BBTB2 3D HALLOWEEN TREAT CONTAINER CHALLENGE

Hiya
This week over at BBTB2 the fabulous Jeri chose our challenge for us, Jeri asked us to create 3D Halloween treat containers using our cricuts and any cartridge.

Well with Halloween looming I took the opportunity to make a few as I have plenty of children calling  on Haloween so thank you Jeri for a great challenge this week!

I made the little square boxes by hand using a milk carton principle but scored and folded to make a square box front rather than a rectangle.  To decorate I broke out my Punpkin Carvings cartridge which I've had for at least two years and never used yet! I cut out lots of the punpkin face squares and Boo's in black cardstock, I love them!  I'll definitely be using this cart in the future. To finish I punched 2 holes at the top of each container and threaded some stamping up stripey ribbon through and tied little spider rings into the ribbon so that the children can pop them on when they open their box of treats!

We hope you'll join in with us at BBTB2 and get your Halloween treat containers made ready for when the children come calling we love seeing your creations and don't forget to pop over to BBTB2 and see the awesome treat containers the rest of thr DT have made

Thanks so much for visiting and Happy Halloween everyone!

Juliexx

BBTB2 'LITTLE BOY BLUE' CHALLENGE

Hi all
It's Monday and time for our BBTB2 challenge and this week's host is our lovely Suzanne who is so excited as she is expecting her first grandson any time now! In honour of his birth Suzanne asked us to create a project for a boy using the colour blue and our Cricuts.

I chose to make a new baby card.
My card is 6x6" and all papers are Making Memories. I used Wrap It Up Cricut Cartridge for the stork tag which is cut at 5" blackout in blue/green check and top layer in white.It's a boy is from Holiday Cakes cartridge and cut at 2 3/4" shadow in blue gingham and top layer in white.All ribbon added is Making Memories too and the little dummy embellishment is from Meiflower.co.uk. Everything has been pop dotted for a little dimension.

Please pop over to BBTB2 and see the adorable baby/boy projects my DT sisters have created this week and we would love you to join in our challenge this week to celebrate the impending birth of Suzanne's baby grandson!

Thanks so much for popping by!

Juliexx

BBTB2 'WINGED THINGS' THINGS THAT FLY IN NATURE CHALLENGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hi

 

It's BBTB2 challenge Monday and this week our awesomely talented DT sister Sandi Kelly chose a topic of  'Winged things' for us! Any creature with wings and there are thousands on your Cricut cartridges so we hope you'll join in too!

 

I chose to make a card using this  gorgeous doily from Cindy Loo Cartridge. The original cut has a scalloped edge so I took it into Design Studio and hid the edge using  'hide contour'  and welded to a square to create my card front. My card is 62 square and there is a blackmat then the lilac litter mat then the top layer is pop dotted for dimension.  A Happy Birthday rub on has been added and some lilac gems placed around the card.

 

Go and visit BBTB2 and see the most beautiful 'winged things' created by the DT this week and please join us as we love to see your wonderful work!

 

Thank you so much for visiting today

 

Juliexx

 

 

 

ANOTHER BRACELET!

 

 

 

 

Hiya

 

I made another bracelet today! This could become addictive lol! This one is made with black crystal rondelles, silver spacer beads and silver bugle beads and looks much prettier on than in the photo as all the facets of the crystals really twinkle :) so hard to photograph twinkles!

 

Must go make my DT card for BBTB2 now so I can settle down for the new series of Downton Abbey tonight! Can't wait!

 

Juliexx

 

 

SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERET FOR ME!

Hi
I've been dabbling in something new for me, jewellry making! Here are a few of my attempts! It's a new hobby for me, I don't think it will replace my love of papercrafting but I can do it whilst watching TV.
The first one I made was the black  crystal bracelet and earrings, then I thought I'd try a knitted wire and black crystal bracelet and finally I made this cha cha bracelet with glass pearls and crystals.
I'm really enjoying making these I hope you like them
Juliexx

BBTB2 BACK TO SCHOOL CHALLENGE

 

 

 

Hi
This week over at BBTB2 our lovely Brenda chose a theme of Back To School for us. Over here in the UK the children/college students start back at the beginning of next week. Don't get me wrong it's lovely to have them home for the Summer but it's always nice to get back into a normal routine when they go back!  :)

My card this week is very quick and simple, I used an apple from Give A Hoot Cricut Cartridge and the Back 2 School phrase is from Designers Calender Cartridge. My card is a shaped card measuring about 4" high by 5" and is a shaped card created by welding 2 apple shadows (one flipped) using Design Studio and white card. I cut another white shadow and adhered to my base card followed by a black layer, leaf layer in green and apple layer in red/white polka dot. All layers are pop dotted for some dimension. Back to School was cut shadow in black and base in white. I must admit I did trim off the end of the 2 as it crossed through the letter L of school and looked to me like it said Back to Schoot! so the tail end of the 2 just had to go! Finally the part that always takes me the longest, I love ribbon and probably have enough to open a shop but tying a bow takes me forever it took me about 20 minutes to get this one looking anywhere near presentable!

Please visit BBTB2 and check out the gorgeous Back to School projects The DT have created and we would love to see your take on our challenge this week too!

Have a great week all

Juliexx

BBTB2 VACATION CHALLENGE

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Hi
This week over at BBTB2  our wonderful Carole chose the theme Vacation for our challenge.

When I was a chuld I loved nothing better  than spending our summer holidays by the seaside so thst was the idea for my card this week.

My card is about 8" wide and 4" tall and is actually a 'corner' cut from Straight From the Nest cricut cartridge and I just welded the base corner to the shift corner to make my card base. I cut another corner in orange and also a shift corner (which is just the plain shape hope that makes sense!) in acetate and adhered that on to my card followed by the corner, for the front I then cut one more front in yellow and just trimmed out the sun to add to the front of the card. The word days is cut from Just Because Cards cartridge using some stripey card from my stash. For the inside of my card I cur another shift corner to cover using some blue/white polkadot paper and tore some yellow card to depict the sand. The three children are from A Child's Year cartridge which seems to be my favourite go to cartridge at the moment! To finish off I added a few shell beads to the front of the card.

Pop over to BBTB2 and see the fantastic vacation projects the rest of the DT have created this week and join us in this lovely challenge, we would love to see your creations!

Thanks as always for taking the time to visit and hope you all have a great week.

Juliexx