January 100 Cartridge blog hop!

 

 

 Welcome to the January 2013 100 cartridge blog hop! If you have just stumbled upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning, head on over to My Cricut Craft Room! 

For my project today, I used the Close to my Heart Art Philosophy cartridge and the matching stamp set Ornamental Cheer to match up my stamps to my cuts! 

The first 2 pictures are the same cut - just front and back. I decided to make this cute cut into a very cute tag to go onto a present. 

This 3rd cut, I made both into a tag for a present by stamping to and from on the other side, but I also stamped it the same on both sides to make a cute, simple ornament for my tree!

And my final cut was this larger ornament. I stamped one side in green and one in red and used it as an ornament on my tree.

For all my ornaments and tags,  I used Divine twine limited edition holiday twine. 

The next stop on the hop is SARA!

 And just in case you get lost along the way, here is the entire hop line up! 

Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Jamie M. http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/

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Lisa LeMay - http://scrapnooker.blogspot.com/

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Mary M http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/

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Robin Carroll - http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/

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Erica's Projects - http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/

Samantha - http://www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Sarah - http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/

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Sarah Mae - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

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Tami - http://scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/

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Erica's Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

I'm Back!

Hello everyone!! I am back to crafting, and blogging! On October 1, my husband and I welcomed our second son into the world! We have been enjoying being a family of 4 and enjoying both of our boys!

Today theme is snowflakes with My Cricut Craft Room, so I made some snowflakes cut from adhesive vinyl for my older sons pre-school. His teacher asked me to cut out some snowflakes to place on the walls to help make it feel like winter in the class room. I immediately pulled out my Artiste cartridge and started having fun! I cut 2 different snowflakes at 5, 3.5 and 1 inches so that his teacher had lots of them to hang all over the walls!

Theme Day Thursday- Shoes!

 

 Today's theme is to make something with shoes! We are also using pink in honor of Breast Cancer awareness month that is coming up in October! Here is what I came up with. :)

Items used and how to:

• I started with an A2 card base, and some patterned paper. I trimmed the paper to fit the front of my base and wrapped some twine around it. Before securing it to the base, I inked the edges with some Tim Holts distressing ink. 
• Next I cut out my cute little flip-flops at 2 inches from Cheerful Seasons! I had to cut the strap layer multiple times as the strap for the right flip-flop didn't want to cut without coming out in 3 pieces. After trying and trying to get it to cut in one piece, I finally just gave up and pieced it together. I wish it would have cut correctly, but I think it just might be a little to small for it to have a nice crisp cut. 
• I attached my flip-flops to my card base using some pop-dots. 
• The inside is stamped with a sentiment from Pink by Design's Breast Wishes stamp set. 

As always to see more projects from today's theme, head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to check out what the other design team members have created for you today! 

Card creating Tuesday - card with a window

Welcome to Card Creating Tuesday! Today we were challenged to make a card that has a window in it. I knew right away the perfect cartridge to pull out and that is Art Philosophy as it has so many card bases that have windows in them! After flipping through the entire cartridge book, I finally settled on this card! 

 

• Card is cut out at 5 inches (I was able to cut 2 at this size from a 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper) 
• I took the negative stockings that were cut out to make the windows, and put them through my sticker maker and then covered the adhesive with glitter. I then put them back through my sticker maker to make the back of the stockings adhesive and placed them on the inside of the card so that they show show through the window. 
• To add some more color to the front, I added a ribbon around the front and then stamped both the front and inside of the card with sentiment stamps from Pink by Design's Christmas Wishes set. 

September 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day 1

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room 

100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day One! 

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/, if not please hop on over to her blog to star the hop! 

 

For my projects today, I have used the cartridges Christmas Cards, Cheerful Seasons, and Celebrate with Flourish! 

My first project is a very cute custom baby shower invitation that I made for a customer. I used Celebrate with Flourish and an the Imagine cartridge Hopscotch to print the cloud paper. 

• I printed out the cloud paper on a 12 x 12 piece of white card stock. I then cut that down into 4 x 5 invitations. 
• The umbrella us cut from Celebrate with Flourish at 2 inches and attached to the invite using pop-dots
• The invite is stamped with some sentiments from Pink by Design 
• Before attaching the umbrella, I ran the invites through my printer to print the invitation information on the back side (not show due to personal information printed)

My second project is a Christmas card from Christmas Cards. 

• I cut everything for this card (including the base) at 4 inches. 
• I added the crystals from my stash to help add some bling
• The sentiment on the inside is from Pink By Design's Christmas Wishes stamp set

My third project is from Cheerful Seasons. 

• A2 card base 
• I cut the pumpkin out from Cheerful seasons at 4 inches 
• I cut the patterned paper for the front of the card base to 5 3/8 x 3 7/8 and wrapped the ribbon around it before securing it to the card base. The paper is from The Paper Studio's All Seasons II stack.
• The pumpkin is attached to the card base using ATG adhesive.
• The sentiment stamp is from a Fall themed stamp set from Pink by Design, as is the inside sentiment. 
• The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby's Harvest crafts ribbon line. 

The next stop on the hop is Nadja 

Here is the entire line up for today in case you get lost along the way!

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

 

Imagine Monday

Today for my Imagine-ation project, I used the Yummy card to make a birthday card for my baby sister!

• I cut out the "Happy" "Birthday" banner pieces from the Yummy cartridge at 1 inch each. 
• Before attaching them to my card base, I cut down some patterned paper from my Celebrations stack by The paper studio to 5 3/8 x 4 7/8. 
• Before attaching the patterned paper, I strung some green and white twine around it 5 times. 
• I attached the patterned paper with ATG, and the banner pieces with some pop-dots. 
• The inside is stamped with a sentiment stamp from Pink by Design.

Scrapbook Friday!

Today's layout challenge was to use a Cricut Lite Cartridge. I love so many of my lite cartridges and knew just the right one to get this layout done! 

I used B is for Boy to make this really cute 2 page layout of some of my ultrasound pictures. 

I cut out the "Love" die cut and the "Baby Boy" due cut at 4 inches. I then cut out 4 of the postage stamp layer from the LOVE die cut to use as my photo mats. They are also cut at 4 inches. I cut down my ultrasound pictures to fit onto them. 

I had accidentally changed my size dial when I went to cut the postage stamps out down to 2 inches. At first I was going to toss the cut, but then realized it made an awesome size to write the info from the ultrasound on! 

The paint stick and rectangle embellishments are from a kit by bo-bunny from my stash. 

My last addition was the feet ribbon at the bottom of the page.   

Card Creating Tuesday

 

Today's theme for cards is "Thinking of you" I have chosen to make a fun summer related card for this theme! 

• I started by cutting out my Popsicle from the Imagine yummy cartridge at 4 inches. I cut this 2 times. 
• I used patterned paper from the Doodlecharms paper by Provo Craft, and cut it down to 5 3/8 x 3 7/8.
• Before attaching my patterned paper to my A2 card base, I wrapped some orange twine around it. 
• I put ATG adhesive on the back of one of my Popsicle cuts and attached it directly to the patterned paper. For the second one, I put pop-dots on the back of it to pop it up! 
• For the inside, I stamped it with a perfect sentiment from Pink by Design's Say it Sweet stamp set that says "I'm missing you like candy" 

To see more "thinking of you" cards, make sure to head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to check out what the other design team members have created today! 

Letter F

 

Welcome to Letter F Monday! To see more projects that use cuts or cartridges that start with the letter, head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other design team members have made today! 

For my project, I used the Imagine cartridge Imagine More to cut out the 2 "Friends" and a "flower"

• I started with a A7 card base, and cut down my patterned paper to just be slightly smaller than the front
• I cut the flower at 2.5 inches and the friends at 4 inches, both are attached to the card base using pop-dots 
• The inside of the card is stamped with a sentiment stamp from Pink by Design's new stamp set 29 and holding that reads " We'll be friends til we're old & senile then, we'll be new friends"

Imagine Monday!

Today my project for the design team is a card using the Imagine cartridge Better Together. To check out other projects using the Imagine, make sure to visit Erica's blog at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

• I used a A2 card base
• I cut the patterned paper to 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 so that it would be just slightly smaller than the front of the card base. 
• The lady carrying the presents is the cut from Better Together, and she is cut at 4 inches and attached to the card base using pop dots.
• Before attaching the patterned paper to the card base, I wrapped some twine around the paper, and then used ATG adhesive to attach the patterned paper to the card base. 
• I used Memento ink and a Happy Birthday sentiment stamp from the Scripted Year set from Pink by Design.

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! 

Would you ever guess Wednesday!

Hi and welcome to WYEGW! Today for my design team post, I have chosen to partake in the WYEGW portion. This is when we only use cuts that are from a layer feature on a cricut cartridge. I choose to use the basic font feature from Cheerful Seasons.

• I used a A7 card base and trimmed my patterned paper to be just slightly smaller than the front of the base and attached with some ATG adhesive
• I cut the "just us" at 4 inches and ran it through my sticker maker in order to adhesive it to my card base
• For the inside, I used a sentiment stamp from Pink by Design

If you would like to see other projects like mine, please head on over to Erica's blog to check out what the other designers have made for you today!

Now for the blog candy winner from last weekends blog hop! I was offering up a $10 gift card, and Erica has so graciously doubled the gift card amount to $20!  To pick the winner, I used random.org and it picked comment # 27! Congratulations to Mary who said: "Mary July 8, 2012 9:49 PM I love your cards Samantha. Of course I am a follower!" Contact me at samanthascricutcreations@live.com to claim your gift card to Erica's store!