God's Blessings Black & Gold Card

This card highlights black and gold.  The background is black with gold vertical stripes, and the gold Christmas ribbon made the card complete.  It will be entered into the following challenges: EPC Challenges (gold) and Card Creations & More (use inspiration from another blogger.  I am sorry I cannot give credit to the original design as I could not locate it). 

Mint Ice Cream Notepad

This notepad has an ice cream cone from the Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge.  I embossed the ice cream before adding a cherry on top!  It looks delicious and will be entered into the Card Creations Challenge (Doodlecharms Image). 

Watermelon Book

I decorated a composition book for a teacher that was moving to another school.  I also found some matching watermelon stationary and cards in the $1 section at Target, which gave me the inspiration.  She loved the new stationary set.  The watermelons are from the Stretch Your Imagination Cricut Cartridge and the letters are from the Alphalicious cartridge.  Please excuse the terrible photo that my phone took while I was quickly wrapping this gift :)  This book will be entered in the following challenges: Really Reasonable Ribbon (ribbon and picnic theme) and My Time to Craft (food)

Red, White, & Blue Notepad

I have been really far behind on blogging, and I truly apologize.  I have been wrapped up in registering, organizing, and getting things prepared for Baby's arrival.  I started to make a collection of notepads to hand out as thank you gifts for the upcoming year, and I came up with this red, white, and blue floral design.  It also fits the challenge at The Pink Elephant and Paper Issues (use red, white, and blue).  The flowers are layered with two sizes and held together with a star shaped brads.  Both the flowers and letters are from the George Cricut Cartridge.

Spots & Stripes

Crafty Cardmakers is having a challenge to use spots and stripes.  The butterfly is from the Paper Pups Cricut Cartridge.