Paper Playtime #52 - Projects with Water

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  We took a short trip over to New Mexico and the weather was amazing! It rained everyday....something we haven't seen down here in Texas in a long time. 

The  Paper Playtime Challenge this week is to make a project with water.  For my card, I used Once Upon a Princess to cut this pretty mermaid.

I cut the waves by welding the waves from Zooballoo to a rectangle from George and Basic Shapes.   All the paper is by Echo Park....the 6" x 6" Splash pad and Dots and Stripes.  The sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms Stamps set - Happily Ever After.

Head on over to Paper Platyime to enter our fun challenge.  Our sponsor this week is My Pink Stamper!

The Sky's The Limit!

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a great Memorial Day!  I have a simple card to show you today that I made yesterday.  I  made it for the Cricut Circle challenge but I missed the deadline, oops!

I used my Echo Park Paper (love it), Little Boy collection.  For my card base, I welded two scallop rectangles from Elegant Edges. The sun was cut from Just Because and the clouds are from  Zooballoo.  The airplane is a sticker that comes with EP paper collection.  I love it. So simple to make and it turned out really cute!

Scrappy Moms Sneak Peek #2 - Sun Kissed

Hi everyone!  Sorry I didn't get this up for you earlier to day but my daughter is having a sleep over tonight and I've been busy all day get ready for that.  I cleaned my house....big mistake....what was I thinking?  I will have to do that again tomorrow but at least she's having fun. 

Here is a photo of the latest Scrappy Moms Stamps - Sun Kissed. 

I just love these stamps!

For my card I used my brand new Elegant Edges cartridge.  I got it for $29.99 at Michaels....thank goodness for price matching.  I 've had my eye on this cartridge since it was released and I know I'm going to love it.

The Details

Cloud - Zooballoo at 4.29"h(hide countour to hide the second cloud)

Sun - Just Because 7"h

Cardbase - Elegant Edges 5.24"h

Pattern Paper - Momenta Summer

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team projects. You can find links to their blogs on my side bar.  We also have a Guest Designer this month.....click here to visit Melissa.

Easter Bunny Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Easter Bunny Blog Hop hosted by Mary at Cricut Cardz Challenge. The design team has some amazing projects to share with you so make sure to visit all the blogs for some awesome inspiration and there is blog candy up for grabs at Cricut Cardz Challenge!

 You should have arrived here from Kristin's blog but if you just stopped

 by for a visit click here to start at the beginning.

Now on to my card...

I made my card bigger than usual....it's 5 x 7.  The bunny is from Create A Critter and I just can't believe that I haven't cut this before.  It's so adorable and so goes together so easily.  I just love the layers on CAC....I wish more of the cartridges had this type of layering.  The bunny was cut at 4"h.  The basket and eggs are from Doodlecharms and I think they are 2" (sorry, forgot to write this down).  The grass is from Zooballoo and is cut at 1.5"h and trimmed to fit the width.  All the pattern papers are from K and Company and this pretty rainbow ribbon is from Joann.  The sentiment is from the Scrappy Moms Stamps set - Spring Fling. 

Now for some BLOG CANDY!!!!

Melanie and Tammy from Scrappy Moms stamps agreed to sponsor my give away today. Thanks so much! 

Become a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the Spring Fling set.

Your next stop is Vee....I know you are going to LOVE her project!

Scrappy Moms- Designer's Choice Sneak Peak #2

This is my 2nd post today....scroll down for Paper Playtime/Kathy's Blog Hop winner.

Hi everyone!  I'm back with my second card from the new Scrappy Moms Stamps - Designer's Choice.   I love this new set...so many cute sentiments!  All the members of the DT submitted their favorite sentiments and Melanie and Tammy created these awesome stamps.

Don't forget, Scrappy Moms Stamps is having a contest - the winner will recieve a Scrappy Moms Stamp set of their choice. Email us at scrappymoms.stamps@gmail.com with your guess of which sentiment belongs to who by midnight Dec 23, 2010. Whoever has the most correct will win; if there is a tie we will use Random.org to chose a winner! Here is a list of the Design Team Members - everyone below has at least one sentiment to their name.  

Bonnie

Cristina

Corri

Joanna

Laura

Lauren

Lezlye

Liz

Nicole

Meriah

Momo

Sarah

Trish

Good luck matching these up to the designers....I can only guess a couple!  Okay, so here is my card.

I used Birthday Bash for my card base, B is for Boy for the airplane and Zooballoo for the cloud shapes.  The Design Team is making projects with this set all week, you can find links to their blogs on my left side bar.  Click here to head on over to Scrappy Moms Stamps to order some of these adorable stamps.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #40

The Cricut Cardz Challenge this week is to make a card using scalloped circle, ovals, squares or rectangles.  You may use any cartridges or theme you'd like.  I used my Gypsy to weld two scalloped rectangles from the Cricut Lite Cart. Sugar and Spice for my card base. The clouds and grass  are from Zooballoo and the hills are from Give a Hoot.  The butterfly and flowers are from Create a Critter and the flower stems are from Walk in my Garden.  Wow!  That may be a record for me... 5 cartridges for one card.   I added another butterfly to the inside to dress it up a little.  Click here to hop over to Cricut Cardz Challenge to play along with this week's challenge.

Look what I got.......

Yay! Look what I got from FedEx this weekend.  I was not planning on getting a Gypsy until maybe at Christmas time but last weekend I was on  Ebay getting something for my hubby so I decided to search for Gypsy.  I am so glad I did....I got this for an unbelievable price.

At first me and my Gypsy were not getting along...I expected to pick it up an immediately start designing some awesome cards.  After a few hours of frustration and a little #?*!, I decided to watch some YouTube videos and that made all the difference.  I think I'm figuring this thing out.  This is the first card I made with it. I stretched the Paper Doll Dressup fence and the Zooballoo grass to  5-1/4" .  This is an awesome feature....previously I would have cut two of the shapes and then overlapped them when I glued them down.  This looks so much cleaner.    I also love that you can see everything on the screen prior to cutting....this will prevent so many mistakes.  Sometimes I guess at what size to cut and then have to recut to get the right size.  I really excited about all the fun things I can try with this.  I plan on trying a shaped card next!

PS-  The little birdie is from Create A Critter and the clouds are from Zooballoo. Pattern Paper is SEI.

Moo-Chas Gracias!

This is a card I submitted for The Pink Stampers design team call.  Unfortunately, I did not get selected so I decided to share my card with you guys.   I saw this sentiment a while back on one of Cards Blog galleries and thought it was so cute. 

The cow was cut with Create a Critter.  The clouds were cut from Zooballoo and the grass border is from Paper Doll Dress Up.  The sentiment is computer generated.

Paper Cutz Challenge #42 and Wee Memories

This week the Paper Cutz Challenge is to use a button and ribbon and over at Wee Memories the challenge is "the sky's the limit". I used the rainbow from Create a Critter and the clouds from Zooballoo to come up with my card. The ribbons and the tiny button are from Wal-Mart.

SPCC #47

Here is the color combo over at SPCC this week. I used Zooballoo to cut the puppy and nestabilities to cut the ovals. I got this cute stamp at Michael's a few months ago and have been trying to find something to use it on. I totally agree with this sentiment. I'm not exactly sure what I would use this card for...maybe a note card or a congrats card for a new dog. Anyway, I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Paper Cutz Challenge #34

This week the Paper Cutz Challenge was to create

an Easter card without using chicks or bunnies. I used the Easter basket and eggs from Doodlecharms, the branch and from Zooballoo, the butterfly from Paisley and the sign from Walk in my Garden to come up with my card.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #18

This week the Cricut Cardz Cahllenge is to make an easter card. I used Zooballoo, Walk in my Garden, and Doodlecharms to come up with my card. I hand cut the "hills". I like the way it turned out.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #16

This week Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a Spring card. I had to make another card with this tree from Zooballoo. I have so much fun creating these little scenes. The grass, tree and cloud are from Zooballoo. The butterfly, sign and flowers stems are from Walk in my Garden. The flowers are from a big canister of Prima flowers and the little buttons I found at Wal-Mart.