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!

Maternity break

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to let you all know that I am taking a little break from crafting and blogging due to the impending arrival of my second son! He is due in the next 2 weeks, and I am spending as much time with my husband and other son as I can before our new bundle of joy arrives! Don't worry, I will be back, it just might be a bit!

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! 

My exciting new adventure!

I am so excited to announce that I will now be a Craft Contributor on Our Knights Life blog (formally known as Family and Life in Las Vegas)! My first post goes live next week! Make sure to stop by and check out my craft tutorials, and product reviews!

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/