Erica's Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day Two

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have come here from Laura's blog. If not, you will want to start at the beginning with Erica at Http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

For today's hop in my continuing effort to create more layouts, I have created this one using four different cartridges. Isn't my granddaughter just so adorable in her tap outfit for her recital? They performed a dance for Little Bunny Foo Foo. Now she is also in ballet and I can't wait to see this year's recital that will happen in May.

Here is the recipe I used to create this layout:

Twinkle Toes - little girl Image #2 cut at four inches. I used my Gypsy's hide contour feature to hide the face. I also cut her hair down on the top. She had a huge amount of hair! I used the extra parts cut off to make her hair longer in the back to mirror Taylor's hair. I also used a marker to add dimension to the hair. I added detailing to her dress with my white Signo Uniball pen and added a ribbon so the little paper doll matches Taylor's outfit. The face is a Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids stamp. I colored in her eyes with the white pen and added chalk to her cheeks.

American Alphabet - I cut the rabbit at 3.50: and then cut his ears off to make the bunny ears for the little paper doll. I cut this twice - in pink and in white and pieced them together until I got the desired result.

Shall We Dance - The word "Dance" and its shadow cut at 1.25
The word "Recital" and its shadow cut at 1.50

Love You A Latte - Pink layer cut at 7.25 x 4
Green layer cut at 7.50 x 4
Again, I used my Gypsy to alter the shape on cut #7. It originally was more squared and I stretched it so my words would fit. I also hid the cupcake.

You can click on the photos to make them larger to see all the details

For this month, I also am still trying to finish my advent calendar so it will be all ready for next Christmas. I know many of you asked me to show pictures of the rest of the pages. I am still working on getting pages 19 - 25 done. Here are photos of pages 13 - 18. I will post the rest as soon as I get time to finish it.
Winter Frolic - Bird house
Winter Frolic - Christmas tree
Paper Trimmings - Peachy Keen Stamps - Snowman
Simply Charmed - PenguinWinter Woodland - SkateSimply Charmed - Santa

Your next stop will be at Lisa's blog where I am sure she will have something great to show you!

Happy Hopping!
Tracy

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

Erica - http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Laura- http://www.laurascraftsandmore.com/
Tracy- http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/
Susan - http://craftingandbeyond.blogspot.com/
Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/
Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
Liz- http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com/
Erica- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com
Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com
Sheila- http://2pawprints.blogspot.com/
Jamie- http://jamiek711designs.blogspot.com/
Laurie- http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com/
Kathy - http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
Kym - http://kimmyskards.blogspot.com.
Marji - www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com :
Sherri - http://squeakyscrapper.blogspot.com

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

Erica's Craft Room Card Creating Tuesday

Hoping I made it in time to be shown on Erica's blog. My Gypsy froze up over the weekend and I had to start over on this card. I love designing with my Gypsy and I was sick that it wasnt working correctly. Customer service at PC helped me and I am going through the reformat as I type this post. I will have to relink all my cartridges to my Gypsy though so that should be lots of fun!

Anyway, enough of my problems....here is the card I made for my son who is turning 25 on Friday. I used Dude and of all cartridges, Twinkle Toes (for the sentiment shape) The biker was cut at 3.50. The shape around my Happy Birthday sentiment was designed in CCR.

Another Twinkle Toes card

I created this card to send to Allison's daughter, Rose. We had an online swarm a few weeks ago and when we mailed our calling cards to her, we included a card for her little girl who loves to get mail. This doll was cut the same time I made the card for my great niece, Jordyn but I had cut it too small. I had saved it for my granddaugher Taylor who loves to scrap when she visits (and I can make her more when she is here) but since I had it already done, I used it for the card I sent to Rose. I used Twinkle Toes and I think she was cut at 2 1/2 inches. I stamped her face using the Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids set and added some dimension by chalking her cheeks and by adding some doodling with my white Uniball Signo pen. On her eyes, I applied Glossy Accents to make them stand out more. I also put a little gem in the middle of the bow on her headband. I used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the layer behind the girl.

Twinkle Toes Birthday card

This card is for my great niece, Jordyn who will be 3 next month. I love this cartridge and the little dolls on it! I saw this card made by another blogger that I love to follow and I totally scraplifted her design. (hers was very cute with purple printed paper and the purple and white baker's twine) I made my own coordinating baker's twine using embroidery floss. I will be posting this on the Cricut Circle message board for our online Stampede Swarm. The challenge was to use these colors:


The Flower Shower paper I used from DCWV had all of those colors in the printed paper and I also had the matching cardstock stack too.