Mermaid In The Sun Card

Hello again Crafty friends,
I know its been a while since my last post, but I have been super busy in other areas of life. Therefore, my crafting has been neglected a bit. But I'm getting my motor running again and I made this BEAUTIFUL card today with a really cute mermaid digi image from The Paper Shelter. I have fallen in love with several of their images and I will be buying more. I made this card with a sweet friend in mind. She lives back east and I like to poke fun at how sunny and warm the weather is here on the west coast in sunny Cali, so this card is perfect with it's sunny SMILE sentiment (from Close To My Heart) and fun sea scenery.

I colored the image with Copic markers, added some Stickles for bling and sparkle, added Glossy Accents on the water, some of the starfish have sand paste on them. I also distressed the edge of two of the star fish with brown Distress Ink and two were distressed over the whole thing with orange Distress Ink. I love the way this card turned out.

I will enter this card into the following challenges:
1. Sentimental Sundays
2. Gingerloft Challenge
3. The Paper Shelter
4. Paper Play Time
5. Creative Inspirations
6. Tammy's Scrapin Corner

Eat Cupcakes First Birthday Card

Time for a cupcake. To bad its made of paper--lol. I prefer the real sugary kind. I guess this one will have to do.

This is one of my favorite Cricut cupcake cuts. I stamped it with a coordinating stamps from CTMH.

I will enter this card into 3 challenge:
1. My Creative Time - Birthday theme.
2. Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sweet Tooth.
3. Capture the Moment - use scraps for the background & PTI product ( I used PTI white embossing powder-LOVE it)

I'm Guest Designer on Die Cuttin' Divas Today!

Hello Crafty friends,

Today is an exciting day as I am a guest designer at Die Cuttin’ Divas. Today's theme is the Three R's:  make something with a rosette, ribbon and rhinestones. Believe it or not, this is actually my try at rosettes. Turns out they are super quick and easy to make and they add great dimension to your project. The pink paper with the black dots was made on my Cricut Imagine using the Black and White Cartridge (which I heart).

On the first card with the tic tac toe, I cut the squares with Spellbinders Square Swatches. I used the 2nd to smallest die to go on my 5.5" card. I used my Sew Easy Stamper to make the lines between the squares. I made my rosettes from 3 strips of paper cut at 1/2" x 6" and then scored them every 1/4". I used ribbon as my line to mark my tic tac toe win. I used some iRocks for my rhinestones. I inked the edges by using some Spun Sugar Distress Ink on the edge of the card. I did not put a sentiment on this card because I'm not sure for whom or what occasion I will pass this card out, so I will stamp this one later when the time comes.

The second card is a standard A2 size and I used the pink and black dot paper for the background. I used this really wide 1.5" black and white striped ribbon. The rosette is made from a strip of paper cut at 1.5" x 12 inches. I cut at 1" circle for the center and added a pink flower rhinestone on top of the center. I glued the rosette on top of the ribbon. Next, I added a tag with a sentiment, both which are from My Creative time, called Teeny Tags.
I really LOVE the way these cards came out--they are so cute. And you don't even need a Cricut to make them (you can easily use pattern paper from a stack and the Cricut Imagine wouldn't be necessary).

Thanks for dropping by.

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Challenge- Sketch & Squirrel

Its been a busy day, but I took some time to crank out a few cards that I wanted to enter into some challenges. I used the Create A Critter cartridge for my cute little squirrel that I need for the challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas. I used the sketch from Whimsical Designs for my card. I wanted to use a Valentine's theme with them, so I get some Valentines cards made as well. I wish I had made the squirrel smaller, I cut it at 3.5 inches, but I feel its so big. I would make it smaller if I make anymore of these cards so it fits into the scallop oval. But I still think its really cute.

1. Die Cuttin' Divas: Challenge #48- http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2012/01/good-morning-welcome-back-for-another.html

2. Whimsical Designs: Challenge #38- http://www.whimsical-designs.com/2012/01/lets-get-sketchy-whimsical-wednesday.html