Thrift Store Find Challenge

Hi everyone! This month the Cricut Circle Magazine challenged us to search our local thrift store for something we could redo to give it a fresh look. My thrift store didn't have a whole lot for me to work with but as soon as I saw this easel and frame set I knew it was meant for me! It cost $1.98


I covered the wood with two layers of gesso, then sprayed two glimmer mists (Timeless Lilac and Rum Raisin) over just the frame.

The Cricut cartridges I used were:

A Child's Year - fairy (cut at 4")

Accent Essentials - 3D flower (used three flowers cut at 2 1/2")

Picturesque - frame (cut at 5 3/4")

Wall Decor & More - "imagine" (cut from vinyl and etched into the glass) and border (cut at 1 1/2")

Hannah Montana - butterflies (cut at 1 1/2")

Other supplies:

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Timeless Lilac, Rum Raisin, Marshmallow

Patterned Paper - Paper Adventures, ProvoCraft and unknown from my paper stash

Cardstock - Close to My Heart (Colonial White), Paper Reflections (Purple glitter)

Ink - Close to My Heart (Pansy Purple) and Staz On (Jet Black)

Stamps - Baroque Motifs - Stampin' Up! (Flourish), Ultimate Grunge - Tim Holtz (background stamped on handmade flower pieces)

Bling - Prima and Me & My Big Ideas

Flowers - Prima

Lace Trim

Mod Podge

Armor Etch

Hope you like it! Thank you for stopping by my blog!

#2 Accent Essentials 2011 Card

Hi everyone! I created this card for two challenges:

1. Cricut Circle Blog Weekly Challenge - the challenge this week was to create a shaped card featuring a number somewhere, some bling, and at least 2 Cricut cuts.

2. Fantabulous Cricut - snow or a snowflake on your project.

The circle card was cut from Wild Card at 5 1/2"

The dark blue circle was cut from George and Basic Shapes at 5"

The snowflake was cut from Accent Essentials at 4 1/4"

The inner circle design is also from Accent Essentials, cut at 2 1/4"

Cardstock - Close to My Heart

Glitter paper - Paper Reflections

Bling - IRock by Imaginisce

# Rubons - K&Company

Hope you like it!

This Saturday (January 8th) I am taking part in a Valentine's Day Blog Hop! So if you are looking for some ideas for your sweetie be sure to stop by and join in on the fun - there are over 20 blogs to look at!

Thanks for stopping by!

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!

A Magnolia Card

Hi everyone, I stocked up on some new Magnolia stamps last week from a Canadian online store called Stamp Shoppe They arrived today! They have some really good deals with free shipping over $75. I created this card with 6 challenges in mind! My head is spinning!

Just Magnolia - follow this sketch:

Made By Momo - create something "Super Girly"

Pollycraft - Birthday theme

Frosted Designs - use border punches - I used an EK Success one

Charisma Cardz - Use the colour PINK

Cupcake Inspirations - Use this photo as inspiration:

And that is all! Hope you like my card! I am LOVING my copic markers!!!!! I can't wait to find some more good deals so I can get MORE COLOURS!!!! I also used my Accent Essentials cartridge for the three flowers and the "Make a Wish" sentiment is by CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by!

A Card for Mom

Hello everyone! This card was created with two challenges in mind for this week. Both challenges require the use of the Cricut. For the Cricut Cardz challenge the task was to create a Mother's Day card using only the colours pink, green and white. For the Fantabulous Cricut challenge the task was to create a Mother's Day card or project. I used the Accent Essentials, Don Juan and Paisley cartridges for this card. Hope my mom likes it!

Addicted to grunge flowers

I learned how to make these flowers from a youtube video and they are so fun to make! I made them using my cricut and the Accent Essentials cartridge. Each flower contains three 2 1/2 inch die cut flowers. Each flower was cut out of white cardstock which I then stamped with a design and used glimmermist to get a shimmer (another addiction). I am going to use them as magnets on the large dry erase board I have in my scrap room. Pretty!!!