Little Lamb Birthday Card

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a good weekend!  It went by quickly, didn't it?  I'm posting a card I made for my sweet little niece who will turn 3 years old in about a week.  It feels like we just celebrated her 2nd birthday!!  Time flies...

My daughter wanted to use the little lamb from Create A Critter and we stamped her face with a cute Peachy Keen stamp from the Critter Faces set.  I just love those faces!  We embossed the fur, added green Stickles to her bows and stitched a bit with a white gel pen.  Then we added a jingle bell to her collar - a bit of green trim I found in my stash.  I think my niece will love to hear the bell when she shakes the card!  :-)

Recipe

Lamb cut from Create A Critter

Scalloped card cut from A Child's Year

Patterned paper from BasicGrey

Green textured cardstock from Bazzill

All other cardstock from Recollections

Peachy Keen Critter Faces stamp

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

Making Memories green trim

Jingle bell

Green Stickles

White Gelly Roll pen for stitching/doodling

Recollections dimensionals for popping up lamb

Inkadinkadoo birthday stamp

I'm entering this card into seven challenges:
Birthday Sundaes #2 - Create a spring-themed birthday card.

Chloe and Her Clip On Koalas - Create anything with a smile on it or anything that has made someone else smile.   :-)

Cooking with Cricut: Lions and Lambs - Create a project with a lion or lamb using your Cricut in some way.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #67 - Create a card for Spring, using the colors pink, green and white only, and any Cricut cartridges you'd like.  My card is for a spring birthday...I hope that's okay.

FCCB: Challenge Me Monday #52 - Happy Birthday - Since Fantabulous Cricut is one year old this week, the challenge is to create a birthday card or project.
Serenity Scrappers: Pastels - Create anything with pastels - bright, cheerful and springlike.  Thanks for the heads up, Laurie!!

The Paper Variety: Tic Tac Toe - Create a project using 3 elements in a row on their grid.  I chose Make a card/Use scallops/Stamped image or sentiment.

Enjoy the day!

~Sharon C.

On the Hunt - Easter Layout

Hi everyone!  Where did the weekend go?  We lost an hour with Daylight Savings...but I'm not sure where the other 47 hours went!  I hope you all spent it doing something fun.  :-)  I finished a scrapbook page this weekend...a little here and a little there.  It felt a bit like spring here (yippee!), so I was in the mood to scrap springtime pics.  These are from Easter 2006...my daughter was 2 1/2 years old.  And with her hat, she looks like Marlo Thomas in the intro to "That Girl".  LOL  Remember that? 

I kept the colors soft, like those in the pictures.  And I had fun finding a tree to use...there must be dozens of trees on Cricut cartridges!  I finally decided on one from Serenade...and I think the polka dot paper gives it a springy feel too.  I used two different Cuttlebug folders on the tulips, added a bit of bling around the scalloped circle and some lime green stickles on the butterfly.  What do you think?

Recipe

Tree from Cricut Serenade; sized to fit with my Gypsy; cut twice

Tulips from Cricut Simply Charmed

Butterfly from Cricut Create a Critter; cut wings twice and popped up one

Title 'on the' from Cricut Gypsy Font; welded with my Gypsy

Title 'hunt' from Cricut Birthday Bash; welded with my Gypsy

Scalloped circle from Cricut Mini Monograms

Patterned papers - My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow'; Basic Grey 'LilyKate'; SEI 'Chick-a-dee'

Cardstock - Bazzill textured; Recollections

Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls, Herringbone embossing folders

Brown Creative Memories marker, white Gelly Roll pen for stitching/doodling

Stickles

EK Success dimensionals to pop up tree, tulips, butterfly

I'm entering this scrapbook page into four challenges:

Creative Sisters Monday Challenge #3: Think Spring! - Create any spring-themed project.

CropStop Challenge Blog: Challenge #10 - Spring is in the Air! - To celebrate the arrival of spring, show your spring art...lots of butterflies and flowers.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #50: Tree Time - Create a project using any type of tree.

Scrappy Moms Terrific Tuesday Challenge - B is for Boy/Sugar & Spice - Create any project using the Cricut Lite cartridges B is for Boy or Sugar & Spice, or a similar cut if you don't own either of these.  I don't own any Lite cartridges, so I used Simply Charmed for the tulips which look similar to the tulips on Sugar & Spice.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

~Sharon C.