BBTB2 Challenge- "Honor 911"

Today is double Design Team challenge posts for me.  

The first is FCCB - "Trains, Planes and Automobiles"  

The Second is BBTB2 - "Honor 911" 

So please check out both my posts and join us for the challenges.  

My good friend Brenda is challenging us this week at BBTB2 to create a project honoring 911.  

I made a card in honor of all the fire personal who lost there lives this terrible day.  My husband was a fireman for 33 years before retiring so firemen and women are near and dear to my heart.  If you have really good eyes you will notice I wrote 911 on the little bell with a gel marker.  

I used ACY for the little guy on his firetruck cut at 3.5 inches and the My Hero comes from Stand and Salute cut at 3 inches.  Ribbon was from my stash.  Star paper left over from baby shower goodies.  Lots of gel pen stirching and Stickles on the title.  

I hope you will join us this week for the challenge and link up to BBTB2. 

Happy Craftin 

Remembering and Honoring 911

I am sure all of us will never forget the date 9-11.  Where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news of the Twin Towers and the aftermath will never be forgotten.  So hard to believe it has been 10 years.  For the challenge this week we were to make something to Remember and honor 9-11.  Being that my husband is a retired fireman I chose this memorable picture as the centerpiece of my layout.  I used K and Company paper from a stack I had left at 4th of July.  The ribbon  and decal is from Michaels.  I used Stand and Salute to cut out the USA flag.  I then used the wide ribbon cut at different lengths to highlight the picture.  The small ribbon I made awareness ribbons and used a red and blue star brad in the center.  I have bunch of the ribbon left so am making ribbons for my family to wear in memory.  I used a LP frame I had on hand to frame the layout.  When I showed it to my husband he teared up and said he thought it was a great memorial.  

With my layout I would like to send out a prayer for all those who lost loved ones that day.  I would like to offer up a big thank you to the fire fighters and police officers who lost their lives trying to save others.  Also a big thank you to all the men and women who have served their country to keep our nation free.  Please come back all week and see what the other designers have made to honor and remember 9-11.

Fourth of July Vintage layout for Frosted Designs challenge

I did this layout today for the Frosted Designs sketch challenge.  The patriotic paper is from Rusty Pickle and was on sale recently for 50 cents a sheet at my local LSS.  The Roman Numeral Paper and  canvas look paper I cut out America from  were in my stash.  I Cut America from Word Collage using my Gypsy and then used a $1 stamp to stamp 4th of July with Tim Holtz ink.   The stars are from Stand and Salute.  The red, white and blue ribbon was to white so I rubbed Tim Holtz vintage ink over it to age it.  I used raffi to tie on  the photos. 

 

Star Explosion Box

Hello all you crafty bloggers, this is Suzanne from Cricutcraftingrammy. Thanks for joining me on the Sweet Sassy Design Team today.  Hoping you are all have a great Summer and some 4th of July festivities to celebrate the USA.  The challenge for this project  was to use stars not stripes.  This was a good challenge as it is not easy finding paper with stars and no stripes but I managed.  I decided to make an Explosion box with a cute surprise inside. I learned to make these at an LSS class a couple years ago.    Much of the papers used were from K and Company stacks found at Michael's.  

This is three views of the finished product.  Remember you can click on pictures to enlarge.  

Start out with 3- 12 x 12 pieces of cardstock- I used red, white and blue.

Next you cut them down and score. 

Cut one piece for bottom  9 x 9 and score at 6 inches all sides.

Second piece for center cut to 8 5/8 x 8 5/8and score at 5 3/4 inches all sides. 

The third and top piece cut to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 and  at 5 1/2 inches all sides.  

You will end up with 9 squares.  Fold to firm scores and then cutout the 4 corner squares.  

 I then use decorated papers in this case stars to decorate the cardstock pages.  Cut the pieces a quarter inch smaller than square so the cardstock color shows through for example the bottom you would cut the pieces 2 3/4" for 3 " square, 2 5/8 for middle and 2 1/4 for top.  

You must decorate the bottom side too but I usually decorate both sides of all 3 pages.  Next you glue the three on top remember to put them in size order.  Glue only the center piece.  I use my ATG gun here.  

Next we start with the lid.  The lid is 6 1/4 " x 6 1/4 "  and is scored at 4 3/4 ".  The diagonally score the corners and fold them in and glue with a good firm glue.  I use Beacons 3 in 1 and once they are glued flat to sides I clip with bull clips or clothespins till they dry.  

 For embellishments and the surprise inside I decorated the lid making another lid and scoring at 4 5/8" to cover first lid. The side strips on lid were cut at 3 x 1 /4 ". I also decorated the top inside of the box lid so when it is opened it looks more finished.  I then punched a hole in center and added the top part of a small pinwheel I found at Michael's.  I glued this tight and then covered bottom of box  with paper so it didn't show.  I then got out my Stand and Salute and cut out a variety of cuts I liked at 2 inches or smaller to fit on fold outs, sides and top of box.  If you want you can also add stamps and or pictures to these.  

For the top I added the dimensional star cut page 32  from Stand and Salute.  I cut it twice at 4 1/2 inches and glued it so it stayed dimensional.  I added a rosette I made with Tim Holtz rosette maker and my Cuttlebug and then a couple more cuts, some stars on wire from Michaels, and an embellishment from a K and Company kit at Michaels.  

These boxes are a lot of fun to make for any occasion.  

I  hope you enjoyed the project and would love to hear your comments.  

Card for Blog Quick Quotes Sketch Challenge

Blog Quick Quotes is having their first Linking party.  This is the sketch  that you were to follow. 

 

This is my card.  I used some denim look and cabbage rose blue flowers.  The pocket  and pull out piece are  from Stand and Salute,  The tiny fleur on the bottom is from Cindy Lou.  I used an MS punch for the corners and a punch for the flowers.  I added lace to the pocket and more lace and ribbon across the card.  I then embellished with pearls and added fake stitching with a white gel pen.  The stamp is one I bought last month at Michaels for $1,  

Here is tag pulled out.  

I am also posting  this in the Mag Challenge.  This challenge was to use the Stand and Salute cart page 42 only.  However I am disqualifying myself from the challenge  as I forgot and added the tiny fleur at the bottom from Cindy Lou. However I am totally thrilled with the way the card came out using the pocket and tag cut from Stand and Salute page 42.  Thank you Mag Challenge for having us use this great page with the great pocket cut.

Let Freedom Ring card with Rosettes

There are a lot of challenges this week for projects with red, white and blue, or stars or Stand and Salute cut and on and on and on.  So since I have been in a rosette crazy mood with my Tim Holtz diecut Rosette makers this is what I came up with .  The ribbon and stars are from my stash last year.  Paper is K and Company stack from this year.  

God Bless the USA on Blocks -Home Decor

For this project I went to Michaels and bought a package of thin precut blocks.  The packge is only $2 and comes with circles, squares and rectangles.  I painted them all with dark blue paint and then began decorating.  The words and letters are cut from Storybook.   The 4 inch squares and 4 inch circles were cut from George.  Then I made three rosettes.  I cut 2- 2 x 12 inch strips, punched the edges, scored using the punch as a guide,  and hot glued together.  On the top I added the 3 D star from Stand and Salute.  I added some embellishments and ribbon.  The backs are also covered with paper.  My husband really liked it and we placed it on the "fireman altar" as I call his part of the mantle with all his fireman  chotskies.   I am entering this is the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge God Bless America.  

Patches of Pink Link Party 

American Gnome

I made this card today for the BBTB2 challenge.  The challenge was to use the gnomes from Freshly Picked. I didn't have this cart but it was on sale at Michael's so I picked it up.  I had wanted it off and on so the time was right.   This idea came to me and it was a lot of fun putting it together.  The gnomes were cut at 4 inches.  The flag is from Stand and Salute and was cut at 2 inches.  The paper is K and Company, I used Peachy Keen Stamps for the faces, twine, Smooch ink, chalk  and Stickles.  I also entered this card in the Creative Cutter Room Design Team Thursday (use a flag) and Peachy Keen Stamps challenge (patriotic and Peachy Keen faces).  

Patches of Pink