Halloween Challenge for Exploring Cricut!

Happy Monday to you all!
Today is the start of a new challenge at Exploring Cricut
This week's challenge is to create a Halloween themed card, layout, or project using at least two images from your Cricut machines and cartridges. I know this is going to be a fun one for everyone!

For my project, I started with some altered wine bottles a friend made for me last year for my birthday.  She painted them in chalkboard paint. It has been fun to write different sentiments for holidays, seasons and special occasions.

My Happy Hauntings Cartridge was the perfect choice for this project. I started with some white vinyl and cut "spooky" at 3.5" using the font feature. Remember when cutting vinyl to change your blade depth to 3 or 4 and pressure to med. It cuts like a dream.

Next I chose a few little images and cut the layers too.
bat: 2.5"
boot:3.0"
hat:3.0"
cauldron: 4.0"
owl: 3.5"

I added a few stickles and hung them from the wine candelabra (another birthday gift from a girlfriend this year:) using some baker's twine.
I love decorating for fall, but don't do much for Halloween, so this was  a fun little project.

That's it for my little project, but the fun has just begun. Be sure to head on over to Exploring Cricut
to check out the wonderful Halloween themed projects the design team has come up with. And of course.....make sure you enter the challenge!!!!
Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Soccer Goodies for Exploring Cricut

Hello and happy Friday.
I am posting today for Exploring Cricut.
 A wonderful blog dedicated to inspiring the crafty world using their Cricut Machines. Daily inspiration comes in the form of cards, projects, layouts and more!

Today's projects are end of the season soccer goodie bags and Coach's thank you cards. I have several cartridges with soccer images and chose to use the Life's A Party Cartridge. Seth and Cory are still in U6, so I didn't want anything to detailed. Just a simple soccer ball!
I cut the soccer balls at 5.0"

The coach's cards were cut using the card feature and I used the fit-to-page feature. This made them 5.75"
I wanted them big enough for the team to sign their names and wasn't planning on putting them in envelopes.
The "thanks" images came from Beyond Birthday Cartridge and Just Because Cartridge
.
For the player names I chose the Cuttin' Up Cartridge and cut the letters including the shadow feature at 1.0"

The banner and mattes are cut from the Formal Occasion Cartridge. I wanted to add some more details, but had to remind myself these are for 5 year-olds....They are fine with simple. I did add a bit of inking and embossing though.

They were fairly quick and  easy to put together and thankful Sara was able to help.

Have a wonderful weekend. Please check back on Monday for our new challenge at Exploring Cricut!

Winner!!!

Today's the day....
And the winner of the blog candy for Exploring Cricut's Birthday Blog Hop is....


 


   Mary Ann said...
Love your card!Very pretty!Love the butterflies,great colors!!!

October 7, 2013 at 6:07 AM

Congratulations Mary Ann! Please email your address and I will get your goodies in the mail ASAP

Thank you for the wonderful comments and for participating in our Birthday Blog Hop!.

Have a wonderful day

Exploring Cricut Birthday Blog Hop!

Hello and what a fabulous Monday this is going to be!

Thank you for stopping by my little blog today and I am sure you will be inspired by all of the DT birthday projects using our Cricut Machines!

Our fearless leader  Happy Scrapper Diane has been doing such a wonderful job with the Exploring Cricut Blog with daily posts and challenges for three years now!! Thank you Diane!

For my Birthday Themed project I used my Cricut Imagine and All Wrapped Up Cartridge

I know many of you have Imagine Machines and I hope this inspires you to keep on using it! For quick projects with such polished and finished results, you just can't help wanting to continue to use it. Best of all, you can create all of your projects with plain white cardstock.

I created some package embellishments using the word art and bright colors found on this cartridge. I cut this image at 4.5" using all of the layers. I inked the edges and used foam adhesive for added dimension.

The sweet little butterfly card is also found on that cartridge and I cut several at 4.0" I folded them over and used one of the images as a card, and the rest I folded over, glued together, "bent" up the wings and glued them to the package. I added a few gems to add little bit of bling.

Now remember, this is a Blog Hop and what would a hop be without a little Blog Candy?

So please leave a comment, and become a follower and I will use Random.org to pick the winner next Monday. So check back to see who the lucky winner will be.

I debated on whether to go with a Halloween themed blog candy, but this DCWV 6x6 paper pad just called to me:) I also thought a couple of Halloween ribbons couldn't hurt:)

I will have this ready to mail as soon as Monday comes around, so don't forget to check back and see if you are the winner!

Have a great time hopping along and please remember to enter your fabulous birthday project!!!

Blog Hop Schedule

Starting at Exploring Cricut

Sharon http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com
Donna  http://wwwkindredkreations.blogspot.com
Lori  http://scrappinsaints.blogspot.com
Rae Ann   http://joyinart.blogspot.com
Emily  http://emilyqueenofallthingscrafty.blogspot.com
Annette  http://mymindsdustbunnies.blogspot.com
Michelle N  http://justanutterpapercrafter.blogspot.com
Michelle S  http://cricutcrazyscrapper.blogspot.com
Liz  http://unikbyyes.blogspot.com
Diane  http://happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com

What a fabulous way to start your week right?

Simple Recipe Book for Exploring Cricut!

Happy Friday,

Today's project is for my DT post at Exploring Cricut.
I wanted to make something special for my mom who is having a birthday soon. She is not much of a cook, but I know she has a few recipes that are her favorite and a couple of my grandmother's too.

I used my Cricut Imagine and the Kate's Kitchen Cartridge. The patterns and colors are from Cosmo Cricket and I just love the vintage feel to them. I bound it altogether using Your Story Photo.

I used the recipe card for each page and several of the images cut at 2.0" including the layer feature.
I printed several sheets of patterned paper for the background, cover and back of book.

I used some foam tape, Stickles,Glossy Accents, a few buttons and some twine to finish it off.

front: I pieced several patterns together to create the cover.

 back: my mom always says to eat dessert first:) So that image was a must to include.

This is the back of the book and a little image that says "this belongs too"

Have a wonderful weekend. And don't forget
we have a new challenge on Monday!! Stop by Exploring Cricut
for your Daily Cricut Inspiration!

"What's Cooking" Challenge for Exploring Cricut!

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to another challenge over at Exploring Cricut!
This week's challenge is to create a card, layout or project using your Cricut machine and have a "kitchen" theme!. This is going to be a great challenge and I know you are going to want to check out the amazing projects for lots of inspiration.

I am sharing some jars I decorated after canning my strawberry jam and blueberry lime jam.

I used the Preserves cartridge.
Strawberries using all of the layers cut at 2.0"
word art and tags at 1.5"
Added a little embossing and twine

Blueberry tag feature cut at 1.75"
The "lime" brad I have had in my stash for awhile and thought it was a perfect embellishment.

Hope you enjoyed my "kitchen" project and I am hoping you enter this fun challenge!

Birthday Giftcard Holder for MCT Designer's Challenge: Birthday!

Hello and happy Saturday.
Today's project is a gift card holder I created for a friend's recent birthday. It was for a guy, which can typically be a bit trickier for me to pull off.

I started with MCT Embossed Gift Card Holder Die in some DCWV cardstock.It has a newsprint background.
Next I die cut the ice cream cone and "scoops" in vintage cream and dark chocolate cardstock  from PTI using MCT Celebrate Good Times stamp and Die Set
The sentiment is also from Celebrate Good Times Set and I stamped that onto MCT Stitched Round Tab Arrow Tag Dies and finished the tag with some button twine from PTI
I added a Starbucks gift card and tied it to a Starbucks mug. 

Head on over to MCT Designer's Challenge: Miss Cindy 
to see the great birthday projects the DT has created.

Birthday Bash Bday for Exploring Cricut!

Hello and happy Friday. It's almost the weekend and I'm hoping to do a bit of creating...
Today's project is for my post over at Exploring Cricut. Please visit this wonderful blog to find some crafty, Cricut inspiration!

A friend's grandson had his 2nd birthday party not long ago and I thought this cute little elephant would be the perfect image to use and embellish the birthday wrapping. I did a bit of embossing and couldn't resist using some Stickles for a little sparkle! The card was a simple 3.5x3.5" using the phrase feature on the cartridge.

Birthday Bash Cartridge
I cut the elephant at 5.0"
The font was cut at 2.25"
Phrase at 2.0"

Simple Card Set: Fall Colors

Hello all,
Hope your week is going great so far.
I am sharing with you today a set of five cards I made as thank you's for my recent birthday gifts:)
Since I needed to make a few, I decided to use the same design, color scheme and accents to keep it simple.

For my die cuts and sentiments I used various products from My Creative Time

The cards are standard A2 size using Paper Trey Ink Card Stock

 Supplies used:
MCT It's All About You Stamp Set
MCT Tab Notes Stamp Set
MCT Stitched 3x4 Journal Die
MCT Stitched Tab Die
MCT Stitched Mini Frame and Arrow Die

I stamped the images in Rich Cocoa ink and added some twine in various color.
Sorry the pictures aren't the best, I took them in the early morning not realizing how dark it would be.

I am also using these cards to play along with the MCT Designer Challenge with Miss Cheryl: Fall Color Inspiration!

Thank you for stopping by.