#173 Autumn Celebrations - Canadian Circle Swarm Challenge 1 and 2

Hi everyone!  Once again it is time for the Canadian Cricut circle swarm challenges.  This is the third year we've had them and they are as fun as ever!  So far I have completed 2 of the challenges posted.

Challenge #1 was to find inspiration and make a creation based on that inspiration.

This was my inspiration:

And here is my project!

 

For this card I used Cricut Alphabet for the cat, Autumn Celebrations for the pumpkins, Cricut Essentials for the branches, and Art Philosophy for the shaped card.

 

Challenge #2 was to create a Fall-themed banner! I had lots of fun with this one and dug out an oldie cartridge for it!  The squirrels were cut out with Stretch Your Imagination.  The banner flags and letters are from Birthday Bash.

12 Tags of 2013 - January

Hi everyone!  Happy New Year!
What better way to start of my posts for the New Year than with my verson of Tim Holtz's January tag for 2013!  You can see my inspiration HERE . As always, I really enjoyed making this months tag.
Here is my version:

I followed all of the techniques pretty closely, changing up the colours a little but, and using what I had in place of the product I didn't have.  The embossing folder used for the background was a 5X7 Cuttlebug folder.  The gears were cut from Grungepaper using my Cricut with the Paper Lace 2 cartridge.  I don't own the stamps Tim used, so I used some other TH stamps from my stash. I also used some random embellishments in the place of the gears he used on his tag.
Hope you like my tag and that you might be inspired to try your own!

#172 Artiste - 40th Anniversary Cake

Hi everyone! Yesterday was my parent's 40th Anniversary celebration and I wanted to share with you the cake I made for them.
The rolled flowers were cut from the Artiste cartridge, as well as the heart in the cake topper and some of the snowflakes.
The other cartridge I used for the snowflakes is Cake Basics. I cut the snowflakes from fondant using my Cricut Cake machine.
For the 40 on the cake topper, I used the font from the Lovely Floral cartridge.
All of the paper flowers were cut from Recollections white card stock, them sprayed with various colours of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays.
I am really happy with how it turned out!

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2012 - November

Hi everyone!  This weekend I finally got to do a little creating in my craft room! I worked on some of the past tags from Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2012, as well as the new November tag.. You can see what he created this month by clicking HERE.  This is what I came up with for November:

I don't own the stamps that Tim used for his tag, so I had to improvise a bit.  It was a lot of fun to make and I encourage you to try some of his tags out as well!

#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!

Treat Bag Swap!

Hi everyone!  On the Canadian section of the Cricut Circle Messageboard, we conducted a Halloween treat bag swap, where whoever wanted to take part was put on a list and we had to send a box / bag of goodies to the person under us on the list.  I sent a package to MissMel9 and received one from Hrvatica. I got my goodies from my swap person last week but sadly, I had to wait until everyone on the list got theirs :-(  Well today was the day!  Here is what I received in my amazing package from Hrvatica.

LUCKY ME!!!! THANKS HRVATICA!

#170 This and That - Little Reader Layout

Hi everyone!  I am still working on some of the challenges we have going on on the Canadian side of the Cricut Circle Messageboard for the Canadian online swarm.
Challenge #4 was to create a layout of an "everyday moment" and use a new-to-you technique.  Here is what I came up with:

The cartridges / cuts I used are:
Disney Classics - Jiminy Cricket cut at 4", Pinocchio cut at 3"
This & That (Creative Memories) - "Little Reader" letters cut at 1.25", tag cut at 2".

For my new technique, I chose to use the Sew Easy stitching tool and created a border under the photos with two different colours of floss.

Hope you like it!