Roar birthday card

I'd roar if it was my birthday-how about you?  The lion from Create A Critter 2 is ready to party for someone's birthday!  This is another card for my Create a Critters collection (the rest can be found under the CAC and CAC2 tags on the sidebar).  The paper is from the American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray collection.  I'm going to link this to the Cut it Up challenge to use a lion or lamb on a project.

Cricut:
Create A Critter 2-all cuts
Paper-American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray collection
brown chalk ink/Stampin Up Close to Cocoa ink for the sentiment
stamp-My Pink Stamper set
button-Stampin Up

Happy Birthday card

This is just quick birthday card with the bee from Birthday Bash!  (I had to whip one up in a hurry for someone!)  I'm linking him to the Paper Playtime challenge this week to use a bee.  I used my American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray 6x6 paper for the prints.  (I'll write the recipient's name in tiny letters on the tag to personalize it.)

Cricut:
Birthday Bash-all cuts
Paper-American Crafts Hip Hip Hooray collection prints, solids CTMH
brown chalk ink
Stamp-Stampin Up

"Music, Hear the music" layout (for Exploring Cricut)

I get to do the daily project at Exploring Cricut today!  I don't know if this is true for any of you, but I am constantly looking for ideas for scrapping photos of school music events, so that's what my project is about.  I've made a layout for photos of Son#1's middle school orchestra performing at several schools and having a picnic together (where they broke out guitars and harmonicas and played even more music at the park!).

 I used the Quarter Note cartridge for the titles and a block format for the photos.  I love Quarter Note, and highly recommend it if you have kids doing music.  So often these type of photos are taken in a gym with bad lighting, which can be even more of a challenge to scrap!  I had to do some heavy duty photo editing to lighten the pics in the gym on the right hand page.  The paper is from Echo Park's This and That Charming collection.

Cricut:

Quarter Note-all cuts

Paper-Echo Park This and That collection

brown chalk ink

I have two posts going up today:

If you are looking for the BBTB2 card feature challenge, scroll down one post.  My Easter themed post for Exploring Cricut is just below.  Have an excellent crafting Monday :)

Easter layout (for Exploring Cricut)

The Exploring Cricut challenge theme this week is "Easter", and we'd love to have you play along and share a project!  I chose to do a layout.  One of our family traditions is taking a photo after church of all of us dressed up in our nice clothes.

I have a spot for a family photo on the left page and a place for a picture of each of my sons on the right page.  The cursive title font is from the Baby Steps cartridge (I don't use the rest of that cart much, but I do really like the font!).  All the rest of the cuts are from Kate's ABCs and make me feel like spring (although I would feel more like spring if we hadn't gotten several inches of snow yesterday)!  The lovely print papers and stickers are from American Crafts, as are the buttons I added to the big flower centers.

Cricut:
Kate's ABCs-all cuts
Paper/Stickers-American Crafts prints, solids are CTMH
brown chalk ink
buttons-American Crafts

We'd love to see your Easter projects at Exploring Cricut :)

I'm going to link this also to the Fantabulous Cricut Easter challenge this week.

You're the Bomb card (for the BBTB2)

Using the card feature from any cartridge was the challenge this week at the BBTB2.  I went with Wild Card 2 and made this ticking time bomb card for my teen son, who will find it hilarious (aren't all teenage boys ticking time bombs anyway?)!  I cut it at 4 1/2 inches and it is smaller inside than I expected, but should work just fine for a short funny message and some candy in his lunchbox.  I cut the "You're the Bomb" sentiment at 4 1/2 also, thinking it would be proportional, but it was too large, so I put it on the envelope instead.  This is only the second card I've made from this cart and I'm still figuring out it's quirks.

Cricut:
Wild Card 2-card and envelope
Paper-CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
Swiss dots embossing folder

I can't wait to see what creative cards people make this week!  The BBTB2 DT members have some very cool cards to look at for inspiration.  So have some fun making a card this week and link it up!

Dino-mite! card

This cute little dino card is another in my collection of Create A Critter cards.  I used Elegant Edges for the background shape.  He's all fun in blue prints for a boy birthday.  He's got a mix of papers, from Echo Park, American Crafts, and CTMH, and Stampin Up.  The sentiment is from a My Pink Stamper set.

Cricut:
Create A Critter-dino
Elegant Edges-background shapes
Paper-dots are Echo Park, solids CTMH, American Crafts, Stampin Up
Stamp-My Pink Stamper set
Ribbon-American Crafts
punches-Stampin Up
bling-found in the bottom of the stash!

I'm going to link this to the Crafty Ribbons challenge-One for the Boys.