Dino-mite Father's Day card

Yup another Father's day card! This is one I made for my Dad from my daughter (she calls him "Papa"). I am so happy with how it turned out!! It was really hard to get a good picture because all the folds/layers, so I took several, lol! I used the SCS tri-fold card tutorial, found here but I changed the dimensions on the side to 1.5" since I was only putting the skinny palm tree on it and I knew the volcano was going to be pretty wide.

Here's the recipe:

Papers: Sorry I used scraps again and the only patterned paper I used was for the volcano.

Cuttlebug folders: "herringbone" for the palm tree leaves and  "circles" for the dino skin

Cricut cartridges:
Create-A-Critter (of course!)
TRex- cut @ 3.5"
palm tree- cut @ 3.5"
"Dino-Mite"- cut @ 2.5"
volcano- cut @ 3"

Just Because Cards
"you're RAD"- cut @ 3.75" (cut off the "RAD")

Plantin Schoolbook
"Papa" - cut @ .68" and welded together

I love the way the white pen accents came out. It really helped the eyes pop since the colors were so dark! Thanks for checking in! Leave a comment I'd love to hear from you!

I will be linking to:

Fabulous Cricut Challenge Blog

#115 - Father's Day

Make a card using an outdoors theme; hunting, fishing, hiking etc.

My Sheri Crafts

MY SHERI CRAFTS CHALLENGE #87 - Father's Day

Little Scrap Pieces

Fun Friday Happy Father's day Challenge

Turtle Father's Day card

I LOVE how this card turned out! My husband just loves the way our 16 month old daughter says the word "turtle" and asks her to say it all the time so I thought it would be the prefect theme for a father's day card for him! I used my all-time favorite cartridge Create-A-Critter for the turtles, clouds and speech bubble, and I used my new cartridge Wild Cards 2 to make the card and the grass. I hope he likes it but I'm pretty sure I don't have much to worry about there!

Recipe:

Papers- I mostly just used scraps I had so I'm not sure where I got them

CAC-

• Daddy turtle cut at 1.5"
• Baby turtle cut at 1"
• bow cut at 1.5" 
• speech bubble cut at 2"
• clouds cut at 1" and 1.4"

WC2-

• "grass card" (pg 33) cut at 4.3"
• grass cut at 4.3"

I am linking this to:

 Cardz TV Challenge #10 ("My Guy" Create a card, gift or craft project for a masculine birthday or Father's Day.)

Shopping-Our-Stash challenge # 54 (anything masculine (colors or image, theme, etc) or Father's Day!)

Exploring Cricut  (Father's Day Challenge)

Create-A-Critter MPS Challenge

Well this challenge was right up my alley, because I LOVE the CAC cart!!! So I couldn't make just one card! Here's my "recipes" for each card.

Dragonfly Birthday Card

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter (of course!) dragonfly 2"
• Stretch Your Imagination scalloped frame 3"
• EK Success border punch
• White, green, pink and purple cardstock
• green ribbon
• "Happy Birthday" stamp

 Hippo Card

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter hippo 3 1/4", "hip hip hooray" 2"
• border punch (sorry don't remember who makes it :o/)
• patterned paper/cardstock
• white,blue, pink cardstock

Birdie card

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter bird 3 1/2"
• Fiskars border punch
• EK "ticket" punch
• "how tweet of you" stamp
• patterned paper/cardstock
• pink, white, black and orange cardstock

Poodle card

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter poodle 3 1/4", "merci" 2"
• Martha Stewart border punch
• pink ribbon
• patterned paper
• white, black, pink cardstock

SP Color Combo #58

Here is my submission for the SP Color Combo #58 challenge! I just LOVE this monkey from CAC cart! Yes I know ANOTHER CAC card! I can't help this cart is filled with the most adorable little creatures! Anyway hope ya'll like it :o)

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter cart (monkey, vine)
• Autumn Leave "blink petal" paper
• Assorted solid color cardstock
• Fiskars Scalloped Circle punch

Cricut Cardz Challenge # 35

Ok I have totally been slacking on my challenge posts. We had VBS at our church last week and that took up ALL my spare time, but it was a GREAT  week! Anyway, here is my entry for the Cricut Cardz Challenge. We were to make a get well card using blue, green, black and white. I of course had to use my CAC cart (still my fav cart) for the cow and milk and the saying is from Just Because Cards. Soooo cute!
Anway here is the recipe:

• Create-A-Critter cart (cow 2 3/4", milk 1 3/4")
• Just Because Cards cart ("Milk It" 3 1/4")
• DCWV Sweet Stack cardstock
• Bazzill BBP cardstock
• Value Pack cardstock

My Submission for the CC Creative Escape Contest

 So here is the card I made for the contest. I almost didn't make one because I was cutting it so close to the deadline but I'm really glad I did. Plus it was for a really great cause (all the cards are being donated to the The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The rules were we had to use ONLY ProvoCraft and Bazzill products.
So here is my recipe for this card:

• Bazzill Basics Paper (Earthtones, Fun, and Dotted Swiss)
• Create-A-Critter cartidge (sun 2 1/2", rainbow 3", cloud 2")
• Beyond Birthdays cartridge ("create joy" w/ shadow 1 1/2")
• dimensional adhesive

The card had to be 4 1/4" x 5" so the base of the card is 5" x 8 1/2" and scored at 2 1/8" and 6 3/8" to make a gatefold card. Then I added the elements to each side, making sure to ONLY glue them to ONE side of card so it will still open! lol And then I used the dimensional adhesive for the cloud so the end of the rainbow can be tucked behind it to keep the card closed. I am so in love with the CAC cart! EVERYTHING on it is so cute! I couldn't have found a better phrase for this card because it sure brought me joy creating it and I hope it will spread a little joy to others too! Oh yeah and winning the contest wouldn't be to bad either! LOL

My Pink Stamper Color Challenge

Well MPS had a Color Challenge to use pink, green, orange and brown in a project so here's what I came up with :) I pretty much made the same card as I made for my friend's birthday, but changed the saying and added the pink so it would work for the challenge. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter cartridge
• Just Because Cards cartridge
• DCWV and other assorted cardstock and patterned paper
• White ribbon
• Dimensional adhesive

My Pink Stamper Design Team Submission Rejects :)

Well I decided to make a submission for the My Pink Stamper Design Team and I can't post my actual submission until after Robyn announces her picks. So here are a couple of the cards I made that didn't make the cut :) Hope you like them!

Recipe: 

• Preserves Cricut cartridge  
• Fiskars border punch
• Value Pack Cardstock
• Sheer Creations ribbon
• Assorted Scraps (sorry I have no idea where I got the patterned paper)
• Studio G "the perfect pear" clear stamp

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter Cricut cartridge
• DCWV "the Sweet stack" cardstock
• Spool 'o Ribbon white

I printed out the saying on some white cardstock and then used the Center Point function on my Cricut Expression to cut the shape around it.

Recipe:

• Create-A-Critter Cricut cartridge
• Autumn Leaves "Blink Petals"
• Value Pack cardstock
• Fiskars scalloped circle punch
• Stampedous "Changito the Monkey" stamp set

 

Baby Shower Invitations

Here are some of the invitations I am helping my friend Ashley make for her friends baby shower. Her theme is monkeys so of course I couldn't wait to use my new Create-A-Critter cartridge (actually I bought specifically for this project, shhh don't tell my DH, lol). This cart has soooo many cute little animals on it! It is soooo my fav right now! And we made so he can slide on the ribbon by mounting him on one of the foundation tags from Mini Monograms. And then we also made thank you cards to go with the theme. So I thought the banana would be perfect with the "thanks a bunch" stamp! So happy with how they all turned out. Hope Ashley's friend likes them. We did 70 invitations and 50 Thanks You cards! Both the banana and the bubble are from the Create-A-Critter cart. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE this cartridge!!