You Did It!

Hi, everyone hope you are having a fabulous week so far.

I have a card to share with you today that I made for my Grandson that is in the Navy attending his schooling to become a Sonar Tech on a submarine.  The schooling is pretty intense and has several phases, well he finally finished all the required classes he need before he could start his A School which is the specific schooling for his job.  He did very well in his class so I wanted to encourage him to keep up the good work.

The papers are all from the K&Company Americana stack, with two grandsons in the Navy this paper stack has come in handy.  

The center circle was cut using the Wild Card cartridge, I love the uneven circle.  The dark blue I Cuttlebugged with a striped folder and the center white I used the stars folder.  The "You Did It" is also cut from Wild Card.

The large star on the upper left hand side is actually just a circle I cut from one of the sheets in the paper stack.

 The sticker is an epoxy sticker I had on hand and I thought it worked perfectly here.  I am constantly on the hunt for Navy related things.

I stamped the inside with this Rubbernecker  stamp.  My grandson is very determined to finish with a very high score in his A School so that he has a better chance of picking the sub he would like to serve on, it is not a guarantee but you have a better chance if you score high in your class.  I thought this stamp would encourage to keep trying and studying hard.

Just a little FYI, both of the grandsons are Sonar Techs, the first one already finished his schooling the beginning of this year, but is still waiting to go on that first underway.

Well thanks for stopping by, I always appreciate your comments.

I will enter this in the challenge at

My Sheris Crafts  Family (I made this for my Navy grandson)  ends 9/27

Make it Monday  Always anything goes   ends  9/29

Black & Gray Card.

Didn't want to title this as a sympathy card, but when I put these papers and colors together I thought it would do well as a sympathy card.  Besides it is nice to have these around as I find them more difficult to make when you need them.
This is one of the sketches this week at RAQs Challenge on the Cricut message board.

After giving me many fits I think it came out fine.  This was one of those cards where you have something in your mind and it is just so hard to get it on the paper how you imagine it.   I was determined to use one of the tag cuts from Picturesque that has a butterfly on it because I had paper that would work well with it.  Well after cutting out several and flood filling them with the Imagine I finally moved on to something else.  The background papers are from the same pack that I originally wanted to use..  What I had a hard time with was that I was also trying to follow a color challenge using black, gray and ivory, well I just could not get the ivory to work so I used white.  Close enough huh?   The papers are from a Best Occasions stack that I bought a WalMart a couple of years ago, the tag is from the same stack.

I knew one of the cartridges had a cut to match the "Queen Anne's Lace" (as I call it) on the paper so I could incorporate a Cricut cut into it.  This particular cut from Lyrical Letters is an extremely fine cut but I went ahead and tried it using my Imagine because it cuts so much better than my Expression, but even using the Imagine the fine lines/stems just fell apart trying to get it off the mat.  I so wanted to use this cut and then I had an Ah Ha moment and used my Quickuts pens in my Create to draw it.  I set it up in my Gypsy at the size I wanted and then put my black pen in and hit cut, after is was done drawing it I hit "return to mat" and placed a circle around it using George, then I deleted the Queens Anne's Lace and hit cut and it cut it out perfectly! Here is a link to a video on using these pens in your Cricut, just click HERE.   YEAH t worked!  I cut out a slightly larger black circle to use as a shadow.  I colored in parts of the drawing using my Stardust gel pen, the petals part but it is hard to see.

I cut the "with sympathy" from the Wild Card cartridge and added a few dots with my white gel pen.  The edge of the gray I torn using a metal ruler that I had found on clearance at my grocery store, works great when you don't want to use a straight edge.  Whew well I think it came out fine although it took many many turns along the way.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I would love to hear what you think so leave me a comment.

Challenges for this card
Inspire me Fridays   Anything goes   ends - 10/6
Crafts 4 Eternity   Anything goes   ends - 10 6
Creatalicious Challenges  Anything goes   - 10/13
Make it Mondays   Always anything goes   ends - 10/9
Ooh La La  Sympathy   ends  - 10/16

Happy Pumpkins

 Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been around much, have been feeling pretty yuckie lately sure hope it goes away soon so I can back to crafting.

This week at Crafty Creations Challenge, our hostess in Peggy and she has challenged us to use the color combo of RED, ORANGE and GREEN.  Sounds tough but it can work especially if you have some great background paper to help you with the colors.  Peggy also got some images from our sponsor this week for the DT to work with

2 Cute Rubber Stamps

 

 

 

So here is the card I created, I am not real happy with it, mostly the white area, I guess because I was sick and my mind could not focus well

The image I used is actually a "freebie" this week so may want to head on over a grab it.

The circle shaped card I cut using the Wild Card cartridge.  The striped paper is from the DCWV Autumn stack from last year.

It did a bit different, the white circle with the image is actually pop dotted on the inside of the card and them fits through the front circle.  Here is a view which might show how it looks.

I colored the image using my Copic's and then put Crackle Accents on them, in two different stages so it did not meld all together.  here is a close up of the pumpkins so you can see the crackle

And finally here is how it looks opened.

So come on over and join us at Crafty Creations and have some fun.

Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment. I love to read them, besides that way I knew you were here to take a peak.