FCCB #250 - Celebrate Mom!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #250 - Celebrate Mom-create a card or project for Mom

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There will be 3 winners of $7 gift certificates!

Create a project inspired by Mother's Day

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

For my project this week I made two scrapbook layouts with pictures from Mother's Day 2013. My sweet daughter was in Kindergarten and her teacher held a Mother's Day Tea! It was a very special event!!

I used the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge for all the scroll cuts, which I embossed with my Cuttlebug and then added some sponged Distress Ink to. I added some Pewter Distress Stain to my page by unscrewing the cap and flicking it onto my pages.

These beautiful flowers are cut with the DigiPlayground 3D Flower SVG file. I separated the layers and made extra flowers.

For some of the flowers I stamped a script stamp with Versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder before layering them.

The Hello tag is from DigiPlayground, and I used Design Space to change the Hello word cut to a 'write' option, using the Amy Tangerine markers from American Crafts.  They work in the Explore beautifully and are permanent, so I was able to use Distress Inks on a craft sheet to watercolour my background. I then used a white gel pen to colour in the hello part. The Mom cut was done the same way with a diecut from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.

For my second page I used the April sketch from Scrapping Everyday Miracles. I love this sweet Gorjuss Girls paper! (I used a coordinating sheet for my first layout, and more coordinating paper for the other background papers on this layout).

I love all the different options you have with this flower cut! You could layer them all together or make as many different ones as you wanted!

The What A Day cut is a 3x4 Life Card SVG file from DigiPlayground! I just love the script in this, and you get two more cards in this set!

Thanks so much for joining me today!! I hope you'll check out the FCCB blog and see what the other DT members have come up with this week - and be sure to link up your project for a chance to win!

Linked to:

Scrapping Everyday Miracles - April Layout Sketch

DL Art - Thankful Thursday April Linky Challenge

613 Avenue Create - #121 AG 

Word Art Wednesday - #180 AG

CRAFT challenge - #308 Make Your Own Embellishment

Christmas Penguin

I wanted to share an adorable little penguin card I made for the playgroup teacher and her little daughter where Erica and I go.  The little girl who's about 18 months absolutely loves penguins so I thought this would be perfect!

 I used the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge for the ornament card, which I cut in a pool colour and heat embossed white snowflakes on, using 3 different stamp sizes.  I added some Snowcap paint dauber to the bottom for snow and cut the cute penguin and the string of lights using the Create A Critter cartridge.  I added a holly sticker to the scarf and some sparkly Stickles on the scarf and lights.

 

 

I used the Martha Stewart Scoring Board to create a square envelope, which I created from patterned paper with a white back side and stamped snowflakes on the front.





 

The inside envelope view showing the patterned paper. 

 



Challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Bling it on!
Die Cuttin' Divas - Happy Holidays

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and are enjoying a very pleasant holiday after!

Karla

Birthday Treat Holder

Amie's 6th birthday is fast approaching - wow, where did 6 years go?!! She's having it at a venue that's providing loot bags, but I wanted to give a little treat out as well. Also, she's having boys and girls so I needed to have something for both.

I used my Gypsy and the Art Philosophy Cricut cart, which I turn to time and time again. I turned the fry box cut 90* and increased the size as large as I could go on a 6x12 mat, which ended up to be about 6" wide and 9" long.

I cut both the butterfly and the star from this cartridge as well, just eyeballing what size I wanted. I used a glittery cardstock for both, and  I stamped and embossed the Thanks at the bottom with silver embossing powder. After putting them together I sponged the edges with Distress Ink since the cardstock was white core. I absolutely love the Black Soot Distress Ink! I ended up making 5 boy and 4 girl treat holders and it didn't take long at all.

 

Challenges-

Freshly Brewed - Anything Goes

Bunny Zoe - Anything Goes

Cards Galore - Anything Goes