Cut it Up Challenge # 19 - Make it Mini

Hello my friends, I have another project to share for the  Cut it up Blog Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #19 - Create a mini project.


My daughter's wedding is getting closer so it was time for me to get the wedding projects completed. I made a few photo props for picture time and made the treats for the guests to go on all the tables at the reception.

Here are the photo props.

And here are the Hershey kisses with the wedding sayings on them.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge
~ Tie the Kmot
Just Married on pg. 56 cut at 2 1/4" sign cut at 7 x 3 1/4" then cut with mini scalloped edge scissors
~Billionaire
Mustache cut at 1 1/2"
Long Mustache cut at 3"
Glasses cut at 3"
Bow tie cut at 3"

Punch - Stampin Up!
3/4" circle punch

Extras
Hot glue and popsicle sticks
Silver and waterfall Stickles - for heart and swirl
Mini Scalloped edge scissors

Stamp ~ Jaded Blossoms
Wedding Kisses stamp set

Inks ~Stampin Up!
Basic Black - edging around Just Married stamp and stamps on Hershey Kisses candies

Card Stock
Recollections



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Create A Critter 2 Series # 46, 47, 48, 49, & 50

Happy Monday my crafty friends!!!

I am happy to say that this is the last post for the Create A Critter 2 Series with Stacy. I managed to knock out all the rest of the cards this past weekend. I'm so happy that I have a good jump on all my cards this year.

I kind of have to do this since my daughter's wedding is in June and I will be pretty scarce in blog land except for my design team posts until July.

Here they are: Warning Picture Heavy

Card # 46
This card is supposed to be a Hanukkah card but I switched it up to make one more Christmas card.

Card # 47

Card # 48

Card # 49

Card # 50

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Hope you have a great week.

Create A Critter 2 Series # 45 - Ginger bread Boy

Happy Hump Day! I have another Christmas card. There's only one more Christmas card after this one to post and then on to the B-day section.

Card #45

Sorry for the picture. I'm having a little issue with keeping my hands steady. This card came with the phrase "Cookie Exchange" but I don't participate in a cookie exchange so I used my Studio g stamp, "Christmas Cheer"

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Create A Critter 2 Series # 44 Christmas Mouse

Happy Tuesday! Still playing catch up with Stacy. I'll be posting the rest of this cart daily so I can finish up this cart. Bear with me and I promise I'll have some grown up projects soon. :)


Card # 44

Love this little mouse.

 

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Create A Critter 2 Series # 43

Hello everyone. I've been MIA for a while helping to get a house ready for the rental season in between my full time job and trying to fit a craft project in here or there. Well as you can see the crafting has suffered a bit.

I managed to sprain my wrist and was told that I also have the beginnings of carpal tunnel. Ugh. So needless to say, typing or any movement of my left hand and wrist have been rather painful lately. But enough of that... Let's move on to a happy thought.

I have another Create A Critter card since I have to finish out the cart now that Stacy is finished with the series.

One more Christmas card to add to the stack. Yay!

Card # 43

Isn't cute? I love this little dog.

 

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Hope you have a great day.

Cut it Up Challenge #18 - Mother's Day

Happy Friday my friends. Thanks for stopping by my blog for another Cut it up Blop Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #18 - Create a project for Mother's Day.

My Mom loves birds so to make something completely different for her other than a card, which I already have made, I decided to make a home decor project.

I saw a cute little wooden owl decoration in a craft store this week and my inspiration grew from there.

She is made of chip board and card stock and a little bit of floral wire for her feet.

Here's how I did it:
Hoot n' Holler cart
Owl cut at 10 1/4" - first on chipboard then from Black Recollections CS.
Shift layer was cut 3 times, 1-pink, 1-orange, and 1-yellow.
Layer cut 2 times, first in green then in yellow

Doodle Charms cart
Flower on pg 91 cut at 3" - pink and blue
I used a left over circle from the owl eye as the yellow dot on the blue part of the flower.

I used perfect pearls in black for the eyes and dots between the feathers on her belly.
I used perfect pearls in ice white for the dots on the beak and the yellow eye. I traced around those dots with my black zig pen.

I used the black zig pen and the white gelly roll pen on the flower.

I made the owl's feet using brown floral wire and use a left over piece for the flower stem. I hot glued these on to my owl.

For the center of the owl's eyes I use some black oval beads and hot glued them into place.

Yes she really does stand up and I know my Mom is going to love her.

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Cut it Up Challenge # 17 - Trees

Happy Friday my friends. Thanks for hopping by my blog for another Cut it up Blop Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #17 - Create a project using a tree for Arbor's Day.

This was a fun project for me since I knew that I wanted to use the Camping Critter cart for this challenge. Here's my Arbor Day card.

I just love the cute little rabbits hiding behind the trees. What do you think?

 

 

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge
~ Camping Critters
Tree with bunny on pg. 57 cut at 4" and 4 3/4" - The 4" tree was cut using the Flip feature.
~Pooh and Friends
Clumps of grass on pg. 29 cut at 1" and 1 1/2"

Cuttlebug Folders
D'Vine Swirls - trees
Swiss dots - background grass

Punch - EK Sucess
Large scallop punch - used on background grass

Extras
Foam Tape - front tree and front clump of grass
Zig pen in black for doodles on bunnies
Zig pen white for dots on bunny noses

Stamp ~ My Pink Stamper
Have a tree-mendous day

Inks ~Stampin Up!
Basic Black

Card Stock
used all my scraps, solid cs is from Recollections.



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CAC 2 Cards # 40, 41, & 42

Hello again thanks for stopping by.

I have a few more cards for you today in the create a critter 2 series. The characters are just too darn cute not to love.


Card # 40

Card #41

Card # 42

Hope you have a great day.

CAC 2 Cards # 37, 38, & 39

Hello playing catch up again with the Create a critter 2 series with Stacy. We are on the Christmas cards in this cart so I'm so excited about that.

I will have even more Christmas card finished early.

Enough talk here they are:

Card #37

Card # 38

Card # 39

Hope you have a great evening.

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Cut it Up Challenge # 16 - Something wet

Happy Friday my friends. Glad you stopped by for another Cut it up Blop Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #16 - Create a project with something that is wet or can be wet.

My take on this was the beach and the critters that hang out there. I was at the beach a few weeks ago and had the pleasure of seeing my little crabby friends. I really do mean the little sand crabs and not my friends. hehehe

My crab is enjoying the sun next to the water.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge ~ Pack your bags
crab on pg. 25 cut at 2"
Sun on pg. 44 cut at 1 3/4"

Spellbinders Nestabilities
Postage Stamp die - lg one used behind crab

Cuttlebug Folders
Swiss Dots - sand
Bubbles - crab and card base

Extras
Foam Tape - Crab, tag, and sand
Zig White gel pen - Crab eyes
Zig Blk pen - dots around tag
Stickles - Orange Peel and yellow used on Sun.

Stamp ~Studio g
Fun in the Sun

Inks ~Stampin Up! ~Recollections
Rusty Hinge - postage stamp die cut
Close to carmel - Sand
Black - tag and sentiment

Card Stock
Recollections - Crab, sand, tag and card base
DCWV - Fun in the Sun double-side pack - Cut out Postage Stamp background.



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CAC 2 #36 - Thanks giving card

Happy Easter and Happy Sunday my friends.

I'm so excited because I just found out I won top honors for my St. Patrick's Day soap dispensers. I am proudly displaying my honor badge. :)

Okay enough about me and on to my last Thanksgiving card from the Create a Critter 2 series with Stacy Williams at Love that bug.

I'm having so much fun playing along with her and I'm so happy to say that I'm going to be ahead of all the season's this year.

For this card I couldn't resist getting out my cuttlebug folder and using it on the corn. It looks more like corn to me now. And you gotta love stickles. I had to give that a pie a little sugar coating with my crystal stickles. :)

 

Hope you are enjoying your day with your family and friends.

 

 

Thanks for dropping by.

 

 

 

Easter Treats - Bunny Poop

Hello my friends. With Easter so close I wanted to share the treat tags that I made.

This treat tag was centered around the Jaded Blossom stamp set: Bunny Poop. I bought this last year in anticipation of using it for this Easter. A long time in the making so with out keeping you any longer here is my project.

I made these for the boys and girls in my family.

 

 

Here's how I did this:

 

Bunny Bottom & Feet

My Cricut Craft Room - I took the following images from the cart listed below:

3 Birds on Parade- Who knew right?

Bird Beak used for the foot pad - forgot which pg this was on

Bird Pacifier pg. 32 - used as the bunny bottom

Chef hat pg. 55 - used as the toes

Layer 2 pg. 62 - used as the foot

Layer 2 Shift pg 52 - used for the toe pads

Layer 2 shift pg. 49 - used for the bunny tail (I keept the largest flower)

* I used the hide contour feature to hid the cuts that I did not want

 

The tag base is the SU Top Note

Jaded Blossoms Stamp: Bunny Poop

Jaded Blossom ziplock treat bags

Ribbon from my stash

Recollections CS

MS - Pink chalk ink

Studio g - gray chalk ink

 

 

 

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Happy Friday!!!

 

 



CAC 2 #34 & 35 - Fall Cards

Hello just a quick post of the next Create A Critter 2 cards. I've made it into the Fall cards now so I finally caught up to Stacy.


Card #34

Card # 35

Hope you have a nice evening.

Thanks for stopping by.

Do you smell carrots?

Hello my friends. So glad you stopped by. I have a cute card to share with you today. Since it's almost Easter I thought I better put an Easter card up on my blog this week. ;)

I adore this stamp and sentiment. When I found it at Cats Pajamas I had to own it and here's my card using this fun set.

Hope this makes you smile...

 

The stamped image and sentiment are from the Cats Pajamas (Watching carrots and smell carrots rubber stamps)
I used a Spellbinders Labels eight to frame the bunny and carrots then popped with foam tape.
Brown Chalk ink used for the bunny stamp and sentiment.
I stamped the carrots on to orange and then green cs then I cut them out and pieced them on to the stamped image to give them more of an enticing look.
The card is cut at 5.5 X 4.25" then scored down the center from Kraft cs and then embossed with the Morrocan Screen Cuttlebug Folder.
The brad and the patterned paper is from my scraps and stash bin.
Zig pen in black used for dots around flag tag, which I created.

Always stop to smell the carrots. Hehehehe.

 

 

CAC 2 #32 & 33 - Halloween

Good evening my friends. I have the last two Halloween cards to share with you from the Create A Critter 2 cart.


I do not have a favorite of the two cards, because I like them both. The Kitty is so adorable and the little Monsters are super fun.

Card # 32

I used my Sei Halloween paper for the background on my kitty card which I think is purrfect for this since it looks like animal fur. I had fun decorating her outfit with Fruit Punch stickles and mini pearls. I did not use the Phrase for this one since I did not want it to say Costume Party. So I dug out My Craft Spot Happy Haunting stamp set and used the "Trick or Treat!" stamp instead.

A added a little fruit punch stickles on the cheeks of this cute pumpkin bucket too.


Card #33

 

This backgound paper actually came from the Target dollar bin last year around Halloween. The Phrase on this page actually says "Monster Bash" so I cut the phrase BEWARE out on pg 50 and used the "w" as an "M" so I could have it say Monster Mash instead. :)

 

 

The little curlies are from the Phrase. Love these.

 

 

 

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Hope you have a wonderful evening.

 

 

CAC 2 # 27, 28, 29, 30, & 31 - Halloween Cards

Welcome! I'm playing catch up since I've been gone so I have a few more cards from the Create A Critter 2 series with Stacy at Love that bug.

The cards are Halloween themed since I am still on that section. Love the cute little characters.

Warning this is a picture heavy post since I have the fronts and insides of five different cards. :)

Card # 27

 I embossed my ghost because I'm on the embossing kick.

Card # 28

Love the witchy turtle. So cute.

Card # 29

Card # 30

Using up my scraps, so yes I did use this background paper twice. Love it for Halloween cards.

The carmel apple is so cute and yummy looking. :)

Card # 31

 

Yep had to emboss one of the clouds and had to bling up the moon and the wings on the bee with some stickles.

 

 

 

 

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Hope you have a wonderful day.
 

Cut it Up Challenge #15 - Lion or Lamb

Hello my friends. Glad you stopped by for another Cut it Blop Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #15 - March goes in like a Lion and come out like a Lamb. Create a project using a lion or a lamb.

I choose the lamb, well two lambs are better than one right? Hehehe

It's hard to tell but I used the Swiss dots Cuttlebug folder for both the black and white lambs fur. The Lambs were cut @ 3" from the Create A Critter cart. I used foam tape to pop them off the card and snuggled them together to make them look like the were holding hands.

I used Tim Holtz tattered flower die for the flowers and the CS is from S.E.I Bassett pack. The background mat is cut at 5.25 x 4 and the card is 5.5x 4.25.

The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper More Punny-licious stamp set. I cut my own tag and used SU basic blk ink. The brads are from my stash.

That's it sweet and simple.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hi there! Glad you stopped by because I have a fun card to share with you today.

I must admit, I am one of those people that loves Sponge Bob. He's simple like Winnie the Pooh in a more modern time. So when I think of St. Patrick's Day I think of Sponge Bob's best friend Patrick.

Patrick asked me to share his special day with you and he dressed for the occasion.

Here he is:

Challenges:

Decorate to celebrate - St. Patrick's Day:

 

What I used:
Sponge Bob Square Pants cart: Patrick cut at 4"
Wonky Rectangles Spellbinders Nestabilities Dies
Kraft Card Stock cut to A4 size card: 5.5 x 4.25
Pattern CS from Hobby Lobby Single 8.5 x 11 sheets
Studio g stamp set: Banner and Sentiment
Markers - yellow and green
Zig pen in white for doodles on Patrick
Glossy Accents: for Patrick's Eyes
SU Basic Black Ink for edges on wonky rectangles

“We’d better do what he says…

he knows how to grow food.”

-Patrick

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Wash Your St. Patty's

Hello my crafty friends. I want to share this fun gift idea that I made to decorate my house for St. Patrick's Day. I did make a few as a gift but then time flew by and I didn't get them mailed out in time. Darn, well there's always next year...

I created the labels on my computer and came up with a few clever sayings to fit the Holiday.

Everybody needs to wash their St. Patty's right? (giggle) So to make it more festive I created these fun labels to go on my soap dispensers.

I bought soft soap in cucumber scent (it was green) at my local dollar store and took off the label then used a little Goo gone to make sure all the adhesive was removed. Then I added my own fun labels. Wha La! Instant Patty washers. I can't stop saying that. :) It's just too fun.

 

I went back and changed the font color so we could read the sayings a little better. :)

 

 

 

Some of our bachelor friends will be visiting soon so I wanted to keep them man friendly too. So the "Wash off the Blarney" one is for the boys. Hehehe

 

Entering into:

Decorate to celebrate - St. Patrick's Day:

Challenges 4 everybody - Anything goes

Everyday is an occassion - Linky Party

Craftin Desert Diva's - Linky Party

Paper playtime - Anything goes

PINspirational Challenges - St. Patrick's Day

Tuesday Alchemy - Anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown - Luck of the Irish

 

 

I'm sorry to say that no cricut was used in the making of this project. ~ She needed a break. ;)

 

 

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Cut It Up Challenge #14 - Dr. Suess Theme

Hello friends and welcome to my first DT project post for the Cut it up Challenge Blog!!!

CIU Challenge #14 is Happy Birthday Dr. Suess. His birthday was March 2nd and to celebrate all of his amazing talent we've been asked to make a project inspired by one of his books.

For my project, I decided to make a few bookmarks. I can always use book marks since I read quite a bit in my off time and of course like Mother like Daughter so I had to make two of each. ;)

Here they are! What do you think? Pretty Suess-ie if I do say so myself. :)

To start, I used MCCR (my cricut craft room) and the Art Philosophy cart. I choose the tag on page 50 and resized it to 2 x 7" to give a longer leaner look. I cut this out first on chipboard using the multi cut feature (2 times).

Then I went back to my file in MCCR and I copied the bookmark 4 times and flipped two of the images. I selected my CS and cut these out again. I used DCWV Grade School for the Cat in the Hat and DCWV Fun in the Sun for the Lorax.

I used the free classroom downloadable images for the Cat in the Hat and the Lorax. I fussy cut around my images after printing them and adhered them to my chipboard bookmarks. I colored the lorax with colored pencils since he was just an outline.

The tree stump is from Hampton Art Foot long stamp set. I stamped that on yellow CS and fussy cut around the image then topped it off with some yellow stickles. I gave the truffula trees a little sparkle too with some orange peel stickles. Then I added some ribbon from my stash to finish the look.

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