BBTB2 Challenge

Hello Crafters,
What a productive weekend this feels like. I think it may be because my wonderful fiance cleaned all the floors and did some of the laundry while I was out shopping with a friend yesterday. And no you can't borrow him :) Because all that was done it means I have had a great deal more time then usual this weekend to play in my craft room.

The challenge over on Bitten by the Bug Blog is to make something using the fishing cut from A child's Year. I don;t own this cartridge but can always use more masculine cards in my stash. So I made one using the fishing cut from the Going Places cartridge.
Hope your weekend is going as great as mine!
Tara

Recipe:

A2 size card

Base, black and beige cardstock - Recollections

Layers - Kraft card stock and textured look paper from stash

Hemp - from stash

Wooden button - from stash I got at a flea market

Top layer of cut- Going places circle feature cut @ 3"

Bottom circle - Going places ("no sign" on blackout) cut @ 3"

Brown ink (around edges) - Martha Stewart

Sentiment  - Pink by Design (Simply Everything Set)

Scrappy Moms Challenge

Hi again,
I have been on a roll this weekend! Here is a card I made for the Scrappy Moms challenge. Sadly, I do not own any Scrappy Moms stamp sets but that doesn't mean that I don't love them! Any and all of their sets are on my never ending wish list! :) To be fair I didn't want to use any other stamp brand on this challenge so instead I printed off a sentiment from my computer. I am impressed with myself when reviewing this card as I used my cuttlebug (heck, it was already out and dusted off lol) and I finally used some of those hundreds of eyelets I just had to have after getting my Big Bite for Christmas (which I must admit has been greatly under used and neglected). My mission to make a card using every cute cut on create a critter (are there any cuts that aren't cute on that cart.?) is now one step closer with this card.
Tara

Recipe:

A2 Size Card

Cardstock - Recollections

Ribbon - Offray

Bling - Dollarama

Eyelets - Making Memories (pastel set)

Sentiment - computer generated

(the middle of the banner is pop dotted but I am not sure you can tell in the picture)

Big Bite

ATG

Zig 2 Way Glue

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge

Hello Crafters,
The challenge on the Fantabulous Cricut blog this week was "emboss it". One of my crafting goals for this year is to use more of what I have and that would include dusting off my cuttlebug way more often! Here is the card I made for the challenge. All the information about the card is below the picutre.
As always, thanks for looking!
Tara
P.S. How stinkin' cute is that crown!
P.P.S Her foot is not really covering the sentiment it just looks that way in the photo because of the angle I think.

Recipe:

All cardstock from my scrap pile (more than likely Recollections)

Bling - Dollarama

Sentiment - Pink by Design ("Rock On" collection)

Ribbon - Offray

Cuttlebug "Spots and Dots" folder

Blog Award

Hello everyone,
I was super excited to learn that I have received another blog award. It is from Kim at http://www.kimizkraftz.com/.

The following are the award rules:

1). It's a blog award handed over to your favorite five blogs, that has less than one hundred followers.


2). The award is passed on to the five, by commenting on their blog, telling them that their blog is one of your favorites and that it has been chosen for the Liebster Blog Award.

3). The one who receives the award posts a link back to the person who gave it to them, and five of his/hers favorite blogs (you are allowed to choose the person who sent you the award if you wish) with less than one hundred followers.


Now here is where I have run into a problem. I went through the list of blogs I follow and realized there are very few that I follow that have less then 100 followers. I would love to hand this award on to some very deserving people but just don't know who... So my request to you is, if you know someone who has a blog and has less then 100 followers please leave me a comment with their link and I will for sure check them out! Thanks for any and all help you can give me. I'm excited to go visit some new talent!
Tara

Flaunt it Fridays Challenge

Hello Crafters,
I was excited when I saw the challenge on the Flaunt it Fridays Blog. The challenge was to make something with the Forever Young cartridge and the cut choice this week is Model 1, Emblem (Silhouette feature) on Page 24. Here is my entry in the challenge.
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Tara
P.S. Sorry about the bad lighting I had to take this at night and without the natural light my craft room seems like a dungeon.

Recipe:

Forever Young - both layers cut @ 3"

Black and Purple cardstock from scrap pile

Grey smokey card base - Memories Forever cardstock

Ribbon - Offray

Bling - Dollarama

Fiskers border punch - 'give it a swirl'

Sentiment - Pink By Design Shopaholic set

Scrap Tiffany Challenge

Hello Crafters,
Sorry I have been MIA lately. First I had a cold, then got a terrible flu and just when things were looking up...another cold hit! I am sick and tired of being sick and tired! My craft room has been such a mess because there was a couple times I thought I wanted to craft but then got in there and lost interest. I went in today to tidy up and unearthed a long over due project. Scrap Tiffany had a challenge that was issued on Feb. 1st which I started to make a card for. The inspiration was a colour challenge and since I have such a hard time with these (I have to remind myself a challenge is suppose to be a bit hard, it is to challenge you, right?!) I decided I am going to try to do more of them. Anyways, there was an inspiration board with the colours yellow and grey (loved it! you should check it out, click on the link above and then find the Feb. 1st post) Here is the card I started, oh I don;t know two weeks ago and finally finished by adding the embellishments today. I didn't stamp a sentiment because it is a pretty generic card I can stamp on when I decide who and what I want to give it for.
Thanks for taking a peek and hopefully I will be back with a little more consistency soon!
Tara

Recipe:

Create a critter - hippo cut @ 3"

Recollections cardstock (white base, yellow border, light grey)

Paper Relections (grey textured cardstock)

Striped yellow paper - scrap pile

Offray Ribbon

Buttons - stash

Bling - Dollarama

Happy Valentines Day!

Hello,
Here is the card I made for Brian this year for Valentines Day. I used my friends Stampin' Up stamps. I think the set might have been called 'Things I Love' but I am not 100% sure. I stamped them at her house last weekend and then whipped the card up this weekend here! I used the Stampin' Up markers to colour in the stamps and I was not super impressed with how the stamp turned out. I am a perfectionist so the faded parts bothered me at first but then looking at them this weekend I thought what the heck...the distressed look is really in right now lol!
As always, thanks for looking!
Tara

Recipe:

Recollections cardstock

Stampin' Up stamp set

Stampin' Up markers

ATG

Heart - Cricut cut 3' Plantin Schoolbook