A Sweet Treat

Good morning everyone. I'm L.B. from Cool Beans By L.B. I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I try really hard to create more masculine themed cards to share with you,but right now I am overflowing with female birthdays so I am fun wobble card I created for a good friend.

I love this old school DCWV paper from the Sweet Stack. It layered just right on the birthday girls favorite color.

Next came the cute cupcake off of Simply Charmed, of course I have a habit of cutting of the cherry topper. I embossed the icing with my Swirls folder then added gems using some Stickles and tiny gems. I also added Stickles to the cupcake wrapper.

 I had never put gems on this way before but it turned out great and they all stuck on quite well. After everything was all dry I attached my cupcake with an Action Wobble.

 I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. See you next month!

Project Details:

Made by: L.B.

Cricut Cartridges: Simply Charmed

Other Supplies: Swirls embossing folder, DCWV Sweet Stack paper, Stickles in Cotton Candy and Lavender

Sketch Challenge #5

Welcome to our Sketch Challenge.  

This is Amy from Amy's Digi Scraps and welcome to the another Sketch Challenge! On the 20th of each month, I will post a sketch for you to enjoy!  I generally post a card sketch with a card that I create, but you can make it a layout as well.  Please visit the Sketch Challenge link for more information about our monthly Sketch Challenges.

Here is the sketch for today:

And here is the card I created from the Sketch:

This sketch allows the design focal point, the flower, to not be overly competitive with the sentiment.  I used a paper stack from atd called "Urban Oasis" for all the paper except the card base, which was basic ivory card stock.  The flower is from Prima and the button is SEI.  I used a sentiment stamp from Close To My Heart and covered the sentiment and the flower petals using Icicle Stickles by Ranger. 

Unfortunately, my trimmer won't cut straight lines anymore, so I will have to look for a new one.  That turned out to be a good thing though since you have to use your Cricut for the sketch challenge.  I quickly laid this out using my Gypsy and George cartridge and cut each of the blocks and the two strips using my Cricut Mini machine.  Seems like overkill, but when your trimmer gets warped and you need blocks, what's a girl to do?

We would love to see what you can do with this Sketch.  Please create a card or layout and upload the image to this post in the InLinkz!  Remember that you must use your Cricut in creating your project for the Sketch Challenge.

St. Patty's Day Candy Cracker!

Hey guys, it's Angie from Angie's Paper Passion! Do you know that St. Patrick’s Day is next Sunday? Well, I’m sure you all know that I’m not Irish, lol, but like my friend Danita said, “you can kiss me anyway”! Today I made this candy cracker for St. Patty’s Day.

 

It's filled with 'lucky" chocolate coins (They're chocolate, THAT"S why they're LUCKY, duh!) 

But I've created a window in my cracker so you can see all of that chocolate luckiness, lol! And I've added a lucky horseshoe, "Good Luck", and some green bling to make this a festive St. Patrick's Day candy cracker!

The recipe with sizes is on my blog HERE! 

I hope your St. Patty's Day will be filled with fun and luck!

Until next time, Happy Crafting,

Angela

Designed By: Angela Cromwell

Cricut Cartridges Used ; Artiste, TBBM2, CCR Basics

Machines Used: Cricut Expression

Other Supplies Used: cardstock, transparency, gold garland, Stickles, Gems by EKSuccess, Scor-Tape

BUZZZZZ Flower/Heart Wreath full of LOVE



Hi again this is Terri from http://www.scrappinwiththebug.blogspot.com/. I know,  I know Valentines is already over but I made this a couple of days ago for Valentines and it was just too fun not to share with you.

I used Arts philosophy cartridges and cut out different colors of flowers. I wanted purple, pink and dark purple. I cut the flowers at 2.5", on Font Heart 3 Shift function.
Depending on how full you want it to look and/or what the starting size is of your base you will need about 150-200 flowers. This specific project took 190.
I started with a Styrofoam core - in the shape of a heart. I painted it a soft pink so that way in case any areas were not filled in 100% it wasn't white.
 I then added the flowers. I added about 10 of the light purple, then did the same of the pink, dark and light again. Then I would add to the other side that way the "lines" were kept pretty straight. I used Scotch Quick dry adhesive to add the flowers. I worked allot in sections on this. I will admit this is a simple project but takes a few hours to make.

So since I like to share my tricks here are a few.
I have learned a few tricks for rolling the flowers  - so here goes maybe this will help you a little. Tip #1 - Use a  quilling tool to get them started
#2 - After you have rolled about 2 turns put a small dot of glue on the flower - I use Scotch Quick dry glue - then continue rolling the rest. This will keep the "bud" portion of the flower and not unroll allot.

#3 - When you get to the end put a little glue on the tail area - and then put the rolled flowers on the glue and let them unroll. Then hold and press.
#4 - DO NOT try to glue your flowers to the base until the GLUE HAS DRIED completely - especially if using a thin weight paper.
#5 When putting them on the base/wreath form - get them as close as you can together (makes it look full).

I used for the paper a simple paper pack from Michael's - it was just simple pinks, and purples. All of these papers were in the pack. The paper is 8 1/2 x11 and you can get 12 flowers off the one piece of paper.

While I loved the look of it with just the flowers I wanted to go a step further. I wanted a little "banner" so I used My Creative Time's heart die and cut them out in the bright pink - then I cut out  3/4" letters w/ shadow from Kate's ABC to form the word LOVE.

The adorable little bee's were cut at 2" from Create a Critter 2 cartridge again in the coordinating colors from the paper.
I then over lapped the hearts to each other and the bee a little - and just glued to the roses.
A little stickles to give the bee a cute little shimmer/glitter.

 

Here is the back - I only did 4 rows because I want this to lay flat against the door. I may/may not add ribbon - it will depend on what door I hang it on since it's not water proof I don't think I'll put on the front door.

 

Hope you enjoy and

 

Happy Scrappin'

 

 

Cricut Info & Supplies Used:

Designer :  Terri Szymanski

Cricut Machine: Cricut Expression

Cricut Images: Arts Philosophy <FONT> Shift Heart 3, Create a Critter 2 Bee cut at 2",  Kates ABC 3/4" letters.

Other Supplies Used: My Creative Time for me heart die, Stickles, Recollection paper pack, heart Styrofoam piece

Snowman Christmas Card

Hello there this is Trinity from trinityscraftingcreation.blogspot.com . Today I have one of my christmas cards that I have gotten done.

I have used the Winter Frolic which is my favorite cartridge when I go to make christmas cards. I took the snowman from page 32 and cut it out at 4" and the phrase is cut at 1.5". The card base is an A2 size and I cut both base layers down 1/4" smaller then the card it's self.

I used Echo Park Wintertime paper. I also took some Martha Stewart fine crystal glitter and put around the edge of the christmas tree and then took some star dust stickles and put some around the "snowman" word to make it look like the tree.

I also put a dab of white enamel accents on the ball of the hat to make it look like cotton. I cuttlebuged the white layer of the snowman with the swirl folder. There are a few pearls from MS on the card base just to give it a little extra along with a peice of red satin ribbon along the bottom part of the card.

Hope everyone has a blessed christmas and happy new year!

Thank you for stoping by and looking

See you next year!