Thank you, Papercraft Star!

As those of you may know from previous posts, I am fairly new to papercrafting and using my Cricut.  I've had the materials for a while, but with three kids born in three years, my time to actually work on my skills has been limited.  Of course, now my oldest is 5 and my youngest is just about three, I find I can make a little more time each week to attempt a new paper project.  In order to motivate myself and build my confidence in my projects a little, I started entering my projects in different websites challenges.  For someone  like me, I love that these challenge winners are randomly chosen, so as long as I am brave enough to submit something, I can enter.   Well, this October, I entered a challenge over at Papercraft Star.  I just found out I won the October Grand Prize!  I am so thrilled.  It couldn't have come at a better time, since my children have all been getting over colds here and I had no time to even read any of my favorite craft blogs, nevermind participate!  It was just the lift I needed. 

Plus, what was even better I didn't even know I had won.  One of the followers of Papercraft Star saw the announcement that I had won and had not claimed my prize, so she contacted me personally.  That is one of the things I love about the cardmaking/scrapbooking/craft community, everyone looks out for each other.  That's what makes sharing my stories, projects and ideas so enjoyable!  So thank you, Denise, for contacting me, and thank you, Papercraft Star, for giving me the opportunity to win and share my projects!

If you want to check out my winning entry, here it is:
Entry for Papercraft Star's Challenge #17

Entry for Papercraft Star's Challenge #17

As you may have noticed from previous posts, I am somewhat new to using my Cricut, cardmaking and all that.  I have decided to force myself to expand my skills by participating in a few challenges.  Not only does it make me use some of the cartridges I have never tried, it gives me an opportunity to see how other people interpret different challenges.  Seeing other projects has certainly inspired me to try new things.  So here is a Halloween card I created for my son's kindergarten teacher.  I used my favorite cartridge Paper Doll Dress Up.  I know . . . I need to try some others, but I love "cute" Halloween and this cartridge does that!  I also used Lyrical Letters to created the word "Boo!"  I have owned Lyrical Letters for a while but haven't taken the time to use it.  It has a lot on there and I really need to test this one out more. 

I am entering this project in Papercraft Star's Challenge #17: Using a photograph posted on the site to inspire your creation.  I tried to use a lot of the same colors in the photo.  I didn't have anything with polka dots, so my background is "dotted" with stars.