Cricut Challenge 14: Flower Shoppe/Bloggers Challenge

Continuing on with my personal Cricut Challenge of using all my cartridges....  Again, I'm jumping out of order here but I recently ordered the brand new, hot off the press FLOWER SHOPPE which I was just itching to get my hands on.  Anyone who knows my crafting tendencies right now knows how much I love these three dimensional flowers that are quite popular in all kinds of crafting now.  So, I was happy when Cricut jumped on the wagon and designed this cartridge.

I think I will need to play around with it a bit more. One of the first flowers I attempted would be great on gift bags or gift wrap or frames, etc because it was quite thick and very 3D...it would not have worked well on a card that needed to be mailed.

OK...now that I look at this card and I look at the bottom right it looks like there is a SHRIMP there.  Does it look like a shrimp to you?  What the heck!!!  This is from the K&Co Que Sera Sera paper stack....It's all abstract floral designs with really pretty colors but now I see a shrimp!  Oh well.... :) 

The only other items I used on this card were a couple of small pearls that I placed in the center. 

I am also entering this in the Bloggers Challenge which provided this sketch for the week:

 

I don't know about you but I am always losing things in my craft room...I spend some of my time relocating things I've set down and can't remember where I put them.  But I do have a tip for you Gypsy users.  I put my stylus on a long lanyard and wear it around my neck...that way I am free to use it but I don't lay it down somewhere and forget where I put it!  Of course, last night I wore it upstairs and realized it as I was getting ready for bed and took it off and left it in my bathroom.  So, again...this afternoon when I went to my "playroom" I said "YIKES, WHERE IS MY STYLUS?!"...and then I remembered it was in my bathroom so I had to trudge up the stairs to get it.  But I like thinking positively...so I figured I burned another 10 or so calories retrieving it!  

I keep thinking I should get a pretty lanyard but for now this is what mine looks like:

Functional, functional, FUN!

Happy Crafting!

Embossing Paste: A Finished Project

I ended up using my embossed image as a birthday card and will mail it to my sister in law whose birthday is just around the corner.  I love her so much because she is older than I....by several years if you are interested in knowing that tidbit.   I love her for other reasons, too...but that is as good a reason as any if you ask me! I'm actually the youngest in my family and I act like it, I think!  Can you tell? 

If you are interested in the how to's with the embossing paste look back to yesterday's post or click HERE

To finish the card I used DCWV Mango Frost papers, a Spellbinders file tab, Paper Trey Ink ribbon and sentiment, Splendor Pigment Inks, and a little bling I had in my stash. 
I think my much older (ok, she's probably wiser, too) sister in law will like it.
I'm also entering this in the Blogger's Challenge: Floral Frenzy which was to use some sort of floral or flower product on a card.

I actually had quite the busy crafting day...beside this card, I made two others and finished a scrapbook layout.  That's quite some output for me...the world's slowest crafter! Maybe I'll show my other things later...

Happy Crafting!