Lucky Turtle

Did I happen to mention how much I love Create A Critter 2.  What adorable images.  Since St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, I just had to make a card with the Lucky Turtle found on p. 38 of the Cricut manual.  I had some left over patterned paper from a St. Patrick's Day card from last year and wanted to use it up.

Materials Used:
*Card 7 x 5
*Cardstock by Recollections
*Patterned paper by Recollections Shamrocks
*Ribbon by Celebrate It! St. Patrick's Day
*Create a Critter 2 Cartridge by Provocraft (p. 38)
     -Lucky Turtle and Layers @ 3"
     -Icon and Phrase @ 2"
*EK Success Scallop Border Punch
*Green and Yellow Stickles by Studio G
*Dimensionals

Challenges Entered:
Cardz TV: Luck of the Irish

My first Mini Album!

Hi everyone.  I wanted to share a great big milestone for the average crafter in me.  I finally made my first mini album and I can honestly say I am now addicted to them!
I got the idea for this from a Facebook group called Play Along.  This is a great group full of wonderful ideas and you just sign up for what you'd like to participate in.  Many challenges don't have a time limit, some do, and there are usually tutorials for that challenge.
Ginger from My Sisters Scrapper led the group in a 5 video tutorial.  Ginger is an excellent teacher and I found the video's to be perfect to follow with lots of great ideas.
So here is my first mini album.  I chose to do a Halloween Mini (1st mini, I wanted to choose a very basic and easy theme).

Thanks for watching and if you're not part of the Facebook Play Along group, do so!
Anita

Tic Tac Toe Challenge-Die Cuttin' Divas #104

What a wonderful challenge this week in store for all of you over at Die Cuttin' Divas. This week challenge #104 is a Tic Tac Toe Grid.  Choose any row and remember to have fun!

This week our Guest Diva is Diana from DL. Art.
Our sponsor this week is Leave a Paper Trail and they have kindly donated a gift certificate to the winner.

For my project, I chose to go across the bottom for the Tic Tac Toe grid (flowers, embossing, ribbon).
I also used A Quilted Christmas Cricut Cartridge and made my first Christmas Card for 2013!

My Card is a 5 x 7 card.

The flowers are from my stash that I got last year in the Dollar bin at Michael's.  I used the Metallic Collection by Recollections for the angel. 

The inside sentiment...
Be sure to check out Die Cuttin' Diva's this week to see more creations from the wonderful Design Team.

Materials Used:
*5 x 7 card
*Metallic's Collection by Recollections
*A Quilted Christmas Cricut Cartridge
*Ribbon by Holiday Time Dot String
*Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder
*Michael's paper flowers Nouveau Noel found in Dollar bin at Michael's
*Inkadinkadoo O Holy Night stamp set for sentiment

Puppy and Chick: Challenge #151

Good morning! Today's Monday! You know what that means...it's another challenge over at Craft Your Passion. We have a wonderful challenge for you today.
Our sponsor for today's challenge is Birdie Brown. They kindly gave the design team 1 image out of 3 to work with today. All images are so cute and it was a hard pick, but eventually I decided on Puppy And Chick. So adorable...

Today's challenge is all about banners! Please include a banner on your project.  Remember, we welcome any craft project you would like to submit such as cards, scrapbook pages, ATC's, altered art.....ANYTHING!

As mentioned, I used Birdie Brown image Puppy and Chick.

Be sure to head over to Craft Your Passion to see other fabulous projects with images from Birdie Brown.

Materials Used:
*5 x 7 card
*Image Puppy and Chick by Birdie Brown
*Chocolate Baker's Twine from My Craft Spot
*Prisma coloring pencils
*Banner and font cut using Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge
*Glossy Accents

My Christmas Stash is Low Blog Hop: Up On The Housetop

Welcome to the My Christmas Card Stash is Low Hop!

It is our sincere hope that this helps to inspire you to get working on those Holiday cards early so as to reduce a little of the stress felt around the season!

You should be coming from Mary's blog but if you just found your way here please start at the beginning at Sarah's blog.

There will be 2 blog candies for this hop.

1. There will be a stash prize given out randomly to 1 comment from all the blogs. So the more blogs you comment on, the better chance you have of winning!! You will have until Tuesday the 26th at 11:59pm CST to comment. Sarah will announce the winner on Wednesday morning.

2. The second prize will have a little more work for you to enter. Were going to have a little challenge for you to enter. 1st you will need to stop and comment on every blog. 2nd you will need to create a holiday card/gift tag/general gift giving paraphernalia and enter it at the inlinkz on Sarah's blog. You have a week to enter and you can enter up to 3 projects. The prize for this challenge is:

For my project, I chose to make a long card and I used Create a Critter 2 and Simply Charmed.

Wouldn't you want this cute bear on your roof?

Thanks for stopping by. In case you get lost along the way here is the whole line up:

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

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

Shelley- http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/

Mary - http://irongatestamps.blogspot.com/

Anita - http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca

Christine- http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/

Carla - http://racincrafts.blogspot.com/

Sandy- http://www.scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com

Robin - http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/

Sheila- http://2pawprints.blogspot.com

Shawnee - http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com

 Materials Used:

*9 x 4 card (long)

*Patterned paper by Me & My Big Ideas

*Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge

*Create a Critter 2 Cricut Cartridge

*Cherry Red baker's twine by My Craft Spot

*Studio G Glitter Glue in red and icicle

*Recollections and Hero Arts stamps for sentiment

*Foam tape

*Cardstock by Recollections

Cut Up Up Challenges #13: Pinterest Inspired

Happy Friday everyone!  Today we have an awesome challenge over at Cut It Up Challenges. Today's challenge is called Pinterest Inspired. I am sure most of you are a "Pinner!"  If not I will give you a warning. This site is OVERLOAD addiction.  So many amazing ideas and a great way to keep them all safe instead of using bookmarks. For today's challenge you are to create a paper project that was inspired by something you saw on Pinterest.  Don't have Pinterest? Don't worry you can still play, just use inspiration from a fellow crafter or someone you follow in blogging world.  It is very important though, please give credit to the original source in your blog post by providing a link to their project.  Remember to use a die cut somewhere in your project.
For my inspiration, I chose to give my own take on a wonderful Patriotic card from a fellow Canadian Crafter.  I have been a long time follower of her and saw this on Pinterest and knew immediately that I wanted to do it.  Her name is Cindy and you can find her wonderful blog here.
Here is her original creation found here, and this is what Cindy created.

This is my take on her wonderful design. I used Create a Critter, Go Canada and Doodlecharms cartridges.

Isn't that just sweet!
This challenge starts today, February 22nd and ends March 6th.

Materials Used:
*A2 size
*cardstock by Recollections
*Patterned paper Blue Christmas by Recollections
*Create a Critter, Doodlecharms, Go Canada Cricut Cartridges
*Peachy Keen PK #754 Critter Faces Medium
*My Craft Spot Baker's Twine in Cherry Red
*White Gelly Roll pen
*Creamy Brown ink (inked RCMP hat)
*Stamp by Studio G

Polar Bear Challenge-Die Cuttin' Divas #103

Happy Tuesday everyone.  It's another fantastic challenge this week at Die Cuttin' Divas. It could give you a great start to your Christmas Cards for 2013!
Our guest Diva this week is Katie

Challenge: Use a Polar Bear

For my project, I chose to make a Christmas Card (my first for this year) using A Quilted Christmas.  I wanted the sentiment to be a huge part of this card so I didn't put one on the front.

I added some sparkle to the card using bling, on the polar bear itself and used Glitter Glue on the patterned paper.

Now isn't that a "sparkling" little ticket....For more beautiful Polar Bear inspired projects, please check out my fellow DT sisters over at Die Cuttin' Divas.

Materials Used:
*A2 size card
*Cardstock by Recollections Neutrals & Spice Market
*Patterned paper by Recollections Blue Christmas paper pad
*Metallics(White & Gold) and Glitter cardstock (blue) by Recollections
*A Quilted Christmas (p. 66) at 3 1/2"
*Recollections border punch
*Studio G Glitter Glue
*Sentiment by Hero Arts
*bling (2)
*2 thicknesses of foam tape