FCCB Challenge Me Monday # 168

Today's FCCB challenge is Cute as a Bug--make a card with a bug on it!  I made a shaped card.  Some of you might recognize this cut (from Boys Will Be Boys) from a couple of posts ago--I used it for the science room at our VBS.  Here I cut two bases from white, scored the bottom one, and used sticky strip to attach the front to the back.  I then cut the layers and assembled the card, complete with wiggle eye for the ladybug.

I usually weld two shapes with my Gypsy, but doing it this way allowed me to tie the baker's twine all the way around the top.  I used an old SU stamp for the sentiment.

Here is a pic that shows the inside.  It measures slightly smaller than 5.5" x 4.25".  I like the way this card turned out.  I plan to send it to my sis, who is going through some rough times right now.

Please play along with the Fantabulous Cricut Design Team!  Make any type of project with a bug on it, and make sure to include at least one Cricut cut!  There are tons of cartridges with awesome bugs on them--Create a Critter, Walk In My Garden, and Stretch Your Imagination are just a very few.  When you are done, link up your project to the Challenge Me Monday # 168 post at FCCB.

Thanks for dropping by today!  Have a wonderful day.

4th of July Card for My Mom and Dad

Soooo...I loved the Chevron Cover Plate dies that PTI introduced with their last release and HAD to have them--both the portrait and the landscape.  Finally got around to playing with them.  I die cut the plate 3 times:  once in Baja Breeze, once in Blue Bayou, and once in Riding Hood Red.  I then used all the little pieces/parts to make 3 different cards.  You just pop out the chevron pieces and pop them back in where you want them, as Nichole Heady demonstrated in her post here.  I will show the others at a later date--think I will use them for OWH cards or something.  But I needed a 4th of July card for my parents.  As it turns out, I do not have ONE SINGLE STAMP that says Happy 4th of July.  But I did have this very old SU set, so I used it and just hand wrote the sentiment on the inside.  

I stamped the image (which says We the people at the top, it's a bit hard to read, sorry!)  in Blue Bayou on Baja Breeze, and used some Baja ribbon with a We R Memory Keepers star stick pin.  

Well, thanks for stopping by today, and Happy Independence Day to you all!

More Door Decorations and Blog Candy Winner

So it seems most of the other FCCB DT members who are offering blog candy are going to draw for it on Monday, so I thought I'd extend mine as well to give more people an opportunity to enter if they wish.  

In the meantime, I thought I'd show you some more of the Cricut shapes I made for VBS door decorations.  These were for the art room.

My favorite is the artists' palette.  

All of these are from the Recess cartridge I think.  One or two may be from Locker Talk.

Couldn't resist using glitter CS and an orange brad on the scissors!

And I had to make my glue look like Elmer's LOL!

Had fun making these--Cricut-ting is so much fun!

Fantabulous Cricut Crawl--Red, White & Blue! Plus Blog Candy!

Welcome to The Stamping Tree and the Fourth of July Fantabulous Cricut Crawl!  I'm very excited as this is my first post as a FCCB design team member.  In honor of the 4th of July holiday, we're having a Red, White and Blue Crawl.  Each Design Team member has created a fabulous project using Red, White and Blue as the main colors, and of course at least one Cricut cut!

If you've come from Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, you're in the right place!  If you've just happened across my blog and would like to see all the fabulous Design Team creations head on over to Fantabulous Cricut HERE  to start at the beginning.

Make sure to check out each DT member's blog!  There will be Blog Candy along the way at some of our DT members' blogs, and there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant who submits a "Red White and Blue" project at FCCB!

I wanted to show you a pic of my inspiration--I saw this wreath while in Kohl's a year ago.  I knew right away I wanted to use Ribbons and Rosettes to make my own version, and I found some gorgeous paper from We R Memory Keepers.  Unfortunately, I didn't get my project made for last 4th of July, so when I saw the Crawl theme, I knew I had to make it.

Here is a picture of my project:

I cut various rosette patterns in sizes ranging from 1.5" to 3".  I welded the rosette sections with my Gypsy so that I could have long strips to work with.  The stars are cut from Stand and Salute, and I Love USA is from Independence Day.  SU Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, and Blue Bayou coordinated perfectly with my patterned paper.  I tried a couple of different methods to assemble my rosettes after the strips were joined at the ends.  First I tried Glubers--those really big glue dots.  Sometimes it worked, and sometimes not.  The method I liked the best was applying hot glue to a cardstock circle and pushing my rosette down into the hot glue.  I painted a 12" wooden wreath form from Michael's white and adhered my rosettes.

And speaking of hot glue, here is my blog candy!  A brand new Imaginisce I-Bond!  I have one and I love it.  It's cordless and has a little light on the nozzle.  

How can you win?  Leave me a comment with a way to contact you--that's it!  On Wednesday I will randomly draw a name for the winner.  

Your next stop is  Amy T at Crafting With Amy. Make sure to visit all the stops along the way and when you get done, make sure you link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post!!

Happy Crawling!!

Here is the line up in case you get lost:

Amy HS  http://thestampingtree.blogspot.com/

Amy T   www.craftingwithamy.com

Angie  http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com

Catarina  http://blog.docerelashop.com/

Cindy  http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com

Connie  http://www.conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Emily  molliemugsblog.blogspot.com

Felicia  Sweetcreativemess.blogspot.com

Heather http://scrappingrunnercreations.blogspot.com/

Jackie  http://luv2scrappp.blogspot.com/

Jilliene  http://jillienedesigns.blogspot.com/

JoNeita  http://createwithjoneita.weebly.com/index.html

Kim  ogdendoll.blogspot.com

LB  http://www.coolbeansbylb.blogspot.com/

Lynn  http://mycardsnstuff.blogspot.com

Michelle  http://justanutterpapercrafter.blogspot.com/

Missy  http://www.quickchickdesigns.blogspot.com

Nikki  http://craftycalamities.blogspot.com/

Rebecca  craftingmisfit.blogspot.com

Robin  http://robinscreativecottage.blogspot.com/

Thanks for crawling with us at  FCCB!  Happy Independence Day!

Hi, everyone!  Just popping in to let you know about the July Fantabulous Cricut Crawl!  The theme is--wait for it--RED, WHITE AND BLUE!

I've got a cool project all dreamed up and partially cut out--now I just have to make it!

Please crawl with us if you have a chance--I may be offering up some awesome blog candy...

She Blinded Me With Science

So they have a science station at Vacation Bible School, for the younger kids.  I don't know what science projects they're doing, because I'm with the older kids doing mission projects.  But I made these door decorations for the science room.

Love this one!  The DP is old ( can't even remember the name of it and it was one of my fave lines!)  I used Cri-kit markers to draw the details on the beaker, flask, and test tube, and I love how the beaker in the middle seems to have a combination of the substances on either side!  This cut and the next are from Locker Talk.

Here is a microscope.  I cut it out using those fun bright papers, so it doesn't really look much like a microscope, but I like it anyway.

This fun atom is from Nifty Fifties.  I cut all the colors from glitter CS.

Love this bug in a jar!  It's from Boys Will Be Boys.  

Again with the glitter CS--cut is from Recess.

And the recycle symbol, from one of my fave carts, Give a Hoot.

I have had so much fun making these.  I've also had fun teaching at VBS.  Yesterday we baked cookies and made thank you notes and took them to the first responders in our town.  Today we made pipe cleaner mosquitoes and tie-dyed T-shirts.  Our overall mission is to buy mosquito nets for kids in Zimbabwe.  So far we have bought 10 at $10 apiece.  Our new goal is 20.  The mosquitoes are to raise awareness about malaria in our congregation.  The tie-dying was just for fun.

The kids are really great, but we have 16, and, well, let's just say, they're not quiet types.   Last night and tonight I had to have a little drinky-binky when I got home.  Thank God we are Methodists!  My son is also volunteering, shepherding the 2nd graders (he is getting a milkshake LOL).  My husband helped serve the meal prior to VBS tonight, and Ems is attending, so it really is a family affair!

What are some of the ways you use your talents in the world?  I know my friend Chris sells her cards and donates the money to her local animal shelter.  Lots of people send their cards to the Ronald McDonald House or Operation Write Home.  How about you?  Let me know in the comments!

Have an awesome day!

Fantabulous News!

Hurray!  I have had the honor of being asked to join the Fantabulous Cricut Design Team!  I am beyond excited.  I will be on it for 4 months.  I am really pleased because I love their blog.

To celebrate, I wanted to begin posting some of the things I've made for our church's vacation Bible school.  The theme is "The Everywhere Fun Fair".  Each day we will be talking about different ways to be a neighbor and focusing on a different country.  The countries are Japan, Zimbabwe, the UK, Australia, and Mexico.  I am teaching the 4th and 5th graders, along with several other teachers.  Their segment is called Mission: Possible, and we will focus on service projects.

I have the Children of the World Cricut Lite cartridge, and I thought it would be perfect to make some cute door decorations.

Actually, this first one, the heart-shaped world, is probably my favorite cut from the Give a Hoot cartridge.  I cut it at 8".

Here is little miss Japan.  I just love her kimono!  She is cut at 6".

I used the Scottish boy (6") for the UK.  He was a little hard to put together--I had a bit of a time figuring out his layers.

I love the little African boy (6")!  He is my favorite because of his colorful outfit.  I used PTI Dark Chocolate for his skin, and the DP is SU's Epic Day This and That.

Here is the little Mexican boy (6").  I thought his outfit was a bit plain, so I added a strip of ribbon.  Love his maraca!

For some reason, I decided to cut the Aussie girl at 8", so she's a little bigger than the others, but I didn't want to redo her! 

Our Director of Dicipleship Development (aka our Christian education minister) decided to put these up on the door of the storytelling room.  Besides cutting out Cricut decorations, I also put colorful butcher paper up on 4 doors, and then laminated them with clear contact paper.  Man that was a chore, and they don't look great by themselves, but with all the decorations on them they look ok.Well, thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to subscribe to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  They have a new challenge every Monday, plus great posts everyday, covering things like useful tips and scrapbooking.