Campin' Critters Father's Day card

Happy Friday!  And a BIG thank you to Mother Nature for letting the sun shine here today.  What a difference a little sun can make!  Before my weekend begins (it usually starts when my kids come running off of the school bus...and I bet you can guess when it ends!!), I wanted to get this post up.  It's a Father's Day card I made for my Dad.  I've already made him a frame (see here) and wanted to make him a matching card.  I used Campin' Critters, one of my new cartridges.  It has some of the most perfect images to scrap pictures I've taken of my family both camping and hanging at my parents' camp in Maine.  And since my dad is an avid outdoorsman...in fact, he'll be fishing in Maine this weekend...I thought this image from Campin' Critters would be most appropriate.  My dad might be happier though if the fish were BIGGER!  Oh well!  LOL

Recipe

Fishing Deer from Cricut Campin' Critters cartridge

Card shape from Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge

Patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket, DCWV

Cardstock - Bazzill, Recollections

Cuttlebug 'swiss dots' embossing folder

Cat's Eye chalk ink

Creative Memories brown marker, white Gelly Roll pen for doodling

Puffy letter stickers from Target's dollar bin

American Crafts ribbon

Silver brads

EK Success dimensionals to pop up die cut

I'm entering this card into four challenges:
Cricut Cartridge Chaos Challenge #17: Give A Hoot - Create a project using the Give a Hoot Cricut cartridge.  If you don't have this cartridge, use something similar.  I don't have Give a Hoot, so I used Campin' Critters.
Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge #15: Masculine Cuts - Create a card using a masculine cut and colors.
Getting Cricky with K. Andrew: Simply Sunday Challenge - Retro Daddy! - Create any project with a father or retro theme.
Peachy Keen Stamps: Sketch Challenge #52 - Create a card based on the sketch provided.

Have a great weekend everyone!  I've been lucky enough to receive a few blogs awards...I'll be posting them soon...yay!!  :-)

~Sharon C.

Craft Junkie Too's Summer Challenge

OK, I've decided to try to actually keep up a blog...you know, update mine once in a while. So I'm going to post projects here that I enter in challenges. I find that challenges keep me moving forward...and that's a good thing! I have sooo many pictures to scrap and I need to just get going on those layouts! So, thanks to Tracy at craftjunkietoo.com for posting a "summer" challenge...any project that's summer-related...for example a vacation, party, bbq, road trip or pool time, for example.

I chose to scrap pictures I took last month at a fishing derby my kids entered. They've become quite fond of fishing and this derby kicked off the summer fishing season for us. It may have been late Spring here in New England, but it was HOT and HUMID and certainly felt like summer!

I used A Child's Year for the image of the child fishing, Everyday Paper Dolls for the fish and fishing pole, Camp Out for the wooden sign, and welded 'fishing derby' from Alphalicious with my Gypsy. The cardstock is from Recollections and the printed paper from my stash.

Enjoy!