Fireside Christmas

Hi, over at the Outlawz message board the challenge

on Sundays is Songs and Rhymes and this week the 

song is "It' beginning to look a lot like Christmas".

I was honored to be asked to be a guest designer this week.

So here is my card using that song as inspiration.

I created this card using my Cricut Explore.  All the images 

are from NitWit collection called Fireside Christmas.

I love the collections that they have.  I just import the images

into Design Space and then print and cut them out.

The tree and the chair are cut separately and then pop

dotted to add dimension.  I also used the Explore to write 

the sentiment.  I printed it on glossy photo paper

so the colors are very vibrant. 

So head on over to the Outlawz and sign up to be a member

and join in the fun challenges.

A couple fun cards for boys

Hi, hope everyone has great plans for the weekend.

Not much going on here, but we need the rest since we had 

a very busy week last week with family here.

Today I have a couple quick cards to share with you.

I made them a few weeks ago as I had to make a little boy birthday card.

I'll explain later why I made 2.

Both cards were made using digital files from

NitWits Digital Collections.

It was so fun and easy to create this card using the 

From the Sea collection and my Cricut Explore.

The entire card is made using elements from this collection, even the papers.

I imported all the pieces into my DesignSpace and arranged them the way I wanted.  The "water" paper I used to fill a rectangle then added the octopus

and the sea weed leaving part of the sea weed hanging over the edge.  I then did print then cut with my Explore.  The other pieces were all print then cut with the Explore.  I stamped the sentiment using a Rubbernecker stamp.

I made this card for a little boy that is like a grandson to us that wasturning 3.  When I showed it to my hubby he said I should have made him a

card having to do with a farm, since he lives on a place that has animals

and tractors and such. 

So here is what I came up with, again using NitWits Collections.

They have horses and chickens so I had to incorporate them into the card.

For this card, I used the "Funny Farm" collection.

Again all the papers and patterns are from the Funny Farm collection.

The sentiment is also a Rubbernecker stamp.

I so love how these 2 cards came out and thanks to NitWits and my 

Cricut Explore they were pretty easy to create.

I would love hear what you think of my 2 cards, we all know

sometimes making a boy card can be difficult these collections made

it easy. 

Some more catching up

Hi, hope everyone is having a great weekend.

I am going to post a few various cards that I have

been working on lately.

Here is a thank you card that opens into a step-card

instead of the plain old center.

The center is a Stampin Up stamp.

and here is the inside.

I love the way the starburst card looks but sometimes they are a bit difficult to get right.  The papers are K&Company papers.

Here is a cute animal shaped card from the Create a Critter cartridge.  I covered part of his body with Fun Flock for more dimension.

And one last one, a diamond fold card.

The turtle image is from NitWits, that I uploaded and cut with my Explore.

Thanks for stopping and taking a peak.  Hope you enjoy the cards I

shared with you today.  Most of them were made playing along with challenges over at the CraftingCircle message board.

Come over and join in the fun, there is a nice variety of challenges.

Well it has been too long......

...........but I really hope to be back and posting regularly again.

Some things have changed since I last posted mostly the

shut down of the Cricut message board.

You all know I have been an active member on the MB and a 

participant of the

Wednesday Bi-Weekly card sketch challenge

on the message board for many many years so it was quite a shock to think we may not be able to continue our little challenge.  It is so much more than a challenge to many of us, it is inspiration, learning and a great creative social atmosphere, so we were saddened 

that we may lose that creativity and chatting with our friends.

Well a fairly new member of the challenge stepped up to the plate 

for us and created us a brand new message board with all the features

and creative areas you can think of.  Plus it is constantly growing and being enhanced. 

So thanks to MsWipz we now have a new home.....

Crafting Circle

Please come and take a stroll around, it is so much more than just Cricuts and die cutting machine, no more worries about not using your Cricut or saying Silhouette Cameo.   

Plus there will soon be a blog associated with the MB.  

So to kick off this new message board (and yeah I know I am late in reporting this) we have a July Super Challenge going on.  It will last through August 111th so you still have plenty time to play along.

We are challenged to try many new things and get our brains going on

creating a card to some specific things. 

 I will share a few of them with you right now.

One of our challenges was to make a Super Hero card.

Here is mine.  I used some PNGs from Sassy Designs

using Superhero Sound effects. She is having a 13 year celebration sale till July 31st where most of your things are just 25 cents.  Be sure and go check out her sight.

So here is my card......

I love my Cricut Explore as I got to write the sentiment on the label and then cut it out.  The little guy and label are from NitWits Super Stuey collection.

Another of our challenges or ECs was to make a 

Pyramid Topper card.

These were pretty simple to put together.  There are so many ideas and videos on Pinterest for this technique but here is the one I followed.

Do Stamping

I made two samples using some Stampin Up stamps.

 and a second version since they are so quick and

easy to make.

This is just a small example of what we are learning and what we are challenged to do for the 

July Super Challenge

So come on over and check us out and hopefully be inspired to try a challenge or two.