August 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

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100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE

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Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's August 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

Collectively the design team uses over 100 different Cricut Cartridges in their projects during the two days of this hop. Sunday the new members of the design team will be announced and some have even made a project to share with you!! What an exciting weekend!!

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Today I have made 3 projects for you using Mickey and Friends, Create a Critter and Birthday Bash! 

My first project is a really cute Donald Duck invitation. I used Mickey and Friends to cut out all the cuts for this invitation. 

• Donald is cut at 4 inches and all layers were run through my sticker maker.
• I used a black gel pen to trace the detailed line cuts to make them stick out (hands, eyes, mouth outline etc) 
• The bomb is cut at 5 inches 
• The hats are cut at 1 inch
• The stamp set used is from 
• The invite base is 5 x 5 and was cut using a paper cutter. The black strip at the top is 1 x 5 and was also cut using my paper cutter. 

 My next project is from Birthday Bash and is a very cute bee that is placed on a birthday banner! 

• The bee is cut at 3 inches
• He is attached to the banner with pop-dots 
• All his layers were attached by running them through my sticker maker 

My final project is another cute bee, cut from Create a Critter. This was made for a friend that attached them to a paper lantern, making it look like a bee hive for her daughters 1st birthday! 

• This bee us cut at 2.5 inches
• All layers are attached by running them through my sticker maker. 

Your next stop on the hop is Robin!

The entire line up for today is:

1. MCCR http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
2. jenn lorist http://www.jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com
3. Teresa http://www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com
4. Kathy http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com
5. shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com
6. heather http://heathernovinger.blogspot.com
7. Jessica S http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com
8. Tammy - http://www.Cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com
9. Jen L http://www.mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com
10. Erica's Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
11. Samantha http://www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com
12. robin http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com/
13. amy http://clayfulimagination.blogspot.com
14. Miranda http://www.nanasscrapspot.com
15. Angie http://crazyscraplady-angelpie.blogspot.com
16. LB http://www.coolbeansbylb.blogspot.com
17. Cathy http://cathyplus5.blogspot.com
18. Claire http://threewaterscreations.blogspot.com
19. Lisa Carrier http://ourcraftingcorner.blogspot.com
20. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Pink by Design Anniversary Challenge #12!

We have made it to Challenge #12! For this challenge, you had to find something in your house that inspired you and make a project to reflect that! I knew right away that I would use my son Jacob as my inspiration. When I think of him the first thing that comes to my mind is he is a monkey! So here is my take on Challenge #12!

Here is Jacob holding my finalized card!

 

• A2 Card base
• Monkey cut from Birthday Bash at 3.5 inches and attached to the card base with pop-dots
• Inside sentiment stamp is from Jungle Fever stamp set from Pink by Design.

Pink by Design Anniversary Challenge #10

Challenge #10 is to make a project using an animal. Having just used the Jungle fever stamp set on my last challenge, I had lots of great ideas for animal projects!

• I cut the elephant from the Cricut cartridge Birthday Bash at 3 inches. 
• Patterned paper is cut to 5 3/8 x 3 7/8 to fit the front of the A2 card base. 
• The elephant is attached using pop-dots 
• The inside is stamped with a sentiment from PBD Jungle Fever stamp set.

Card Sketch Tuesday!

My card today is using the card sketch challenge. This is what the sketch looks like....

And this is my take on the card! 

Items used:

• A2 card base with corners rounded 
• 2 patterned cardstock papers
• solid green cardstock
• ATG and pop dots 
• twine 
• memento ink
• letter stamps 
• Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge 

How to:

• I trimmed the corners of my A2 card base using a corner punch.
• I then cut the patterned card stock down to size and rounded the corners on both layers. 
• Next I cut the banner pendants at 1 inch from the Birthday Bash cartridge and strung them on some red and white twine. 
• I stamped them with the letter stamps, and then stamped the patterned paper. 
• I attached the patterned paper to the card base using the ATG adhesive and tucked the ends of the twine between the card base and the patterned paper. The banner pieces are held in place using pop dots. 

I hope you enjoyed my card today! To see more projects by other design team members, make sure to check out Erica's blog! 

Happy Birthday Blog Hop!

Hi and welcome to my Birthday Blog hop! This is the start of the hop that includes 12 wonderful blogs on the hop (there are 2 that are only able to participate on Sunday - so make sure to come back if you are hoping on Saturday!). I hope you enjoy hopping along and enjoy all the projects that everyone has come up with!

The theme for today's hop is Birthday! I will be celebrating my 27th birthday on August 3rd and can't think of a better way to celebrate it with all of you! Everyone on the hop has made any project that makes them think "Birthday".


For my project, I have created some party decorations! I made a "Happy Birthday" banner, invitations and topped it all off with some matching cupcake toppers and a card! I hope you enjoy!

Items used for the banner:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge 
• Blast off Imagine cartridge
• Scalloped 2 inch circle punch
• 3D Foam adhesive squares 
• Twine
• Stickers from my stash
• Striped paper from DCWV Stack 7

I started by cutting out the banner triangles using both the Birthday Bash cartridge and the blast off cartridge to make them the orange background color. These were cut at 3.5 inches.

After cutting out all the banner triangles, I tied them together using 4.5 inch pieces of twine. Once all the banner pieces were attached together, I punched the scalloped circles and attached the letters (stickers) and then attached the scalloped circles to the banner with 3D foam squares.

Next up was the invitations:

Items used for Invitaion:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge
• Blast Off Imagine cartridge
• Memonto Ink
• Bo Bunny stamp set
• Twine

I started by cutting the triangles that matched the banner at 5 inches using the same cartridges as before. Once they were cut out, I lined up my stamps to fit the scalloped sides of the invitation and stamped them using Memonto ink. I then added the twine bow to give the invitation a little pop of color.

Then came the cupcake toppers:

 Items used for cupcake topper:

• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Memonto ink
• Happy Birthday stamp from PBD "Birthday Birthday" set
• toothpick
• adhesive
• DCWV striped paper from Stack 7 
• Left over paper from triangles 

I used left over striped paper and triangle paper to punch scalloped circles. Once they were punched out, I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. I then used some adhesive to attach a toothpick to the back of the punch.

Last is the card:

Items used for card:

• Birthday Bash cartridge 
• Scalloped 5 inch card base
• scalloped circle cut at 4.5 inches
• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Extra banner triangle
• Sentiment stamps (both from PBD)
• 3D foam squares
• ATG adhesive
• Brads

For the card, I started by using a scalloped card base that I had in my stash. I then cut a scalloped circle at 4.5 inches from the Birthday Bash cartridge and attached it to the front of the card base using my ATG gun.  Next came attaching the banner triangle and scalloped punch with the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. The banner was attached using 2 brads through the striped paper (now that I am typing this out, I did this before attaching the scalloped circle to the card base.) I then used a 3D square to attache the 2 inch scalloped punch to the triangle. Before adding this, I stamped it with the sentiment using Memonto ink and inked the edges.

Once the front of the card was all done, I added the sentiment to the inside of the card!

Thank you all so much for checking out my project, and have a blast on the hop!!!

Blog Candy Time!!

I am so excited about the blog candy that is available today! Pink by Design is sponsoring the hop and had donated a $15 gift card! 

There are 3 ways to be eligible for this prize.

1. Become a follower and leave a comment (if you are already a follower, just leave me a comment!)
2. Like my facebook page, and come back here and leave a second comment telling me that you have done this. 
3. Like Pink by Design on facebook, and let them know I sent you!

I hope you have enjoyed what I created today. The next stop on the hop is Meighen. Below is a list of all the blogs in the hop if you get lost along the way. 

Blog List!
Samantha (Me) 
Meighen
Jenn
Ruthie
Gloria
Jen
Courtney
Momo
Kim
Shannin
Jenny (Sunday Only)
Michelle (Sunday Only)