#171 Princess Party - Birthday Girl Card

Hi everyone!  I have completed another challenge for the Cricut Circle Canadian online swarm from the Cricut Circle messageboards.  This challenge had a theme of "Something Old, Something New".  We were asked to create a project featuring this.  Here is what I came up with:

For my "something old" I chose to use the Rock Princess cartridge and my "something new" was the Art Glitter glass glitter and pink Candi embellishments that just arrived in the mail the other day from my most recent order from Blitsy.com.

The cartridges / cuts I used are:
Rock Princess - Bear and Bones cut at  3.5".
Princess Party - "Birthday Girl" cut at 1.75".
Lacy Labels - fancy square cut at 4" and 4.25"

Hope you like it!

#111 Rock Princess - Party Invitation

Hi everyone! For the last Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge we were asked to use the following sketch to create a card and add glitter to our projects:

I decided to follow this sketch to make an invitation for my daughter's 8th birthday party coming up in a few weeks. She has decided on a Monster High theme and I thought the skull from Rock Princess matched that theme well. Here is my take on the sketch:

The skull (cut at 2.25") and the word "party" (cut from a phrase at 3") were from the Rock Princess cartridge. The circles (1.75") were from George and Basic Shapes

I added glitter, by Martha Stewart Crafts, to the skull, the word "party", and to the circles.

For the background, I used a Cuttlebug folder from the Once Upon a Princess companion set with some Black Magic Core-dinations cardstock. I sanded over the raised image to bring out the pink core of the cardstock for the flowers.

Hope you like it!

Christmas Party Invitation

Hi everyone! Don't be offended that you weren't invited to my Christmas Party! I know it looks like a lot of fun but I am not actually having one! :-)
I created this invitation for a challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps Challenges.We were asked to create an invitation for a holiday party using our Peachy Keen face stamps.
The face stamp set I chose was Princess Face Assortment.
The party girl is cut from Rock Princess and the Santa hat is from Pooh and Friends.
Hope you like it!

Scrap Queen Magnet Board

Hi everyone! Tonight I finally finished up my monthly challenge project for the Cricut Circle blog! The theme for the month was "Celebrating Creativity". I decided to spruce up the magnet board that I recently hung up in my craft room for hanging up finished layouts.

The cartridges I used were:

Hannah Montana - crown frame

Botanicals - Scrap Queen (welded letters with my Gypsy)

Happily Ever After - Crown magnets

Rock Princess - Skull magnets

Home Accents - Hot pink flower magnets

Some other guidelines we had to follow were:

- Using the shadow feature (I did this on "Scrap Queen" and on the crown magnets.

- Using patterned paper

- Using embellishments to enhance on the of the cuts ( I used lots of bling!)

I was so nervous about cutting magnet that I totally avoided it. I found out it cuts really smoothly! In case you are interested in cutting magnet material, here are the settings I used with a deep cut blade and housing:

Blade depth - 6

Pressure - 5

Multi cut - 3

Another note: if you are interested to know how I made the large flower magnets, there are a ton of tutorials on Youtube. These particular ones were made using the Accent Essentials cartridge. To view Christina's tutorial, click HERE

Hope you like my project! I am really loving how it turned out! Wish me luck!