Scrap Queen

I found a great site that is if you love challenges, which I do. It's called The Daily Dare . It lists challenges that are happening every day. So, I decided to try out a challenge or two. I decided to make a holiday card and enter it into some challenges (which are listed below). I used the Winter Woodland cartridge for the snowman, some rubons for the sentiment and then of course I had to bling it up! I made this card for the following challenges: A Muse Studio Challenge Blog Paper Issues Craft Your Passion Challenges Ooh La La Creations Scrap-Creations There She Goes Cardz TV Fab 'n' Funky Challenges

This weeks challenge at Fantabulous Cricut  is make a Holiday Card. I have been wanting to use the ice skater from the Winter Woodland Cartridge for awhile so I thought this would be a good opportunity. I, also, used some trees from the Winter Frolic cartridge and the pond was from the Create a Critter cartridge. Combine the ice skater with some beautiful embellishments from Creative Charms and it was the perfect look that I was after! This weeks sponsor is Creative Charms and they have some amazing embellishments in their shop. Below I used Their Seasonal Sparkles charms which inclued the all the bling on my card: winter, snow, snowflakes and the stars on the ice skater's dress. If you haven't heard of  Creative Charms or taken a look at their online store than you need to!

This weeks challenge is as easy as 1, 2, 3... create a card or scrapbook layout using either 3 different papers, embellishments, colors, etc, you get the idea! Our sponsor is K 'n K Designs - Winner gets to chose their choice of 3 digital stamp sets. Below is the project I came up with for this challenge. I used the Winter Woodland cartridge for all the diecuts on this colorful page. If you would like to join us for the challenge just click Here  to go to the Made Especially For You blog.

Congratulations to commentor 16 chosen by random.org Rae Ann said... Awesome idea. I thought they were flat squares at first but when I saw that they were 3D blocks and contained photos I was blown away.  Rae Ann O. joyinart.blogspot.com

If you are looking for the Fantabulous Cricut Crawl click HERE  or just keep scrolling down. If you are looking for the Made Especially For You Explosion Box Challenge click HERE . This weeks challenge is to use a punch. I did not even own a punch so YAY! a new toy! My daughter was invited to a birthday party so it was the perfect opportunity to make a birthday card and to use my new border punch. Check out my card below and then try it and post your project on the A Crafting Start blog. I used Disney's Happily Ever After cartridge for the Cinderella diecut.

Keep Scrolling Down for the Made Especially For You Blog Challenge: Explosion Boxes! Welcome to my Blog and the Fantabulous Cricut Harvest Blessings Crawl...Fantabulous Cricut's version of a blog hop! It's Fall and everyone at Fantabulous Cricut has decided to create projects to give thanks for our Harvest Blessings!   Each Design Team member will be featuring an original Fall project that includes Brown, Orange and Red – along with at least one Cricut cut. If you've come from visiting Glenda at Glenda's Cards , you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE . Make sure to check out each DT member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be PRIZES along the way at some of our DT members' blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Harvest Blessings" project at FCCB ! I have very limited...

It's time for a Made Especially For You monday challenge!! This week's challenge is make an explosion box. Now this seems overwhelming at first, but I encourage you to try it. It really is a worthwhile and fun project to make. Take a look below at the explosion box I made for this challenge and keep scrolling for a look at an explosion box that I made for a Christmas gift exchange last year. I decided to make this box to showcase our family pictures for each year during the fall season. I began with the first year of my daughter's life and so on. So, I currently have four years of fall seasons represented and plan to add to this box each year. When I am done there will be 20 years worth of family pictures. The cross diecut is from the Inspired Heart cartridge, the praying girl and boy are from the Chore Chart Lite cartridge and the corn diecuts are from the Just Because Cards cartridge. Here is the view from the otherside of the explosion box. And now, for a look at...

So, the challenge this week was to use stickles on your project. Not too hard considering I love glittering it up! Check out the card I made below and then head on over to the A Crafting Start blog and enter your own project using Stickles! (by the way in case you aren't familiar with stickles - glitter glue). To make this card, I used a stamp for the word Imagine and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I took the stickles and colored in bits of the stamp. Pretty.

I am so excited to be posting my project for my first challenge as a member of the Fantabulous Cricut Blog. The challenge is called Book Lover and I made this adorable Pumpkin Mini Album/Book for my daughter's preschool teacher. You should definitely hop on over to Fantabulous Cricut Blog and upload your project!

It's Monday and that means its challenge central. This challenge comes from the Made Especially For You  blog. The challenge was to take the below sketch and make it our own. Below the sketch is the card that I came up with. Check it out, make your own card, and then visit the blog for a chance to win a cool prize from this weeks sponsor,    Paper Piecings by Nikki .  The Sketch My Card

The first challenge for A Crafting Start is up and it's all about digi stamps. Now this is a completely new concept for me which is why I'm so excited to be on this team, I'm learning so many new things. If you are into learning new techniques or just starting out in the papercrafting world than you have to check out this blog. So, come on over and see all the design team creations and then create your own.  The digi stamp is called Give Thanks and I got it off  Free Digi Stamp blog site. It's just like using a stamp but you print it off the computer instead. This just opened up a whole new world for me!!!

This week's challenge is to create a card or layout using the colors blue , green and pink . Anything goes, as long as all three colors are used. This week's sponsor is   Ready, Set, Create!  and they are offering a free, one-year subscription to their magazine!  Yes, you read that correctly, an entire year subscription for free. Click Here to enter. Here's my project: