Challenge Me Monday - #120 Sunny Days



The Photo Book before I started

The inside of the cover, unfolded, so they will know the year

The finished project with the bow



Wow!!  I can not believe that it is Monday!  I have had one ot the best weeks last week, having my sister visiting with her family from Arizona & celebrating my husband's birthday over the weekend...it is someting that I have needed for a while....good family quality time!  It is also that time again....time for another Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut!! :)



 #120 - Sunny Days - Make a project using a yellow sun.

 

The project that I submitted for the challenge this week is a photo album that I made and gave to my sister when she first arrived into town, so that she can add photos they took this week being here & journal their different activities, so that my nephew and niece can look through it to remind them of their trip to Kansas City to visit us. :)  Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:
- Summer Boy from Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge cut at 3.5
- Summer Girl from Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge cut at 3.5
- Sun from Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge cut at 2
- Waves from Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge cut at 1.5
- Beach Ball from Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge cut at 1.5
- Peachy Keen Stamp - PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment - 3/4" face for boy
- Peachy Keen Stamp - PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment - 3/4" face for girl
- Bazzill Basics Paper - Bazzill Mega Mono Mini Album - Navy
- Stickles in Yellow

- Collage Pauge - Matte Finish

- QuikKutz Revolution Tool
- QuikKutz Revolution Tool with the Aquarius font
- Glossy Accents
- Gelly Roll Pens Medium - Black & White
- Glaze Pen - Pink - nail polish for girl
- Chalk - White - on waves
- Chalk - Brown - on hair
- Making Memories Eyelet - blue

'Turtley Awesome' Card Exchange

Close up of the tag I made

Close up of the Turtle

The project that I have to share with you is part 1 of 2 posts for a Card & Gift Exchange that I participated in with fellow FCCB Design Team members.  We were given 2 names, one member would receive a handmade card & the second member would recieve a homemade gift, which I will be posting the homemade gift later.  I have to say that I had so much fun making this card for my FCCB DT buddy!  I have only used this turtle in a baby book so I was really excited to use him on the card with the sentiment and turtle paper.  I have to say that I was like a little kid going to my mailbox and was all excited to see the envelope & box when mine were delivered  to me!!  Just hope that mine made the receiptants day as well when they received mine. :) 
Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:
- Turtle from Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge cut at 4
- My Pink Stamper - Even More Punny-licious - 'Turtley Awesome'
- Cuttlebug Polka Dot embossing folder
- Gelly Roll Pens Medium - Silver
- Googly Eyes
- Corner Chopper
- American Crafts Premium Ribbon - Twine
- Crinkle Ribbon in Yellow from My Craft Spot

- Tim Holtz Fragments, square tag

Friends are Special Treasures

The project that I have to share is a card that I made for one of my best friend's as a 'Thank You' for a nice & thoughful gift she sent.  She recently got married in the Turks & Caicos and as a special gift for each of the guests that were able to made the trip for her big day, she sent a nice framed picture of them with the happy couple along with a picture of the entire group.  When I received the package, I started thinking about a thank you card to make and was excited to make this one. 

I have seen several cards/projects that have used a sewing machine and always wanted to make one!  I have a sewing maching but had bought the We R Memory Keepers Piercing Tool with the different attachments thinking that the tool would be great to have & use.  This was the first time that I used the tool & am very happy with how the stitching looked when it was finished.  After using the tool for the first time, I didn't know if I was a huge fan & was starting to think that I may have bought a tool that I would not use again...as every since one of my finger tips were so sore from pushing the needle in & out.

While visiting a newly found scrapbooking/crafting store with my best friend last weekend though, I got some tips for using the tool from the owner & another customer shopping, so I am going give the tool another try on a project before pulling out the old trusty sewing machine & calling it quits. :)  If anyone has any helpful hints about the Piercing Tool, I would love to have some more.  Thanks for stopping by & taking a peek!!

Recipe for this project:
- Treasure Chest from Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge cut at 2.5
- Stampendous Clear Stamps - Happy Messages - 'friends are special treasures'
- Stampendous Clear Stamps - Happy Messages - 'Thank You', inside the card
- Versafine Stamp Ink in Onyx Black
- We R Memory Keepers Piercing Mat & Piercing Tool
- Taupe DMC Cross Stitching thread
- Paper punch - standard & mini size, to create gold tokens from inside the treasure chest
- White Chalk
- Black Gelly Roll - details around treasure chest
- Distress Stickles - Clear Rock Candy, applied to the map paper to have a distressed look
- Stickles - Gold, applied on the gold in the treasure chest
- Scotch Advanced Tape Glider

Magnetic Picture Frames

 

While shopping at Hobby Lobby on one of my many scrapbooking shopping trips, I was going through the clearance section & found a roll of magnetic sheets that are for the Cricut.  I got a couple of them thinking that I would find something to use them for later down the road.  I was cleaning out the fridge this week, and I knew what my next project was going to be....picture frames to frame my pictures that were just randomly hanging on the fridge.  I am pretty happy with how the frames turned out and how colorful and organized they look on the fridge now.

Recipe for this project:

- Cricut Cuttables White Magnet Material

- Plantin SchoolBook Cricut Cartridge, using 2 rectangles, one inside the other

- Life is a Beach Cricut Cartridge, to cut out items for the Explore frame

- Fish embossed stamp punch, for the Explore frame

- Butterfly stamp punch, for the Friendship frame

- All the paper was random scraps that I had kept

- Chalk, to go around the edge of the frames

- Gypsy, to create the frames to the correct measurements to fit around the different sized photos

- colored jewels for embellishments

- Rock Candy Sticklers to go around the words on both frames for embellishments

- Collage 'Pauge - Instant Decoupage Matte Finish, to seal the frame in case it gets wet

- Foam craft brush to apply the decoupage onto the frames