Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #74 -- Birthday Bash

Hi everyone!  Back to school at our house was last week, so it's been a crazy time here.  We did get to go to a great baseball game on Saturday, so that was fun!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend :)

The Challenge Me Monday theme today is Birthday Bash--make a birthday themed project.  Now, I don't know about you, but I always need a birthday card.  I really need to make a bunch to keep on hand.  But I do like to personalize and this one was for someone specific last week.

Here are the details:

• Shoes cut at 3 inches from Forever Young
• Cuttlebug Folder
• Stamp from My Pink Stamper Spectacular Sayings
• The Paper Studio Safari Untamed Stack
• Ribbon
• iRock
• pop dots

This was for a co-worker and she is very fashionable (loves her shoes!) and her favorite color is purple.  I took a risk with the leopard paper but she loved it!

Now, make sure to visit the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog to see all the Design Team's great birthday projects!  Then you can enter your own that you made for this challenge and don't forget to use a Cricut cut!!

Exciting News!

Hi everyone! I can't believe it, but I was chosen to be a My Pink Designer for the next 3 months!! Thanks so much Robyn for this wonderful news!

This is card I sent in. You can see all the new designers and their cards at the My Pink Stamper blog http://www.mypinkstamper.com/

Forever Young -- Girl and layers cut at 5 inches

Paper and Ribbon -- Stampin' Up!

Recollections Pearls -- up the side and as a hair accessory

Fruit Punch Stickles -- filled in the ribbon grooves and the edges of the dress

Stampin' Up! Dimensionals

Martha Stewart Edge punch

MPS Family & Friends Stamp

I can't wait to see what's in store the next three months!

Forever Young Purse and Card

I wanted Forever Young especially for the purses. I love purses and my family groans when I stop to look at them--LOL! When I sat down to create something tonight I planned on the purse, but then decided to make a card to go with it. I love how it turned out!

I set the expression to fit to page for the purse and it cut out at 5 1/4 inches. When I went to make the flower the same size, it was huge! So I re-cut that out at 2 1/4 inches. I pop dotted it on and curled the edges a bit. Then I added stickles and a Prima pearl to the center.

Next I wanted to use one of the girls on the cartridge. This is number 3 and cut at 6 inches. I tried smaller but didn't like it as much. Since it was so tall, I made the length of the card 7 inches. I used the same paper as the bag for the background and added some pearls (one of the items in the the blog candy!) to her hair and one on her bag. I used some blue ribbon down the side and decorated with the same pearls. Lastly, I stamped Fabulous! from Pink Stamper Friends and Family set in corner of the card. I believe my daughter is going to put a gift card in the purse and give the set to her friend for her birthday this weekend.

Be sure to enter for my blog candy--2 winners will be drawn Friday night! http://craftingcricutmom.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-candy-giveaway.html

Mojo Monday 142 -- Take 2

I decided to try the Mojo Monday sketch again. I wasn't super happy with my 1st card and you can enter multiple times, so I gave it another go!

This time I went with my favorite color to make cards with--Pink (and some green and yellow). I used Forever Young to cut the flower at 2 1/2 inches. I pop dotted between all the layers and added faux stitching to them. I also pop dotted the green square on. I really wanted some dimension this time. I used a MS edge punch, TCP Studio stamp and added the pink ribbon to the top as well as the side of the square. Oh and of course, stickles!! I think I like this one better!