Design team B always posts mid-month for the DS4J Challenge. January's challenge is Anything Goes with a twist of "All About Love". My card is all about my little Max. I asked Margy Kieser, the artist of this image to draw a Maltese because I couldn't find one that I liked. So she drew these two adorable digistamps. I think the little boy looks just like my Max. The female's name is Bella. My neighbor has a dog that Max plays with. Her name is Bella so I made a valentine for Max to give her
Card Supplies:
A2 Card Base
Background paper- K and Co. Smitten paperstack
Heart - an image from Cricut Design Space and embossed using Anna Griffin Love/Seasonal Embossing Folders
Image - Barney & Bella by Margy Kieser of Digistamps4Joy.
Image colored with Copics
Sentiment was also cut using Cricut Explore
As always thank you for stopping by today. I love your comments.
God Bless You !!! Peggy
Challenges for this card:
Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 233 - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge - 2W,2E (must contain hand coloring) - No.2 - Anything Goes
Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Anything Goes
Creative Corner - 2W, 3E Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E - No.171 - Anything Goes
My card today is another Christmas card. I love to make Christmas cards. I'm sure I have enough made for this year and then some. But when I come across beautiful embossing folders and files in a cartridge that compliments the folder, I have to make a card.
Card Ingredients:
5X7 card base
Embossing Folder - Poinsettia Blooms from AG Holiday Seasonal Embossing Folders.
Poinsettia - File from Anna's Christmas Card 2 Cartridge
Both of these items can be found at this time on HSN. Search Anna Griffin.
Thank you for stopping in today. I hope your weekend is extremely pleasant.
I want to start a process of consciously thanking God for something each day. Today, it's life. Life is so precious and we take it for granted. I know I have lived more days than I have left and I truly thank Him for these days. Today, a dear friend of mine lost a granddaughter at the young age of 18. She and her twin sister were in an accident. Please pray for this family and be thankful for your life God has given you.
God Bless You!!! Peggy
I know, we just got over Christmas but there is a group on FB called Only Christmas Cards/Projects. They are starting a challenge this week that everyone should post a Christmas project each week. If I post a card each week, then I will have all my Christmas cards ready to go when time comes to mail them. No last minute scurrying around. So this is my first.
It is a CAS design from Anna Griffin's Christmas Cards and Embellishments Cricut cartridge. The design is one that is drawn by the Cricut Explore. I colored it with Prismacolor colored pencils. Still getting used to them. This card and envelope is a Make It Now project in Cricut Design Space. It is ready to draw, cut and put together. Of course, you have to color or water color the design but that makes it yours.
This is the inside sentiment I made for it using an ornament image from Design Space.
Thank you for stopping by today. Be sure to join in with this Christmas challenge and let's be ready when Dec. 25th rolls around again. It will be here before you know it. God Bless You!!! Peggy
Challenges for this card:
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas W,must be Christmas red
Scrappers Delights M, First Saturday of the M Always Anything Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E - No.120 - Anything Goes
Winter Wonderland - W, 3E, must be Christmas – Spring is in the Air
I recently started going to church with my friend, Peggy Lawhorn. The Sunday School class has a care team that sends cards to it's members. I made several cards to give to them. I will be sharing some of them in the next few day.
This batch of cards was made using packs of cards purchased from the $1 bin at Michael's. Alas, the $1 bins are no more. They're now $1.50. I added ribbon, jewels, embellishments to enhance them. I made the labels using my Cricut Explore and Cricut Design Space.
Thank you for visiting with us today. Please let us hear from you. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
Hi Everyone - me again! Well, I told you that I finally used my Explore - guess what? I used it again - I'm on a roll!! My husband birthday was Friday, April 17th and he will NOT accept a store bought card from me or my mother! He gets insulted if we try to buy him a card for anything! He also saves all the cards that we make and give him. He has them in a drawer of the night stand on his side of the bed. Now isn't that the sweetest - everyone say - awwwww!!!!
So with his birthday in mind, I again decided to use my Explore and make another "ready to make" project. I chose the card below because I liked the colors used in the example on Design Space. I chose the project and simply followed the instructions step by step to create the card below. I know he'll like it (and put it with his other collection).
I'm hoping that by using my Explore and making these projects that it will help my mojo come back and I can create some original projects of my own! Thank you once again for stopping by - you are appreciated! Until another day, God Bless You! Donna
Hi Everyone - I have a confession to make!! I have been in the deep dark dregs of "no crafty mojo!!" I ordered my Cricut Explore for HSN back in Sept/Oct 2014 as a Christmas present for me from my hubby!! When it arrived, Mom asked me if I was going to open it before Christmas. To her shock, I said NO! So I received the Explore on Christmas day and didn't even tear the paper off the package. It actually sat in a corner for two months before my son finally removed the paper. So I took the machine out of the box and put it on it's designated area in my craft "happy space." It has sat there until now (another two months later) before I decided to make something with it. Can you believe that I went that long without using my new machine? Without making some fabulous project?
To be truthful, it would probably still be sitting there if Mom hadn't stayed after me to make something with the Explore. She said, "once you use it, you're going to love it!" As my mom knows, I don't like changes and I don't like trying to figure "new techy" things out. That's my mom - she loves techy stuff! I'm more like my dad - when he got a new tool, he would give the manual to my mom and tell her to read it just in case there was something in there he would need to know. Like him I want to take the new "tool" out of the box and just use it!!
So I decided to make a "ready to make" project for a friend of mine at work that has a birthday on Friday. This was a very simple project to make and for someone who's mojo has gone missing for months, turned out very pretty.
The moral of this story is - if you're like me and are afraid to take out your new Cricut Explore and use it - it really is easy to use. I should have been using it months ago!!
Now the 3d Shadow box below was made with my Silhouette - it was another simple project to make - simply cut and paste together. My friend with the birthday on Friday loves all things "cardinals" and I made her this 3D Shadow box which includes a cardinal. I think she'll really like it.
Thank you so much for stopping by - we so appreciate your comments and your visits. We hope you will come back again soon and if you're like me, you'll find inspiration here to play with your Explore! Until another day, God Bless You! Donna
Provocraft came out with a new cartridge last week called Holiday Snowflakes. It doesn't contain just ordinary shaped snowflakes but some of them tell the story of Christmas. The one I used for this card is one of them. It is Snowflake 41. I was happy when I found out this cartridge was part of the Design Space subscription.
Card Supplies
5.5"X5,5" card base
Background Paper - DCWV Shimmer Stack
Cricut Cartridge Holiday Snowflakes-Snowflake 41
Star is from DS Digital Image Set "Stars"
Smaller stars are little round stickers I bought looong time ago.
Merry Christmas sticker
Here is a copy of all the snowflakes on this cartridge.
Donna and I had a couple of friends over Saturday to make Christmas ornaments. Last week Donna posted some ornaments she made and when some friends saw them they wanted to come over and make some. We had fun. She made some pictures so I will get her to post them
Thank you for stopping by today. It's always a joy to have you. God Bless You. Peggy
I was looking on Pinterest today at a board called cards. It belonged to someone who repinned one of my pins. I was inspired by a side step card I saw there. I tell you when I see other people's creations, I am in awe. I was thinking of trying to make one similar. But when I got to looking through my paper for some to use, I came across a partial sheet from a paper pack by DCWV called Ciao Bella. I decided to make a card from it.
Card Supplies:
5.5X7.5 card base - I made it this big in order to use most of this design.
Background paper - DCWV Ciao Bella Paper Stack
Large Butterflies - Indie Art Cricut Cartrdige - cut from same sheet of paper as the background. I also used my Explore to cut them.
Small Butterflies - Cut with a Martha Stewart punch
Ribbon
Gems - for back of butterflies
I really pleased with this card. I hope you like it. Thank you for coming by today. We love your comments and look forward to hearing from you. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
Challenges for this card:
Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (May) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Anything goes + Option: Spring
The Outlawz Paper A La Mode Challenge today is We Are Family. We are to make a project about someone in your family; Mother's Day, A birthday, a scrapbook page about family, etc. Our sponsor is Kadoodle Bug Designs. They have cut files as well as digistamps. I chose this cute little 'Spring Bluebird' to make a birthday card.
Card Supplies:
A2 Card Base
Background Paper - from Michael's. Donna & I split a pack of Reflections paper & she took the cover.
Image - Kadoodle Bug Designs Spring Bluebird. I cut the file with my Silhouette Cameo using the print & cut feature. I love that feature.
Sentiment - Cricut Design Space label. I cut & wrote the sentiment with Cricut Explore. Love that writing feature.
Ink - for shading
Ribbon
I hope you will join us for this challenge this week. We love seeing you creations. God Bless You!!! Peggy
Here is a card I made as the result of a test I did on the Cricut Explore.
I read where the Cricut Explore was supposed to do really nice cuts even on small images. So I had to test that. I chose an image from Florals Embellished cartridge that had a lot of detail to it. I sized it at 1.5" and the Explore cut it perfectly. I thought, that would look pretty on a card so I cut 3 in all.
I took an A2 card and embossed it with the Anna Griffin Sierra Scroll Cuttlebug Folder. I think the pattern on the folder looked a lot like the image. What do you think?
I pasted the images to the embossed card.
That is pretty but it needed just a little something else. That's when I went to my flower stash & found some flowers I had gotten from the $1 bins at Michael's. I think they were a good finishing touch. There's plenty of room to put a sentiment when I get ready to send it out.
Thank you for visiting with me today. I really appreciate the input from you. My poor little Max's hair has grown so much it hides his eyes. So today we go get him groomed. He is such a good baby. Lots of times he sits on my lap while I craft. He can see outside better from that vantage point. Until later, God Bless You!!!! Peggy
Challenges for this card:
ABC Challenge - P1/15 J is for Just as you like it
Altered Eclectics - M, P7 - Anything Goes
Mema's Challenge - M, P1, winners every week Anything goes
Natalie and Amy's Challenge - M, P30 #19 Embossing
One Crazy Stamper - M, P1, E5 Anything Goes no digis
Sweet Stamps - M, P15, SIO, E1, C10 #161 Anything Goes/ Embossing
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations 2W, 2E - Anything Goes (Week 1)
Party Time Tuesdays W, 3E (2E anything goes wk) - PTTYDD #169 Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy 2W - PDE Linky Party #8 Anything Goes (Week 2)
I've been watching the Cricut Explore & reading reviews ever since it came out. I downloaded the Design Space & have been looking at it. It's not perfect by a long shot but what I liked about it, is when you open a file it divides all the pieces you need on separate mat layers. When you look at a file image, you look at the completed file, not just part of it. In CCR, you had to choose each element separately. In Design Space, you don't. That was a selling point for me. So I went to my local Michael's today and they had one Explore so it came home with me. I haven't had a lot of time to play with it but during setup, you are given a project to do so you can see how it works. Here it is. You may have seen it before as everyone who purchased an Explore probably made it.
The Explore writes the Thank You and then proceeds to cut out the card. I was impressed with how well it wrote. I'm anxious to play with this feature. I'll be testing it over the next little while. I love, love, love my Cameo, but I have way too many Cricut cartridges not to use them. I'll let you know if Design Space & the Explore make using the cartridges easier.
Thank you for visiting with me today. It's 'Hump Day'. God Bless You!!!! Peggy
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