"School Zone"

My first post for today is my sweet Mo's image "byebye". She reminds me so much of my sweet little girl, Wednesday, that lives next door. She's almost 4 and wants so badly to go to school. I can just picture her with her backpack and tricycle thinking she can go too. LOL So I combined my digi's and my cricut to come up with this card. I"m seeing more and more of this and really love the two techniques used together. I followed the sketch at The Sweet Stop. The papers are from K&Company, the Marmalade Pack. I used my graphically speaking cartridge for the "school zone" cut, and the mat on the image. The ribbon at the bottom is from Fiskars.

Thanks for taking a look! Have a fantastic weekend!

Jen

Challenges entered:

The Sweet Stop - sketch
Cricut Cards - Anything goes
Critter Sketch - Use red and stripes

Cricut Quickie

Here's my very first Cricut Quickie! I had to throw together a card for a friend of my son's birthday half an hour before he was walking out the door. Don't you just love how they give you a heads up!?! So when it was done I had the idea of doing a "Cricut Quickie" each week. No thinkin ahead....you just have to walk up to the cricut machine and decide! It was actually fun. So I started out with Black cardstock from DCWV for the base and red for the background. Then I quickly flipped through my cricut manuals and decided on the Just 4 You image from graphically speaking. I cut the "Just" box out of black glitter paper from DCWV glitter pack at 4", then the 4, but it was TOO big so I cut it again at 2 1/2" and it was perfect. Then I noticed Potpourri Basket sitting there open to the stars on the all star page so I decided to add some of those. I ran my red cardstock through my new Sizzix Texture Boutique with the scrolls plate and cute the edge with a notebook punch. I think it's Martha Stewart but I'll have to double check that. Then adhered everything together and used the inkadinkadoo stamp Happy Birthday on the inside and embossed it in white. Easy Peasy! I had no idea when Dylan was showing up to pick up Dennis so it was a bit stressful but fun too. The best part was later that evening when the kids stopped by and Dylan thanked me for "making" his card. He thought that was pretty cool.