A Few Challenge Awards

I tell you, I am in a challenge zone.  I picked up a few more awards for projects I submitted for challenges this week.  The first comes from the Fantabaulous Cricut Challenge Blog.  I submitted my hiking layout I did a few months back for their outdoor theme project.  Here it is and here is my button!

The second award is for my sister's Birthday Card.  The ladies over at Cooking with the Cricut selected as a Top three project.  So I get another badge!!

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A Birthday Card for My Sister

Happy Saturday everyone!  I have spent a few hours putting together a birthday card for my younger sister.  I also decided to play along with the challenge at Cooking with the Cricut.  The challenge is to make a project featuring gel pens or markers, and/or alternatively, use a sun.  I really enjoy the way these challenges are pulling me out of my comfort zone to get me to do things I haven't done before.  I've had an Amy Chomas' Gel Pen Holder for probably seven or eight months now and have never used it! Ridiculous, I know. So, I decided to pull it out and put it to work.  And to add a little more difficulty, I wanted to use a sun as well.  Here is the finished card!   

You guys know how much I love dimension right?  Well, I wanted to create some, but in reverse.  I cut out the sun image on the card and all of its layers, and then placed the sun that I drew with the gel pen inside the card.  The face of the sun is a Peach Keen stamp stamped in Stampin' Up's Not Quite Navy.

On the inside of the card, I used a Tagxedo word cloud that I generated specifically for my sister's birthday.  This is the coolest site!  Diane from CapadiaDesign posted about it a while ago.  I've been meaning to try it out and this card gave me the perfect opportunity.  I took a poem about sisters and birthday and used that, along with a few other key words to generate this word cloud.  I saved it, printed it on Cardstock, and cut it down to fit into the card.  I love it!  There are so many options with this site!  The creative applications are really limitless.

Lastly, I used a stamp that I picked up from Michael's eons ago for the sentiment.  I added a few accents that are from one of my Verve stamp sets to make it stand out a bit.  I cut it out using Spellbinders inverse scallop squares.  I hope you like it!!

Recipe:

Paper:  K & Company Citronella

Cartridges:  Elegant Edges (layers), Pack Your Bags (sun)

Tag:  Spellbinders Inverse Scallop Rectangles

Stamps:  stash & Verve

Word Cloud:  Tagxedo

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Roosters Rock!

I am over the moon!  Turns out I was a top three winner at another challenge I entered last week.  My Rooster Rocks!  Thanks to everyone who viewed my card and thanks to the wonderful ladies at Cooking With The Cricut.




Here is another picture of my winning rooster!!

Just Because Rooster Card

I am in the challenge zone!  I can't believe it took me this long to get involved in them because they are a whole lot of fun!  Over at Emma Aguilar's My Creative Time blog the challenge is to create a card using either Wild Card or Just Because cards and include embossing somewhere on the card.  Well, I have both cartridges, but have never used Just Because Cards so I thought I would challenge myself to use this new cartridge.  I flipped through the book numerous times and kept coming back to this rooster - I have no idea why.  But anyway, here's what I came up with.   

I used Glimmer Mist on several of the Rooster layers and I embossed them with Cuttlebug folders.  I also used Zooballo to cut the grass.  I wanted to make a shaped card, and I needed something to stabilize it.  Zoobaloo has the best grass!  Lol.   I also used a lot of dimension, which I can't get enough of, to try to make this baby pop.  The sentiment is computer generated and cut using spellbinders classic large rectangle and rectangle scallop dies.

Recipe:

Paper:  Stampin Up', Scraps from my Stash

Cartridges:  Just Because Cards, Zoobaloo

Stamps:  Ink - Crumb Cake

Flower:  Recollections

I also entered this card in the Cooking with the Cricut challenge.  It's an anything goes Cricut challenge so this definitely applies!  

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