April Showers - Challenge Me Monday #107

Happy Monday!!  It is time for another Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut!! :)



 #107 - April Showers - Make a project with an umbrella, rain, or clouds on it.

The project that I made & submitted for the challenge this week is a card that I am sending to my sister.  As I have mentioned before in a different post, my sister & I have always been close & even though we are seperated by distance and different time zones, we still continue to be close.  We are no different than other sisters in the sense that we had your typical fights...over clothes, taking too longer in the shared bathroom getting ready, but when it came right down too it...we always had each others back....and still do.  :)  Her and her family are planning on coming for a visit in a couple months & planning on staying with my husband and I.  It will be nice to get my baby fix from being around my nephew & niece.  :)  I wanted to send a quick little note to her to tell her how excited I am to see her & the family.

Over at My Craft Spot, the challenge is 'Make it Pop!' - use dimensionals to make some part of your card really stand out, so I am going to also submit this card as well.  Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:
- Rain Bird from 3 Birds on Parade Cricut Cartridge cut at 3
- Clouds & Rain Drops from Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge cut at 2, 2.5 & 3
- Grass from Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge cut at 2.65
- QuikKutz Revolution Tool
- My Creative Time - Teeny Tag Greetings & Dies, "Happy Spring"
- American Crafts Premium Ribbon - Twine

- Glossy Accents, on umbrella & welli's

- White Gelly Roll Pen Medium
- Aqua Chalk around clouds
- Clear Stickles on rain drops

- Pop Dots on clouds & tag
- Aqua button

Yummy Cupcake Birthday



Close up of the flags

 The project that I have to share is a birthday card that I made for a co-worker of mine who has become a good friend. She is going to be celebrating her birthday next week while being gone on vacation, as she has always taken vacation the entire week of her birthday as she refers to it as "The Queen's Week" saying that everyone should have a vacation & not have to work the week of their birthday...a reason why we get along as I feel the same way....I have a birthday week as well but will need to start taking a Birthday Trip on mine going forward.  :)  She loves the color purple, hence why this card has so much of it, but I added some pink to it as I felt like it was too much purple....but according to her, there could have been more.  :)  Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:
- Birthday Bird from 3 Birds on Parade Cricut Cartridge cut at 3
 - QuikKutz Revolution Tool
- Jaded Blossom - Flag Dies, both sizes cut in half
- Jaded Blossom - Miscellaneous Stamp Set - "Happy Birthday", inside each card
- Jaded Blossom - Food & Drink Stamp Set - "Yummy", "Cupcake" & "Sugar Rush"
- Gelly Roll Pen Medium, Silvery Silver, for doodling on the bird & cupcake

- Glossy Accents, on the icing
- Paper Studio Ribbons - Sheer Purple
- My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Twine, Charmed

- Doodle Design Inc - Doodle Twine, Halloween Assortment - Purple

- Pink Button
- iRock jewels
- Pop Dots

- Glue Gun

Winter Snow Bird

The project that I have to share is the 2nd of the 3 designs that I made for Christmas cards this year.  My husband love the 'Brrrr' card that I made for a challenge, so I used it but used different colors, and I also had snow to the back of the card to make my Birdie actually want to say "Brrrr".  I used the same paper with this card but flipped the paper over on half of them since I couldn't decide on which side I liked better.  I think the pink make them stand out more, but the Christmas sayings were really cute as well. Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

(Winter Bird with the 2 sided paper showing the words)

(Winter Bird with the 2 sided paper showing the pink circles)

Recipe for this project:
- Winter Bird from 3 Birds on Parade Cricut Cartridge cut at 3

- Brrrr from Winter Wonderland Cricut Cartridge cut at 1.5

- Martha Stewart Snowflake Punches, small & large

- Merry Christmas (stamped inside) Archiver's Exclusive Snag'em Stamp Duos

- Versafine Stamp Ink in Onyx Black

- Pop Dots on Winter Bird & Snowflakes

- Stickles in Crystal on the snow background

- Stickles in Yellow on the Winter Bird

- iRock Pearl gem on the small Snowflakes

Baby, it's COLD outside

The project that I have to share is one of 3 designs that I am using for Christmas cards this year.  With not being able to decided on one design this year & having almost 40 cards to make, I figured that I would just make all 3 designs.  I used a variety of looks with each design to give each of them a different look.  I am very happy with how the Christmas cards turned out this year!!  Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

(I simply stamped 'Merry Christmas' on the inside of each card)

(A couple different looks of the same design.  On some of the twine I hide the ends, some I tied bows, some I used the velvet ribbon along with flipping the 2 sided paper that has dots on one side & plaid on the other side)

Recipe for this project:
- Penguin from Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge cut at 3
- "Baby, it's COLD outside" from 3 Birds on Parage Cricut Cartridge cut at 2.5
- Merry Christmas (stamped inside) Archiver's Exclusive Snag'em Stamp Duos

- Versafine Stamp Ink in Onyx Black

- American Crafts Premium Ribbon - White Velvet

- Doodle Design Inc - Doodle Twine  - Christmas Assortment

- Sizzix Snowflake folder used with Sizzix Texture Boutique

- Stickles on the Penguin's cheeks

- Pop Dots on Penguin

Brrrr!! - Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #43

The project that I have to share is a Christmas card I made for the challenge going on over at Celebrate the Occasion, where the theme this week is "Christmas (no red)".  I love using the colors blue, white & silver together for Christmas, so when I saw the challenge, I wanted to make a card for it.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:

- Winter Bird from 3 Birds on Parade Cricut Cartridge cut at 3

- Brrrr from Winter Wonderland Cricut Cartridge cut at 1.5

- Martha Stewart Snowflake Punches, small & large

- Merry Christmas (stamped inside) Archiver's Exclusive Snag'em Stamp Duos

- Pop Dots on Winter Bird & Snowflakes

- Black Gelly pen to do the faux stitching

- Glossy Accents on Bird

- Stickles in Rock Candy on Snowflakes

- iRock Pearl gems on the small Snowflakes