Sunny Day Crafting: G is for Giraffe

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today at Sunny Day Crafting we have a new challenge.

Today's challenge is 

Ch# 48 G is for Giraffe

For my card today, I am using an old Stampin' Up stamp that I have to make a baby shower tag.  I went to wrap a gift the other day for a friends new baby and realized I didn't have any tags.  Because I was running short on time, here is what I came up with.

 I can't remember the name of the stamp set but it had this cute Giraffe and also the sentiment.  The tag is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More p. 90 cut at 4".

I stamped the Giraffe using my SU Close to Cocoa ink.   I also added some Cupcake Twine by Doodlebug Designs.

Card Series #10: Thank Heaven for Little Girls (Cricut Based Card)

Today I am showcasing a card I made using Cricut Baby Steps and George and Basic Shapes.  

I hope you enjoy!

Miss Kate Cuttables Guest Designer:

Happy Friday Crafters,

It's Anita from Scrappy Happy Mommy and I have been wanting to share this news with you for months but had to keep it under wraps.... I was picked to be one of Miss Kate Cuttables Guest Designers for 2016 and I'm extremely excited and honored. 

Today I finally get to share with you a card I made with two of the fabulous Miss Kate Cuttables files. 

Did you know that you can get a Freebie every single day of the week by visiting here...!!!  

And they are always so super cute and EASY to use!

The  card I made was created using the Elephant With Heart Balloon file and Tag Set File.

 The patterned paper is from the DCWV Baby Boy stack. I inked around the edges using Tim Holtz Broken China ink.

My cute little elephant....I added some My Craft Spot twine in Baby Blue instead of the string on the SVG.
The sentiment is from Cardz TV Simple Thoughts stamp set.

The inside sentiment is from Cardz TV Count Your Blessings stamp set.

Card Recipe: 

*Miss Kate Cuttables: Elephant with Heart Balloon 

*Miss Kate Cuttables Tag Set

*DCWV Baby Boy

*My Craft Spot Baby Blue twine

*Cardz TV Simple Thoughts and Count Your Blessings available here

*Tim Holtz Broken China ink

*Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip ink

Thanks for stopping by. Have a Scrappy Happy Day!!!

Anita

ScrappyHappyMommy

DCD Challenge #197: Life's Litte Blessings

Happy Diva Tuesday! We are back from our Christmas Break with a great challenge for you today.

We have some wonderful challenges for you in 2015 and hope that you will join us every Tuesday!
For those that are joining us for the first time, here are our weekly rules...

1.  All projects must include at least one die cut. Those that do not include a die cut will not be submitted as part of random.org for eligibility for Sponsored prize.

2.  Projects need to be new. No back linking please.

3.  You may enter up to 3 times.

4.  Each new challenge will begin every Tuesday 6 EST, and end the following Sunday evening at midnight.

5.  Winners will be announced every second week.

6.  Winners have one week to claim their prize or prize will be forfeited.

7.  Winners are chosen by Random.org

Our challenge this week is a sketch challenge. Our sketch is designed by the wonderful and talented Georgiana from Carson's Cricut Creations

For my creation, I made a baby boy card.  My baby card stash is getting low so time to stock up.  
I used my Cricut Baby Steps Cricut Cartridge and my Cardz TV Stamp sets. I used Congratulations and Count Your Blessings stamp sets. 

 

Here is my finished card

 the patterned paper is by DCWV Baby Boy Stack

I used my white Gelly Roll pen to do some Faux stitching.

 The inside of the card

I hope you join us this week for our sketch challenge over at Die Cuttin' Divas. The Design Team had so many wonderful ideas this week for you all so head over to their individual blogs and leave them some comment love if you have time!

I am entering this into the following challenge:
Cut It Up Challenges#61: New Beginnings (Baby)
Double Click: New Baby

Materials Used:
*Cricut Baby Steps Cartridge p. (Clothes)
*Cricut Platin' Schoolbook Cartridge p. 72 (Ovals)
*DCWV Baby Boy Stack
*Cardz TV Stamp Sets Congratulations and Count Your Blessings
*Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa ink
*Recollections Cardstock
*White Gelly Roll Pen
*4 Blue Pearls

Wild Card 2 Video Series #45: Baby Card

Card #45 "Baby Card"

Wild Card 2 Video Series #44: Oven Card

Card #44 "Oven Card". Enjoy!

FCCB #213: Card Stash

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #213 Card Stash

This Weeks Sponsor

Classic Dad Stamp Set

~This Weeks Challenge~

Card Stash

Create a project to replenish your stash: Baby, Thank You, Birthday, etc.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

I have been updating my Birthday card stash over the past month but really am low on baby cards! So I made a set of boy and girl baby cards using all scraps that I had in my stash.  I used Teddy Bear Parade to make the cute little bears....(Picture Heavy). I used OWH Sketch #2 as my card inspiration.

 the pair of bears....

Baby Girl Bear

The inside
 
Baby Boy Bear

 Close up

Inside
Please join us this week at FCCB!

Materials Used:
*A2 Card
*Teddy Bear Parade "Baby" at 3"
*OWH Sketch #2
*Patterned paper DCWV Baby Boy Stack, Me & My Big Ideas Baby Girl stack
*Cardz TV Stamps That's My Boy, Girl Talk and Congratulations stamp sets
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
*Blue ribbon by Offray
*Pink Ribbon by Ki Memories

DCD #158: Celebrate Umbrella Month

Happy Tuesday.  I am getting so sick of Winter, but apparently Winter is not sick of me.  NB is supposed to get hit again tomorrow with another 20+cm of snow.  At this point I'm wondering where am I going to put it?
So I am loving this challenge.  Did you know that March is National Umbrella Month? Well this week at Die Cuttin' Divas we are celebrating just that.  We challenge you to  include an umbrella somewhere's on your project...
I chose to make a simple baby boy Shower card.  I used my Everyday Pop Up Cards and some old scraps of baby boy paper from a Mini album that I made.  Here is my project.

See....Easy Peasy!
So before you start your Umbrella Challenge, head over to Die Cuttin' Divas and see some FABULOUS Umbrella project by our talented Design Team.

Materials used:
*A2 Card
*Patterned paper (Scraps) all by DCWV Baby Boy Stack
*Every Day Pop Up Cards p. 36 at 3 1/2"
*Twine Baby Blue by My Craft Spot
*Stamped sentiment by Kolette Hall "Shower"
*Glossy Accents (umbrella top)
*Cardstock by Recollections
*memento tuxedo black ink

Wild Card Series #48: Shower

The final card in the Wild Card Series.  Next I will put together the 2 boxes and envelopes.
The shower card can be found on p. 79 of the manual and was cut at 8" using 12 x 12 cardstock.  It is a little large for me so I'm sure an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock and Fit To Page feature would be really nice.
I added a small sheet of white cardstock behind the card image to really make it pop.
Here it is.

Materials Used:

*Wild Card Cricut Cartridge (p. 79) cut at 8"

*cardstock by Recollections

*Patterned paper by Colorbox

Wild Card Series #45: Carriage

I love this card and I have used it quite a bit for baby showers and baby gifts!  I would say it's my favorite from the Wild Card Series.  I cut the card, envelope and accessories at 6".

Materials Used:
*Wild Card Cricut Cartridge (p. 76) cut at 6"
*patterned paper by Recollections Baby Boy stack
*Zoo paper from my stash (DCWV?)

Die Cuttin' Divas #111: Astronomy Day

Good Morning crafting friends.  Today we are inspired by Astronomy over at Die Cuttin' Divas. Our challenge this week, to celebrate Astronomy Day, you are to use a star in your project.
Our Guest Diva is Janet of Janet's Creative World.
For my project, I used the Baby Steps Cricut Cartridge.  There are a lot of extra cuts in this cartridge and when searching through the book, I came across this star. I changed the sentiment in a few different stars.

Be sure to head over to Die Cuttin' Diva's to check out some other fabulous projects by the design team.

Materials Used:
*A2 Card
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Baby Steps Cricut Cartridge (p. 64)
*Sentiments by Studio G
*Buttons
*Twine by American Crafts
*Ribbon
*Brown ink by Studio G

Craft Your Passion Challenge #158: Adorable Animals

For Paper Playtime Challenge #8: More than 1 fold click here...


Welcome to another challenge at Craft Your Passion.  This week our sponsors are Doodle Pantry and The Paper Shelter.
Our theme this week is "Adorable Animals."
For my project, I used The Paper Shelter's image The Most Adorable Panda.  This image is so sweet and I just love the eyes....
I decided to make a baby announcement tag for my project, using their pre-colored image.

Be sure to head over to Craft Your Passion to see some beautiful "Adorable Animals" projects by our Design Team.

Materials Used:
*The Paper Shelter image The Most Adorable Panda
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Sentiments by Recollections
*Ribbon by Offray
*Patterned paper by Colorbox

Die Cuttin` Divas #110: Pastels

It's Tuesday and we have a great challenge for you this week over at Die Cuttin` Divas. Our Guest Diva this week is Robin from Cut One Designs.
This week's sponsor is The Twinery.
For my Pastel project, I used the rattle from Wild Card and of course, had to add some bling.

Be sure to head over to Die Cuttin' Divas to see some wonderful "pastel" inspired projects by the other Divas!

Thanks for stopping by.
Anita

Materials Used:
*A2 card
*Patterned paper by DCWV Nana's Nursery
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Wild Card Cricut Cartridge (p. 76)
*Recollections Border punch
*Sentiments by Recollections
*Button brad by Recollections
*Bling
*Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Craft Your Passion Challenge #154: Ribbon or Lace

For Paper Playtime's Challenge click here....

Today we have a great challenge for you over at Craft Your Passion.  This week our theme is to use Ribbon or Lace.
Our sponsor for this weeks theme is The Sugar Kissed Cottage.

I chose to use the image Little Miss Muffet for my Sugar Kissed Cottage image.  I love this image and it immediately made me think of that darling little Nursery Rhyme.
Here is my finished project.  I chose to use Ribbon for mine.

Make sure to head on over to Craft Your Passion and see what other wonderful Ribbon or Lace inspired projects the Design Team has made.

Materials Used:
*Image by The Sugar Kissed Cottage
*5 x 7 card
*Ribbon by Offray
*Blender Pen
*Stampin' Up pastels
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Mulberry flower
*Bling (Large and small) purple hues

Teresa's Blogaversary Blog Hop

Hello to all our crafty friends! We have a great blog hop for you today. A little over a year ago Teresa began this new blog to celebrate the fact she wanted a change in her life. And for that change to be permanent came lots of prayer and leaning on God to give the right answers. The answers He needed to give not the answers Teresa desired. Well here we are 1 year later and Teresa is a Stay at Home Wife loving life and doing all she needs to do to create a warm, loving atmosphere for her family!

So thanks for joining us today...Teresa asked all the participants to create something that represented a change in their life...So hop on along.

If you've hopped along from Angela then you are in the right place.  If you are just joining us, please be sure to click here to start at the beginning so you do not miss any of the fun. There will be some awesome blog candy for one hopper that follows and comments on each blog along the way.  Teresa will be choose with Random. org the winner on Monday 1/14.

The big change that I experienced this year was welcoming my 3rd child, a baby girl in September. Going from a family of 4 to 5 was a huge change, especially that my other two are under the age of 5.  So needless to say, there are days that it feels like I run a zoo.  My project that I made focused on the baby theme.  I wanted to make a little gift box for a shower gift using Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 along with Everyday Pop Up Cards.  I used Lacey Labels for the mat. 

 What a wonderful gift idea.  I love it better than those gift bags because it's more personable and you could even make a matching card for it.

 It fit a onesie, 6 facecloths, a bottle and a bottle of Zincoxide.

The bird matches the bird in the background paper.  I wanted to stray slightly away from the "normal" baby themed gift wrapping.

Next on the hop is Sandy.  Should you get lost along the way, here is the entire line up

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  Teresa~ http://freshandrenewed.blogspot.com/

  An’Jenic~ http://anjenicgibson.blogspot.com/

  Lori ~ http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

  Anita - http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca

  Sandy- http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

  Miranda - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/

  Sarah - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

  Michele ~ http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com/

  Melissa ~ http://iamapapermaniac.blogspot.com

  Daphne~http://craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com/

  
  

  
  

  Materials Used:

  *Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 Cricut Cartridge by Provocraft (p.25) cut at 11 1/4"
  *Patterned paper by DCWV The Preppy Princess Stack (2 sheets needed for box)
  *Lacey Labels Cricut Cartridge by Provocraft cut at 4 3/4"
  *Everyday Pop Up Cards Cricut Cartridge by Provocraft (p. 29) cut at 2" for bird
  *Brad for bird's eye
  *Cardstock by Recollections
  
  Challenged Entered:
  Cardz TV DT Challenge: Baby New Year

Cut It Up #9: Out With the Old!

Happy Friday and I hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas with your family and friends.  It's time for another challenge at Cut It Up.  This time the challenge is "Out With The Old."  You are to create a project that reuses something from the house that you typically would not use in your papercrafting. (ie. A pendant from an old necklace, the acetate backing from a sticker sheet, fabric from some old clothing, etc) and remember to use a die cut. The prize for this weeks challenge is sponsored by Cut It Up.

A few weeks ago my wonderful staff hosted a baby shower for my daughter and me.  I went through my gift bag "hoarding" collection the other night and cut off all of the ribbon and even cut some of the bags to use as a background mat for paper.
For this project I used some of the many different ribbons that I collected and also some of the background mats (hard to see on this project)
Here is the finished project...

Materials Used:
*A2 Size card (long)
*ribbon and gift bag for mat
*Patterned paper by Ki Memories Enchanted Paper Stack
*Baby Steps Cricut Cartridge by Provocraft  cut at 3 1/4"
*Peachy Keen #650 Just Baby Faces Assortment 5/8"
*Strip of patterned paper (3 3/4" x 1 1/2")
*Yellow Glitter Glue by Studio G
*Stampin' Up for Sentiments
*Dimensionals
*Gelly Roll pens
*Cardstock by Recollections Butterfly Wings Collection