Shop Pumpkin Spice - March Challenge - Thank You!

Hello and welcome to my Shop Pumpkin Spice post for today!!!

Today I wanted to make another card for you using the March Kit and Challenge! Be sure to participate for a chance to win April's kit! There is still time!!! To all of you who have already entered, good luck! :) 

I made this card for my parents. They hosted Spoon while we were in San Francisco for 3.5 days. We are so lucky to have them nearby and so lucky that Spoon LOVES her home away from home! 

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridge: Graphically Speaking™
• Shop Pumpkin Spice: March Kit™
• White Gel Pen
• Black Pen
• Stapler with red staples
• Stamps: 
• My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious™
• My Pink Stamper: Biggie Punnies™(paw prints)
• Heat Emboss Gun (that's how I burnt the edges of the fire hydrant - please be careful while doing this!)
• White Embossing Powder

Thanks using Love you a Latte

So my new friend Lezlye drove two hours yesterday to come hang out with me all day! I got to try out her E2 which was so much fun and play with her new cartridges - two of which were used on this card: Love you a Latte and Elegant Edges. 

They are probably my top two on my current wish list! So I was jazzed to play with them! Thanks Lezlye!

This is just another thank you card that I made for my birthday presents I received from friends and family. 

Recipe:

Cartridges: Love you a Latte™ (tea cup), Elegant Edges™ (border), and Graphically Speaking™ (steam)

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Family and Friends™

Patterned Paper: 

My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink "Cherry Paper" (pink polka dot)

My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink "Engaging Paper" (pink and white stripes)

Bo Bunny Double Dot "Chiffon Dot"

Bo Bunny Double Dot "Coffee Dot"

Bo Bunny Double Dot "Flamingo Dot"

Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink Vintage Cream 

Brad: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink Decorative Brads™

Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Chocolate™

Glossy Accents (top and bottom)

Martha Stewart Coarse glitter (borrowed from Lezlye)

i-rock by Imaginisce™

Hot Rocks Compact in Pink, Black, and Clear™

My Pink Stamper - Layouts!

So this week, My Pink Designers are supposed to create layouts... Well I don't know how long you have been following my blog, but I have only done one layout and that was for a challenge. I am not a scrapbooker by nature. I LOVE to send my work in the mail to someone else. So this really was a challenge for me. 

Thankfully, someone who follows my blog had asked me to make a series of layouts for her since she liked my style. I agreed and she has been so much fun to work with! 

I feel such a great responsibility because they are the layouts surrounding her wedding. This one that I decided to do for this challenge was for her husband's bachelor party. I am trying to challenge myself to do more manly cards (and apparently layouts) so off I went and I am so thrilled that she loves it! :) The pictures are blurred for her privacy. 

I looked through my stamps and thought that "NOTE-ABLE" from Music Speaks™ was a perfect fit! So I put it right in the middle of the photos. 

Recipe:

Cartridge: Graphically Speaking™ (GREAT for all kinds of cards!) and Gypsy Wanderings™

Embossing Folder: Oh My Crafts Exclusive Everyday Shapes™(Apparently they are out of stock)

"Note-able" - My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™

Cardstock: Core'dinations Nostalgia pack™

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square™: "Beautiful Day" Paris Glittered Paper (left) and "Beautiful Day" Journey Glittered Paper (right), "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Glittered Paper (maroon on left page), "Moments" Charming Glittered Paper (red striped layer of hand), "Moments" Seamstress Glittered Paper (All "black" layers which are actually black damask), "Perfect" Happy Glittered Paper (stripes).  

Imaginisce d-stress tool for sanding the edges of the Core'dinations layer (LOVE this tool)

Crown stamp: Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™

Gem stone on crown: Union Square "Favorite" Brads™

Crown on right page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Dimensional Die Cut™

Crown tag on left page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™

Alphas: Jillibean Soup: newsprint chipboard alphabeans™ and American Crafts "Dear Lizzy" thickers (red glitter)

Ink: Colorbox in black

Whew! What a recipe list! :) 

Now for some close ups of different areas:

Page 1: 

 Page 2: 

Make sure to hop back to My Pink Stamper to see what she has done, what all of the other Pink Designers have done and also to play along in the challenge! :) 

Have a wonderful rest of your week! :) 

Rockin' New Year Blog Hop!

Welcome to our New Year's Blog Hop! 

This is such a wacky card, but I had a lot of fun with it! It looks like it's not lined up, but it opens from the martini glass... so the card is open and that's why it looks like that.

You should have gotten here from Celeste's blog. If not, start at the beginning HERE. 

Recipe:
Cartridges: Smiley Cards™, Graphically Speaking™, Cake Basics™
My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square™
i-rock™
Glam Rocks in Mirror™
Ribbon: Union Square Favorite Trims™, Union Square "Beautiful Day" Trims™
Stickles in Christmas Red™
Glossy Accents™


Here is a list just in case you get lost:
Carol carolssweetcreations.blogspot.com
Celeste ccscards.blogspot.com
Court http://courtscrafts.blogspot.com/ <<<----- You are here. :)
Dorcas  http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com/
Gloria" Girlia's cards" http://girliascards.blogspot.com/
Jen jennyscards.blogspot.com
Karen thebusybug.blogspot.com
Norma http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/
Roma romascards.blogspot.com
Saundra luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com
Jeanine luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com
Karey www.creativecraftcorner.com

Leave a comment today and tomorrow (only one comment each please) and I will draw a winner for the Speaking of Fall Cartridge! Check back to the blog to see if you have won! Sorry, but this is only open to residents of the US. 

Now, head on over to my good friend Dorcas' blog! 

Cuttin' Up Saturdays with Whoopsi Daisy!

This Saturday edition of Cuttin' Up is sponsored by Whoopsi Daisy!

I LOVE ELEPHANTS. I saw this one and HAD to have it. Isn't he the cutest? There are lots of people pregnant in my life right now and they all seem to be having boys! :) So I knew this card would come in handy.

I colored theWhoopsi Daisy Sheet 33™ image with my Sharpie™ markers. I used to use them for marking my golf ball so that it would differ from other people's. They sure came in handy!

I made this shaped card using my Gypsy™ and the Graphically Speaking Cartridge™. I used the clock shadow, hid the center hole, and then welded the moon (with holes hidden) to the front. Next I re-cut the moon in an off white, embossed it with the Checkerboard embossing folder, and used bright blue ColorBox™ ink to ink up the front inconsistently so it would look like the moon a bit. Obviously the moon isn't checkered - I do know that. :) I glued my image down so I could have him just peeking out and embellished with some Hero Arts™ adhesive stars.

Now, let me tell you it is no small feat taking a picture of a perfectly round card. I just kept rolling! But I was able to open it a bit and snap this picture. Haha. You should have seen me trying to do it. It was pretty funny.

Recipe:
Paper: white printer paper for the image and Core'dinations for the orange, DCWV for the off-white
Elephant: Whoopsi Daisy Sheet 33™
Markers: Sharpie™
Embossing: OhMyCrafts Exclusive Everyday Bundle: Checkerboard™
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Cartridges: Graphically Speaking™
Ink: ColorBox™, gStudio™
Hero Arts™ adhesive stars and gems

Don't forget to play along this week in our Be Inspired Wednesday challenge and you might 4 sheets (that's 16 images!) of Whoopsi Daisy images! :)

Cuttin' Up Saturdays with Crafty Secrets

This week we are being sponsored by Crafty Secrets - specialists in all things vintage in my opinion :)

The Cuttin' Up team has decided to do altered items for this edition and I am very excited about what I came up with.

My husband has to go to England and Paris on a business trip coming up and has asked me to go along. By using all of our combined airline points, I was able to book a flight!!! I am so excited. We are going from October 12-24th, but I will have posts going so fear not! I will not leave you without inspiration.

Well, recently we have gotten into making little videos - you know, tutorials and what not - and we are planning on making a DVD of our trip to Europe. It is my first time to Paris and I am oh so excited. Feel free to leave me comments on "must do" activities! So, I altered this blank DVD case to put our DVD in when we return! Notice the top of the trunk says "Paris" :)

I "mod-podged" the DVD case, mod-podged on the K&Co.™ background paper (this was my first time using Mod-Podge™ - love that stuff!) and Crafty Secrets™ items. I embossed the "Post Card" with the Window Panes Emboss Folder™. Then I cut the sentiment from Graphically Speaking™ out of Core'dinations™ paper and pop-dotted it. I added some buttons and voila!


Recipe:
Cartridge/Sentiment: Graphically Speaking™
Embossing: Oh My Crafts Exclusive: Window Panes™ (4 embossing folders on sale for $4.99 - That's why I bought them!)
Stamping: My Pink Stamper's Family and Friends™ set (the word "memories" stamped on the trunk)
Ink: VersaMark™ Neptune
Paper: K&Co.™, Core'dinations™
Mod-Podge
buttons

Don't forget to play along in our Be Inspired #101 Nostalgia challenge this week where you could win a prize package from Crafty Secrets!

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™

Christmas Around the Clock 15-20

Here we go! On the home stretch during the Cuttlebug Challenge's Christmas Around the Clock!

Challenge #15- CD case project
I have definitely never done anything like this! This was so strange and yet so interesting. The picture doesn't fit because I needed it for my layout too and didn't want to cut it. So this is a placeholder!


Recipe:
Embossing: A2 Snowflakes Emboss Folder™
Cartridges: Designer's Calendar™, Tie the Knot™, Sweethearts™

Challenge #16 - Layout with at least two things embossed - one has to be a punch
My first layout! I think it came out pretty good!

Recipe:
Cartridges: Tie the Knot™, Graphically Speaking™
Embossing: A2 Snowflakes Emboss Folder™, A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
Embellishments: From Aubrey! :) (Thanks girl!)

Challenge #17 - Noel Card
I tried this card probably 5 different ways and tried to put the N-O-E-L in the corners and it just didn't look as good as theirs did so I finally welded it on the Gypsy™ and was happy with the result (finally!).

Recipe:
Cartridges: Elegant Cakes™ (font), Tie the Knot™ (welded card)
Embossing: Love is in the Air set™
Paper: Cosmo Cricut™ Breezy Freezy
Ribbon

Challenge #18 - Santa Soup

Recipe:
Cartridge: Designer's Calendar™
Embossing: Swiss Dots™
Ribbon
Hero Arts™ adhesive pearls


Challenge #19 - Cover your favorite candy bar
Well, my favorite candy is Haribo™ gummy bears, but I didn't cover them because currently I have about a 5 lb. bag that my best friends gave me to make fun of me so it would have taken about 4 12x12" sheets of card stock and would have looked horrible when I was done. So I covered a Hershey's bar instead.

Recipe:
Cartridge: Sweethearts™ (tag)
Embossing: Organic Border Emboss Folders™

Challenge #20 - Jewelry out of embossed art metal
Oh dear! It appears I am certainly not a jewelry maker! I made this sad necklace out of art metal and ribbon. ... Don't judge me too severely! ;)


Recipe:
Embossing: Love is in the Air™
Crop-a-dile for holes
Ribbon