Digital Delights Nutcracker!

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So, I am FINALLY participating in a Digital Delights Challenge - my good friends Wanda and Betty are Design Team members over there and my support has been grossly overdue! :) BUT I hope I will be making up for it by participating in both their glitter challenge and their SNR challenge! 

This adorable nutcracker is available for FREE today and tomorrow. If you upload a card by tomorrow for the challenge using the nutcracker than you get the sugar plum fairy (adorable - and I have to admit -it's most of the reason I chose this one. She is SO cute!) for free! THEN if you win, you get $10. I can't even keep it all straight! What a great thing! :)

I have just gotten my i-rock from Imaginisce and I have to warn you - you may start blinging things inappropriately. I can't stop! :)

Recipe:
Cartridge: Wild Card Cartridge™ (I used my Gypsy™ to add the hole in the center to use acetate as the middle layer)
Paper: Imaginisce Cottage Chistmas Collection™
Digi-stamp: Digital Delights by Louby Loo™! :)
Sentiment and snowflakes: Winter Punnies™ my My Pink Stamper
Embossing powder: a la Mode™
Heat gun: EK Success™
Adhesive: Martha Stewart Gel Adhesive™
Red glitter: Studio G™
Bling: i-rock and gems by Imaginisce™

This also qualifies for Cricut Cardz Challenge #50 - Use a card function to create a Christmas Card.

Thanks for your Service

Happy Weekend!

I am making this for several challenges:
My Pink Stamper's: Make and send a card to someone in service on this day of remembrance.
CricutCardzChallenge: Fall card without using brown, orange and yellow (MUCH harder than I thought)
Wee Memories: Fall card

Recipe:
Cartridge: Heritage™
Paper: K&Co.™, Cricut™, Cosmo Cricket™ Material Girl
Stamp: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Vinyl Rub-ons: EAD Designs Caged Vinyl Rub-ons™ in white
Ribbon: JillyBeanSoup™
Buttons

Have a beautiful day! I'm off to downtown San Francisco with my parents who just got into town. :)

OTWC#18, WMC#16, PKS#34, CricutCardzChallenge#36

I love this card! I think it came out SO cute! I think that's probably bad to say about one's own cards, but sometimes you just like them. I hope you do too!



I made this from the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge #34 sketch. Sketches do tend to make one's life easier and that combined with a color challenge at Off The Wall Craftiness made this a perfect card to make while watching a movie.

I am currently addicted to the chip board I got over at Torendi so I had to add that chipboard heart.

This card is so front loaded with materials and pop dots that it almost falls over towards the front when standing up! Do they make weights to put on the back of your cards in case of excessive embellishment-ing? haha.

Recipe:
A2 sized card
Paper: DCVW, K&Co.
Cartridge: Elegant Cakes™ (border, double sided and welded in Gypsy™), Wild Card™ (rectangles and circles)
Embossing: A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™
Ribbon

This card therefore qualifies for the following challenges:
Off The Wall Craftiness #18: Navy blue, white, and yellow

Peachy Keen Stamps #34: Sketch

Wee Memories: Chipboard
Cricut Cardz Challenge #36: Birthday card for a teenager - I thought this would make a cute sweet 16!

Dance in the Rain

This is my second post of the day.

This is for two challenges:
Cuttlebug Challenges: Dance, sing, energy
Cricut Cardz Challenge: Green, blue, black and white only

Recipe:
Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls™ (clouds), Sweethearts™ (couple)
Embossing: A2 D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™
Paper: Torendi Sassafras™ Indie Girl Wee Bundle
Sentiment: EAD Designs Rainy Day set
Ribbon

Christmas Doily

Well, I didn't think I'd be making Christmas cards in July, but the Cuttlebug Challenges have inspired me to try my hand at it.... I have never made a Christmas card with my Cricut™ as I received my Cricut™ as a Christmas present last year from my "big brother" Bob.

The challenge this week was to use a doily. I don't have any doilies so I made one using the Elegant Cakes Cartridge™. There are plenty of frilly cuts on this cartridge, but I really liked this one.

The REALLY exciting thing is - I was just informed that I won a Cricut Cake™ on the Cuttlebug Challenges wedding week extravaganza! SO, I will be able to use my Elegant Cakes Cartridge™ on actual cakes now!!! I couldn't even believe it. I found out about it when I was about to get on a white water rafting boat for my friend's bachelorette party. I still can't believe it. I sent BettyBee my phone number and I actually got to talk to her! What a treat! And she is SO nice. I'll definitely be calling her when I open it and I'll have my husband take pictures as I will be bouncing off the walls.

I also used my Cuttlebug™ and my Love is in the Air Set™ to add some texture.

So, I made this card for the Cuttlebug Challenges challenge and enjoyed spending time with some great friends while I made it (thanks Hazel and Christy!).

This also qualifies for the Cricut Cardz Challenge: Christmas card.

I hope you like it!

4th of July!

Well, my friend Aubrey sent me some goodies in the mail and they are all over this card! The ribbon and the buttons are all from her (Thank you!).

4th of July and the sailboat are both cut from Designers Calendar™ cartridge. The "4th of July" didn't have a shadow feature, so I just cut it out a little bit bigger and I think it still looks great!

I embossed the sailboat with two folders: the A2 Swiss Dots Embossing Folder™ and the A2 Combo Birthday Wishes™ folder. I just used the part below the candle tops. I love the striped look!

The paper is kraft, DCWV neutrals (dark and light blue), and the DCWV Taj Mahal stack.

This card qualifies for three challenges:
Wee Memories: red, white, and blue
The Cuttlebug Spot: Independence Day
Cricut Carz Challenge: 4th of July

My best friend Kourt is active duty in the Air Force right now (she just graduated from medical school!) and I think I'll be sending this to her. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th of July.

Wedding Card!

I made this card for Cricut Cardz Challenge #30: wedding theme.

I loved this paper from the DCWV Luxury Stack although it's a little brighter blue in person than showed up in the photo.

I cut the cake and cake background at 4.75 inches from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ with the real dial size on.

I added a little ribbon around the three layers and the bow at the bottom. Then I popped the whole thing with pop dots. Easy Peasy and classically gorgeous.

Balloon Card :)

This is another cut from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ that I just knew I had to make into a card on the Gypsy™. I cut it as just over 4 inches and all the swirls cut out fine, but the strings that attach to the base of the balloon were VERY delicate and I did end up breaking one. So I would cut it larger next time for that.

I stitched with my little white gel pen around the edges and added a small yellow bow. The sentiment on the inside is from my new Hero Arts™ sentiment stamps that Kourt got me - I'm a bit obsessed with them right now as I've never been able to add sentiments! :)

This card qualifies for the following challenges:
Wee Memories: Stitching
Cricut Cardz Challenge: Vacation Theme

I also made it for BBTB2: Summer theme with a stamp, but unfortunately by the time I got an SD card the contest had closed. Oh well. Their next challenge is to use a fish. I don't even know if I have a fish on my cartridges, but I know I have a whale - I think that counts! :)

The color is off because I am using my little point and shoot right now. The color of the card matches the picture of the front of the card. The inside came out more yellow than it actually is.

Have a wonderful weekend!

High Heel Shape Card

This card was made for the Cricut Cardz Challenge and The Cuttlebug Challenges.

Cricut Cardz Challenge: Shoes
Cuttlebug Challenges: Paint

I love shoes although I don't own too many of them - just enough ;). But I was so excited to see this challenge. I knew I wanted to play with the shoe off Summer in Paris Cartridge™. I simply welded it with the Gypsy™, cut it out, added the black bow, and then.... added nail polish. Yes, you read right, nail polish. I was worried because we don't have any paint in our house and the Cuttlebug Challenges asked for paint. Then I realized that I did - but it wasn't in the form that I think they were expecting. None the less, here is my creation! I plan on writing on the inside, "Happy birthday to a very stylish girl". If you've ever watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, the girl that is with Paul Varjak - his "decorator" calls herself a "very stylish girl" in this wonderfully swag voice.

The envelope is from Wild Card Cartridge™

Enjoy!

You Are My Sunshine

I made this card for my dad. Even though I tried to make it masculine, it still came out a little girly, but my dad is a father of an only girl (me) so he's used to that. When I was little and he was late coming home for work or just when he was thinking about me after I went to college, my dad would sometimes call and sing "you are my sunshine" to me. I (since about high school) now call some of my chick friends or my husband occasionally and sing the song to them on their answering machines. So, this "you are my sunshine" is going back to dad as most times fathers don't know what they did right in your life and what is now being passed forward because they loved you the way that they did.

That being said, I was also trying to work in some challenges and this one qualified for four of them.

Cricut Cardz Challenge Blogspot - Father's Day Card
The Cuttlebug Spot - Sketch Drawing:

Wee Memories- WMC9 - "Punch It"
BBTB2 -Use an image of a Sun from Doodlecharms Cart - which I didn't have so I used one from the Designers Calendar Cartridge™ - It's my border on the left if you can't find them. :)

All of the layers - including the card base are from the Gypsy Wanderings Digital Cartridge™ - they were tag shadows that I just stretched on my Gypsy. I welded one of the rectangles to 5 suns from the Designers Calendar Cartridge™ to get the left panel and added another layer.

The embossing on the bottom is from the A2 Border With Love Emboss Folder™ set. The square panel is popped with pop dots and the kraft paper flower was punched out. I added the buttons to the center of three of the Suns and I added ribbon to the bottom.

The "YOU" was from the Designers Calendar font and was squished on the Gypsy. "Are" and "my" were welded and cut from the Gypsy Font™ and "sunshine" was from the Gypsy Wanderings Digital Cartridge™.

There is a lot going on in this card - I think I am going to make it more simple next time. Let me know if you would like the Gypsy cut file as it is all on there. Happy looking!

Cricut Cardz Challenge #26 - Brads or Eyelets

Well, Shelly (thanks for becoming a follower!) pointed me in the direction of The Cricut Cardz Challenges last night in the Wine Glass Thank You Post. She thought I should enter it over at Cricut Cardz Challenge. Little did she know I was creating a new one just for that challenge while she was writing that!

Last night I made three cards with envelopes that I can't wait to share with you! The theme of all three is chandeliers. I just recently got the Embossing Folders Love is in the Air Set™ (which inevitably has me doing the Samba every time I use one of the embossing folders - reference to the movie Dirty Dancing). But I digress. I love the chandelier in this set and since I recently got the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ and there is a 3D chandelier on that too - I just had to try them all.

This card was made with the 3D chandelier. There is one slit on the top of the first piece and another on the bottom of the second piece so that the two pieces can go together - I really should have taken a picture of this - so I simply cut off the top of the piece that had the slit on the top and glued it on top of the piece that had the slit on the bottom thusly hiding both slits and getting one solid chandelier. I hope that makes sense.

The card shape and envelope were cut from the Sentimentals Cartridge™ at 4.5". - I believe it was the lock button. I used scraps from the edge of the paper after I cut out the card for the inside of the envelope. I love using scraps! I used my Crop-a-Dile to take care of the eyelets.

Enjoy and I'll be posting one of my embossed chandelier cards tomorrow!