Card Patterns #41/Bitten By the Bug Contest!

I made this Turkey Day door hanger using card patterns sketch #41. The contest at Bitten By the Bug was to create something using a turkey, thankful, thanksgiving, etc. I used several cricut cartridges to do this one. Gobble, Gobble is from "blackletter." Happy Day is the gypsy font welded together with the gypsy. The pumpkin border is from gypsy wanderings. The flourishes are from Ashlynn's Alphabet (I used the gypsy to turn one around!!). And the turkey is from Beyond Birthdays. I cut several turkeys out and then pieced the different color feathers together. This was really fun!

Sweet Summer Door Hanger (BBTB Contest and Card Patterns Sketch #22)

I have really been having a good time making Door Hangers instead of cards! They are a bit bigger than a card and you can incorporate a sketch into them so well!

For this one I used the Card Patterns Sketch #22. I love to try their sketches! I'm going on vacation next week so I'm trying to get my fill of scrapping and card making in now!!!

Bitten By the Bug has a contest going on right now where you need to have:

**a summer theme

**cuts from any cricut cartridge (I used Lyrical Letters for the bird, the bush (it is behind all the flowers), and sweet summer and George for the flowers)

**incorporate a yellow button somewhere in it (I've got a big one and several small ones along with a lot of other colors)

The paper is from the Basic Grey Lime Rickey 6 X 6 paper pack.

It is very eclectic and a little outside my normal style but I'm going to put it on my door at work! Just a way to have some art on my door! Maybe it will make someone smile!

I guess this also qualifies for the Pile It On Challenge because this weeks is to have 4 buttons ~ I'm new to that challenge ~ not sure how many times you can post something on it! But I'm on a roll with buttons and challenges this week!

Another Patriotic Door Hanging (4 challenges in One!)

In my last post I made a 4th of July door hanging and one of the awesome comments (there were lots of them ~ thank you all) suggested I do one for the Cuttlebug Challenge. I don't have a lot of cuttlebug dies but I do have these cool nesting stars! The challenge was to use cuttlebug dies (of course), red white and blue, and buttons. I also used the word freedom from the cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge which is the Bitten By the Bug Challenge. I used the general layout of the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch this week again! It does look different then the first one! And last but not least the Pile It On Challenge was to use 4 buttons and as many challenges as possible. I've used round buttons, star buttons and little glittery buttons so there are a lot of buttons on here! I am a little worried it is too busy but it is pretty fun! Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone is having a great 4th of July!

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!

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!

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!

Card Patterns #10/Bitten By the Bug 24/7 Challenge

I combined the Card Patterns Sketch #10 with the Bitten by the Bug 24/7 (Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge) Challenge. Instead of 6 circles down the left side, I used the look of file folder labels and put some of the words that moms do 24/7! After all, moms work really hard! I know my handwriting isn't really neat but it was a fun thought! The paper is all making memories chloe's closet. The file folders were cut with the quickutz file folder die. The thank you and mom are from the Alphalicious Cricut Cartridge. It was a fun card to make.






The next 2 pictures are my "prototypes" for a project for my daughter's 5th grade class for mother's day. Her teacher likes it so I'm going to cut out all the paper and chipboard (from cereal boxes) - 5 X 5 Squares, some hearts, letters, flowers, and some other things. Then they will put them together. There is space on the back for them to do poems, pictures, etc. - whatever the teacher wants them to do. I've got so much patterned paper that it will use some up and goes for a good cause! It will be so fun to see what the kids do with just some of the items! The last 2 years, this teacher has had a mother's day tea and I've helped with the project and it was really cool to see what everyone did. I hope she has the tea again. Now I have a lot of cutting out to do!!!