Treat Bags!

I'm going to visit my niece and nephew this weekend and I wanted to bring them a little treat.  Apparently, Silly Bandz are very popular right now so I thought I'd bring them some.  Since Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge Me Monday is Zoo Animals, I thought I'd use that as a theme for some treat bags for them!  Here is what I came up with:

The hippo and lion are cut at 5 1/2" using the Create-a-Critter cartridge.  I used paper from DCWV Animal Crackers stack.  It's cut at 6 3/4" wide and 4" long and then folded in half.  I stapled the printed cardstock to snack-sized ziplock bags with the treats inside.  I used ribbon wrapped around to cover the staples.

Here's the lion:

and the hippo:

I think my niece and nephew will really like these!

Little Bug

Fantabulous Cricut's challenge me Monday is to create something with a bug and using the color orange! I really love doing their challenges! I have to say that my projects are usually pretty simple and I am usually awed by the other submissions, but I have fun just coming up with something new!  For the challenge this week I used the Create-a-Critter cartridge and used the ladybug cut...so cute!

The leaf is from the Stretch your Imagination cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to weld two leaves together to make a card.  The dimension of them both is 9.30 wide by 6.29 height.  I used a textured cardstock that was green on one side and yellow on the other side.  For the bug I used dark red and orange.  I used some ink to give the card and bug a bit of a distressed look so it would look "naturey".

Here is a close-up of the bug:

I used pop-dots to adhere it to the leaf.  What do you think?  Is it too simple? 

Father's Day Card

Here is a card I made for my Little Cupe to give to her Daddy! My Big Cupe (hubby) and I call my sweet little girl "Lowly Worm", the character from Richard Scarry.  She got this nickname because she had started to hop around all the time and it just reminded us of Lowly worm and how he hops around because he only has one foot!  The name stuck and now Little Cupe usually gets called some variation of Lowly Worm (low, lowly, lowlys, etc).  She has other nicknames too, which I am sure will come up in future posts!  Anyway, here is the card I made.

The card is A6 size.  All the paper I used is The Paper Company, I don't know which pack (sorry!) they came from.  The blue paper is textured with a Sizzix embossing folder called Dots and Diamonds.  The ribbon is from the dollar section at Target!

The worm (really a caterpillar, but I don't think Big Cupe will notice!) is from the Create-a-Critter cartridge (I really have been using this cart A LOT!). It's cut at 3 3/4".

I used my laser printer to print the wording from the front and inside of the card on the cardstock. I don't know if anyone is really interested in the font I used but it's Segoe Print.

I don't know if Little Cupe is going to give this card to Big Cupe, she saw it and declared that it was hers!

Pink Stamper Father's Day Challenge

The Pink Stamper is having a challenge and giveaway. The challenge is to make a Father's Day Project and post it, then you will be entered in the giveaway! She is giving away a CRICUT EXPRESSION!!

For my project I chose to make a card for my dad. I had to think hard for this one because I didn't want to make my dad a generic themed card, ya know?! I wanted it to be special and unique to him. I finally thought of a great idea! My dad has nicknames for me and my siblings, we've had them forever! My nickname is "mouse" because I am quiet (well I was when I got the nickname!!). My sister is "turtle" because she was slow (like a turtle) and my brother's is "bug" because he was small, or because he is buggy, not quite sure on that one (just teasing!)!

I used the Create-a-Critter cartridge for my animals (aren't they cute?!). I wanted a simple card, because that's my dad, straight to the point! So I didn't embellish too much! I used a EK Success border punch for the bottom edge, but that's it. I printed the words using my laser printer with cardstock. I like how the laser printer prints letters so crisp.  Here is the inside:

Again, I used the EK Success border punch so give it a bit of embellishment but not too much!  I can't wait to give him the card, I think he is going to enjoy it a lot!

Challenge Me Monday Project

Today, I created a card for Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut. The Challenge was to create a card with at least 3 flowers on it.
I have had this cute print paper for a long time, I think it is from DCWV, but I could be wrong! I love the colors in this paper so I wanted to use those for the whole card. The card is cut at A6 (6 1/4 X 4 5/8).

The bird is from the Create-a-Critter cartridge, it's cut at 2 inches. I used the same flower cut that is from the bird, it's the Layer 2 cut. I cut the flowers with "Real Dial Size" so that they would be big. The pink flower is cut at 1 1/2 inches and the yellow and brown flowers are cut at 1 1/4 inches.

Since the card was brown I added yellow paper to the inside and put a flower inside, too.

Hope you like it!!