Exploring Cricut & More - Sunshine Smiles & Critters

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a Happy 4th of July. I'm so excited!
This is my first post as a Design Team Member for
Exploring Cricut and More ! Yay! 

Today I have a 5" x 7" card I made, using 4 Cricut Cartridges that I would 
like to share with you. This summer themed card was so much fun to make. 
It features 2 of my favorite critters from the Create A Critter Cartridge. 

Using Create A Critter I cut the kitty out at 2.5", the mouse at 1.75", the clouds at 1.0" & 1.25", the sun at 1.25", and the beach ball on the inside at 1.5". I wanted to dress them up for swimming so I cut the goggles (2.75") and ducky innertube (2.75") from the Teddy Bear Parade Cartridge. The innertube for the mouse (.25") came from the Pack Your Bags Cartridge.  

 I added plastic from my Cricut cartridge outer cases to the inside of the goggles. I cut the sign out using the Cricut Campout cartridge and craft and black cardstock. All the papers are from DCWV.  The Sunshine Smiles stamp is from Craftin Desert Diva's Stamps.

I hand cut the ground with a textured sandy colored cardstock. It has clear sparkles giving it just the right look. I inked everything up and layered some of the cuts with foam tape. I left it blank inside so I could decide the occasion later.

I love this cute & summery fun card! I hope you all are having some summer fun too! Be sure to check out the daily projects and biweekly challenges at Exploring Cricut & More !

I will participate in the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog- #217 Anything Goes

PDE Linky Party- Many Layers

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #139- Anything Goes

Little Scrap Pieces Show it off Saturday Linky Party- Anything goes

Hiding In My Craftroom #156- Think Summer

Have a wonderful & crafty day!!

Cricut Panda Graduation

Hello crafty friends! I have several projects finished and many in the works but haven't had much time to get things posted. The end of the semester is swiftly approaching and there is much to do. I have 2 dress rehearsals this week and 3 recitals the week after. My students are in high gear preparing for finals. My daughter is finishing up her 8th grade year and my son his 6th grade year. Both have ceremonies and we just received a letter that my daughter will be receiving an award, yippee! And to top it off it is my son's birthday on Friday, ugh!! I just want to stop time and keep my kids little but the clock ticks on!

 Now to tell you about this card I made. I made this one for my nieces High School graduation. She loves pandas and her class colors were black and turquoise.

I used the adorable panda from Cricut's Create A Critter cartridge and the graduation cap is from the Teddy Bear Parade. I used DCWV glitter paper for the tassel, the Martha Stewart border punch, and added a black brad to the cap.  The sentiments are from My Creative Time "Many Greetings" and Joys Life "Mother & Daughter set. I finished it off and popped everything up with some foam tape. Cute, quick, and simple. 

I will participate in the following challenges:

Die Cut Diva's Challenge Blog- Use embellishments

Just B Creative Crazy- Anything Goes

D.L. Art - May Linky Challenge Anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Teddy Bear Parade Valentines

Today is Valentine's Day and it was a hard day to craft. My dog has been lost for almost a week and I have been spending every extra minute trying to find him. My family is so heartbroken. I needed to get my mind off of the situation and felt like my kids needed me to focus on them so I decided to make a few cards.

 

 

I used the Teddy Bear Parade, Artiste, and Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridges. I saw this Elegant Edges cut on Mary's Cards TV video and knew I had to try it. I had ordered the K.Andrews Moustache stamps a while back and had this idea about using it with the bears. My daughter is in middle school and moustaches are all the rave! My younger son just loves to dress up and use the fake moustaches. I cut the cards from Elegant Edges at 3" and the bears at 2". I also used the heart from the Teddy Bear cartridge as well. I got the moustache from the Artiste cartridge and cut them at 1/4".

 

I will enter these in the following challenges:

 

Cardz  TV Kids Cards challenge - 

 http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2013/02/kidz-kardz-ctv-stamps-dt-challenge-24.html
 

Bitten by the Bug 2 Heart or Cupid challenge-

 http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-is-in-air-heart-or-cupid-challenge.html

 

Exploring Cricut "Be My Valentine" Challenge-

http://exploringcricut.blogspot.ca/2013/02/it-is-new-challenge.html

 

Fantabulous Cricut "Be My Valentine" Challenge-

http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2013/02/challenge-me-monday-148-be-my-valentine.html

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you could spare a prayer that my lost doggie comes home I would sure appreciate it.

Elf Teddy Thank You Cards

I used my Cricut Teddy Bear Parade cartridge that I just got to make these fun Teddy elf thank you cards.

 

 

I also used the Elegant Edges for the oblong frame. This cartridge is so useful! I am in love with my Teddy Bear cartridge and can't wait to make a zillion bears. I had so much fun decorating him. I added the jingle bell from Joann's to his hat and little white buttons to his trousers. The sparkly candy cane is a sticker from Jolee's Boutique. The paper are from a DCWV stack and I hand cut the tag and added a snowflake brad. I used foam squares to pop him up along with the sentiment and my Cuttlebug to add snow texture.

 I decorated the inside by cutting another frame from Elegant Edges and inking it all up. So now I have a batch of teddy thank you's to add to my Penguin ones.  I am going to put this card in the "Anything Goes" Challenge at www.littlescrappieces.blogspot.com

I love that blog and they have some great designers.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by:)