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I have to tell you that I'm on a few fantastic design teams and Fantabulous Cricut is no exception.  

As creator and design team member of Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog we have occasional card swaps amongst each other and this time around we also had a handmade gift swap, I got to make a gift for design team member Holly -Ribbons and Glue.  

Below is my project that I made for her, I was inspired by a video that I saw on You Tube -HERE. 

The banner was cut using the Country Life cricut cartridge, scalloped circles from Mini Monograms, and the letters cut from Winter Woodland cartridge.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I am Roses, the pearl embellishments are from Recollections.

Wrinkle ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique. I hope Holly likes her gift.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Link Up Party and Giveaway continues... Have you Linked Up Yet?

Join us for our first "Link Up Party" and Giveaway

Every Tuesday here on Robin's Creative Cottage we will be having some creative inspiration from my design team along with a variety of other activities, either challenges, blog hops or like today we are having a "Link Up Party"
This link up party will give you the opportunity to share what you've been creating and "link" your blog project here on my blog. It's also a great way to meet other bloggers, and make new friends by checking out their blogs and leaving them a nice comment.
More details are listed below

Here is my project this week, I've been having so much fun making these Hershey chocolate wrappers with adorable hats and scarves. The tag was cut using the cricut cartridge Mini Monograms, then I used my piercing tool to add small holes around the scallop circles.
phrase from Snowman's Prayer stamp set
This is a video that I found where I learned how to make these adorable snowman goodies, also the link for the snowman printable papers can be found -HERE
Update: Sept. 14, 2015 I found a new link for the wrapper I hope this helps click here

Remember to click on the design team members name to view details of their projects.
Gwen
What a sweet penguin hanging outside of his nice igloo home so adorable
phrase from Snowman's Prayer stamp set

Karen
Yummy cocoa mugs, I like the stitching and patterned heart on each mug
phrase from Snowman's Prayer stamp set

Linda

This is such a beautiful snowflake I really like the "bling"
phrase from Snowman's Prayer stamp set

Patty

These adorable gingerbread people are so adorable bundled up in their scarves and hats
phrase is from my Snowman's Prayer stamp set

inside
phrase from Gingerbread Holiday stamp set

it's time for our
"Link Up Party" and giveaway

here are the details....

~**Grab my blinkie (at the top right hand sidebar) and post on your blog's sidebar
~**Be a follower of this blog
~**Link up your favorite project that you've made recently (within the last month). Write on the post that you've joined this "link up party" and link back to my blog (Robin's Creative Cottage) on that post.
~**Visit at least 3 new friends who have "linked" their blog and comment on there post. If you happen to be a few of the first to link, just come back in a day or so, then you can comment on others links.

I will choose two "linked" blogs to get one stamp set (of your choice) Snowman's Prayer, or Gingerbread Holiday and announce the winner on Nov. 29
Remember to follow the above rules or your link will be deleted so it is fair for those who do the above rule.
This link up party will run until Sunday Nov 27th
Winners will be announced on November 29th

My stamp set's Snowman's Prayer and Gingerbread Holiday are available for sale -HERE.
November 29 we will begin my first challenge here on my blog along with more design team inspiration... join us then!

Flowers in a Pot -Cardabilities Sketch #6

I really enjoy working with sketches, this week I played with sketch #6 for our Cardabilities challenge... love it!

This sweet flower pot is from Pink Petticoat digital stamps, I love Dene's simple whimsical style. I used my copic markers to color this image, then added just a little bling to the pot.

For the "Thinking of You" image I used my George and Basic Shapes cricut cartridge on page 127 of the handbook. The Scallops are various sized from the Mini Monograms cartridge.

Cardabilities shares two great sketches each month on the 15th and 30th, along with several ideas from the design team which I'm thrilled to be a part of. Go see more wonderfully creative ideas using sketch #6 -HERE

Wild for Wild Flowers

It's time for another Cardabilities Sketch, I really enjoy Karan's sketches, she creates such fun designs to work with.
I used a flower pot from Pink Peticoat, I love her simply cute digital stamps.

Here is the sketch we got to work with...















I colored using Copic markers, and used Mini Monograms cricut cartridge for the scallops and circle, the flourish design is from the Heritage cartridge pg. 62. I made my own background paper starting with a white piece of cardstock, then used a black sharpie to draw thick lines, then added a hot pink marker to the white space. I like how it turned out an matched the "wild" flower pot.

Go take a look at the other gals creations from the same sketch -HERE at Cardabilities. I love working with sketches.

Bicycle Journey

I'm so excited to share my next "Cardabilities Sketch" #2.

My card is a 6" x 6", it was fun to do a square card, not my usual style but I really liked making it.
The pattern cardstock is from DCWV Pockets full of Posies Stack. I used my new "Heritage" Cricut cartridge to cut out the bike pg 63 at 2" and the word Journey pg. 71 at 1 1/4". The fun shape behind the bike is from Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge pg. 79 cut the shape twice 3" for the patterned cardstock and 3 1/2" for the dark purple cardstock.

Here is the sketch, I flipped this design upside down for my card.

For the word I cut it twice then carefully cut the green flourish off and added on top of the purple flourish.

Hummingbirds for a Special Mom

Fantabulous Cricut is challenging us to make a project for a special mom for this weeks challenge #7.

Mom's Day

make a project for a special Mom

My mom loves humming birds. Each summer when we go to visit we sit on the back porch and hope we get to spot one of the busy lovely birds as it comes to drink the sweet red sugar water, even if we view it for only a few seconds, it's worth the wait.
I thought this bird from the "Home Accents" cartridge looked like a humming bird with it's long beak, so I used this image to make her a special purse box with matching 3"x 3" note cards.

I cut the scallop frame from the "Mini Monograms" cartridge on pg. 129 of the booklet. I used the center point feature, cut a 2 1/4" circle, when the blade was finished cutting it returns exactly back to the center of the scallop, without moving the blade, I then cut another scallop at 2 1/2" to make the wonderful scallop frame that I used behind the bird. For the scallop frame for the box I made it just a little larger.