Rockin' Cupcake - Valentine's Day Card for a Cause

Hello again!  Yup, it really is me again!  When I saw the call for cards during the Cards for Kids Valentine's Day blog hop hosted by Faith Abigail Designs, I knew I had to make a card for a hospitalized sick child.  My little one spent a week in the hospital following a life-threatening allergy attack a couple of years ago.  He loved getting cards from friends and family, so I thought it was only fitting to spread the joy.  :-)

I used this week's sketch at Card Patterns and the cupcake from the Rock Princess Cricut cartridge (thanks Claire!!).  I replaced the eye patch with a heart-shaped one and added a bit of bling, the glittered heart, to it.  The sentiment was computer-generated and the label and the scalloped card shape were both cut from the Birthday Bash cartridge.  The face is from the Peachy Keen 'Wide Eyed Kids' set - one of my faves.  A bit of twine and some embossing and it's good to go!  Thanks for looking!



Recipe

Scalloped card, label - Cricut Birthday Bash

Cupcake, heart - Cricut Rock Princess

Layered circle mats - Cricut George and Basic Shapes

Patterned paper - Momenta 'All Through the Year' stack

All other cardstock - Recollections

Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls embossing folder

Glittered heart - Recollections

Peachy Keen 'Wide Eyed Kids' stamp

Twine from The Twinery

Colorbox chalk ink

Recollections dimensionals

I'm entering this card into 6 challenges:

Card Patterns Sketch #149 - Use the sketch provided to make a card.

Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #49 - Buttons, Bows and/or Bling - Use buttons, bows and/or bling on your project.

Faith Abigail Designs' Cards for Kids Valentine's Day blog hop - Create a card for a sick child.  Cards will be collected and distributed to hospitalized children for Valentine's Day.

Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday #95 - Label It - Add a label, other than a circle, to your project.
My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday - Make a Valentine's Day card using a Cricut cartridge of your choice.

Scrappy Moms Stamps Terrific Tuesday Challenge - Rock Princess - Make a project using the Cricut Rock Princess cartridge.



Have a great weekend!

~Sharon C.

Apple-Shaped Teacher Appreciation Cards

Wow!  I was feeling a bit lost without Blogger today!!  Glad it's back up!  Here's my post for the day....apple-shaped cards for my kids to give to their teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week.  I had fun making these...that worm (or is it a caterpillar because he has antennae??) from Create A Critter is really just too cute...especially with his Peachy Keen face!  His glasses just make me smile.  :-)  I also cut the word blurb from CAC and sized it to fit the "thank you" stamp with my Gypsy.  The apple is from Doodlecharms...it's embossed with the Cuttlebug swiss dots folder.  I thought the red and blue color combo was very "elementary"...LOL!  I left the inside of the card blank and my kids all wrote a little something special to their teachers.  Awww!

Recipe
Apple cut from Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge
Worm and word blurb cut from Create a Critter
Cardstock - Bazzill, Recollections
Peachy Keen "Critter Faces" stamp on worm
K & Co. Amy Butler Lotus Greeting stamp
Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder
Black Creative Memories marker for stitching/doodling
Cat's Eye chalk ink in chestnut roan
EK Success dimensionals 

Anyway, the PTO at our elementary school really goes all out during Teacher Appreciation week.  They host a teacher luncheon one day (potluck style with parents contributing), leave scented soaps and breath mints in the rest rooms, hand out bagged homemade breakfast goodies to the bus drivers, place flowers in common areas and keep the teachers' lounge well-stocked with food.  Because my oldest son is in his last year at the school (sniff, sniff), he was asked to help out at the luncheon yesterday.  He carried food from cars to the lunch room, helped serve the teachers, kept their glasses full of sparkling lemonade and chose and announced raffle winners.  And, from what I understand, he snuck a few brownies and chocolate-chip cookies for himself when the lunch had ended!  A well-deserved snack, I'm sure!  We're very pleased with our elementary school and our children have been blessed with some exceptional teachers.  I'm so glad that our school does such a nice job recognizing the terrific job our teachers do every day.


I'm entering this card into five challenges:
Cardz TV: NSD Challenge - In honor of National Scrapbooking Day, make a card or scrapbook layout using fruit...any theme, any colors.
FCCB: Challenge Me Monday #59 - Teacher Feature - Make a card or project for a special teacher using the color red on it.
More Than Favors: Wacky Wednesday #38 - Anything Goes!
My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday - Use the Doodlecharms cartridge and incorporate the color blue on your project.
Whimsical Wednesday #6: Take Shape - Make a shaped card.  (I actually can't stop making them!!)

Enjoy the weekend!  I have something fun to post...an award or two!...watch for it!  :-)
~Sharon C.

St. Patrick's Day Home Decor - Dressed Up Subway Art

Hi everyone!  I hope you're all enjoying your day!  Today I'd like to share with you a bit of home decor.  I've always loved the holiday subway art I've seen posted on various blogs and, since I don't have much decor for St. Patrick's day, I thought I might dress up the St. Patty's subway art I found HERE  at eighteen25.  If you're not familiar with eighteen25, you should stop by their blog.  The blog is written by three sisters who blog about fun stuff....MANY great projects and ideas here!

First, I printed the art at 8 1/2 x 11 and found a white frame for it.  Then I just dressed it up a bit with a couple of Cricut cuts and some ribbon.  Easy peasy!!  My new Peachy Keen wide-eyed kids stamps made their debut on the pot of gold...yea!

Recipe

White 8 1/2 x 11 inch frame

St. Patrick's Day subway art (link above in this post)

Hat from Cricut 'A Child's Year'

Pot of gold from Cricut 'Simply Charmed'

Glitter cardstock on pot - Recollections gemstones

All other cardstock - Recollections

Patterned paper - DCWV Holiday stack

Green polka dot ribbon - Making Memories

Peachy Keen Wide-Eyed Kids stamps

Gold button from stash

White Gelly Roll pen for stitching

Cat's Eye chalk ink

I'm entering this project into four challenge:

Celebrate The Occasion: Challenge #4 - St. Patrick's Day Theme - Create a St. Patrick's Day project.

Crafting with Cristina: Challenge #18 - St. Patty's theme - Create a St. Patrick's Day project using some green.

Creative Cutter Room: Design Time Thursday - Lucky to Have You - Create a project based on the theme "Lucky to Have You" and incorporate four required elements (a button, the color green, a pot of gold, and a leaf).

My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday - St. Patrick's Day Theme - Using an "older" Cricut cartridge, create a St. Patrick's Day project.



Enjoy the day!

~Sharon C.

A VERY Quick, VERY Simple Birthday Card...Alien Sighting!

Wow...it's late!  Almost my bedtime, but I'm trying to get this one in before the day is over.  My 7 yr-old son needed a card for a birthday party for a classmate, so I thought I'd make a card and incorporate a couple of challenges too.  Double...or triple, really...duty!  So I decided to make a shaped card...a spaceship with an alien...fun stuff for that age group.  Lots of sparkle too.  I just LOVE the alien's face...too funny, isn't it?  It's the face from the star in the Nikkity Knack Cat Gang stamp set...I had to get real creative for this one!!  I used an Action Wobble on the alien too...first time using one...now that's fun!  The sentiment inside reads, "Hope your birthday is out of this world!"  Quick and easy, but mission accomplished!  :-)

Recipe

Spaceship from Everyday Paper Dolls

Alien from Paper Doll Dress Up (trimmed to fit)

Green and silver glitter cardstock - DCWV Christmas and Winter Combo Glitter Mat Stack (thanks Michelle @ Scrappin with my Bug!)

Blue cardstock - Recollection gemstone cardstock

Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes folder on alien

Peachy Keen stamp from PK-630 Nikkity Knack Cat Gang (used only the face of the star)

Black and green Bic Mark-ups, black Creative Memories marker and white Gelly Roll pen for stitching/doodling

Action Wobble

I'm entering this card into two challenges:

Cooking With Cricut: Peachy Keen Sponsor - Create a project to celebrate a birthday, using your Cricut and a Peachy Keen stamp, if possible.

My Creative Time with Emma's Throwback Thursday - Make a project using Paper Doll Dress Up or Everyday Paper Dolls and include either dry or heat embossing.

Have a good night!

~Sharon C.



You Always Make Me Smile

Good afternoon!  Is it snowing where you are?  We have a new 10 inches on the ground...and more coming!  It started late last night and school was canceled for today.  My kids are thrilled!!  But it's too windy for them to go out to play at the moment...wind gusts are at 45-50 mph here on the coast.  It should be a bit calmer later...and there's a HUGE pile of snow at the end of our driveway...just waiting to be made into a snowfort!

I finished another scrapbook page this morning.  I scrapped the same picture I used to make the ornament-shaped card HERE.  I LOVE this picture of my twins...and since I gave the ornament with their picture on it to my mom, I had to do something else with it for ME!  :-)  The two of them ALWAYS make me smile...we call them our 'smiley guys'...and their semi-toothless grins in this photo just make me laugh!

Recipe

Background paper - My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow stack

Green floral paper - My Mind's Eye everyday tango stack

Red textured paper - DCWV textured neutrals

White cardstock - Recollections

Pink paper (used for hearts) - DCWV Holiday stack

Banner, 'smile' - from Birthday Bash

Title shape - from Winter Frolic

Journaling shape - from Gypsy Font

Hearts - from George and Basic Shapes, A Child's Year

Red nailhead stickers from a RAK

Glittered heart-shaped brads - Recollections

Martha Stewart glitter marker (on heart)

Martha Stewart border punch

Creative Memories brown marker for journalling

Chestnut roan Cat's Eye chalk ink

EK Success dimensionals

I'm entering this page into a couple of challenges:

CropStop Challenge Blog: Challenge #1 - Sketch - the new blog's first challenge is to follow a sketch.  Check them out...they'll have a new challenge every Thursday.  :-)

Emma at My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday:  Viewer's Choice - any project using any older cartridge, as long as the project has a heart on it.

Scrapbookaholic By Abby: SEI Challenge with Abby #1 - Laughter/Smile - "anything with a smile or even a phrase that contains the words".

Enjoy the day!

~Sharon