It has been too long!

I am excited to start posting in my blog again. It has been a busy past 2 years with teaching my PreK students. I did create a few things, but I never had the chance to post. Now that I am off for the summer, I want to start blogging again.

I have spent the past few days on a few blogs that I followed and came across a Father’s Day challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut. They are giving away a $50.00 gift card to SVG Cuts, so I would really love to win that because I am enjoying my Explore. I thought that I was done buying machines, but I had to buy the Explore because you are allowed to cut whatever you want. I was hoping to one day buy the Silhouette Cameo, but I am glad I never did. I could never cheat on my Cricuts :)

Onto the challenge…

I made these cards for my dad and grandpa.

Materials Used

Cartridge: Bump in the Night (mustache cut at 4 inches)

Stamps: Boy Mates Face Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps

             Happiest Moments by My Pink Stamper

Paper: Little Boys and Their Toys by the Paper Studio

Pink By Design 2 Year Extravaganza Challenge #4 ~ Silhouette Shape

Challenge: #4 Create a project with a silhouette shape in it

I am so happy that they didn't say to use the silhouette machine. lol Hopefully I can buy the silhouette machine in December. It will be my Christmas present :D

I had more time to create these cards, so I created a gift set. I just love how girly the Forever Young cartridge is.

Materials Used

Cartridge: Forever Young (silhouette cut at 2 3/4 inches)

Paper: Safari Untamed by the Paper Studio

Pink By Design 2 Year Extravaganza Challenge #3 ~ Embossing

Challenge: #3 Embossing

I love my Cuttlebug and I love how the embossing makes a card pop.

Materials used:

Cartridge: Life’s a Party (monkey cut at 3 ½ inches)

Stamp: More Punny-licious by My Pink Stamper

Other: Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder

Pink By Design 2 Year Extravaganza Challenge #2 ~ Favorite Holiday

Good Morning everyone!!! I am excited about Pink by Design's challenges today. There will be a challenge every hour.

I woke up a little bit late today, so I missed out on the first challenge. I wish that I could participate in all of the challenges today, but I have to go to Lakeshore and laminate a lot of things for my classroom and buy a few more things.

I am super excited because I can start fixing up my classroom on Friday!

Challenge: #2 Favorite Holiday
I love Valentine's Day, so I made this card. 

Materials Used
Cartridge: Sweethearts (cupid cut a 2 inches)

Paper: Best of Damask by My Mind's Eye

Stamp: Love Always by Pink by Design

Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge #58

I made a card for my best friend who is starting nursing school using a sketch from the Peachy Keen Stamps blog.  

The sketch

Challenge

~Create a card based on the layout provided

~Project must include basic elements from the sketch

Materials Used:

Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls (doll)

                  Lacy Labels (accent on the top of the card)

Stamps: Sport-tastic by My Pink Stamper

             Critter Faces (medium) by Peachy Keen Stamps

I am linking this up to...

My Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday (August 2011)/ Project Sunshine and Smiles

I have missed sharing my creations on Robyn’s, My Pink Stamper website, so I was excited that it was finally My Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday. The challenge was to…

Show us YOUR style making your favorite thing!  This could be your favorite color combo, your favorite Cricut cartridge, your favorite technique, etc.  You get it, right??  Just have FUN with this and NO stress!!

I decided to use the butterfly from Once Upon a Princess because it's one of my favorite butterflies and of course I used my favorite color, PINK! I made 4 more cards and I reached my goal of making 100 cards for Project Sunshine and Smiles!!!

Materials used:

Cartridge: Once Upon a Princess (butterfly cut at 3 1/2 inches)

Paper: Simplicity by the Paper Studio

Other: Worn Lipstick Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger

Cards made so far for Project Sunshine and Smiles: 100

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge # 56/ Kiddos Birthday Card Swap (Boys)

Here is the card I designed for the birthday swap for the boys. I used the card sketch from Peachy Keen Stamps.

Challenge

Create a card based on the layout provided (Peachy Keen Stamps are not required for this challenge, but if you've got them, we looooove seeing how you create with them!) 

Project must include basic elements from the sketch, but feel free to get creative and flip them. 

Materials Used:

Birthday Bash (Balloons cut at 3 ½ inches)

Create a Critter (Dinosaur cut at 3 ¾ inches)

Sweetest Cupcakes and Boy Crazy by My Pink Stamper (sentiments)

Check out the card I made for the girls for this swap.

I didn't get to play with my new cartridges yesterday because I had my cousin and niece came over nd they didn't want to leave my craftroom. I showed my cousin how to make a Birthday Explosion Box because her mom’s birthday is coming up. I’ll post pictures of her finished product soon. My lil niece thought that we were making a real cake and she kept wanting to eat it. Too cute!

My Pink Stamper Design Team Call

My Pink Stamper is having a Design Team Call and I am very excited! She is so amazing and creative. It would be an honor to be in her design team.

In order to be considered to be in her Design Team, you are to complete a challenge...

Challenge:  Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......

Orange

Turquoise 

Green

Brown

(other optional color of your choice) I used Pink as my other color of course :)

I created a Tri-Shutter card because I really enjoy making these. I always watch this amazing video to get the cuts of the card.

Recipe:

Paper: Poteeka Souffle from the Paper Studio

Cartridges used: Hannah Montana (small butterfly cut at 1 3/4 inches and large butterfly cut at 2 1/2)

3 Birds on Parade (Best Wishes cut at 2 inches)

Pop dots were used to pop up the butterflies and the sentiment

Explosion Cake Box

Robyn over at My Pink Stamper posted a challenge on Saturday to make anything with a birthday theme. My mom’s birthday is on Saturday so I figured that it would be a good idea to start on her birthday card, banner, etc. I have always wanted to make an explosion box/cake box (it has too many different names), but I thought that they were too hard.

I found a great video online and was able to finally make an explosion box :) It took me all weekend long, but now that I have the hang of it, I hope it doesn’t take this long next time.

I used a few different cartridges. I love using my gypsy because it allows me to search through all the images without having to look at every cartridge.

Birthday Bash (numbers 5 & 1 & the O’s to make the flower)

Birthday Cakes (Happy Birthday sentiment and the border underneath it)

Tags, Bags, Boxes & More (tag-sentiment on tag from My Pink Stamper’s line of stamps, Everyday Life)

Twinkle Toes (elephant~My mom loves elephants!)

Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge #53: Take it easy.

I enjoyed creating a card for the sketch challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps blog, that I had to do another challenge. I was so excited to use my new Peachy Keen stamps that I purchased last week. I fell in love with the stamps and can’t wait to buy some more.

Sketch Challenge with a TWIST

• Create a card based on the layout AND twist provided (Peachy Keen Stamps are not required for this challenge, but if you got 'em, we always love to see what you create with them!)

• Project must include basic elements from provided sketch & a sponging technique
  

While typing up this post, I realized that I didn’t add the sponging technique to my card. I had never tried using the technique, but I liked it. As you can tell, I need practice :)

My card before adding the technique...

I think that adding the sponge technique made it look a little better.

You can’t really tell, but I added an Action Wobble to the card. First time using them and I love how the octopus wobbles.

Cricut Cartridges: Birthday Bash (octopus), elegant cake art (circle design behind the octopus), Elegant Cakes (accent), and Tags, Bags, Boxes & More (tag).

Stamps: Peachy Keen Stamps~Critter Faces (size medium) and My Pink Stamper~More Punny-licious.

Ink: Broken China Distress Ink by Tim Holtz

MAY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

I love the May challenge from the Cricut Circle Blog because I like the idea of using a row from the Tic Tac Toe challenge. I also love the PRIZE! They are giving 5 winners an E2!!! I created a side step card using the 2^nd row in my project.

I used the French Manor cartridge for the peacock and the tower and the Rock Princess cartridge for the crown.

Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge #52

I made a thank you card for my mentor teacher and I looked for a cute sketch to get inspired by, so I used the sketch from Peachy Keen Stamps blog.

Sketch Challenge

• Create a card based on the layout provided (Peachy Keen Stamps are not required for this challenge, but if you got 'em, flaunt 'em!) 
• Project must include basic elements from provided sketch

I used my other favorite cartridge, Hello Kitty Greetings

 since my mentor teacher and I both love Hello Kitty!

Throwback Thursday Challenge

I have missed doing challenges, so I enjoyed doing two challenges yesterday.

This challenge is from My creaTive Time and I was to:

Use ANY "OLDER" cartridge of YOUR choice & PLEASE incorporate the color GREEN & YELLOW somewhere on any project of your choice!

I  made a banner for my mentor teacher and I used one of my favorite cartridges, Hello Kitty Font.

Valentines

Happy Valentine's Day!!!
These are some of the Valentine's Day cards I made for my family.

I made this card for my sister because I love the stamp I used. The stamp came from My Pink Stamper’s Punny-licious stamp set. The owl is from the Cindy Loo cartridge and I chose that owl because it was easy to use pop dots to pop up every layer.

I made this card for my circle pal using the Hannah Montana cartridge. I printed out the saying from my printer.

I made this card for My Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday and the challenge was to use the color black with your favorite color or colors. I used the Create a Critter cartridge for the lion and the Love-alicious stamp set from My Pink Stamper. I also used pop dots to pop up the lion's mane.

I made this card for my mother because she loves elephants and John Lennon, so it was a perfect match. I keep falling more and more in love with Robyn’s stamps and can’t wait to order her new ones. I used the Paisley cartridge and My Pink Stamper’s Love-alicious stamp set. I popped up one ear and the envelope using pop dots.