Friday Sketchers 119

Well if you have been following my blog, then you will see that I have been doing a lot of sketch challanges lately. Yesterday, in an effort to find more I googled Friday and Sketch together (because I know of a Monday and Saturday...so went with Friday). I came across the "Friday Sketchers" Blog that has sketch challanges every Friday. Now I know it is not Friday anymore but they give you until Thursday to complete and submit. If you would like to try their sketch challange out or see all the other entries just CLICK HERE to go to the blog.

All my papers are from my scrap stash. I was unhappy with the poinsettia's from the Christmas Cricut cartridge so I used some that I had bought a long long time ago. I added the Merry Christmas sentiment...but thought the card needed a little more. I added stitches and some dots and called it good.

Best wishes and thanks for stopping by,

Valerie

Winter Wonderland - Santa Slackers Challange

Over on the Cricut Message Board Daveshunny and JoySikes are having the Santa Slackers Challange. (Click here to go to the challange) The challange is to make a Christmas card using the Winter Woodland cartridge and Card Patterns Sketch 77. It was also supposed to be a 5.5" square card. Well I made mine an A2 (4.25 x 5.5) because I don't really make square cards very often.

For my card I only used the Winter Woodland for the words "Winter Wonderland". I used Christmas Noel solutions cartridge for the Ribbon/ivy/tag thing (sorry don't know what else I should call it...lol) and the snow flakes. This ribbon I used is brown felt with the stiching already on it. It was actually clearenced with Valentine ribbons at Michael's back in February/March. This is the first time I used it even though I really, really like it. I punched a tiny hole in snow flakes so i could attach to the ribbon with these tiny, tiny brads.

I really love how this card turned out. I think I may just make a few more of them and send out to my favorite family members this year. Shh...don't tell 'em.

Thanks for poppin' over,
Valerie

Mojo Monday 130

I love getting inspiration from the Mojo Monday Sketches. Although I usually do not complete a card from the sketch the same week it is posted on the blog. This sketch is from March 15, 2010, so as you can see I definately did not complete this the same week. If you would like to see the sketch then click HERE to go to the Mojo Monday Blog.

For this card I used the following Cricut Cartridges on my Gypsy:

Storybook: Flower and the letter "B"

Celebrations: Scallop square

Christmas (Noel): Happy

Graphically Speaking: Day

I used Cosmo Cricut paper and ribbon from JoAnns.

Thanks for Looking,

Valerie