Sketch Challenge #6

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 for it:

A simple card to tell someone that I am Grateful to have them in my life.  I have been challenging myself to use up and pare down my supplies.  So I have been using a lot of my scrap papers on my cards.  I have a box of "extra" and "text" cuts that I couldn't bear to toss but has been sitting around for someday as it filled up.  Today I had some craft time so I challenged myself by pulling that box down and my stack of scraps and made cards.  If I remember correctly, the "G" is from the Cricut Cutting Up cartridge.  Using strips and squares from my scraps, two metal buttons from my embellishment stash, a touch of bling, and a "grateful" stamp, I created a quick, easy to duplicate card.  I chose this because I have needed to replenish my stash of cards on hand.  This style is perfect not just for all occasion cards, but can easily be used for birthdays as well.  It is a non- gender style, so it was easy to switch the colors out for male and female.  Plus, using the letter for  the child's name easily personalizes the card for a birthday or other special occasion.

Hope you enjoy!  Make sure to share what you create!

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.

It's Christmas Time

And we'll party with the elves!

Happy Holidays Fellow Crafters! It's Colleen from Col's Creative Corner bringing you a fun Christmas wall hanging today. I made this for my son.  He is a Christmas music lover and this is a line from a song. Christmas music runs constantly from Thanksgiving until New Year's Eve in our home. I am a lover of the classic Christmas tunes, my son loves it all, but my poor husband is a guitarist and really needed some music to call his own. A few years ago, I picked him up a rockin' CD called Ho Ho Hoey-The Complete Collection, by a guitarist called Gary Hoey. He is a rock guitarist but he does a rap type of song called the Twas The Night Before Christmas. My son loves it! It's actually a funny song with some great guitar playing. One of the lines that my hubby and I rap for my son is "we party with the elves, yeah"! Naturally that puts him into fits of laughter. I've had this idea floating around in my head to make him something like this for quite some time now and today I was able to finally get it made. 

I used my Gypsy to create the hanging. The back is chipboard and I covered it with papers from my stash.

 This cut is from Art Philosophy and I fiddled with the sizing to make it longer. It measures 9.75 high by 11 inches wide. Then I used two Christmas papers from my stash and cut one just slightly smaller to make a layer. I know the top layer is from K&Company, but I can't say for sure where the bottom layer of paper came from.

The elves are from Jolly Holidays. I wanted the elves to look like they were jumping, so I used the elf with the wagon, then I cut the wagon off. I also flipped two of the three elves. The are cut at 4.20 wide by 3.10 high. I used K&Company Paper for their suits. I added a little chalk to their cheeks for a rosy glow. I embellished them with some pen stitching and used Stickles to give them some sparkle.

The center elf is attached to an Action Wobbler. My son likes to make him wobble.
Santa is 4.5 high by 4.0 inches wide. He is also attached to an Action Wobbler. I used Stickles on him and Glossy Accents on his umbrella to give it a wet appearance. I added a belt buckle to his belt using a Gold paint pen and added some fake stitching to his suit. I also used the paint pen to add a little accent to his shoes.

The letters for "party and elves" are from an oldie but goodie cartridge, Cuttin' Up. They are 2.5 inches tall. I used Calligraphy Collection for the words "with the". I like the contrast they provide. 

Finally, since it is for my son, I didn't want to use ribbon on it, so I used some jewelry wire to hang the sign up. I wanted it to look curly in keeping with the fun theme, so I twisted it around a paint brush. 

I used my Big Bite to punch a couple of holes and ran the wire through the back. 

I am so happy I finally got around to creating this and have enjoyed sharing it with you today! 

I wish everyone a joyous holiday! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Designed by:  Colleen McCauley

Machines Used:  Cricut Expression, Gypsy

Cartridges Used: Cuttin' Up, Calligraphy Collection, CTMH Art Philosophy and Jolly Holidays

Supplies Used: Action Wobblers, Paper from my stash, Glossy Accents, Stickles, Pebbles Chalk, Wire and Chipboard.

Green Bay Baby Shower Invitation

Hello. This is Maura aka Happy Granny. Today I wanted to share the baby shower invitations that I am making for my niece. She wanted a "Green Bay" theme.

I made the card using CCR. First, I made a rectangle that measures 4.25 x 11 in. And added the paper pattern from Greeting Cards then print and cut it with my Imagine. Then cut the gray layer at 5 x 3.75 and used the Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder to emboss.

The baby and all it's layers were cut from the Baby Steps Cartridge at 1.75. The dream bubble was cut at 1.68 from the Cuttin' Up cartridge.

I inked all the edges, popped up the baby and thought bubble. The Green Bay G I found on line and printed it out and cut by hand. The face stamp is from "Peachy Keen" baby faces stamp set.

 

Cricut Info and Other Supplies:

Designed by:  Maura

Cartridges Used: Baby Steps, Cuttin Up, CCR Basics and Greeting Cards Inside and Out

Criuct Machines Used: CCR, Imagine, E2, Gypsy and Cuttlebug

Other Supplies Used: card stock, embossing folder, pop dots, stamps,ink, white pen

 

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