Cut It Up Challenge 219 - All You Need is Love

Hello crafters and happy Friday. I hope all of you are staying warm out there if you live in a cold weather place.  In San Diego if it gets down to the low 60s we are all freezing! I don't know if I could go back to living where there is snow and freezing temps. 

Our Cut It Up challenge this week is All You Need Is Love. It's the perfect challenge for Valentine's Day this weekend. I bought these gnome stamps and dies a while ago on Amazon so I decided to make a Valentine's Day card for my project.

Paper: Echo Park and Stampin' Up 

Gnome die and stamp set: Amazon 

Heart Balloon die: My Creative Time  

Dots: Echo Park 

Heart sequins: Recollections 

Markers for coloring: Spectrum Tri Blend 

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

Prize: $20 e-gift code
Website: http://yournextstamp.com/ 

I hope you will join our challenge. Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by my blog!

Cut It Up Challenge #218 - Point of View

Hello and happy Friday to all of you! This week sure felt long to me.  I think I'm just tired of working from home. On a positive note, CA lifted the stay at home order this week so we can go out a bit more.  Still many restrictions in place but one step at a time. 

For our Cut It Up challenge this week, the theme is Point of View ~ Use something representing viewing scenes or capturing views! Camera, binoculars, glasses, microscope, telescope, magnifying glass, film, photo, etc.

Our awesome sponsor for this challenge is The Cutting Cafe and they gave our design team some digital files to use for this challenge.  Here is the card I made with their camera card file:

Camera Card Digital File and sentiment: The Cutting Cafe

Paper: I used paper from my scraps

 

A big thank you to our sponsor:

Prize: 3 sets to one winner
Website: http://www.thecuttingcafeshop.com

I hope you will join our challenge. Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

 

Cut It Up Challenge #217 - Go Back in Time

Hello and happy Friday! I hope you are all well and staying safe. Since we are still staying home, I will be cleaning/organizing my craft room this weekend and I'm excited about that. It's a bit of a mess and my goal is to be more organized this year so I don't spend so much time looking for supplies. I'd much rather be making a project.

This week our Cut It Up challenge is Go Back in Time ~ It may be a new year, but we want you to take us to a decade before the year 2000! You can transport us to your decade via a theme, icon, phrase, image, or stash item. Be sure to tell us the decade! 

When I was a kid, my sisters and I loved to make tie dyed shirts so I decided to make a card from the 70s using a tie dyed background.

 

Background paper: I found on Pinterest. I sized then

used print and cut on my Cricut to print it out.

Card base: Stampin' Up

Tag: My Creative Time

Sentiment: Stampin' Up

Sequins: Michaels

  

Our awesome sponsor this week is:

 Prize: $25 gift card

Website: https://www.lawnfawn.com/

I hope you will join our challenge. Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

 

 

Cut It Up Challenge #216 - Winter (create a card with a winter scene)

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday.  Here's hoping 2021 will be a better year for all of us. I'm looking forward to having some normalcy in my life again. I miss seeing friends, family and co-workers. I know it won't happen yet, but I'm hopeful it will happen in the near future.

Our first Cut It Up challenge for 2021 is Winter (make a card with a Winter scene). I just love penguins so I decided to use them on my card.

Penguin dies: Lawn Fawn
Igloo and snowflake dies: Simon Says Stamp
Pond die: Create a Critter Cricut cartridge
Sentiment: Simon Says Stamp
Paper: Recollections
Embossing folder: Stampin Up!

Our very generous sponsor for this challenge is:

 

 

Prize: $20 prize code
Website: https://cas-ualfridaysstamps.com/

 

I hope you will join our challenge! Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a Happy New Year and stay safe!

 

 

 

 

Cut It Up Challenge 215 - Tic-TAG-Toe-- Make a TAG using the Tic Tac Toe Game Board!

Hello crafters! I hope all of you are doing well and surviving this craziness in our world right now. Sadly, our numbers have skyrocketed in San Diego again so we are on another stay at home order. I will stay home and wear my mask if I have to go out. If everyone does the same, I know our numbers will drop.

Ok, on to a much more fun topic. This week we are having a Tic-TAG-Toe challenge - Make a tag using this game board:

For my tag, I used one of the diagonal lines - Gold, Digi or Stamp, and Santa.  Our sponsor, DRS Designs, gave each of us on the design team a stamp (or digi stamp) of our choice to use for our tags. Here is the tag I made:

Digi Santa Stamp: DRS Designs
Banner die: Stampin' Up!
Snowflake die: My Creative Time
Joy die: Diamond Press
Paper: Stampin' Up!
Makers to color: Spectrum Tri Blend Markers
I used Diamond Stickles on Santa's hat 

Our awesome sponsor this time is:

Prize: $20.00 voucher
Website: www.drsdesigns.com 

I hope you will join our challenge! Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I hope all of you have a wonderful holiday season. Stay safe.

 

Cut It Up Challenge 214 - Christmas

Hello crafty friends! I hope all of you had a very Happy Thanksgiving. We had a very small family gathering and it was perfect. As usual, we all ate too much but there are plenty of leftovers so we will be eating turkey for the next few days!

Our Cut it Up challenge this time is to make a project for Christmas. I can't even believe Christmas is less than a month away! The good thing is that I will be doing most of my shopping online so I don't have to leave the house and can shop any time of the day/night.

I made this card for my Christmas project:

Poinsettia Die: Diamond Press
Patterned Paper: Simple Stories
Solid Paper: Stampin' Up 

Stamp: Hero Arts 

Embossing Folder: Cricut Cuttlebug Snow Flurry
I used Wink of Stella and Diamond Stickles on the Poinsettia

Ink: Stampin' Up

Our fantastic sponsors for this challenge are:

 

Prize: $50 gift voucher

Website: https://creativeembellishments.com/

 

Prize: $20 gift code

Website: https://stamplorations.com/

 

I hope you will join our challenge this week. Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

Cut It Up Challenge #213 - Be Strong/Be Brave/Be Bold

Hello crafters! I hope you are all having a great week.  It's been chilly here (in the 60s) and it finally feels like fall! I always miss the east coast in the fall but I'm just happy we are not having 95 degree weather any more.  We actually had wind and rain all last weekend.  It is always good when we get some rain, it helps to lower the fire danger.

This week our Cut It Up challenge is Be Strong/Be Brave/Be Bold. I love this challenge and here is the card I made:

Paper: My Mind's Eye "Adorbs"
Heart die: Pink Journey Cricut Cartridge
Merida Princess die: Ideas with Love
Sequins: Close to My Heart

Our awesome sponsor this week is:

Prize: $20 prize code

Website: https://cas-ualfridaysstamps.com/

I hope you will join our challenge! Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog and I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.  We will be back on November 27th with our next challenge.

 

Cut It Up Challenge #212- Happy Thanksgiving - Make a Thanksgiving themed box or bag

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you are all having a good week.  I have been so swamped with work lately and I am looking forward to things slowing down a bit very soon.  It has been chilly here at night and it finally started feeling like Fall until the weather report today said to prepare for 90 degree weather on Sunday and Monday. I sure am ready for summer temps to be over.

This week at Cut It Up our challenge is to make a Thanksgiving themed box or bag.  Our sponsor, Digital Delights by Louby Lou, gave us the cute pumpkin with sunflower die cut file to use for this challenge. Here is the project I made:

Bag die: Lori Whitlock svg file cut on my Cricut Maker

Pumpkin die: Digital Delights by Louby Lou
Pattern paper: DCWV 

Spectrum Noir Tri Blend markers used to color the pumpkin die

 

Our sponsor for this challenge was Digital Delights by Louby Loo, which is now out of business, but the prize is two adorable digis.

 

I hope you will join our challenge! Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

Cut It Up Challenge 211 - Sketch Challenge

Hello fellow crafters! I hope you are all doing well.  I had this week off and I've been to the beach twice already and we are going to stay at a hotel near the beach this weekend for our anniversary (which is on Monday). The weather has been in the 90s so spending it at the beach has been so fantastic! I have always loved going to the beach in October in San Diego because the weather is still nice but there are not as many crowds.  Since we are all supposed to be staying away from crowds, it was just perfect.

Our Cut It Up challenge this week is a sketch challenge.  We had a choice of these two sketches:

I used the top sketch and made this Halloween card:
 

 

Witch and Bat dies: Echo Park 

Banner dies: My Creative Time 

Circle die: Cut on my Cricut  

Paper: Echo Park

 

Our awesome sponsor this week is our own leader, Evelyn!  She has very generously donated this adorable stamp set from Pink & Main for the winner of this challenge. Isn't it adorable??

I hope you will join our challenge this week. Please stop by and check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

Cut It Up Challenge #210 - World Card Making Day (October 3)

Hello fellow crafters! I hope you are all well. I know technically it is Fall but it's hard to think about Fall when it is 100+ degrees here.  Too hot for me! I'll be happy next week when they tell us it will drop down to the mid to low 80s.

We are celebrating World Card Making Day for our challenge this week.  Our awesome sponsor, The Cutting Cafe, sent us some images/sentiments that we could use on our projects this week. I made this card for the challenge:

 

Pumpkin: The Cutting Cafe
Sign: Cricut Outdoor Man cartridge
Grass: Cricut Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge
Sentiment on sign: The Cutting Cafe
Cloud stencil: Lawn Fawn
Markers for coloring: Spectrum Tri Blend markers
Polka Dot background paper: Authentique
Solid Paper: Recollections

Thank you to our fantastic sponsor:

Prize: 3 sets to one winner
Website: http://www.thecuttingcafeshop.com

I hope you will join our challenge this week. Please stop by and check our all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

Cut It Up Challenge #209 - Happy Fall Y'All with 3+ Layers

Hello crafters! It sure is hot and dry here in San Diego. That's a dangerous combination for the fires we are having in CA. The destruction is so devastating. Cooler temps are coming so hopefully that will help the firefighters get things under control. They truly are heroes. I hope all of you are staying safe no matter what part of the country or world you live in.

O.k., our Cut It Up Challenge this week is to make a fall project with 3+ layers.  Fall is my favorite time of the year, I even got married in October (I was living in NJ at the time and the leaves were so pretty in our pictures). Here is the card I made for our challenge:

Paper: Simple Stories and DCWV

Sentiment: Cardz TV Stamps
Pumpkin Die: Hot Off The Press
Sequins: Michaels
Banner punch: Stampin' Up
Burlap: Michaels
Markers for coloring: Spectrum Noir

 

Our awesome sponsor this week is:

Prize: $50 gift voucher
Website: https://creativeembellishments.com/

 

I hope you will join our challenge this week. Please stop by and check our all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.

 

 

Cut It Up Challenge #208- The Wheels on the Bus (use wheels on your project)

Hello crafters! I don't know where the past couple of weeks have gone but they sure have flown by. My husband and I tried to go to the beach last weekend but by the time we got there the parking lot was full. We decided to go over to the bay side and there was plenty of parking. It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed just relaxing and getting some sun. It felt good to be outside and out of the house. We will certainly be going back again soon. I hope all of you are doing well during this very difficult time.

This week our Cut It Up challenge is The Wheels on the Bus (use wheels on your project).  A friend of mine got me the cutest stamp set for my birthday recently so I decided to use that set for our challenge:

 

Car, palm tree and cooler dies: My Favorite Things

Clouds, ocean and sun dies: My Creative Time

Paper: Recollections and Carta Bella

Stamp: My Favorite Things

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Our awesome sponsor this week is:

Prize: $20 store credit
Website: http://www.newtonsnookdesigns.com/

 

Please check out all the other amazing design team posts at Cut It Up. I hope you will join our challenge.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and stay safe.