FCCB Challenge #239 Beyond Red and Green

Hi! everyone. It's the countdown to Christmas.  The challenge today at FCCB is to make a Christmas project using colors other than the tradtional red and green.  I've seen a lot of decorations this year in pinks and blues.  Here is my card for inspiration today.

I used the following supplies:

Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges-scallops

Cricut cartridge Kate's ABC's - JOY

Spellbinders embossing folder-background

Fiskers stamp set for sentiment

Modge Podge mold and melting stick for birds

I embossed my card and then punched three evenly spaced 1" holes.  I cut the scallops to fit exactly over the holes for a frame using silver metallic paper from DCWV.  I stamped my sentiment and then heat embossed it with silver.  I punched three 1" circles out of the same paper and placed inside my card for my letters.  Some white silver edged ribbon and two doves and I was finished.  The hardest part was matching the scallop frames to the circles.

Hope you will all join our challenge.  

Link up your projects using any colors but red and green.

Bye, Bye for Now

KIM

Challenge #225 at FCCB, Back to School

Sorry I've been missing in action. Had some health problems, but feeling much better and back to crafting.  I know a lot of you are busy getting little one's off to school.  My boys are both grown so they are not going to school but, I have nieces.  I alway try to make them something for their first day, such as a book mark, treats with tags or a card. Here is my back to school card for this year.

Here is the inside, I will be writing some encouraging words for them.

The Cricut cartridges I used are:

Cricut Sampler (school bus)

Ribbons and Rosettes ( paper edge)

Kate's ABC's ( letters)

I also used the following supplies:

Your My Sunshine DCWV paper stack

Kraft paper for base

Brads from my stash for wheels

I had fun making this card. It brought back memories for sure.  

Hope you will join us for this challenge and link up your project.

Bye, Bye for Now

KIM

BUG OUT, Challenge # 222 at FCCB

SUMMER! Many things come to mind, days at the beach, vacations to cooler climates, picnics and cook outs and BUGS!!!  This week the challenge is to use a Cricut cut to make a project with bugs.  Here are my ants from Kate's ABC's to devour watermelons.

The background paper with the watermelons is from DCWV, "Summer Days".  I cut three ants out of black scraps and used glossy accents for segments of their bodies. I used two sizes of whole punches to create their eyes.  I found this button in my stash and it looks just like a watermelon to me.  The final touch, leftover yellow and pink crinkle ribbon.  Fast and easy summer card.  Sometimes the paper background can make a simple card more interesting.

Now it's your turn to make a project using the Cricut.  Link up to our challenge at FCCB and share your favorite bugs with us.

 Bye, Bye, for Now

KIM

SUMMER TREATS Challenge #218 at FCCB

I can think of lots of cool summer treats, but I know everyone loves ice cream. My card for today features a strawberry sundae with chocolate sauce and a bright red cherry.  Remeber those metal dishes they used to serve them in at the soda fountain? That was my idea for the dish. Doesn't it look good enough to eat. YUM!

I used the following supplies to make this delightful confection.

Cricut cartridge Kate's ABC's

DCWV Kidlets paper stack (backgound and border)

DCWV metallaic paper stack (Dish)

Brown, pink and red paper scraps

Lemon drop twine

yellow hand dyed seam binding

American craft button 

Glossy accents and stickles.

My Pink Stamper Sweet Goodness sentiment stamp

Join our challenge this week and link up your favorite summer treat.

Bye Bye for Now, 

KIM

MAY FLOWERS AT FCCB

IT'S CHALLENGE # 211 THIS WEEK.  The theme at FCCB is May flowers.  For my project I made a card using the Kate's ABC's cartridge that I recently purchased and I love it. It has so many cute images.

I used glitter paper for some of the layers but it's hard to see in my picture. The papers I used for this card  are scraps from my craft room. Lately my scraps have been building up so I decided to organize my leftover pieces  from other projects and use them. The only new piece of paper is the pink cardstock for my base. 

I cut the image at 3.75 inches so it would be large enough to be the focal point. The sentiment banner is stamped with a MCT set, "Bloom Where You Are Planted". I used Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" to stamp my sentiment and distress everything. The pink sheer ribbon is leftover from the baby banner I made awhile back, it was just enough to tie the bow.

My goal for the next few months is to use as much leftover paper as possible. Join our challenge this week and have fun making a project with flowers. 

Bye, Bye for Now

KIM

FCCB Challenge # 205 Spring Cleaning

Hi! Hope everyone is having a good crafting day. We all have Cricut cartridges that we have bought, either on sale because the price was so good we couldn't pass up the deal or we thought the images were so cute surely we would make a project using them.  Well Joann's had Cricut cartridges on sale for $19.99 and I bought Kates' ABC's. I have seen so many cards made using these images and I thought they were so cute. Well finally I have made a card using this cartridge. The challenge this week at FCCB is to use a cut or cartridge we have not used before. Here is my card.

I think it came out so colorful. The paper I used is from K&Company "Sweet Nectar". It's was a mat stack and a sticker pad that coordinated. All the papers and embellisments are from this paper collection. For my sentiment I used a stamp from our sponsors this week Mark's Finest Paper's called "Garden Bunny". It worked perfectly with my little watering can filled with flowers. I used pop-dots to give the card dimension on the watering can and the sentiment. For a little bling I used Stickles on the flowers.

Pull out those cartridges and come up with your own creation, then link it to our challenge at FCCB.

Our sponsor Mark's Finest Papers will be giving away a stamp set to one lucky winner.

Bye Bye for Now'

KIM