Use It Tuesday #49---Fasteners

Hi everyone!

Are you guys excited for another great challenge theme starting today at 

Use It Tuesday?

This week is about using up some of your stash of Fasteners: buttons, brads, & eyelets.

When I first started scrapbooking 6 years ago, I was in awe of all the cute little brads that I would find. 

Somewhere along the way, I stopped using all the cute, shaped ones and just stuck to regular round brads. 

For this challenge, I decided to go through my stash of brads and find some that may be feeling a bit neglected from non-use.

Here is the card that I created for this challenge:

See those balloons? 

Those are brads that have been in my stash for 6 years!!!

Whoa!!!

Let me tell you a little bit about the rest of my card.

For my teddy bear, I used the Teddy Bear Parade cricut cartridge and cut her out at 3".

I decided to use a peachy keen stamp for her smile, I can't remember the last time I used those stamps.

I used some stickles for her hat, cupcake icing and the flame on the candle. 

The sentiment I used came from a stamp set from CardzTV stamps. I bought that stamp set back in November I think and just opened it for this card. 

Before attaching my brads to the yellow cardstock, I added a glue dot behind each balloon and attached a piece of hemp cord for the balloon string. Then all I had to do was attached all my layers to my card base, attach my teddy bear and then add a little bit of glossy accents to her hand to hold the strings in place. 

You can read all about the challenge and see the wonderful projects that my DT sisters created at the 

Use It Tuesday Challenge Blog.

Challenge ends Feb. 22, 2013.

I hope you will dig in your stash, find some Fasteners and come play with us, we would love to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and taking a look at my latest creation!

I really appreciate it!

I hope you have a fabulous crafty day!!

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge: Teddy Bear Parade

Card Stock: Pink & Yellow (Recollections), Black and white (Georgia Pacific), Brown (Bazzill), Lt. Brown (DCWV)

Patterned Paper: A Walk In The Park (Echo Park)

Stamps: Everyday Character Face Parts & More (Peachy Keen), Beary Sweet (CardzTV)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Punches: Small Heart Punch (SU!), Clouds/Scallop Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Misc.: Brads, Yellow & Frosted Lace Stickles, Hemp Cord, Foam Adhesive, White Gel Pen (Marvy), Pearls (Queen & Company)

Cut It Up DT Call!!

Have you guys heard???

Cut It Up is having a DT call!

Submissions will be taken until February 20th.

Successful applicants will be notified through e-mail by: February 25^th.

Design Team will be announced: February 28^th.

First Challenge: March 8^th.

To read all about the DT call, just click HERE

To see the new challenge that started 2/8/13, click HERE

Have a great crafty day!!!

Valentine Card

Hi everyone!

I hope your weekend is off to a great start!

Today I get to show you another project for
Dr. Phil Scraps!

With Valentine's Day just a few days away,

I was in the mood to make a card for the occasion.

As you can see, I stayed with the traditional 

colors of red and white.

I kept my card pretty simple so that the

 sentiment stood out. 

I popped my sentiment up on some foam adhesive, added a ribbon bow and a button with some twine threaded through it for some dimension.  

For my sentiment, I used 2 different stamp sets.

The frame inside my white circle came from 

Frame It Up (Item #D1524)

I don't have the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge that coordinates with this stamp set but that's okay :)

You can use them all on their own or in my case, I just found a cartridge that had a circle for this particular frame stamp that I wanted to use.

All I did was cut a circle from the Cricut Essentials (preloaded on the E2) out at 2".

The second stamp I used was the "I Love You" found on the

Dream Big Occasions (Item #D1399) 

There are so many cute images and sayings on that set!

Here is a close up of the stamped images:

I hope you enjoyed my card that I shared with you today!

I will be back next Saturday with another Dr. Phil Scraps project to show you.

I hope you have a fabulous crafty day!

*I created this project while on the Dr. Phil Scraps Design Team*

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge: Cricut Essentials

Card Sotck: Real Red (SU!), White (Georgia Pacific)

Patterned Paper: DCWV

Stamps: Dream Big Occasions & Frame It Up (CTMH)

Ink: Real Ed (SU!)

Die: Large Classic Scallop Circles (Spellbinders)

Misc.: Ribbon, Button, Twine (Trendy Twine), Foam Adhesive, Pearls (Recollections), White Gel Pen (Marvy)

Cut It Up #12

Hi everyone!

Happy Friday!

Today marks the beginning of another fabulous challenge at

Cut It Up!

I'm so excited for this one!

It's going to be a blast!

Challenge #12

"Animation Domination"

Create a project that showcases an animated character. (ie. Hello Kitty, Batman, Winnie The Pooh, Spongebob, etc.) Must use a die cut.

Challenge will run from Feb. 8, 2013 to Feb. 20, 2013 (noon EST)

For my project, I decided to make a card using my Spongebob Squarepants Cricut Cartridge:

I love this image on the cartridge and I thought this sentiment was perfect for him!

He sure does look like he is having a great time dancing and being silly :) 

For more added fun, I attached Spongebob with an Action Wobble so that the person receiving this card can actually make him dance.

So fun!

I hope you will head over to Cut It Up to see all the fun animation projects that my wonderful design team sisters came up with as well as join us and play along!

I would love to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look at my latest creation!

I really appreciate it!

I hope you have a fabulous crafty day!

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge: Spongebob Squarepants (cut out at 3.5")

Card Stock: White (Georgia Pacific), Blue (DCWV), All others (Recollections)

Punches: Xtra large photo corners (SU!), Double Loops (Martha Stewart Crafts)

Stamp: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Pink By Design)

Ink: Real Red (SU!)

Misc.: Glossy Accents (Inkssentials), Action Wobble, Dew Drops (The Robin's Nest)

PDE & Paper Playtime Challenge #3

Happy Monday!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are ready to start off your week with another great challenge from Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges

as well as Paper Playtime!

Pause Dream Enjoy (PDE) Ch#3 MAINLY RED
Paper Playtime (PPT) Ch#3 Use a Border Punch

Begins: Monday, Feb 4

Ends: Sunday, Feb 17

Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab at Pause Dream Enjoy and Paper Playtime.

Here is my project incorporating BOTH challenge themes:

I decided to make a fun little mailbox for my hubby filled with some Valentine candy.

I love getting these little metal mailboxes every year.

I find them at Target in the dollar spot. Since they are only $1 (at least they were last year), I try to stock up on them whenever I see them. 

For the Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge--Mainly Red, I used as much red as I could. I found this patterned paper in my stash and loved the polka dots and thought it would be fun on my little mailbox. 

The "Kiss Me" was cut out of the Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge. I cut both the shadow and phrase at 2".It was a perfect fit for the front. 

For the Paper Playtime Challenge--Use a Border Punch, I used my Lace Heart Border punch and made a border for the middle of my mail box. 

Here is a picture of the front open so you can see all the candy:

As you can see, it holds quite a bit.

That will make my hubby very happy! lol!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today and taking a look at my latest creation!
I really appreciate it!

Don't forget to stop by 
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges
as well as
Paper Playtime 
to see what my wonderful DT sisters came up with for the challenges and to play along with us.
I would love to see what you create!

I hope you have a fabulous crafty day!

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge: Sweethearts

Card Stock: Real Red (SU!), White (Bazzill)

Patterned Paper: SU!

Punches/Dies: Beaded Circle (Spellbinders), Circle Punch (Marvy), Small Heart Punch (SU!), Lace Heart Border Punch (Martha Stewart Crafts)

Misc.: Ribbon (Offray), Mailbox (Target), Bling (The Paper Studio), White Gel Pen (Marvy), Foam Adhesive