Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas - Day 4

Hi everyone! I have a few posts for you this evening! I finished up the fourth tag in the Tim Holtz series yesterday morning, but didn't get a chance to make a blog post until now!

Here it is:

Again, there were certain supplies that I didn't own, but could exchange for what I did have. The acrylic snowflake border along the side of the tag was created on my Gypsy by welding four snowflakes (from Art Philosophy and Don Juan) to a rectangle.

I also used different colours of Distress Stain, different stamps on the background and the buttons came from my stash.

Hope you like it!

#136 Speaking of Fall - Nature Lovers

Hi everyone! Here is a layout I created for the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog. The challenge was to create a project featuring our favorite thing about fall. I decided to go with leaves! I love the colours of fall leaves and crunching sound they make under your feet.

We also had to add some texture to our projects. First, I stamped on ivory cardstock with versamark using the Tim Holtz leaves stamps in a random pattern all over the cardstock. I then heat embossed the stamped images with clear embossing powder. Next, I used Tim Holtz Distress inks and foam applicator tools to apply several different colours to the background. I had a lot of fun with this process!

The Cricut cartridges / cuts I used on my layout are:

Give a Hoot - Tree (cut at 4.25"), "Nature Lovers" cut at 3.75", Squirrel (cut at 2.25")

Cindy Loo - Blessings (Cut at 1.75")

Speaking of Fall - Leaves (cut at 1.81")

Don Juan - 2010 (cut at 1.13")

I stamped over the squirrel with Perfect Medium using a background stamp by Stampin' Up. I then added gold Perfect Pearls and set it by misting with water.

Other supplies:

Patterned Paper - Close to My Heart

Cardstock - Close to My Heart, Bazzill

#37 Don Juan - Be My Valentine Banner

Hi everyone! Here is my Valentine's Day banner have been working on the last couple days! I LOVE how it turned out!

I picked up the Teresa Collins "Timeless" line to create it with - such beautiful papers. I just love her stuff!

I created this banner for the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle blog where the task was to create a banner with any theme using at least 3 Cricut cuts.

The cartridges/cuts I used are:

Sugar & Spice - Banner pieces cut at 5 1/4" from Black cardstock

Home Decor - Hearts cut at 3 1/4" from Light Pink cardstock

Don Juan - "Be My Valentine" cut at 2" in patterned paper (both regular and shadow font)

For the strip of paper along the top, I used my Gypsy to drag the banner image to the bottom of the mat until only the top part was showing, then pressed cut.

I added a row of stitching between the pink pattern strip layer and the black cardstock.

For the accordian fold circles, I cut patterned paper to 1 3/4 X 10 1/4", then trimmed along one long edge with decorative scissors. The paper strip was scored at every 1/4" and folded back and forth like and accordian, attached at the ends and brought down into a flat circle. If you've never seen or made them before, and would like more detailed instructions, check out youtube, just type in "accordian flower".

The hearts were sprayed with Tattered Rose Glimmer Mist and attached to the accordian circles.

The letters were then glued to the hearts.

The pieces are all strung together with satin ribbon.

Patterned Paper - Teresa Collins

Cardstock - Bazzill Basics

Flowers - Teresa Collins

Can't wait to make another banner! This one was a lot of fun!

Hope you like it!

My Pink Stamper NSD # 9

Still going here with these challenges, still hoping I can get them done before bed, if not I am glad we have until tomorrow night to finish! For this challenge we were asked to create a shaped project so I used my Design Studio to create this Lightning McQueen card for my nephew for his 3rd birthday on Saturday, I think he will love it! The cartridges I used are Cars and Don Juan. Thanks for looking!

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!