Sweets Challenge

Welcome everyone to another great challenge from Exploring Cricut. For this challenge we could make a card, layout, or other paper craft using candies, sweets, love, hearts, etc. It doesn't have to be limited to Valentine's day.
Once again I decided to make a card. I started with a white base that 5.5x5.5. I cut a piece of heart paper from the Sweetheart line 5.25x5.25.
My cricut cuts are:
Desert sand: flower pot 4.66x8.65 using Everyday Pop-Up Cards
pear: leaves 2" using Celebrate with Flourish
Smoothie and Baby Pink: hearts 1" using Baby Steps

White Daisy: 2" tag from Art Philosophy

To make things interesting I spritzed the leaves with limolicious and Emerals Smootch and the hearts with cherry ice, pink sprinkles, and vanilla shimmer.
For anyone who hasn't worked with the smootch spritz or similar products they are super easy and the effect you get is worth the drying time. Pick your favorite color or the color that will work best with your project. Shake the tube well since the fun part settles to the bottom. Hold the tube about 6 inches from your project and spritz.

Spritz a little for a cool look or spritz a lot for a more complete coverage. The leaves really turned out the best. As you can see the spritzed leaves are a new color with tons of shading.

For the hearts, after I had spritzed them with the smootch and let them dry, I stamped them with sayings from an old Close to my Heart stamp set to make them into "Conversation Hearts". I adhered ribbon to my flower pot and tied a pretty bow for the tag. The ribbon is just a seasonal ribbon I found at Wal-Mart. Once the flower pot was adhered to the card I started to layer the hearts and leaves to make it look as close to a plant as possible. I have to admit the final product turned out tons better than I thought it would!


I then cut the tag and adhered it to a piece of tulip cardstock. I then stamped the saying with a phrase from the Pair-a-Phrase set in chocolate ink.

Daily Project: Mischievious Elf

Hi everyone! I'm so excited about my project for today. I'm normally a card girl so in the spirit of creating out of the box I decided to try something new. This is not the project I started out to complete for today, but I'm so glad I switched gears. I'm a teacher so normally I threaten anyone who wakes me up before 10:00 on Saturday. Kinda hard to threaten yourself. I woke up at 8:00 with an idea running through my head and was so excited, I couldn't go back to sleep. Guess I work better under pressure, but I won't share that with my boss. So after working on this picture for 2 days and a great deal of tweaking, here is my creation for the week! Happy Scrappin'

This project is definately easy enough for anyone. I started with a piece of White Daisy cardstock (CTMH), cut to 8x10. I created my own "SmootchSpritz" using spray pen, White Daisy reinker, and pearl paint (CTMH). While this was drying I set off to start making all the cuts.

The sleigh was cut at 2 in from the Winter Woodland cartridge. I used Grey Flannel, White Daisy, Topiary cardstock (CTMH), C1, Y17, and Y15(copics) along with 3 red sparkles.

Inside the sleigh is the head of an elf cut from Jolly Holiday cartridge and 1.5 inches. I used White Daisy and Sweet Leaf cardstock (CTMH) and E00, E11, E13, R20(copics). I also used Fun Flock in Cotton Ball White (Stampendous) on the Elf's hat.

The Reindeer is from the stamp set I Believe (CTMH) and is stamped with Chocolate ink (CTMH) and I used 1 red sparkles for his nose. The gold thread that is connecting the sleigh and reindeer is from my stash, not sure of the company.

The house was cut at 2 inches from the Jolly Holiday cartridge. I used Holiday red, White Daisy, and Black cardstock(CTMH). I also used the Fun Flock in Cotton Ball White on the snow.

Yes, that's Santa on the roof. He was cut from the Jolly Holiday cartridge at .75 inch. I used the Holiday red, White Daisy, and Black cardstock (CTMH)

The frame is from Wal-Mart.