Our girls made Easter hats & boxes

At school our girls (11 & 6yrs) had the annual Easter bonnet parade, so they came & asked could they "play" with my cricut (haha they have listened to me too much saying I'm going to play in my scraproom)to make their hats, so under close (haha) watch, I allowed them to "play" & this is what they made, my only input was hand cutting the shadow for them as they cut it on the largest setting, which doesn't have a shadow.

A close up of the cute bunny




& Traditionally each Easter I made their teachers little Easter baskets or treat boxes etc, so they asked me to make the "little boxes" again, so when they went off to bed I made these:







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Scrap night at my sister's

We had a scrap night at my sister's tonight & about 5 us had a fun night, I didn't scrap, I made 7 cards:



Laura's Sketch - Thanks a bunch

I used the Laura's wonderful sketch #22 from 2Sketches4you

Cardstock: White bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: Stampin' Up!
Stamp: I got it in a swap so not sure on details ... sorry..
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Lace Ribbon, KindyGlitz

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Friday Sketchers & CCT

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers & the recipe from CCT which was 2 papers, something ripped & 4 embellies



Cardstock: White bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: from stash (no name on paper)& glitter stack
Stamp: Magenta Cherry Blossom Square
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Cricut (celebrate), 4 eyelets & handmade butterfly by Sharon Skippy from our swap

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Just Christmas/Birthdays - Happy Birthday

I used the sketch from Just Christmas/Birthdays



Cardstock: White bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: from stash (no name on paper)
Stamp: I got it in a swap so not sure on details including the scallop circle... sorry
Word Stamp: See D's
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Ribbon, flowers, rhinestones, KindyGlitz

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Creative Card Crew & Sketch This - Dream

I used the sketch from Sketch This & the challenge at Creative Card Crew was warm colours.



Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: Stampin' Up!
Stamp: Free download online
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Lace Ribbon, large button & twine, KindyGlitz & K & Co Life's Journey Word sticker

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Mojo Mondays - Just for you

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday #79



Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: Stampin' Up! & glitter stack
Stamp: Free download online
Word Stamp: See D's
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Lace Ribbon, Rhinestones

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PWC & Stamp Something

I used the sketch from PWC & the challenge from Stamp something which was to use a spring stamp & colours



Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Patt Paper: glitter stack
Stamp: HouseMouse - Lavendar Dreams
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Ribbon, buttons

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& the last one for the night



It was getting to the end of the night & I had already cut this scallop shaped card with the pre-empt that I would use it for another challenge to make a shaped card, but I forgot to take a small enough stamp for it, so I used one I had in my stamped images stash. It was kind of hard to do to much to it as it was such a small area to work with & didn't want to take anything away from the stamp or scallop card

Cardstock: White & red CS
Stamp: I got it in a swap so not sure on details ... sorry..
MCPT: Watercolour pencils & water blender
Accessories: Ribbon, Sakura white gel pen & Creative Memories red fine tip pen, KindyGlitz

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That's it...

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PTW - something edible

At PTW, the challenge was to create a card with something edible on it. I like the colours together, not normally my style, but they were sitting next to each other & I thought hmmm I don't mind that, so I grabbed some co-ordinating ribbon & buttons, added some KindyGlitz to the cake & candles, stamped Happy Birthday & it was done.

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Sketch This - Special

Our niece loves her horse, so I decided to make this card for her for her birthday coming up next month, using sketch #81 from Sketch This & at MTTC the challenge was Nature, so I think this covers both.

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365 cards - Day 21

Over at 365 Cards, the challenge was to create a card inspired by the song Lean on Me by Bill Withers.

I used Okie's sketch from Jan 28th & used a white card, Stampin' Up! DP lace ribbon, Jasmine Cricut cart for the photo corners & George Cricut cart for the tag & the scrap from a previous circle I had cut with Mini Monograms. To finish it off I used some KindyGlitz, a flower, a green pearl & a tiny brown brad.

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Happy Birthday Princess

This week the CAS challenge was inspirational from Robeez Footwear. I used the sketch from Okieladybugs Jan 21st.

When I saw this page I automatically thought of the carriage from Happily Ever After Cricut Cart. Next time I will have to remember to cut out the smaller parts first to determine which size I cut the image as the tiny pieces just don't always like to cut, so in the end I just used KindyGlitz to give it a bit of a sparkle. I used Stampin' Up! DP & Bazzill Basics & finished it off with a See D's stamp & some pearls.

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Caardvarks - Thinking of you

This week at Caardvarks, Heidi created this sketch
My Recipe: Tan CS
Stampin' Up! DP
Stampin' Up! stamp - For a friend
Stampin' Up! ink - Purely Pomegranate
craft flowers attached with a hat pin, a clear heart over the
top of matching green paper covering the point
Lace Ribbon,
Mini Monograms Cricut Cart - Circle
Machine Stitching
& White Gel Pen

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Happy Birthday - Ladybug

Well this card actually covers 3 different challenges I was doing, firstly Okies second sketch from Mar 11, Day 17 from 365 Cards & Splitcoaststampers LSC211.

Okies sketch you can see above, 365 cards was Buttons & Bows - use 3 buttons & 3 bows, no more, no less & LSC211 was to make a card with a bug on it, using no more than 4 layers & no patterned paper.

So keeping in with Okies sketch, I then used red & black CS, cut a 3 1/2" ladybug from Doodlecharms Cricut Cart, layered some red & black ribbon, attached the bows & buttons, then stamped Happy Birthday on red CS, matting it onto black CS. Oh I stuck so googley eyes on the ladybug for a bit of fun. To finish it off I used black gel pen & dotted around the red border & over the top of the stamp so it stood out more.
(I posted this card down further with all of my Okies cards under Mar 11.)

Thank you

I used Rosie's Studio PP for this card with a 3 1/2" Bazzill Basics Scallop circle, a 3 1/2" shadow circle in PP & a 3 1/2" circle cut with Mini Monograms Cricut Cart. I used a stamp from a Stampin'Up! set - For a friend, used a couple of blue & orange rhinestones to finish off. I thought the left hand side of the card looked bare, so I cut a couple of thin strips off the bazzill basics scraps & placed them there.

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Ribon Frame Technique

Claire Brennan has a great tutorial on her blog. I made this card to see how the technique works & I love it, it's so easy & versatile for so many occassions. The stamp is from Stampin' Up - For a friend & I used my Score-Pal to finish off the card.

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Cards for VLV March

Verve challenges for march are a lot of fun & nearly finished for the month, here are my takes on the challenges:





This was for sketch VLVMar01, the twist was a button, you could use 1 or 100.
The heart was cut with my Cricut - George cart & I hand cut the scallop edge by tracing around a tiny button





The VLVMaro2 sketch was a lot of fun with a twist using pink, red & green.
I kind of cringed thinking of using red & pink together but it came up up really good, I think it was the green that broke it up





The 3rd week challenge was fun with the twist being birthday. Again the scallop edge was hand cut after tracing a tiny button. Used a large paper flower as the focal point. The inspiration was from Amber herself :) Thanks Amber





The VLVMar04 challenge was a great sketch & this weeks twist was CAS & using only ONE embellie only.... woooh... this was hard for me as I love all the prety embellies, but I did it & I am very happy with the outcome. ALthought it said on the challenge to only use ONE embellie, I started off with just the embellie in flower above the 'i' in friend, then the post was updated saying you could use more than one of the same kind embellie, so I though "YAY", so I added 3 more under the stamp only they werer larger in size, but they are the exact same pearls. I cut the scallop circle, shadow circle & circle with Mini Monograms Cricut Cart, using tan CS & Stampin' UP! PP, the stamp is also from Stampin' UP!. Scored some lines down the side & added some KindyGlitz to the scallop circle to jazz it up a bit, but I think it is still CAS :)

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Thinking of you

I love this stamp from Stampin' Up! It reminds me of a tree on our Pop's land, which in turn reminds me of my Pop...hence the sentiment - Thinking of you

At SCS the CAS05 challenge was to use a hint of blue & green with a CAS card.
The tree stamp is from Stampin' up, I cut 3 balloons from the George cricut cart & trimmed off the ends, then finished them off with some green rhinestones. Layered a couple of flowers, attached a rhinestone & finished the card off with thinking of you.

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Spoonfull of sugar sketch

Spoon full of sugar had a fun sketch, which is what my card is based on. I used tan CS & Stampin' Up double sided PP, a stitched square from Mini Monograms, some flowers & pearl & finished it off with faux stitching with a white gel pen.

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Okieladybug's sketches

Okieladybug is doing a weekly card sketch on the cricut MB if anyone is interested in getting some inspiration &/or ideas, click HERE to see the thread.

Here is a few that I have started from her sketches, I noted down all the sketches from the first week Jan 4th up until recently, so I have a few to catch up on...

Jan 4th

Okie's sketch



My cards



I just used white CS with lavendar handmade paper for the bg, lace ribbon stuck on the sides of the PP, a tag which was a rectangle cut from George Cricut cart & I put a hole in the top for the ribbon, a purple flower on the tag & finished it off with a couple of purple mini brads & a Fiskars Thank you stamp.

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I used tan CS & a cool stripy pp for the bg, cut out the ice-cream from Doodlecharms cart & used a real ice-cream stick cut in half & attached the ice-cream heads to them, used a funky border piece I had in my stash, have no idea where I got it from, I think I have had it forever, I also cut COOL from Mini Monograms cricut cart & used a See-D's stamp for Have a Happy Birthday.

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Jan 7th

Okie's sketch



My cards



I love this one, I think its all the flowers, they are soooo pretty!! I used a light grey CS with a Rebekka Erickson PP - Jason & another PP that I have lots of as I love it, but it doesnt have a company name on it, anyway I attached lace ribbon to it, stuck all the flowers on it & buttons, cut out the sqaure tag with Mini Monograms Cricut cart, used a rub on for Cherish & finished it off with a couple of pretty little hot pink pearls.

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I used blue CS with a couple of PP's that I alternated for this sketch, stuck it onto a light green CS for a border, stuck the wavy border on it, cut out a party hat from Doodlecharms Cricut cart added some KindyGlitz for decoration & used a See D's stamp for the sentiment, placed on the light green & blue CS.

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Jan 14th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Still yet to do these ones...
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Jan 21st

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far



I used a tan CS with a PP I have in my stash, some lace ribbon with a large fabric flower cut in pieces & stuck in the corner with a button & rhinestones to decorate & finished off with a Cherish rub-on.

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Jan 28th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Still yet to do these ones...
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Feb 4th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Still yet to do these ones...
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Feb 11th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far



I made this card for our son's birthday coming up in a few days, his football team is yellow & green, hence the colour scheme I have chosen. I used Green CS with a kids grass PP, green corrugated CS, coloured the stamped image (that I received in a card swap) with watercoloured pencils & a water blender cut a H & a B from Mini Monograms Cricut Cart stamped the rest of the sentiment & finished it off with some yellow marble embellies & pierced holes around 2 sides of the card.

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Feb 18th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far



This card was basic but very pretty, I used White CS, KAISERCRAFT Ebony & Ivory PP, cut a scallop edge with Mini Monograms Cricut Cart, pierced some holes along it, used a See D's stamp & finished it off with a decorative ribbon & a black flat rhinestone.

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Feb 25th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Still yet to do these ones...
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Mar 4th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far



I saw this sketch & though of a baby card straight away, I have no idea why, but I went with it... firstly I turned the sketch on it's side & used White CS, Cuttlebug embossed BG, attached pink spotty PP, some flowers with KindyGlitz & cut the baby bottle from New Arrivals Cricut Cart. I finished it with a Deep pink pearl & stamped Just arrived.
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Mar 11th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far



My sister got this cute stamp set from Stampin' Up, so I had to have a play

I was so busy having fun playing with the stamps that I looked at it & thought there is something missing... then I realised I didn't have any cricut on it, so I puzzled for a minute & thought oh an X, thats what's missing ...der.... so I cut one from Mini Monograms. I used Bazzill Basics CS, I made the BG paper by stamping on the orange paper, placed each stamp on it's on mat, coloured them in with watercolour pencils & a water blender & stuck the X on to mark the spot.




Well this card actually covers 3 different challenges I was doing, firstly Okies second sketch from Mar 11, Day 17 from 365 Cards & Splitcoaststampers LSC211.

Okies sketch you can see above, 365 cards was Buttons & Bows - use 3 buttons & 3 bows, no more, no less & LSC211 was to make a card with a bug on it, using no more than 4 layers & no patterned paper.

So keeping in with Okies sketch, I then used red & black CS, cut a 3 1/2" ladybug from Doodlecharms Cricut Cart, layered some red & black ribbon, attached the bows & buttons, then stamped Happy Birthday on red CS, matting it onto black CS. Oh I stuck so googley eyes on the ladybug for a bit of fun. To finish it off I used black gel pen & dotted around the red border & over the top of the stamp so it stood out more.
(I will repost this card so the other challenges can find it, but had to add it here to all of my Okies cards.)


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Mar 18th

Okie's sketch



My cards



I used Stampin' Up! PP on a white cs base, attached flowers & buttons, stamped It's your day & finished it off with some rhinestones



For this one I used a white card base with a black CS mat & stamped flourishes on a white CS mat placed some flowers with black flat rhinestones & layered a hot pink one with a black & white one ontop. Placed some hot pink lace ribbon across the bottom & stamped Congratulations on white CS then onto a black CS mat, finished it off with piercing around the edging. I love the black, white & hot pink combo, I think it looks very smart.
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Mar 25th

Okie's sketch



My cards

Have only made one of these sketches so far





I used Stampin' Up! DP on a bazzill basics card base, cut a butterfly with George Cart, stamped thinking of you & finished it off with some ribbon & Kaisercraft half pearls

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That's it for the moment, but I will update this post as I create more.

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