All About School

Since I was in a crafting mood, I thought I would make a graduation card for a friend's daughter who will be graduating soon. She is such an awesome kid!

Locker Talk was used to make this card. I love the paper. It is from "The Hittin' the Books" stack and I use it for all my school related projects. The base paper actually resembles a bubble sheet. Stickles are used on the tassel and the cap has pop dots to make it stand out.

There are two challenges that this card can be used for this week. First, The Paper Variety is hosting a school related challenge. Second, the Cricut Cardz Challenge is all about graduation this week.

Blue Skies

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to use blue and at least one cloud. This worked out perfectly for a project that I had planned. A friend of mine is having twins, and we are having a shower for her tomorrow. The gift we got her had to be ordered online and won't arrive in time. I started to just wrap a picture of the gift, but I thought this "ticket" might be better.

Before they knew the gender of the babies, they referred to them as Sprig and Twig, so I thought it might be nice to incorporate that in some way.










On the back I am going to indicate the gift. I used stickers to indicate a special delivery was on the way.



The clouds were cut using Create a Critter and embossed with a QK folder. The ticket was cut from Locker Talk. The other cuts were also cut using QK dies. The text is from some stickers I had stored away.

Retirement

Wow! This is the first time I have been in the scrap room for two months! I cannot believe it has been that long, but other things just got in the way.

This week the challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut was to create a project that included a rectangle and a triangle. That worked out for a card I already had planned, so here it is....

This is a retirement card for one of the Media Specialists in our county. She has been such an inspiration to so many of us and her departure is a real loss. However, I am sure she is looking forward to leisure reading and gardening.
I used Locker Talk to cut out the books and the triangle was cut using George and Basic Shapes. The base of the card was embossed with a QK embossing folder and then sanded.

Just for Fun

Two new cards for the day. Did not even use my Cricut.

Christmas Cards??

Through all my blog reading I came across a new challenge site: jingle belles. The goal of this site is to make a Christmas card every week all year, so as to avoid that rush to get all your holiday cards completed. The challenge this week was "Text Me". I incorporated text using paper I picked up at Michael's. It was only fourteen cents. It has basic holiday words printed on the paper: Santa, ornaments, reindeer, etc.

The gold punch is a Spirelli punch that I then added red stickles to each petal of the punch. This is the first card I have made in a long time where I did not use my Cricut.

Swirls and Twirls

The challenge at Cooking with Cricut this week was Swirls and Twirls. Yesterday I went to Michael's and there was a sale on Recollections flowers, so I knew I wanted to use one of those today.

The  flourish was cut using the Sweethearts cartridge. I hid some of the smaller elements of the cut with my Gypsy.

Smile for the Camera

The Jitterbuggin' challenge this week was to create a shaped card. I am so amazed by the shaped cards people create. They are always so creative. Trying to create one of those cards myself always proves to be challenging. I generally just take a shape, duplicate it, flip the object and weld the two with my Gypsy. This summer I hope to be able to really explore more elaborate, creative shaped cards.

The camera was cut using the Create a Critter cartridge. Glossy Accents was used for the lens.