Hogs and Kisses

Last spring I bought a lot of paper from a scrapbook shop in Ohio near my granddaughter.  She told me it recently closed (insert sad face).  I haven't used much of that paper because I don't have a store near me that has all those wonderful two-sided and unique prints and I'm always afraid I'll run out.  I did used two of those papers for today's card. 

The challenge this week at Bitten By the Bug2 is "Farm Animal".  I saw lots of cow cards people had entered but I wanted something different and found this cute pig on Just Because Cards.  Once I found the right color pink for him, I knew this paper from Jillibean Soup would be the perfect background.  The frame is cut from Elegant Edges, matted with the same dark brown as the card base and popped up on foam.  I popped the pig, too.  For the sentiment, I printed Hogs and Kisses on kraft cardstock and cut it with my Tiny Tags dies from My Craft Spot.

I'm also entering him in the Die Cuttin' Diva's Anything Goes challenge.

Chocolate Chip

One of my favorite ice creams, when I could eat ice cream, was chocolate chip.  When I saw the ice cream challenge at My Sheri Crafts, I knew I wanted to make a dish full of chocolate chip ice cream. 

There are a number of ice cream images on Cricut cartridges but I happened to have Just Because Cards on my work table.  It doesn't have as many details as some of the others but I like to challenge myself to use different cuts.  The background paper is from an Echo Park 6 x 6 stack, the brown and white polka dot from PTI , the aqua from DCWV and the cherry from scraps.  I stamped the sentiment following the diagonal lines in dark brown with a PTI stamp and then heat embosssed with clear powder.  The final touch was adding glossy accents to make the cherry shine.  It almost looks good enough to eat, doesn't it?

Cock a Doodle Doo!

I'm a big rooster fan and when the challenge at Creative Cutter Room was to use a chick or chicken, it had to be a rooster for me.  I used this picture that hangs on my wall for inspiration.

Here's my card with a rooster cut from Just Because Cards.

The sentiment was printed on the computer and the papers are from an assortment of DSPs.  I really would have liked to pop him up but was afraid of those skinny chicken legs.   The layers in the tail do give it the impression of dimension so that's good. 

In a Pickle?

Okay, I admit it.  I like to do things differently.  When the Fantabulous Cricut made their challenge "BBQ Time", a lot of people made hot dogs or hamburgers.  Not me.  lol  Here's my card.

The minute I saw the pickle on "Just Because Cards" I knew that was my card.  You do eat pickles at a BBQ, right?  This card is 3 1/2 by 7.  I cut the bottom layer of the pickle in a darker green and the top in a lighter Core-dinations cardstock.  I dry embossed it with the Swiss Dots folder, sanded and then inked with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.  Sanding first made the green ink show up more. 

I printed the sentiment on the computer, then cut a piece of green print paper (from a Recollections stack, I believe) to fit just inside it.  I layered on a piece of white cardstock and popped up the pickle on it.  Yum!

I am also entering this in Paper Playtime's "Anything Goes plus Sentiment".