Vellum Butterfly

Hello blog world, welcome to my little corner of the world.  Today's card is my take on the sketch challenge over on Card Patterns I used paper from a gorgeous stack called The French Country from DCWV. I love all the soft colors.of these papers.

I also wanted to try my hand at making faux lace with vellum.  I think it came out quite well.  I used pearls in my Birthday card design so I was able to enter into the challenge on Bitten by the Bug 2.  Which is to use pearls on a birthday card...ta da!

Thank you so much for stopping in for a visit.

Easter Egg challenges

 Wow!  There are an awful lot of Easter projects out here in blogsville and I thought I should join the crowd.  I started out with a white Recollection tag from Michael's, covered it with my favorite My Mind's Eye checked paper. Then using Cricut Design Studio and A Child's Year I created my little scene of Easter eggs and chicks.  Cut the images out with my Expression using more Recollection paper and glued them all together.  'cuteness'.

I added purple trim it's an oldie paper ribbon from Basic Grey.  I glued my 'cuteness' down onto the tag then added the lace and bead trims along the edges of the tag.  Next the beautiful ribbon.  I am in love with how soft this silk ribbon from the Stamp Simply store.  I wish you could just reach in to your computer and touch the ribbon, it feels like it's floating.  I added a jeweled stick pin and voila, an adorable Easter gift tag.

This post meets the requirements for quite a few blog challenge.  Listed in no particular order.
My Craft Spot
Fantabulous Cricut
Simon Says Stamp
Cooking with Cricut #80 Easter
Cricut Creative Cutter Room
Getting Cricky
Paper Sundaes
D.L. Art
Melindas Paper Craft

Happy Easter Easel

 Oh my!  another challenge under my belt!  I think I am on a roll :-)....ha ha  a roll under my belt..more like a roll above my belt, but we weren't talking about my weight. silly

 Alright, seriously.  This card meets the weekly challenge, over on Bitten by the Bug 2, to use a flourish from a Cricut cartridge.  This flourish comes from Home Accents, one of my first Cricut purchase's. The cute girl and her chicks are from a Prima stamp set called Jack and Jill, I came across at Hobby Lobby.  I wasn't even aware Prima made stamps, bonus  the set was only $1.89!

Here's a close up of my card.  You can see the scrolls a bit better and the cute little pebble and crystals that match the stamp set, also from Prima.
That's it for today.  Now on to another challenge :-)

Baby Buggy Welcome

 Hello my friends, I hope your week has gone well. My highlight, this week, was a short visit with a very dear friend who I haven't seen in 3 months.  I don't know why we waited so long.  That's going to change!

 

Today's post is for a challenge over at Bitten by the Bug 2 .  The challenge was to use the word Welcome from any Cricut cartridge.  Since none of my cartridges have the word, I used my Cricut Storybook cartridge and spelled out Welcome.  I then made some cute pennants to put the letters on. The adorable baby buggy is from the very versatile Cricut Wrap It Up cartridge.

All the papers I used are from an adorable paper pack called Sweet Pea from the Paper Studio. I edged a lot of the pieces using cream acrylic paint, added some faux stitching then popped everything up with my handy dandy pizza box cardboard.
Didn't it come out adorable!?

Bitten by the Bug 2 Challenge

 Hello all, happy weekend.  This card took some major planning.  My Cricut is in one room and my craft room is in another..so lots of walking back and forth.
The card is my entry into the challenge over on Bitten by the Bug. The challenge was to use any ice cream image from a Cricut cartridge.  I don't have many cartridges but am lucky enough to have the cartridge A Child's Year.

So this is my entry.  Thanks for stopping in...say hi!  I'd love to hear what you think.
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