Presidents Day Weekend VCMP - Saturday Challenges

Operation Write home is host a Virtual Card Making Party (VCMP) for President's Day.  Here are my card for the Saturday Challenge.

Challenge # 1: Zig Zag your Cards
Erica  is hosting the first challenge on her block Scrapin' Intervention and it  is to make cards using zig Zags.  I've used the Cricut Cartridge Plantin Schoolbook for the zig zag on my card and Wildcard for my sentiment.

I've cut an extra zig zag for the inside of my card.

1 card for OWH

Challenge #2: All Creatures Great and Small; Cards for Kids:
The second challenge is by Misty at DeLiteful Gifts and it is to make a Critter Card.  I've used a stamp set that my oldest son had given me a couple of years ago.  There are 6 different dogs in this set and I only made 4 different card using the  dogs. 

 Everything for the cards was pulled out of my scrap pile.

I used the 2 1/2" circle punch and layered a second one behind my images.

4 Cards fir OWH

Challenge #3: Texture Omit/Selective Embossing Challenge:
Beth at Bunnyscrap has a great embossing challenge.  I used the a Sizzlits die to make my diffuser for this challenge.  She has a great tutorial on her blog showing you how to do this.

I added another punched leaf and a bit of ribbon on the inside of the card.

1 card for OWH

Challenge #4: Things with Wings:
Candy's at Penguinpapers challenge is to use wings on your cards.  I used the Hoot 'n Holler cartridge for my owls for this challenge. 

2 cards for OWH

Challenge #5: Disappearing Act with Sketch #63:
Leslie at The Crooked Stamper is using 12x12 paper to make six card with sketch #63.  I've used Paper Lace II for my sentiment instead of stamping. 

6 Cards for OWH

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14 cards for OWH

Recipe:
Paper: Card stock: Recollection Card Bases; Unknown scraps for rest of projects
Stamps: Gel-a-tins: Pups; Stampin' Up: Whimsical Words;
Cricut Cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook and Wildcard, Hoot 'n Holler, and Paper Lace II
Embossing Folders: Cuttlebug - Textile
Die: Sizzix: Decorative Label Set #4 - Ornate Label #5

Happy Anniversary

I need to take to the office an Anniversary card for one of my co-workers and found this card.  I haven't used the Paper Lace cartridge before but now have several ideas so watch for upcoming projects.   I started by welding the shadow featured together then arranging the circles and design element onto my card. 

I stamped and embossed the white flowers then stamped the leaves and hand cut them out.  The tag is from the Heritage cartridge and sized to fit onto the card in Design Studio.  I added a piece of lace to the background and layered everything onto top. 

I cut two extra red circles and two white circles for the inside of the card as I need plenty of room for well wishes.  I stamped the leaf from Fabulous Florets a couple of times on each white circle.  All of the edges are inked with Vintage Photo.

Since my card is fat from all the layers and pop up dots my envelope needs to be able to accommodate this.  I used Wild Card to cut my envelope on a piece of scrap paper, folded it up and made sure I could slide the card easily in and out before I cut into my DSP.

Thanks for stopping by.

Recipe:
Paper: Recollections - Kraft; DCWV - Dark Pink; Basic Grey Kissing Booth "Oh Darling" - Green Circle; My Minds Eye Bloom & Grow "Bloom) - Pink Circle; Pink Paislee "Enchanting" - stamped flowers; Unknown - green  - stamped leaves; Crate Paper Cottage Collection} "Bouquet" - Envelope
Stamps: Stampin' Up - Fabulous Florets and Texture Roller; Close To My Heart - Say it in Style
Ink: Versa mark Ink; Stampin' Up - Old  Olive and Soft Suede; Distress Ink: Vintage Photo
Embossing Powder: White
Pearls: Stampin' Up - Pretties Kit
Cricut Cartridge: Paper Lace, Heritage, Wild Card
Misc.: Adhesive, pop up dots, Button, Jute, scrap piece of lace, white seam binding

Boo - Day 3

Welcome to Day 2 of the 12 Days of Halloween. I came across Two Paper Divas blog where they had a tutorial for the Twisted Easel card. Here is my version of the card.

If you missed the Flying Witch card on Day 1 click here.
If you missed the Tag Treat holder on Day 2 click here.




The spider is from the Indi Art cartridge with a pop up dot between the black layers.


I added a spider border from the Doodlecharms cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by.
Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:
Paper: DCWV cardstock - Black; Stash unknown - orange, purple and white; Pattern Paper - Archivers Halloween Mega Kit
Cricut Cartridges: George, Indi Art, Lacy Labels, Wild Card
Punch: Stampin' Up - Scalloped Edge
Misc: adhesive, pop up dots

4x6 Mini Album - Part Three

These are the final pages in the 4x6 mini album from the Piggy Tales Kit.

I used some more of the barn doors and tags with the rub on for this page. I didn't use my cricut for the pocket.

I just love this little chipboard turtle. I have him up on pop up dots so that the picture can slide behind him and added a little bit of ribbon.


I used the same Wild Card envelope for this page that I used on page six, but only cut one of the liners. I did not adjust the envelope and used staples again.

Here is the last page of my album. The trim used here was included in the kit and a photo can fit behind the trim. I glued the trim to the back of the photo mat, then glued the mat to the background paper. The bow is made separate and I used a glue to attach it to the ribbon.

Here is the album all put together. Thanks for stopping by. Click here for the cut file.

Click here for Part One

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Recipe: (Most of the paper is from the Piggly Tales Kit along with the chipboard, pieces, barn doors, rub ons and chipboard pieces).

Paper: Piggy Tales Kit - 5 Little Ducks, Cardstock - DCWV and Stampin' Up

Cricut Cartridges: Fabulous Finds, George, Heritage, Plantin SchoolBook, Tags Bags Boxes and More, and Wild Card

Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Terra Cotta, Navy Blue, and Olive Green

Misc: Adhesive, ribbon and yarn scraps, binder clip form the office supply store, Bind it all and stapler

4x6 Mini Ablum - Part One

I've been working on a mini album using some of the scraps from the Piggy Tales Kit. I used my Cricut heavily on this project along with some of the rub ons that were included in the kit. I'm going to use my Bind It All to put it all together but you can use rings or any binding method you like.


I cut the frame 5 times from cardstock and glued them together. My ribbon is wrapped around the cover and page two. I didn't care it it showed through at the edges. I glued the edges of the frame so that the mat can be removed and a photo put on it or journaling. My cut file has a circle for the crumpled flowers that I did not use. The is some that is left over from anther project and was a wire ribbon - I just pulled the wires out.

Page Two is really simple. I tried to alter my pages with a simple photo mat page and a page with embellishments.

Page three has a lot going on. I used the notebook paper from the Fabulous Finds cartridge and cut it out three times to make a removable notebook with a tag pocket on the front of it. I just used a binder clip to attach it to the page.

Here is page three taken apart. The button is a chipboard piece that was included in the kit. I used scrap ribbon and staples to bind the edge of the notebook.

Page 4 is another simple page. The "toadly awesome" is a rub on that was included in the kit.

I'm planning on binding my album at the top so the even numbered pages (or back of the page) have the holes punched for the binding at the bottom of them Thanks for stopping by.

Disclosure: I'm not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Recipe: (Most of the Paper is from the Piggy Tales Kit along with the chipboard pieces, barn doors and rub ons.

Paper: Piggy Tales Kit - 5 Little Duckies, Cardstock - DCWV and Stampin' Up.
Cricut Cartridges:Fabulous Finds, George, Heritage, Plantin SchoolBook, Tags Bags Boxes and More, Wild Card

Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Terra Cotta, Navy Blue, Olive Green
Misc: Adhesive, ribbon and yarn scraps, binder clip from office supply store, Bind it All and rings, stapler

Heartfelt Sympathy

I needed a couple of Sympathy cards and this is what I came up with. I don't know about you but I have a hard time making this type of card, so I figured keeping it plain and simple was the best.

I used the cuttlebug folder Bird Call for the main image on my card. I placed my cardstock where I wanted it to show off the bird then embossed.

Here's a close up of the embossing. It really didn't picture well but it looks great in person.

I did a search for Sympathy in Design Studio and did not find anything. So I searched my stamps and came up with this on from My Sentiments Exactly. I cut the "With" from the rest of the stamp as it was a long one.

After I had made my cards I realized I did not check Cricutsearch.com. There are actually four cartridges that have sympathy on them and I have two of them. I've included those cuts on my file for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Stampin Up' - white and black.

Stamp: My Sentiment Exactly - With Heartfelt Sympathy

Ink: Stampin Up' - Basic Black

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Bird Call

Punch: Stampin' Up -Ticket Corner Punch

Cricut Cartridges: George, Wild Card

Misc: glue, ribbon

January's Challenge

Here is the 12x12 Our Family layout. The only difference is the size of the photo mat and the placement of the "our" tag.

I liked the colors in this layout so much I did the same color scheme for the girls and boys.

Thanks for stopping by.

Click here for the cut file. If you are looking for the 8x8 or the 8.5x11 cut file please scroll down.

Recipe:

Paper: Background - DCWV, all others from the Sunburn stack

Cricut Cartridges: Country Life, George, Mini Monograms, Wild Card

Misc: Thread, adhesive, Signo white pen for faux stitching.

January's Challenge - Part One

Here is the 8x8 layout. I just love the color combination in this layout.

I used a new to me Cricut Cartridge Country Life to cut the 2011. I did not glue down the bottom part of the letter y so that the picture can be slid underneath it. I have not made the 8.5x11 layout page yet, but I did include the cut file here.

Click here for 8x8 the cut file.

Click here for the 8.5x11 cut file.

Paper: Background paper - DCWV; All other paper is from the Sunburn stack

Cricut Cartridges: Country Life, George, Mini Momograms and Wildcard

Misc: Thread, adhesive,Signo white pen for faux stitching

Peace - Day 26

Only a few more days left for the 30 Days of Christmas Cards. This card is based on Heather's card sketch #1 at Scrapbook Heaven's Card Crop.

I made my own glimmer mist and sprayed the doily, crumpled it and dried it with my heat gun. If you don't have a doily a snowflake would work just as well.

Thanks for stopping by.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: (The rub ons and Basic Grey Paper are from the Scrapbook Heaven Kit)

Paper: DCWV cardstock - red, green white; Pattern Paper Basic Grey - Dashlr

Rub on: K&Company - Glitter Rub ons - Christmas Cheer Words.

Misc: Buttons, twine, ribbon, glue, 4 inch doily, glimmer mist.

Cricut Cartridges: Accents Essentials, Wild Card,

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Falling Leaves

This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenges is Falling Leaves - to use at least one leaf on your project.

I just love the detail of the leaf on A Child's Year Cartridge so I am using that one make my Thanksgiving card. The frame is made from the George Cartridge.

Here is the inside of the card.

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Seasons Stack - Patterned Paper, Cardstock, white, dark blue, yellow, maroon, green, kraft

Stamp: Stampin Up - Bright Blessings

Ink: Inkaadinkado - Burgundy and Navy Blue

Cricut Cartridges: A Child's Year, George, Paper Dolls for Everyday,Wild Card

Misc: Pop up dots, glue.

Father's Day Card

I haven't had a chance to use the Wild Card Cartridge the guys got me for Mother's Day so I thought I would check it out and see what it had for Father's Day on it. Well I found the circle card shape and decided that I wanted to use that as my card base. Then I added the pine trees from Camp Out to the front of my card. I cut the trunk of the trees off of the green card stock so the brown trunks would show, and used pop up dots between the layers.

I used the Cut out Circle from Wild Card to highlight "Happy Father's Day", I'm also going to write my message to dad on this circle. I also cut a base circle for the inside of the card from the Sports Mania cartridge, I used one sided card stock and didn't want the white inside to show.

Then I went back to the Camp Out cartridge and cut the deer and another set of trees. I didn't use the shadow feature on any of the trees but if you want to I cut them all out at 4". I inked around the deer to give him a little bit of shading. I used pop up dots between the base and black out layers on the deer and trees.



I did not cut an envelope for this card, as it is going into the package I'm sending Dad. The card base will fit on the 6x12 mat and took up the whole mat. I did this all in Design Studio and used the 12x12 mat but this can easily convert to the 12x6 mat.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: Paper: Card base - Old World Stack, Trees - green and brown, Deer - I used three different colors of brown, Patterned paper for the inside, white and blue card stock.

Father's Day Card - Golfer

Here's my second Father's Day card. I again used the circle card from Wild Card as my base. The golf card is from Paper Dolls for Everyday. I cut this three different time, white, tan and black card stock. The black is my base and I didn't alter it in any way. The white I cut off the seat and around the wheels, and colored in the steering wheel and column. From the tan I cut out the seat. The silver rims I used a circle punch. I colored in the steering wheel by hand. These are pop doted on the black base.

I kept the "Happy Father's Day" side of the card the same as the previous one.


For the inside of the I used the golf ball from the Sports Mania. The golf ball and tee are one cut, I just didn't use the tee. The golfer is also from Sports Mania and I cut him in blue, red, brown, and white. White is my main layer. I cut the baseball cap out of blue, shoes out of brown, shirt out of red and layered them all onto the white cut. I colored the club silver. The blue pants was a separate cut along with the shadow in black.

Recipe: Paper: Golf Card- tan, white, small piece of silver, and black, Golfer- white, blue, red, brown, white card stock for the golf ball, green for the inside of the card, blue for "Happy Father's Day" and white for around " Happy Father's Day", card base was from Old World Stack.

Click here for the cut file.