Showing posts with label George. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George. Show all posts

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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/

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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/

Saturday, November 5, 2011

My Cricut Craft Room's November 100 Cartridge Blog Hop


Welcome to the November 100 Cartridge Blog Hop for My Cricut Craft Room. If you have reached my blog from then you are in the right spot. If you would like to start at the beginning of our hop, please click on this link:

My Cricut CraftRoom- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com



Today I have 3 projects to show you. The cartridges I chose for the hop are Sports Mania, Dude, Birthday Bash, Lacy Labels, and Sweet Treats.

My first project is a layout of my son on his dirt bike. The title Need for Speed was cut from the Sports Mania cartridge. The figure on the dirt bike came from Dude. The mat under the large photo was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

The next project was so fun to make! I wanted to try making one of those little tea light cakes. I cut a scalloped circle from George and then used my utility knife to cut several slits in the middle of it. That allowed me to slip the circle over the candle on the tea light. I also cut a small strip of coordinating paper and glued it around the tea light. Next, I used my Cuttlebug Quilled Chrysanthemum Kit to create tiny little flowers and glued them to the top of the cake using my Beacon 3 in 1 glue. I also added some extra glue and then sprinkled some glitter to give the appearance of frosting. I cut a little box (and I think it was from Tags Bags and Boxes but I apologize because I cant remember!). I added a square to two sides using my Gypsy so that the box would have little windows. I cut some plastic from the outer packaging that comes with our Cricut cartridges to put in the windows. The card was made using Lacy Labels for the shape around the cake. In order to make it a silhoutte from the shape, I used my Gypsy and layered two of the images, one sized at 3.94 and one sized at 3.00. I cut the cake from Sweet Treats and it was sized 3.35. All of the papers were from the DCWV Citrus stack.


The last project is also a card that I made for a super nice guy that worked on a computer that my mom bought at an auction. It was a fairly new computer but the company was required to remove the hard drive. He was kind enough to put in a new one and load all of the software for us. (he was our IT guy at my former place of employment). The card base was cut using the Birthday Bash cartridge and I cut it at 4". The patterned paper layer was also part of the card feature on this cartridge so I also set it to cut at 4 to make it fit. That cute little shape for the sentiment was cut from Lacy Labels (can you tell that this cartridge is a big favorite of mine?) I cut all of the pieces for this at 2.50. The Thanks was also cut from Lacy Labels but it was from a different shape on that cartridge. I added a Panera Bread gift card inside and added a hand written Thank You to Dan. I used Zots to stick the card to the inside flap.
Hope you liked my projects today. Thanks so much for stopping by. Next stop on this hop is Heather S http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/
Please remember to stop by again tomorrow for the rest of the design teams projects.

Here is the line up for Saturday!
If you get lost along the way here is the entire line up
1. My Cricut CraftRoom- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
15. Jen BowkerRanney -http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com




Tuesday, August 30, 2011

August Cricut Circle Blog Magazine Challenge

This month's Cricut Circle Blog challenge is to use Cosmo Cricket paper, 3 Cricut cuts and a Cuttlebug folder. I found some of an older line of the Cosmo Cricket in my paper stash and knew I wanted to make this card! The doily is from our new exclusive, Sophie and was cut at 5.5. The black circle was cut at 4.15 using my Gypsy and I ran it through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder. I cut another circle (circles from George) at around 3.75 from the Cosmo Cricket patterned paper. The cute little owl was cut at 3 and his top layer also features some of the Cosmo Cricket. The owl is from Hoot N Hollar Lite cartridge.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Thank you to our soldiers!


Anne from Paper Patch Crafts asked if anyone could make some cards to send to our soldiers that are in Afghanistan. Her husband is deployed there and she said moral is low. She thought that sending them some thank you cards might help to lift their spirits. I wanted to help and so I came up with this design last night. I found some inspiration from a cross stitch project that I have been working on. I will come back after I finish it and post a photo of it too.

The stars were cut from the Don Juan cartridge and the frames behind it are from George.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Songbird and Daylillies

Someone on the Cricut Circle message board challenged us to use all of our cartridges.  In an effort to do that, I will be posting some of my older projects in the next few days.  This layout used George for the circles and Songbird (using the Design Studio to weld the words together...Thanks Rhonda!) for the title.