April Card Workshop

I realized not too long ago that I forgot to post the cards for March's workshop. I didn't want to make the same mistake 2 months in a row so I tried to get a jump on it a little early. Mind you when I say I tried to start early, I started the post Thursday night before the workshop on class on Friday. The kits weren't even put together at that point, but I work better under pressure (I hope). This is one of the paper packs that I've been waiting to use cause I just love the colors, but then I really struggled coming up with cute ideas. Here are the five ideas that I came up with for this month's workshop. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for taking the time to view my post!

Recipes: 95% CTMH materials
Lucy pattern paper
Cardstock: Cotton Candy, Creme Brulee, Pear, Colonial White, Grey Wool
Ink: Cotton Candy, Blush, Creme Brulee, Pear, Sweet Leaf, Grey Wool
Ribbon
Opaques
Sparkles
button
Flower and Butterfly cut-outs are from Art Philosophy cartridge then stamped using the stamp set from the workshop on the go.

Till next month, Happy Scrappin'

Food Frenzy Challenge

Hi all! Today's challenge is to create a card, layout, or other paper craft using a food shape from one of the many wonderful cartridges. For this challenge there were so many possibilities, but my brother's birthday was this past Wednesday so I decided to take care of two things at one time and create a birthday card. I've always struggled creating cards for men since I love all things girly, but here is my take on the challenge.

The card base is 5.5x4.25 and is white
Pattern paper is from CTMH national scrapbooking kit.
Cardstock: colonial white, desert sand, smoothie
ribbon: chocolate and colonial white striped
Cartridges and cuts
Sweet Shop: the cake was cut at 3"
Art Philosophy: the tag was cut at 1.5"
Stamp: Card Chatter - Birthday (CTMH D1475) in desert sand

Thanks for taking the time to view my project. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Daily Project: Thanks

Welcome to the Exploring Cricut daily project for today. For today's project I decided to make a card (I know you're surprised). You can never have too many thank you cards so I decided to make one for my stash! This one is pretty straight forward although there is some cutting. I started with a card base that was 5.5 x 4.25, for this card the base is bamboo. I then cut a piece of honey patterned paper that was 5.25 x 4 and wrapped it with a scrap piece of ribbon from my stash. Once I had adhered this to the card base I was ready for the Cricut. I cut the butterfly using Create a Critter. I made the following cuts
Butterfly W= 5.02, H= 3.47 (I actually made this cut twice using 2 different pattern papers)
outline 5.02x3.47 (smoothie cardstock)
body 5.02x3.47 (olive cardstock)

The two pattern papers that the butterfly was cut from, I cut the wings off and using the outline as my guide I trimmed enough for the wings.

Once everything was put together I stamped "thanks" in chocolate ink using the Thank You set, put pink sparkles on the antenna, and two opaques for the eyes.

Recipe:
cardstock: bamboo, smoothie, olive (CTMH)
pattern paper: all from Mayberry (CTMH)
ribbon: from stash
sparkles, opaques (CTMH)
Thank you stamp set (CTMH)
ink: Chocolate (CTMH)

That's it for my super simple card. Hope you enjoy this project, thanks for stopping by, and have a stupendous Saturday!

Challenge by the numbers

The challenge for this week was to create a card, layout, or paper craft in any theme using 1 ribbon, 2 cricut cuts, and 3 embellishments. I decided to make this birthday card using the George and Basic Shapes cartridge and Sweet Treats cartridge.
I started with a white card base that is 5.5x4.25. Then using smoothie cardstock I cut a circle from George and Basic Shapes at a height of 3.8" (as measured using the Gypsy. The circle is then cut in fourths. I then add a length of ribbon from my stash around a 3.5" square of Pear cardstock and then adhere this piece to the base on top of the circle quarters.

The cupcakes were cut from Sweet Treats cartrige at a height of 2.06" (as measured using the Gypsey) the base of the cupcakes were cut using Petal cardstock, the cupcake wrapper was cut from Pear cardstock and the heart on top was cut using Smoothie cardstock. I then added jewels as the embellishments on the cupcakes. The saying on the card is stamped on using Chocolate ink and Card Chatter: Birthday set from Close to My Heart.

Daily Project: Soul sister

Hi all! When I was growing up I remember my mom had a pair of shoes that were navy and white and were called spectators. I thought they were the coolest shoes but they were heels so I would never wear them. My card that I made today started out with a pair of pink shoes with a lighter shade of pink for the details. I didn't like the looks of this so I went with an off white and ended up with my mom's spectators on in pink. I can't tell her, but I think mine are way cooler.

My card began with a white base 5.5x4.25 I then added a pattern paper piece at 5.25x4, this was DCWV from my stash. I then added Memory Maker ribbon from my stash.

I used the cartridge Everyday Pop-Up cards to cut the shoes as well as the sign. The shoes were cut at a height of 2.04" (Gypsy) and the sign with the small shoes was cut at a height of 2.70" (Gypsy). The sign on the cartridge had the phrase "soul mate" but I decided to change that to "soul sister". This was cut from the cartridge Alphalicious at a height of 1" then using my Gypsy I welding all the letters together. I used a smallish pearl for the dot of the "i".

I then added pearls to the back of the shoes.

Recipe:

Cardstock: pink (from stash), off white(from stash)

pattern paper: DCWV

ribbon: Memory Makers

Pearls: CTMH