Cut it Up Challenge # 20 - Father's Day

Happy Friday friends, I have another project to share for the  Cut it up blog Challenge.

Cut it up Challenge #20 - Create a project to celebrate Father's Day.

This was a fun challenge because this year, I decided to make something for the hubby since he is such a great Dad to the kids. He love candy so I thought it would be fun to make him a Father's Day candy dish.


What do think?

To decorate this dish:

I got this glass container from our local Old Time Pottery store.
I used the Billionaire lite cricut cart to cut the tie @ 5" on to Recollections Card Stock in white and then black.

I had the black and white ribbon in my stash to I used that as the collar and just hot glued that to the dish. Then I hot glued the tie down.

For the black circle I used Accent Essentials cart and the cut it at 2 1/4" and for the white circle I used my EK Success circle punch in 1 3/4".

I used my studio g stamp set for the "Happy Father's Day" and recollections pigment ink in blk.

That's it! Easy Peasy!


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Friday Feb. 22 - Festive Spring Decor

Happy Friday my friends. Are you ready for an idea on Spring Decor?

Well I have a wall decoration for you today. I decided to keep this simple and went to my local dollare store to purchase some frames in a few different sizes.

I cleaned them up and hot glued the stand to the back so it wouldn't stick out against my wall. I grabbed my Country Life cart and placed my vinyl down on my mat and cut out my letters at 4.25" to spell the word "Spring". The R & G was cut at 3". Each letter was carefully placed on the glass of my frames. I used a robin egg blue colored CS to use as my mat for each frame so that my white letters would stand out.


Since this just wasn't enough to call Festive Spring Decor. I cut out the bird on pg. 68 from the Give a Hoot card at 2.5" using the shift key so I could get the details instead of a shadow. I needed a branch for my bird to sit on so I chose to use the branch on pg. 38 from my Winter Woodland cart. I cut this out 4 times at 2" then I pieced the branches together to make it fuller.


I used my Straight from the Nest cart to cut the leaves on pg. 42 at 1.5" and cut these out several times to get the right number of leaves to decorate my branch. I used SU green galore ink to add a bit of darker green to my leaves and pinched them together for dimension then adhered them to my branch one at a time using a small dab of Scotch quick dry glue.

I used a little Tim Holtz Rusty Hinge distressing ink for the bird's feet, beak, and highlighting. My Zig pen worked great to create the little eye on my bird. I used a few glue dots to adhere my bird and branch to the front of the glass of one of my frames. Here's a close up of the finished bird and branch.

Now I have Festive!!! I hung my frames in a decorative way on my wall and Wha La!!! My spring decor is complete.

The fun thing about this project is that I can change it out for the different seasons.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Tues. Feb. 12th - Easel Cards

Welcome, so glad you stopped in today.

 

 

Erica asked the team to make an easel card for our posts today. With Valentine's Day so close I decided to make one last Valentine's day card. I made a very simple card that you could make in no time at all.


My card was cut at 4.25 x 8.5 then scored at 3 and 5.5. I cut two pieces of CS at 4.25 x 5.5 one in Recollections Black and one from the Authentique - Lovely 6 x 6 pad. This patterned paper became my background for my card. I cut one more piece at 2.5 x 4.25 in Recollections Black CS for the base.

I used the Accent Essentials cart to cut out the heart on page 67. I cut this heart out several times at various sizes and layered my hearts together. The sizes were: 2, 1.5,1.25, and 1" for the solid CS. For the patterned paper the hearts were cut at: 1.75,1.25, 1, and .75". Then I arranged them on the card to my liking. I added a few pearls from Recollections to my hearts and a little foam tape to pop them off the page.

As you can see in the pic below, I cut one heart at 1.5" using the outline feature and used both pieces on the base of the card. The largest heart was used as my catch for the card when it stands up.

The sentiment "you & me" is from Studio g. I stamped this using Recollections pigment ink and used a little Ranger embossing powder in black to help it stand out.

That's it! Easy peasy.


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Hope you all have a lovely Valentine's Day my friends.

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 
Entering this into the following challenges:
FCCB - Challenge Me Monday - #148 Be My Valentine
BBTB2 – Love Is In The Air - Heart Or Cupid Challenge
Craft Spot - MondayChallenge #86 - For Your Sweetheart
Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge#13 - Anything Goes
Come and Get it - Show us your Heart - Love is in the Air
More than favors - #80 Valentine's Day

Saturday, Jan. 5th - MCCR 100 Cart Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cart December Blog Hop!

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I'm so glad you're hopping by. For my projects today, I choose Celebrate with Flourish, Give a Hoot, Sponge Bob, Lacey Labels and Billionaire cartridges. I also threw in Accent Essentials and Wild card cartridges too.

I made a few more cards since I am starting a new year and have a few birthdays right around the corner.

My first card is a Valentine's Day card. I cut a piece of Recollections CS down to create a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card in pink. I embossed this with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. Next I hand cut a piece of MME CS to use as my first layer behind my heart. I used Celebrate with Flourish to cut my heart out at 3" from yes that's right my scrap paper stash.

I colored the purple parts with my Martha Stewart glitter marker. I had the little pink swirl piece left over from my cut out heart and had to use that piece too so I colored that with a pink MS glitter marker and set it aside. I used my Spellbinders small Lacey Circle to add above the heart then attached my pink swirl to that. Since I had such a pretty heart I decided that I needed a key so I dug through my Tim Holtz Grunge Board until I found the perfect key and yes I colored it with my MS purple glitter pen too and attached that to my circle. All that I needed was my love brad and a tag. The tag I cut out after stamping it with my sentiment "you hold the key" from S.E.I. Love birds stamp set. Tada! Here's the finished card:

 

My next card is a birthday card for my sweet little Grandaughter, Madison. She will be 2 in February.  I used Give a Hoot to cut the bunny with the ballon on pg. 53 at 4". If you look close you can see that I used a little black brad for the bunny's nose. I cut the card from Wild Card on pg. 52 using the fit to cut feature with an 8 1/2 x 11" piece of Recollection CS. This feature cut the card at 5 1/2". Next I used Accent Essentials to cut a 5" circle for the inside of my card and a 4 1/2" circle for the outside layer. For the outside layer I embossed it with D'Vine Swirls. I inked the card and bunny in SU Cameo Coral ink. For my next layer I used the Spellbinders lacey circle cut from a single sheet of Kelly Pannacci - Mini Flowers CS.

I used Pink by Design - Take the cake stamp set for the "Birthday Girl" sentiment on the front of the card and the sentiments on the inside of the card too.

My last card is a birthday card for My Father-in-Law. His birthday is January 7th and he loves Spongebob. Like Father like Son. :)

I used my Spongebob cart to cut Spongebob Square Pants at 4 1/2". The jelly fish were cut at 1" and 1 1/2". I thought it would be fun to stick a top hat on him so I went straight to the Billonaire cart and cut the hat at 1". Spongebob's eyes and teeth were given a little glossy accents to make them shine.

For the B-day tag I used Lacey Labels and cut that at 2". The ribbon is from stash. The Happy Birthday stamp is from, would you believe, Walmart? It's true, it was back in 1996 when they actually sold rubber stamps. Enough rambling, here's the finished card. What do you think?

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