#35 Love Struck 2010 - Valentine Mailbox

Hi everyone! Hope you're enjoying your week so far! I'm hoping to get lots of crafting done this weekend - I have a ton of projects planned! I'm in a blog hop next weekend (Feb. 19th) at Joys Life.Com to celebrate her birthday and really want to get my project done a few days in advance! I'm also planning to create a Valentine's Day banner with my daughter to enter in the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle blog. We also need to create 20 Valentines for her classmates and 8 more for my son's little friends. Lots of crafting fun ahead so stay tuned!



Here is a little mailbox I created for my son for his Valentine's Day cards. I will be making two more, likely with different designs for my other two children. I am entering this in the challenge at Crafting with Cristina where the task was to create a Valentine's Day themed project that was not a card.


The cartridges I used are:

Love Struck 2010

- mailbox cut at 11 1/2"

- "sweetie" cut at 1 1/4"

- hearts border on the side cut at 4 1/2"

New Arrival

- frog cut at 2 1/4"


It still amazes me how I'm always discovering cuts on cartridges that I never knew existed. I had no idea that there was a mailbox cut on the Love Struck cartridge - love it!

Hope you like it!

#34 Cupcake Wrappers - Valentine's Cupcakes

Hi everyone! The Cricut Circle Magazine has a challenge every month for circle members. This month the challenge was to create a Valentine's project including something edible in the design. I love making, decorating (and eating) cupcakes and had yet to use my Cupcake Wrappers cartridge so that was the project I chose. I also created a heart shaped cover that will fit 6 cupcakes under it.

The cartridges I used are:

Cupcake Wrappers - four different all cut at 2"

Love Struck 2010 - Heart shaped toppers cut at 1 1/2"

- Fancy heart used for box top - cut at 11 1/4" (I had to use a 12"X24" cutting mat)

To create the box, I cut a large heart from chipboard, covered it and attached it to the bottom of the fancy heart. I then hot glued two strips of cardstock around the edge to make the sides. The strips were 6"X15" inches.

The prize they are giving away this month is a Cricut Cake Mini - perfect size for cupcake decorations!

Hope you like my project and thanks for stopping by!