Frosted Designs Blog Hop

Welcome to the Frosted Designs Ice cream on the Beach Blog Hop/weekly challenge and 1st Anniversary.

if you are coming over from Krissinia you're in the right spot. if you just stopped by and want to start from the beginning, click here.

For my blog hop project, I challenged myself to include:

Blog Hop theme - Ice Cream on the Beach

Challenge theme - Ribbon/fancy/trim,charm,rhinestone/pearls for this week

Birthday theme - to celebrate Frosted Designs 1st Birthday. 

 Phew- that was a challenge to get all this into one little card.

I was asked recently...

What size LO do you prefer or do you prefer cards.

My Answer: Prefer cards
Yup- seems that is my go to project type lately since it can be quick.


Now for the project this week....

I came up with my little swimmer who just got out of the water and now is looking to see what direction to go for ice cream. Not only does he see the sign for ice cream, he is wished a Happy Birthday and stumbles along a treasure of oyster shells filled with pearls.

• I used several cartridges for this card....
• H2O for the swimmer and sun 
• Pooh and Friends for the sign
• Sponge Bob, Square Pants for the fish
• Birthday Bash for the ice cream cone
• Life's a Beach for the crab
• Stretch Your Imagination for the shells
• Imagine cartridge Better Together for the blue paper background

I think this is a record of carts used on one project for me.

I added some lace at the waters edge to look like white caps on the water. Added some pearls inside the oyster shells, google eyes on the crab, some brads on the signs that look like screws, and a charm I found of a flipper and swim goggles. 

I added glossy accents to the swim mask and flippers on my swimmer. 

Finally, I used the Swiss Dots and Divine Swirls embossing folders for the sandy beach  
I used several stamps--MPS More Punny-licious, Scrappy Moms Kids Incorpated, and PKS Boy Mates Face stamp sets.

Now we can't have a blog hop without some Blog Candy. 

************BLOG CANDY************

• Become or be a follower of BugBites 
• Leave a comment on this post with a way to contact you should you win

and you will have a chance to win the 
My Pink Stamper More  Punny-licious stamp set 
that I used on this card.

I will draw and announce one lucky winner on July 12. 

Now, Frosted Designs also has some Blog candy. So check out the Blog Hop post to see how to win and how to post a project for this weeks challenge.

Your Next Stop is Erin

Here is the whole line up in case you get lost along the way

Barb http://www.barbcraft.blogspot.com/

Diana http://itsmylifeandimscrappingit.blogspot.com/

Lori  http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

Andrea http://www.scrapality.com/

Kissinia http://kissinia.blogspot.com/

Barb O. http://bugbites411.blogspot.com/- your here

Erin http://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/-your next stop

Amanda http://www.whiteruffles.blogspot.com/

Lydia http://www.kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/

Ann  http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com/

Angela  http://angemuir.blogspot.com/

Eli  http://scrap-colors.blogspot.com/

Melissa http://melshappyscrappyplace.wordpress.com/

Karin  http://www.paperdreamsbykarin.com/

Debbie Bakk http://debbiebakk.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://jessica-createandshare.blogspot.com/

Libbeti http://creationswithlove-li-bee-ti.blogspot.com/

A bit of Spring for my window sill.

I have had this little wood bookmark/plaque for a few weeks that I wanted to do something with to put on my kitchen window sill. 

Being it was raining this morning and we now have 40 mph winds, I thought I would do something springy to try and encourage Mother Nature to please, bring spring to MN.

I was able to do this as well to fit the following challenges....

Wacky Wednesday Challenge

Throwback Thursday Challenge
Whimsical Wednesday Challenge 
ABC DT Challenge

Here's how I did it....

Wood bookmark/plaque purchased for $1 from craft store along with acrylic easel for $.99

Paper scraps from my stash

Spring/layers cut 1.25" from Cricut Office Help, p.60

Flower border/layers cut 1" from SpongeBob Squarepants, p. 44

Extra flowers made using CM punch

Stickles and doodles with my pen

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.