Day 13 of 25 Days in December: Freezin' Season

Hello my treasured friends and welcome to Day 13 of Erica over at My Cricut Craft Room's 25 Days in December celebration!

Today we are creating penguin projects! Lately, I've been on a penguin craze lately, so I jumped at the chance for more penguin projects! I welded the shape together in my Gypsy from Lacy Labels, and adjusted an oval from Plantin Schoolbook and added Crystal Accents to create the "ice rink."

Here's my Pink By Design sentiment on the inside of the card:

Trail of Treasures:

• Card Base - welded in Gypsy and cut from Lacy Labels Cricut Cartridge at 5.5 x 4.25 inches in white cardstock
• Card Layer - Lacy Labels cut, 5.25 x 4 inches, using patterned paper
• Hills - adjusted image from Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge, cut in white cardstock
• Ice Rink - adjusted oval from Plantin Schoolbook, added glitter and Cystal Accents
• Penguins - Penguin Doll Peachy Keen Cottage Cutz Die, and Doll Accessories 3 Die
• Sentiment - Pink By Design Christmas Wishes set

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

CTO Challenge 30: Tall Card with Present - Gifts Galore

Hi everyone!

For the giveaway, please click here.

Welcome to another Celebrate the Occasion challenge! This week's challenge is to create a tall birthday themed card. In addition, it must also include a present. Ever since I came back from Vegas, I've been eager to create since I came back with a whole lot of goodies! My little nephew's birthday just recently past, and I never got a chance to make it before I left since I was swamped with things to do and events. So here it is! It will be off in the mailbox real soon since he lives in sunny San Diego :)

What a lucky boy he is! He received a mountain of gifts! ;)

Trail of Treasures:

• Card base - fits in a 3.25 by 6" envelope, cardstock from Recollections; I welded a circle and a rectangle together for my base shape from Plantin Schoolbook and stitched around the card
• Patterned Paper - Making Memories foil star paper (got 50 sheets of it for $2.99 from Tuesday Morning!)
• Boy - cut from Baby Steps cart, face from Peachy Keen Stamps PK-451 Wide Eyed Kids 1 1/8" and I added Crystal Accents to the eyes, and pink chalk for the blush on the cheeks
• Gifts - cut from New Arrival, and Create a Critter carts and some embellished with Stickles (Lime and Stardust). Other gift packages are Jolee stickers - I do not enjoy using the Cricut to cut out gifts :(
• Banner - stamped and cut out using the Pink by Design Small Banners set, used a fiskars tiny hole punch, and used some blue twine

Make sure to celebrate birthdays with us this week! Have fun crafting!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

A Birthday Fit for a Diva

Hello my treasured friends!

It feels like forever since I've posted and I appologize for that! It has been a non-stop go for me since I finished exams..from birthday parties, school meetings, catching up with friends, and work, I've barely had any time to sit down and craft. Next week I'll be heading down to Vegas for my 21st birthday, so that gives me even less time to craft. I'll be squeezing in crafting time whenever I can from now until next week Tuesday.

Here's a birthday card that I created for my friend's birthday. She is definitely a diva, so this card is fit for her! :) I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge 27 -- Create a Circle Shaped Card for any occasion
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge 74 - Create a Birthday Themed Project
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

So here it is!

This card will fit into a 5 x 5 square envelope. I heat embossed the Peachy Keen large polka dot background with sparkly embossing powder to create my own patterned paper. I used the Punnylicious My Pink Stamper set to stamp the "hoppy birthday" but changed the o to an a so it could read "happy birthday."

Trail of Treasures:

• Card base cut from Smiley Cards exclusive Gypsy cartridge (you can find this cut on many other carts or weld circles together on your own)
• Shoes cut from  Wall Decor & More cartridge
• Scalloped shape cut from Gypsy Wanderings
• Circle cut from Plantin Schoolbook
• Martha Stewart Sugar Cube Embossing Powder
• PK 100 Large Polka Dot
• White Gelly Roll Pen
• Crystal Accents
• Heat Gun
• Bling

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

Window shopping anyone?

Hi everyone!

It's Friday and there's SO much going on in the crafty blogging world! Pink Cricut is having her UStream for her June release tonight, and Peachy Keen Stamps is about to reveal their June release! Lots and lots going on! I can't wait to see what they've all come up with cuz I know they'll be fabulous as always! I just wanted to share a quick card with you all today. We all love shoes, and when we're window shopping, we always spot a pair that we want to either pick up or try on! This is one of the projects I entered into Sarah's design team call. We'll find out tonight who's lined up next to join her team! *fingers crossed*

 

This is a 5x7 card - I welded the window to a rectangle in my Gypsy and inked the edges. You can't tell by the picture but I added a piece of acetate to create the 'glass' of the window and attached it with glue dots to the inner base, then on my patterned paper I marked the areas of the window so that I could place the shoes 'inside the window,' then used glue dots again to attach the patterned paper.

Here's the inside of the card:

Materials Used:

• Window from Christmas Solutions Cartridge
• Rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook
• All the shoes cut from Formal Occasions Cartridge
• Create-a-Critter Cartridge for label shape inside the card
• Zebra print paper from DCWV All Dressed Up stack
• Pink by Design February Stamp of the Month: Designer Boots for inside sentiment, and I only inked up shoes and stamped it repeatedly for the edge border
• Creative Memories Round Corner Punch
• Irock Gems in Black and Pink
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder 
• Blue and Pink Floss
• Crystal Accents
• Flower Brad
• Acetate
• Glitter

Cute, huh? Hope you all like it! Make sure you come back and visit this weekend for Father's Day card ideas! On a side note, I just started a Twitter account. If you use Twitter, I'd love to hear from you! You can find my account on the left side bar.Thanks and enjoy your weekend!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

LFIF Peachy Keen Challenge: Organize It

Hi everyone!

I hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend! In Canada (particularly B.C.), we just had a long weekend. Although the sun didn't make its way out till the very end (better late than never!!), it was still an enjoyable weekend with great friends and good food.

This weekend I was able to get a project done. I worked on the Let's Face it Friday Peachy Keen Challenge: make anything that will help you become more organized. My boyfriend's niece and nephew throw their papers everywhere once they get home from school, or even the ones that they draw. Thus, I decided to make something for those youngsters to keep their drawings in.

This is a paper organizer that you can keep on your fridge. You can easily open it up and add papers to it -- drawings, notices, you name it. What I did was take an 8.5 x 11 sheet of cardstock, folded it in half, adhered a strip of patterned paper to the end of one side, and used a circle punch to punch out just half of the circle, and used my ATG to tape down the ends. When you open it up, this is what it looks like:

Then, I added my images to the front, and finished it off by adhering two magnetic strips to the back.

This is the finished project attached to the fridge. Of course, you'd have to place it down lower on the fridge in reach of the little ones. That way they can be more hands on with their own school work, cleaning, etc.

True Love: Kiss Me, Hug Me, && Luv Me

Hi everyone!

I'm honoured to be asked by Emma (My Creative Time) to be a guest designer for her and her line of stamps! I was introduced into the blogging world by curiosity -- searches on YouTube led me to find Robyn (mypinkstamper), and that was where I discovered Emma a little less than a year ago. Emma was my favourite member of Robyn's design team -- always creating such beautiful creations. I gotta say Emma, you're a true inspiration :) Once Emma started her own line of stamps at the beginning of this year, I knew that she wouldn't disappoint us!

So for today's Throwback Thursday Challenge, the challenge is to create something 3D -- a gift item, card set, etc., using ANY older Cricut cartridge. So for my project today, I created a set of three cards for a card set. All of the cuts are from the Create a Critter cartridge (my fave!) and all the sentiments are from Emma's first release, You Had Me At Chocolate which you can order here.

So for my first card, I made it for the Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge. I had no idea that my inspiration would come from that! I created the card first and decided that it needed a stamp saying, "kiss me." I wasn't quite sure if I had any stamps that said the following but to my surprise, I found it on Emma's set! Then I saw the Luv Me, and Hug Me sentiments, and from that I knew what I wanted to do for the card set! :)

Here is the first card that I created, using the kiss me sentiment. You can view the post here.

The second card I made for this card set, I used the luv me sentiment, and inked it up the "luv" and the "me" each time separately to go around the heart. In between each luv me, I separated it with small doodles of white hearts.

Materials Used:

• DCWV Playtime Stack
• Recollections Cardstock
• You Had Me At Chocolate stamp set
• Create a Critter Cartridge
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge
• Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge
• Flocking Powder
• Ribbon
• Mini brads
• Sukura Gelly Roll Pen