Challenge Me Monday #76

It’s so hard to believe that the summer is over and that school is starting up for another year. For some of you, school has already started, but for many, tomorrow is the big day for our students! This week, we are challenging you to use ABCs (letters) or 123s (numbers) on your projects for our “Back to School” challenge.

#76 – Back to School
Use ABCs (letters) or 123s (numbers) on your project

~ Design Team Inspiration ~

Barb
A Child's Year cartridge

Carissa
Graphically Speaking, Doodlecharms cartridges

Dana
Locker Talk, George and Basic Shapes cartridges

Helen
Graphically Speaking, Plantin SchoolBook cartridges

Jessica
Birthday Bash, Create a Critter, Simply Charmed cartridges

Lisa
Simply Charmed cartridge

Maquel
Sesame Street Friends, Sesame Street Font cartridges

Sabrina
Locker Talk cartridge

~This Week's Sponsor~

My Creative Classroom
has very generously donated a FREE seat
to the class of the winner's choice!

To link your project for this week's "Back to School" challenge, click on the blue "add your link" button below!

This challenge ends at Midnight, September 11th (Mountain Time).

Spotlight Sunday

Hello FCCB Friends and Happy Sunday!

Today we are spotlighting one of our recent Wednesday Winners, Kimberli, from Kimberli's Creations!

I just love getting to know other crafty friends better, so let's hear a bit about Kimberli.

1. When did you start scrapbooking/paper crafting and why?
I started scrapbooking almost 8 yrs ago now, my best friend Diane introduced me to it me one girls' weekend that we had and I fell in love! Its even more special now that I have a family to scrapbook! I enjoy making my favorite pictures of our boys into scrapbook pages for their books, its so fun reliving those milestones as I make the pages! I just started making cards a year ago and have fallen in love with that as well! One of my goals this year was to make every card we sent out this year and so far, I've done it!!

2. What is your favorite type of project to make (i.e., cards, layouts, mini-albums, etc....)?
I do love making cards but scrapbooking is my passion! Though lately it seems I spend a lot more time making cards then scrapbooking but one of these days, I hope to be able to find more time to stay caught up on cards so I can concentrate more on scrapbooking - I'm only about 3 yrs behind now!

3. What is your favorite product to use on your projects?
I love my cricut and gypsy, I rarely make any project without them, there are just so many possibilities with that fun machine and I seem to discover something new each time I use them! I'm also fairly new to rubber stamps (started using them about the same time I started making cards) and those have quickly become a must have in my projects!

4. What is your favorite Cricut cartridge?
Right now my favorite cart is Pop-Up Neighborhood - I'm using it to make my son's 1st birthday invitations and I love it! But my favorite cart seems to change almost weekly, which is great since I have gotten quite a collection built up, so I love to use them all as much as I can!

5. What do you do in your spare time, when you are not paper crafting?
I spend all my days with our two boys - being almost 1 and 3, they keep me busy! My 3 yr old will be starting preschool next week and I'm excited to be a room mom for his class and help out as much as I can with the preschool! My almost 1 yr old is crawling all over and into everything, so there's never a dull moment in my house with these two! I'm also a Neonatal Intensive Care unit nurse, 2 nights a week - I love my nursing career and couldn't imagine doing anything else! Between the boys and my career, I need another 4 hrs in each day, to spend crafting! I have a very supportive hubby and we're lucky to usually have two days off together, though I'm usually sleeping part of it after working, but its nice to have those family days together!

Any other information you would like us to know about you?
My husband became very ill a couple of months before we were to get married and ended up on dialysis for kidney failure about 2 weeks before our wedding. The summer after we got married, we found out we were a perfect match, in more ways then one! I was a kidney match and able to donate one of mine to him when we had been married just 7 months - it was amazing to be able to do that for him and *knock on wood* - he is now as healthy as can be! He likes to give me a hard time because I asked my surgeon to take a picture of "our" kidney after it was out of me but before it went into my husband - and she did!! I had to make a section in our scrapbook about such an important time in our lives and I wanted to document a major connection we had - that kidney!! Everyone thought I was crazy, but I got my picture and its tucked safely in our scrapbook on its own page! :)

I'm very honored to be picked for the Spotlight Sunday - I love doing challenges and Fantabulous Cricut is one of my favorite challenge blogs - its amazing how challenges can really get the creative juices flowing! I started my blog at the beginning of this year to keep track of my cards for my own sake and I never imagined that I would meet so many neat women who share the same passion as me! Thank you!!

Kimberli's blog is filled with so much wonderful inspiration. This is the card she entered at FCCB that won on Wednesday Winners. Isn't it gorgeous?!

Here is an adorable pillow box made from the new Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge.
I just love the projects I am seeing with that cartridge! The papers Kimberli used are so pretty!

Here is an adorable baby card. I love the embossing on the clouds and the stitching.

And, in the spirit of Christmas in July, Kimberli made this sweet snowman card. The pink, although not a real traditional winter color, works so well with the blues on the card!

Thank you Kimberli for sharing your talent with us and for playing at FCCB!

Make sure to stop by Kimberli's Creations to see these and other fantabulous projects!

Thank you so much for stopping by today for Spotlight Sunday.
Make sure to hop on back tomorrow for our next Challenge Me Monday.

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend. Happy Labor Day and Happy Crafting!

Sabrina
FCCB Spotlight Sunday Hostess

Scrappin' Saturday- A Splash of Colour!!

Welcome to Scrappin' Saturday! This week I wanted to share some scrapbook pages that use yellow, which is what the challenge was this week. Yellow is a strong colour and it can sometimes be hard to incorporate. I hope these pages inspire you!


This page is from My 3 E Scrapbooking

She has used Twinkle Toes. I love this page-so CUTE!!


This page is from Amanda from Classy Scraps

She has used Opposite Attracts for the title. What a lovely page-and great photos!

Finally, a layout from Carol over at Scraps Just 4 Fun-

How fun!! The flip-flops were cut from Life Is A Beach cartridge.


Have fun using yellow on your pages!!


Evanna x

Fantabulous Friday -- Animal Kingdom

Hi everyone! Our challenge this week is A Splash of Color (yellow) so I just had to come up with something to show you without really linking it to our challenge. I decided to highlight an older cartridge, Animal Kingdom! I do have a yellow card down there though to help with an idea to enter the challenge this week :)

Animal Kingdom is one of the 1st cartrdiges I bought when I first got my Cricut. It's a great cartrige and still available to buy.

This cartridge includes: Head, Sound, Bookmark, Book, Shadow, and Blackout creative features. Some of the animals don't actually make a sound so it has a word that relates to the animal.

Here are some projects I have made with this cartrdige. It's super fun! I used this cartridge for bookmarks for work one time using the owl (that's our mascot) but did not take pictures. But here are some cards.

This is probably one of my 1st Cricut cards ever. But it made for a cute card for a friend :)

This adorable doggie was for my mother in law. She has a black dog so it was perfect for her!

And this card uses the color yellow just like our challenge calls for this week. I just love the bananas!

The extras on this cart just add so much. The bones and bananas for example. And I added to the cuts by using a pen on the cut marks. You could probably use the Cricut markers and it wouldn't take as long. Make sure to visit the Challenge Me Monday post to see all the designer's splashes of color and enter your own project you made for the challenge!

I hope you have a great three day weekend!!

Thursday's Tutorial -Yellow 3-D Flowers

I love 3-D flowers, and if you haven't tried making them yet today may be a great time to try. I found a few videos that feature beautiful yellow flowers, so keeping with our challenge theme "A Splash of Color -Yellow" I thought these would be perfect for our tutorial today.

If you don't have the suggested cartridge, do worry, so many cartridges have flower shapes and I'm sure you have a shape that would work beautifully!

I also love this second video for making more of a vintage looking flower... so here it is.

Enjoy making 3-D flowers for your projects, and feel free to add a link in the comment area with 3-D flowers that you have made, or will make {wink}, we would love to see your creations and be inspired.

Wednesday Winners #74

Good day everyone,

I'm so glad you've joined us today to celebrate our Wednesday Winners from our "Birthday Bash" challenge. Celebrating is what we paper crafters love to do with birthday cards and projects to give our friends and family. With over 80 inspiring entries for this challenge I thank you all for sharing with each of us here at FCCB and our fellow followers.

~This Weeks Winner~
chosen by random.org
#46 Cindy Vernon -Creating with the Heart
Sponsor gift: American Crafts Studio -Garden Cafe' Collection

Congratulations Cindy!!!
To claim your prize please contact Marlene at... hearts0314 @ msn .com (remove spaces)
You have two weeks to claim your prize
Remember to grab your "FCCB Winner" blinky to display on your blog, you can find the blinky code in the right hand side bar.

~Design Team Top 5~

#9 Caryn -Cee Cees' Cupcakes
#49 Jayne -Jayne Designs
#52 Darlene -Chasn Paper

#64 Judy -Crafty Jar
#76 Jennifer -Just Dahling

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Remember to grab your "FCCB Top 5" blinky to display on your blog! You can find the blinky code on our right-hand sidebar.

Thank you to all those who participated in our challenge!

Come join us for this weeks "Splash of Color" challenge - Here.

Create a birthday project and include the color "YELLOW".