Crazy for you! My Paper Crafting Challenge

Hi all my crafty friends, it's time for a Cricut challenge at My Paper Crafting! This week we were to use hearts as our theme.  I decided use the heart from Smiley Cards.  The first time I saw this heart I loved it because it reminded me of the time my youngest son was in Kindergarten and there was this little girl he liked.  He came and told me that he had hearts in his eyes over her.  So I just had to use this heart and the sentiment "crazy about you" which I will give to my son this Valentines day.  My sentiment came from My Creative Time.  My card is simple but effective I think. lol  I think I will make this card for all 6 of my boys, that way they will all know that we are crazy for them! lol

Come on over to My Paper Crafting and take the challenge with us. Link up your project for a chance at being "Top Crafty Cutter"!! Just make sure to follow our simple rules and have fun!!

Spring is in the Air! BBTB2 Challenge

Oh boy do I ever wish Spring was in the air!! lol It's Monday and time for a BBTB2 challenge, our super talented and ever so sweet design team sister Carole gave us the challenge to make something about spring.  Yes, we all have the winter blues and are dreaming about spring. lol  This is just what we needed!! My layout was totally lifted...I'm a huge fan of Faith Abigail and she did the layout a while back. I just love her style with her scenes and I knew I wanted to lift it for my spring pictures but had never gotten around to it. So when Carole gave us this challenge I knew now was my time. lol  Here is the original layout and here is mine. Of course Faith's is much better than mine, but I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.  I need to add my clouds and a sun yet. The carts used were Freshly Picked for the wheelbarrow and gazebo, Bloom for the tree, Straight from the Nest for the banner, Elegant Edges for the scallop squares, George and Basic Shapes for the rounded corner squares and Paper Dolls for the hills as well as Kate's ABC's for my lettering.

Some close ups:

I hope that you will make something "springy" and upload it to BBTB2.  If you need some inspiration go see what my design team sister have for you, they are amazing!!  This is a Cricut challenge so please use for Cricut for your "springy" project!  Happy Spring!!

Digital Desserts Fridaze with My Paper Crafting

Hi my crafty friends, hope you had a great week. Today is Digital Desserts Fridaze at My Paper Crafting and I have used one of Melinda's cute little digital's on my gift card holder. He is "Bear Holding Hot Chocolate", isn't he cute! He was perfect for my little gift of a Starbucks gift card.  And to have a little action, I put him on a homemade action wobble! I used my Spectrum Noir's to color my bear, I cut my gift card holder from the Artiste Cricut cartridge.  The stamps I used are from Cardztv and the banner came from My Creative Time die. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I had to take pics from the pictures of my project I took. Here's what happened, I loaded all my 2012 pics to my computer to put them on my external hard drive and I had a few 2013 pics on too.  So I deleted my 2013 pics and thought that I would just load them back on later. Well guess what?! Yep, my computer says I've already loaded these pics off the camera card and won't let me put them back on even  though I've deleted them from my computer.  I have no clue how to get them back on there! Makes me mad, technology and I don't get along real well on some days. lol  So if you have any tips for me, please tell me, I could use all the help I can get. lol I just figured if you deleted from from the computer then you would be able to load them back on again. Guess not!

Each week please join us for our weekly Link-Up party. Just create something using a digital image and link to My Paper Crafting If you use an image from Paper Crafting World, you will receive 2 chances to win. That's right! One lucky project will be selected each week to receive a single digital image from Paper Crafting World. If you use a PCW file, please add PCW after your name.

Melin also has a free file each Friday, so go check it out and pick it up! 

Chilly Celebrations!

Hello my crafty friends, it is time for another cut it challenge at My Paper Crafting.  We were asked to use the theme "chilly celebrations" and since my anniversary is in February so I went with a card that will do double duty, an anniversary/Valentine card for my hubby.  I used Melin's digital stamp, Love Is...1 Corinthians 13, I printed and then cut out my sentiment with a Spellbinder Nestability then while my sentiment was still in the Nestie, I sponged around the edge with Antique Linen distress ink and a little Tattered Rose distress ink, then cut another mat with a  Spellbinder and mounted the sentiment ontop. I popped both layers on foam tape. My roses came from the Cricut CTMH Artiste cartridge. I cut them on white paper at 3" and 2"and inked them with.  Punched some black paper with my Martha Steward branch punch and placed under my roses. I also used a die to cut my scallop border.  I used a white Viva Pearl Pen to make two smaller pearls and one large pearl and some stickles on my roses.  My ribbon is seam binding.  My card size is 5x7 and I used a Mojo sketch number 276. All papers are from my scrap bin except for my card base. I hope you join us this week for our "chilly celebrations" and if you need a little inspiration go to My Paper Crafting and check out the super "chilly celebrations" projects my design team sisters have done and don't forget to leave them some bloggy love! Happy Craftin'!!

Frosty the Snowman! BBTB2 Challenge

Hello crafty friends, today at BBTB2 we all chose Frosty the Snowman for our challenge theme.  Well I had the perfect picture in mind for this challenge!  So off to my scrap room I went.  I pulled out my Cricut Image cartridges Snow Angel and Santa's Village and proceeded from there.  All my papers were printed using the Snow Angel cart and my cute "Frosty" was printed and cut using the Santa's Village cart.  I used a sketch that I saved from someone, sorry don't remember where-I just save them to my computer and then go through them when I need inspiration.  So here is the layout and the sketch.  Hope you like my "frosty" layout featuring my grand-daughter Claire and her daddy.  Thanks for looking everyone!  Keep warm and let the days that are getting long keep you smiling as before we know it spring will be here!! I for one can't wait! lol

I cut my snowman out in layers and popped them up.  Here's a view from the side:

Ok it's your turn my crafty friends!  So go BBTB2 and see what inspiration the design team has for you and then make a "frosty the snowman" project of your own and link up with us.  Just remember that this is a Cricut challenge so please use your Cricuts.  Have fun!!

Winter Fun-My Paper Crafting Challenge!

Hello my crafty friends, I'm so sorry my post is up late today.  I'm not having the best week here. My Lupus is active in my brain, and thus affecting how I think-which I'm not thinking very well at all. Yesterday was my worst day and thus is why my post wasn't up for this morning right away.  Soooo on to our challenge for today with My Paper Crafting!!  I used my Cricut for my card base using the Art Philosophy cartridge and then using Melin's adorable digital stamp called Penguin Wipe Out that I colored with my Spectrum Noir markers.I also used a SU framelit die to cut out my shape for my digi. I kept this card pretty simple not really doing much to it at all but think it is so cute.  This penquin makes for a cute get well card if someone you know had a "winter" fun accident, like skiing and broke something.  It would surely put a smile on their face! Come along and play with us in this challenge of making a project using winter sports fun as the challenge.  We love seeing your Cricut projects as I find that I get a lot of inspiration from you all as well.  Now do you need some inspiration?? Well look no further than my design team sisters over at My Paper Crafting, they have some awesome projects for you to see, and while you are there-leave them some bloggy love!!  Stay warm where ever you are!!

BBTB2 Fontastic!

Hi my crafty friends! Well here it is Monday once again and of course you know that mean it is time for a brand new challenge over at BBTB2! My sweet and talented friend Suzanne has picked our challenge and she has chosen for us to use our favorite font. I hate to say this but that was hard!! I love pretty much all the Cricut fonts.  But I did manage to narrow it down a bit, although I wouldn't call this my favorite font, if it is a font at all. lol But for my project this was the perfect font and thus made it my favorite font for right now.  My project is a work in progress and has a little way to go before being complete.  My anniversary will be coming up soon and I wanted to do a little mini for my 20th year.  So I constructed my mini (saw this on My Sisters Scraper's blog and boy is she talented!!) and bound it with my Cinch. I used kraft cardstock for my pages distressed with Tim Holtz Walnut Ink distress ink. Attached a Tim Holtz key on the binding, I will be adding crinkle ribbon as well as soon as I get my colors dyed to match my mini. I also plan to add more charms with the key as I pick them up.  I just didn't want to settle for whatever, I wanted charms that fit the celebration and our life.  I used the Cricut cartridge Tie the Knott for the word TRUE LOVE.  It is already welded on the cartridge so all I had to do was size it in my Gypsy and cut it out.  My papers I used is a 6x6 My Minds Eye paper pack and I use Prima pearls on my cover. Not sure yet if I will make and place 3D flowers on my cover yet or not. Still thinking on that one.  I stamped "20 Year" in the cream mat with My Creative Time stamps and the "journey" was already on the paper along with the mat. I did end up spritzing my cover with Glimmer Mist in Old Lace, that made it really shimmer and looks so pretty.  I didn't take a picture of it as it is hard to get Glimmer Mist to show in the pictures.

Close up of my "True Love", I cut it out in paper that was very close in color with my cover because I wanted it seen but wanted it to look subdued. I added glossy accents on top.

This page is the inside of the cover and first page.  As you can see in the "v", there is a tag. I added some crinkle ribbon that I dyed.  I plan to go back and add eyelets to my tags as I didn't have any, so looks like a crafty run is in order. lol

Here you can see my first page (and all pages) flip out giving me to more larger mats for pictures, journaling or mementos.

Here is the back side of page one, flipped out and the start of the second page, which will flip out just like the first one. Each "v" pocket has a tag in them.  The smaller pockets are 4 1/2" wide x 4 3/4" tall and the larger pocket holds a tag that is 4 1/2" wide x 5 1/2" tall. So plenty of room for pictures and journaling spots.

Here the flip out is closed and this is the back of page 1 and the front of page 2. The rest of the mini looks like this but with just different patterns of paper. Dear husband is taking me to a Bed and Breakfast for our anniversary so I plan on getting many pictures to add to this mini as well as pictures from the last 20 years. I think it will be a great keepsake! So how do you like my little mini???  Want to know how to make one like this??? Well wonder no more, click here to go to Ginger's tutorial  on how to make these pages. Then you can bind your album anyway you chose.  I wanted to bind mine with the "stack the deck" by Laura from Following the Paper Trail but I didn't have 6 pages, only 5 and you need an even number to do it that way.  I was going to pick up more kraft paper but wouldn't you know the last pack was open and spilling out every where at Hobby Lobby.  So I just used my Cinch to bind my mini.

Well I think that is about it!  I hope you stuck it out with me and will go over to BBTB2 to see what awesome inspiration my design team sisters have for you as well.  Then please join us by using your Cricut and picking out your favorite font!  Link your project up with us and maybe you will win our blinky to add to your blog!  Happy Craftin'!!!