FCCB Challenge #218 Summer Treats

Happy Monday !!

Welcome to my FCCB post

This week our challenge is 

Challenge # 218 Summer Treats 

I love summer !!

My card has ice cream cones as my summer treat !!

I used my go to no brainer George and Basic Shapes cartridge for my mats and layers 

Create a Critter 2 for the cones and Lets Party sentiment and Artiste for the cute paper bow. 

The paper is from Fancy Pants paper stack called Beach Babe and the Satin card a recent purchase from Create and Craft cuts beautifully !!

The bow is so easy to put together with a little brad and makes a change from using ribbon and the frustration of tying the bow lol 

Please pop over to FCCB to see all the amazing DT projects, we have 6 new members joining us this month for our new term, Diana Laura Catarina Sharon Julie and Avril looking forward to seeing their creations !!

As always please remember to use and name at least one Cricut cut.

FCCB Challenge #216 Color Challenge

Happy Monday !!

Welcome to my FCCB post

This week our challenge is 

Challenge # 216 Colour Challenge

Use Purple Yellow and Grey on your project

My card is made on a 6x6 white card blank in the shape of a tent !! 

I used George and Basic Shapes for all the layers using foam pads for lots of dimension and I also distressed the edges of the grey layer.

I used a Sizzix rose embossing folder for the top yellow layer and a Kaisercraft brick stamp

The flowers are cut with Artiste cartridge in two shades of Basil Basic dot papers and the leaves are cut with Sue Wilson's fabulous leaf die

Please pop over to FCCB and see all the amazing DT creations then join in and post your own project

We love wizzing around Cyber space visiting your fantastic blogs

As always please remember to use and name at least one Cricut cut.

FCCB Challenge #206 Use the sketch !!

Happy Monday !!

This weeks FCCB challenge is another fantastic sketch for Card Positioning Systems 

Challenge #206

Use a sketch

I used the gorgeous Moustache kit from Hunkydory for my Dads Birthday card

I used the Artiste cartridge and cut the fabulous film strip to use across the top instead of the circles, this must be one of my favourite cuts ever !!

The letters for DAD are also from Artiste

Please come and join us over at FCCB and join in the fun, we will be round to see your inspiration projects during the coming week 

JoNeita's Box ~ AKA Altered Art Attempt !! - Playing along with Sunday Scrapper...

Good Evening !!

I finally have the pictures of the altered art pizza box I sent my FCCB Valentines card kit to JoNeita in to share !!

I absolutely love getting messy with Inks and Masks and with a lot of practice I think I am finally getting there lol !! It's nearly a year ago since I made my altered art mirror with the girls from Anything Goes over at Lynn's shop The Craft Den in Sheffield at the work shop taught by Hel's Sheridan

I am joining in with Hel's Sunday Scrappers Challenge, Week 301 "Brown Girl in the Ring" in honour of that fab day !! - The theme is to use Browns ... 

(Last year Texture paste/stencils -  ???? WoW !! That's amazing - This year makin' my own lol !!)

I started by covering the outside of the box with cream acrylic paint and let it dry naturally, it doesn't take long with just a thin coating

Then I stamped some fab Prima stamps randomly over both the front and the insides, I used a mustard Distress Ink pen for some tiny bits of mustardy colour and then 3 shades of Distress Ink to "oldy" the inside of the box a bit 

I made the top darker than the bottom,  the bottom will be hidden with brow tissue paper later

I used home made texture paste (acrylic paint, PVA glue and talc powder for the stencilling (smells fab too), white embossing powder for the text and some bubble wrap and Hessian as stencils inked with more distress inks

The letters are thick card x2 layers cut on my Cricut with the Artiste cartridge and coloured with distress markers

The embellishments are lace, raffia and Hessian with a fabby spellbinder die flower

There is also an air dryed clay frame which now has a butterfly nestling in it 

I sealed it all with Crafter's Companion gold varnish spray, I do hope JoNeita liked it as much as I enjoyed making it !!!

FCCB Challenge #202 Pinch Me!!

Happy Monday !!

Welcome to my FCCB post !!

This week our challenge is 

Challenge # 202 Pinch Me

Make a project using the colour Green

I have an added twist on my card this week, our sponsor for the challenge Mark's Finest very kindly donated lots of stamp sets to the DT and we get to play to our hearts content forever and ever with them in exchange for using them on our designated weeks

...however...

I love them so much they will be popping up everywhere !!

There is a stamp set to give away to one lucky follower who enters our challenge this week !!

My Cricut cut is the fantastic tag and oval from the Artiste cartridge

I also used lots of hand made Cricut stencils ( super cheap - cut out multiple shapes with George and Basic Shapes using the fill to page feature and ink through them - I used tiny circles, circles and diamonds on my tag)

I started by blending inks over the tag and then used home made embossing paste and a brick stencil on the bottom two thirds.

Once it was dry I inked again adding stencils and stamps for a grungy greeny brown look. To brighten it slightly I used some bronze mica spray and the lovely Docraft butterfly stamps which I embossed with white embossing powder

My stamps belong to the PRIMITIVE set which has lots of sentiments, sheep and cows on it in addition to the stamps I used 

I used black Stazon ink and coloured with distress markers drawing on the background and grunging it up, I used a layer of clear embossing powder over the whole oval before attaching it with Pinflair glue

 My daughter is laughing her head off because the pictures make the pigs look stripy ( They so are not !! - much !! )

Please pop over to FCCB and see all the amazing DT creations then join in and post your own project

We love wizzing around Cyber space visiting your fantastic blogs !!

As always please remember to use and name at least one Cricut cut.

FCCB Challenge #200 Pick a Holiday

Happy Monday !!

Welcome to my FCCB post for 

Challenge #200 

Pick any Holiday (Including Birthdays)

I am crazy for messy altering and distressing at the moment and I'm playing with some boxes for the crafty stuff that hangs around my kitchen/diner that drives my daughter mad !! (Hint Hint - It's time for a home of your own daughter dear lol !!)

BUT 

My card is nothing of the sort, clean and simple wins again  (I'm hoping to start taking some photos of the boxes very soon though)

My CAS uses three Cricut cartridges, firstly I cut the beautiful frame from Artiste 

the bird and cage come from Straight from the Nest and the sentiment from Wild Card

I used some Tim Holtz self adhesive frosted film over the cage front, the picture does not do it justice because it is sparkly but subtle  

I love decorating the middle of the simple cards, probably because I'm not really a clean and simple girl judging by the state of my kitchen !!

 - Crafty mess, you guys understand, is vital for creativity

right ???

Ok, off to tidy up, even my consciousness is shouting now !! I think I could easily become a hoarder !!

Please pop over to FCCB and see all the amazing DT creations then join in and post your own project

We love wizzing around Cyber space visiting your fantastic blogs

As always please remember to use and name at least one Cricut cut.

FCCB Challenge #198: Sketch challenge

Happy Monday !!

Welcome to my post for the latest FCCB challenge

Challenge #198 Sketch Challenge

This is our very first FCCB Sketch Challenge, so, please follow the sketch and join in the fun with us this week

As always you still need to use and name at least one Cricut cut to be in with a chance of Top 5 and/or the weekly prize

Sketch Positioning Systems

Marks Finest Papers are sponsoring us this week and the prize winner will receive a fantastic Stamp Set

Lots of the DT will be using stamps from Marks finest this week so look out for them as you cruise around our blogs !!

I will be using mine in a future challenge on 17th March and I can tell you first hand the stamps are amazing quality 

Oh I nearly forgot to tell you about my card there is so much going on in this post lol

I followed the sketch parrot fashion and added fantastic die cuts from Artiste cartridge

My papers are from the beautiful Gorjuss Girls collection 

I love the little photo corners which I embossed along with the chandelier in clear embossing powder and the little sentiment is made by Craftwork Cards

Have a fantastic week, hope to see your project up on the FCCB challenge blog

FCCB Challenge # 196 Seeing Red (or Pink) and White

Happy Monday !!

Our challenge this week over at FCCB is ...

... Challenge # 196 Seeing Red (or Pink) and White

I used some Forever Friends papers left over from last year for my card and the fabulous Artiste cartridge

I'm still in clean and simple land and the card was very quick and easy to put together

I covered the card completely with red paper, added a scalloped square in light pink paper and then cut the doily in the same paper as the background

The sentiment and cherub are cut in pearl white card and the hearts are DoCrafts 

Simples !!

The DT are having a card kit swap so I have been busy creating my kit for my DT sister JoNeita, we will be sharing our kits with our FCCB followers over the  next few weeks

In the mean time please pop over to FCCB to see the DT creations for this weeks challenge and then come and play along with us !!

As always please remember to use and name your Cricut cut to be in with a chance of our weekly prize and top 5 spot

We are changing our challenge guide lines very slightly so please look out for updates on the blog

FCCB Challenge #193 Use a Snowman

Happy Monday !!

Today our challenge over at FCCB is to use a snowman on your project 

Challenge #193 Use a Snowman

I was slightly horrified to find that having done a search on 

My Cut Search 

(An amazing site that searches for  specific images and sentiments from all the Cricut Cartridges)

that I did not have a single snowman cut on any of my cartridges....

....SO....

I improvised and coloured a snowman scene (Magazine Freebie, ?? make - no idea) with Promarkers and some white flower soft

For my all important Cricut cut I used Artiste and cut the huge snowflake in hint of silver card stock

The paper is from Trimcraft and would have been for my Christmas cards should I have actually got round to making any !!! 

I added velvet and pom pom trims across the top, tiny snowflakes, gems and a pile of snowballs at the bottom

OK I guess for a panic make lol 

Please come and join in our challenge over at FCCB, looking forward to a cruise around the blogs to see the 'real cricut snowmen" !!

FCCB Challenge #186 Ribbons and Buttons

Happy Monday !!

Happy FCCB Challenge Day !!

Here is my card for this weeks challenge 

#186 Add at least 1 ribbon and 1 button to your project...

...Its not my week to play but it's definitely my favourite type of challenge

I used some beautiful Prima papers and Docrafts textured card stock for the layers on my card, ruffed them up round the edges and added a faint touch of distress ink

The banner is cut from Artiste

The flower is also cut from Artiste and sits on top of some raffia ribbon with a loose bow and loops of twine 

Please come and join us over at FCCB, we have two challenge winners prizes this week and as always will be show casing our top 5 favourites - did I ever tell you how much I love doing that post ??

(I think I did !! !! !!)

Please use a least one Cricut cut, name the cartridge, link back to FCCB AND remember the ribbon and button !! 

Fhew... I hope I remembered all the instructions he he he !!

Looking forward to a wander round cyber space to visit your blog's and see your entries...

FCCB Cricut Crawl !! Challenge #184 ANYTHING GOES !!

Happy Happy Monday !!

Firstly a HUGE thank you for still being here, its been a hard few weeks one way and another but the tide is on the turn at last and I'm hoping to be back and crafting much more again !!!

Not having time for crafting is a big NO NO in my world !!

SO

without further ado.....

.....

Welcome to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog
Cricut Crawl
(our version of a blog hop)
sponsored by Blitsy

Blitsy are giving away a bag of crafty goodness to one lucky challenge participant.

If you started  over at FCCB then you should be coming to visit me from Missy's blog. If not please hop back to FCCB and start at the very beginning...
...cause
Mary Poppin's says its a very good place to start !! !!

Our blog hop challenge is "Anything Goes" and I have a card made for a male friend to share

The card is a white and A5 landscape in size, I layered it with black card and ripped up stamped wording on one half, inked with TIm Holtz distress ink
The square layers are cut with George and Basic shapes, the moustache, film strips and letters from Artiste.

Michelle is next up on the Cricut crawl please go visit her and leave her some love !!

We'd love you to visit each of the Design Team members' blogs to see their projects.

If you get lost along the way, you can go back to FCCB and pick up where you left off,

don't forget to go back and link up your own project too

Here is the full line up...

Cindy - Creating with the Heart
Jackie- Luv 2 Scrappp
Kim - Kim's Kreations
Amy - The Stamping Tree
Emily - Mollie's Motif
Heather - Scrapping Runner Creations
Lynn - My Cards n Stuff
Missy - Quick Chick Designs
Nikki - Crafty Calamities
Rebecca - Crafting Misfit
Michelle - Just a Nutter Paper Crafter
Katerina - Dorcerela Stamps
Joneita - Create with Joneita
LB - Cool Beans by LB
Amy T - Crafting with Amy

We are having a Design Team call so if you would like to join us please visit the FCCB blog for more details 

 Please remember to be in with a chance of the prize and top 5 you need to use at least one Cricut cut, tell us which cartridge you have used and link back to the FCCB blog so others can enjoy the challenge too...