FCCB Challenge! Love is in the Air!

Yowza! It's Monday already.  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  It's time again for another Fantabulous Cricut Challenge!  This week "love is in the air."  I hope you take some time to create a project or card to share with all of us--remember to use a heart!  And of course at least 1 Cricut cut!

As you can see my card is quite simple but you will see that it highlights some stamps from the fabulous Kristal at Getting Cricky with K Andrew.  Kristal has some wonderful stamp sets and she is the amazing sponsor for this week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut.  I have some other sets from K. Andrew Designs and I think they the are fabulous!  I will add a picture of two of some other cards I've made with her great stamps!

Looks like I need some work with my Pearl Pens :)

Some more examples from K. Andrew Designs Stamps!

FCCB Challenge #65

Summa!  Summer is here.  I have missed my crafting oh so much.  I have been on the road quite a bit lately.  I just returned home from some meetings in Kansas...hmmm it's hot in Kansas...well a different hot as I've been told :)  It was a great time.  I had a fabulous time with some of my co-workers.  It's Monday...and Monday means that it is time for a fantabulous challenge!  Please stop over at FCCB and join us for this weeks challenge.  The challenge this week we will be celebrating the summer sun!  So create a card or a project that incorporates the summer sun!  Please remember to include atleast one Cricut cut. 

 The Deets:

Cricut Cut: Sun from the Hello Kitty Greetings

Paper: SU!

Twine: Random from a discount store

Stamp: from M's

Stickers: picked up at Target

Go Twins!

Oh Blogger--you are making me so very sad.  I am have been trying to leave comments and I had a post all set to go live yesterday...well from the looks of things I think you can tell that that never happened :( Oh how sad!  This was the project for FCCB!  It's time again for challenge me Monday!   The challenge this week is to make something to remember!  And you can remember an anniversary, a special person or a special time!  I have not quite figured out if I am going to use this as a place to remember my keys or if I am going to create a frame to hang from the bottom to remember all of the fun times I have at Twins baseball games! 

I am pretty sure I will alter this so it can somehow be a picture frame so I can treasure my memories from the games :) Even though my team isn't doing so well right now I still think they can pull it off :)  I found this wooden piece at a local craft store, I painted it red and then modge podged some baseball printed paper over the top of it.  The letters have been cut from Nate's ABCs and the glove, bat and ball were cut from the baseball solutions cartridge which has been retired. 

I hope you enjoy my project today.  Please join us at FCCB for this weeks challenge!  I would LOVE to see what you come up with for the challenge.

FCCB Challenge #58

Oh my word...can you believe that it's May already!  I can't and it most certainly doesn't feel like May here.  I had my winter coat on yesterday and last night I was chilly all evening.  Not at all what I am expecting to feel like for the first few days of May! 

So much is happening at work right now that it's crazy!  Things are soooo soooo busy!  I am hoping for a quick next couple of weeks and I'm praying things will soon settle down.  But enough of my blabbing!  Onto the challenge.  This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut! is "Flower Shower" and you are asked to create a project with at least 3 flowers on it!!  Head on over to FCCB and check out the lovely projects by the other design team members and please join our challenge--we would LOVE to have you join us!

My card for today was designed from a lovely gift from a friend at work.  She knows I love Clinique...not always the products they sell--well okay I love those too.  But I am a sucker for the "gifts with purchase."  During Valentine's Day they had an adorable bag that was hot pink with other pinks and lime green mixed in a lovely tulip pattern---so I modeled my card after that!  I hope you enjoy it!

The Deets:

Paper: Solid SU, DSP DCWV

Cricut Cut: Walk In My Garden

Ribbon: $ Tree

Random rhinestone and Sakura Jelly Roll Pen in white

Looks Like Spring!

Thanks for joining us for another challenge with the lovely ladies at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  I hope you stopped by the main blog to see all of the other awesome spring themed projects from the awesome design team!



I love this bird!  How stinkin' adorable.  I cut this bird at 3.5 inches from the Nate's ABC cartridge and I love how it turned out.  I am so glad I've been spending some time digging through my stash of papers to use up.  The cloud paper I used is from K and Company--I love it!  I'm sure I picked it up just because I thought I needed clouds--but upon further investigation I LOVE the gridlines on this paper-- it's in an Old Olive-ish color and I really like it. 

I've not played a lot with this cartridge but I do love the layers it offers and the attention to detail in each of the layers is fun.  I did tweak the beak on the bird a little bit as I didn't like how the worm or something or other looked in his mouth :) So I chopped it off!  I also changed up this card by not using a standard A-2 size.  This card will fit in a business size envelope easily.  Enjoy!

Recipe

Cricut: Nate's ABC cartridge--bird and all layers cut at 3.5 inches

Paper: SU for solids, and Kand Company DSP

Ribbon: SU grosgrain

Other: dimensionals and a googly eye

Hip To Be Square!

Hi Everyone!   I am so glad you are able to join me for another FCCB Challenge! The challenge today is to create a project that is a square...and for an extra added twist use green and gold!  I had a ton of ideas running through my head-- all through grade school, jr. high and high school my school colors were green and gold so I that was the first option I considered-- but after much cutting and a little frustration--NOTHING was working for me!  




So I decided to create a square card in honor of Saint Patrick's Day!  I really love how this card turned out and it was super easy to put together.  I used mainly solid color paper from Stampin' Up and the gold glittery piece of paper is from We R Memory Keepers--from a  "Foil Glitter Flock" adhesive rub on kit-- NO clue if these are still available or not.  I picked mine up ages ago for a $1.00 at a discount store here in town.  But I love the glitter--I've never tried the other pieces in the kit :) 

Recipe:

Cricut: Designer's Calendar

Paper: SU! and gold glitter WeRMemoryKeepers

Other Stuff: gold ink pad to use around the edges

Gold cording from SU--long retired I'm sure

FCCB Challenge #50

Today the challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut is to use a tree! Any type of tree will do!  So pull out your cartridges and join the lovely and talented Design Team members :) 

For my tree...I used a tree from Serenade which is a solutions cartridge.  It was a fun cartridge to play with.  I will admit this was my first cut from this cartridge-- it's definitely different to get used to not having the book to go along with the cartridge but I think I managed to do okay.

I could not decide on a sentiment for this card so at this point I have just decided to leave it blank--let me know if you have any ideas!! 

As I was putting the card together I found a random sheet of printed designer paper in the blue and that served well as the background and sky!  The leaves needed a little bit of something so I used some stickles to brighten up the card.  The grass was cut out using my trusty grass punch from Martha.  Then as I was finishing the card I decided it just needed a little bit more and I decided clouds it was.  I had already turned my cricut off and didn't know of a cloud cut off hand-- so I used my punch from SU! the cupcake and used the frosting from the cupcake as clouds for my card! 

Recipe

Cricut Cartridge: Serenade Solution tree cut at 5.5 inches

Paper: Unknown blue, all other SU!

Punch: SU! Cupcake Punch

Other stuff: Diamond Stickles

Best Fishes!

Today my project is all about fish!  I love goldfish and the shaped card challege over at FCCB was the perfect excuse for me to make this cute little card...which then turned into more of a project!  So last night I started making a set of Thank You cards to give to a friend who will doing some job interviews in the next couple of days-- so I set to work on those.  The thank you cards were very simple-- I used a white card base and I also used some random colored pieces of paper I had in my stash.  I embossed the colored sheets with my Cuttlebug and a thank you folder. 

Then I remembered over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog the challenge this week was to do a shaped card-- so the hamster started running at full force that's for sure!  So I pulled out my trusty Create-A-Critter Cartridge and whipped out a fish... the layers of the fish ended up being a big bust as I had hit the real dial size button on accident!  Opps! 

So I cut the fish out 4 times-twice for the base and twice for the top layer in orange at 3 inches. And I smashed the card together at the tail so it was able to be a "card."  I added a little white gel pen around the edges and did some highlighting with a sponge and some orange ink.  I then added the "best wishes" sentiment which is from My Pink Stamper. 

Enjoy! 

How I started out... a simple thank you...

Then I decided I needed more colors....20 cards in total.

The fish...minus all the layers :)

Ta-Daaaaa!  The final package!

Recipe

Cricut Cartridge: Create A Critter cut at 3 inches

Paper: Stampin' Up

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Bag and Ribbon...from my stash I think the baggie is from M's

I'm sooooooooooooo excited!!

I am so super excited to announce I have been chosen, along with many other Fantabulous ladies, to be on the Design Team for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog! This is such an honor and I am soooooooo stinkin' excited I can hardle contain myself!  Yay! 
I will be posting every other week along with the other Design Team members--whom I'm super excited to be playing with!  How fun!  I am really looking forward to this adventure!