#175 Extreme Fonts - Thankful Mini Album

Hi everyone!  For the 5th challenge of the cricut circle swarm, we were asked to create a fall or Halloween themed mini album.  I decided to go with a Thankgiving mini.

 

#90 Makin' the Grade - Travel BINGO!

Hi everyone! Here is fun project that I just finished up for the Cricut Circle Blog monthly challenge. The theme this month was "On the Road Again" and the task was to create a project to be used during a road trip. The first thing I thought of was BINGO because my siblings and I used to create BINGO cards for traveling then swap them for a game. Ours were a lot more difficult than these though! No one wanted anyone else to win - I remember UFO and kangaroo being on someone's card LOL. I created these books with two of my children in mind - my daughter is almost 8 and my son is 4, so his a little bit easier :-).

To create the books, rather than using up my white cardstock (I need that for my Imagine :-)), I used patterned paper from my stash that I didn't really care for. You know those huge paper stacks you bought when you first started scrapping that always had stuff in them that you were never gonna use? Anyway, I cut each piece at 6"X12" and glued them patterned sides together to make the pages. Each page was folded in half, they are all stacked together. I then used my Crop-a-dile Big Bite to punch the holes for the binding. So simple!

For the cover I used the Makin' the Grade cartridge for the font and shadow, cut at 1.5", and welded the words together on my Gypsy.

The car is from the Beep Beep Lite cartridge and is cut at 1.75".

The stars (1.25" and 0.75") and hearts (1.5" and 1") are from George and Basic Shapes.

For the inside pages I used Designer's Calendar to create the grid, I just cut off the excess because the one on the cartridge, being meant for a calendar, had too many squares. The grid was cut at 5".

"BINGO" was also from Makin' the Grade and was cut at 0.75".

And I think that's it! Hope you like it! If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

#49 Designer's Calendar - Feeling Lucky?

Hi everyone! Here is my first EVER St. Patrick's Day card! St. Patty's Day has never been a big deal for me for the following reasons:

- never really liked the whole pinching thing when I was little (or now either LOL) if I didn't wear green.

- I don't look good in green.

- Leprechauns are creepy.

- I know there's no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (just ask my little sister, she actually ran a long way to find it haha)

- Hate beer so when I got to college couldn't look forward to green beer either.

However, I do like the Irish being that I am married to one. I guess that makes my kids Irish as well, so maybe we should be celebrating after all!

Anyway, I created this card using the Designer's Calendar cartridge. I cut the image out twice, separated the clover and hat trim from one of the pieces and added glitter with my Xyron.

For the background, I used a rainbow stamp pad and a brayer over glossy cardstock.

I created this card with two challenges in mind:

My Creative Time - St. Patrick's Day theme using an older Cricut cartridge.

Crafting With Cristina - St. Patrick's Day theme using the colour green.

Hope you like it!

Imagination Monday Challenge - Chinese New Year

Hi everyone! This week the Imagination Monday Challenge hosted by My Creative Time and Pink Cricut was a tough one for me! The task was to create any project using our Imagine machines with the theme of Chinese New Year.

I am still in awe of the Imagine machine! I can't believe that I made this card using only white paper!

The Imagine cartridge I used was JT. The dragon was an image from that cartridge, I changed the colours of the layers and printed and cut them as one image. All of the other cuts were from regular cricut cartridges, then I used the JT cartridge to print them in colour or pattern to match my dragon.

The circle card is from Wild Card, "Chinese New Year" is from Designer's Calendar and the circle is from George and Basic Shapes.

For some final touches, I added some thick stitching in black pen around the circle and some gold bling for the dragon's eye.

Hope you like it!