Thanksgiving Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! Welcome to this Thanksgiving blog hop! Hope you are excited as I am to see what everyone has created for this 2- day blog hop! If you are arriving at my blog from My Fantabulous Life, then you are in the right place! If not, please start the blog hop at Amy's Digi-Scraps and come back here later!

For my first project, I chose to create this paper bag mini-album,which I am going to give to my sister-in-law for Christmas - I just LOVE how it turned out. The chipboard cover was covered in canvas which I had painted with acrylic paint and modpodged Cricut letters on.

The instructions I used for creating a paper bag album were from a video I found on Youtube by Laura from Following the Paper Trail - if you are not sure who she is, go find her! She absolutely a creative genius.

I used a ton of Cricut cartridges for this album, I wish I could go step by step in the detail or that I could have done a video to show all of the elements. There are just so many things that the picture doesn't show!

For your next stop on this blog hop, please go visit Time to Create and see what she has in store for you! And don't forget to come back tomorrow to see my next Thanksgiving themed project - it was something I had never tried before and it turned out great!

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To enter to win this prize all you have to do is become a follower (if you aren't already) and leave a comment on this post. Come back tomorrow and leave a comment on that post and you will earn another chance to win!

Also, if I reach 200 followers this weekend, I will post another giveaway on Monday! Have a great weekend everyone!

French Manor Christmas

Hi everyone! This week on the Cricut Circle blog we have our first challenge! We are supposed to create a project using at least two cuts from our French Manor cartridge and jewels or bling! The horn and the frame were cut from French Manor. The paper is by Heidi Grace (green flourish) and Daisy D's ( red/green stripe). I added a couple of stickers and some bling in the frame corners. Hope you like it!

French Manor Contest

Hi everyone! Last month there was a contest for Cricut Circle members to create a project using our exclusive French Manor cartridge. I didn't win so I can now post my entry to share with you. I used my gypsy to weld two armoire cuts together to form a card. I cut out another armoire and used my x-acto knife to make the doors open to show the dress form which I had used an I-Rock to decorate. Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding Scrapbook Page

Hi everyone! Today I was working on this layout of my husband's parents' wedding. I used my Cricut Circle French Manor cartridge for the birdcage, birds, Amore, and one of the borders. It was my first time using the cartridge and I like it a lot! For the lettering I used Stone Script Solutions. All of the patterned papers are from the Capella line by Basic Grey. I accentuated the outline of the birdcage with black stickles and added some stitching along some of the paper edges. I am entering this layout in one challenge:

Basic Grey Challenges - Stitching

Hope you like it!