Star Quality

DIE CUTTIN DIVAS have got  'A Star for Astronomy Day' challenge, which I thought I would enter.  Also 'ONE STOP CRAFT CHALLENGE' Ch. 225 'Not Square' so I made a shaped card using the Cricut 'LIFE'S A PARTY' cartridge p. 63.  I rummaged through my brown scrap drawer and found a piece of brown CS.  I then used the 'fit to page' key to find out what size card would fit on the piece of CS I had - 5 3/4".  I cut the base card out and then embossed it using a cuttlebug companion folder from the 'Country Life' collection.  I used a piece of 'BASICGREY' 'Recess' (demerit) paper for the layer, so I'll enter the BASICGREY challenge (ch. 92 'Masculine').  With a few embellishments (button, twine brad and gems) my card was complete! 

 

 

 

 

I'm having a go at scheduling my post, so if this posts at 20:00, I'll know I did it right... if it doesn't I'll know I'm still an Internet blogging idiot!

 

 

 

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 SEE THE TIME?  Whoop, whoop...

 

 

ORGANISED PANIC!

Red alert, panic stations...

 

Can someone tell me why it is that although my daughter is a TOTAL organise freak when it comes to all the things SHE does, that she insists on constantly only giving me one day when she wants me to make her something!

 

Her organising freakiness is such that plastic boxes cause her to *sigh* almost as much as patterned paper causes me to open my handbag and get out my credit card!  The best present she has ever received was a book about being organised!  Everything, and I mean everything, has a proper place - with attached labels!  I caught her boyfriend coming out of her room the other day, with his name taped to his forehead (just kidding... but even that wouldn't surprise me!).  I tease her sometimes and pull out my label printer and when I see her drooling and casting furtive glances towards it, I put it away again.  She takes the bait EVERY TIME, and when she asks if she can borrow it, I tell her the label cartridge has just run out - the look of disappointment on her face is priceless! Ha ha ha.

 

Where does this come from?  I don't mean my meanness, I mean this need to be organised?  Well...

 

I DON'T KNOW - I'm messy, perhaps whilst growing up she decided she really didn't want to be like her mum!  Now the only time she makes a mess is when she is with me, so I can clean it up!  I can't help but love all the quirkiness kids show as they grow and develop whilst they are growing up and learning who they are.

 

Anyway back to the panic... "I need a thank you card for someone who likes cats... like yesterday, that ok Mum?" my reply, like all accommodating mums... "yes, of course, when do you need it?".  "By tomorrow".  It is ten o'clock at night! Cheers, daughter mine!  Not too organised today, are you, love?

 

 

So my cute little cat is from the 'CINDY LOO' Cricut cartridge, I also used the 'ELEGANT EDGES' cartridge to cut out the shape behind the cat.  I used three different design papers as well as Cricut CS.

They were...

BASICGREY - 'Recess' 'Answers' - for the cat's base layer, which includes the tail and  feet

MY MIND'S EYE - 'Blink of an Eye' - for the shape behind the cat, p.56 'book' creative feature

ECHO PARK - 'Country Drive' 'Daisy Fields' - fabulous papers ALMOST unbeatable! for the 2nd mat

DOCRAFTS PAPERMANIA - Kraft Card Blank - square 5 1/4" x 5 1/4"

 

 

 

Challenges...

 

ALLSORTS CHALLENGE BLOG - Wk 202 ' 'Letter of Your Name' - K for Karen and KRAFT

 

 MY CRAFT SPOT - Ch. #95 - 'Anything Goes'

 

PIN AND TACK - Ch. #8 - 'Anything Goes' - SPARK YOUR CREATIVITY NOW!

 

FAB 'N' FUNKY CHALLENGES - Ch #166 - 'Spring Colours'

 

CHALLENGES 4 EVERYBODY - Ch. #18 - 'Anything Goes'

 

TOTALLY PAPER CRAFTS - Ch. #162 - 'Get Krafty'

 

BEARLY-MINE CHALLENGES - Ch. #82 - 'Spring Flowers'

 

CARDZ TV - Ch. #27 - 'Mix It Up'

 

A CARD A DAY Blogging - 'Tuesday'

 

 

 

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Too Simple?

Another simple card today, for a 'BASICGREY' challenge - 'Spring is in the Air'.  So yellows and greens for those spring colours.  A very simple card here (have I got a theme going on?), but sometimes simple is best (and basically I'm feeling lazy!).  I have used 'Life of the Party' AGAIN, I think this stack is great, although I'm nearly to the end of it (boo-hoo). 

 

Its not feeling very spring-like here today, we have gale force winds and torrential rain!  But at least we haven't got the snow YET, although according to the weatherman its on it's way! (and we all know how they always get that right!).

 

Thanks for stopping by...

 

CARD BASE - white A6
1ST MAT - 'BASICGREY' 'Life of the Party' 'Popcorn Poppin' (5 5/8" x 4 1/4) - punched using 'X Cut' 'Sparkler'
CRICUT CUT - 'Spring' - used 'EASTER 2010' cartridge
EMBELLISHMENTS - flower, button, rik rac ribbon and glitter - from stash

Challenges -

BASICGREY CHALLENGES - Ch. #89 - 'Spring is in the Air'

A CARD A DAY Blogging - 'Friday'

 

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Grumpy Monkey...

Hi y'all

I've finished work for the day (well my first shift anyway, still got a bit of cleaning up to do in the club - at least the club will be clean, unlike my craft room!).

 

Craft room update...

 

Yep, it's still messy, I just shifted things around (piled it all on top of each other - my kind of 'pile it on' ha ha ha).  I crafted 'round the mess and came up with this...

 

 

 

CARD BASE - black cardstock (6" x 6") - from stash

IST MAT - 'BASICGREY' 'Life of the Party' 'confetti cake' (5 3/4" X 5 3/4")

2ND MAT - Kraft paper (4 1/8" x 4 1/8") -  from stash

3RD MAT -  'ECHO PARK' 'Dots & Stripes - Metropolitan' 'Leaf Small Dot' (4" x 4")

4TH MAT - black cardstock (3 3/4" x 3 3/4") - from stash

IMAGE - DR DIGI House of Stamps 'Grumpy Monkey' (3 5/8" x 3 5/8") - free online, coloured with promarkers

SENTIMENT - computer generated

EMBELLISHMENTS - black buttons - from stash

SKETCH - Friday Sketch Challenge - by Shirley

 

 

Challenges -

 

FRIDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE - Sketch #39 - 'Made By Shirley'

 

CREATED WITH LOVE - CWLC 33 - 'Button Up'

 

DARING CARDMAKERS - 'Make A Cute Angle'

 

PILE IT ON - #11 - 'Circle and/or squares'

 

CUTE CARD THURSDAY - Ch.#260 - 'Anything Goes'

 

TUESDAY ALCHEMY - Ch. #52 - 'Anything Goes'

 

ONE STOP CRAFT CHALLENGE - Ch. #220 - 'Anything Goes'

 

 

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Basic Grey

Just finished work for the day!  Wales won the rugby (always a bonus) and all our loyal customers have had their cawl!

 

Now I can do some more crafting.

 

Sketch Saturday have another sketch to follow this week...

               ... so I decided to give it a go!

Used that lovely Saturated Canary stamp again - I just love it!

 

 

 



Card base - dark brown cardstock (5 1/2" x 11") - scored and folded in half

1st mat - dark red cardstock (5" x 5") - embossed

2nd mat - BASICGREY Life of the Party 'shindig' (2 1/2" x 5 1/4")

Top square (its not really square!) - dark brown mat (2 5/8" x 2 3/8), dark red mat (2 1/2" x 2 1/4"),  BASICGREY Life of the Party 'Ice Cream Headache'

Botton square (neither is this one) - dark brown mat (2 5/8" x 2 3/8), dark red mat (2 1/2" x 2 1/4"), BASICGREY Life of the Party 'Candy Bag'

Image Mat - dark brown (3 1/8" x 4 1/4")

Stamped image - SATURATED CANARY 'Summer' (3" x 4 1/8")

Inside...

1st mat - dark red cardstock (2" x 4 3/4") -  embossed

2nd mat - BASICGREY Life of the Party 'Candy Bag' (3 1/2" x 4 1/4")

3rd mat - dark brown cardstock (3" x 3 3/4")

4th mat - BASICGREY Life of the Party 'shindig' (2 1/2" x 3 1/4")

Brads and button - from stash

All edges have been inked with TIM HOLTZ 'Tea Dye'

 

Gosh when you write it like that ^ it seems really complicated ----- its NOT!

 

I'm glad I've got around to using this paper pad from BASICGREY, it really has got some lovely patterns, and... 'Ice Cream Headache' what a name for a piece of paper!

 

Challenges...

 

SKETCH SATURDAY - Ch. #247 - 'With Wings & Willows'

 

BASICGREY CHALLENGES - Ch. #88 - 'Anything Goes'

 

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With Love...

My promarkers have been having a really great workout lately, I decided to keep at the colouring-in and gave this 'Saturated Canary' stamp a go.  This is my first card using this stamp, I've never attempted anything this complicated before, but I'm pleased with the result, especially the hair!

 

 

I stamped my image using 'Memento' (Tuxedo Black), after mounting the stamp onto a 'Rock-a-Block' (Crafters' Companion), and then I coloured her in.  This stamp is called 'Summer', I think she is absolutely gorgeous.  I did some matting and layering, using a patteren paper by 'BasicGrey' from a 6x6 paper stack called LIFE OF THE PARTY, I used 'House Party' (its got some really lovely patterns in this pad); some brown and blue paper (cricut 6x12) and then added three little pink buttons and a sentiment.  I hope you like it as much as I do.

 

Challenges?

 

SATURATED CANARY CHALLENGE - #37 - 'Love'

 

BASICGREY CHALLENGES - #87 - 'Your Favourite'

 

A CARD A DAY Blogging - Monday

 

What wonderful products out there, and what wonderful crafters, thank you to that amazing group of visionaries who invented the internet!

 

 

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