Here Kitty Kitty...card for PK Challenge & Wobble Wed.

Better late than never. The Peachy Keen "Anything Goes" (as long as you use a PK stamp)
ends in 2 hrs. I was waiting for some inspiration. I saw our grey kitty batting around a blue ball today and there you go. LOL

Here is the action wobble on the ball of yarn

This is for:

1) Peachy Keen 13 Anything Goes Challenge (must use a PK stamp) X

2) Wobble Wednesday #6--Make a project with a pet on it and put it on your Wobble
by Tues 4/24

DEETS:

5x7 kraft premade card stock. Scalloped frame is from Lacy Labels at 4.9 x 6.9 and Basic Grey striped paper from Max & Whiskers. The inside mat is 4.9 x 6.9 and Basic Grey coordinating paper from same line. The action wobble is on the ball of yarn

Cat was cut at 4" and from Meow with the facial features hidden on the gypsy.
Cute little facial features are a Peachy Keen Stamp Tear Kitty Face Parts. Eye was colored green and used white sakura pen. Cheeks colored pink with a derwent pink watercolor pencil.

Ball of yarn from Meow at 2.5". Sentiment an EK success scalloped punch(punched 4x for thickness) in coordinating Basic Grey paper with a MPS stamp (Even More Punny-licious)

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.

Card 4 Cooking w /Cricut #43 Lollipop, Whimsical Wed. # 15, BDAY Sundaes #18

Hello Everyone!

My 9 yr old called me from her cousins in Colorado and said it was 55 this morning & she was wearing a sweatshirt today. WHAT??!! Are ya kidding me LOL It is like 106 EVERYDAY here in OKlahoma. She will not want to come back home on Saturday....LOL I miss my little princess.

On to my project.....





So, I created this card for 3 challenges. It actually challenges my brain to see how many challenges I can get out of one card. Is that bad of me. LOL

So, my starting place for my idea was:

1) Cooking With Cricut Challenge #43 (to create a project with a Lollipop)

2) I have a friend Lolly (believe it or not) and sometimes she gets called "lollipop" and her birthday is coming up soon and...her favorite lollipop is the "Tootsie Pop." She is old enough to remember the 1970's commercial for "How Many Licks does it Take to Get To The Center Of A Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop" with the turtle and the owl (Do you remember that?)
--So This was my true inspiration for the card--
3) Whimsical Wednesday challenge #15 was to create a card using scraps. Well, who doesn't have a ton of scraps laying around?? And, you had to take a picture of the scraps you used (That will be below)

scraps I used

4. Birthday Sundaes #18 was "Anything Goes" meaning to create anything you want for a birthday card as long as there is some sort of birthday sentiment on the front.


Details:

Card is a pre-bought white 5 x 6.5 card base. All papers used were scraps.

--Blue cloud paper was cut with Lacy labels at 4.75 x 6.25.
--Owl was cut with Give A Hoot at 2.75. I hid any facial features. And the beak I sized down to 2.10. Added wobble eyes.
--Turtle was cut with Birthday Bash at 1.25 and hid the facial features so I could draw on.
--Grass was cut with EDPD at 1.76 x 6.89 (I cut the cattails off)
--Circles for lollipop was from Lacy Labels at . 1x1.04and cut 6x and glued together and pop dotted for depth and thickness. Then for the raised up middle of the lollipop, I just took the same circle and "squished it" (chain link off) at .12 x .75 and cut it 5x and glued together
--Graduation hat from Locker Talk and at 1.09 x 1.57, tassle at 1x.80
--Glasses from EDPD cut at 3.45 x 2.05
--Finally, an actual lollipop stick to be the lollipop stick and cut off slightly. Glued on with Scotch quick dry.
--Sentiment on the front "Snappy Birthday" from My Pink Stamper "More Punny-licious
--Sentiment inside the card was computer/printer generated with Minya Nouvelle font

Card for FCCB #69 "Cold Treats"

Hello!! This is a card I did for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #69
Create a project with a cool treat. It has been just miserably hot in Oklahoma. I just cannot remember it being this bad for so long. I meet myself coming and going watering the flowers.
So, what better to do for this project than a snow cone. And, a really cool and product appropriate sentiment "Ice, Ice Baby!"



Details:

This is an A7 card Solid papers are Core'dinations. Orange polka & purple gingham is some "oldy but goody paper I've had a looooong time from CM.
Green mat cut at 4.75 x 6.75 using the rectangle from Ashlyn's Alphabet.
Orange polka rectangle mat cut at 4.5 x 6.5 from Ashlyn's.
Purple gingham is a scalloped rectangle from lacy labels cut at 4 x 6.
Orange sentiment label is a punch from fiskars.
The Stamp is MPS "Winter Punnies" and black Staz-on dye ink.

The snowcone is from Carnival and cut at 4.35 x 2.21. I actually cut the snowcone (image 1) 5 x in white and glued four of them together. Then, I cut one out same size in pale pink but used hide/contour on the lettering on the cone so pink would show through for the lettering/detail on the cone.

The last white snowcone layer...how did I make it look like a snowcone you ask. I'm really not sure LOL I had to play with it for a bit. But here goes the explanation

White Martha glow in dark glitter--because it is chunky glitter. 3 paper bowls, 3 plastic forks, homemade glimmer mist (made with distress inks from Concord grape and Shabby Shutters) and Adirondak alcohol ink (sunset orange)

Ok, so I played with coloring the glitter first. I tried just a few drops straight from the bottle of the distress inks and it just balled up and wouldn't mix well. So, got the idea to spritz with the glimmer mist. Actually not a bad idea because it gave the glitter a bit of a sheen. I did this with the concord grape glimmer mist and the shabby shutters glimmer mist. The trick is to fluff and fluff with the fork & mix well. I didn't have orange mist so I used the orange alcohol ink. It worked well.

I took the white cardstock snowcone and did the first vertical section in green. I applied Scotch quickdry glue kinda thick but spread with my pinky evenly on 1/3 of the section and then quicly sprinkled and lightly patted down the glitter onto the glue. Then, did the same thing with the other 2 sections. I let it dry like 15 minutes and shook off the rest. Had to fill in some tiny gaps with more glue/glitter.

Then, I was afraid the glitter would still come off. Got the idea to dob on some glossy accents over the whole thing. Then went back and sprinkled a little more glitter on top of that. The glossy accents acted as a glue to adhere everything together. There is no glitter coming off this thing. LOL Plus, it added some really cool dimension.

Then, I cut just the snowcone part away from the cone and glued down on top of the thick layered snowcone I had glued together. Popdotted it and adhered to the card.

Card for Madison at Funky Cards "Feel the Love" Project

Here is a card I'm sending to the wonderful and thoughtful Madison at Funky Cards. She has a special monthly project where she finds someone who needs their spirits lifted and some love.
Stop by Madison's blog and check out what she does. She is an inspirational young woman.

This month, she found a very special little 3 1/2 yr old girl named Marley Moore. She was diagnosed in Aug. 2009 with a tumor on her brain, by her optic nerve, the size of a lemon. The surgeon was able to remove a large portion but that evening, as a result of trama to the brain for surgery, Marley suffered a stroke. That left her right side paralyzed. She, her family (and her big sister Mia) are dealing with a lot. They just within the last week found out that the tumor had grown by approx 10%. They need lots of encouragement, prayers and positive thoughts.

Please, please consider doing a quick cute card for the girls and even her parents'.

Here is my card

Marley's Card

Mia's Card (big sister)

This is a 4 x 6 card, done on the gypsy and expression.
Patterned paper is Canvas corp (pink & ivory dot, pink & ivory stripe, pink/ivory floral and pink/ivory swirl)
I used the postage stamp cut from Gypsy Wandering, sized 4x6 and duplicated, grouped & welded. The pink striped rectange mat is from Ashlyn's Alphabet, sized at 3.20x 5.40.

Cotton candy is from Carnival Lite and sized at 4". Layer 1 was white, layer 2 was pink cardstock. I then covered layer 2 with scotch quick dry adhesive and quickly poured pink MS flocking for a yummy look.
Inside the card: I cut coordinating pink pattern paper for inside of card. On the left I stamped Emma's "Inspiring Words (Accents)
On the right, I stamped Robyn's MPS "Pinka-licious"

NOTE: The Sock Monkey Card is something I made for a challenge last month and he just makes me smile and I love him so. You can get directions for him HERE

My Pink Stamper Design Team Call Entry

Robyn at My Pink Stamper over at My Pink Stamper is accepting project entries for her design team! Those that follow me know I am not on any design teams yet but I know it's time for me to start searching it out. It's something I REALLY want to do. I'm one of those crafters who doesn't want to be on 2 or 3 teams and spread myself thin. I really want to be on one team and focus my all on that. I have LOTS of MPS stamps, love them and use them a lot and it just "FEELS" right for me to try for a MPS spot. If it happens YIPPEE SKIPPY and I will give it full attention. If not then guess what....I'll be trying again LOL

The challenge is to create a Cricut project using the colors orange, turquoise, green, brown and other optional color of your choice.

At first, I had lot of card ideas spinning in my head. I went to her stamps I had for inspiration and then went through my papers. I finally went to bed last night still undecided and not quite feeling right to do a card.

I woke up at 7 am this morning and I just "knew" what I was doing..a layout!! And, it was like the specific paper in a paper pad I had was speaking to me....crazy huh? LOL

So, here is my official entry for the My Pink Stamper Design Team Call. It truly was fun to do and a labor of love.


The lighting for the colors may not be best but the colors are a lime green and a light turquoise color

My inspiration started with:
1) This book that my 9 yr old dd loves. It is also a storage book (flip it open) I always tell her she is "unique."



2) Then, the paper I almost felt I dreamed about was from K & Company, Carolyn Gavin "Greenhouse"paper pad I had. There was one specific paper I was thinking about...it had a brown background with turquoise and orange flowers. No other colors. Was it meant to be? LOL
3) After I knew I wanted to do a layout, I remember 3 of my dd's fav colors are...turquoise, brown and lime green. Her room is even done in these colors and also hot pink. My DD is in Colorado for 2 wks visiting her cousins and I miss her lots, so it just seemed to fall into place to do this layout for her.



Layout: a double 12 x 12 layout, images cut with gypsy and my cricut expression
Papers used are: various papers (8 in all) from the K & Company Carolyn Gavin "Greenhouse paper pack. My optional color was cream paper (for lettering and flower),solid green (for the grass) and solid brown (for layout base) all from Core'dinations.
I did use white cardstock in the printer/with the computer for my printed "unique" sentiment.

Other supplies used: Brushed Corduroy, Orange Peel & True Blue Stickles for the centers of the flowers. Orange MS chalk ink to ink edges of the lettering. Black Staz-On dye ink pad for the stamped sentiments on the flowers. A turquoise flower brad from Recollections, brown/cream twine and a green metallic starburst sticker for the "fake cork board." I used the Cuttlebug & swiss dots embossing folder on the cream colored lettering. Adhesives wereScotch quick dry and 3m ATG and pop dots for some of the frames.

Stamps used: All are My Pink Stamper. Some of the sentiments I just blocked off or didn't use the entire saying.

Family & Friends
"Fun"
"Fabulous"
"Happy"
"Special" (Something Special)
"Treasure"

Winter Punnies
"Cool"
"Adorable" (Snow Adorable)

Details:

Solid brown cardstock for base. Took the floral (brown, turquoise & orange floral and cut scallop edge with gypsy/expression at 11.5 x 11/5 using Gypsy Wandering frame cut.

Wording/Title was cut using Nate's ABC's at 2"for each letter. The wording was grouped & welded together. Cut 2 x and glued together for thickness. Then ran through cuttlebug. (not the green paper)

Grass was from Everyday Paper doll and cut in green at 2.75 x 11.55 (the yellow chainlink was turned off on the gypsy)

Photo Mats: Rectangles are from Ashlyn's Alphabet (3 x 5, 3 x 4.70, 3.30 x 4.80) and the curvy rectangle was from Lacy Labels (4 x 6 and 3.5 x 5.5) Cork Board was 3.5 x 4.5 for cork paper and 4 x 4.8 for the brown "frame"

Flowers: Kate's ABC's, I used some of the "layer" cuts for the flowers (which are smaller) and then sized up. Flower sizes were various: 7.1 x 3.68, 6.80 x 3.53, 6.65 x 3.45, 6x 1.67

I hope you enjoy this!

Card for 6 Challenges: CWC # 39, PKS #54, FCCB #65, ScrapaliciousUSA#8, My Craft Spot #13, Whimsical Wed. Color Challenge #11

Hopefully blogger will let me post this. This is a fun little card I did for 6 challenges:


**Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge 54 (ends 6/27) This sketch was the reason for my card. I just made it work for other challenges :)


**Cooking With Cricut #39 Watermelon Challenge
**Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Board #65 ( Summer Sun, include a sun on your project)
**Scrapalicious USA#8--Summer Cold Treats (create a cold treat on your project)
**My Craft Spot #13--Use some sweet treat on your card or project
**Whimsical Wednesday Color Challenge #11--use Yellow, Red and any other colors from a photo (I chose Green, yellow, red)



Details: 5x7 premade white card base, Paper used was WeRMemoryKeepers green dot paper from "Christmas Wrapping", cute watermelon paper (reversible to the pink gingham) from Pinkpaislee " Fruit Salad"
and red, coral, green and white Core'dinations. Ribbon from J's

PKS Princess face-- on the watermelon and Snow Cuties on the sun.
MPS sentiment--I used 2 different sentiments and just blocked off the words of what I didn't want.

Cart: Simply Charmed with watermelon & sun at 1.5".

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenges

MPS Challenge #1 for My Pink Stamper NSD challenge.

Anything Cupcake
These are 1 hr challenges and this was at 10:00 AM
If I had more time, the heart would've been red glittered and I would've used glossy accents.

5x5 cupcake card where top is welded to open up. Sentiment inside is "Happy Birthday" from MPS, "Family & Friends" stamps.



Challenge #2 at MPS Card for Man using KRAFT paper

5x7 premade "Kraft" card, Guitar from Indie Art, Sentiment from MPS "Family & Friends


MPS Challenge #3
Make a card, scrapbook page, or 3-D item with a breast cancer theme. You can use a ribbon, make it pink, whatever you'd like.

5x7 premade white card. Paper is from Canvas Corp.
Heart from Sweethearts at 4", butterfly from Car Decals at 2.5". Offray pink ribbon, pearls from M's. Sentiment from MPS "Family & Friends", MS Loop Punch


MPS Challenge #3

Make something with a Mother's Day Theme

This is a cricutless card, tri-fold shutter card. Paper is from Kaiserkraft.(English Rose Collection)
6 x 12 piece of cardstock, scored at 2, 4, 8, 10. Then measure 1.5" from top and 1.5" from bottom and cut from the 2" to the 8" score at the 1.5 from top/bottom marks. Fold the scores and cut your papers the correct dimensions.


Here is the poem

Recipe for a Perfect Mom

Start with love, faith and support,

make sure each measure is never short.

Stir with friendship undemanding.

Fold in laughter and lots of fun,

with hugs and kisses for everyone.

Add heaps of happiness and thoughtfulness too.

Garnish with forgiveness and compassion true.

Bake as needed with patience and calm…

And that’s how God made my perfect Mom

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MPS Challenge #6

Incorporate a tag in your project.

This is a 4 x 5 1/2 card using a label/tag from Lite Lacy Labels at 3". Paper used was blue cardstock, blue print cardstock, 2 kinds of silver paper, brown cardstock & prima flowers. Sentiment from MPS "Family and Friends."

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MPS Challenge #10

Make a card or Layout using a pet

This is a 5x7 premade card base, using DCWV "Pet Stack", Cart used was Paper Pups, dog and sentiment was cut at 3.5."