Family Name Plaque

Today is another Craft Junkie Too Design Team day. I can't even begin to tell you how much I love being on Tracy's Design Team!! Her awesome assignments are just a small part of it. 

 The challenge for this week is:

I "heart" you

- include a heart on your project -

Today, I made a plaque for my home that includes our names in vinyl. I love these frames from Craft Warehouse. I grabbed a few on clearance and have enjoyed decorating them with  vinyl and my Cricut.

I used my Gypsy to fit the letters to size using Nate's ABCs (for the red letters) and Birthday Bash (for the black letters). The little hearts are from Simply Sweet.

I use clear shelf paper instead of more pricey vinyl transfer tape sold for the Cricut. It works perfectly and costs so much less (I grabbed a huge roll at Big Lots a while back). This vinyl also came from Craft Warehouse. I stopped in there last summer and found sheets or 12" x 14" for $1 a sheet!!! I picked up several different colors including white, black, red, and gray.

I love how you can see through the glass in my frame. The wall paint color is visible, it truly makes this home decor project work in any room in my house.

That's it, please head over to Tracy's blog and see what

 her other Crafty Designers  have come up with to share today.

My wonderful fellow DT members

Indira ~ Crafty Homemade

Kadie ~ Kards by Kadie

Kristy ~ Craftin-on-my-Door

Roberta ~ TX Scrapper Mom

Shawn ~ Shawn's Fireside Crafting Room

Shelley ~ Carleys-Closet

Tanya ~ Tanya Isis Creations

Hoppy Birthday Card

Today I made this adorable rabbit card.  I love the shape of the card, but it's all the little details that make this card even more special.

The bunny and all his layers are from Nate's ABCs. I sized them to 4" but I added a second layer of grass (from EDPD) to give it some more height.  The little bunny doesn't come with any details, so I found shapes on Nate's ABCs that I could use for his nose and ears.  The little cotton tail is Q-tip cotton I attached with a little hot glue. The card shape is from Preserves, it's actually a tag I sized to fit an A2 envelope. 

The senitment is from My Pink Stamper's Punny-licious.  I inked all the grass layers with green ink and a finger dauber.  I attached the bunny with pop-dots and the grass with thicker pop dots.

The eye and these black pearls are self-stick flat back peals I grabbed from Craft Warehouse.  Here you can see I also inked around the background paper.  Using black ink and a finger dauber gives the wood grain paper a wonderful distress look.  The background paper is from DCWV's Green Stack.  I used a mat stack, but I also have it in an 8" x 8" stack.

Like most scene-style cards, I like to make the card open from the top so it can be displayed.  For this card, I couldn't make the card open from the top and preserve the tag top shape. My card base measures 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" and folds in the center.

Challenges :  

 Cooking with Cricut : Bunny challenge

Paper Play Challenges : In the Garden

Charisma Cards : four legged friends

Camping Kiddos card

Hi guys! I have a cute card to share with you today.  This is a #10, business sized card.  I love this larger ( 4" x 9") card format and the envelopes are super easy to find... no extra postage either!

The camping kiddos are from Nate's ABCs sized to 4".  I cut all layers as seen in the booklet, but added an extra layer to the top of the cut... I cut the tent flap from vellum and folded it over the top edge.  It can be lifted to see all the layers.

I cut the boy's shirt sleeve and the doggy's collar in yellow to give it some more color. The dog layer is added with pop dots. I laced some white crafting twine around the card before attaching the patterned paper mats to the card base.

This sentiment stamp is from Scrappy Moms.  I added it to a little punched tag shape. Three black dew drops (flat back stones) sure add a lot to the details of this card.  NO GEL PEN STITCHES HERE!!! I know... WOW! :)

I inked the edges of the brown polka dot paper (from DCWV's Guy Stack) before adding it to the mat layers. The grass is inked in green and the vellum tent layer is inked in black also. The entire die cut piece is attached with pop dots and gives the card such wonderful dimension. 

The inside of the card got some scraps to finish it off.

Challenges: Fantabulous Cricut : Let's go camping

Die Cuttin' Divas : Summer fun

My Craft spot : Ink it up

Tuesday Throwdown : Summer 

More Than Favors (Wacky Wednesday) :  Summer

Sand Pail Mobile

Hi Everybody!

Hopefully you just came from visiting Jenny @ CrazyAboutCricut , then you are in the right place. If you just stumbled upon this awesome blog hop, please head over to see Jenny @ CrazyAboutCricut to start from the beginning.

Thank you for joining us for the All American Blog hop!  


 Here's the project I made to share with you today:
 it's a sand pail mobile.  

My kids and I made it to honor our recent trip to the coast, but it can also become a welcome sign for your front porch or summer themed BBQ or party decoration.

Sorry about the busy picture.  It's raining here and I couldn't get a break in the weather to take a better picture.  Those are my Clematis and Concord Grape vines growing on the arbor you see in the background. :)

After we selected our pail and found a surplus of shovels, we sat down to create our mobile. We drilled a few holes in the bottom of our pail and strung the shovels using fishing line. I also added a few extra holes for drainage.

We used Nate's ABC's for our lettering on our pail. Cut it out in white vinyl. Here my son is pulling off the negative space (the bg around the letters) from the letters.

After using transfer tape to place the letters on the pail (we used clear shelf paper for transfer tape) we added details and doodling using a Sharpie marker. My eight year old did very well, but six year old was very unsure about his lines, but I think he did fine.

Here is the completed mobile.

We ended up finding seven shovels. Hanging them using fishing line worked well. We hung them in varying lengths and they make a nice soft sound when the wind catches them.

We used this project to make a family mobile we can hang in the front yard (once we get a new hook placed) but it could easily make a wonderful summer party decoration!  How cute would it be to let your kids make their own!! They come out really inexpensively, especially if you shop at the Dollar Tree or end of summer clearance sales.

One last picture of our project. Don't my boys look so proud!! Bryce (8) is on the left and Owen (6) is on the right. In total, the mobile measures about 3 ft.

That's it, I hope you enjoyed my project, we had a wonderful time making it and would love to hear what you think!

There are a couple of GREAT prizes to win today!  You can win a Scrap 'n Tote!!  You can also enter to win this AWESOME prize pack from Post-it or a set of Pink by Design stamps.

Scrap n Tote

Post-it Prize pack

Pink By Design stamps : Party Time

To enter to win the prizes:

1. You must leave a comment on all of the blogs in the hop.

2. Please be a follower of Crazy About Cricut.

Winners will be announced July 7th! 

Thank you, now please head over to see 

Sharon @ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com

Here is the lineup in case you get lost or need to stop along the way:

Jenny @ crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

Cheryl @ cardsbycg.blogspot.com <--- You are here

Sharon @ http://www.simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com <--- Your next stop

Tanya @ scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com  

Bobbi @ rockgirlcustomdesigns.blogspot.com

Paula @ owlbescrappin.com

Jen  @ mccalleyhouse.blogspot.com/

Sandra @ sweetpeascards.blogspot.com/

Lola @ purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com/

Ruby @ paper-junkie.blogspot.com/Leah@ http://www.leahscarddesigns.com

Amber@ my3escrapbooking.blogspot.com

"Mom" Shaped Card

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I have this cute shaped card to share with you today. If you are a regular visitor of my blog, you know I LOVE shaped cards! :)

I created this card using my Gypsy and Nate's ABCs for the font.  I created the card to fit in a 3 1/2" x 6" envelope I have an overabundance of! I took the shadow and welded the letters together.  Then I flipped it to make the back of the card base. I cut the letters using this adorable paper from Heidi Grace.

I used my Bow-Easy to tie this bow.  It has like four loops tied with pink sheer ribbon from Dollar Tree.

I added some gel pen stitches about the shadow and a few pink rhinestones. Simple but charming!

Here are the last few rhinestones. Love them.  

I used white card stock for the card base.  As you can see I hid the contours on the center of the "o" on the bottom "mom" so there's not a hole when I'll be writing.

The sentiment stamp is from Craft Warehouse. It's a Studio G stamp from last year. Take a look in your local $1 bin... there can be some adorable stamps in there! :)

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut : "Mom"'s the word! :)

Flying Kite Card

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I have a super fun card to share with you today!! I made this card that has a moving slider!!  MY FIRST EVER!

Here is my card.  It features Heidi Grace papers (all the pattern papers). Can you see that little pull tab on the top right? Were you wondering what the slit in the clouds is for?? That's my moving parts.  When you pull the tab, the kite flies across the sky!!!

See how the kite moved! I really wish I had the equipment to film this card, it was super fun to put together and to make the parts move!

Here is my simple sentiment.  This card would be great for just about anything! :) I adore that little white flower strip too. It was a wired ribbon (with flowers on both edges) that I cut in half and hot glued to the grass layers.

I used a scrap of wire for the kite string and some orange and green striped twine for the kite ribbons.

Before I forget... here is a free download for you:

Download "Kite Card . Gypsy" from 4 Shared

Supplies: 

Heidi Grace pattern paper

generic green and white card stock

Bridal Inspirations flower ribbon from Joann's

twine from Really Reasonable Ribbon

Studio G glitter glue (for the flower centers)

Floral wire 

blue, green and orange ink + daubers to ink all the edges

Cricut and Gypsy

Cricut Cartridges:

Create a Critter : all three cloud styles

Plantin Schoolbook : the rectangle to form the card base

Nate's ABCs : Kite

Paper Doll Dress Up : grass layer

Challenges:

Paper Cutz Challenge : Use three pattern papers

Alphabet Challenge : U for Up in the Air

Pause Dream Enjoy : Fun Fold Cards

Fantabulous Cricut : Spring card

Puppy Thank You card

Here is a thank you card I made for my sister. She recently had a baby but before that she worked at PetSmart as the lead dog trainer so a doggy card is a given for her! :)

I made this card a shaped card... I know... big surprise!! I've been stuck on shaped cards lately! The card measures 4" x 9" so it fits in standard business (#10) envelope.

As plain as this card is, I couldn't resist adding some gel pen stitching on the blue and craft colored layers and making a bow with my Bow-Easy to put on the left side.

There is no shadow for this doggy so I just cut a second base layer in black and offset it for the shadow look. I set some little rhinestones under the sentiment and I am done.  Super simple... I usually do lots more but this puppy was so simple that I didn't want to overwhelm him! :)

Here is a close-up of the doggy, he even got little stitches on his collar.

Supplies:

generic black card stock 

generic brown card stock

Generic green card stock

Bazzill purple textured card stock for card base

Sheer ribbon from Dollar Tree

dark blue glitter gel pen for stitches

Gelly Roll white gel pen for stitches

Scotch Quick Dry Glue

pop dots

"Thank you" stamp is from Scrappy Mom's Stamps

blue rhinestones from $1 bin at Craft Warehouse

Cricut Cartridges used:

Preserves for card base (cut @ 4 " x 9" welded and flipped with my Gypsy)

Additional layers cut at 3 3/4" x 8 3/4" and 3 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Nate's ABCs for the puppy and his layers

Challenges:

Scrappy Mom's Stamp Blog : B is for boy or Sugar and Spice or similar cart

Cricut Cardz Challenge Blog : TALL Card