Back to School!

This card was made for the Throwback Thursday Challenge #9 at Emma's blog - click here and the Paper Cutz Challenge #54 - click here. Both challenges are for a Back to School themed project. It was also made for the My Pink Stamper Challenge which is to make an animal or critter themed project. You can find Robyn's blog here.

It's been such a great summer and I can't believe school is just around the corner! I've had a few moments this summer when I was wishing school would hurry up and start ;-) but most of the time not. What a blessing children are -during the challenging moments as well as the fun ones. There's been a whole lot of giggling and laughing and playing around our house this summer and it was AWESOME!

This card is a shape card and is approx. 5.5 inches high by 4 inches wide and was made using:
Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge
Create A Critter cartridge - the cute worm
Gypsy Font cartridge
DCWV cardstock
Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces Set A Medium
Sakura white Jelly Roll pen

Thank you to Emma, the ladies at Paper Cutz and to Robyn for a fun challenge!

And thank you to YOU for stopping by to take a look. Your comments make me smile - I appreciate them!!

Have a super day!

Throwback Thursday Challenge #7

I made this card for My Creative Time with Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge #7. Check out her blog by clicking on her blinkie button on this blog under Favorites. The challenge was to make a card for your favorite holiday using the Wild Card cartridge or any other cartridge if you don't own that one. Since I don't have Wild Card I used two other cartridges along with my Gypsy to make this card. Create A Critter cartridge is not an old cartridge but since I've only had my Cricut since March I don't have many of the older cartridges. I used the Create A Critter for the surfing turkey. The surf board, wave and 'hang loose' hand all come from the Life is a Beach cartridge. I'm sure you are wondering how in the world I came up with the idea of a surfing turkey! I'm not quite sure! I guess I was trying to incorporate an older cartridge and when Life is a Beach came to mind I was thinking beachy thoughts which I incorporated with my favorite holiday of Thanksgiving! It's so hot here that my brain is probably just fried! If nothing else this card is original ;-)


This is a 6 inch by 6.25 inch card and will fit in a 6x9 envelope. I designed the card on my Gypsy. As you can see the turkey opens to reveal the sentiment. I did this by making two turkey shadows, flipping one upside down and then welding them together at the top of their hats.

Recipe:

Create A Critter cartridge
Life is a Beach cartridge
Cuttlebug embossing folders: herringbone, swirls, swiss dot
cardstock: DCWV, Coredinations
clear stamps, black pigment ink, clear embossing powder
white Sakura jelly roll pen

I hope you enjoyed my surfing turkey card! Since I live in Southern California I think it's appropriate and fun and I can hardly wait till November to send it to some friends who are surfers. But they're not turkeys!

Child's Birthday Card

After a wonderful camping trip with my family to Yosemite National Park I am back home, trying to manage mountains of laundry and get back to crafting too! Today we made a card for my daughter's friends birthday party. My daughter and I talked about what she wanted and then I put it together using the Gypsy. If you own a Cricut you really must have either the Gypsy or Design Studio - they give you so many more options and take designs to another level! In the wee hours of the night after putting it together on the Gypsy I just HAD to cut it out and see how it looked. Then, I couldn't wait to see it put together - so I did it and decided I would cut it out again in the morning for my daughter to put together on her own for her friend. Too cute! What a fun card! I used the Create A Critter cartridge for the dog and Just Because Cards for the wagon. I welded the two together and made a folding card in that shape. The card stands about 5 inches tall. On my card you'll see that the dog's helmet has the number '1' just as it appears on the cartridge. Well, when I cut it out for my daughter's friend I changed the number (using the Gypsy) to the birthday boy's age. Great to be able to do that now since they've given us a hide contour option on the Gypsy-I just used that feature and then welded in the number I wanted from a font cartridge!

Hope you enjoyed my card! Have a great day.

Create A Critter Cartridge

This is a fun cartridge! Aren't the animals on this cartridge just the cutest?! For this 9x4 card I cut the squirrel at 3.25 in. and the heart balloon at 3 in. I used DCWV Flower Spring stack for the background papers and Core Coordinate cardstock for the squirrel. The balloon and part of the squirrel's tail was embossed using the Swiss Dot folder on the Cuttlebug. I can tell I'm going to be using the Create A Critter cartridge a lot!