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 #155 Yellow and a Triangle

Happy Bithday to U!!

Happy Birthday to U!!

Happy Birthday lovely Emma 

Happy Birthday to U
x x x 

My "baby" is 18 today 

Oh My !!

Oh My !!

Here is the Birthday card I made for my elder daughter and her boyfriend to give to Emma

My inspiration came from...

...this weeks 

FCCB Challenge #155 

Use a triangle and the colour yellow on your card

(AKA I have totally run out of time to do everything I want to do !!)

I used Straight from the Nest Cartridge for the bunting

With Anita's Glitteration Stickers for the name and greeting

(So not my favorites but time is so precious and whizzing by at a rate of knots!!)

Please come and join us over at FCCB for this weeks challenge, remember to use a new project and name your Cricut cartridge of choice, can't wait to see what everyone comes up with !!
Right now though let the 18th Birthday celebrations begin...x...
I'll be back tomorrow with MY card for Emma and the new Anything Goes Challenge (Multi tasking again lol!!)

FCCB Challenge #151 Bye Bye Birdie

Happy Monday !!

Happy March - Spring is in the air !!

FCCB's new challenge is 

#151 Bye Bye Birdie

It's a special one because we have 12 new ladies on our design team, although sadly that means we said bye bye to several of our lovely ladies

Please pop round to the FCCB blog and take a look at this weeks fabulous projects and then come and play along with us 

I have been messing around with some new toys this week, my get well soon present to me !!

Among them are some gorgeous Distress Inks, these ones's are Shabby Shutters and Tumbled Glass - BEAUTIFUL !! Thank  goodness for the internet and on line shopping in times of crisis lol

I made this card from a white landscape A5 blank and inked the edges randomly with the 2 colours, they blend amazingly well together

The first layer is white textured card stock inked with Tumbled Glass and stamped with my new Kaisercraft "Crackle" stamp, (I am stunned by the size and quality given the low price) in Shabby Shutters

I inked the opposite way round for the panel and placed a strip of Ice White card behind it, this card gives a much lighter and even effect once the ink dries

I used Straight from the Nest for all my Cricut cuts using the Ice White card, the birds are inked in Vintage Photo and layered up with tiny foam pads 

Super Simple card but lots of messy fun to make 

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 #136 Fall Harvest

Monday morning greetings ladies 

Welcome to the first Challenge of the new FCCB term !!

The lovely Janea has kindly swapped with me so many thanks to her  for letting me play on her week !!

Challenge #136 is 

FALL HARVEST

Make a project using fall leaves 

Our challenge is open from 0800 Monday until 2400 Sunday (US Mountain Time)

As ever please use at least 1 cricut cut on your project and let us know which cartridges you have used.

I'm looking forward to seeing our fabulous new designers projects so please come and share our first challenge excitement with us !!

 I decided to combine some embossing, distressing and frantaging along with my cricut cuts this time around.

I used Elegant Edges leaves oblong frame and shadow cuts at fit to page on 6x6 Tim Holtz distressable card stock.

I distressed all three background colours and added some stamps, embossing powder and frantage elements 

I used Straight from the Nest to cut random leaves and used some distress inks in 5 different shades,

Autumn and the pine cones are from Lyrical Letters.

I finished it off by adding a light layer of Crafter's Companion Gold Glitter varnish to give it some subtle shimmer.
PS

 Don't forget to come and see my first DT blog post as I announce the winners of Challenge #135 Seeing Spots this Wednesday !!!

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 !!  

First FCCB DT card !! x

Happy Independence Day, for the 4th of July, to all the lovely ladies at FCCB...

...Challenge #118 running from 0800 today until 2400 on Sunday (US Mountain Time) 
 is

Kaboom! Fireworks Celebration

"Make a project with a firework, sparkler, or other big "boom" project" 

Please join us at Fantabulous Cricut to see the wonderful Design Team's Inspirational projects and enter the fun !! 
I can't wait to visit all the entrants blog's and help choose the TOP 5!!

So, breaking with US tradition and the red, white and blue colours, my first DT card depicts the "stars and stripes" but I have opted for zingy citrus colours in celebration of my 4th of July Graduation, from the University of Nottingham (School of Nursing), 10 years ago. 
I celebrate my own personal journey to independence on this day every year...but that's another story for another day !!! 

I have used Cricut Wild Card Cartridge for the rockets and the group of stars.
 Lyrical Letters for the Hooray, celebrate, stars, squiggle and fireworks.

Thinking outside the box a little, the Catherine Wheel is a flower stamen from the Straight from the Nest cartridge (lol) with the squiggle on top!!

The Cricut cuts are mostly glued using Crafter's Companion Spray glue to keep the acetate as neat on the back as it is on the front. (The rockets on "the back of the back of the acetate"-say that quickly- are glued with Pinflair Glue Gel behind the Hurray wording)
The card stock is all Basil Basics, which cuts beautifully, and the stripy vellum and ribbons are from my local craft shop.

I've used some glitter, a button and star gems for a little bit of glitz and defined the stars with a green glitter pen.

All White !! x

I like to have a few cards ready to personalise quickly and this card is one of them.

All the elements are from Cricut Straight from the Nest Cartridge and the border is Cricut Elegant Edges.

The bottom right corner is deliberately left plain to add a sentiment or name etc.

I have used a 6x6 Hessian card blank and glitter card for the back of the bird cage. All the elements are ice white shimmer card and paper. Texture is really important in all white I card I always think.