BBTB2: Graduation

Although most (if not all) graduation ceremonies are cancelled due to the Shelter in Place order, we can still celebrate the graduates. I made this card by following directions by Melody Lane Designs. I saw this on IG and knew I had to learn how to make it! The current challenge at Bitten By The Bug 2 (BBTB2) is Graduation.

My son is graduating from UC Santa Cruz this June but isn’t able to take part of any ceremony. I feel bad for him and all the other graduating students everywhere.

I decided to make this card in UCSC school colors so I can give it to him.

 Go to Melody Lane Designs to learn how to make this card. It’s easier than you think. Basically, you weld numbers (or letters depending on what you’re making) to a rectangle. This should be 5.5 x 4.25 if you’re making an A2 card. Then you duplicate and flip the card. Weld those two pieces together and add a score line where they butt up.

I used multi-layer Varsity for my letters so the top layer of this font was welded to a slightly smaller rectangle for a top decorative layer.

The “congrats” and graduation hat were also welded together and cut from both white & navy blue cardstock. I love this card! I used the Arab Brushstroke font for “Congrats” and Class of... for the cap. I also added a few strokes of a clear glitter pen on the cap.

Be sure to link up your graduation project to the BBTB2 site and be sure to let us know how you used your Cricut.

TGIF; Thankful Friday #129

What day is it? Oh yeah, it’s Friday. Are you losing track of days, dates and even time? I believe most of us are during this time.

Happy Thankful Friday! What are you thankful for this week? This week I’m thankful for the extra time to organize around my home. I already did my pantry and this week I finished my linen closet. I still need to attack the “Tupperware” cabinet, but that one I need to really prepare myself for!

It is packed with containers but we really only use around six of them on a regular basis...so what do you think??? Should I donate them or continue to stack them in the cabinet? This is my dilemma!

Anyhow, please be sure to let me know what you are thankful for this week in the comments.

Have a great week!
From this:

 To This:

I didn’t take a “before” picture, but this is the “after” of our pantry:

Both don’t look like much, but I removed three full garbage bags worth of things that I either threw away or will be donating.  Three bags from each location!

WOYWW #570

Happy Wednesday and Happy WOYWW! I’m on a organizing spree and making my way around my home. This week I’m concentrating on our linen closet. I haven’t done much in the Command Center except go through my bag of bags to separate the different size sheets that I’m going to donate.

On my desk is a scattering of some of them:

Have a great week. Click on over to Stamping Ground to read more about WOYWW, take a peek into other craft areas and link a photo of your desk!

BBTB2 Flower Challenge Second Project

The current challenge at Bitten By The Bug 2 (BBTB2)is flowers. I made a different version of this pop up flower card as my DT project but I couldn’t stop at one!

This one is a birthday card.

With both cards, I used the same patterned paper as the flower on the front of the card. All details on how to make the pop up card are on my original post HERE. One thing I didn’t mention on the original post is where I got the leaves. I searched “leaves” on Design Space and selected the images I liked and sized accordingly.

There’s still time to join the challenge. Link your “flower” project at BBTB2 and don’t forget to mention how you used your Cricut on the project.

TGIF; Thankful Friday #128

TGIF! Another Friday...another end of another week that we are Sheltered-in-Place. I started thinking about what this changed in my normal life and besides going into work everyday, there really isn’t much change. Monday through Friday, I rarely go anywhere especially since hubby retired.

There is a change of the kiddos being home but that’s a good thing. In fact that’s what I’m thankful for this week - all this awesome time with my kiddos.

I’m thankful for the yoga that we’re doing, the game nights, puzzle nights, using the projector in the backyard and everything else we’re doing together.

How about you? What are you thankful for this week?

LTSCB; May Challenge; Anything Goes

Happy May! The monthly challenge at Love To Scrap Challenge Blog (LTSCB) is Anything Goes. (The Anything Goes challenge theme is every other month.)

I made my own patterned paper using these stamp sets.

One of these I purchased at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo and the other was a Mother's Day gift from my daughter. I was so excited to get these sets and of course they sat for over a year before I used them. I don't know why I do that. Do you do the same thing?

I made a square card using a piece of the "patterned paper". Of course I had to use Gryffindor colors!

It wasn't my intention, but the way I placed the "white" paper makes this have a Polaroid look to it.

Now...who do I send it to? We have many Harry Potter fans in our household - how about you? Are you a HP fan?

Be sure to click on over to the LTSCB and link up your own project using Anything Goes as your challenge. 

Love To Craft Challenge Blog; May Anything Goes

Hi there! The challenge theme at Love To Craft Challenge Blog is always Anything Goes.  This month, I finally made a cover for my Junk Journal signatures.

I made six signatures awhile ago and work on them all the time but they were not in an actual book or cover. I received a shipment using a Priority Mail cardboard box and for some reason, I looked at it and the spine was the perfect width for these and decided to use this for the cover.

Talk about a recycled project! I love it!

I cut it down to size and then adhered some scrapbooking paper to the outside cover.

Normally when you create a cover, the spine is cut separately, but I didn’t feel like cutting it apart (yup, lazy!). I made sure that I scored the paper and folded it back and forth on one side before adhering the paper to the other side. I’m not sure if that makes sense, but I made sure it could be folded.

Then I covered the insides

Instead of sewing in the signatures to the spine, I wrapped waxed string around the spine with six strands (I needed six for the six signatures).

Then I tied the ends together to make a bow. I hope this makes sense to you. I should have filmed it, but of course thought of it after I finished. Now all I had to do was open up the signatures to the center pages and slide them into the strings.

There are a lot of pages that still need to be finished, and this “book” allows the pages to lay flat. I LOVE how it turned out!

Now it’s your turn...link up your crafty project by clicking over to the Love To Craft Challenge Blog before the end of the month.