Cooking with Cricut Challenge

Melin over at Cooking with Cricut is starting some weekly challenges on her blog, and I was chosen to be part of her first design team. Isn't that exciting? She included designers who use cut files with their electronic die cutting machines, digital stamp users, and traditional cricut users. I would fall under the final category.

Her first challenge is Love-Sweetest Day. Here is what I came up with.





For this challenge, I cracked open my Sweethearts Cartridge. I bought it about a month ago, and have only used it once... don't tell my husband :) Isn't that little nest and birds adorable?? The shape that the birds are on, is also from Sweethearts, I manipulated the dimensions on my Gypsy so that it would fit on the top of my easel card. The "I love you" is from my Pink Stamper stamps. I have been a bit obsessed with easel cards lately, they are so fun, and easy to make, but I think they look lovely. I promise to make something else soon. The border punch i used is from EK Success and the flower rhinestones were tucked in my stash. The paper and ribbon are from my scraps box.

I hope you all take time to head over to Cooking with Cricut, I would love to see what you all come up with for Sweetest Day, this coming Saturday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week.

A la prochaine...

Orange...

Let me start by saying that orange is one of my least favorite colors. I don't know why, it is bright, and cheerful, and warm... it just doesn't do it for me somehow. Needless to say, when I saw that today's challnege over at Paper Playtime was to use orange as your main color, I thought, well, this is going to be a challenge! I then thought about everything I love that is orange. Leaves in the fall, embers in a fire place, popsicles, pumpkins, oranges, carrot...you get the idea. I knew this was a challenge that would suit me just fine :)

I decided to make another easel card. I am just loving them these days! I pulled out my Mini Monsters, and here is what I came up with:






I thought this turned out pretty cute! I really liked the little candies - they are from Mini Monsters too, and are what I decided to use to hold open the card. The paper is pretty much all Stampin Up, and the stamp is from my LSS. It came from a $1 bin, so I have no idea who made it. Sorry...

I hope you all come along and play with us at Paper Playtime Have a wonderful day.


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We are Grateful...

It is Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada. For the past 7 years, we have spent Thanksgiving at White Point Beach with my mum and dad, the kids and the dogs. For those of you who have never been to Nova Scotia, our falls are just spectacular, and Thanksgiving tends to be particularly gorgeous.

We are so grateful for our family and friends, and for everything we have been blessed with. It is always lovely to take this little break from our lives, to enjoy some special family time, and participate in some family traditions. Here are a couple of pics from the last 2 days, so you can see the slice of heaven we are enjoying :)









That last picture is my children in the Atlantic Ocean - it is all of about 7 degrees celcius today (45 farenheit). Crazy, aren't they??

I have been a bad blogger this week. I had a few design team obligations, and worked 5 - 12 hour shifts in 6 days, and then came here to White Point, so I had no time to craft. I will try to be better next week. Tomorrow I will be bck with my Paper Playtime card for the week, so be sure to check in, the challnege is a good one :)

We are going for our Thanksgiving dinner in about 90 minutes, so to each of you, who take time out of your busy lives to visit my spot in the blogging world, thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving to you all.


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Thanksgiving...

It is challenge day over at Cricut Cardz Challenge. Todays challenge is to do a Thanksgiving card with any cartridge you want. This weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada, so the timing was perfect. I am going to give this card to my mum and dad this weekend. We always go away together for the holidays. Here is what I came up with:







This is a step card. I knew I wanted to use both the pilgrims, and do some kind of staircase or side step card, but I wanted it to have two steps. After much searching, I found THIS tutorial. It seemed to fit the bill perfectly. I widened the side panels a bit to fit my pilgrims, but other than that, followed the directions exactly.

The cartridges I used were Paper Doll Dress Up, Create a Critter, and Opposites Attract - I welded the word "harvest" on my Gypsy. The paper involoved is mostly Stampin Up, but some is from my scraps box. The Happy Thanksgiving stamp is from Stampendous and the cute little faces are from Peachy Keen Stamps. I was pretty happy with how the card turned out.

Hope you all come play with us over at Cricut Cardz Challenges - and be sure to check out all the other Design Team members submissions.

A la prochaine...

Oops...

I just posted something that I meant to do an autopost for in the morning. Silly me :) I have not one clue how to delete the post, so instead I am just changing the it. I will be back in the morning with my DT submission for tomorrow's Cricut Cardz Challenge. Hope to see you all then...


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Paper Playtime Queen

I have been asked to be a "queen" over at Paper Playtime. Isn't that exciting?? As a member of their design team, I will be participating in weekly challenges each Monday. The project can be anything - a layout, card, a tag, mini album... the options are endless. It must fit in with the week's theme. I hope you all come over and play with us :)

Today's challenge is to use ribbon, buttons or rhinestones or all 3. Here is what I came up with:



I decided to use ribbon and rhinestones. I you are a regular visitor to my blog, you will know that I made my first card with buttons only last week. I had planned to try to incorporate all 3 items into my card, but in the end couldn't find the right button for this card. Admittedly, I have an extremely small collection to choose from...

Isn't my little queen kitty cute? I chose her in honour of my first week as a Paper Queen! I cut her from my Paisley cartridge. The oval is from George and Basic Shapes, and the scalloped oval is actually a tag from Winter Wonderland. I manipulated the shape on my Gypsy to fit the original oval, and used the hide contour feature to hide the hole on the tag. The stamp I used is from Lots of Pun by Joy's Life. The paper is mostly Stampin Up, and the patterned paper is from my scraps box, and I just don't remember who it's from.

Before I sign off, I want to say how honoured I am to be a part of this design team. There are many talented women who are also Queens. Over the next day or so, I will be posting a list of them on my blog, and encourage you to go visit them and get inspired - I know they inspire me :)


A la prochaine...

Lovely Leaves

Something ridiculous is going on in Nova Scotia this fall. It is still summer! It has been unseasonably warm here, and it is October, so I made a fall card. Here it is:



The stamp is Stampin Up's "Seasons of Friendship" which i have always really liked. I was trying to make the leaves look like they were changing colors, so I inked it up in one color, and stamped it off on a scratch paper, and then ran the edges of the stamp through a second color - and stamped them onto the picture. I am pleased with how it turned out. All the paper I used is from Stampin Up.

Here are the challenges I am submitting this for:

A Crafty Little Place - autumn daze
Tuesday Taggers - autumn
For Fun Challenges - autumn
Simon Says Challenges -it's autumn
Stampin for the Weekend - autumn colors
Something Completely Different - orange, brown and gold

A la prochaine...