Some Cricut Creations!!! I had some playtime :)

Hi everybody, how is your week-end going.  Last week I spent a little time playing with some new cricut cartridges I have and making some Valentine projects.

First is a little gift box created with a free box MTC file available in the User Forum on MTC and the Wedding and Mother's Day Flower Bouquet cartridges.  I couple of hearts and a punk ribbon embossed with hearts and this quick project is ready to fill with candy and give to someone special:

Next I have two Hello Kitty Valentines using the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge. I have made these for my 3 year old granddaughters who are both crazy about anything Hello Kitty right now.  Think they will like them?:

 

I really think they turned out cute, but it is a strange concept to me to not have colored anything on the card I didn't think the 3 year olds would appreciate that grandma has spent a lot of time coloring a special image for them, but I know they will carry these around for days.

I hope you all have a great rest of your week-end, mine is over, I work on Sunday nights and so will be going to work in a little bit.

If any of you guys guys reading this are followers of the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge. Cheryl's grandmother passed away this morning.  Cheryl was very close to Grandma Reba and will miss her terribly, but Grandma was ready to go, and Cheryl has all the Love and Memories to cherish, but it is still a very hard time for Cheryl and her family.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great end of your week-end.

Cathy

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge--A Color Challenge!!!

Hasn't our wonderful Challenge hostess this month, Elaine, had some really awesome challenges for the Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge?  This week is no exception!!!  A Color Challenge.  Use Orange, Yellow, Red and one neutral. Here is my little Teacup Fairy: 

 

Rather than go with bright vibrant colors I chose to try to make the tea cup look like a porcelain cup that is so wonderfully crafted you can almost see through it.  I went with a light orange tea cup and dp and the flowers are light orange centers with yellow towards the pedal center leaving the outside edge of each petal white.  The flower centers are red.  

My little Fairy baby has yellow hair and  the wings are orange with clear glitter pen outline.

The orange left panel was punched with a MS fancy border punch and tied with a white sheer organdy ribbon onto which a bow was attached.

I cut out the Teacup Fairy with a Fiskar circle cutter and mounted that onto a paper doile.  I finished the card off with an embossed border on the right hand side, a few pearls in the corners and a band of pearls along the top and bottom right side edges.

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT creations on the Mo's Digital Pencil Blog and play along with us. Any Mo's Digital Pencil image using the colors Orange, Yellow, Red and a neutral..easy peasy!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy

A Thank you for Supporting the Katie Benefit

Jak Heath is sponsoring a Competition for everyone who has purchased the Katie Benefit images.  These images are only available through this benefit and you get to do two things, help Katie Renz and her family with medical expenses and you get a ton of awesome images to color!!! Everybody wins.

I have been showing you some of my cards created using some of the benefit images. but here they are again:

Rules....

1. The card must be made from the donated Help for Katie images.

2. No back links will be accepted this must be a post made after 24th January

3. you must provide a link to the Help For Katie fundraising

4. You may only enter 1 card or project per blog.

 

You have until Feb. 20, to enter.

 

Check out Jak's  Blog for complete details and to upload your card.  

Thanks to everyone who has supported this wonderful cause. And for everyone who hasn't purchased the package yet, there is still time.

Thanks for stopping by.,

Cathy

It's Tuesday, that means Sassy Cheryl's Challenge

Yeah, it is time for another wonderful Sassy Cheryl's Challenge.  It was nice to see so many participants last week.  We love to have you join us.  The theme this week was chosen by our wonderful Sassy Gal, Ann, who chose the theme Love....so many possibilities. I chose this fun Valentines image:

This darling image called Do Not Disturb while Kissing, was so fun to color. I chose some fun dp with lots of Love phrases on it in pinks and greens.  The paper flowers are handmade and the heart border at the top was created using the Cindy Lou  Cricut cartridge.  The little red hearts are what is left when you punch the MS heart border. I always save some to use on the cards.  They are perfect little accents.  Do you think he will have the nerve to give her the card in his pocket...?
Don't you know someone who would love to get a card made with this fun image?
I took a sneak peek into the store tonight and Sassy Cheryl has added even more fun Valentine images. I can't wait to get started on some.
Be sure to stop by the Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the DT has created to inspire you and send you LOVE!!!
Thanks for stopping by.  I'll have another post later in the day with a competition using Benefit for Katie images and there are some awesome prizes.  Details are available on Jak Heath's blog tonight.

Have a wonderful day,
Cathy

A Beautiful Rose card--Just Inklined A4 card

Today I want to show you the beautiful A4 Rose image available from Just Inklined .  It is really cool because you get the image and sentiment all in one.  Here is what I created :

If you have followed my blog for a while you know I love to color flowers.  Just Inklined has some of the most beautiful flowers you can find anywhere.  One of the nice things about this digital image is that is comes with the rose and 3 sentiments.  As you can see here I printed the image two times, and colored one of the Rose images using my copic markers. 
The colored image was set aside and I added my embellishments to the inside and sentiment of the card which would show with the card open or closed.  I cut a piece of pink cs the length of the inside panel plus border and the length of the outside colored image.
The colored image was cut outside the colored image and shadow free hand.  The inside panel was mounted  and then the pink cs was folder over the top of that from the right side.  The pink layer of the colored image (outside or front) was trimmed with an equal border of the rest of the card.
I like the look of this card and while it may not be exactly what I had envisioned I like the way it turned out. Plan B is not always a bad thing.
Hope your week-end is going well and you aren't getting the snow we are getting here in Omaha  I think we got another 6 or 7 inches of snow today and it is still snowing but they say the snow will end about 3 am.
Thanks for stopping by, always glad to have you visit.

Cathy

Another Super Cute Katie Benefit Image!!!

I thought I would bring you another wonderful image from the Katie Renz Benefit which is still going on.  This super cute image was donated by Just Inklined:

 

Isn't this just the perfect image for someone who is under the weather?    

The image was colored with copic markers and the sentiment tag was created with my Walk in My Garden cricut cartridge using the bread tag and sentiment.  The flower was cut using the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge.  This cartridge has tons of flowers and leaves.  I love that I can make them any size I want, where with a punch I am limited to the punch size.  That's my justification and I'm sticking to it!!!

I sewed the images  and striped dp to the cs. thought it fit the image, and I added 3 I-rock Glam Rocks to the lower left corner of the main image.

Well, winter has hit Omaha this week and we have had 4 inches of snow on Wednesday and tomorrow we are supposed to get another 4-6 inches....so tomorrow I need to go to the grocery store so I don't have to go out after it starts snowing.  

Hope you are all having a wonderful week-end.  Thanks for stopping by and if you haven't checkout out the Benefit for Katie, drop by Jak Heath's blog for complete details.

Cathy

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge-- Around the World!!

Elaine is our hostess again this week at Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge Blog and she has another wonderful challenge theme.....Around the World, Ethnic image.  Here is my Jingle Dancer:

I think this is a perfect image for Elaine's Ethnic challenge, although it is not worldwide it could be.  I think of it as a Native American dancer.  She was so fun to color.  Because my only experience in Indian country was our time spent in Arizona and the abundance of Turquoise there so I always think of the two together.
The image was colored with copic markers and sponged with distress ink.
The turquoise satin ribbon was tied on the right side extension of the image matte.  The ribbon knot was tied and 3 silver rhinestones were added with my I-Rock tool.  BTW don't touch satin ribbon with the I-rock tool, yeah, it melts. this is the second piece of ribbon LOL.
I added a Dream Catcher pendant I have had in my collection forever and I love to use it with Indian images.
I can't wait to stop by the Challenge blog and see what the other DT members have created for this fun challenge. 
Thanks for stopping by.

Cathy