Welcome Little One

This week’s Fantabulous Cricut Challenge is Oh Baby!  We are to use our Cricut to create a project for a new baby. This challenge could not have come at a better time. Many of our friends are pregnant and some are due within the next few weeks.

I made this card for a little one we are looking forward to meeting at the end of June. The expecting parents decorated the little one’s room with a frog theme.

I had a blast making this card. The little Cricut characters always make me laugh.

This card was made possible by:

Items from my inventory

·         The Cricut Expression

·         Paisley Cachemire cartridge – frog2

·         Cindy Loo cartridge – welcome

·         Various cardstock

·         Creative Memories corner maker

·         Fiskars paper trimmer

·         Bella BLVD – Toadilly Cool – Birthday Boy paper

·         Tim Holtz distress ink – Iced Spruce, Rusty Hinge, Forest Moss

·         Tombow glue

·         Celebrate It – ribbon

·         Kool Tak – 1/8” adhesive tape

·         Zapdots foam dots

·         Stampin’up Holidays & Wishes stamp

·         Stampin’up basic black classic stampin’ pad

·         Big Shot

·         Sizzix texture plates

Purchased

·         Nothing

 

Just Add Metal

Hello Everyone,

Over the past couple of weeks I have been familiarizing myself with the blogging world by reading other crafting blogs, mostly blogs on scrapbooking and card making. It is fantastic to see people’s creativity with such a simple product like paper.

I found in my search, DT Calls. They provide a list of 95 web addresses to different monthly, bi-weekly, weekly and daily challenges.  

Besties Challenge Blog is amongst the 95 addresses listed. Sherri Baldy, owner and author of Besties Challenge Blog doesn’t only post weekly challenges but also provides a list of upcoming challenges so that you can plan ahead. The challenge for May 27^th is to “add metal to your card”. I jumped all over that challenge since I had ideas and the supplies to bring it to fruition.

Card done! Happy about the addition of metal! Can’t wait to show people! Very excited!!!

Then I reread the challenge rules on Besties Challenge Blog. It appears that in my excitement I misread them the first time. I did follow the spirit of the challenge and added metal to the card, but I also had to add a Bestie image. My card does not qualify for the challenge or for a chance to win some Bestie images but I am still pleased with the card and will give it to my husband for father’s day.  

I think the card is quite appropriate for him. Not only is it very manly but it has a vehicle/machine type of look to it.  He is a mechanic at heart, has a love for automotive and remembers every single customer by the vehicle they own.

For the metal look, I passed a piece of Art Emboss medium weight aluminum in the Spellbinder M-bossabilities EL-017 folder through the Big Shot. To save anyone from “paper cuts”, I folded under all the cut edges of the aluminum (I am cringing at the thought of an aluminum cut). Each piece of aluminum was then taped to a distressed and inked piece of cardstock.

This card was brought to you by the following supplies:

From my inventory:

· Art Emboss medium aluminum

· Spellbinders M-bossabilities EL-017

· Big Shot

· EK Success - Binding Edge Edger Punch

· Making Memories distress tool

· Tim Holtz - walnut distress ink

· K&Company Engraved Garden adhesive chipboard

· Various cardstock

· Brads

· Zapdots - foam dots

· EK Success - Major League baseball stickers

· Scotch - Advance tape glider

Purchased:

· Nothing

Happy Mother's Day

I am dedicating my very first blog, to my mother! She shares the same love for all things crafty.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog has a weekly challenge appropriately titled "Challenge Me Monday". This week's challenge (#159 - Mother's Day) motivated me to make this card and my mother inspired its design.

 

 

This card was made possible by:

Items from my inventory

• The Cricut Expression
• Ornamental Iron Cricut cartridge
• Various cardstock
• Father Knows Best - Aftershave paper by Angela Hoffmann Designs
• Cool highlight transparent Glitter Ritz
• Be Creative tape
• Various Copic markers
• Stampin' Up - Sizzix - Square Lattice Textured Impressions embossing folder
• Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Tattered Florals die
• Tim Holtz - Ranger - Distress Inks - Seedless Preserves, Dusty Concord, Gathered Twigs, Rusty Hinge
• Recollections brads
• Small snowflake punch (manufacturer unknown)
• The Paper Company - Quilling strips
• Ek Success - Dahlia Dimensional Flower punch
• Zapdots - foam dots
• Tombow glue

Purchased

• Recollection cardstock
• Three additional Copic colors

I am ecstatic to say that this card was loved by my family.
It also won the FCCB challenge and got top 5 mention.