Superhero Card

This is for the special little superhero in your life.

I used the Cricut cartridge Artbooking for the overlay and Create a Friend for the sentiment. Most importantly, I used this fantastic Superhero Badge (svg cut) from Pretty Papers, Pretty Ribbons. Watch the video for tips on putting this card together and using Cricut Explore Design Space.

Challenges Entered:

Allsorts Challenge: About a Boy
4 Crafty Chicks: No patterned paper
Crafting for all Seasons: No DP
Fab 'n' Funky: Boys to Men
Brown Sugar: Anything Goes
Cut it Up: Anything Goes
Pretty Papers, Pretty Ribbons: About Kids

Summer Poolside

It's time for another challenge at Through the Purple Haze. This week's theme is embossing. And we have a fabulous Sponsor:

My project started with this amazing digital stamp called Eve Swimming from Anonymous Stamps. I have loved this image since I first saw it, and am so pleased to use it for this challenge.

I started with the blue and white patterned paper because it looks like a summer sky to me. Then, I added the sun overlay from the Cricut cartridge CTMH: Artbooking. I am so excited to finally use an overlay. I think they add something fun and different to projects. But the small circle for the sun on the overlay just didn't feel like a sun, so I added this chip board sun from my stash. I like the pop of orange.

Next, I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color the image. I embossed her bikini with clear embossing powder, and then I used Comotion Clear Tops embossing powder in Essence of Monet on the water because it has blues, greens, and a touch of purple in the powder. To me, it helped the water shine and look more realistic.

Next, I took Ranger Perfect Pearls in Green Patina and dusted it along the edge of the tiles. It's hard to see in the photo, but the Perfect Pearls gives off a shine when you use your embossing heater and dry the pearls.

This was such a fun challenge; I hope you play along!

Challenges Entered:
Addicted to Stamps: Use Markers (Wednesdays)
Shopping our Stash: Shiny (Tuesdays)
Southern Girls Challenge: Bling it Up (Thursday 3W)
Crafting When We Can: Lots of Bling (Sunday 2W)

Butterfly Notes

Have you ever worked on a card that just challenged your creativity to the point where it took a week or more to finish? That's this card.

It started with just elements... the note card (cream color) and the ink well stamp (brown) and postage stamp (black). From there, I became lost. Nothing I tried worked. Until finally, I found some interesting embellishments that gave me some more inspiration like the feathers and the button. I added the embossed post card in craft paper. This embossing folder (a post card) look like fun, and I bought it just last week. But it actually was difficult to use.

The card still looked empty, so I cut the swirls with my Cricut Artbooking cartridge, and used pearlescent paper (new paper pack) to give it a little shimmer. 

I'm very pleased with the final product. It was definitely worth the wait.

Challenges Entered: 

Stamplorations: Feathers.
Redd & Rosie Challenges: No White
Card and Scrap: Bling. 

Feeling Crafty Challenge: Butterflies. 

Winter Wonderland: SKI

This is a sample card for Exploring Cricut's Winter Wonderland Challenge.

I rarely see snow living in Georgia, but I can remember many a winter day skiing back in Pennsylvania when I was in college. I tried to capture that in this card. It was inspired by the first time I took my best friend skiing. She actually slipped, and her chin hit the pole really hard. Maybe I should have made this a get well card???

I decided to use this snow sentiment paper as the background because it perfectly sums up a fun winter's day. To offset the blue, I cut all of the die cuts in black. I used the ski image from the Cricut Cartridge, Going Places and the snowflake border from Artbooking. Then I added a snowflake from the Cricut Cartridge, Gypsy Wanderings.

To really make the patterned paper work as a sentiment, I cut a circle out of the scraps and mat it on a scalloped circle. I cut the edges of the circles so that it would fit in the corner of the card.