
Studio G Mini Punch, Bat
Glossy Accents
Queen and Co Pearls, Midnight 2 Large
Two Googly Eyes Green
Purple Chalk
Mounting Tape

It may be hard to tell in the photo, but I used Glossy Accents on the stripes in the hair. I like the shiny affect that it gives. The Halloween bag in her hand is actually 3D. I hope you like the card.

Please go check out the other images at SVG Attic and the other FCCB design team member's projects.

I wanted to share a picture of my granddaughter.

Isn't she adorable? She's getting so big.

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Diaper Cake

Quick post tonight. A co-worker (manager) is pregnant at work and we are giving her a shower. I made a diaper cake for her.

Here is a close-up of the name at the bottom.

Finished project: 10" x 18"

Materials:
42 Size 2 Diapers
Rubber bands (for rolling up diapers and to hold diapers together)
4 Receiving Blankets
Toy Lion Rattle
Ribbon
Cricut Cartridge Zooballoo Letters and Coordinating Animals, Various pages
Cardstock: White, Brown, Tan, Green, Neon Green, Blue/Gray, Dark Blue/Gray, Blue and Teal
Cakeplate
Gift Bag

This is the card I made also for her:

Finished card: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2 "

Materials:
Cardstock: Peach, White, Teal and Patterned Paper
Cricut Cartridge New Arrival Delivery, page 85 (Base, Shift Base)
Doodlebug Design Crushed Velvet Flock Blue
Chalk - Brown, Peach and Rose
Mounting Tape

Hope she likes the diaper cake.

Please stop back this weekend (Saturday the 28th through Monday the 30th) for the Bugbites Bug Hop. Lots of Blog candy on all the blogs and a chance for you to make your own project and win a prize.

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It's A Boy Card

At Scrappy Moms Stamps, the challenge this week was to use the Cricut Cartridge New Arrival. I came up with this card:

The inside is stamped with "Congratulations".

Finished Card: 4" x 9 1/4" (Fits in a business size envelope).

Materials:
Cardstock: Two Shades of Blue, White, Red, Green Yellow and Patterned Paper.
Cricut Cartridge New Arrival Plane page 118, (Base and Shift Base), "It's A Boy" page 90, (Base)
Cricut Design Studio
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder D'Vine Swirls
Inkadinkado Happy Everything Stamps "Congratulations"
Red, Green and Black Pigment Ink
Studio G Clear Stamps
Mounting Tape

Where I work, one of my Assistant Managers is pregnant and she is having a boy in June. I think I may give her this card. It's her first child. Hopefully, she'll like this card.

I used Design Studio to lay out three airplanes and the accessories, so I could cut them in different colors. Clockwise, the colors were: Blue, Red, Green and Yellow. I then played around and changed the colors so I would end up with three different airplanes. This is how I laid out the 12"x 12" mat:

I didn't glue the "extra" "It's a Boy" sentiments on the banner yet, because I thought that I could change it to "Happy Birthday" or "Congratulations" just in case I needed a different type of card. I also glued a piece of scrap cardstock behind the windows.

Hope you have a wonderful rest of the day. I have a friend coming over. I'm not sure what we'll be doing, but it doesn't matter since it's always nice spending time with a friend.

Don't forget about the give-away (click here). I'll be picking a winner on Tuesday the 19th. Good luck!

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Until the next post....imagine what you could do.....

It's a Boy

As you can see, I didn't get this posted last night or before work this morning. I tried, but it just wasn't happening...

My neighbor's daughter had a baby recently and I thought I would make a card to celebrate the blessed event.

My base card is half of a 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of white cardstock. The animal patterned background cardstock is cut at 4" x 5 1/4". I then rounded the corners with  my EK Success Paper Shapers Corner Adorner  Rounder Punch - Large (now that was a mouthful!) I cut the blue cardstock at 2" x 3 3/4" and the orange gold cardstock at 2 1/2"  x 4". I also rounded the corners on these papers. I cut the giraffe at 3 3/4" from Cricut Cartridge Create A Critter. The base cut is in turquoise, layer 1 is in light blue and layer 2 is in the orange gold cardstock. I embossed the orange gold layer with Cuttlebug Tiny Mosaic Embossing  folder. After assembling the layers together, I used Crayola Glitter Glue - clear to fill in the dots on the giraffe. Let dry thoroughly. I dotted the eyes with a black marker. "It's a Boy" is cut at 1" from Cricut Cartridge New Arrival in the same turquoise cardstock used for the base of the giraffe.

I glued the patterned paper down first. Next I tied a light blue ribbon in a knot around the orange gold cardstock and cut the ends on a angle. I then glued "It's a Boy" on the cardstock and adhered that to the patterned paper. Glue the giraffe on the blue cardstock. Overlapping the orange gold cardstock, glue the blue cardstock down. Finally, I doodled a line and dots on two edges of the blue cardstock and one bottom edge of the orange gold cardstock with a Gelly Roll white pen.

Here is the finished card again. Inside, I stamped "Congratulations" with Fiskars All Year Greetings clear stamps in Sky Blue ink.

Hopefully I will get some sleep tonight. Niki, the new puppy, didn't want to sleep last night...she discovered the rabbits under the shed yesterday and all she wants to do is go outside. I'm not sure how I will be discouraging this behavior.

Hope you are inspired to do some crafting and as always...imagine what you would do.................