Love you a Latte!!

CardzTv is having a fun challenge this week: #23 Color Challenge, you can make a card, layout or project but you can only use Red, Black and White.

I had fun making this card, I thought it turned out really cute!

I started by making the 31/2" Latte from the Love You A Latte Cricut Lite cartridge, and added a heart cut from a Fiskars Heart punch. I used the Pink Cat Studio Lily and Billy Sweethearts Stamp set for the sentiment on the heart.

Then I pulled out my Cuttlebug and ran a piece of red cardstock through with the Crafts Too Love Hearts embossing folder. Added some leftover mini hearts from the Spellbinders Heart Circle die and cut a few more with the Fiskars punch.

The sentiment comes from Pink By Design Be Mine stamp set and inked in American Crafts Rouge.

Finally some Dollar store ribbon and some popdots for the Latte to give some dimension.

The inside sentiment is also from the Pink Cat Studio Lily and Billy Sweetheart stamp set.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's time to pull out those cartridges and dies and start getting busy.

I will be entering this card into a few challenges:

• Cardztv: #23 Color Challenge
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge: #147 Queen of Hearts
• Simon Says: Have A Heart
• Crafty Ribbon: #38 Anything Goes With Ribbon
• (Pin)spirational Challenges: #43 Use the photo below to create whatever you like.

Sending A Trunk Full Of Hearts.

This week I made a card with a sentiment that I've been wanting to use for a long time, so with Valentine's Day just around the corner it worked out perfectly.

I'm going to enter this weeks Have A Heart challenge over at the Pink By Design blog. They want to see projects using hearts, stamped, embossed, cut out which ever way you like it as long as it includes a heart.

I started with the Cricut Animal Kingdom cartridge and cut out just the head of the Elephant then added some googly eyes for fun. I mounted him on some heart patterned paper from the Ever After Collection from Pebbles.

I used the Pink By Design Jungle Fever stamp set for the sentiment, embossing it in Stampendous Silver embossing powder.

The mini hearts come from the largest Spellbinders Heart Circles die from a previous card that I made a while back... I knew I kept them for a reason.

The medium sized hearts are cut from a Fiskars punch, which I then embossed with silver mini word stamps from the Pink Cat Studio Lily and Billy Sweethearts stamp set.

I love how the card turned out!

Find all those heart stamps, stickers and die cuts and get busy, then enter the challenge yourself.

I will also be entering this into the challenge over at the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog 13-4 Just Cards: Heart of Hearts. Make sure to head on over and take a peek at all the great inspiration from the Design Team.

You should also check out (PIN)spirational Challenge #42 over at the (PIN)spiratonal Challenges Blog. Use the pic below for some inspiration and possibly become a Design Team member.

Be Mine!

The challenge this week over at Peachy Keen is a Sketch. So with Valentine's Day just around the corner I thought I would start my card making now.

Peachy Keen Challenge 13-2 Sketch

Here's the sketch for this challenge:

I stamped, colored with Copics and cut out Lily and Billy then added them to the front of the card with some popdots.

I used the Peachy Keen Cornie Face Assortment for the faces on the Valentines... Aren't they so cute?

Using the Love Hearts folder I embossed a piece of red cardstock and attached it to the base then layered Lily and Billy on top. 

The sentiment is from Pink By Design Joyful Tags cut out with the Spellbinders Ribbon Tag Trio and attached it with some American Crafts Ribbon.

So remember to head on over to the Peachy Keen Blog and check out all the amazing projects.

A Dino-Mite Birthday!

Yesterday I went to a Surprise Birthday party for my friend's daughter, she turned the big 10. We all huddled by the door with balloons in our hands, waiting for her to open the door and throw them at her.. SURPRISE!!

She had this huge smile on her face and her eyes wide, in shock walking around in a slight daze.

Good food, friends, family and of course birthday cake = a Dino-Mite birthday party.

She loves dinosaurs so I made this Triceratops card with the Dinosaur Tracks Cricut cartridge.

I made this card the same way as the Happy Piggy Party card, by cutting 2 shadow layers and adhering them together, then cutting all the remaining layers.

I ran some of the layers through my Cuttlebug with the Mesh embossing folder to give him scaly skin. (I forgot to emboss the brown legs.. Oops!)

For the inside of the card I used the first layer and then cut part of the top off so it would fit inside. I used the Dinosaur Party stamp set by Pink Cat Studio for the inside sentiment with some Cottage Ivy Memento Ink.

It was a Dino-Mite birthday filled with lots of love, fun and excitement for a very surprised 10 yr old!

Valentine's Day Layout

I've been busy reorganizing my craft room and saw these Heart shaped buttons in my stash and starting thinking what can I do with them....

So I made this Valentine's Day Layout.

I used my Pink Cat Studio - Lily and Billy Sweethearts  stamp set and coloured them with my Copics. The sentiment comes from Pink By Design's October SOTM - Friends to the end.  I stamped it onto a Spellbinders Label Die and then Embossed in black. The Happy Valentine's Day Stamp is a Martha Stewart stamp set.

I used Recollections Shimmer Red cardstock for the base and Making Memories - Heart Floral Love Struck cardstock for the background.

Then I added some Pink By Design Divine Twine in Cherry
and thread on the Heart shaped buttons that started this whole layout. A few sparkly heart shaped brads and voilà!