My Cricut Craft Room Card Day

Here is the sketch we were to start with:
And here is my card:



Today's is a favorite day at My Cricut Craft Room. It is Card Creating Tuesday. Erica gave us a sketch to work from. I am trying to go through all of my cartridges and use the ones that I havent previously showcased here on my blog. Today I used April Showers for the bird cage. It was cut at 3 inches. I also used Plantin Schoolbook to cut a circle from the printed paper and to make the small circles with the sentiment. I added a bit of tulle too.

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Ericas Craft Room Theme Thursday - Easter Eggs and Grass

This was the sketch and here is what I made with it!






My project today was inspired by Mary at Cardz TV. She made this cute little bunny on one of her videos and I thought my grandkids would love it too so I borrowed her idea and incorporated it into my card. I used Art Philosophy for the egg card shape. The card was cut at 5.50 inches. I also cut the green polka dot paper at the same size for the front of the card. The little fence was cut using Paper Doll Dress Up and I used my Gypsy to resize it to 5 x 1.75 inches. I still had to cut a little off of it after I glued it to my card. The bunny came from the Doodlecharms cartridge and is 2.50 inches. His face is from the Peachy Keen Critter set (PK-754). I added some white pen to accent his nose and the top it with some Glossy Accents to make it shiny. His little hands are just little circles cut at 1/2 inch using Plantin Schoolbook. The flowers were cut at 2 inches from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I also added some yellow Stickles to add some sparkle and color . The last finishing touch was a little twine tied around the egg shaped silhouette shape.

I am also entering this into Erica's challenge for March 20th to March 27th. It might be too late for you to enter this particular challenge but you can enter your projects for the new challenges that she will be posting!! Here is the link to check it out! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

To see more fabulous projects made today from our very talented ladies on the design team, please go visit http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Tracy

Its Would You Ever Guess Wednesday at Erica's Craft Room

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday is when we use cuts from cartridges that are not on the normal keys on the overlay We try to look at the other function keys. Today, I kind of messed up the theme a little. We could have done the normal WYEGW or do a floral arrangement in anything but a vase. I missed seeing the floral arrangement part of the assignment. I only remembered Home Decor. The tree is the only part of my project that matches the theme. So sorry!!!

Today I altered a wooden box that I actually had to dumpster dive to save! I know my co-workers thought I was really crazy but they helped me get it! The great part was, they dumpster was empty except for this box and it wasn't even yucky!! (If it had been...well, I think the box could have stayed there!!)


So, I started with this...I painted the edges that would show through the paper
And I ended with this!



Anyway, this box held a Kentucky Bourbon cake and the minute I saw the box, I knew I wanted to alter it and make it into something! I decided it would make a fantastic album box for pages devoted to telling the story of how we built our house. I have all the photos of the step by step progress and although we have lived here 8 years, I have yet to scrap any of them!

I used the Simple Stories papers. One set of Generations and one set of Destinations that I bought from Erica's store. (Here is the link to her store...you should check it out. She has some great prices! http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/ )

For the lid of the box, I cut a large circle from Plantin Schoolbook (11") and glued it in place. Next I found a house on the Create A Critter cartridge. (cut at 4"). The tree is from Art Philosophy and was cut at 6.50". I welded the words Our Home from the Billionaire Lite cartridge and they were cut at 2"

I had so much fun altering this box. I need to begin making pages telling the story of our home.

Please make sure to visit Erica's blog to see more wonderful projects made by our design team! http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

My Cricut Craft Room's Would you Ever Guess Wednesday

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday is the day that our design team members choose a cartridge and then only use the function keys instead of the normal cut for that key. It also means using a Cake cartridge to make anything but a cake. Today, I used my Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake cartridge to make this Valentine's Day card for my husband. I welded two squares together from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge to form my card base. I used two 5" x 5" squares. I cut the printed heart paper at 4.75" x 4.75" and then cut the heart from the Cake function button on Page 36 of the MS Seasonal Cake Art cartridge. I also cut the solid shape to put behind it. They were both cut at 4 inches and pop dotted to add dimension. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and also pop dotted it on the card.

Hope you liked my card today. To see more amazing projects by other design team members, please visit My Cricut Craftroom to see them!

My Cricut Craft Room Sketch Challenge

Today we had a choice of doing a Halloween themed page (It is Friday the 13th after all right?) or using a sketch provided by Erica to create a scrapbook layout. I chose the sketch option. Here is the sketch we were given to work with:
And here is what I came up with:



I found these adorable photos of my granddaughter and grandson that we took one weekend when they spent the night. Here is the story on these photos: My younger son has two dogs and they live at our house. The grandkids are my older son's kids and they adore these two dogs. One of the dogs is a large and very excitable boxer. She loves those kids but also loves to lick them like crazy! My husband Jay and I put the dogs in the cage until the kids had been there for awhile to try to keep things a little calmer. After our older son and our daughter in law had left, the kids wanted to know where the dogs were. Here is the journaling on the layout
"Jay: Honey where are the kids?"
Me: They were in talking to Kyera and Jonny in the cage.
Jay: The dogs are in the living room.

We go investigate and find that Taylor and Kamdyn had let the dogs out of the cage and locked themselves in! Taylor had made signs for the dogs that said i love you Jony and Kyera and she hung them on their cage. Are they not the cutest kids ever?"

For this layout, I used Ribbons and Rosettes for the border down the center of the page. I cut the image on page 31 using the Border 1" x 11" button. I mixed it up a little by using my Gypsy and flipping and welding the border so that it was cut on both sides.

The circles for the title and journaling were cut using Plantin Schoolbook. The smallest circle has a stamp from Pink By Design (it is the Labels set) and the sentiment reads "You Are Loved"

The title was cut at 1/2" using Robotz. I also used my deep cut blade and chipboard to make the letters stand out. I chose Feeling Cagey because the definition of cagey is being crafty, cunning, cute or tricky. I added Glossy Accents to the letters to give them shine and dimension.

I cut the silhouette of the dog from Paper Pups @ 2.41". I also added Glossy Accents to the eyes and nose.

Hope you enjoyed my layout. To see more projects from our awesome new design team members, please go visit Erica's blog and she will have links posted to their projects. You can find her blog at this link: http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/