Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #20 - At the Zoo

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to create a zoo or animal themed project, using a Cricut cut for the animal(s) on your project. As an added bonus, the DT was given some acrylic stamps from Joys' Life to use on our projects. The stamps were from Joy's "Lots of Pun" stamp set, which goes sooo well with any of the Cricut cartridges with animals. My stamps were "Hi-ppopotamus" and "Bear Hugs". Here are the two cards I made, using animals from Create a Critter, and the "Lots of Pun" stamps.


The Hippo was cut at 3.25" from Create a Critter, and then I added a fabric brad for his nose, and a little pearl to the flower cutout. The lake and grass were also from Create a Critter - lake was cut at 1.25" and the grass at 1" and 1.25". The talk bubble was cut at 1" from Paper Pups, and then the sentiment was stamped inside.

The square card base for the bear was cut from Just Because Cards @ 4". The scallop square is from Zooballoo, also cut at 4". The bear was cut at 3.25" from Create a Critter and the hearts were cut at 1.25" from George & Basic Shapes. I stamped the sentiment on two hearts, then overlapped all the hearts to make a row and added some twine bows at the ends.

We'd love to see your projects this week - be sure to link them to the Fantabulous Cricut blog for a chance at a great prize! And don't forget to check out Joy's website - those "Lots of Pun" stamps are just too cute!

A new Sassy Lil page sketch!

Here's this week's page sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches!


If you use this sketch, make sure to link it up to the Sassy Lil Sketch page, for a chance to win a prize this month!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #19 - Christmas in July

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to create a Christmas project. It's only five months til Christmas, and that time will go quickly....especially if you have a list of craft projects you want to get done before the holidays!

Several years ago, I made ornaments to put on all my holiday packages. I've always wanted to do that again, but run out of time every year. So I took this week's challenge as an opportunity to get started on a few ornaments.


I used George and Basic Shapes for the ornament base, cutting a 4" square from cardstock (the back), ppaper (the front), and chipboard (the middle). The pp was adhered to the front of the chipboard square, then I cut cinnamon sticks to fit and adhered them around the edges with tacky tape. (Added bonus here - those cinnamon sticks smell wonderful!) Ribbon hangers were adhered to the back of the chipboard, and then cardstock was adhered to cover the ribbon ends and the back of the chipboard.

The image for the Santa hat ornament was cut at 3", from Joys of the Season. I added some glitter snow dimensional paint to the cuff and tassel on the hat, a 'ho ho ho' rubon, and some red and green clear dot accents.


The wreath was cut at 3" from Joys of the Season, then a ribbon bow and some red pearls were added as accents, and a "joy" button was adhered to the center.


The snowman was cut at 3" from Speaking of Winter. I cut the prongs off some snowflake brads and adhered them to the ornament, and then added some small bells to the ribbon hanger (and some tiny google eyes to the snowman, just for fun).


Hope you can join us in this week's challenge and get in the holiday spirit early this year!

Sassy Lil Sketches July card sketch!

It's the 14th, and that means it's time for another card sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches!

Here's the July card sketch:


I ended up doing two cards for this month's sketch, because I liked it so much, LOL!
For the first one, I used all white cardstock, with different Cuttlebug embossing folders (Divine Swirls and Swiss Dots).


For the second card, I used one of the wonderful vintage Christmas images from one of our July sponsors, Peggy Loves Vintage. I cut out the image and adhered with foam adhesive for some dimension. The background strips were embossed with the Cuttlebug snowflake folder. Be sure to check out all the wonderful vintage images in Peggy's shop.


I hope you enjoy this month's card sketch. Don't forget to check out all the DT creations, too!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #18 - cool treats!

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project showing some type of cool summer treat....with an optional challenge to make your project a shaped card.

Well, I didn't end up with a shaped card, but I did make a card with a cool glass of lemonade, one of my favorite summer treats. (And as hot and humid as it's been in Ohio lately, a cool glass of lemonade sounds awfully good right now!)


The base card is yellow cardstock, with some yellow & white pp on top. The lemonade was cut at 4.25" from Just Because Cards. I cut the image shadow from white cardstock, the base image from white cardstock, and then yellow cardstock for the lemonade and the lemon. I cut the base image a second time from a transparency, trimming off everything but the glass itself, and then ran that through the Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder. This became the top layer so it would look like a drinking glass. I frosted the top edge of the "glass" with some dimensional glue and chunky clear glitter, so it would like the top edge of the glass was dipped in sugar.

The scallop border is an EK Success punch, and then I added ribbon and some MM flower brads.

Please check out the other DT projects and join us in this week's challenge. Post your project on the FCCB site for a chance at this week's prize. Hope you enjoy this week's "cool" challenge!

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #17 - creepy crawlers!

This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project with some kind of bug, and use the color orange. Now, I don't normally think of bugs as cute, but there are some cute little bug images on several of the Cricut cartridges. I made a couple of bookmarks for summertime reading, and used the worm from Create a Critter as the bookworm. It was cut at 4" outlined with black pen, and then I added some googly eyes. The book was cut at 1.5" from Cursive 101, and the tag base was cut at 6.5" from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More.