A Mother's Day Card for BBTB2

Hello!  Here's another Mother's Day card:

A pretty spring scene speaks to me of Mother's Day and I just got the cartridge that could create it.

I just bought the Cricut Lite cartridge, Bloom.  I don't know why I missed this one for so long.  The cuts on it are wonderful.  Both the tree and the gate-fence with flowers comes from Bloom.
The cloud background is a Megamount stamp from Impression Obsession.  It creates a wonderful cloudy sky.
The tiny sentiment is from a set of 52 stamps called Tiny Tag Sentiments from Our Daily Bread Stamps.  It's a wonderful collection;  I think the only 2 events missing are Mother's Day and Father's Day so I substituted the "love always" sentiment.

It's almost the end of this challenge so take a quick look at Bitten By The Bug 2 to see the designers' samples and the other entries.

Thanks for looking.
Happy Creating,
Rae Ann

A Sweet Birthday Box for BBTB2

Hello, again.  It's been a long time.  I haven't been blogging but I have been doing a lot of card making.  I decided it's time to enter some challenges again.  This card is being entered in BBTB2, Die Cuttin' Divas, and Paper Play Sketches.

Cartridges used were:
All Occasion Box Cards for the navy blue base, cut at 5 1/2 "; stars cut from sh-F4-9.
Create A Friend, cut at 2 1/2", and modified from the 'teacher' figure;
Sweet Treats, for the ice cream, cut at 3", the cake cut at 1 3/4" and the cake slices on the side flaps also cut at 1 3/4";
Straight from the Nest,  for the presents border (button 40, F4) which is used on the bottom, three sides.
The tiny sentiment, "for my sweet friend" is from a set of stamps called Tiny Tag Sentiments from Our Daily Bread.  The "sweet birthday wishes" sentiment was typed on the computer.

At Bitten by the Bug 2 the theme is "Sweet."

          At Die Cuttin' Divas the theme is a shaped card.

                    At Paper Play Sketches there is a color challenge: Navy Blue, White, and Brown.

Please, visit these sites to see what other entrants and design teams have done.

Putting together a post took a while because I am very rusty at doing it--but I succeeded.

Thank you for stopping by.

      Rae Ann