WE ARE WOBBLING!!!

Be Mine Action Wobble Bug!

Today's post is all about cute and wiggly.  Valentine's Day is approaching, so it's not too early to start on those cute little Valentine projects.  I have for you today a sweet little card featuring an adorable bug with an Action Wobble.  How cute is he?

Want to see him in action?  Watch the video below:

This busy little guy was created using the Create A Critter cartridge. I cut the bug at 2-3/4", the heart with wings at 3", and the sentiment at 2.25" (I think).  I used the Cricut line of papers. They cut so clean and nice.  And what special Valentine would be complete without an Action Wobble?  

After layering all my parts, I stamped the cardstock with a Stamps By Judith peg stamp and added some Stickles to the hearts and wings. I love how it turned out, and my granddaughter, Kaileigh (she's 3-1/2) thought it was the coolest thing ever.  This one is for her little sister, so I guess I need to make one for her next. 

Action Wobbles are so much fun. If you would like more information on purchase, click on the link below. I would love for you to visit the Action Wobbles Blog and see all the great projects the Design Team has to share. New projects are being posted all the time. And join us for the Wednesday Wobble Challenges. 

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

Supplies used:

Action Wobble%u2122 Springs

Cricut® Create a Critter Cartridge

InLinkz.com

FCCB #193: Winter Fun

Warm Winter Wishes!!!

It's time for another weekly challenge over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog.

Challenge #193

Winter Fun
 Create a winter inspired project

This Weeks Sponsor

The winner will receive a stamp set of their choice.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project
and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

 Please visit the FCCB blog to see the other DT member projects and join in the challenge.

As I look outside my window and see the two feet of snow that we were blessed with here in the Mitten, I am freezing inspired to create a wintery birthday card.  And when I think of winter, I think of snow. When I think of snow, I think of penguins!  This fun little guy from Create A Critter was perfect!

I cut the penguin and igloo at 2.75" and assembled them. The fishing pole and fish were cut at 2.25" and are from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.  A torn piece of cardstock for snow and a stamped sentiment complete this fun card.

And a closeup (don't you just adore those jiggle eyes!):

Come play along with FCCB for this weeks challenge!  Head over there now to see all the fun projects from the Design Team. You will get lots of inspiration!

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

Carts used:

Cricut® Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge

Cricut® Create a Critter Cartridge

InLinkz.com

Fantabulous Cricut #175: Heat Wave

Chillax!!!

That's my mantra for today.  It's gloomy outside, I have a ton of things to do, and I have a headache. So I'm telling myself to just "Chillax".

The theme this week over at Fantabulous Cricut is Heat Wave.  When I think of summer heat, I think of the ocean, and when I think of the ocean, I picture shells and crabs.  And what better way to represent a heat wave then with this adorable "cool crab"?

I started out with a BIG card base (kraft cardstock: Recollections).  It measures 7.5" x 5.5" folded.  I cut some of the blue Cricut cardstock for a mat at 1/8" smaller and then the top piece of kraft cardstock at 1/4" smaller.

For the elements on the card, I used the Cricut Craft Room and set up the images like this:

Cartridges used:  Cricut Craft Room Basics (letters); Just Because Cards (sun); Create A Critter (crab); Paper Dolls for Every Day (sunglasses).

I used Cricut cardstock (I love the way this cardstock cuts!) and planned where each image would be so I didn't waste any of the cardstock.

I tossed the "dots" for the "i" and used Dew Drops (The Robin's Nest) to add my customary bling.  I inked the crab and sun to add a little dimension and added a little white highlight with a gel pen on the sunglasses.  I popped the center of the sun up on some dimensional foam and added an Action Wobble to the crab for a little "jiggle".  His cheesy grin was hand drawn.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and are a little inspired to do some chillaxin' of your own.  Now pop on over to Fantabulous Cricut and see what the other DT members have to show you.  And, please, feel free to play along.  The more, the merrier!!!

Presenting.......

Vinyl Education Week

During the month of September, FCCB will be featuring Vinyl University and some wonderful vinyl projects and education.  For more information, check this out:

Order your vinyl now with a special discount code.  Click the link above to get more information and your special code!  We are looking forward to this fun, educational, inspirational challenge!  Hope to see you there!

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

Supplies used:  Cricut Cartridges (Cricut Craft Room Basics, Just Because Cards, Create A Critter, Paper Dolls for Every Day), Dew Drops (The Robin's Nest), Action Wobbles, Ink (Stampin' Up!), Gel Pen, Cricut Expression 2, Cricut Craft Room

FCCB #171: Shape Card

Havin' A Whale of A Time!

This week's challenge on Fantabulous Cricut is a shaped card. Don't panic! Shaped cards are incredibly easy to do if you know the tricks.

In addition to many shaped cards on cartridges like A Child's Year, Just A Note and Wild Card (just to name a few), you can create your own shaped card with your Gypsy or with the Cricut Craft Room.

I chose the Create A Critter cartridge to do my little Whale:

FCCB #171

Here are the basic steps to create your shape card:

1. Select your desired shape.  It helps to have a shape that has some solidness to it's side.  You want something you will be able to "connect" when you do the mirror image.
2. Place the base shape on your screen twice, and add all the necessary layers of the image. Size them the card size you want. (This one is approximately 5" high.)  That will ensure that all layers will fit the way they are supposed to.  
3. Select only one of the base images and flip it from right to left. Move it to the opposite image.  I use my cursor keys to move it so it slightly overlaps the mirror image.
4. Select "weld" and you will have your card base.
5. Now all you have to do is score and assemble your card!

Easy peasy, nice and breezy!  I added a little bandaid to the front and an adorable sentiment to the inside.

Hope you are inspired to give a shaped card a try.  Head on over to Fantabulous Cricut and see what the other Design Team Members have to wow you with!

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

FCCB #164

Happy Father's Day to All The Dads Out There!

And especially to my father-in-law, Jim.  You are a GREAT dad!

Appropriately so, this week's Fantabulous Cricut Challenge is geared toward Father's Day.  So I decided to do a cute little card for my granddaughters to give their Daddy.  Ribbitt....

FCCB #164

Isn't he too stinkin' cute?  I cut him out a while ago, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to incorporate him in a project.  He is cut from Create A Critter and then embossed with a Cricut Embossing Folder.  I used a scrap piece of ribbon to give him a snazzy tie and some sticker butterflies to add a little company for him on those lily pads (the background is printed from the internet).

The journaling is computer generated and thought up from my very own lil brain.  Clever, eh?

 And, the pièce de résistance...an Action Wobble of course!

I hope you enjoyed this ribbiting presentation (had to do it! lol).  Come on over to Fantabulous Cricut and see what the other Design Team members have to share, and hopefully you will want to play along too!

Til next time, keepin it crafty!

FCCB #160

Congratulations, Miss Brit!

My very favorite niece just graduated from Austin Peay with a degree as a Radiology Technician and I couldn't be prouder of her.  And since the challenge over at Fantastic Cricut is "Congratuations Graduate", what better combination than to do a card for the challenge that I can also send to Miss Brit!

Won't you come join us for the challenge?

And here is my very x-ray inspired graduation card....

FCCB #160

And here is the inside.  The white space at the bottom is for the family to sign their names and add a personal greeting.

 I used Create A Critter and Doodletype for the diecuts of the bone and text.  The images were downloaded from the internet.  I thought they were very appropriate for someone who will be taking x-rays!

Let me know what you think of my bony card!  And then head over to FCCB and see what the other DT members have whipped up to share!  You will be inspired!

Until next time, keepin' my fingers inky and my Cricut chirpin!

FCCB #156

April Showers Bring May Flowers...

So why did I see it snowing this morning?  Ugh!  Thankfully it didn't stick and it reverted back to rain.  Things are starting to green up around mid-Michigan, but I have to say I am over all the rain.  I sure could use some sunshine!

Over at Fantabulous Cricut, the challenge is April Showers.  Here is my Design Team card.

FCCB #156

I used cuts from Create A Critter and Create A Critter 2 and the marvelous Cricut Cardstock (I LOVE this stuff!).  The rainbow was hand-drawn and the sentiment printed on Dymo tape and mounted on some washi.  Here are a couple more close-ups:

And the inside:

The font I used was LD Whatever.  I dig this font!

Check out all the cheery umbrella inspiration from the Design Team Members over at FCCB and play along!  It's better than looking at this gloomy rain, right?

Til next time, keepin' it crafty!

FCCB #147 - Queen of Hearts

Hogs and Kisses, Y'all!

This week on FCCB, it's Challenge #147 - Queen of Hearts, which is to incorporate a heart.  Gee, with Valentine's Day just around the corner, how appropriate!

I've had this card jiggling around in my head for a week or so now, so what better time to drag it out of there than this challenge?  So here's my wiggly little piggly...

FCCB #147

I had fun with this one.  I used Create-A-Critter for the pig and heart balloons, computer journaling for the sentiment, and a new hearts embossing folder from Cuttlebug for the background.  And of course the pig is on a Wobble to add a dash of wiggle.  

Hope you come play along!  

Happy Crafting!

Action Tag!

Birthday Tag with a Twist!

Hey, y'all!  It's me....AGAIN!  LOL

I'm back with another blog challenge...This time I tackled two challenges with one project!  Feeling pretty powerful right now.  Yup.

The first challenge is from Action Wobbles' Celebrate: Wobble Wednesday Challenge #38 which is to create a project with an Action Wobble for anything you celebrate.  

The second challenge is from Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday #143 - Tag You're It!  This challenge is to make a project with a tag on it.  Ok, technically, my tag isn't ON it, it IS it!  But I think that will be just fine.

So, here is my tag:

Action Wobble Challenge #38 and Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #143

I used my Cricut Expression 2 and the Cricut Craft Room to design the "ingredients".  The pup is from Create A Critter, the present is from A Child's Year, and the tag is from Mickey and Friends.  The papers and all the little extras were from my stash.  The journaling was done on my computer and the sentiment I made up all by myself!  (My momma will think I'm so clever!)

Annnyhowwwww....(as Ellen Degeneres would say)....Here is a teeny tiny little video showing my tag in action! I'm surprised it isn't broken yet cuz I can't stop playing with it!!

Hope you enjoyed my little wobble tag.  Come play along! It's fun!

Happy Crafting!

(Comments graciously accepted!)

SEAriously!!!

I thought I'd try to kill two birds with one stone.  Although I would NEVER actually kill a bird!  I cry when I see dead animals by the side of the road!  I have to tell myself they are "sleeping" so I don't have bad dreams about them.  But I digress.....

I thought I would play along with a couple of challenges with making only one card.  And since I hadn't played with the easel card layout yet, I guess that actually makes three birds! lol

The first challenge is for Facebook Tacky Tuesday Challenge (HERE) which asked for a card with the word "SEA" on it, and the other is for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday (HERE) which wanted red, white & blue.  There are a couple of other colors on there, but there's definitely red white and blue!  And of course, I had to use a wobbly just for my own entertainment!  And let's not forget my brand spankin new K Andrew Designs Art Stamps.  These are fantastic!!!

And my slightly silly video to see the wobbly (I have to work on my video "chatter" LOL).

I used Create A Critter and Everyday Paper Dolls for my crab, fish, sandcastle and shells.  I use Colorbox chalk ink for the highlights and stamping.  As I said, the stamp I used was from the Positive Thoughts set from K Andrew Designs and the "seariously" was computer generated.  And my Action Wobble (Find them here).

Now I'm off to work on my submission for Simply Sundays at Getting Cricky with K Andrew.  I actually won the Face challenge!  (So excited!!!!!)  Check it out here: K Andrew Simply Sunday Challenge.  I also got the Design Team Top 5 at Fantabulous Cricut (Wednesday Winners).  Congratulations to everyone else who entered these challenges.  I get so much inspiration from you all.


Til next time, keepin my fingers inky and my Cricut chirpin!

Hey There, Sunshine!

Had another creative evening.  Worked 13 hours yesterday and was too darn tired to do ANYTHING. But today, I just new I couldn't stay away from my lil craft room.  I have to admit, this card took me about three hours to do.  The putting together part doesn't take too long, it's the planning and sizing and laying out.  But since I like the end result, I'm going to say it was all worth it.

I have a very dear friend who is battling inoperable brain cancer.  (Hey, McQzy, if you're reading this, I love ya, girl!)  My motivation as of late has been making cards to try and cheer her up.  She is amazingly strong and her faith is unmovable.  So, along with many prayers, I am trying to let her know how often I think of her by sending her a card every few days or so.

Here is my lil sunshine card for Suzy McQzy....




There is something a little extra special about this card....You have to see the sunshine wiggle!!!

 
I got these new little Action Wobbles that I ordered from Amazon.com and they are a hoot!  I've made my own before using thin wire, but these are SO easy! It's a little plastic spiral with a sticky circle on the top and the bottom.  Genius!  This is what they look like:

 

 

I can foresee MANY a wobbly element on my cards in the future!

OK, so, this is what I used for this card (I'm trying to remember to write things down in case anyone is interested, although I'm not to the patience point of tracking cut sizes yet, lol).

• Sun - Wild Card cartridge
• Sunglasses - Everyday Paperdolls
• Snail - Create A Critter
• Background paper - Cricut Tags, Bags, Boxes & More
• Sentiment - This & That from Creative Time
• Grass & Flowers - Rubber Stamp Tapestry
• Ink - Colorbox Chalks and Stampin' Up!
• Accents - Gelly Roll White
• Stickers - Sandylion
• Action Wobbles from AWI

I have decided to enter this lil card in a contest over at K Andrew.  You can find her here: http://www.gettingcricky.com/.  Please visit her blog.  I'm sure you will find lots and lots of ideas and inspiration there.  I also entered it in the Fantabulous Cricut: Challenge Me Monday contest.  More fantastic ideas and inspiration.  Check them out at: http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/search/label/Challenge%20Me%20Monday.

I hope you enjoy YOUR sunshine!  Til next time, I'll be keepin' my fingers inky and my Cricut chirpin'!

STILL FEELING CRAFTY!

I love that I still felt creative yesterday. It's amazing what an organized space does for me. I had so much fun creating this card for someone special. Sometimes they are ALMOST hard to part with! lol

This one was actually a happy accident in a way.  For those of you who are interested, I got the layouts from Splitcoast Stampers website.  (Here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/sidestepcard/ )  As I was bustling through the directions, I accidentally scored the wrong side. But I knew I would figure out a layout to use it for.  And voila!  This happened!

I used the Create A Critter cartridge for all the cutouts.  The stamp I used for the sentiment wasn't laid out to fit the way I wanted it to, so I stamped and embossed it (twice, once with copper and once with black) and cut it out so it would fit the card layout.

Hope you enjoyed this little "share" of mine.  Please leave me comments.  I get such a thrill from reading them all!  :D

Easter Share

I did a little Easter Card for my granddaughter (who turns 1 today), Kaileigh.  I made the bunny wobble with a homemade wobbler.  Hopefully you can see the side view clearly enough to see the wobbler.

I used the bunny from the Create A Critter cartridge.  He is just too stinkin' cute!  And to see him wobble just makes me giggle.  I'm not sure who got more of a kick out of it....Kaileigh or me!

Hope you all have a very Blessed and Happy Easter.