Ad Inspired

Ever have a card that you spend so much time on and then you just hate it? Well, I've done it today. I don't know if I'm tired or if my mojo is hiding somewhere, but I hate this card. I had a beautiful ad to be inspired by at 365 Cards (shown above) and I totally botched it. I would make another card, but it's almost 10:00 and I'm pooped. I guess I spent a little too long in the sun fishing today and it's taken all my strength and creativity. OK, now that I'm over my pitty party, here's my card. I used several Cricut carts on this one, the Cuttlebug and some stickles. I'll be back tomorrow and hopefully I'll "feel" more inspired!

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That's Eggs-ellent!

Friday's challenge at 365 Cards was to use an egg or an oval as the dominating shape. Well, I didn't get a chance to complete my card on Friday, so I'm up early Saturday morning. This is a quick post as my hubby is waiting on me to go fishing. It's a beautiful day here today (sunny and 78 degrees!!), so we are excited to hang out on the water today! So, here is my take on Friday's challenge. All the flowers and the oval were cut with the Cricut. Have a GREAT Saturday!!

(I'll be back later with today's challenge card......."Ad Inspired"). Thanks for stopping by!

365 - Don't Bug Me! and Kazan #23

Two challenges today. Since I'm home from work today, I can participate early. Our challenge on 365 cards today is to use a ladybug on our card. Well, I used more than one! This is also my take on Kazan's Sketch #23. The ladybugs were cut with WIMG and the tree from Tinkerbell & Friends, both cartridges from Provocraft. Then the grass was cut from Plantin Schoolbook and the sentiment from Beyond Birthdays. WOW - lot's of cricut on this one!! The Miss You is mounted on some black ribbon. So, thanks for stopping by today!

Here is Kazan's 'ausome' sketch #23:

And here is my card:

Setting the Scene

Day 24 at 365 Cards is "Setting the Scene" and we were asked to do a card with a nature scene. Well, this is my take on it. The tree and the squirrel were cut from Happily Ever After and the flowers from Walk in My Garden (cricut carts). I added some stickles to the flowers. The green pp is MME, Wild Asparagus. I've got Day #25 card to do, so I'm keeping this one short. Thanks for stopping by! (Click on the title and go check out Krista (guest designer) and Tammy's (365 Design Team) cards!

Shape Up!

Saturday's challenge at 365 was Shape Up! This week's shape is a circle. So, I cut a circle with the cut out's in it with my Cricut and the Mini Monograms cartridge. Then, I used up some ribbon scraps all around to fill in the cut out's. Then I added the little caterpillar from Cricut's Walk In My Garden cartridge. Well, on to today's challenge with 365. Stay tuned....

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Happy Birthday Aunt Jean!

This card is for my Aunt Jean who's birthday is tomorrow. This "stair step fold" is from Split Coast Stampers. I "scraplifted" this owl idea from "bahrnfuss" that posted her card on SCS. I used Basic Grey sugared-delicious paper and orange, brown and beige papers from HL. The owl is from the Cricut Storybook cartridge and the leaves are from the Cricut Walk In My Garden cart. I used the Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder on the leaves. The scallopes circles are from the Mini Monogram cart. The jewels are Harvest Crafts that I picked up on the clearance isle at HL along with the checkered ribbon. This fold was fun, but I did alter the dimensions a bit. The original dimensions made the card a little too small for me, so I altered it to fit an A2 envie. I won't be giving this card to my aunt until tomorrow, so shhhh!

So, these are some pages for a book I am working on for a friend. It's for a trip they took to their friend's beach house this summer. I have quite a ways to go, but thought I would share what I have so far. I've used the cricut for several die cuts, using Storybook, Walk In My Garden and Animal Kingdom. I've used the Storybook cartridge for most of the lettering. The red background is there because I took the pics on my dining room table. I've got to get better at taking these pics! Enjoy!