Here is another card I did for some challenges... http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2011/01/cupcake-challenge.html. This challenge asked us to use a cupcake. I love this blog for all of her super cute card ideas! Then on Fantabulous Cricut, http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-me-monday-43.html, their challenge was to use something sweet. And here, http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/, they challenged us to stamp something sweet. Since I'm not much of a stamper, I just stamped the Happy Happy Birthday along the bottom. (Stamps are not my strong feature, I need to get some clear stamps because I can never get it "straight" and it always bugs me. LOL. That's why you see very few stamped images on my projects. I see all these amazing projects that people do with stamps, but I've never had success with them. I need to take a stamping class and buy some copics and then maybe I'd get better at it! LOL. I did just however order some Peachy Keen face stamps and I'm excited to give them a try and I've been eyeing a few sets of cute animal sentiments from a couple of designers like the Pink Stamper too. Here's to hoping my newly ordered Peachy Keen stamps work great!) It's kinda hard to see but I used stickles on my cupcake and it provides just the right amount of sparkle.
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2011/01/ch-35-anything-party-related.html Their challenge was anything party related. http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-51-bling-it-up.html Their challenge as bling it up... add glitter or something to your project. http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2011/01/its-my-birthday-challenge-and-giveaways.html Anything birthday related as it's her birthday! Happy Birthday Robyn!
On my reader, I found a challenge at http://www.imaginisceblog.com/ that wanted us to use pink, blue and yellow, but now that I go to their blog I can't find the post on that....strange....one of their designers I follow posted about it and it shows up on her blog but it doesn't show up on the actual site hosting the challenge.... oddly enough, it happened to me TWICE as another designer wanted us to use a punch on their challenge but again when I followed the blog from the designer to the site, it wasn't listed there. Is it a full moon out or what???? LOL. I guess I won't be entering those afterall. Lesson learned, make sure I actually follow to the hosting blog BEFORE I include them in my project. That's ok....it was fun to make the card anyway. :-)
Ok...so here's one more today. Over at http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2011/01/ch-34-use-word-love-on-your-project.html they are having a challenge to use the word "love" on your project. Since I needed a card for a family member, I decided to not do a Valentine's Day Card, but to do a love ya card instead. This little bear was fun to create and I love the simplicity of this card. Sometimes....less is more....
Ok...over on the Make the Cut forum, they were starting a challenge to start your Christmas cards for next year and then I found a challenge to make a card with a snowman so I combined the two and came up with this. I don't know if I'll get the 10 of them done that Make the Cut wanted, but I at least have 1 done for next year! LOL. Then snowman is actually a TeddyBear Treasures cut from when I was testing cutting some designs for her. I just finally finished him off and I love the glitter and cute little flower on his hat!
http://cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/cricut-cardz-challenge-58.html
http://www.teddybear-treasures.com/
http://forum.make-the-cut.com/discussion/11093/january-2011-challenges-12-months-of-christmas-/
Ok...so that google reader is getting me again! LOL. I LOVE it! Anyway, as I was going through it yesterday, I came across 3 more challenges and thought I'd give them a try. I needed to make a Thank You card for Amanda at http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/ to say Thank You for the awesome blog candy that she sent me. Thank you Amanada! That was so sweet of you to do all those giveaways. I really appreciate it! I won a Martha Stewart star stamp all over the page punch. It's the first blog candy that I have EVER won AND received! LOL. So in my attempt for a thank you card, I created this card for her based on these challenges. The first challenge was to use only browns and one other color hense the brown and pink theme....the second was to use a princess cut hense the cute little crown on the bear....and the third was to use three flowers. I LOVE this card and think it turned out so cute! I may make a bunch of them to have on hand for birthday, thank you etc. It was fun so wish me luck!
http://jitterbugginchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-want-chocolatebrown-that-is.html
http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/2011/01/tuesday-challenge-on-wendnesday.html
http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/
Ok...over at the Fantabulous Cricut blog, they are doing another challenge. This challenge was to use anything outdoor winter clothing related....hat, scarf, mittens, etc. I chose to use these cute little mittens and was dying to try this Winter title that I had collected somewhere. The border on the bottom was made by repeating a snowflake and then just welding it to a rectangle to make the perfect border and you all know I LOVE penguins so......here's my layout for the challenge. This is from a snowmobiling trip that we took last winter....yes I know....I said last winter.....better late than never. I don't even have this winters pictures developed yet.....it keeps me from feeling 2 years behind if I only have one year of photos! LOL.....Anyway, I like how the page has lots of fun winter elements, but still has room for four 4 x5 photos! If you would like to see what's happening at Fantabulous Cricut...here's the link to their blog and challenge. http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-13T06%3A00%3A00-07%3A00
I also received a tip from Linda about this challenge....not sure how I missed this one since I follow this blog as well, but....anyway, I am also entering it in the "Created for the Getting Cricky Challenge" http://kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/01/getting-cricky-with-memory-miser.html. Her challenge required a bird on it which my cute little penguin qualifies for so..... :-) Thanks for the tip Linda!
And last but not least, I also decided to enter this into the challenge at Made by Momo http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/ because of the winter theme. I think the snowflake border fits that theme pretty well. I really like these blogs and their challenges. I'm fairly new to this whole challenge thing and have only recently enter a couple, but I've found it's fun, gives me a new direction to focus on my pages and has me searching for cuts I may not have used otherwise....I usually scrapbook around my pages, but it's been fun to take their challenge and make it work for my books and photos....a new approach for me and I'm enjoying it! So thanks ladies for hosting these challenges. It's fun to look at my scrapbooking another way. I appreciate the time and effort it takes to do these. Thank you!
I found these fun challenges over at http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/ , http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/challenge-me-monday-41.html, http://cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com/2011/01/1st-challenge-of-2011-new-dt.html and another one over at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ and decided to enter. The theme was anything snow related and instead of using the usual snowman, I decided to create this cute little puppy wearing a scarf and then using a sled and snowflakes in the background. It turned out kinda fun! I liked how the dog turned out. Fun fun. The second challenge was to use an older cartridge (Joys of the Season) and to use a heart somewhere on your project so....I combined the two and this is what I came up with. I've never partricipated in any of these blogs or their challenges before, but I follow the one and the others one I found when a person I follow posted their project for this challenge so.....I thought I'd enter. So here's my entry. What do you think?
Oh my gosh, I SO want to win this blog candy! LOL....but since I'm not generally a really lucky person, (I rarely win things and until recently, I'm not sure I've won anything in my life! LOL) Anyway, a while ago on one of the boards they were talking about the pens sets on sale at Staples that would fit in the cricut with either this pen holder or one of those soft squishy pencil holders. Well, since I had some of the squishy pen holders, I bought them to give this a try. I didn't have much luck with those and so now I have all these pens (I bought 2 sets ...one colored and one all black) and no way to use them with my machine. So.....when I saw her blog candy, I just knew I had to enter to at least TRY to win. I would LOVE to have one of these so.....wish me luck. If you'd like to see these blog candy yourself, go here: 
I didn't do a lot of scrapbooking over the holidays....mainly just spent time with my family, but on New Year's Eve while we were watching TV, I made these cute little embelishments to go on some pages that I needed to get done. We took our kids to an aquarium this summer on our vacation and it was a lot of fun. Ok....let's see if I can remember where all of these files came from..... the leopard shark, jellyfish, and black and white ray came from http://www.scrappydew.com/ (I refererred several of my friends to them to purchase MTC before I became an affiliate and as a thank you, she sent me the same files my friends received for purchasing so I could teach them how to use them with the same files they were using! Wasn't that super sweet! Thanks again!) I don't know where the octopus came from ...sorry... The seahorse came from Mary as a free file, but she doesn't share files anymore so.....it won't do my any good to give you a link to that one. Oh.... and the blue ray came from a LD (Lettering Delights http://www.letteringdelights.com/) set but I didn't like his face so I changed it up some. So....there you go if you are interested in any of these files.
I am also entering these pages into the Paper Playtime challenge (http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2011/01/ch-32-happy-new-year-welcome-to-new.html)in hopes of winning some Peachy Keen stamps! I've had my eye on these for a little while but as I'm not much of a stamper wasn't sure what to use them for, but lately, I've seen them used on EVERYTHING. I'm hoping to win some of these and give them a try myself. The other day, I saw a site that had faces on a pea pod, a sunshine, and even a string bean and they were ADORABLE. Here's to hoping I can win. Jump on over to Paper Playtime for some fun inspiration. It's a wonderful site and one of the few that I actually follow regularly! LOL. Enjoy.
