Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #52 * Happy Birthday Card

Good morning everyone. It is a special week over at the Fantabulous Cricut Cartridge Blog.

It's Robin's Birthday - Happy Birthday Robin! Please swing by her blog and send her birthday wishes.

In honor of Robin's birthday, the challenge this week is to make a Happy Birthday card or project.

Who doesn't like balloons on their birthday.

I just love the Birthday Bash cart for any birthday card.

This little elephant, who I have named Elsa, is bursting with excitment for any birthday. You can't help but love her.

Hop on over to FCCB to see all the other great projects by our Fantabulous Design Team. Then get your cricut chirping and post a Happy Birthday project. I would love to see what you come up with.

Here's how I did it....

Basic A2 size card

Pattern paper is from Doodebug Designs, base paper is Bazzill  and all others are scraps from my stash

Elsa/elephant and layers cut at 3" from Birthday Bash, p. 38

Balloons and layers cut at 3" from Birthday Bash, p. 54

Jillibean Soup twine for balloon strings

CM cutting system circle template to round the bottom edge of the pattern papar

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases Stamp set

Ribbon from my stash

Googly eyes, chalk and doodles with my gel pen and pop dots for the balloons

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.