Showing posts with label Sports Mania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports Mania. Show all posts

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




Saturday, October 1, 2011

My Cricut Craft Room's October 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE

My Cricut Craft Room's October 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE

Welcome to our October Blog Hop! If you came to visit from Jen’s blog, then you are in the right spot. If you just happened to come to visit and didn’t start at the beginning, then please go to . Erica’s – http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

I don’t want you to miss out on any of the fabulous projects that will be posted today. Erica has blog candy if you stop by and comment on all the blogs in the line up. Also check back on her blog again tomorrow as the other half of our design team will be participating the the Blog Hop – Day TWO!

Ok, are you ready to get started? I have three projects to show you today. The first one is a birthday card that I created for my great nephew’s birthday. He just turned 13 and he is on the track team. I used my Sports Mania cartridge to complete it. I began by choosing to make the background with my Cri-kits pens. Next I cut the runner out of chipboard and cardstock and cut it at 3 inches. The shirt was cut twice so I could pop it up to add dimension. The inside sentiment said “Hope you are on track to have your happiest birthday ever!”

My next project is one that I really loved! My niece shares her birthday with her 13 year old cousin for which I made the track card. She loves girly things so I found this wonderful pink zebra printed paper and zebra print ribbon at Hobby Lobby. I used Forever Young to cut the shoes out at 4 inches. I wanted to add some extra texture so I also created little tiny pinwheels to put on where the flowers normally go. To top it off, I added pink rhinestones. The sentiment on the inside said “Kick up your heels and have a great birthday!”

The last project is a layout of my Mom and Mother In Law that was taken this summer. I loved this photo so much. I still need to add a title to the layout so I would love to have some suggestions on what it should be. I used my Cricut American Alphabet that came pre-loaded on my E2 for the doilies behind the photo. The top note shape was cut using my Gypsy (because I wanted a silhouette and not a solid shape) and was cut at 6 inches from the Create A Critter cartridge. The cut little flowers came from the Cherry Limeade Lite cartridge and I cut them at 2.5 and 2 inches. I also ran them through my Cuttlebug and then sanded the cardstock so that the polka dots showed up better. I love the Core’dinations paper. It really works great in the Cricut! The leaves came from yet another cartridge which I forgot to write down (oops sorry!)

Hope you like the projects I have posted. Since hops are way more fun when there is candy involved, I am doing a small giveaway. All you need to do is be a follower and leave a comment with a way to reach you. If you saw my post from Thursday, already know that I am giving away the cute little Cricut jar that I made for Thursday theme day. I will add some little goodies inside of it too! Commenting will end on Sunday night, October 2nd at 11 PM. I will try to pick a winner no later than Tuesday morning.

Now to continue hopping, please go visit Tammy - http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost along the way:


1. Erica – http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Suzy - http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/

3. Courtney Larson - http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/

4. Patricia Holloway - http://micraftygal.blogspot.com/

5. Madison Womack – http://funkycards.blogspot.com

6. Alishia Gaff- http://alishia-myscrapping.blogspot.com/

7. Heather Flaherty - http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/

8. Yvette Lopez- http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com

9. Jen Roseman - http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com

10. Tracy Godfrey - http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com

11. Tammy Schmitt - http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com

12. Tina Keller (Crafty and Green)- http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/

13. Audrey Dickinson (Scrappy EMT) http://scrappyemt.blogspot.com/

14. Samantha Sickles - http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com

15. Holly- http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/

16. Melissa Pinter - http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com

17. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/