Ellie is 9 !

This darling elephant is from the Twinkle Toes cartridge.  She is going to celebrate my daughter's 9th birthday and is carrying her balloon with a number 9 on it to the party.  This is my entry for the Cricut Circle's Weekly Challenge #14: Getting In Shape!  The challenge was to use a shape other than a rectangle, include a number somewhere, and use some bling.  The shape card is from Wild Card, and Ellie's balloon can be found in the Celebrations cartridge. 

MPS, 12 Days of Christmas Day 2

Challenge: COLOR - Make a project using 2 shades of pink, 2 shades of blue, and black!

The "Super Tweet" bird is from Create A Critter and her party hat is from Celebrations. 

Throwback Thursday Challenge, Celebrations Cartridge

I have always enjoyed the Celebrations Cartridge, so when Emma (at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/) suggested this was the cartridge for ThrowbackThursday I had a smile on my face.  Then she said the challenge was to make a Christmas project, the smile left my face.  Like most things, it was not as awful as I thought.  I was toying with the idea of stretching a party hat into stylish Christmas tree. With this idea, I went digging for paper and changed my mind. I thought I could make a tag that would "match" my paper.  The Martha Stewart Button punch was used to hold the tag string.  You can always use a tag, so here is my entry-