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I just can't keep up this summer!  I want to stay caught up but I just can't!

Well, the deadline is coming!  I think we will make it to 300 followers by August 25th! What do you think?!  If we do we have that give away coming up!  Check that out here.

The ribbon is delicious!  It is hard to tell in my nighttime photo but it is brown and pink.  I love brown and anything with it!  I put a 5 yard spool of that in the prize package today!

I cut the shapes with nestabilities and the "Than You" is embossed with Sizzix thank you 2.

How to do letters for Birthday banner

If you are looking to see how I did the letters featured at this post you are in the right place ;)  If you haven't seen that post jump on over and take a look!

The lettering on this post is from A Child's Year.

1. Cut the letters on Core'dinations cardstock.
2. Cut the letters out on a cereal box.

   For this I use deep cut blade set at 5. 
3. I then embossed my letters on the cardstock using my Fiskars ShapeBoss and the "Stars" plate.

I love using embossing with this paper because it really does make it stand out more with the color core.
4. I sanded the letter after embossing with 120.
5. Ink the edges of the cereal box letters to match the cardstock letters.
6. I then used rubber cement to adhere the cardstock to the cereal box.

I hope this helps!

Another St. Patrick's Day card

I am feeling a bit better today.  I actually WANTED to do something today so I am counting that as an awesome sign.  My plan is even to go to work tomorrow!!!  Even better :)

Anyway, for today I thought I would make a St. Patrick's Day card and enter it into a few challenges.  I am actually pretty happy with how it came out!  No pain killers today and a cute card... this is going to be a FABULOUS Monday!

Thanks for checking out this project!  If you find it interesting take a peek at other things on my blog and give me some tips and love.  I have no fear in asking for that :)

 

What I did:

The sentiment is a $1 clear stamp!  YAY I LOVE bargains.  It is "studio G"

The pot is from Paper Doll Dress Up

The shamrocks are from Give A Hoot

The paper is random paper I had in my stash

I used craft glitter for the gold

The punch is ek success- scroll and dots

For the challenges:

Sketch Saturday

Crafting with Christina is a St. Patty's project

Paper Cutz Challenge also a St. Patty's Project

Catch the Bug, the challenge is "anything goes"

DYSU challenge- Just Green It

CWC Double Take Challenge

Throwback Thursday at Creative Time for Me... to use an older cartridge- I used Paper Doll Dress Up (which I got with my first Cricut!) 

St. Patty's Day Card

The entire pot is gold but with flash and cameras it just looks yucky!

Here is a fun St. Patrick's day card I made this morning while watching MORE SNOW fall.  I don't think we will EVER see grass again but at least there is some green on this card.

The hat is cut using A Child's Year.  The shoes and pot of gold are cut using Paper Doll Dress Up.

I embossed the hat using my Stars Fiskars embossing plates. 

For the hat I used foam dots to make it stick out off the page.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog!  I love reading comments and tips. :)

This card is for a few challenges.  I enjoy trying to combine elements, it makes it more of a challenge.  For the Peachy Keen Challenge I had to have the banner.  I REALLY struggled with what to do with that.  I redid things about 30 times and was just about to give up when I got this one.

Over at Cricut Cardz Challenge you were to make a St. Patrick's Day card with no shamrock.  So I used my Gypsy to get rid of the shamrock on the hat.

Then at The Paper Variety you are challenged to do the "Sew Much Fun" theme and have some real or faux stitching.  I actually saw this challenge, that a fellow addict sent me , and thought there was no way I could pull it off.  Turns out I had fun with it.

Dina is having her first blog challenge over at Crazy for Cricut go on over and support her there!

Check out "Just Green It" at DYSU

Again, THANK YOU for visiting!!!  I think I will go make more projects so I can tell hubby I was too busy to clean today. :)

Challenge Card

HELP!  I can never seem how to use my heat embossing tool!!!  I burn everything.  I don't know when to STOP. (Not knowing when to stop is not a problem for me just with this.  Turns out I have an issue with that in general.  I am assuming advice on that is far more expensive!) I start heating it and I keep thinking it needs more.  I need advice!!!  So PLEASE give me some tips.

This is school vacation week for us.  Of course I end up sick, so I am crafting between naps.  Why is it that we end up sick on vacation weeks?  I am thinking it may have something to do with my classroom full of 5 and 6 year olds coughing and sneezing on me prior to vacation... just a thought.

I found a  bunch of challenges this week.  I have also found some pretty darn cool people on here!  I love that they are sending me more links to challenges and feeding my addictions!

Guess why the flower is there?  Yep, an embossing screw up!

I had my thumb there while holding the image for the heat gun.

The inside is not fancy at all but the sentiment is from Paisley.

For this card I used all basic solid cardstock. 

I pressed silver pigment ink onto the sunglasses before sprinkling them with purple embossing powder.

I used my embossing heat gun.  I blow that on top of the cut, I saw something online that suggested heating from beneath... what do others do?  I really need help not burning my stuff!

Thanks for visiting!  I love followers.  If you find my projects amusing or my rants entertaining follow me.  I promise there will be many more pleas for help and total misfit crafts!

 This card was created using the Paisley Cricut cartridge for the Cricut Chaos Challenge.

The card is done as a shape card for the Jitter Buggin' Challenge

I am putting it in this other embossing challenge at Linda's Creativity with hopes that SOMEONE ANYONE can stop by and teach me how to do this right. :)
This card is also for the All About Girls challenge at My Sheri Crafts!

Cup of H2O card

HELP I am addicted to blogs!!!  Somehow I need to get other things in my life done.  The laundry pile is only getting smaller because we are pulling our daily outifts out of it.  The sink is not filled with dishes because we are ordering out and using paper plates.  Oh well, I do love seeing the projects others make! :) 

This week I saw two challenges of interest and thought I would jump in.  I love having an excuse to CRICUT!


First Cooking with Cricut, one of my new favorites, has a challenge to use embossing.  So I embossed cute little bubbles on the glass for the water.  I used my Fiskars embossing plates.  I also used a pencil and dabbed the eraser to emboss dots on the inside that show on the front.  I used some fun embossing powder and my embossing heat gun thingy.  Of course, I did burn part of the card, at least it wasn't my injured thumb from my last project!

Then over at  Cricut Cardz Challenge, a new blog for me, they are challenging you to use a cup cut from any cartridge.  Sweet, an excuse to use "From My Kitchen" for the first time!  So I cut the cup out with that. 

For the font I used "Don Juan."

I used Fiskars decorative edge scissors down the side.  Wouldn't you know it I just realized the dang paper is double sided!  I searched and searched for the right shade of blue when making the cup and it was right on the back side of the paper.  I feel like a TOTAL MISFIT!  I would love to tell you what the paper is but I don't have a clue how to read this side label thing to say what it is.  Someone please tell me the concepts will come.

This card is for one my favorite co-workers.  We have told each other we will start drinking water together.  My vice is Pepsi and/or Coke and hers is Iced Tea.  So, this card is a little encouragement for her!  She is also a fellow Cricuter so I think she will find it fun... maybe not perfect but fun anyway :).

Day 3 of my blog- Party Hat gift bag

Day 3 of my first blog and I actually made something today too!  I am feeling accomplished!  Maybe I will make something tomorrow too... MAYBE I will be motivated to actually finish my scrapbook from 2001- now that is a hefty goal!
For the birthday party tomorrow I have decided to go from drab to... well... to something other than drab.  Here it is before... a nice INEXPENSIVE bag :)

 Still boring :(  (I had cut the pom pom top off before gluing it to the bag)  This hat is cut from the Celebrations cartridge.  I used the blackout feature for the blue.

I also cut some other sizes of the "pom poms" so that I could layer them.  It is hard to see in the picture but the 2 small ones are embossed with embossing powder.  I just wanted a little shine :)

 

 Not what I was hoping for.... I tried twisting up the pieces for dimension but still not loving it.

I like it with the star!  This made me happier.  Of course it is off center which I later had to fix before it drove me NUTS!!!

Are you sick  of my pics of this tiny silly little project yet?  I admit I just love taking pics of anything.  On this one I curled them up more and I like the dimension.

 Tada.... the final product.