My Pink Stamper Blog Hop Project-Food Fare Friday Recipe

Tonight, Robin, over at My Pinker Stamper is hosting her monthly blog hop with her new Design Team.

Some really great projects by that team. Along with the hop, she is hosting a challenge which is to do anything that represents our style. 

I have been trying to scrap all of my favorite recipes and since today is Friday, I thought I would do a Food Fare Friday project for the hop challenge. 

This is an amazingly simple and good recipe from a good friend and fellow scrapper.She made it for us one year at a scrapbook retreat weekend.

Give it a try- it is yummy.

Here's How I did it....

Base is 8"x8"

Pattern paper is From Creative Memories and all others are from  my scrap stash

Boy/layers cut at 4" from Everyday Paper dolls.

Title is cut using my Sure Cuts Alot Program and a true type font.

Squirrel is cut at 1" from Camp Out and then flocked and has a sticker bead eye

Button brads for overalls and brown brads for recipe block.

A brown safety pin from my stash on the hat

Lots of chalk and doodles.

Cricut 360 Challenge #4- The Great Outdoors

Yeah- it's Friday again and that means another Cricut 360 Challenge.

This week the challenge is create a card or layout with the great outdoors in mind.

I went straight to my Camp Out Cartridge and found a great moon, owl and tree branch.

 

Yes, you are correct. That is not the owl from the Camp Out cartridge.

When I started cutting and piecing everything together the owl I had chosen just did  not have the feel I wanted - almost looked too scary.

So I started searching my gypsy for owls and found this adorable one on the Sentimentals cart.

I trimmed off his tail and glued it behind the branch so he would look more dimensional sitting on the tree branch. I then put pop dots behind the owl body and more behind his eyes- I wanted them really to stand out. 

I am happy with my little owly friend.

Please hope over to Cricut 360 and check out all the other inspiration projects and please give this challenge a try. I would love to see what you come up with. 

Here's how I did it...

5"5" card base from craft paper

All other paper is from my scrap stash

Moon cut at 4" from Camp Out

Branch/layers cut at 3" from Camp Out

Owl/layers cut at 3.21" from Sentimentals

Martha Stewart bakers twine

Chalk and doodles with my gel pen

Sticker beads for eyes

Sentiment on from MPS Biggie Punnies

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #50 - Ahoy Matey!

It's Monday and it is my first post as a Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Design Team Member.

The FCCB Challenge this week is to make a project with a tree on it. 

I am super anxious to share this first project with you.

Because I am going on vacation soon, a palm tree was the first tree that popped into my mind.

I had actually been working on this on and off for about a month. My plan was to send a quick card to my fellow vacationers but it just wasn't coming together like I wanted to and getting a little "overboard" for a quick card, if you know what I mean.

This challenge was the extra push I needed to get it done.

So not only did I make this for the challenge, but I made 8, yes 8 additional ones to mail to the 8 couples we are cruising with. I hope it gets them super excited about our tropical vacation.

I used one of my all time favorite carts, Life's a Beach for majority of the cuts. I also used SpongeBob Square Pants for the frame, Campout for the little sign, and Summer Vacation for the palm tree. The sentimental inside is my own printed from my computer.

I will do my best to explain how I did the whole project below. There are many layers and cutting/welding with the Gypsy/Cricut to get that dimensional, almost shadow box effect. You can see in the picture to the right, the many different layers.

The CCCC #9 Challenge is Life's a Beach so I am linking this over there as well since I am proud of how this turned out.

Here's how I did it...

Base card is a standard A2 size

Solid paper is all Bazzill

Red dot paper for the the ship is Bo Bunny

All other paper from my scrap stash

Bamboo frame cut 4.17"x5.09" 2 times from SpongeBob Squarepants cart, p.57(each of these will be glue to the top of a welded frame/wave section)

Dark blue waves from Life's a Beach, p. 45; 2 sections 2.16" x .82 each, welded together and then welded to the inside of a bamboo frame

Light blue waves from Life's a Beach, p. 45; 3 sections 1.81" x 1" each, welded together and then welded to the inside of a bamboo frame

Palm tree cut at 1.77"x4.31" from Summer Vacation in both green and brown

Cuttlebug distressed Stripes embossing folder on palm trees for texture

Sign/layers cut at 1.46"x1.94" from Campout Cartridge

Flower/layers cut at 1.25" from Life's a Beach, p.34

Dolphin cut at  1" from Life's a Beach, p.71

Ship/layers cut at 3.28"x1.82" from Life's a Beach, p.77

Now you have it all cut, time to layer it up..

 

I used some brown chalk for most layers and white chalk on the waves.

A bit of jute twine for around the frame corner

Doodles with my gel pen and lots of dimensional adhesive to get the 3-D effect.