Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #78

Hi everyone!  Today's Fantabulous Cricut Challenge is A Pirate's Life in honor of National Talk Like a Pirate Day today--Arrr!  Just make a project with a Pirate Theme.

I choose to make a scrapbook page from when we were in Disney World this time last year.  *Sigh* Wish I was there now :)  My kids had a pirate makeover at The Pirate's Leauge since we were going to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party  that night.  I have more pictures to scrap for that.

Here are the details:

• Skulls from Paper Doll Dress Up cut at 3 inches
• Lettter for title from Mickey Font (not sure of the size since I cut them out a while ago)
• My Pink Stamper Fontabulous set
• Echo Park Skull & Bones paper

Be sure to visit the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and see all the Design Team's projects!  And be sure to find some pirate in you and play along!

My Pink Stamper Fun and Spooky Challenge

Hi everyone!  Today, My Pink Stamper is having a Fun and Spooky Challenge.  Make sure to visit her blog to check out the challenge and the rest of the Design Team's projects :-)

I made a card and decorated a candle.  It's been really fun to make some home decor items lately.  I won't be able to burn this candle, but I usually don't anyway.

Here are the details for the card:

• Ghost from Paper Doll Dress Up cut at 3 3/4 inches
• My Pink Stamper Spooky Puns stamp
• Recollections Halloween stack
• Martha Stewart web punch
• orange ribbon
• iRock gems (on the ribbon)
• black pen for stitching

I punched the card base and a separate black strip to make the layers.  Also, I put a black strip on the inside of the card behind the web.

And here are the details for the candle:

• 3 ghosts from Paper Doll Dress Up cut at 2 3/4 inches
• I just had the candle on my shelf
• My Pink Stamper Spooky Puns stamp
• Recollections paper that matches the card
• Orange ribbon
• i Rock gems
• black pen for stitching

I wrapped the paper around the candle and just used my ATG to hold.  I also used the ATG on the ribbon as well.  Then, very carefully, I adhered the gems with the iRock.  You do need to be careful, if you hold it too long the candle will melt.  Then I just put adhesive down the middle of the ghosts and placed them around the candle. I stamped the Boo in black ink and stamped in on paper, then the ghosts, so it wouldn't be too dark.

I hope you enjoyed--this was fun to make!!  Don't forget to visit My Pink Stamper.

Throw Back Thursday at My Creative Time

I love to play along with Emma for Throwback Thursday.  But I had the hardest time today!  I was determined to make a Christmas themed card and tried out 2 that just weren't working for me.  So I ended up with Halloween. 

This week, we needed to use Paper Doll Dress Up and frame it.  At least I was able to use my new Peachy Keen Stamps with this one!

• Paper Doll Dress Up Monster cut at 3 1/4 inches
• Accent Essentials frame cut at 3 3/4 x 5 inches
• Make a Monster Face Assortment from Peachy Keen
• Black and purple Stickles

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!

St. Patrick's Day

Here's the March card--St. Patrick's Day.  I used the Paper Doll Dress Up Cart for this shamrock.  This cartridge has so many extras!  I cut it at 3 inches.  I used the D'vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder for the background.  The ribbon and gems are both self stick.  And the stamp is a Studio G. 

This was one more I completed on the weekend!  My kids are going to be at a church retreat this weekend, so I hope to get some scrapping done this weekend and take a break from cards.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #17

I decided to try out the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog this week.  The challenge this week was to use a bug and the color orange somewhere.  I've been wanting to make a bag from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More so that's what I went with.  I used my Gypsy and turned the bag a bit so I could cut it at 6 1/4 inches.  I used a white Signo pen to do the stiching around the whole bag.  Then I cut the web at 4 inches and spider at 5 inches from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I added some white pen features to the spider and a bit of black stickles to it's feet.  It's finished off with some black ribbon and green filler (from my Circle box). 

I just love this little bag and will probably make more for little gifts!

Throw Back Thursday at My Creative Time

I am so late posting this! I made this Saturday night for Emma's Throwback Thursday at My Creative Time http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ but wanted to wait until daylight to take a picture. But we had church, then lunch for Father's Day, and then we met friends at Six Flags. I am exhausted!

This week we needed to use Paper Doll Dress Up and alter an item. I used a 6 x 6 inch cork board and covered it with cardstock. I also lined the edges of it with orange ribbon (not sure you can see this) Then I used a 4 inch paper doll and used the girl pirate dress. The face stamp is from Peachy Keen (love these!). I used a white pen to add some doodling to make the cuts stand out a bit more. With the map, used a black pen. I used some brown skittles at the top. The black mat is for a picture. I am planning on using this as a wall hanging after we go to Disney in the Fall. My daughter is going to be a pirate girl while we're there for a Halloween party!

Birthday Bowling

This sketch came from the Practical Scrappers blog. You can find them using this link: http://www.practicalscrappers.com/

I usually scrap 8 1/2 x 11 so I'm just not used to all this white space! I used the club from the caveman on Paper Doll Dress Up for the bowling pin, cut at 5 1/2 inches. I just had to use some black cardstock to the top. The bowling ball is a circle cut at 2 inches from George that I drew some holes on. The patterned paper is just from my stash that I've had forever!

St. Patrick's Day Card #2

Good Morning! Monday this week means back to a regular work week :-( But I'm glad to even have a job to make money to buy Cricut things!

Here's my second card for the Paper Doll Dress Up challenge on the Cricut MB (see yesterday's post). This four leaf clover is also on the cart under the Leprchaun. Yesterday I cut the pot of gold at 5 1/2 inches, but when I tried that with the clover, it was huge! I cut two, one at 3 inches, and one at 2 1/2 to make a layer, since this cart does not do that. I pop dotted both and added fake stitching on the top and stickles on the bottom. The 'ribbon' is Sticky Stitches I've had in my drawer forever. It seems I do not own any plain green ribbon--Gasp! The stamp is from Studio G and I colored in with a gold pen.

I hope you have a fantastic week! I'm going to try to post everyday--we'll see if that happens :-)

St. Patrick's Day Card #1

Happy Sunday everyone! The time change kind of threw me off (plus multiple sleepovers) so we didn't make it to church today. So I have some extra time to create today! I made this card for the Paper Doll Dress Up challenge on the Cricut Message Board. You can only use this cartridge. I didn't want to make any dolls, since I'm out of the good flesh color paper so I decided to make St. Patrick's day cards (I'll post another one tomorrow!).

This cartridge has so many extras, you don't need to make dolls all the time. This pot of gold was on the Leprechan cut. I cut it at 5 1/2 inches and used stickles to embellish. The 4 leaf clover border is also on the cartridge. I used a Studio G stamp at the bottom and some bling.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the weekend--I'm going to try to scrapbook today!

Halloween Cards

I had made some Halloween cards and never posted them so here they are.

All the cuts from this first one are from Paper Doll Dress Up. I think the stamp is from Studio G or some other dollar bin stamp. I also used the drippy goo punch at the bottom. I added stickles to the moon and in the windows and doorways of the castle.

This card I just had to use the Hello Kitty Greetings bat. It's so cute! The mat for it is so wide so I added black stickle dots around it. This paper was from a pack in the Target $1 section. Same stamp as above. The Ribbon edges were fraying so I added orange stickles to it and then to the middle of the bow.

Paper Bag Halloween Album

I learned how to make the paper bag album over on the Christmas with the Cricut blog. I have always wanted to try this, but didn' know how!

I used 3 bags and the Halloween Recollections Paper. All the cuts came from Doodlecharms, Hello Kitty Greetings, and Paper Doll Dress Up. The inserts have tabs punched from a Stampin' Up! punch. I used the drippy goo punch on the cover and one other page. And of course I used Stickles!! Lots of pictures!!

Girly Girl

One of my goals is to actually get some scrapbooking done. I just started working on year 2001!! But hopefully, having this blog will help me.

This one is of my daughter--she loved to dress up! I used Hannah Montana Rock Star font for the G and Daddy's Girl font for the other letters. I used the Prom Girl for the Paper Doll. I used Skittles for the 1st time and of course, stickled the letters and doll.