Theme Thursday at My Cricut Craft Room

Today's theme is Garden or Flowers. Since I needed a gift card holder, I decided to use the pretty Poinsettia from the new Paper Trimmings cartridge. I designed this gift card holder using my Gypsy. It was so easy. I just took two rectangles from George and a border from Elegant Edges, welded the pieces together and then took a letter C from a cartridge for the notch at the top. I also found a straight cut shape to make the slash marks to hold the card in place. The flower on the front of the holder was cut at 2 inches. I also made two of the top layer and then I embossed it with my Swiss Dots folder and pop dotted it to the flower base. I added a personal note inside the card holder too before mailing it.

For more projects which also includes the added theme of Trees, please go visit Erica's blog and check out all of the beautiful creations posted there! http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Erica's Craft Room Scrapbook Saturday

Today is one of my favorite days to design for on Erica's Craft Room. Its Scrapbook Saturday and for this day, we are to create layouts. I really enjoy this because it pushes me to get some pages done. I really love this two page layout for a couple of reasons......I had some super adorable photos of my grandkids, Taylor and Kamdyn and these papers I bought from Michael's were wonderful to work with! The paper pack is Night and Fall by Recollections.

I used my Cricut Decals that came on the E2 to make the cute little stick figures. They were cut at 3.50 for the girl and 3.00 for the boy. The eyes were tough to layer so I used a brown Sharpie marker and then used Glossy Accents and it made it look as if there were tiny little google eyes added. I used my new favorite kid type font from Robotz to cut the words Fall Fun. The blue scallop was cut from the Elegant Edges cartridge. Finally I cut the bare tree from October 31. I wanted to emboss it using my Paper Studio wood grain embossing folder but I forgot to do it before I pop dotted it to the page.

Now you need to go visit Erica's blog at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see more projects created by the design team!

Erica's Craft Room Theme Thursday

Today's theme at Erica's Cricut Craft Room is Beach. I have a lot of photos still needing to be scrapbooked. They are all of our vacations to Anna Maria Island Florida. We love it there!

This layout was created using:

Cricut Essentials for the white doily - page 24
George for the patterned paper circle and the shadow behind it
Elegant Edges for the border - page 50
Life's A Beach - flowers and leaves - pages 34, 37 & 38

To see more creations by the Design Team, please visit Erica's blog
http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday and many "mower"

My brother in law's birthday is tomorrow and I made him this mower card for this birthday. The mower has lots of layers that I pop dotted in between to give it more dimension. I cut this from our Cricut Circle exclusive cartridge, Pop Up Neighborhood. The clouds and grass are from Everyday Paper Dolls and the shape for the card is from Elegant Edges (which I welded with my Gypsy to create the card shape)

Campin Critters Father's Day card

I just love the new Campin Critters!! It has such cute images on it and they layer together just right! I saw this little beaver and thought I would use him to make my step-father-in-law a card for Father's Day. I cut it at 3.5. The shape behind the beaver was made using Elegant Edges. I love this cartridge too! Great for card making!!

Friday morning: Doing the happy dance this morning!! I checked out the Cricut Circle Blog and this card was posted as The Project of the Day!!

Hopping By to Say Hi

I made this little card for a challenge for the Grillin and Chillin Blog Hop on Bug Bites blog
http://bugbites411.blogspot.com/2011/06/grillin-n-chillin-bug-hop-part-2.html

We had to choose a bug that was hidden among the hoppers and make a card with it on it. I chose the little grasshopper from Stretch Your Imagination. Of course I had to give him a Peachy Keen face after hiding the cut details on my Gypsy. I also used my new Elegant Edges for the shape behind the grasshopper. Love that cartridge...so many beautiful shapes!! The card base was made using Lacy Labels. I am not sure what the size was...I had cut it previously when I made my nephew's birthday card and I saved it to use later.