Card Sketch Challenge: 6-27 (sketch 2)

I was determined to use a Cricut cut I've never used before so this is what I chose... yeah ok, so the beehive is reversed.  I know the base is supposed to be yellow and the lines are supposed to be black, but I already cut it and already adhered glitter to it so I wasn't going to start over... so nyah!

The flowers were the first rosettes I made using a mini flower punch... I just never used them until now.  Each has 5 layers and I painted them with glitter.  The bee button I've had for a long time.  I covered it with liquid glass to make it all shiny.  All the papers are from scraps... the background paper is actually from a Halloween paper pack... shhh!

• Card size - 4.25"  x 5.5"
• Papers - Miss Elizabeth
• Fiskars - mini flower punch
• Sizzix - leaves
• Spellbinder - oval frame
• Cricut cartridge: Sentimentals - beehive and sentiment

Also made for sketch 3 of RAQ's 6-27 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

JustRite Friday Challenge #76

"Stars & Stripes"

This week's theme at JustRite Friday Challenge is to create a project using stars and stripes but not necessarily a patriotic theme.  Well, how about a Christmas theme?

Using only scraps and left over embellishments... I made another Christmas card to add to my stash.  The stars are actually charms and I cut off the connectors.  Three stacks of Spellbinder frames and I used heat embossing for the sentiment.  The sentiment is from the Whimsical Christmas Set collection by JustRite stamps.  I can no longer find this stamp set on their website to link it.  Maybe it's retired?

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25" 
• Papers - JoAnn's
• JustRite - stamped sentiment and heat embossed
• Spellbinder - scalloped circle and circle frames 

Also made for sketch 3 of RAQ's 6-27 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SandyPalmer

Card Sketch Challenge: 6-20 (sketch 2)

For my cousin, Nicole's baby shower.  She registered for some storage bins with cloth liners.  The fabric on the liners had these colors... chocolate brown, pink, and mint green.  I decided to used the same colors to make her card and the matching label to attach to the hamper.  I used the hamper as her gift box to hold all the other items I got her

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Label size - 8" x 8"
• Cheery Lynn - flourish
• Cuttlebug - embossing (Spots and Dots) and (Swiss Dots)
• Design Studio
• Fiskars - scalloped border punch
• Quickutz pen - "It's a Girl" and colored with glitter gel pen 
• SCAL - shadowing
• Cricut cartridges: 
• Celebrations - "girl"
• Don Juan - "It's a"
• Fabulous Finds - circle

Made for RAQ's 6-20 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by cstanzione

Card Sketch Challenge: 6-20 (sketch 1)

My mom needed a baby card for my cousin, Nicole's baby shower

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Cuttlebug - embossing (Swiss Dots)
• Quickutz pen - "It's a Girl" and colored with glitter gel pen
• Cricut cartridge: New Arrival - clothes and "It's a Girl"

Made for RAQ's 6-20 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by cstanzione

Card Sketch Challenge: 5-16 (sketch 3)

Made for a Cricut Fairy mission 895

• Card size - 5.5" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Alcohol inks used for the skittles
• Sentiment is a stamp and heat embossed
• Rope is a strip of suede string

Made for RAQ's 5-16 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by SHELBYWOO

Card Sketch Challenge: 6-13 (sketch 1)

I have had these painted wooden squares from Michael's crafts for over a year... this particular sketch gave me the perfect opportunity to use them!

• Card size - 4.25" x 4.25"
• Papers - DCWV
• Cuttlebug - embossing (Swiss Dots)
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card - "You're One of a Kind"

Made for RAQ's 6-13 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by BingoLady

Card Sketch Challenge: 6-6 (sketch 3)

Zenica's birthday card... she is still very much so into monkeys so why not another monkey card?

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5"
• Papers - from scraps (I can't remember the brand)
• Quickutz pen - "Happy Birthday" and colored with glitter gel pen
• Cricut cartridges:
• Don Juan - "10"
• Life's a Party - monkey 
• Tags, Bags, Boxes & More - tag
• Wild Card - "Happy Birthday"

Made for RAQ's 6-6 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug

Card Sketch Challenge: 6-6 (sketch 2)

Made for the Angry Bird lover...

• Card size - 8.5" x 5.5"
• Papers - DCWV
• SCAL - Angry bird and sentiment shadowing
• Cricut cartridge: Wild Card - "Happy Birthday"

Made for RAQ's 6-6 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by Turtlebug

My Sheri Crafts #88

Oh!  I love America!

It's time for some red, white, and blue over at My Sheri Crafts.  That's right!  This week's theme is all about some patriotic fun!  Make a project using red, white, and blue showing off some patriotism

For my project, I made a star-shaped wreath.  Ok, it's not a wreath... we'll call it a door hanging welcome sign of some sort.  All the cuts are from the Don Juan Cricut cartridge and each of the blue and silver letters were heat embossed individually (yeah... time consuming and MESSY!).  The star is a metal frame I got from Michael's wrapped in some red tinsel with silver stars... alright, they're not really silver stars... they have 6 points!  I think the red tinsel garland is actually some left over Christmas item because the silver stars look more like weird looking snowflakes but shhhhh... no one can tell right?

Now let's see what you come up with!  Come join us at My Sheri Crafts with your patriotic projects

• Star-shaped metal frame
• Red tinsel garland
• Nylon thread to connect the message to the frame
• Heat embossing for the blue and silver lettering
• Sure Cuts A Lot - white shadow lettering 
• Design Studio
• Cricut cartridge: Don Juan - all the lettering

JustRite Friday Challenge #74

"Vintage Masculine"

This week's theme at JustRite Friday Challenge is to create a Vintage Masculine card... no idea how to make vintage cards since that's just not my thing.  I prefer bright vibrant cards with cupcakes on them!  LOL!  However, to support my friend, Sheri... I attempted to make one.

I wanted to make something that looked sort of old but also combine it with crisp clean embellishments.  That is the reason for all the black embellishments... they're sharp and clean looking and hopefully help the viewer focus on it more than the old crumpled paper.  Heee heee!  The sentiment "You are the Best" is from the Summer Words - Clear collection by JustRite stamps.

• Card size - 4.25" x 5.5" 
• Papers - DCWV 
• JustRite - stamped sentiment 
• Close to My Heart - black brads 
• Crop-A-Dile - for the eyelets 
• Tim Holtz distressing inks 

Also made for sketch 1 of RAQ's 6-13 Card Sketch Challenge hosted by BingoLady

My Sheri Crafts #87

Father's Day

Hello hello... once again, it's time for another My Sheri Crafts theme project!  This time around... something to honor the "fathers" in our lives.  For my project, I have decided to honor the "gaming fathers" in my life (which I know quite a few of).  I decided to use the Generations stack for my gaming papers for my altered CD cover project

Now let's see what you come up with!  Come join us at My Sheri Crafts with your Father's Day projects

• Papers - DCWV
• Alcohol inks - skittles
• Quickutz pen - "World's Best Dad"
• Cricut cartridges:
• Don Juan - "World's Best Dad" colored with glitter gel pen
• Fabulous Finds - Circles
• Wedding - banner