Cooking with Cricut- National Card and Letter Writing

Hi everyone its time for another awesome Cooking with Cricut challenge and this week the challenge is "National Card and Letter Writing."  Make a card to send or create a scrapbook layout featuring a letter

 (i.e., a letter to a child or other loved one),

So the challenge inspired me to make this card.

Here is the inside

The stamp card shape is from page 31 of Birthday Bash.  

I used the Gypsy and the size is 11.75 x 5.59 when open

The hand on the front comes from Sentimentals page 26 cut at 3 inches.  

I double cut the cuff and then added the feather 

Hope you enjoy the challenge this week. 

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I hope you will join us for the challenge this week at Cooking with Cricut 

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Valentine Challenges are complete

Happy Valentines Day to you all!

So happy for Valentine challenges to help motivate me to get my Valentines Cards done.  

I have three different cards to enter into a lot of different challenges.   

Entering this first card  in the Shes a Sassy Lady Challenge - 

Make a partial shape card with your Gypsy

Stuck on U Sketches - You've Got Mail

Die Cuttin Divas-red, pink, white, black- choose at least two colors 

Celebrate the Occasion - Use hearts 

Card shape is from Birthday Bash 5 x 11.5 and bird is from Sentimentals p. 49 cut at 3.5 

Sentiments First Class and Special Delivery is from Sentimentals.  

Old fashioned Valentine from  kit. 

I used Cuttlebug embossing dot folder which I spread with vintage pink Tim Holtz ink and then embossed.  I also used  Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink. on edges

The next  card I am entering in the Cooking with Cricut - Adult Valentine using  Black and a brad

and the Die Cuttin  Divas sketch challenge (Darn missed the challenge by 2 hours but I used the sketch.  Oh well!)

Cart used is Home Accents 

Also used MS heart punch and ribbon from stash.  Brad is a rose brad.  Love letters cut out from scrapbook paper.  Tiny hearts are scraps from punch.

Entering the last card in the BBTB2 challenge- Make a tag using Sweethearts and 

Paper Lovin Gals - Picture inspiration 

Tag is from Sweethearts page 72 

This is the front

There were so many cute tags.  I thought this one was cute so I could use Valentine scrap papers.  Sentiments cut from scrap paper and K and Company embellishments.  Ribbon from stash and used white gel pen.  

This is the back.  It was a plain pink background but then I had fun using cutout hearts from front and more sentiments and faux stitching.  

Purple and Green Layout

Completed this layout today and really happy with the way it came together.  

The stamp shape in middle cut from Sentimentals at 11 inch and cut in 1/2 

Used MS Deep cut Flower punch

MS All Occasion for shape on far right cut in 1/2

Flowers from Flower shop cut at 2 1/2, 2 and 2 " and center cut at 1 "

Since this is a layout I do not want flowers to thick. 

 I used three layers and pinched ends to make them more dimensional.  

I used a leaf and stem ribbon that I love for flowers and added gems to centers.  Also used Diamond Stickles  on centers and some ribbon I had in my stash.  

Challenges

Cooking with Cricut- purple and green/sketch 3 choices 

Blog Quick Quotes- Homemade flowers 

Two birthday cards and a Halloween shaker card

I promised to make birthday cards for a group I belong to this year so I decided to make birthday cards I for several challenges.  Both are  5 x 7 cards.  

I am entering the first one  in the Frosted Designs sketch challenge and the 

Celebrate the Occasion challenge which was to use red, white and black

The cuts are from  Sophisticated page 65 and page 62.  

I then took the extra red piece to use for my inside.  

This birthday card is for the Die Cuttin Divas challenge which was to use any kind of dessert and the Cooking with Cricut challenge to use cake, cupcake, or teddybear. I used the cake from Just a Note and a Martha Stewart punch.  

The Halloween I made for the My Craft Spot challenge which was to use black, orange, purple and green. By using my Gypsy I selected a card from Sentimentals and cut it at 5 inches  and  cut a 2.25 circle from the center front using a circle from George.  The plastic cup is a Wilton oreo cookie candy mold which I got on sale at Joanns.  You get 8 cups per tray.  I taped the cup into the front.  I then cut a liner at 4.75 inches and covered the cup.  My cup is filled with Halloween confetti but you could also use candy.  I added ribbon and a stamp sentiment.  I also glued some of the confetti on the sentiment piece.   

Card, cards and more cards

Here are the cards I did this weekend for blog challenges.  The first is for the 

Mag challenge - use page 35 only from Sentimentals cartridge (I used the card shape.) and 

Frosted Design- make a card with a "fussy"cut.  I didn't even know what that was but found out it means you cut it by hand.  So I cut the card from the top 1/2 of a page from Ciao Bella by DCWV and then cut out the rose by hand.  I added ribbon, bling, and Stickles.  The flowers are also pop dotted.  

The next card is for 

Cooking with Cricut Challenge-apples and or honey.  I used the beehive and bee from Sentimentals.  Inside I used the phrase Bee Happy fro the same cart.  Paper used is Glitter cardstock and DCWV Lemon stack.  

Birthday Sundae= ribbon and birthday sentiment 

This card is for the 

BBTB2 challenge- use the wheelbarrow cut from Walk in My Garden.  I cut the wheelbarrow and then added the pumpkins from Pooh and Friends.  I also used my Cuttlebug to distress the wheelbarrow and pumpkins.  I added ribbon, glitter and felt leaves, and Smooch ink on pumpkins.  The piece in the middle was done with alcohol inks and then embossed with the pumpkin vine embossing folder.  

The next two cards I did for the Thursday Tutorial on FCCB.  If you missed the tutorial check it out.  I shared how to use Alcohol inks to make these cool backgrounds and pumpkins.   All the cuts and embossing were done with the Cuttlebug except for the Give Thanks which is from the Phrases cart. 

Thanks for looking.