A New Challenge..........

A bloggy friend of mine Christine aka 'Change of Heart' has been chosen to be on the design team for a new challenge blog called Fantabulous Cricut. I know I will probably not to be able to join in each week as I am new to the cricut and only have three cartridges at the moment so thought I would attempt this weeks challenge. Mind you it is my birthday today I have just been given some money to buy more so watch this space lol. 

This weeks challenge is to include a word and shape on your project:

the word required is "Birthday"

the shape required is a "Balloon"

Here is what I came up with, it is a birthday treat box that was cut from Plantin Schoolbook:-

I cut the box at fit to page size and I think that was 7" which is quite big but it fits a large bag of sweets nicely inside. I cut the words from Plantin Schoolbook after I had welded them in design studio. The girl and her clothing was cut at 3" from Everyday Paper Dolls and then the balloons were cut from the same cartridge at 4". I stuck my lettering, the girl and the balloon strings flat and then placed foam pads on the back of the balloons.

Whilst making this I learnt that I should of placed my cardstock the wrong way down on my mat so that the score marks were on the inside.

Crafty Sentiments Challenge DT Card

Today, see the start of a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and it was our goal to follow the beautiful sketch drawn by Suzette and use the following additions of '2 designer papers'.

For my card I used the stamp called 'Boy with flowers' available from the Crafty Sentiments Shop. He has been coloured with Promarkers and I then added different coloured stickles to some of the flowers. My 2 designer papers are from K&Co 'Sparkly Sweet' range and the green cardstock is from the Paper Mill Shop. My sentiment which is available from Crafty Sentiments is one that instead of using in one line I split up so as to fit into my flower. 

 

Why not pop over to the Crafty Sentiments Blog and see the gorgeous creations from the rest of the Design Team.

Crafty Calendar March Challenge 'Flower Power.

Apologies for some reason this did not post yesterday as it should have.

Well I am back I had a lovely rest whilst at respite and my family are nearly all recovered. Have spent a couple of days sorting out my youngest son's change of school which is not easy during GCSE years but had to be done as he just wasn't getting anywhere at his current school. Just got to collect his new uniform on Monday and then it looks like he will start the following Monday.

Anyhow enough of all that, here is my design team card for Crafty Calendar Challenges and this month the theme is 'Flower Power' wtih the added option of using 'Pastel Colours'. As I said in my last post I now have a lovely new Cricut Expression machine and so I had a play with it on Wednesday to create this card, it is not perfect but for a first time I am happy.

Please excuse the paper clip on this next photo I just used it to keep it closed as it was still wet when I took the photo.

Supplies:-

A5 Card Blank - Craft Superstore

Designer Papers - Papermania 'Blueberry Hill'

Cardstock - Paper Mill Shop

Stamp - Crafty Sentiments 'Teddy With Flowers'

Medium - Promarkers

Wording - Cricut 'Plantin Schoolbook'

Frame - Cricut 'Accent Essentials'

This card also fits into three other challenges which are:-

Simon Says - Mother's Day/Girly

C.R.A.F.T - Mother's Day/Flowers

Totally Papercrafts - Mother's Day/Special Lady.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully normal service will resume now lol.

Won't Be Back Until March....

For those of you that don't know things have not been great around here for the last couple of weeks, we have had lots of family matters to deal with and we are slowly getting back on track. I will also be going into respite next week too, to give my family a break so feel it would be better to start a fresh after that.

However, I do have one piece of fabulous news which is that my adorable husband surprised me with a brand new Cricut Expression machine, it came right out of the blue in the middle of everything going on and I am slowly getting used to it (slightly different to your little machine we use at the crop Tracy lol). It came with Plantin Schoolbook, Accent Essentials and the Design Studio so just need to learn the design studio part now and then I will look to getting some more cartridges.

Enjoy the next couple of weeks and I will see you all soon.

Kim xXx

Crafty Sentiments Celebrates Valentine's Day With A Blog Hop

Today Crafty Sentiments are celebrating Valentine's Day with a blog hop. Each design team member will have a creation on their blog and all you have to do is follow the route by hopping from one to blog to the next and leaving a comment on ALL blogs you visit along the way. In order to be eligible for the surprise candy you must become a follower of the Crafty Sentiments blog as well and leaving your comments. Good luck and most of all enjoy what you see I am sure the design team have created some fantastic projects for you. You have until Thursday 4th February 2010 at 8pm GMT to join in and if you should get lost along the way or happen to fall upon a broken link please see my sidebar for all the design team links.

For this gift card I have used:-

6" Sqaure Card Blank - Craft Superstore

Designer Papers - DCWV

Cardstock - Sizzix

Stamp - Crafty Sentiments designed by Cathy Hare

Sentiment - Crafty Sentiments

Medium - Promarkers

Double Heart - Cut on Cricut whilst at a crop with the help of Tracy and now I cannot remember the cartridge used, any ideas Tracy please???

Embossing - Cuttlebug 'Hearts'

Die - Sizzix 'Tags'

Ribbon - Local Craft Store

The inside of this gift card uses the same papers and has a pocket for a gift card, money or even a special message. Unfortunately I cannot get the photo to upload it keeps rejecting it, I will try to upload again but if it continues to reject I am sorry.

This is a circular blog hop and there is candy somewhere along the way. You may start on the blog you are on and just continue by clicking on the next name on the blog. The end of the blog hop is when you land back on the blog you started on. You don’t have to hunt for the blog candy! We want you to enjoy the hop so to be eligible for the blog candy you MUST do 2 things. 1) You MUST be a follower of the Crafty Sentiments Blog and 2) You MUST leave a comment on every blog (6 comments total).

The next blog on the hop is: LISA so off you go and don't forget to leave those comments.