CCC # 65

This week on Cricut Cardz Challenge, we had to make a tall card 9 x 4. I used Stretch your imaginations to cut the flowers. Can I say I love flowers.

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Homemade Gingerbread Man

I like the Stretch your imagination's gingerbread man. I cut him on shadow and silhouette. Then I used UTEE on the silhouette cut to give it a shiny raised look of frosting.

CCC # 43 Baby card with only white, yellow, green and orange

So I had a bit too much fun with this challenge. I hope you can play along too at  Cricut Cards. Only one of them I could submitt to the CCC design team example for this challenge to make a baby card using only the colors white, green, yellow and orange. I thought that this challenge was great for any gender baby.

So the first on is from New Arrival, I welded the baby carriage to make a card and then used the layers to decorate it a bit. The hearts came from a punch I have. I inked the edges to help the hood stand out better. I have mixed feelings now that it is done.

This is also from New Arrival. I just love this cart. It opens in the center. I saw an example of this one online on the Cricut message board here. Mine of course looks different, but it was the style I was trying to emulate.

Got to love the giraffe from Create a critter.  The Congrats. is from New Arrival.

This is a stretch your imaginations carriage. This was the first card I made for this challenge. I really wanted to use the same cut and remake it a bit differently, but I go distracted by all the other cards I made and never got back to this one. Oh, well, maybe next time.

This was my second card I made.  Came out different that I imagined it up in my mind, but I am still happy with it.  

CCC # 42 Halloween frame card

Cricut Cards Challenge this week was to use the card feature on a cartridge to make a Halloween card. So I used Stretch your Imagination and mad this card. What fun.

Farm card

I just love this barn in the Everyday paper dolls cart. The turkey and ducks came from Animal Kingdom. The grass and fence from Dress up paper dolls. The tree is from Stretch your imaginations. The clouds came from a varity of carts. It was pretty time consuming to put it all together, but it was fun to make.
It reminds me of the farm I grew up on, where we had wild turkeys, duck and chickens.  For a small bit of time we had goats, sheep and horses too.  We didn't have the cool red barn, but oh well.  I am glad to live in town now. Too much work to own a farm.  I would never have time for crafting and that would be too sad. 

A card for any occasion

This card did not scan as well as I had hoped. Some of the colors are more muted. Any way, it is an A2 version of a card I made for a challenge a couple of weeks ago. I changed up the colors and the size, but other than it is pretty much the same. I was asked to do a card class for church with some simple cards that people might enjoy to make. So here is the first one I plan to do. Let's see if I can come up with 3-5 more. One of which they would like to be a Christmas card.

Card recipe:
12-  squares 1 inch each in two colors
Blue 5 1/4 by 4 inch  and 2 1/4 inch square
cream 5  by 3 3/4 inch and 2 inch square
embroidery thread
Close to my heart Garden Green ink
Stretch your imagination  silhouette cut at 1.95

Christmas card Challenge

For Throw back Thursday on "Creative time for me" we were asked to use wild card to make a holiday card. Since I don't have it, I used Stretch your Imagination. I am also using this card for the challenge for Cardztv, as it is Christmas in July and the challenge was to use ribbon, buttons, or lace. I have a button trim from cuttlebug and ribbon. The sentiment of Merry Christmas was done by inking the cuttlebug folder and then embossing the paper.

Card Patterns Sketch # 72 Challenge

 I have never done a card challenge where I had to follow a certain pattern. I thought this was good for me, since I like to do A2 size cards. I tend to shy away from square, but after this one I think I will continue to expand more often. This was for a challenge on Card Patterns blog. All paper but the white is from Papertrey Ink, as is the ink. The main cut is from Stretch your imagination and the flower is from Create a critter cartridges. Well now I am going to have to make an envelope to go with this, so I have it ready to go at any point it is needed.

Stretch Your Imaginations Holly card

Adjusted to fit an A2 size envelope perfectly.

Stretch Your Imagination present card

Here are two cards made with Stretch your imaginations. I used design studio to adjust them to fit an A2 envelope perfectly. I love this card and will have to make more. They can be used for so may things.