Banner Up!

Now that I have my oh-so-fabulous Peachy Keen Stamps I thought I would try my hand at their Let's Face It Friday Challenge - only I'm a day late and a dollar short!  Oh well, another time.  The theme for this challenge is Banner Up - use your Peachy Keen Face stamps in a project that contains pennants.  As much as it makes me feel really old to say this, I have a niece that is expecting her first baby any day now so I thought I would make her a card to celebrate the occasion.  I am also excited because this is the first time I've been able to use my My Pink Stamper Sweet Baby stamps!

Stamp:  My Pink Stamper Sweet Baby, Peachy Keen Stamps Wide Eyed Kids Assortment
Cricut Cartridges:  Simply Charmed (baby carriage), Country Life (pennants), Simply Sweet (letters in pennants), Gypsy
Paper:  Doodlebug Design (baby girl stripe), AC Cardstock, Georgia Pacific, Stampin Up
Edge Punch:  Martha Stewart Scallop Dot
Embellishments:  Stampin Up (buttons), Stickles, safety pin, white gel pen

My Pink Design Team - February!

I have had so much fun working with Robyn's newly released stamp sets.  Today I have chosen to feature a set called More Faithful Sayings.

I have a niece who just turned 8 and was baptized recently, but I wasn't able to be there so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to send her a card saying how proud we are of her.

 

I am seeing now that I have a little work to do as far as keeping a steady hand when using my Copics!  I'm just glad that I had them since I didn't have any flesh-toned cardstock.

Cricut Cartridges:  Playtime, Winter Frolic (for the swirls), George & Basic Shapes

Stamps:  My Pink Stamper More Faithful Sayings

Paper:  Stampin Up, Georgia Pacific, Colorbok

Embossing:  Cuttlebug Victoria , Quickutz Flowers

Embellishments:  DCWV (buttons), Stickles, Recollections (pearls)

And here's another card featuring her new stamp set called Sport-tastic:

 

I have a confession to make:  we're not the biggest sports fans at my house.  We're more the artsy type, although I think this is going to have to change because my son needs an outlet for his oodles of energy!  But because of this I don't have any Cricut cartridges with a sports theme.  So I had to get creative.  I "built" this gold medal from the tabs feature on the Simply Sweet cartridge.  I just used the Gypsy (yes, I'm loving it more and more!) to remove the cut from the center.  Then I embossed the medal with an embossing folder from the Preserves Cricut Companion set.

Thanks for stopping by today, and if you haven't already be sure to stop by My Pink Stamper to check out all the wonderful My Pink Designer projects!

FCCB Cricut Crawl - Share the Love!

Welcome to Divine Domesticity and the fourth Fantabulous Cricut Crawl ... Fantabulous Cricut's version of a blog hop!

Valentine's Day is in a week and everyone at Fantabulous Cricut has decided to Share the Love!   Each Design Team member will be featuring an original Valentine-themed project that includes the word LOVE somewhere on it.

If you came here from the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, then you're in the right place because I'm the first stop on the crawl.  If you just happened to stop by today, you're still in the right place if you would love to be inspired for your Valentine's Day projects.

Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays for a number of reasons:  red is my favorite color, it's my son's birthday, and I love sugar!

And isn't this some of the cutest sugar you've ever seen?  I would venture to guess that many of you have seen lollipops like this because they're everywhere - I've seen them in New York City at Dylan's Candy Bar, I've seen them at Michaels in Indiana, and many touristy areas.  Do you know where they are made?  In my town, by a little company called Kencraft.  They make the most adorable candies decorated with sugar art.  I can even give you a little insider information:  this past week they have been filming an episode of Kid in a Candy Story, a great Food Network show.  Watch for it around Easter!

Cricut Cartridges:  Tags Bags Boxes & More, George & Basic Shapes, Simply Sweet
Paper:  Doodlebug Design (glitter paper), AC Cardstock, Georgia Pacific
Embellishments:  Doodlebug Design (heart brad), Michaels (ribbon), and don't forget the Hershey's Kisses!

I used my glue gun to glue a foam ball (from the floral dept) in the bottom of the box, stuck the lollipop in the foam, and voila! 

Now it's your turn! Let's see your Share the Love projects!  Make sure to include a Cricut cut somewhere on your project and the word Love!

Next stop...Angela's blog, Simple Creations Papercrafts. Go see what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #35 - Shape/Color Challenge

Welcome to my first design team submission for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  The challenge for this week is to use the color green and a circle in your project.  So I decided to use a green circle!

The little peppermint was made using the Simply Charmed cartridge, and the "Sweet" comes from the Create a Critter cartridge.  The background was created using the D'vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder.  Cardstock from DCWV.

I need to spend more time at the Cricut website!  As I was looking for the link for the D'vine Swirl folder I noticed that they have a lot more Cricut Companion folders - Winter Frolic, Simply Charmed, Boys Will Be Boys, just to name a few.  I love these, but as luck would have it I haven't been able to get my hands on any of them yet.  I live in the area where so many papercrafting/scrapbooking companies are headquartered (Provo Craft for a start) and yet the local stores have the worst selection of Cuttlebug products.  So aggravating!

MPS Father's Day Challenge

It's a good thing there are a lot of fathers in my life:  my father, my father-in-law, and of coarse my wonderful husband.  I've been participating in all these "Father" challenges and now have a number of Father's Day cards.  Once again it has reminded me that most of the papercrafting supplies that I own lean towards the girly.  But I went digging through my stash of paper and found a folder of 8 1/2" x 11" (that tells you how old it is right there) decorative paper that must be at least 10 years old.  It was just what I needed for all these outdoorsy men in my family!  This card was made using the Simply Sweet Cricut cartridge.