The Great Outdoors...

This week at Fantabulous Cricut, we want to see your Cricut projects that have to do with the Great Outdoors...camping, smores, tents, canoes whatever you can dream up, we want to see you link up. 

I recently watched a Tim Holtz video on how to stamp with distress inks and Tim inspired me to bust out this wood grain stamp from Pink By Design and give his technique a try.

 I then added a tree cut from Cricut Graphically Speaking, some jute twine, spiraled some copper wire through a wooden button and used another Pink By Design stamp from there Canada sentiments set to complete my outdoorsy look....you like-  Eh?

Thanks for looking and linking up with FCCB challenge.

Linking with:

CardzTV-Anything goes

Pink Cricut- Link Party

Die Cuttin Divas- Anything Goes

Paper Issues- Flair for Eclectic

4 Crafty Chicks- Distressing

Blue Birds....

Sharing a simple wedding card that I made for my brother-in-law's special day.

I used the Cindy Loo cartridge to cut the blue birds on this card and I seriously forgot how many cute cuts are on that cart!  I really need to bust that cartridge out more.

The scallop border on the edge of the card is actually something I re-used from the front of there wedding invitation and like always, I used my "go-to" cartridge- Plantin Schoolbook  to cut the coordinating A2 envelope. 

Thanks for looking!

Linking with:

4 Crafty Chicks- Wedding

UnstampaBelles-Celebration

Jaihart- Link Party

A Dollar Store Gift....

    So, what do you give another crafty person as a gift?  Well-a handmade gift of course.  Especially when you can brag that you've turned a simple wooden dollar store box into THIS...uh-huh....nice, right?

   I made this box for my sister-in-law, who is a very talented crafter herself and also happens to be the one who introduced me to the world of Cricut.  I'm not sure if my husband (her brother) can appreciate this life changing crafting experience of mine, but I know I do.   

The last wooden box I altered was for my Mom for Mother's Day and I spray painted her box.  For this one, I wanted to play with some Mod Podge.  I adhered paper from Cosmo Cricket Salt Air collection to the sides and inside of the box, cut a multi-layered flower from Flower Shoppe and used Storybook to for the inside monogram.

Ahh....so pretty, love it!  Now why am I always giving away the things I like? 

Linking with:

Jaihart- Link Party

4 Crafty Chicks- Make a Box

Craft-O-Maniac- Link Party

Shopping Our Stash- Something New (Wooden Box)

Pink Cricut-Link Party

You are my Sunshine...

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey....

I've sang this son to my kids for years.  My son's 8 now and every once and while he'll ask me to sing this song to him...sniff, sniff. 

Anyways, this week at Fantabulous Cricut we want to see your Cricut project that contains a sun.  Yep- that's it, any sort of sun is all you'll need to play along with us.

 

I cut this sun from the Graphically Speaking cartridge (yes- I had to blow the dust off that cart!) and added some cute yellow buttons.  I used a stamped sentiment from K. Andrew Designs Art Stamps, Splash-tasic Summer set.

You'll never know dear how much I love you so please don't take your sunshine away....

 Thanks for looking and we look forward to seeing your sunny projects over at FCCB.

Linking with:

Getting Cricky- Summer Celebrations

Really Reasonable Ribbon's- Summer Colors

Pink Cricut- Link Up Party

Party Time Tuesday- Shades of Yellow

Cooking with Cricut- Buttons or Brads

CardzTV-Tags

Guest Designer for Use It Tuesday...Embossing Challenge

I'd like to thank the girls at Use It Tuesday for having me as a guest designer this week for there embossing challenge. 

It's always fun (and a little nerve racking) to be a guest designer on another blog but embossing is one of my favorite things to design with.  I just counted 42 folders and 27 powders in my stash-Yikes! 

I use embossing on almost everything I create so I knew I'd have no worries on coming up with something.    

I designed this 12x12 shadow box for my new little niece, Ella.  Her nursery has an owl theme so when I saw this owl cut from Kate's ABC's, I knew it would be perfect for her. 

For accents, I added swirls and bubbles texture embossing along with crystal glitter and some white gel pen doodling. The Use It Tuesday Challenge blog is about using your hoarded craft supplies, so my stash for this project is the pink striped paper that's been sitting in my paper file 4-ever and of course I used 2 embossing folders out of my 42 count stash!

I think it turned out so cute and I look forward to seeing it in her nursery.

Don't forget to come and join in the challenge fun this week at Use It Tuesday .  They want to see your embossing style- heat, texture, mix it up, whatever- they want to see you link it up!

Linking With:

Pink Cricut- Link Up Tuesday

Stringtown Home- Link Party

4 Craft Chicks- Stripes

Jaihart- Link Up Party

Avengers Assemble...

Avenger's Assemble...BAM...POW...ZAP! 

We recently had a "family movie marathon" after watching the Avengers in the theater and then visiting our friendly Red Box to rent Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. 

I actually did enjoy the movies and love how they all came together into one story.  Of course, the men in the movies aren't to bad to look at for a few hours either..... just saying.

So, the Avengers became the theme of my son's 8th birthday this year and thanks to shopping in my craft stash and finding some surprise cuts on my Gypsy (thanks to the Indie Art cartridge), it was pretty easy to pull everything together without needing to go out and purchase much...gotta love that! 

Avengers Cupcakes Toppers

Here are my Hulk, Captain America, Thor and Iron Man inspired cupcake toppers cut from Cricut Indie Art.

Avengers Invitations

I made the actual Avenger symbol by welding a circle and stretching two rectangles together on my Gypsy.  Ok, I'll admit, I'm pretty proud if this design and my welding skills!

Avengers Party Banner

What Avenger fan wouldn't love to have this banner hanging at there party?

Iron Man- POW

Thor- ZAP

Captain America's shield

Hulk- SMASH

Avengers Cupcakes

Avengers Party Table

Notice the Hulk fist's on the back wall?  Yep, that's another sweet surprise find on Indie Art too.

 Avengers Party Favors

I spray painted Avenger's T-shirts to give to the boys as party favors.   I enlarged the Avengers symbol to use as a template then, spray painted flat black paint to give the symbol an over spray look.

Party Favors (for the girls)

We invited a few girls to the party since of course the birthday boy has a sister.  He wasn't thrilled about having yucky girls at the party (which I'm sure he'll change his mind about one day) but his only request was,  No Pink!  So, I used yellow vinyl to cut the girls name from Plantin Schoolbook.

Super tough birthday boy! 

 And The Hulk came for a little visit too....SMASH!

 

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Linking with:

Jaihart- Link Up Party

Craft-O-Maniac-Link Party

Decorate to Celebrate- Kids Party
Cooking with Cricut-Kids Party

Duct, Duct......Kitty!

You've heard Duct Tape is a fix for almost everything, right?

Well, I recently found some cute Hello Kitty duct tape at Hobby Lobby and I didn't know what I would do with it but I knew I could do something with it.  If anything, I could put some tape on the inside of my van door to remind the kiddo's that the door lock is broken, right?

Anyways, Rosie from Scrap Lovin Mini's  put up a Hello Kitty challenge on her blog for her daughter's 19th birthday and I knew then, that I had found a "fix" for my duct tape idea. 

Hello Kitty Duct Tape Journal

So cute-huh?  I adhered the tape to the cover of a composition book, added a ribbon flower on the front and cut Ruth's name from Cricut Birthday Cakes. 

I love this idea, I wonder what else I can cover with Duct Tape?

Thanks for looking and Happy 19th Birthday Ruth!

Linking with:

Scappin Mini- Hello Kitty

Jaihart- Link Up Party

Pink Cricut- Link Up Party

Craft-O-Maniac- Link Party

Stringtown Home- Link Party

Serenity You- Link Up Party

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge...Kaboom!

It's time to celebrate 4th of July style over at  Fantabulous Cricut this week for our Kaboom challenge.  We want to see any Cricut project that contains fireworks, sparklers or any sort of BOOM!  

I said a Boom Chicka Boom...I said a Boom Chicka Boom (louder)...did you ever sing that song at summer camp? Or was it a cheerleading camp thing....hmmm?

I turned this rectangle door hanger box from Art Philosophy (pg 25) into a kid-friendly firework holder and attached it on a water bottle.

To make this holder, I used the Fit to Page function on my Expressions and added some sparkly 4th of July embellishments along with a firecracker cut from Independence Day. 

I really like this door hanger box idea.  Maybe I'll see what other fun uses I can find for this box. 

I said a Boom Chicka Rocka Chicka Rocka Chicka Boom (valley girl style) ....

Uh Huh, One More Time...

Thanks for looking and linking up with FCCB!

Linking with:
The Kraft Journal- Red, White & Blue

Paper Issues-Picnic & Patriot

Decorate to Celebrate-BBQ Party

Bitten By the Bug- Patriotic

More Than Favors- 4th of July

V Sweets Challenge- July 4th

Paper Playtime- Red, White & Blue

Heart to Heart- Patriotic

Exploring Cricut-Red, White & Blue

My Craft Spot- 4th of July

Die Cuttin Divas- 4th of July

Cooking With Cricut- Red, White & Blue