My Cricut Craft Room Fall Favorites Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the My Cricut Craft Room Fall Favorites blog hop!

If you have come from Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com then you are in the right place. If you have just come to my blog today, and would like to start at the beginning, please go to Erica's blog at  http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com to start.

My project for today's hop is nice and simple, yet festive!

Items used:

• Brown, red and orange cardstock
• Cuttin' Up and Celebrations cricut cartridge 
• adhesive
• ribbon

How to:

• I cut the triangle's from Celebrations at 3 inches 
• I cut the letters from Cuttin' Up at 2 inches and attached to the banner pieces with adhesive
• I then fed the ribbon through the holes looping the ribbon back around the back side of the first and last piece to make loops to hang it from. 

Your next stop on the hop is Shelly at http://kccroppers.blogspot.com! If you get lost along the way, here is the list of blogs!


Erica http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com Samantha http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com
Shelly http://kccroppers.blogspot.com
Gayle http://gscraptime.blogspot.com
Erica’s project http://ericascraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-creation-for-this-weekend.html Connie     http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com
Lori~  www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com
Christina Capps      www.cema1cema.blogspot.com
Amy http://scrapthissavethat.blogspot.com Erica’s Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

It's your day!

This past weekend my oldest niece Kaylee turned the big 18! I can't believe that she is already an "adult"! I made the following card for her!

Front of card

 inside of card

 Envelope

 2nd take at inside of card - I needed a place to tuck the cash that we were giving her as a present, so I added this little piece of cardstock to make a pocket.

 Inside with cash!

Items used:

• Card base
• Celebrations Cricut Cartridge
• 6 flower brads
• black card-stock - cut to fit front of card base
• Star paper from "The Paper Studio" Celebrations stack 
• Stripe paper and "Celebrate" paper from Fancy pants design "It's your Day" collection 
• Distressing ink
• pop dots 
• adhesive

I started by cutting the black card-stock to fit the front of  the card base. I then cut the "It's your day" at 5 1/2 inches on the star paper. After attaching both of these to the front of the card, it just looked to plain to me so I added the flower brads to give it some added color!

Next came the inside of the card. I pulled out all sorts of stuff from my different collections, and nothing was looking all that great. I then remember I had this wonderful birthday scrapbook kit tucked away. I pulled it out and just knew right away that I had found the perfect pieces to go on the inside! I cut the stripe piece of paper to fit width across the card, It was already cut to the height from a previous project. Before attaching to the card I inked it with distressing ink . The "Celebrate" card is from a sheet that has 12 different cut-outs (I am having a hard time describing this page, but I am sure that you all know what I am talking about! It is a 12x12 page that has 4 across and 3 down. Some have journal lines, and some have sayings like this one.)  After cutting it out, I also inked it with the distressing ink and attached it with pop dots.

I was then just going to put the cash laying inside the card, but didn't really like that idea. Then came the idea to add some color to the other side. I had some left over star paper and attached it to make a pocket to hold the money!

Hope you enjoyed this card!