Get well Soon Grandma !! x x

My daughter's boyfriends Grandma is going into hospital so and he wanted a card to wish her good luck.....bless him !!

Here it is ...

Oooohhhh not a good photo it has to be said, I think I need to invest in a light box lol

The card is made from a Kanban topper and card stock.....oooohhhh I miss that company so much!!

Thanks for sharing my very oooohhhh post, wishing Grandma a speedy recovery for next week !!

xoxoxoxox

Birthday Card Commision

I have had to abstain from joining my teamies at FCCB this week, I swear someone stole a whole day out of my week !! 

Please do go and visit, as ever they have some stunning projects, all with a camping theme!!

I couldn't not share something so here is the 70th Birthday card commission I made a couple of weeks ago.

I love cards like this they makes all the muddled worky thoughts and worries disappear and create peace in my head lol 

Hoping to be back with my challenge for Anything Goes next week till them take care

FCCB Challenge #146 Time Flies....x

There is nothing more fitting than the title of our challenge over at FCCB this week as

my eldest daughter celebrated her 22nd Birthday on Thursday 

Oh how
TIME FLIES.....

We have been reminiscing - like you do - and so this very phrase has been bantered around a lot over the last few weeks !! x !!

Happy Birthday JOJO

My card was really simple to make. . . 

Still in love with my new distressing tool I matted some Basil Basics String of Pearls Bling cardstock and BoBunny Gabrielle Fairest, inked with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo onto an 8x8 card blank. George and Basic Shapes Cartridge is perfect for getting the layers even if you don't like cutting "by eye" !!

I used Cricut Artiste Cartridge to cut the lovely clock and border using Tim Holtz co-ordinations card stock and sanded the brightness off, adding some cosmic shimmer glue to form the fake pearls and a brad coloured with an orange pro-marker.

The Happy Birthday letters are from Alphabet cartridge, and JOJO from Artiste. 

The pearls and gems were also coloured with the pro-marker.

I stamped a large calligraphy stamp across more of the lovely papers with the addition of BoBunny Almond Dotted Swiss paper and added another border to finish off, making the inside a feature too.

Challenge #146 runs from Monday 0800 until 2400 Sunday night (SMT)

Please pop over to FCCB, give the DT some love as their creations are amazing as ever and join in the fun with your own project. 

Please remember to let us know which Cricut Cartridge you use to be in with a chance of the weekly prize and top 5 blinkie for your blog.

The papers used for my card can be purchased over at the Craft Den.

Happy Birthday Jo x

I have just spent a very happy afternoon making my friends birthday card and a box for her birthday present.

They are made with a new Kanban kit and my trusty Cricut ...

... match made in heaven x 

I started with a piece of A4 red Kanban card stock folded and scored slightly smaller on 1 side.

I then used 2 patterned cards and added lace to hide the join.

The topper and butterfly are from the kit with some red gems added.

I cut "celebrate" and the doily and shadow from the Straight from the Nest Cartridge.

The box from more Kanban card with Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 Cartridge - A4 card cut at fit to page.

The tags and sentiment are also Tags Bags Boxes and More 2 

Lastly JO is cut with Cricut Alphabet font 1
I added a little bit of gold embossing and a Barbara Grey stamp to the inside of the card instead of an insert and to the red cut on the card.

I hope she likes it ...

FCCB Challenge 127 On The Job

Happy Monday Morning Ladies 

Well it's back to work for me after a much needed week off, my card for the FCCB challenge this week is a Good Luck/Leaving card I hope it isn't a premonition of one of our fab team leaving lol...

Challenge #127

ON THE JOB

Create a project using an occupational character

Our challenge runs from 0800 today until 2400 Sunday night (US Mountain Time)

As always, please drop in and have a look at the inspiration provided by the amazing DT, HERE

 I folded a 12x12 textured Bassil Basics card in half  and cut a base 5mm smaller all round in white card and distressed it using Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress ink and splodged it with my new Antique Linen dabber. I stuck three pieces of twine on in a random pattern and stuck it down with Pin flair for depth.

Using George and Basic shapes I cut three squares at 10cm and 2x7cm  and repeated with the shadow function in 2 co-ordinating pieces of blue card. 

All the "nurse" bits were cut on Every Day Paper Dolls please excuse the huge injections it really is the psychiatric nurses humour in me escaping but I did manage to stop myself adding the coffee mug even if the clip board did sneak in !!

I cut the letters with Cricut Alphabet and added doodling ... not a gem or flower in sight !!

The two large syringes and plaster were clear embossed.

I kinda like the plain and simple just for a change !!

FCCB Cricut Crawl !! !! !! x

Welcome to my blog Crafty Calamities...
and the 
EIGHTH Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...
Fantabulous Cricut's version of a Blog Hop !! !! !!

It's my very first crawl and I'm so excited, we have been planning our projects for weeks, 
20 talented ladies (No modesty there then ha ha ha !!) means 20 super sensational projects for us all to enjoy !! !!




So with less woffle and a huge drum roll ....here's the deal...
Summer is coming to an end and we are all getting ready to go BACK TO SCHOOL...Each of our fabulous Design Team member's blog features an original 
BACK TO SCHOOL  PROJECT
that includes a 
SCHOOL RELATED ITEM
(crayons, rulers, pencils, book, school bus etc) 
along with at least ONE Cricut Cut.

If you've come to my blog having just visited the amazing MEGAN at SAXEYDESIGNS, you're in the right place !! 
If you've just happened across my blog, or are one of my lovely followers and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE 
Make sure to check out each of our DT member's blog for some amazing inspiration !! !! !!
There will be PRIZES along the way at some of our DT members' blogs
AND
there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Back to School" project at FCCB!

What a fun start to the week !! 

For my project I decided to buy some real life note books and use my Cricut to make them fun to take to school.

My note books were a bargain at a pound for 6 in 3 different sizes...




...but of course at that price they are a bit cheap and flimsy looking...so I started with a collection of purple and pink papers and covered each book...

...looking better already me thinks !!

To fit with the theme of Back to School I chose the Simply Charmed Cartridge because I just love the super cute faces bringing the characters in it to life.

Using my Cricut Expression 2 makes the decorating really easy to do ...
I cut the cute scissors and glue bottle at 10cm with all the elements resized in proportion automatically for me, stuck them on with Pinflair glue gel (silicone style but with no silicone or smell)  and then  added 3 Cricut Sampler scalloped tags to make some cute dividers and used Cricut Alphabet cut on self adhesive pearl papers to make all the letters. 

I then made a Tags, Bags Boxes and more 2 envelope cut at fit to page to create a "secrets" envelope to store all the fabulous things kids love to keep.

I used the last of my shiny gem stars to decorate and doodled the afternoon away. 

You can see the doodling a little better here...

...Its a brilliant way of bringing the project together without it becoming too busy, and makes the characters pop off the page.

I used the crayon and pencil, again, from Simply Charmed for the smaller jotters and I think the tiny one is my favourite !!

SO

Now it's your turn! Let's see your BACK TO SCHOOL projects! Make sure you include a Cricut Cut somewhere on your project !!

Next stop...the awesome SHEILA, please go and see what she has in store for you today at her blog SHELOVESHOES
And if you want to play along, please link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest !! 
The DT will, as ever, be visiting all your blogs, ooing and arring, gaining inspiration and leaving lots of comments !! !!

Happy Crawling !!

Wedding Anniversary Commission

Today I have a commissioned Wedding Anniversary Card to share.

The card was made from 2 sheets of ice white shimmer card and 1 sheet of matching paper for the inserts. Everything has been tinted with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen. 

I have cut the card into tag shapes at 20cm's (Shadow) with Cricut George and Basic Shapes and pleated ribbon around 2 edges. (Inserts cut at 20cm in paper).

I cut the frame from Cricut Essentials at 10cms. The swirls and letters at 3cms (I think) from Cricut Alphabet. The frame top and letters are embossed in white with a little silver sprinkled over, the swirls and "&" are embossed in silver. 

 Paper flowers will always be my first love !!

I spent ages dreaming the afternoon away making them from Spellbinder Bitty Blossoms, Roses and Large flower 3.

A few brads, pins and pearls, lots more ribbon and the jobs a good 'un lol!!

I am entering my card into the Cardztv challenge "Tag your it!!"

Design Diva's "Anything Goes"

Little Scrap Pieces "Anything Goes"

Rock Chick Birthday !! x

I've had a mooch round the challenge blog's for a bit of inspiration this evening and come up with this rock chick birthday card !!

I used the layout from the current fortnightly Sketch N Stash challenge.

 
The ladies and gentleman like to hear about the new/neglected stash used in the projects for their challenges. Very neglected is the rock chick herself - I've had her for months and she has never been used. Its not strictly "stash" but my new expression has been used (of course lol !!) and I guess the Stampendous embossing glitter is a recent purchase too.

 I have stamped and cut out the lovely lady, coloured her with Promarkers,  and matted her onto a 4" doily cut from Cricut Elegant Edges Cartridge, with another 6" cut behind her. I have used George and Basic shapes to help with the matting and layering. (Cricut Essentials = 2" sentiment).

I have used Stampendous Lilac Embossing Tinsel and Clear Deep Embossing Power  to add interest and some Craftwork Cards Black Candi  and gems to bling her up with a little bit of lace and ribbon.

I am also entering the Rock Chick into Whimsy Stamps Inspiration Challenge  their current challenge is "Monocramatic" hence the Purple and Black colour scheme. 

New Toy !! x

I have spent all week working very hard ... (Just like everybody else lol !!) ... My reward for such angelic behaviour ?? ...

More dancing round the kitchen...

IS

A brand new, all singing, all dancing, Cricut Expression 2 !!

I am so ridiculously happy with my new toy, can you tell ??

Here I have half a dozen 2" cup cakes from my new Cricut Alphabet Cartridge, sat on 3 cake stands (all 6" and then cut down to keep the middles the same size) from Straight from the Nest to make the stand and a 7" scalloped square from  Elegant Edges. I've stuck a bit of glitter glue on as icing BUT really - its all about the shapes !!