Animal Challenge

I am hosting this week's Bitten by the Bug2 challenge: animals. This includes our adorable pets, furry feathered or even scales! Just fell in love with this pup!

Flower Challenge

This is a card that I made for Bitten By the Bug2's flower challenge. This beautiful flower image is is from Miss Kate Cuttables. Thanks for stopping by my blog -- and try this week's challenge!

So excited to learn that I was featured on Miss Kate's blog: http://misskatecuttables.blogspot.com/2018/05/april-may-fan-projects.html!

Dancing Challenge

It's time to celebrate! Here's a novel challenge from Bitten by the Bug2: create something special that involves dancing. I found a Gone with the Wind SVG (as am working on a movie ATC for a swap), and cut the image in vinyl. I adhered it to glitter cardstock and matted it on special handmade damask patterned paper. You can see that the material is soft and doesn't cut clean - but I like the frayed edges.For my ATC, I simply matted the image on white glitter card stock onto black cardstock.

It looks like a wedding dance - or a romantic embrace - so I added the sentiment "For the Newlyweds" from Stampin' Up!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes. I embellished the with a Webster's tassel that falls above the woman's dress and pinned it up with a small brad.

Fiesta Box Card

Of course I had to show you a bright and cheery fiesta-themed card for Cinco de Mayo. I made a Happy Birthday Fiesta Pop Up Card for a friend -- and she loved it! The cut file that I used is from SVGcuts.com: Box Card Kit. Of course, I could have scored and then cut a 12x12 sheet of card stock, but that would have taken me far more time to do. The time-intensive cricut die cut images are from the Ole cartridge. Each image is two inches tall - and some of those cuts are minute. I cut the sentiment in black adhesive vinyl -- using Black and White free fonts from Font Bundle "Brilliant Bundle." What a great font - and the cricut successful cut it as the distressed font it is. The number 1 was fun to make - I glued on layers of shredded cut cardstock over a cricut cut 1, following the same color pattern as the outside patterned paper. I used retired patterned papers from Stampin' Up! And of course, Stickles.

Here is a view from the top:

The outside of the card box is flat.

And it fits nicely in the envelope: