ELMO EASTER

My friend requested Elmo Easter cards for her twin granddaughters.  These cuts had a lot of pieces.   I cut the images with my Cricut, using Design Space.  The ribbon is Primrose-by DL.ART.  I am entering these into the Easter Challenge at Fantabulous Cricut.

DORY AND NEMO VALENTINE

Hello,  It is a beautiful sunny day.  The light in my craft room is bright-perfect for creating.  My friend's twin grand daughters love Finding Nemo.  I haven't seen the movie.  Cricut has the cutest Disney Cartridge.  After looking at the images, I just decided to purchase 3 images.  The seaweed is from Life is a Beach.  The papers are DCWV. The inside sentiment heart is from My Creative Time

card one outside

card one-inside

card two-front

cardtwo-inside

I am entering this into the following challenge

Fantabulous Cricut-Valentines Day

MCIKEY WINTER SCENE

Hello.  I have not been blogging much lately due to a bad back.  I am having trouble sitting and sleeping. I wanted to make a quick card for my grand nephew.  They are going to Disneyland soon. So I bought the Cricut Mickey and Friends Cozy Christmas.  There are so many pieces to the cuts.  I decided to flatten the images and print and cut.  It was so easy and much less time sitting at my craft table.  First I cut some white glitter Core'dinations card stock for snow, then I added some snow flake paper for the sky.  I print and cut the house and car  from the  original Mickey and Friends cartridge.
I adhered the house to the snow scene then I added some rhinestones, trees and a wooden snowflake.
Next I cut a slit in the car and tucked the holiday clad Mickey and Minnie in the drivers seat.

Challenge
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog=316 CHRISTMAS

ANIMALS IN GRAD CAPS

I made these decorations for my friend whose sons were promoted from elementary and middle school.  I use Scotch temporary mounting squares for the animals.  The cute graduation animals are cricut Create a Critter 2  and Teddy Bear Parade..  The Minion is a circle that I cut the sides off and a crescent shape for the mouth.  I am entering these into the following challenges.
FCCB-Graduation
Die Cutting DIvas-Anything Goes

GIFT BAGS FOR WOODLAND THEMED BABY SHOWER

My friend, Celeste threw her son and Daughter in Law a woodland themed baby shower.  She need some bags for the game prizes.  Here is what I came up with using Create a Critter and my Cricut.

These are perfect for the animal challenge over at FCCB

FCCB MOTHERS DAY 2ND ENTRY

Yesterday I posted a card that one of the boys I watch designed for his mother.  His younger brother had a harder time coming up with a concept.  He finally decided on tea.  His mom loves Chai and she makes the best tea ever.  For this project I used the Cricut cartridge "Love You A Latte"  The papers are DCWV "Taj Mahal" and the Denim Stack.  I like the contrast of the shiny papers with the denim.  I am entering this into the FCCB BLOG HOP AND MOTHERS DAY CHALLENGE

GLASSES FOR MOTHERS DAY

I made this card for one of the boys I babysit to give to his mom.  He came up with the idea.  His mom loves fashionable sunglasses.  Fantabulous Cricut are having a Mothers Day Challenge and Blog Hop.  I began the card by cutting the sunglasses with my Cricut using Forever Young.  The sentiment is from the Florals Embellished cartridge.  The sun is an foil embellishment that I got a long time ago at a calligraphy store in Berkeley.

THINKING OF ANNE

I made this card for one of my very best friends who is having a colon cancer surgery next week.  Dark blue is the colon cancer ribbon color.  I am working on blue bracelets for her and I.  Should be posting those soon.  For the base of my card I used Anna Griffin ombre cardstock which I embossed with her Poppy embossing folder.  The center motif was cut with my cricut using  Anna's Lace Cards and Embellishments. it has three layers, I embossed the middle layer with Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots.  Then I added some bling from my stash.  The card still looked BLAH!  I recut the top layer and fussy cut the butterflies to add dimension.  The sentiment was cut and written on my Cricut explore using the Spring Fling cartridge.  The design was inspired by this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch. I am also entering the FCCB-wet or dry embossing challenge and the Show it Off Saturday Linky Party over at Little Scrap Pieces

TRANQUIL SYMPATHY CARD

A young man who I used to babysit passed away last weekend.  I made this card to send to his parents.  I began by making the base using my explore and Anna Griffin Garden Cards and Embellishments.  Then I cut the bird motif using Annas Elegant Embellishments. The brown part of the bird were on my desk from a different bird I was cutting.  The solid papers are DCWV.  The gold cardstock is Paper Source.  The flowers are Paper Studio.

FCCB

The inside sentiment is an Anna Griffin Stamp.  I am entering this into the FCCB Anything Goes Challenge.

ICE CREAM POPPING OUT OF A BOX

FANTABULOUS CRICUT are having an Ice cream Challenge to celebrate National Ice Cream month.  I decided to make a box card.  The cut is a Lori Whitlock Cricut design that I cut on my Explore.  The gems are Paper Studio.  I threaded the banner on Basic Twine from the DL.ART shop

folded flat-ice cream cone and sentiment -My Creative Time

WINGS

Fantabulous Cricut is having a "Things With Wings" Challenge.  I made this card using some new Anna Griffin products that I received in the mail.  I love the flocked background paper. and the card base.    The bird is from Art Decco and the branch is from Art  Nouveau, the branch is from Spring Cottage.  The beautiful red ribbon is RAO Red from the Newspaper Bundle by DL.ART

Baby Shoe

My friend's son and his wife are expecting a baby girl.  I thought I'd make some fun 3D projects.  I found the cutest baby shoe on the Cricut Artiste cartridge.  I used some Echo Park papers and a dimensional chipboard embellishment by K & Company.  I tied the shoe with some beautiful Primrose ribbon from the Spring Bundle #1 by DL.ART.  Did you know that Diana is sponsoring the current Baby Challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut

FROZEN CARD FOR VALENTINE POCKET LETTER

I am making 4 Valentine Pocket Letters for my friends granddaughters.   Each letter has 6 pockets so that 12 cards per letter.  48 cards.  Some of the pockets are going to have goodies in them.  The girls love Frozen.  One side will be pink and red valentine and the other will be Blues and purples.
All of the cards are cut with My Creative Time's Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies and More
For this card i embossed the card with a Cuttlebug Snowflake folder.  Then I cut the Olaf image in Cricut Design Space.  I added a snowflake border by Paper Studio.  I added some Disney Sequins.

CHALLENGES

FCCB-Snow

PDE-Anything Goes

GO KITTY,GO

Hello Kitty is one of my favorite cartridges.  When I saw a few Shaped card challenges, I knew what cartridge to pull out.  I used a brand new mat, it was so sticky that the paper curled when i took it off the mat.  I used DCWV adhesive papers,  For the hub cap bolts and head lights I used Skittles by Carri at Double-click Connections.  By the way Carri is having a "Let's Roll -use a wheel challenge,"

CHALLENGES
DOUBLECLICK CONNECTIONS-Let's Roll-Use a Wheel
FCCB-Shape Up
PDE Linky Party-shaped card

GAVIN'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

I made this fun Mickey card for my niece's baby, Gavin, who turns one in November.  I used the Mickey and Friends Cartridge for this cut.  The papers are Cor'dinations. For the frame I used MCT Stitched-Rectangular-Frame-Dies.  I embossed the blue paper with Cuttlebug star folder.  The "Happy Birthday" is Sizzix "Happy Birthday #3" die.  The washi tape is Disney Tapeworks by Sandy Lion.

CHALLENGES
FCCB-KIDS CHALLENGE
LITTLE SCRAP PIECES-Show it Off Saturday

A STAR IS BORN

Good Morning!  I have been sorting pictures of my son for an album that I will give to him when he graduates.  For these pages I used the Cricut cartridge "The First Few Years"  .  All of the papers are Recollections Chalkboard stack.  I love this cartridge.  There are sample pages for inspiration.  For the mat on the "Announcing" page I got my inspiration from a sketch challenge at FCCB.  

I plan to make a page or two for each year of his life.

CHALLENGES

FCCB-SKETCH

DL.ART-AUGUST LINKY PARTY

DOGS AT THE PARK

These two cute puppies wanted to take a rest at the park.  For this card the dogs are cut with my Cricut using the Just Because Cards cartridge.  I cut a whole bunch of these westies all different sizes and facing both directions.  The bench and light post are from my-creative-time.com/Wishing-You-Were-Here-Stamp-Set.  The sentiment is Scrappy Moms stamped on a My Creative Time Stitched Oval die.  The polka dot paper is DCWV .  All other papers are Paper Studio and scraps.

CHALLNEGES
DL.Art-Thankful Thursday July Linky Party
FCCB-Anything Goes
Die Cutting Divas-Anything Goes

DANCING CROCADILE

Twinkle Toes is one of my favorite cartridges.  I haven't used this cut before.  When I saw the current "Let's Dance" challenge at BBTB2, I knew what to do.  This card is based on a sketch Challenge at FCCB  All of the solid papers are DCWV, the patterned is Hobby Lobby.  I Used MCT border die on the left edge.  I ran the croc thru the cuttlebug using Tiny Bubbles/  I hand cut the banner, the gem is from my stash.  Oh and to make it more fun I put my sweet dancing gal on an Action Wobble.  I am also linking to DL.ART-Thankful Thursday Linky

HAPPY FIRST MOTHERS DAY

Hello, I have been have a tough week, missing my mom.  I wanted to make a few cards for friends and for my niece's first Mother's Day.  For this card I used A Childs Year.  The base paper is Core'dinations, The pink floral paper is Paper Studio.  The doilie is Wiltons.  The pearls and flowers are from Hobby Lobby.

CHALLENGES
DL.Art-Thankful Thursday Mothers Day Chalenge
FCCB-Celebrate Mom
BBTB2-Mothers Day

I LOVE YOU BEARY MUCH

CLICK HERE FOR MY BIRTHDAY GIVE-AWAY

There are a couple of spring challenges going on.  I haven't used Teddy Bear Parade for a long time.  The patterned papers are Embelish and thye solids are DCWV.  The die for the sentiment and the sentiment are My Creative Time. For the eyes I used skittles by Carri from  Doubleclick Connections.
I got the raindrop gems from the dollar section at JoAnne's.

CHALLENGES
FCCB-Welcome Spring
BBTB2-April Showers
DOUBLECLICK CONNECTIONS-Funny Challenge
DL.ART-Thankful Thursday April Linky Party