4 Challenges In One (2 Sketches 4 You, Use It, Bitten By the Bug, Pile It On) ~ Way to say Happy 4th of July!

I found this new challenge called Pile It On and the purpose of it is to do it as a challenge + as many others as you can in the same project! Wow! Sounds hard but actually this project ended up easy to use them all! This is actually a door hanging. I got the idea from one of the design team members of Bitten By the Bug. Here are the challenges:

Bitten By the Bug - Use jumbled freedom words from Cricut Graphically Speaking (Independence is also from the same cartridge!)

2 Sketches 4 You, Laura Sketch #29 (used that for how I set it up!)

Use It #16 - Use Polka Dots, inspired by nature (the little owl!), favorite embellishments (I used the ribbon, flowers, button, and die cuts), and send to someone you care about. In this case I'm going to hang this on my door at work because it will cheer everyone up! So all those people are special! Hope that counts!

Pile It On #4 - Use 4 Buttons.

As I said in an earlier post for the same Use It challenge, I've been cleaning and reorganizing my scrap space and so I "found" the red polka dotty paper and didn't realize just how much fiber I had and this was a fun way to use it! I can't wait to take this to work tomorrow and hang it on my door!

2 Challenges In One ~ Thank You Card

For this card, I combined the Use It #16 Challenge with the Card Patterns #21 Sketch!

The Use It #16 Challenge was brought to us by Kay Sibley and was to be:

**Polka Dots (check, check ~ got lots of polka dots going on here!)

**Something from Nature (check, check ~ turtles and flowers)

**Favorite Embellishment (check ~ I have lots of faves but I love stacking flowers right now and putting a button on them! I also love die cuts with the cricut so the thank you is from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge)

**Send it to someone special (this will go to my parents who had my kids visit for a little over a week ~ I think it is great for my kids to get to know their grandparents but it still is hard to be patient when you haven't had kids around for quite awhile!)

And, for extra points I actually "found" both of these cool papers as I've been going through and reorganizing my scrap area! You wouldn't believe all the cool things I've found! I shouldn't have to shop for a long time (but will I???? Maybe I should Use It more often!).

2 Sketches 4 You ~ Kazan's Sketch 29

I had some great fun with Kazan's Sketch #29 this week! I have several friends and family with late June and July birthdays! So I took my scraps and leftovers of Little Yellow Bicylce Zinnia collection (I made a cool frame for my mom for Mother's Day with it) and started cutting out elements for the cards! They all use a Technique Tuesday Birthday Stamp and the cake is from the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. The flourish ont he side and the circle and flower circle are both cut with a revolution cookie cutter die. I changed around the papers and the bling (there is lots of it!)
and changed the directions of the card! I came out with 4 similar but different cards so I had to share them all!

This was great fun!

Thanks Kazan for a great sketch this week!

Can't wait to see who moves forward in the Ultimate Card Contest!

Another Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

I had so much fun with my other entry that I decided to do another one (you can do 2 and they are due tonight at midnight!).

This is for my sister Darleen's birthday (not till end of July so whoo hoo I'm ready early!).

I used patterned paper from Basic Grey Lime Rickey. It's Your Day and the silhouette flowers are from the George Cricut cartridge. The ribbon was a little piece of leftover from my silverwood books. The little bird is a quickutz revolution. On top of the flowers I put these little foam beads that I found at Michaels tonight. They looked very cool and worked out great with the flowers!

Thanks for having such a great contest! It was fun and it helped motivate me to get a couple projects done!

Primary Colors! Card Patterns #20 and a Birthday Card!

I just bought this cool paper pack (6 X 6) of Basic Grey called Lime Rickey and I just love the bright colors.

I used that paper for the background of my card for Card Patterns #20 this week. I didn't have anything that would make a whole square of scallops so I used my revolution border scallop and bordered the "totally fab." My daughter needed some thank yous for her 5th grade graduation presents so I pulled out one of the cutting cafe's (see link to the right ~ they are so cool) printable stamps that I had gotten awhile back and used it. I added some flowers and buttons that I've had around for awhile. I love anything with black because it makes it pop so that is why I chose the black for the scallps and ribbon.



My son will be going to a friend's birthday party in July and I had some more of those cute penguins cut out (revolution die) so I framed him in another cool cutting cafe printable stamp ~ you've got to love these cool big circles stamps ~ I use them alot. HB2U is cut from the cricut Alpahlicious cartridge.


Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Bitten By the Bug Contest Entry!

I decided to make a card for my dear friend Bonnie who is retiring from the State of Oregon after 30 years! She will be retiring June 30th.

The Bitten by the Bug contest is to make a card using a sketch by Shortcuts and using at least one flower of any cricut cartridge.

I hope my flowers count ~ they are actually dandelions from the Storybook cartridge ~ can a weed be a flower?

All the patterned paper and glass baubles are from K and Company "greenhouse." The glass baubles really look good with the dandelions ~ they don't look like "weeds" after I put those on them! I found these at Michael's yesterday and really wanted to use them! Retirement is cut with the cricut Don Juan cartridge and Congrats is from the cricut Beyond Birthdays cartridge.

Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone who entered the contest!

2 Challenges in One Card (Card Patterns #19 and Use It #14)

I have had this cute Revolution Penguin (Archiver's Exclusive) for quite some time. There are no Archiver's here so my sister Teresa who lives in Texas got it for me and mailed it to me! He/She is so cute.

The Use It #14 challenge this week was to:

**Use Pink

**Use Scallops

**Use a tag

The Card Patterns #19 sketch had a scallop on the top so this was just so natural to put them together! And I got to use my cute penguin. I even doodled on this card!

2 Sketches 4 You (Laura 28)/Father's Day

I made my dad a father's day card weeks ago but at work we are still selling cards for the food drive and there were not many left from last year! So I worked on a few this week to replenish the ones we had. This first one is using up more of my scraps from making my daughter a 8.5 X 8.5 scrapbook for outdoor school (the scrap pile is really diminishing, yeah!). I used the cricut graphically speaking cartridge to cut out authentic and genuine, and the beyond birthdays cartridge for dad. The you're #1 is a dollar stamp (the circle was cut with the cricut george cartridge).

For the other one I used Laura's sketch #28 from 2 Sketches 4 You. I have the patterned paper (American Crafts) for quite some time and it just seemed to go with this sketch. I don't know what brand the black and white checkered paper is as I have had it for a long, long time! You're the Best is from the cricut Alphalicious cartridge and dad is from the beyond birthdays cartridge (I've cut a lot of these out lately but they are just such a nice font!). I used another $1 stamp for the happy father's day and put it on pop dots on a flower (using those up too as I got tons of red flowers for my Christmas cards last year!).

Thanks Laura for another great sketch!

Card Patterns #19/Graduation Altered CD's and Last 2 pages of Silverwood Book

Here is a card for the card patterns sketch #19. My uncle's 80th birthday party is next weekend and my kids are going with my parents (I'm not!). I wanted the kids to have a cool card to give him! I used scraps from Bo Bunny paper (I used it for my daughter's outdoor school book which I will have to post pics of!). It's your day is from the George Cricut Cartridge and so is the circle. The branch is from the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. The scallop is a quickutz revolution 12" die. The 80 and owl are both quickutz 2 X 2 dies. The blingy leaves I got at walmart in the button section.




These next 2 pictures are of the altered CD's I made for each kid in my daughter's 5th grade class. I used a star theme for the boys and hearts for the girls (my daughter had 2 Morgan's in her class ~ one a boy and one a girl!)

I used the Cutting Cafe happy graduation big printable stamps on one side and Cutting Cafe calendar printable stamps on the other side. 5th grade is from the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge, the names are from Don Juan Cricut Cartridge,




Congrats on the star one is from the Teardrop cricut cartridge and the stacked congrats is from Beyond Birthdays Cricut Cartridge.

These were such great fun to make. I also cut 12 of the stacked congrats out really big and hung them from the ceiling with fishing water with blue and white streamers and glittery grad caps.

Both my kids and my daughter's friend Stephenee helped us decorate for her room's breakfast. The kids said their room was the best decorated! Very fun!

And here are my last 2 pages from the Silverwood Book!

100% and Extreme are from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge ~ I love this cartridge!

This last page was kind of a fill in - I ran out of pictures. The black circles I used a doodling template my sister sent me ~ how cool is that! I got the bingo card from the frugal crafter blog fro free. Idaho is cut from the Cricut 50 states cartridge.

The green frame and "day" are from the Storybook Cricut cartridge. And last but not least, the July 2008 are from the revolution cookie cutter calendar dies!

I hope everyone is having a terrific Monday!

1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card

There are so many talented card makers entering the 1st Annual 2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Contest! The prizes are awesome and the talent is so inspiring!

Here is my entry and also a father's day card for my dad!

I recently made my daughter an outdoor school book and used all this cool bo bunny outdoor patterned paper ~ the book was 8.5 X 8.5 so I've got lots of scraps and they just remind me of a masculine card! I cut the scallop edge with a 12" revolution die. The marquee and "hoo" U? is from the cricut storybook cartridge. The heart is a sizzix die (on chipboard). Dad is from pink paisley chipboard letters (my sister Tsscrappinblog sent them to me). The owl ribbon is from Michael's. The button is also from the same bo bunny line. The hat pins are fancy pants and the flower is a prima. The twine is from the jewelry section at Michael's.

I wish everyone good luck on the contest and remember to have fun!

Card Patterns #17/More Silverwood Book!

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch #17! My niece is graduating from 8th grade on friday 6/12. I found out the colors of her school are black and gold!

I used a sizzix frame for my shaker and put a cutting cafe printable big circle on top (see right side for a link to the cutting cafe). The congratulations paper is just white cardstock with different congratulations printed on it with a word processing software. I used it for the back ground of the shaker + the little strip underneath. The black patterned paper has been in my stash for a long time! I used 2 kinds of ribbon and then some gold and black rhinestones to give it some bling! The name plate is also a sizzix (with chipboard behind it) and the 8th grade is cricut Don Juan. I got the gold and black and confetti at Dollar Tree! I think the bling is great for a 14 year old girl!

So here are 3 more pages from my Silverwood Altered Book.

This first page is pictures after they got done riding Thunder Canyon (see my previous post). They had rode thunder canyon 8 times and were already soaked and then went on to the bumper boats where you could also put money into these water guns and shoot at the bumper boats. They were so wet! My daughter couldn't stand it so I had to go out and get her some dry clothes out of the car!





They have some really cool roller coasters at Silverwood and they are all in an area they call coaster alley. We took this picture as we were leaving so that is why it is a little dark!










My altered books had quite a number of pages so I copied the tremors thing from the outside of the packet where they put the pictures they take of you on the ride. I had accidently cut out way to many "scream"s when I was doing the ice cream pages (quite a few posts back) so I used them here! The roller coaster is a Jolee's sticker and the use only as directed is from cricut graphically speaking!

I only have 2 more pages to post from this altered book. Sorry it took so long to get them all in!