June 26

Happy summer everyone!  I'm still in graduation mode for today's daily project.  As a special education teacher, I have the chance to really get to know my students because most of them I work with from 7th grade till they graduate.  This year's group of seniors I was able to work with in 1st grade and 3rd grade.  These three students have always held a special place in my heart, even on their worst days.  I will miss them, but I can't wait to see what they do with their futures.

I used the same design, but changed the background paper so there would be a difference between the girls' cards and the fella's card.

My little fella's card (he'll always be my "little" fella even though he is a young adult)

The girls' cards.
For this project I used:
Ariana pattern paper and cardstock
Congrats Graduate stamp set
outdoor denim ink
Cartridges used:
Artbooking:  owl @12.18" and overlay @7.12"
Everyday Paper Dolls:  graduation cap @3.59"

June 12

Welcome to another daily project.  It's that time of year where I'm sure several of you are getting tons of invitations to one graduation or another whether it's preschool, high school, or college.  My project today is for a neighbor's graduation from high school.  I still remember when they moved in he was this scrawny little kid.  One of my favorite memories was shortly after my mom had her open heart surgery and was home after spending a month in the hospital.  Someone had left the garage door open so we had a little visitor of the stinky kind.  We were very fortunate that he hadn't felt threatened enough to release his unpleasant aroma.  My neighbor, trying his hardest to be helpful, was shooting at it with a little pellet gun.  Granted the little bugger never budged, but it was for lack of Jacob's efforts.  Yes, we finally got a friend to bring a live animal trap and caught him over night and were able to release him back into the wild.
Here is the graduation card that I created for this special young man.

For this project I used

Skylark pattern paper

Cardstock Lagoon, kraft, white daisy

bakers twine

Congrats Graduate stamp set

Cartridges:

Art Philosophy:  banners @3.75" and tag @1.75

 George and Basic Shapes:  circle @.50

Cricut Choice Challenge

Welcome all to another fantastic challenge at Exploring Cricut and More!  This week's challenge is to create a card, layout, or other papercraft using 1 cardstock and 1 patterned paper.  For this challenge I created a card that can be used for many different seasons/events, for mine I used Easter.

This is a really simple card to make because the Cricut does all the work.  Using my Gypsy I took 2 squares from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge, rotated them 90 degrees and then welded them together.  Then I cut 1" squares to fill in the welded squares.  The 2 larger green pieces were embossed with the swiss dots and the 3 smaller squares were embossed using the paisley folder.

Cricut Cuts:
George and Basic Shapes:  small squares 1"; welded squares 4.02"

Materials:
Cardstock:  CTMH; Juniper, Cotton Candy, and White Daisy
Pattern Paper:  CTMH; Lolly Doddle
Ink:  CTMH; Cotton Candy
Flamingo Dots:  CTMH
Embossing Folders:  Swiss Dots, Paisley

daily project for February 6

Welcome to my daily project for Exploring Cricut!  Hope everyone is staying warm.  Here in the ville we've had more snow than we've had the last 5 years combined I think.  I'm a self proclaimed snow lover, but even I've had enough.  My project for today is a card I'm using for my next card class, it's after Valentine's Day but who says you need a special occasion to tell someone how you feel.

I used cardstock and Ivy Lane paper from Close to my Heart and the flowers are also from the Ivy Lane collection from CTMH.

Cricut Cuts:
George and Basic Shapes:  Octagon @1.5"
Art Philosophy: title @ 1"

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget a new challenge starts on Monday!

Daily Project

Welcome to my little part of blog world.  Hope everyone out there had  a wonderful Christmas!  If you don't celebrate Christmas I hope your winter holiday was just as wonderful.  For my project today I'm sharing a layout of Allie.,  This particular layout is about our drive home after I picked her out.


Cricut Cuts:
Hello Kitty Font:  title: cut at 2" after being welded
Summer Vacation:  map, corner arrow, curve arrow, cut at 2"
George:  circle cut at 3.21"

Thanksgiving Challenge

Welcome to another challenge at Exploring Cricut.  Today's challenge is to create a card, layout, or other papercraft for Thanksgiving.  I decided to create a card that we will have the church kids duplicate to put into the Thanksgiving baskets that our church will be delivering in about a week.

Cricut Cuts:
George and Basic Shapes:  circle at 3.53", circle at 2.03" , 2 circles cut at .5" welded with Gypsy, 5 ovals cut at 2.0" , and a triangle cut at .5".

I used various fall pattern papers from my stash.  To finish the eyes and the legs I used markers.

Thanks for playing along and don't forget to add your project using the linky at the Exploring Cricut site.

daily project for 9/19

Welcome all to my small portion of blog world.  For today's daily project I made another picture this one for a friend's daughter who has a birthday coming up.

Cartridges and cuts
Sweet treats:  cupcakes, cut at 3.0"
Cindy Loo, flourish, cut at 2.0"
George and Basic Shapes:  rectangle cut at .5x6"

The cake stand was created using the Gypsy.  I used two images of the Cindy Loo flourish with one of them flipped.  I then added the rectangle and welded the 3 images together.

Mother's Day Challenge

Today's challenge over at Exploring Cricut is all about Mother's Day.  We were asked to create a layout, card or other paper craft about Mother's Day.  So here's my take on the day.

As most everyone knows I'm not a mother and will never be one (except to Ella), but I am an honorary member of the Commas,Christian Mommas. We get together once a month for Ladies night out so I decided to use this wonderful group of ladies as my inspiration for Mother's Day. (My Mom gets tired of having her picture taken).  I started out creating the candy bar favors for my group and for these I used the flowers under Banner 1 and Banner 6 on the Art Philosophy cartridges.  The tag came from the new Tags, Bags, and Boxes 2 cartridges under the takeout Box2.  I stamped Happy Mother's Day using a stamp set from CTMH and on the back I put "You're worth a 100 Grand".

I had to use these pictures for the layout of course since I didn't want to take a lot of pictures at the restaurant.  Now on to the layout!
The layout uses paper from the Lucy paper line from CTMH which is very femine.  It is one of my favorites, but I'm a pink and green girl.  I cut 2" circles using George and Basic Shapes out of Grey cardstock and one of the pattern papers to use as accents.  Also used as some accents are the "zip" strips that are included at the top of the pattern papers now.  The font used for Happy Mother's Day is the new Type Candy font and I can easily see this becoming one of my new favorites.

Next I added flowers to the gray circles.  I used flower 4 and flower 10 from Florals Embellished.  I used a jewel/sparkle in the center of the flower.  I thought the top corner seemed a little empty so I found some flower ribbon from my stash that I thought looked really similar to the design I was trying to come up with.

Thanks for taking the time to view my project for this week.  I hope you have fun playing along with us for this challenge, and for all you mothers out there.  Happy Mother's Day!!
Receipe:
Art Philosophy
Banner 1 (page 68) 4" using Font feature
Banner 6 (page 69) 4.25" and 5" using Font-shift feature
Tags Bags Boxes 2
Tkout Box2 (page 53) 3" using Tag feature
George and Basic Shapes
Q-shift (page 108) 2"
Type Candy Regular font 1.59"  "Happy Mother's Day" welded using Gypsy
Florals Embellished
Flower 10 (page 30) 2.04" all layers
Flower 4 (page 24) 1.89" all layers