Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Challenge 15

Well this week Maria has a "Color Inspiration Challenge #15 (05-04-09)" at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog.

Here was the inspirations we were to use.

Here is my creation.

EK Success snowflake border punch, pearls from Michael's craft store. Ribbon from Michael's dollar area.

Sentiment from Inkadinkado, color textured card stock by DCWV.

Cricut Mat - re-use by painting tape

On the MB folks try any way to re-use a well loved mat.
I do not reglue the mat - I just use Painters Blue Tape. You know the kind for walls- and you want to tape off the area..... Works great and this is how I do it:Here is the cut I did. Cut the card perfectly.Here is if I wanted to use a middle of a sheet in the middle of the mat.
I have two mats. and I always keep some pieces on the side until I am ready to cut.

Sympathy - WC used

Quite a few Sympathy cards needed lately.

Here is one I used with the Wild Card cartridge from Cricut.

Birds and Swirls Cuttlebug folder uses on the front and inked.

This is a three panel card - you could fold it either way.

Hello - peeking monkey card

"Hello" Cut from Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Branch cut from JOTS and the cute monkey is a two step Provo Craft Cuttlekids die.

D'Vine swirl Cuttlebug Embossing folder used on front. I made these for my daughters three college friends - they are almost done with their 1st year of college.

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Challenge 14

Week 14 at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long


Here is my creation.

Stamp set from K&Company

Snowflake punch from Martha Stewart

Paper from My Mind's Eye
Ribbon from Michael's dollar bin, ribbon slide punck by EK Success.

With Sympathy - CB and MS

I had the base card done previously in my stash for a "when needed" card.

I added the strip of CB Swiss Dot embossing, the Martha Stewart twig punches to the With Sympathy that I stamped on a Stampin' Up scallop circle punched piece. Love these punches!

Tea Folding card - The Cuttlebug Spot challenge

This week at The Cuttlebug spot BLOG Challenge #28: Time for Tea
We are to create a card or LO with tea bag folding technique. Which I have never done.

Here is my sample card.

Stylized Flowers embossing folder used on My Mind' Eyes paper and sanded to reveal white core of the paper.

The Tea Bag paper is a printable from Circle of Crafters

Pearl accents on each petal.

Mini Album from paper tubes

I saw this idea on a blog (paperjewels), while blog hopping Friday night. My sister and I just had a birthday (yes, I am a twin) and coincidentally she just gave me a bag of paper towel/toilet paper tubes figuring I could use them for something. Little did she know - I just found the idea and she was getting this surprise mini album.

So I made a mini album using 4 of the tubes, covering them in 6 x 6 in pattern paper. (My Minds Eye)

Used my Crop-a-dile to add large eyelets. Tied multiple strings to binder rings.

Tags cut (Pocket full of Posies - DCWV) and inserted in the opening of each flattened out tube. Also eyelets and ribbon used to the tags. Corner rounder used on the tags.

Cricut Wild card cartridge used for the font.

Martha Stewart butterfly punch also used on the cover.

Faux stitches and paper piercing used

Tied it all together with this fabulous yellow ribbon using two ribbon brads.

Hang in There

The card base was cut using Wild Card from Cricut. Cut at 4" but flipped.

Base was embossed using Cuttlebug Swirls folder.

The bird is cut from Indie Art (Cricut) and glue to the apeture.

Sentiment inside also on the same key as the card.

I think the purple is striking on the white.

Ad inspired challenge # 11

So - I happened along the challenge that Jade is doing over at the C-MB, so I thought to give it a try. http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=4442566&mpage=1&key=&
The colors were pink and orange - mind you not the two colors I would think go together - but a little embossing and inking - I think I like this card!




Recipe:
Wild Card Cricut cartridge size 4"
Cuttlebug Swirls and birds embossing done to the front.
The Frame was also CB using the swiss dots. inks and glued in place.
The birds are from the tweet cut on Wild Card to go with the base card. (raised with foam dots)