Sunglass Beautiful

Wow! It has been awhile since I have been in the crafting mood. Between being sick and being so busy at work, I just could not motivate to be crafty. I like this card a lot more than I did last night when I first made it. This card was completed with two challenges in mind. First, the goal of Cricut Chaos Challenge #7 was to use the Paisley cartridge. This is one of my favorite cartridges, but I wanted to try and use an image that I might not use otherwise.

 The sunglasses seemed to fit the bill. I used glossy accents for the lenses.

The second challenge that I combined to create this card is Challenge #48 Emboss It! at Fantabulous Cricut. The card base was embossed using a Quickutz folder, although the embossing is difficult to see in the picture.

Cooking with Cricut Challenge-Hearts and Flowers

This card was inspired by a picture a friend sent me and fortunately it matched up with the Cooking with Cricut challenge this week. The goal was to incorporate hearts and flowers. I have to admit, I am rather tired of Valentine's cards at this point, but I enjoyed making this card. 

The flowers were accented with stickles and cut with the Sweethearts cartridge. The hearts were cut using George and Basic Shapes. The sentiment was cut using Paisley.

Sweet Treats

The theme for this week's Fantabulous Cricut challenge is "Sweet Shop".  I still needed to make Valentine's cards for my two beautiful nieces and had been thinking of something that had sweet treats on the front. This challenge really helped me bring it all together. I have to also thank the Fantabulous Cricut blog for the background too. Recently, there was a blog entry about quilting classes and how the instructor advised using black or purple to make things pop and how that can be applied to scrapbooking as well. I would have never chosen purple for the background had I not read that blog post. I have to admit I am really pleased with how it turned out.

The sentiment is cut from yes, you guessed it, Paisley. I love that cartridge. The cupcake is cut from the Sweet Treats cartridge.

Also entering this card in the Cupcake Challenge for CARDZ TV.

xoxo

No challenge entries today. Just making cards for Valentine's Day. The heart and sentiment were both cut with my Cricut. The sentiment was cut using the Paisley cartridge. I cannot for the life of me remember which cartridge was used to cut the heart. That might have something to do with the fact that I was working on those late last night/early this morning.

All my cards lately have been made of paper predominately from my scrap drawer. It was just getting too full and I refuse to use a bigger drawer. It is amazing what I have found in there.

Crazy in Love

Here is my entry into this week's The Paper Variety Challenge. The prize this week was sponsored by My Pink Stamper, so the challenge was to use pink, white and/or black only. This card is for my hubby for Valentine's Day. He has not read any of my blog entries so far, so let's hope he does not start now.

Most of the time I feel like my cards look better in the picture than in person. This time it is definitely the other way around. The pink stickles I used on the sentiment look much better to me here at home. Oh well. The heart and shadow were cut using Indie Art as was the black flourish. The sentiment and its shadow were cut using Paisley.

I have really spent a great deal of time lately looking at blogs about scrapbooking/card making. I am so amazed at the talent of others. Maybe one day I will be able to do some really elaborate pieces. I have been playing a great deal with my Gypsy, and can I just say that I love it. Still have a lot to learn. Fortunately, I just won "Gypsy: A to Z"! I participated in Monique Griffith's UStream video this evening and still cannot believe I won this prize sponsored by Tammy at Creative Critters Cricut Club.

I think I am going to also enter this into the Cooking with Cricut challenge: Glittermania.