busy bees

These are pictures when our twins were 2 years old - love looking back since they will be 18 this year!!!
Paper from DCWV and K&CO.
Butterflies from a Sizzlit from SU!
Bees from Doodlecharms Cricut carts
Title from Cricut as well
Entering this LO in the challenge at Sassy Lil Sketches

Autumn banner

Made this for my daughter, this completes the season banners for her.
Here is how I made it - I cut 4 x 4 pieces of cardboard from a USPS box I got in the mail.
Punched the holes in the pieces with my crop-a-dial.
Inked all the edges then proceeded to look at my carts for autumn items.
The font I cut the regular and shadow at 1 1/2" from Storybook (Thank you Audrey) and put that aside.
The elements were cut from the following:
A - The apples were cut from Doodlecharms at 2 1/4 and 1 3/4" page 118 key #37
U - The basket was cut from Doodlecharms at 2 1/4" Key #35
T - the leaves were cut from Doodlecharms at 1 1/2" key #34
U - the Pumpkins were cut from A Child's Year page 52
M - The ghost was cut from Paper Doll Dress Up at 1 1/2" 2 3/4", and 3" and the spiders were cut from Designer Calendar page 48 at 1 1/4" and 1 3/4"
N - The turkey was cut from Designer Calendar as well as the Pilgrim hat pg 38

Entering this at Paper Playtime autumn challenge - I just love this time of year here in New England!
oh -and to help me find some icons that I was not sure which page or cart they were on I used. What a big help. You should try it.

Nugget

Made this card for my sister's family. They decided to raise chickens and got a batch of adorable fluffy chickies and one passed. I wanted to send my pet sympathy to the family. You see the smallest one - named Nugget - was not growing. While the rest of the clan was growing rapidly - this one still looked like a little chick, well a few days ago - she did not make it.

Cut the cute chick from Create A Critter for the Quixotic challenge (animal Go-Wild), I cut the sun from Doodlecharms for the challenge at BBtB2 hosted by Sweet& Sassy. The color theme from Colour Create of pink and blue. The layout I used from Get sketchy (sponsored by Delicious Scraps) and the concept of ribbon and bling from PollyCraft

Summer Banner

Made this for my daughter - this is the last in a series of 4 banners I made her for her college room wall.


All cuts were from Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge at 2 1/2"
SUMMER letters were cut from Cuttin' Up at 1 3/4"

Winter Wishes

I made two of these cards tonight - similar due to the design but a little different because of the image.
Card base is 4 1/2' from Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge.

Santa with children image from A Child's Year Cricut Cartridge cut at 2"
Martha Stewart snowflake on one of the cards, misc buttons and ribbon added to the front of the card base.

Inside sentiment is a Sizzlits die.
Entering this in Winter Wonderland a Victorian Christmas
And also in the vintage theme at

Bah! Humbug! -

Doodlecharms - have a sweet day

I used the card cut on Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge - to make the jar - I used a small zipper close bag and include the string of ladybugs and cut pieces of "grass".
Inked the edges and also cut the sun and dragonfly from the same cartridge
card cut at 10"
Sun cut at 1 1/2"
Dragonfly cut at 1 1/2"
inside lady bugs cut at 1"


For the inside I took the negative pieces and inked them to just add a little something.

Easter Basket - box 3D treats

Made these for my mail clerks at my local post office
Made the basket (RD4")and eggs from Doodlecharms and the butterfly is from Stampin' Up
I also embossed the baskets with my Cuttlebus folder called Harlequin.

Happy Holidays

In keeping with making a holiday or Christmas card each week - here is one I did for ABC Christmas challenge. This week it was the letter F - Frosty.

I followed the layout from Create4Fun Challenge
Snowflakes from Doodlecharms and I can't remember the snowman as he was in my pile of cuts already colored!

Inside sentiment is a Cuttlebug Folder that I put glitter on - you can't see it too well.
Plaid paper from Provo Craft

BBtB2 Cupcake challenge

I used Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge and cut the cupcake twice on shadow at 5"

I also made a little bag tag. You have to look closely or click on the pics to see how I use packaging tape and adhere glitter to the tiny cupcake.

SPRING banner

Far away view! LOL click pic hope it's closer

(had to split pic so you could see it)

This is the third one in a series of 4 wall hangings for my daughter's dorm room.

Cuts are as follows:
"S" Umbrella from Designer Calendar Cricut cartridge that I won from Cuttlebug Challenges cut at 2". The rain is liquid pearls
"P" Shamrocks are from Designer Calendar cut at 2" and 1", inked and raised with foam tape
"R" Dragonfly from Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge cut at 2", blue Stickles used on the wings and the flight pattern is gold glitter glue
"I" are bunnies from Doodlecharms Cut at 2" and 1 1/4"
"N" The gorgeous eggs are cut from Designer Calendar at 1 1/2" and glitters with Martha Stewart glitter
"G" are Tuilps from Designer Calendar cut at 2" and 3/4" run through the Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls folder to emboss and also Stickled

The letters for S P R I N G were cut at 2" from Designer Calendar
Please click on the pictures to see a better view. TFL

Hello There!

These ducks are too cute! They are from Doodle Charms Cricut cartridge cut at 2" and 1 1/4"
Their bodies are run through the D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing folder as well as a portion of the base purple card stock.
The pp is from Provo Craft, the little tag is a leftover from a Valentine project that I did not use and thought it fir in perfect on this card.

Entering this card in the following challenges:
Allsorts - tag ticket or label challenge #40
Die Cuts R Us challenge blog - we were to use leftovers for challenge 27
and the layout of this card is from The Pink Elephant Challenge

Thinking of you

Created this card for a few challenges in mind.
The mailbox is from Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge cut at 3"
The sentiment is a Stampendous stamp inked with Red Stayzon ink
The back ground is embossed with the daisy folder and also the wooden post is embossed as well.

The card follows these challenges:
Allsorts Challenge - ticket, tag or label
Just Buggin' emboss it
Paper Cutz - get well card (this is going to a Mission on the Cricut card Fairy forum
SophistiCat - also embossing

Let it Snow

Since I cut out one snowman for the last card for Frosted Designs snowman theme- I did another - this time he was cut from Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge at 1 3/4 to fit the layout at PinkGem. To assist me with the layout I used the color theme at Colour Create - fabulous challenge to use Red, White/off white, chocolate and pink.
All the embossing and sanding is from the Cuttlebug snowflake 5x7 embossing folder. Love it! you can pick the snowflake you want
Let it snow is a little Sizzlits. Brads added in the color per the layout allowed me to enter this in Practical Scrappers brads challenge. These are mini brads from Michael's

Merry

Created this card using the layout from Creat4Fun challenge#7 and the concept of snowmen from Bah! Humbug # 6 challenge.

Elements included those from Frosted Designs (stars) and Crafty Catz Button and Bows challenge #19
I used my circle Coluzzle to cut the double mat behind the snowman (which was cut from Doodle charms at 2 3/4"). The sentiment is from a Cuttlebug embossing folder that I added Martha Stewart glitter too.

Merry

Created this card for two challenges, one at Just Buggin #21 Monochromatic challenge, and a new blog I started following today. Bah! Humbug! - we had to use glitter. Oh the messy stuff! Which I have a ton of glitter but try not to use it. LOL

Trees cut at 3" from Doodle Charm Cricut cartridge, the base card was run through the new HSN - Cuttlebug Flurries folder, the glitter - ultra fine from Provo Craft

Snowman hello

Created this card - yes I have started a weekly Christmas card creation - as I did last year to get my stash ready for December 1st when I mail out - about 40 Christmas cards.
Challenges helped me to create them weekly so BBtB this week wanted us to use the Snowman from Doodle Charms Cricut cart- one of my fav carts! I cut him at 3", the layout I used to complete this card is from DCRU

Martha Stewart felt snow flake morder and also the snowflake punches inside the card.
Rhinestone from Studio 18
Butterfly punch from Emagination
Sentiment by Inkadinkado
Background for base cardstock is the new snowflake Cuttlebug folder only released to HSN in the 5 x 7 size.

Winter Banner 2

I made this for my daughter's dorm room per her request as I had made a FALL banner back in September. So you will see SPRING and SUMMER accordingly as she would like a matching set.
W = Skating Children ACY key #28s at 3"
I = Snowflakes ACY Key 28 Icon at 2"
N = Trees DC Key # 44 border 2"
T = Penguin JOTS at 2" and 1 1/2"
E = Snowman DC Key #1 at 3"
R = Sleigh JOTS Key 13 at 2"

Font cut at 2" from ACY Cricut cartridge

Winter Banner 1

I made this for our home (please click the picture to see a closer image)
The cuts are as follows using Cricut cartridges
W - 2 Turtle Doves - from JOTS cut at 2"
I - Border of Trees - from DC at 2"
N - Penguins - from JOTS cut at 2" and 1 1/2"
T - Snowflakes - 5 were made using Martha Stewart punch
E - Ornament - this was made using a Stampin' Up punch and silver ink was used
R - Santa and Child - ACY - 3"

Back ground paper from Hot off the Press

More CD hanging decoration/ornaments

Hi Folks - I made these for each of my extended family members. I brought them to Thanksgiving Dinner and they got to pick one.

The base is a CD that I covered with SB paper and Cricut cuts.
They all loved them and have asked for more! My brother and newphew brought me the CD's to I can make loads and it was suggested I make them for al lseason and holidays. What a great idea!
Here are some inspiration for you - if you like to make them.
The cuts are from JOTS ,DC and ACY