Challenge Me Monday: Mother's Day

This week at Fantabulous Cricut the challenge was to make a project for our Mother using her favorite color. I made a tag using one of the fun Mother's Day CCR Exclusives and the tag feature on Gypsy Wanderings.

My Moms favorite color is blue.  I attached the tag to her Mother's Day gift, a hanging basket for her deck.
Happy Mother's day to all the Mom's out there.  Take care.

Leila

NSD Crop CCR Challenge

Here is a layout I made for one of the National Scrapbooking Day Challenges on the Cricut Circle Blog.  The Challenge was to make a project using only CCR exclusives or Cricut Craftroom basics.  I made this fun layout Using The Playground Equipment CCR Exclusive and the font on CCR basics.  You may have noticed the O,U and N are a little crooked looking.  lol They are just for show,  I won't be gluing them until i add the pictures.  Hope you like it.

Leila

Banner Year

Hello everyone.  This month the challenge for the Cricut Circle magazine was to make a banner.    With my daughter's 2nd birthday coming up I decided to take advantage of the opportunity and made the banner a little ahead of schedule.  Here is what I came up with.

I decided to use CCR and my new mini for the bulk of this project.  The banner is from the Princess Party cartridge.  I purchased this cartridge in digital format a few weeks ago when it was on sale at cricut.com, a great investment.  Until the gypsy linking feature is up and running I have a very limited cartridge selection  with CCR and I am far to lazy to actually plug the cartridges into my gypsy.  lol.  I know its sad.   The font is the outline feature from Cricut Font and Basic shapes, which came with my mini.  Love it.  I cheated to make the minnie head welding and stretching circles.  The bows were cut using Mickey and Friends a while back.  I had extra left over from when I made the invitations.  Hope you enjoyed my post.

Leila

Center of Attention

I am so proud of myself this is the first circle challenge I have actually got a project ready in time to enter.  For this challenge we were to create a center piece and use at least 2 Cricut cuts. Here is my entry.

For my daughters 2nd birthday in June I have decide to have a Minnie Mouse theme as she is obsessed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  I am not sure what the actual count on the flowers came to, I just kept saying anther mat full should do it.  I would say about a bajillion.  lol  The flowers and ears were cut from CTMH:Art Philosophy.   I may replace the bow with a larger one made from some wired ribon if I find some I like in my travels before June.  Hope you like it

Leila Botting

Textured to Perfection

Here is a fun little paper bag Haunted House I made and am entering in the Textured to perfection Challenge at Moxie Fab World.

I embossed some black cardstock with a purple core and then sanded it to bring out more purple. I cut the little shutters by hand and sanded them as well I also added some stickles for a little glam.

 Mr. and Mrs. Enstien (hehehe) were cut using the Cricut Happy Hauntings Cartridge.  I cut all the layers from white cardstock and the colored them using Copic Markers.  It is a technique I have been wanting to try for a while.



I was sooo excited to light it with a battery tea light and see the yellow vellum glow.  Sadly shortly after these pictures were taken Bentley got a hold of it and destoyed it.  Far too bummed out to make a new one.  Oh the joys of motherhood. It was super cute while it lasted.

Challenge Me Monday # 73 - Piece of Cake!!

Hello Thursday Everyone!  Today I have a wedding card to post.  It is for this weeks Challenge at Fantabulous Cricut where we were to make a project featuring a cupcake or other baked good.

The Sentiment is by My Pink Stamper
Cake Cut from Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge.
Ink by CTMH
Cardstock by CTMH
Gold Paper by Creative Memories

Hope you like it.

Sketch Challenge 8.11

Hello here is my last minute entry to this weeks Sketchy Thursdays Challenge.  I really enjoy using sketches, it's nice to have that tad of an idea planted in your head when you start a layout.  It cuts back on gears grinding in the brain, lol.

This was this weeks sketch.

And here is a cute Easter LO I made

I have had this paper for a while.  I think it's just the cutest ever.

Eggs cut from "Doodlecharms" and Scalloped border cut from "Strait From the Nest" Cricut Cartridges.

Background and patterned papers,  Reminiscence

Cardstock,  Unknown

French clips, Creativity Inc.

Sketchy Thursdays September GDT Challenge

Hi, here is a layout I created for the blog Sketchy Thursdays September Guest Design team challenge.  We were create our project using the following sketch and use a reading theme.  I having been meaning to scrap pictures of my daughter reading her first book last November.  Perfect.

Paper: Stampin' Up
Cardstock: CTMH and Reflections
Font: Baby Steps and Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridges
Circles Cut with Creative Memories cutter and Embossed with Hounds Tooth and Lots A Dots Folders

Fanatical about Botanical Challenge

Hello, here is a card I created especially for the Fanatical about Botanical Challenge over at Moxie Fab World.

Sentiment : My Pink Stamper

Paper : K &Co.

Cardstock : Recollections

Cut : Kate's ABCs Cricut Cartridge



I own quite a bit of botanical style paper and never seem to be able to cut it up or cover it with pictures.  So the collection grows and grows.  This is why I like to participate in challenges, they force me outside my box. This was a fun challenge for me, it runs until August 8th.  Lots of time for you to make your own botanical creations.

Stamp It! Cards Week Challenge in Moxie Fab World

Hello, that last month has been so busy with 2 weddings, a quilting retreat and my Daughters First Birthday.  There is STILL a postal strike/lockout here in Canada, a bad and good thing I guess.  I am unable to mail out the prize from the last hop, but the temptation to order things online isn't an issue.

So I have finally created a project for a challenge.  I made this card for The Stamp It! Card Week Challenge in Moxie Fab World.  Although I don't have a specific person in mind, it is nice to have a baby card on hand.

I made this card using Stampin' Up's Baby Tees Stampin' Round Jumbo Roller.  I order it a while ago and have been eager to use it.  It is just the cutest.  I paper pieced the middle tee and gave it some dimension with a pop dot.  The word baby is from My Pink Stamper Friends and Family Set.

Hope you like it.

Cricut 360

Everyone knows that there is rarely a project i complete with out one of my best friends....My Cricut.  This is why I was so excited to hear about a new Cricut challenge blog Cricut 360.  The first challenge is on July 1st and I can hardly wait to see what they have in store.

Winner Winner

Hello everyone I just thought I would pop on the announce the winner of my blog Candy from Mondays Hop.  

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And the Winner is... Veronica who said," I'm a new follower. Wow all your projects are great!"

Thank you everyone who participated in the hop and stopped by.  Veronica I will contact you shortly for your mailing address.

Birthday Bash Blog Hop

Good Morning Everyone!!!  If you are joining me from Debbie's blog then you are right on track.  If you randomly came across this hop click HERE to visit Lisa and start at the beginning.  I am super excited to take part in my very FIRST Blog Hop!!!  Who could stop at one project??  My first project is a card for the lovely Lisa our hostess of the hop.  Happy Birthday Lisa!

I've been itching to use my newest Cricut Cartridge 3 Bird's on Parade.  It came in the mail last week as part of a buy 2 get 1 free promotion between Michaels and Provo Craft.  Isn't this little birdie just the cutest.  I also broke open a pack of animal print Recollections Cardstock I picked up on sale a while ago.


I made these next projects for my Daughter's 1st Birthday Party in June.  I decided to go with a Teddy Bear's Picnic theme.

These are the invites and party hats I made with the help of my Gypsy.  The party hats are from the Elmo's Party cartridge and the Teddy Bears are from the Sugar and Spice cartridge.  Faces were stamped using PKS Critter Faces set.  I added some dimension to the little bows with some organza ribbon I got from Walmart.   Keeping with the picnic theme the lyrics to The Teddy Bear's Picnic song are printed out on the inside.  I am in love with these invites and decided to enter them in the Whimsical Wednesday Take Shape Challenge for shaped cards.

And now for the icing on the cake.  Some Blog Candy!  I will be drawing for this fun treat.

The Happy Birthday 2U Paper Pad and Embellishments  from K and Co.

For a chance to win leave me a comment and a way to get a hold of you if you win.  You don't need to be a follower to win, but I would love it if you joined me here at Creative Tree.  I will randomly pick a winner May 26th at 10:00 am MST so there will be plenty of time to enter.

Now continue on to the very talented Emily.  Happy Hopping Everyone, and Happy Victoria Day to all you Canadians out there.

Leila

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge # 7

Good afternoon.  While doing some blog exploring I came across this fun Back to Basics challenge at the Whimsical Wednesday Blog.  The challenge was to make a Cricutless project and to include an old school embellishment.  Here is a card I made for a Bridal Shower on the Weekend.

Stamps and paper is CTMH.  The tag punch is from Creative Memories.  The old school embellishment I chose is the fiber strands, also made by (but I think now discontinued ) CTMH.

Throwback Thursday- Doodlecharms

Hey there fellow scrappers.  I would just like to send out special hooray to my sister Jen who recently won an E2.  Can't wait to take that baby for a test drive.  Heres a card I made for Throwback Thursday over at Emma's blog My Creative Time.   For this Throwback Thursday Challenge we were to use the Doodlecharms cartridge and include the color blue in our project.

The popcicle was cut @ 4 ".  The patterned paper is by CTMH.  Hope you like it.

Tuesday Trigger: Skirting the Issue

Hello here is a photo of this weeks trigger in Moxie Fab World.  We were to use it to inspire a paper carft project of out choice.

This pleated skirt reminded me of some paper i knew I had some where in my stash.  I had to look through a few bins but i finally managed to find where I had filed it away.  It would appear not as great a match as first thought.







Here is the card triggered by this photo.

I folded some paper along the bottom edge of the card trying to mimic the skirt pleats.  The Cake was cut from Smiley Cards digital cartridge. Hope you like it.  I just love to take part in these challenges when I have the time.  They are really fun.  You should play along.

MPS National Scrapbook Day Challenge #12

Boy oh boy it's down to the wire, only 15 mins until the deadline.  I will just sneak all the projects in being this is #12!! I can't believe it.  Thank you My Pink Stamper for host such an awesome string of challenges.  Well challenge twelve was to make a project with a kids theme.  Easy for me  Every page I do it about my little girl.

I saw this paper pack at Walmart a while back in 8X8 size,  I was always hoping I would find it in 12X12 but never have. I had to settle and get the 8X8.  Banner cut using Country Life,  Font is from Nate's ABC's.

MPS National Scrapbook Day Challenge #11

Only 1 more challenge after this one.  Challenge 11 at My Pink Stamper was to make a project using Green Pink and Black.  I threw a little white in with mine.  I hope that doesn't break the rules.

Here's Baby girl at 8 months old.  Is it just me or is the cow shrinking.  Cow cut from Animal Kingdom, Frame cut from Storybook, and Grass and Flowers cut from Straight from the Nest.  Stamps by CTMH.

MPS National Scrapbook Day Challenge #10

I just had a good little chuckle when link my last project to MPS,  heres my project with a turkey on it along side everyone elses high heels and buttleflies. lol I guess I have a twisted vision of glam.  Challenge ten at MPS was to make a project with a pet in it.

If you haven't noticed all the pages I do these days are about my daughter.  I lust love this stamped image by CTMH.

MPS National Scrapbook Day Challenge #9

Few I am tired of posting but t he end is near.  MPS Challenge #9 was to make a project with Glitz, Glam or Glitter.

I love these pictures of my daughter in the leaves and I love this Glittery paper I picked up at Michaels last October the same day I took the pictures ( In Canada Thanks Giving is in October).  It's nice to finally complete so  projects that I have had in my head for months.  The little Characters are from Simply Charmed the tittle is from CTMH.