Fun in the Sun

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #204 Sketch Challenge

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~Design Team Inspiration~

~This Weeks Challenge~

Create a project inspired by the sketch below:

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

For my project this week, I decided to look toward the coming summer and sitting by the pool, feeling the grass on my feet, and wearing my new sunglasses. Literally, this card came from me and my summer experiences. I image sending this card to a friend from out of town to come and stay with us for a long weekend.

I love this image and phrase from the Cricut cartridge, Summer Celebrations. I used bright colors on the circle and the umbrella. I thought about adding glitter, but the bright colors felt real to me without the glitter. I cut the grass from the Holiday Frames & Tags Cricut cartridge. The sunglasses were also from the Summer Celebrations cartridge. The patterned paper background is from the Recollections, Bold Basics stack. The white cardstock is embossed with a small floral folder from Cuttlebug. I used a gem from my stash for the center of the sunglasses.

Challenges Entered:

Allsorts Challenges: Use those Die Cuts

My Creative Moments - Wordplay: Anything

Alphabet Challenge: D for Die Cuts

Cut it Up: Anything Goes + Die Cuts

C.R.A.F.T Challenge: What Season are You? 

Steampunk Pirate

It's time for another challenge this week at Through the Purple Haze. The challenge this week is to go steampunk! You don't want to miss out since our sponsor is Rick St. dennis.

For this challenge, I was given the Privateer by Rick St. dennis to work with.

I wanted him to be rugged, handsome, and a bit disheveled from his pirating ways. So I started with the inking. Spectrum Noir:

Face, Buckle, Charm: FS1 - 3, TN2, TN6, GB2

Hair: TN4, TN7

Hat, Boots, Sword: IG1 - 7

Feather and accessories: LG 2 -5

(Not sure of the colors on the pants. They were an experiment.)

With the coloring done, I wanted to keep that the focus of the card.  

I used a deep green for all the mats, the first layer of patterned paper (script writing) is from my stash, and the next layer (keys) is from BoBunny Timepiece. I added mesh from my stash since it reminded me of netting. All of the other embellishments such as the gear and the charm are from my stash. 

I love the parrot at the top right corner, and I imagine this steampunk parrot following our pirate around on his adventures.

The best part: a treasure map!

Challenges Entered:

Challenges for Everybody: Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts: Texturize it
The Male Room: Vintage

Challenge #9 Anything Goes + Vinyl

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Challenge #9: Anything Goes + Vinyl

How do you use Vinyl? On a paper craft project? On a window or car? Show us your latest vinyl creations no matter what the form or format. 


Codes: M, 3E, C10
Challenge ends April 21st.


Sponsor:
We are tremendously lucky to have CricketVinyl Supplies as our sponsor. 

The design-team-chosen winner of our challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to CricketVinyl, and a random chosen winner will receive a $5 gift certificate to CricketVinyl. With multiple ways to win, make sure to enter the maximum number of times: 3. 

Need supplies, CricketVinyl is offering our participants a 15% off discount! Just use the following discount code: scrapbookerphd

Here's what our design team has come up with:

Faith

Kelly

Randi

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Hello, Sweetie

I must finally come clean. I am a huge Doctor Who fan, so much so that I consider myself a Whovian. When I want to make projects that are Doctor Who themed, I sometimes have to stretch my imagination to find the right embellishments.

The most important part is the spaceship - well, the transport ship that travels through time and space. That's the phone box you see in the card. It's in disguise. It's bigger on the inside, and it is called a TARDIS. I found a .jpg of a basic TARDIS, uploaded it to my Cricut Explore, and cut in blue Vinyl. TARDIS blue is the actual name of the color. It is my favorite color... and the doctor and his red bow tie or fez are the best color combinations.

All of the other elements such as the fez (cut from an SVG file from Pretty Papers, Pretty Ribbon) and the shoe (cut from Cricut Bridal Shower) are references to characters in the show. The Jim Holtz embossing folder, Blueprints, really finished the look.

Watch the video to learn more about how this card came together. And learn some Doctor Who trivia as well.

Challenges Entered:
Craft-Room Challenge: Transport
Through the Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
Creative Cutting Challenge: Anything Goes + SVG file
The Pink Elephant: Color Combination
Artistic Inspirations: Anything Goes

Celebtrate Art

Exploring Cricut is hosting their second challenge of the month. The challenge is to use 1 pattern + color. I'm so pleased to share my project with you today.

Crafters are truly artists. I find that we dabble in with many different styles and types and tools. When I found this Paper House, Artist paper stack, I fell in love. I wanted to push my own style with these patterns that are all about art, love, and imagination. For this card, I let the paper be the focal point of the card. I used a matching blue cardstock for the frame, and then used the same blue in a pearlescent style to punch the paint splotch for EK. Finally, I cut the sentiment from a scrap of pearlescent paper, so the sentiments would shine. The cut is from the Cricut cartridge, Quarter Note.

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

Discover Camping

I'm so excited to share this card for Exploring Cricut. There is definitely a fun story behind this card. While some families participate in sports like baseball or basketball, my family competes in canine sports with our dogs. Our favorite sport is agility. It's like an obstacle course with you and your dog. There is a group of us that camp at competitions that are far from home. It's a lot of fun. At one competition, I was practicing some new functions I learned about my Cricut Craft Room. So there I was designing. I was working off of a sketch that I liked. A friend came over, and she suggested I make the theme about camping. And here is the finished product:

I started with the base green and embossed it with a tree bark folder from CuttleBug. Next, I added the brown tags and scalloped border. The tent and background was cut from Cricut's Camping Critters, and I wanted to add pops of color here. The two blue pattern papers (the outer circle is cream and blue dots) was cut from BasicGrey, Hey Girl! stack and Crate Paper unknown paper stack. I used the same cream and blue dot papers to cut the word "discover" to place across the tags. This was cut using the Cricut cartridge Boys will be Boys. 

Challenges Entered:

Fab n Funky: Masculine

Stampavie and More: Sports

Crafty Girls: Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments: Anything Goes + a sentiment

Cute Card Thursday: Wild World