Birds and Birdcages Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  Welcome to the Birds and Birdcages Blog Hop hosted by Sandra from 365 Days of Cricut.

You should have arrived here from Amy's blog....if not click here to start at the beginning.

I decided to try something different for my project today.  I recently purchased a huge box of goodies from Maya Road. It was filled with all kinds of chip board pieces, albums and embellishments.   

This tag is made of canvas.

I inked up the tag with distress inks and then used my Market Street Stamps Vintage Music stamp for the background.

The birdcage stamp and velvet flower are from my Maya Road goodie box.   I cut the little red birds from Straight from the Nest and the sentiment is from Scrappy Moms stamps - Everyday Greetings.

This isn't my usual style but I had fun trying something new!

I have some Blog Candy!  Make sure you are a follower and leave a comment for a chance to win....

Maya Road Sheer Collection - Luxe Stoney Island Alphabet.

Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop is Sylvia!

A pretty card and a WINNER!

Happy Wednesday!  Earlier this month, I won some blog candy during the Market Street Stamps release.  I've been dying to use them but for some reason, I never know what to do when it comes to stamped images.  I think I am too much of a perfectionist.

I made my card for the Market Street Sketch Challenge...

I stamped the compass image on ivory cardstock....the mat is from Elegant Edges.  I heat embossed the image and then used Tim Holtz distress inks (fired brick and vintage photo) to get this red color.   The pattern paper is from Echo Park - For the Record.  

I am also entering this card in the Moxie Fab World - Fanatical about Botanicals challenge and linking up to

And now for my WINNER from the Crop Chocolate Hop....sorry, it took so long. 

Very nice! Fits the bill for this holiday weekend!

Ellen from cc

Ellen, I'll be emailing you in a few minutes.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #72

It's time for another Cricut Cardz Challenge.  This week the challenge is to make a Mother's Day using the card feature from any cartridge and include a flower on your card.

I decided to use my Wild Card cartridge for the card feature.  It's funny....I wanted this cartridge for a long time but now that I have it I hardly ever use it.

Card Base - Wild Card at 5.25"

Hummingbird - Pagoda at 2.2.5"

stamped with Vintage Wallpaper BG stamp from Market Street Stamps and then Smooch Spritzed

Label - Lacy Labels at 1"h x 2"w

Sentiment - Scrappy Moms Stamps - All in the Family

Ribbon - Stash

Pattern Paper - My Mind's Eye

For my flower, I gathered a piece of vintage seem binding that I purchased from ETSY with a running stitch and then hot glued it down to a 1" circle.  I added the brad in the center.  It's not perfect but I guess it looks okay!

We can't wait to see what you come up with for this week's challenge....click here to head on over to Cricut Card Challenge.