Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Birthday Candles

What a crazy couple of weeks! I can't believe (okay, yes I can) I haven't done any posts in two weeks! First, my two year old slipped on a chair and split his chin open on the granite counter - 3 hours in the ER and 6 stitches. Then it was "Mom, I need a dress and stuff for Homecoming next week". Fourteen stores in one day is exhausting. Especially, when we come back empty handed. Needless to say, we did eventually get a dress (overnighted from Bergners online), shoes, purse, etc.,  as well as all of the other items she needed for dress-up days. Now, I have one week to get organized before I have my gall bladder out. I am actually looking forward to a little "rest" and no driving:-)

This week's challenge is all about birthday celebrations using candles. Makeas made using the Birthday Bash and Blast Off cartridges. I created my own card base by welding the candle cut and cutting off the wick/flame part. The orange flame and melted "wax" was embossed with Cuttlebug's D'vine Swirl folder while the yellow part of the flame was embossed with their Swiss Dots folder. I replaced the paper wick with a piece of white chenille stems (I thought they were called pipe cleaners - is that a Midwest thing?). I "squiggled" it and adhered it between the cuts on the back portion of the card. The inside is stamped with a sentiment from Stampin' Up's Afterthoughts set.

Make sure to stop over at FCCB to find out all of the guidelines for this week's challenge. Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Birthday Banners

I have finally started working on actual 12 x 12 scrapbook pages. I keep telling myself I'm only getting farther behind, especially since my oldest is 15! My busy mom strategy now is to utilize all of these fabulous layout sketches that are so readily available on the internet. I especially love that I can "pin" it to a specific "board" on Pinterest and access it wherever I'm at. I don't have to use up any extra memory on my laptop either.


I used a sketch from Sketch Savvy to get a quick jump on this birthday layout for when my son turned six. I arranged the layout in Cricut Craft Room and used the Blast Off Imagine cartridge. I just love all of it's fun colors and patterns. For more texture and interest I added some small pieces of ribbon along with bakers twine, hand dyed seam binding ribbon and a button. I'm also using this layout for The Crop Stop, and Die Cuttin' Divas.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)

Polka Dotted Birthday

I just have to say - for some reason, I love the look of polka dots. They make me feel happy:-) Why is that? I must Google it sometime. So, as you can guess, I loved making this challenge card. I thought I'd use it for three challenges - My Craft Spot,  CAS-UAL Fridays and The Paper Shelter. I used my Imagine and the Blast Off cart to print the patterned CS and number. I used the Seeing Spots Cuttlebug folder to emboss the solid orange. The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Simply Sweet Occasions set, the ribbon is from PTI, and the baker's twine came from The Twinery.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a creative day:-)