World Card Making Day Core'dinations Challenge!

Quick post for today, but it was SUPER fun that my husband woke up and said, "I want to make a card!" So I spent most of the morning helping him make his card which I will show at a later date. :) 

However, here is my card that I whipped together to participate in the Core'dinations WCMD challenge and monthly October Challenge! 

Recipe:

Cardstock: Core'dinations Elements and Nostalgia packs™

Cartridge: Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Leafy Branches™

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™

Button: MME Lost and Found 2 Sunshine "Memories" Buttons™

Ribbon from my stash and twine is PTI

Here is the color challenge swatch. I was really inspired by the example card by Ellen Sosnoski. I am looking at it now and my oranges are more yellow than orange, but I promise I thought they looked close in real life before I cut them. :( 

Nuts about You!

Hello! I pulled out last year's Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg for this entire card! Remember to pull out last year's collections and mix them into new ones if you would like! I got this from Pumpkin Spice and you can click on the links in the recipe to take you to the page where you can get individual sheets. :)

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Create a Critter™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folders: 
• Swiss Dots™
• Leafy Branch™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Punny-licious™ 
• Patterned Paper:
• Cosmo Cricket: Nutmeg "Acorn"™ (blue and green background)
• Cosmo Cricket: Nutmeg "Cinnamon"™ (pink and acorn red)
• Cosmo Cricket: Nutmeg "Clove"™ (red)
• Cosmo Cricket: Nutmeg "Maple"™ (brown)
• Burlap from my stash
• White Gel Pen
• Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa™
• My ATG Gun of course! 
• Foam dimensionals 

I made this for the Cricut Circle Magazine challenge of using Cosmo Cricket, at least three Cricut Cuts (squirrel, acorn, and 6 leaves), and embossing! 

EAD Designs Color Challenge!

This month at EAD Designs they are using some of my favorite colors (my favorite color is olive green)! I had to get this done before I left so I emailed Emily (thank you!) and she sent me the challenge! :) 

So this one will get linked up hopefully while I am away, but I am posting it tonight!

Aren't the colors gorgeous? 

Luckily in my last order, I bought the best EAD Stickerz to go with it. This set is called Fall Harvest. I think it is definitely one of my favorites.

Recipe:

Cartridge: Thanksgiving Seasonal Cartridge™

Embossing: A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Collection: "Falling Down" and "Maple" Paper

Hero Arts Adhesive Gems

Buttons

Today is also the last day of Denine's super deal over at Pumpkin Spice. This is the deal she is offering!

3 days only!

Priority Broom Stick

 

All Orders of $50 and more with at least 1 Halloween Product......

 

Priority shipping is FREE!!

 

Valid 10/11/10 - 10/13/10

Coupon Code: BroomStick

This is so great! Go take advantage of her already awesome prices! She carries My Pink Stamper too and you know how I feel about those stamps! LOVE them!

EAD Designs, Peachy Keen, AND Digital Delights Challenges!

EAD Designs was having a color challenge and the theme was Farmer's Market - who doesn't love a good Farmer's Market?
Peachy Keen Stamps is having a color AND sketch challenge.
Since their colors were very similar, I decided to enter this in both! :)
BONUS! My good friend Wanda (HUGGLES) is now a member of the challenge DT over at Digital Delight's Delightful Challenge and this week you have to use a pumpkin. Done and done! :)

Here is the color combo/inspiration piece for EAD Designs:

Here is the sketch/color combo for PKS we had to work with:


Here is my card:

I think EAD will forgive me if I couldn't fit the cranberry in as I tried and tried, but I did get the pumpkins from the "farmer's market" aspect. :)

I welded a rectangle to the pumpkins on my Gypsy™ and hid the holes in the pumpkins for the background. Then I cut just the pumpkin border again with the holes in orange. I embossed the blue background piece with the Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™. Next I cut the layers and the sentiment is stamped with My Pink Stamper: Winter Punnies™ set. I popped the sentiment, added ribbon, tied it through a button, and added some Glossy Accents™ and Hero Arts™ adhesive gems.

Recipe:
Paper: Bazzill™, Core'dinations™, DCWV Home stack™
Cartridges: Gypsy Wanderings™
Embossing: A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Winter Punnies™ set
Ribbon
Glossy Accents™
Buttons
Hero Arts™ adhesive gems

Thanks for viewing today! :) The October blog hop is coming up from Oct 1-3rd. I will have some great talent joining me and some fabulous prizes to give away... I just have to decide if I want to break them up or make it one fabulous prize. What do you think? :) The blog hop participants and order is up on the top left side of my home page. Enjoy your weekend!

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!

Christmas Around the Clock Challenges 7-10

Still over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot making Christmas in July a reality!

Challenge # 7 - "Create a lot" - create 3 cards with the same pattern so that they're quickly manufactured with embossing.

Recipe:
Left card
Embossing: A2 Snowflakes Emboss Folder™
Cartridge: Storybook™
Ribbon
Middle card
Embossing: A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
Embellishments: Adhesive Pearls from Hero Arts™, Flower punch
Ribbon
Right card
Embossing: A2 Leafy Branche Emboss Folder™
Cartridge: Storybook™
Ribbon

Challenge #8 - Resist Christmas (I think she meant resist Christmas colors so this is what I did)


Recipe:
Cartridge: Wild Card™ (it is the envelope for the house cut and then I just cut off the two flaps top and bottom to make it a tri fold card
Embossing: A2 Forest Branches Emboss Folder™
Wreath: made from a flower punch and buttons
Door lines were colored with Copic™ markers

I liked the idea of this card. I'm still not positive I love the execution, but I will be improving on it for sure.

Challenge #9 - Incorporate Snowmen into a home decor project.
Well, those that know me from the beginning know that one of my first posts was making this tree into an Easter egg tree. I've decorated this tree with Christmas ornaments during the holidays and now it will have little snowmen on it! These are the first three I made. I used the Gypsy to mold and weld three circles together to make a snowman as I didn't have a snowman cut.



Blue Snowman:
Embossing: Snowflakes™
Pixie sparkle
Sharpie™
Buttons
Yarn
Red Snowman:
Embossing: D'Vine Swirls™
Pixie sparkle
Sharpie™
Buttons
Yarn
Green Snowman:
Embossing: Swiss Dots™
Pixie sparkle
Sharpie™
Buttons
Yarn

Challenge #10 - White and one other color card - add sparkle

Cartridge: Wild Card™
I used my Gypsy™ to hide the features on one of the ornaments to make a shadow
Paper: Bo Bunny™ 12" St Nick Sleigh
Emboss: Forest Branches™
Added adhesive to the shiny spot and added Pixie Sparkle
Ribbon

Whew! Done with that post. But you see what I mean that grouping them together is hopefully better than separating them. You let me know because there are 14 more to go!

Court

Valentines

So, my first real project that I did with my Cricut™ was to make Valentines for my bridesmaids. I went to my friend Inna's house and we watched Sex and the City, drank Cosmopolitans and had a wonderful time crafting. It was a great girls' night. This is the paper of our labor.

Items used:
Cricut™
Wild Card Cartridge™
Storybook Cartridge™
Cuttlebug™
A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder ™
Glue
Hole Puncher
Ribbon
Swarovski™ crystals