Recycle time

We  seem to always have a large pile-up of recyclables on our counter everyday.  So we decided to try something.  We got an older garbage can we had in the basement and use that to store just the day's recyclable items until I take them out to our big bin in the garage.  It seems to be working well, so I decided it needed some vinyl on it so others know it is for Recycling only! 

I used the cartridge Spring Holiday Cards for the recycle sign.  I used the Cricut Craft Room to hide/contour the words and the outline of the card on this cut since I only wanted the triangle and smily face!  I also used Cricut Craft Room Basic font for the wording!  I love the clean look of this font.
I'm entering this into the cricut circle weekly challenge - function meets fun!
Thanks for looking

Christmas Ornament

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For today's project I decided to make a very quick and easy ornament!! 

I've seen all these other blogs where people are making their own glitter ornaments and I wanted to give it a try!  I used GlitterIt to coat the inside of the ornament and then used some Martha Stewart red glitter.  So easy!  And not messy at all!  I will definitely be making more of these with my kids because it was super easy!  I then decided to keep the outside really simple and just used 3 different snowflake designs from the 'Winter is in the air- Seasonal' cartridge.   The snowflakes are all cut at 1.25 inches.  I'm really enjoying playing with vinyl and can't wait to make more projects with it!

Well that's my super simple Christmas ornament.  Hope you liked it!  I'm entering it into the Cricut Circle Weekly challenge - ornaments and glitter!  

Don't forget to check out the other great projects today over at Erica's Craft Room.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Festive Friday - October 14, 2011

It's Festive Friday at My Cricut Craft Room.  This is the day that the design team creates projects for any holiday!  I decided to make a Halloween layout for this day.  I started with a sketch that was posted on a cricut circle blogiversary challenge. 



From this sketch I created my Halloween scrapbook layout!

I used 3 different cricut carts in this layout: 

Happy Hauntings

Paper Doll Dress Up

Accent Essentials

From Happy Hauntings I cut the title at 2 inches, the bats at 1.24 inches, and the witch at 2.5 inches.

I used Paper Doll Dress Up to cut the pumpkin at 3.59 inches.

And Accent Essentials was used to cut out the moon at 2.29 inches.

Here are some more close up pictures of the layout!

Hope you enjoyed my little layout for Festive Friday.  Make sure you check out Erica's Cricut Craft room for some more great projects!

Thanks!

Cricut Circle challenge - circle cart

Another BLOGiversary challenge on the Cricut Circle blog!  This time we had to only use a circle exclusive cartridge!  I just joined the circle a few months back, so I only have 2 carts to choose from.  For this challenge I chose the awesome dance inspired cartridge "Shall We Dance"

I cut the title and the adorable shoes at 3 inches and added a little bling to the shoe ties!

Have I mentioned how much I love the cricut circle!!!

Thanks for checking my projects!



Cricut circle BLOGiversary challenge

Here's a card I made for another cricut circle challenge. The cricut circle blog turned '1' recently, and to recognize the amazing blog they are hosting a whole week of challenges!  For this challenge you have to

Create a project of your choice using a monochromatic color scheme. Your project must include atleast 2 different Cricut Image Cuts.

I decided to make a birthday card!  One of my fellow design team members at Erica's Cricut Craft room has a soon to be 2 year old boy! He has gone through some major surgeries and health issues in his life and to honor him some of us are sending him some birthday cards!

I used two cricut carts for this card.  Birthday bash for the #2, and  B is for Boy.

I thought a little sailboat would be perfect on this card!

Hope you enjoyed my creation!

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Cricut circle weekly challenge

I decided to enter the cricut circle weekly challenge today.  I just created a very simple, quick card using A Child's Year and Old West cartridge.
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Just realized I forgot to add the dot to the i, oops. Got to go back to do that! Thanks

Theme Day Thursday - Fall

It's  theme day thursday again at My Cricut Craft Room!  And today's theme is Fall!  Since today is the first day of September I think it is the perfect time!  I love fall!  Love the colors of fall! love all the fun things you can do in the fall!  There are so many fun family activities in the fall that we enjoy doing together!  One such thing is playing in the leaves!  We don't have many big trees in our yard, so we have to either go to the park or to Grandma's house to get some good jumping in the leaves pictures, but it's worth it!  So for today's project I decided to try to create a layout that go perfectly with these pictures!  I am pretty happy with the result!

I used 3 cricut cartridges for this layout:

Speaking of Fall

Paper Dolls for Everyday

Stretch Your Imagination

This tree which I cut in half so that it would be on both pages of the layout is from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.  I cut the tree at 9.35 inches  (I use my gypsy for all layouts, so my sizes are usually a little odd)  I also cut all the leaves from one of the feature keys on this cut.  I did make some leaves smaller to have them in all different sizes.

The adorable little boy and girl are cut at 4 inches from the Paper Dolls for Everyday cartridge.  I used Sizzix rub-on dress up faces for this layout!  These work so well!  I'm having problems with my Peachy Keen Stamps going on correctly, which is defnitely a user problem, not a stamp problem! I think I need better ink.  Anyone have suggestions for these stamps?  

The words 'Fall Leaves' was cut at 1.5 inches from the Speaking of Fall cartridge.  I've had this cartridge for 2 years now and have never used it! It was actually really easy to layer these letters and I think it adds a nice touch to the layout!

The paper in the background is some that I found at the Target dollar section last year.  Part of the Autumn Harvest collection.  The ribbon on the two photo mats is from the same collection!   The photo mats themselves are from the DCWV The Fall Cardstock Matstack.   The rest of the paper was just part of my solid color stash!

Ok, that's my layout for today's theme day thursday!  I hope you enjoyed it!

Don't forget to check out the rest of the projects at My Cricut Craft Room.

I'm also entering this layout into the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #39 - ABC 123.  For this challenge we needed: (A) Pop of (B)right (C)olor on your page, as well as 1 of something, 2 of something, and 3 of something

My pop of bright color would be the yellow photo mats! They are a lot brighter in person then in the picture!!

My 1 of something = 1 tree

2 of something = 2 kids

3 of something = 3 cricut cartridges used

That's it! Thanks for checking out my layout!

Vacation Time

I recently joined the cricut circle and am so excited to be able to share my layouts with others and check out all the gorgeous designs the circlets create!  It really is an amazing group of people!  This week on the circle blog the weekly challenge is to scrap vacation photos!  I decided to create a layout for my son's first airplane ride this year!  He was so excited watching all the planes while we waited to get on ours! Thankfully he was also excited on the plane and was a great traveler!
I used the 'Pack your bags' and 'A Child's year' cartridges for this layout.
It is a very simple layout, but I really just wanted to showcase the photos this time!