CTS #65 and FM # 124

Do you ever get the feeling someone is trying to tell you something?  I was trying to decide what images I could use for the CASE This Sketch and Freshly Made challenges.  Their sketches are similar and I thought I could kill two birds flamingos with one stone.  I started by looking through some of my Cricut cartridge because we all know I don't have many image stamps.  I saw this darling flamingo.  Hmm should I?  I kept looking and every manual I opened came up with a flamingo image.  So flamingos it is.

Here are the sketches:

and my card.

It may not be what they're looking for but I think it's kind of cute and would make a great get well card. Who wouldn't be cheered by a trio of pink birds.

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FCCB

I thought Fantabulous Cricut's challenge this week to make a card with a joke on it was a cute idea.  I mulled several ideas over in my head and came up with this.

The sentiment was printed on the computer on the bottom of a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of white cardstock, which was then embossed part way down with the Bubbles folder and popped up on foam tape.  The fish are from Life is a Beach in paper from a new pad I got from Pebbles called "Seen and Noted". I used Design Studio to hide all the cut lines where stripes and polka dots were to be and let the paper speak for itself.   Enamel Accents (another purchase inspired by the Pattern Play class) make the eyes dimensional and glossy.

Waiting for the punch line?  Do you know the answer?  Here it is.

Isn't that fun?  I figured I could use the card with a tagline "You're a star in my book."  

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Nina, Pinta, . . .

The challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog is use a ship - in honor of Christopher Columbus Day.  I dont' have many cartridges with ships so I was going to do a sailboat.  When I saw the sailboat border on Life is a Beach, I thought "Why not do three ships?"  The actual cut has four ships on it so I cut off the last one.

I didn't want them to look too much like summery boats so I did them in a navy silhouette on a navy card base.  The backbround paper is from a DCWV photo stack.  (Secret from my quilting experieince:  I have a 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 acetate template to use to fussy cut the background in just the right area for the final picture.)  Sail on, sail on!

Making a Splash

That's what I hope to do this weekend - make a splash.  We're headed up to the lake today, taking my parents and niece with us.  My brother will come up tomorrow after his class reunion.  The weather is supposed to be hot, so splashing around in the water will be refreshing. 

How appropriate that this week's challenge at My Craft Spot is "Splishy Splashy Summer".  I doubt I will do any snorkeling but this guy sure is.  (although I notice he doesn't actually have a snorkel).

I found him on the Life is a Beach cartridge.  I hid the contours on Design Studio so the little pieces could be cut in different colors since they appear as one block on the cartridge.  I added a piece of vellum under his mask to give the impression of glass.  The sentiment is printed directly on the "water" background paper . 

I hope you all have a great weekend.  One more and the summer draws to a close. :(

Being Green

One thing I can say about organizing my photos is that I'm anxious to begin scrapbooking again.  I am SO far behind and when I look at the pages already done, it makes me want to get busy.   I've done three pages and laid out four more so I'm off to a good start.  I may have to slow down the card making (oh no!) and really concentrate on the layouts for a while.

But I do have a card for the CASology challenge.

 

I like their one word clue cards.  That leaves it wide open for your creativity to take hold.  What would your interpretation of green be?  

While making another card I saw this big leaf on the Life is a Beach cartridge.  Simple enough, right?  Okay, but plain green paper just wouldn't do.  Aha!  I have a glitter stack from DCWV.   Perfect.  You can see a little of the shine on the upper part of the leaf.  I used two layes of foam in the middle and one on the edges to round it out and give it some dimension.  Then comes the difficult part - sentiment.  I think I used this one once before but I like puns so I used it again.  Don't know when I'll use the card but I love the idea of it.

We had the US 27 car tour in town yesterday.  These oldies travel from Coldwater in southern Michigan all the way up to Cheboygan.  We just happen to be in the very center of the state (Middle of the Mitten, we're called) so they were half way there.  With three across, the cars took up three blocks of the downtown.   It's fun to walk around and see how they've been restored and reminisce about the first car you ever owned, probably wishing you still had it.  lol

Two Sun Days, part 2

Two challenges had "sun" as their theme this week, both very different and both new challenges for me.  See the previous post for the CASology challenge.  This one is for Cricut Chirp - a smiling, sparkling sun.

The background paper is from a photo stack by DCWV.  I cut the sun from Life is a Beach.  It has a face already on it but I didn't want that so I hid the contours with Design Studio.  That wasn't going to allow me to "shine up" the rays so I cut a circle from George to fit over it.  The face is stamped in Dried Marigold Distress Ink with a Peachy Keen stamp.  I ran the rays through my Xyron upside down and then pushed glitter into the sticky side.  I didn't realize how sharp that glitter is.  Ouch!  I kept feeling sharp pieces in my fingers all day.