Guest Designer With Craftin Desert Divas

I am posting today as a guest designer for Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party hosted by Tara of Craftin Desert Divas! Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly linky party and you could win fabulous prizes!!

This linky party theme is Back to School!

The sponsor is Candice Fields - to win the Wildflower Bundle from Stampin Up! You get the stamp set and embossing folder. and My Scrap Chick is giving away a $10 giftcard!!

The more you link up, the better chance you have to win.  Visit Craftin Desert Divas for all the rules and to play along.

Here is what I created for this linky party....

I used Bo Bunny's older Learning Curve paper line. I love the deeper colors instead of the bright primary for a change. 

I made a hidden journaling tag. There is a piece of leather scrap that you pull on. The "ABC" square I made as a pocket.

Here is a detail of the library card layer. I crumpled it up and tore it slightly. Then I inked it (and everything else on the page) with Quick Quotes Mocha Mama Powder Puff Inks.

Hope you will Craft It Up & Link It Up!!!

December 100 Cricut Cart Blog Hop with MCCR

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's Monthly 100 Cartridge Blog Hop for December!!

If you got here from Mary's blog, great you are on the right track!

If not, head to My Cricut Craft Room to see all the great projects along the way!!

I had 4 cartridges to use this month. I combined them and made two projects.

For my first one, I wanted to do something Christmas since it is right around the corner

I used Teresa Collins Sophisticated and Gingerbread for this project. The scallop border is from Sophisticated (page 44, cut at 1 inch), the swirl is also from the same cartridge (cut at 2 inches). The wreath is from Gingerbread cut at 2.5 inches.

I added stickles in xmas red, green, gold and diamond to decorate my wreath. The paper is from last year's (I think) DCWV christmas mat stack.

For my other project I still needed some birthday cards so that is what I worked on!!

I used Pretty Pennants and Celebrate with Flourish for this project.

The pennants are cut from Pretty Pennants at 2 inches for the small ones and 3 inches for the large middle one. The happy birthday is from Celebrate with Flourish and was cut at 2.5 inches.

I ran the middle pennant through a cuttlebug folder and sanded the raised area. The pattern paper is from Echo Park - A Walk In The Park 6x6 paper pack. I inked everything in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Pink Cheeks.

Well I hope that inspires you to get out your cricut and start creating!!

Your next stop on the hop is my DT sister Teresa!!! 

Wait til you see what she has in store for you!

Have a great weekend!!

Here is the full line up in case you get lost along the way!!

My Cricut Craft Room

Jen 

Shelley

Kathy

Nadja

Sarah W

Erica

Mary

Liz <--- are="are" here="here" you="you">

Teresa

Jamie

Robin

Sarah H

Tami

Erica's Blog Candy

Cheerleader with Just A Scrappin'

Welcome back!

This week's challenge at Just A Scrappin is

CHEERLEADING and add some bling!

Had no idea what I was going to do with this one until I remembered Hello Kitty Greetings has a Hello Kitty Cheerleader! I of course had to do my Buckeye colors. I bleed Scarlet and Gray!!

I think this would be a really cute birthday card for a girl or an adorable card to send to your daughter away at college. OSU of course! lol.

I also did a tutorial on how I created her pom-poms

I started with my scarlet and gray twine, also known as Maraschino and Stone. And a fork

I wrapped the twine around the fork, I think 5 or 6 times in this case

I took another piece of twine and wrapped it around the middle through the tines of the fork

and tie a knot

then trim all the ends so they are even with the sides of the fork

cut the side loop of the twine. It can be a tight fit. It is better to stick your scissors in the loops while still on the fork, then pull it off one side and cut. if you pull it off then try to stick your scissors in the loops it will be hard to get them all without fraying your twine. It can be done, just not as easily.

Then it looks like this

then you just scunch up both ends

I used Beacons to glue them onto my Hello Kitty

and now you have cute color coordinated pom-poms! After the glue dries you can also trim the edges if you have 1 random long string somewhere.

The paper is from Echo Park and I inked the edges in Maraschino Cherry from Quick Quotes. I added a banner cut from Pretty Pennants and silver stickles in middle of them. One last glitter bling I had in my stash and your done!

I hope you enjoy my card this week and join us at Just a Scrappin! 

Think outside the box if you have to on this one. 

Cheerleader can also be a card or layout done in your school colors.

Or a layout with a school spirit title

Or you supporting a friend/family during a fundraiser. (think walk for the cure) or a marathon!

Hope that helps give you some ideas to play along!

Check back next Thursday for our next challenge!

~Liz

Halloween preview with Quick Quotes

Welcome back for my last guest designer post with Quick Quotes.

When I saw that Quick Quotes was coming out with a Halloween line I crossed my fingers that I would get some to play with and sure enough when I opened my box there it was! Halloween is my birthday so I tend to scrap any birthday pictures on Halloween paper but I did happen to have some costume pictures waiting to be scrapbooked from a couple years back.

I love the great patterns in this line. Even if you are not into Halloween, the pattern paper alone could really be used for any event. But I of course went all out! The black and white polka dot paper is just begging to be inked. I love that you ink it and the white dots really show the colors. I used Midnight Confession, Purple Passion and Limeade.

I love this velum quote as a title. I layered it on some pattern paper. I cut out a piece of the same pattern paper and fussy cut the chevron pattern to help hold the velum quote down without seeing the glue.

Since I was a vampire this Halloween, I had to use this Blood Donors Needed element. One of the sheets from this line has a whole list of cute word-play jokes. I cut out all the vampire ones and made this into a pocket.

I added some twine around the end so they were easier to pull out and see the answer to the joke.

This spider web and 3 spiders (2 here and 1 on the other page shown earlier) are also new from Quick Quotes. I just pulled them out of the package and put them on the page! So easy!

and I just had to use this Candy is Dandy quote. It matches the purple and lime swirl paper around it and just fits me. 

I hope you have enjoyed the projects I have done as much as I enjoyed playing with all their new lines! And I hope I introduced a couple new people to the wonderful world of Quick Quotes!

Products Used:

Quick Quotes Halloween Line

Quick Quotes Spiders and Spiderweb

Quick Quotes Happy Halloween Hauntings Velum Quotes

Quick Quotes Candy is Dandy Velum Quote

Quick Quotes Halloween elements

**All the Halloween products will be available at Quick Quotes on or after August 23rd.

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Midnight Confession, Purple Passion and Limeade

Twinery Twine in Charcoal

Want 2 Scrap rhinestones in black

Remember:

Check back later for today's new challenge with Just A Scrappin!

Comment on any Guest Designer Quick Quotes post this month for a chance to enter a giveaway from me of some great Quick Quotes products!