FCCB--Spotlight Sunday Feature and Guest Designer

Happy Memorial Day Crafty Friends. What are you doing today? We will be going over to my in-laws house. My sweet and wonderful FIL lost his battle with brain cancer on Thursday...so close to Memorial Day. We will miss this incredible man. Now, Memorial Day has a little different meaning to our family.

So I was so excited that yesterday Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Board did a Spotlight Feature on me (Sunday 27th) because I won a challenge a month ago for "Things that Go." challenge #108. Today, I have a Guest Designer Spot and a card I made for Memorial Day featured.

So, here is the card I created for FCCB that I wanted to share with you. For me, Memorial Day is remembering. Those loved ones we lost, no matter how... for remembering those who have served in the Armed Forces (like my wonderful Ret. Lt. Col. Brother-in-Law) who protect our freedoms and Country.



Details:

The card base is 4.5 x 6.5. I used Ashlynn's Alphabet to cut the paper into the blue star square and the red/creme striped rectangle to cover card base. (sized with my gypsy)

I then typed words commonly used for Memorial Day onto the computer (I had about 20 words) and then just repeated the words all the way down the page. Printed it out (Times Roman and 12 font size)onto white cardstock. I also used the word "Remember" and printed out onto cardstock to ink/punch out later.

I used the star shape from Independence Day and cut with red cardstock at 3" and then the white word printed cardstock at 2.75. Then, inked using Tim Holtz Tea Dye and adhered to the red star.

The eagle is from Car Decals (believe it or not) and I had done that last year and had it sitting in my box of finished dye cuts. So, I think I did that at 3." I cut that 4 different times and pieced it together to get the eagle look I wanted. I cut in cream, grey and gold and brown. I used the tiny negative pieces to piece together the face. One of the things I love about car decals is piecing together the negatives.

I used the Postal red, white, blue Twinery twine. and a silver star brad on the front. Punched out "Remember" with an EK Success punch and inked with the Tea Dye ink.

Hope you enjoy, thank you for stopping by and enjoy your day! And thank you to those who have served our Country to preserve our freedoms. We as a family are remembering you "Da" today too.

Ice Cream Cone Card for: Bitten By The Bug 2 Ice Cream Cone Challenge

Today I made a card with my Imagine. This card looks like my favorite kind of ice cream cone.
Mint Chocolate Chip, Strawberry and Cappuccino. I love ice cream. So I found the perfect ice cream cone to create for a card for the
Bitten By The Bug 2 Ice Cream Cone Challenge. (use any cart for an ice cream cone on your project)


Details:

5x7 white card base. I used my Imagine and the Yummy cart for the entire card. Ice cream cone cut/printed at 3.8 and including also printed the layers 2 additional times to have some depth. Then, I printed 2 different background papers at 7 ". I cut the scalloped label using the shapes that are stored in the Imagine and flood filled with the green pattern and the blue. Cut at 1.3 and 1. Used black momento ink and My Pink Stamper "Winter Punnies."


Thank you for Stopping by!

Guys Birthday Card for CTO #61 and Cute Card Thursday #215

Hello and thank you for stopping by...Don't you love it when you go to the local scrapbook store and see a paper that's interesting and there is 1 sheet left and you think "Oh, might as well buy it!!" Well that was a year ago and guess what...finally found a need for it LOL
Isn't it cute? "Old Guys Rule!" LOL



I made a card today for:
Celebrate the Occasion #61 Male Birthday and must use a circle. By Sunday 5/6
Cute Card Thursday #215--One for the Boys, create a card for the man or little men in your life. By Wed5/9

I actually needed a birthday card for a friend turning 50 so having 2 male card challenges and the paper was just the nudge I needed to get creating!!

Details:

This is a 5x7 white card base. Covered it with my special paper. Cut a 2.75 circle from the reverse side of the paper using Lacy Labels . I cut a rectangle from navy core'dination paper from Lacy Labels.

Then, used Car Decals and cut a 3" Grandpa from black and kraft paper. Then recut the details in white for the shirt, red for the tie and "cut around" to make the blue pants.

Sentiment is an EK success stamp, black momento ink and generic Happy Birthday stamp.

Life is a Highway! Card for FCCB #108 and My Craft Spot #53

Hello and thank you for visiting Okscrappinmama! I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend!
I've got a roast in the crockpot, and I still need to make mashed potatoes and some gravy. I just put 4 cups of water with Lipton onion soup mix, a couple of bay leaves, some minced garlic, pepper the roast and put it in for 8 hours. Smells yummy!!!

I wanted to share a card I created for the FCCB #108 challenge (On the Go) and
My Craft Spot #53 (Things that Go).

5/2/12 I actually won the FCCB challenge with this card.

Details:

This is a white 5x7 card base. Blue & greet paper (swirly on one side and dot on other side) is BoBunny. Sun is from Country Life and I just cut the 1st layer in yellow. The mountains 1.5 high x 7 long (tan dot)and 2 high x 7 long (brown).and the road (cut at 1.85 x 7 long)are from EDPD. The green trees are a punch. Clouds were cut at 1.25 from Paper Pups in blue dot and white. The orange truck and red car are at 1.40 from Boys will Be Boys.

The little sign "Life is a Highway" was actually my starting place/inspiration. That was a sign on some cute little boy truck/car/train paper from BoBunny "On the Go"

Inside sentiment from Pink By Design OH Boy! stamp set and just stamped on the grey cut road.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Friday and a cute little owl card

Hello Crafty Friends and thank you for stopping by Okscrappinmama! I'm starting to really love using my Imagine. Only thing is, I need to tweak the calibration some. I've used it a lot and it's amazing how I'm still on the 1st ink cartridges.

So, here is a cute owl birthday card print/cut on the Imagine.




Challenges:
1) Celebrate the Occasion #60--Birthday and use ribbon by 4/29
2) Getting CrickySimply Sunday Challenge In honor of Earth Day, use an owl on the project
and something recycled. My something recycled was the red twine
I pulled off a card I made and didn't like how it looked and the green ribbon that was on
a store wrapped present & I kept the ribbon. by 5/5
3) Bitten By the Bug 2--Balloon and Birthday by 4/29

Details:

White 5x7 card base. Card details made on the Imagine using Best Friends (owls, blue background, circles for balloons & sun) The green for the grass was printed/cut from Imagine More.

Owls at 4 and the layers cut and glued together for some depth. Blue for sky was printed in a rectangle with rounded corners at 6". Sun at 1". The circles for the balloons was actually the cherry on top of one of the cupcakes on Best Friends. I cut just the cherry at 2.5 and then flood filled with different printed patterns from the cart. The cupcake cut at 1 and 2x.
Grass (Imagine More at 5)

Used the recycled red/white twine on the balloons. Green ribbon (recycled) and 2 eyelets at the bottom of the card. Momento black ink and MPS Tweety Hoo Puns.

Thanks for stopping by and have a terrific weekend!

You are my Sunshine--card for 2 challenges

Hello and thank you for stopping by. I don't know about the rest of you with kids but you would think with school winding down that things would slow down. I feel like the last week I've been juggling way too much with the kiddos school/activities. So, to chill out a bit, I decided to do a card for 2 challenges.




Challenges:

1. Scrapalicious USA"April Showers"--anything to do with showers. By 4/23
2. Creative Cutter Room "April Showers"--Incorporate rain, puddles, clouds and or flowers and must include a bow made of ribbon. By 5/2


DEETS:

This is a 6x6 card made with the Cricut Imagine and all from the Imagine More cart. The green dot card base was precut by me at 6x6. The red check printed paper is 5.5x5.5, the blue is printed/cut at 5x5 as was the green check for the grass (then just cut it).
The rooster/chicken was printed/cut at 4.5 and cut 3x to layer for depth. Sun was printed/cut at 2" as was the word bubble. Can't remember what cart the rain drops were from. Had those a while.

I used Imagine Enjoy the Season for the cute cloud and cut at 2. I used white grosgrain ribbon and eyelets for the bow in the corner. I used blue stickles on the rain drops and black decorative dots for the eyes from H/L

Sentiment "You are my Sunshine" is from Emma, MCT.

Birthday Card for 4 Challenges

Hello again! My dd has a bday party this weekend so I decided to make one card where I could also enter it in 4 challenges. My design starting point was the Peachy Keen Sketch challenge.


Challenges For:

1). Peachy Keen Stamp Sketch #12 X
2) Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #106--project with at least 1 button and bow X
3) My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #51 Inside and Out Sentiment X
4) Wobble Wednesday #4 Birthday (in celebration of the Scrapbooking Queen turning 50) X

DETAILS:

This is my first time using an action wobble and I believe first time posting a project using my imagine.

Card size is 5 x 6.5 white card base. The pink patterned paper used for the background is an oldie but good from CM. The Pink swirl and dot is Bo Bunny and is actually 2 sided paper. Pink button from the $1 bin at M's and white organza ribbon is Offray from H/L. Eyelets are white from H/L.

Stamps:
Face on cupcake is from Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids. Sentiment on front and inside
is from MPS "Sweetest Cupcake"

Carts Used:
Imagine and the cart "Better Together for the cupcake at 3". I cut the printed cupcake as 1 piece and also cut the layers so it would have some thickness and depth. Also, but printing/cutting the layers, I could glue the blank (no face) layers so I could stamp my own face.

The pink scalloped patterned paper was cut using Lacy Labels at 4.95 x 6.45. The rounded corner square cut from Just Because Cards at 3.25 x 4. I took that same shape and customized the shape to 6.5 x 12 for the strip running horizontally on the card.

Cooking With Cricut Challenge #40

Happy almost 4th of July everyone. I can still hear fireworks going off in my neighborhood. I'm up late...or early...however you want to look at it. LOL It's almost 1:20 AM on Sunday morning.

Here is a card I did for Cooking With Cricut Challenge #40 Project must include a cow or be black and white with only a small amount of a third color.

Ok, so I have more than a 3rd color but I just couldn't do a card with this cute cow in only black, white and pink.
It just needed more color. I've always wanted to do this card--I luv chocolate milk!!... if the card works for the challenge Yippee Skippy, if not...maybe my card will still be enjoyed and used. LOL

Details: Cart is CAC for cow and milk bottle. Bottle is at 5" and welded together with the gypsy. I cut one extra side of the blue bottle so I could sandwich the straw in between the card base and that extra layer to hide the straw from behind. Cow was cut at 2". Sentiment was from MPS Punny-licious ("You're a" and "Moo-velous") then I used MPS Family & Friends ("friend!" but I just didn't ink the girl in the word girlfriend)

Challenge Cards for-- Celebrate the Occasion #19 & My Sheri Crafts #62

This is a card for 2 challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion "Celebrating Summer" (must have a sun) by Sunday, June 26th.

My Sheri Crafts #62--Summer or Beach Theme














Details: 5x7 premade white card stock. Printed sky paper from paper studio/HL, solid card stocks are either DCWV or Core'dinations or Bazill. Cork (quickutz) for the sand was some I had for a while. Bo Bunny Paper for Palm Trees

Carts: LAB ( palmtree at 3, starfish at 1, crab at 1, chair at 2.25, umbrella at 2.5), Simply Charmed, (sun at 1.75) EDPD (towel at 1.1 & picnic basket 1.4)

Birthday card For Birthday Sundaes Challenge Blog #14

Hello Crafters! This is a birthday card I'm submitting for the Birthday Sundaes Challenge #14 --to create a shaped birthday card {no squares/rectangles allowed} and include birthday wording/sentiment on your card front.





Details: Frog is from CAC and at 5.25, Lily pad from CAC at 5. Flower from Kate's ABC's at 1"
Paper from various stashes--green dot for frog is KC & Co, lily pad paper (stripe) is BoBunny. All others is probably DCWV or Core'dinations.

Sentiment is from MPS--"Buggy Punnies" and Staz-On chocolate dye ink

How did I do it?: With my gypsy, I took the frog that should be the base (black) and duplicated and then welded at the top/eyes. Then the green dot was at 5.25. Then on layer 2 on my gypsy I took the layer 1 on the frog and the lily pad and welded the feet of the frog to the lily pad. That was cut in an avocado green (won't be visible anyway cause everything else gets glued on top. Then, created another lily pad and cut that in the green stripe (and glued on top)

Peachy Keen Stamps Patriotic Challenge Project & Simply Sunday with K. Andrew

Happy Monday Everyone!
I entered this card in Getting Cricky with K. Andrew's Simply Sunday Challenge AND also for Peachy Keen Stamps Patriotic Challenge (ends 6/23)
**Must be a new project & must include Peachy Keen Faces

Inside of Card

Details: Card is 5x7, printed paper is from H/L Paper Studio. Twine is sooo cool! It is red/white/blue that I got from someone on ebay.

Stamps: Peachy Keen Stamps Princess Faces and black dye ink

Insided of card paper is from KC & Co. and I used a quckutz "star" embossing folder in my cuttlebug. Stamped sentiment inside is alphabet lettering from Fiskars & black ink
Carts: Popsicle is from Simply charmed cut at 4" (cut 3x-- 1 ea. in red, blue, white)
Then used my MS Drippy Goo punch to make it look like a drippy popsicle.

Scrapalicious USA #6 & My Creative Time #196 Card

I got the idea to do the sock monkey because the last few days my 3 yr old little guy has been carrying around a sock monkey my Mom made for him. It goes EVERYWHERE with us.
Sock monkeys have that goofy smile and Emma has the perfect sentiment stamps.
So, it all made sense to do this. LOL

Here is a last minute card I did for:
Emma's Throwback Thursday #196 (Use ANY "Cricut Lite" cartridge of YOUR choice & PLEASE incorporate some "BLING" somewhere on any project of your choice! Example, your project must have either, stickles, rhinestones, glossy accents, glitter)
AND
Scrapalicious USA #6 (June 15 is official Smile Power Day and therefore we would like to see a smiling face or smiley somewhere on your project. You can also use a sentiment that includes the word smile / smiling. )


Details:

Patterned paper from H/L The Paper Studio, Red Check is CM & all other is Bazzil.
Sock Monkey is from Lite B is for Boy.(2.5") I inked the cream rectangle in Distress Ink-Tea Dye.
Button from M's #1 bin. Twine from MS.
Stamped Sentiment is from Emma "Turn that Frown Upsdide Down"

For the "BLING" I used red MS glitter on the heart on the sock monkey and then used glossy accents. The eyes of the sock monkey I used Stickles--Black Soot.

Happy Birthday Card for 3 Challenges: Mojo 195, Bday 13 Sundaes & Paper Cutz 95

Hello Everyone! It is just so HOT in Oklahoma. With heat index, it is around 103/104. June is usually not this hot for us.
I did this card for 3 challenges:

Mojo Monday 195,


Birthday Sundaes:
Wet or Dry Embossed Birthday Card for Challenge #13
( word Birthday needs to be on the front)

Paper Cutz Challenge #95
Make a card, LO or craft project using any theme but using ONLY the colors pink, white and black.


Details:

5x7 card. Black paper with pink polka dots for mat and pink gingham is some from my stash. White & pink paper is core'dinations.

Carts Used: scalloped circle from lacy labels, circle from?? and cupcake/bon bon from sweet treats.
Stamp for "Happy Birthday" from MPS, used cuttlebug folder Once Upon A Princess Companion Set. Organza Ribbon is Offray. Pink Rhinestones and Pink Buttons from the $1 at M's.