Digital Delights Nutcracker!

If you haven't yet entered my giveaway, click HERE to take you to the post! :)

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.

EAD Designs is featuring my card! :)

Hey everyone, this morning I woke up to a fabulous surprise! The EAD team has featured my "Thanks for your service" card over on their blog! Please go over and leave me some love if you would like!

Have a great day!

Also, Digital Delights by Louby Loo (a sponsor of the Cuttlebug Challenge) is doing a giveaway! Head on over to check it out!

Cuttin' Up Saturdays - Under the Sea

This was our take two with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! Like the rhyme? I'm such a dork. ;)

I wanted to make a card set with her cute digital stamps.

Our goal today is to show you how the centerpoint function can be used on your Cricut®. I had never done this before and a: it is SO easy and b: I will definitely be using it again! I picked up my tutorials from Tammy's blog.

Here are a few:
This is one she did to make words the center of the invitation.
This is a link to her blog post with a video embedded to do a recipe card!

I chose the Octopus, Water Turtle, and Starfish. I LOVE that little Water Turtle - so cute!

Using Tammy's tutorials (I had only watched the two that I posted above), I decided to give it a whirl. I chose an image from Graphically Speaking™ and my Bo Bunny™ Dot (or is it double dot?) paper and did exactly what she said. I think they came out brilliantly. :) Thanks Tammy!

Sorry about the Cuttlebug folder in the back that I was using to prop up the turtle card. Haha. I bet you didn't think of that use for your Cuttlebug folders! :)

The two on the bottom are A2 sized cards. The turtle one on top is not because it was a scrap piece that was still big enough for a card. I just made layers, tied some ribbon, pop dotted the sea creatures, and stamped/glued the sentiments. Easy peasy cutsy card set.

Don't forget to hop on over to the Cuttlebug Challenges and play along this week for a chance to win the Digital Delights by Louby Loo ENTIRE Under the Sea set! :) You have until Tuesday at midnight.


Recipe:
Digital Stamps: Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Cartridge: Graphically Speaking™
Sentiments: Graphically Speaking™ (discover), Hero Arts™ CL 139
Paper: Core'dinations™, DCWV™, Bo Bunny™
Sharpie™ Markers
Glossy Accents™
Ribbon
Ink: ColorBox™

Be Inspired #98-Under the Sea

This week at the Cuttlebug Challenges Digital Delights by Louby Loo is sponsoring us. We are all doing an Under the Sea theme and having a wonderful time with these awesome digital stamps!

For my Wednesday project I chose the adorable Sea Crab and the Under the Sea Background. This was only my second time coloring in digital stamps so I think I did alright! I decided to give the crab polka-dotted boots. I think they're too cute. I used Glossy Accents™ on his eyes and tongue and did a bit of doodling with my white gel pen.

The background was pretty straight forward. I used my Copic™ markers for all the coloring. I put Glossy Accents™ on the kelp and picked up some sand from an obliging sand box in a playground by our house and glued that to the bottom.
The sign was cut from Everyday Paper Dolls™ twice: once out of kraft card stock and the second from glossy white. I simply cut off the top and bottom of the glossy white and adhered it to the kraft sign. The kraft sign was first sponged with gold ink. I used My Pink Stamper's Punny-licious set for the "Crab-ulous" sentiment. I LOVE her stamps! They are such great quality.

The fish tank was also cut from Everyday Paper Dolls™ and the patterned paper was K&Co paper stack and then embossed with D'Vine Swirls™.

I simply layered the embossed paper onto the glossy white card stock base, pop dotted the background from Digital Delights, put the sign behind/under the background and glued the crab down. I also added some bubbles coming up from the crab.

Play along with us this week using the Under the Sea theme where you can win a complete set of digital stamps shown here!

Recipe:
Paper: Bazzill™ Diamond White card stock, K&Co
Cartridge: Everyday Paper Dolls™
Embossing: D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™
Stamps:Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper™
Other: Glossy Accents, Dimensionals, Hero Arts™ adhesive gems (bubbles)