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

October - My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's October 100 Cartridge Blog Hop.  This is day 2 of the hop.  Hopefully, you visited all the amazing blogs shown yesterday.  Weren't those projects great.  Everyone did such an amazing job.  If you're new to the hop or just happened upon my site, please start at the beginning at My Cricut Craft Room.  You don't want to miss out on any projects today!  And be sure to check out the blog candy at the end. Erica is always giving away awesome prizes!!

You should have come from the amazing project at Jenny's blog! 

For the monthly 100 cartridge blog hop, My Cricut Craft Room's design team tries to create projects using 100 different cricut cartridges!  For my project today I used two cartridges:  Baby Steps and New Arrival.  I decided it is time to work on my son's scrapbook! He's 2 1/2 and I don't have anything from his first year done yet.  Here is the layout I designed for today.

This two page layout can hold a 5x7 picture on the left and two 4x6 on the right!  All of the paper is from my stash.  I have so much paper that I'm trying not to buy more (but that is such a  hard thing to do!)

This little baby on the moon is so cute! I used my gypsy to hid the face buts and used a Wide Eyed Kids Peachy Keen stamp instead! Love thos face stamps!  This image is from the Baby Steps cartridge and cut at  2.5 inches.

I love little baby feet!  When I saw this on the New Arrival cart I knew I had to add it to my layout!!

The feet were cut at 2.5 inches.  And the baby blocks were cut at 2 inches.

The little clothes and rattle are from the Baby Steps cartridge and also cut at 2.5 inches.  I just love the little stars on the baby clothes!

The title for my layout comes from New Arrival.  Both the top layer and shadow are cut at 2.5 inches.

Well that's my layout for today! Make sure you continue on the hop to see the other amazing projects the design team has for you today.  And don't forget to check out My Cricut Craft Room everyday to see different projects and win amazing prizes!

Your next stop is

Laura  http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com

If you get lost along the way, here is the entire line-up for today!

1. Erica – http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
 2. Connie -  http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com
 3.  Lucinda Gibson - http://thegrowinggibson.blogspot.com
 4.  Tanya Adams -   http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com
 5.  Karey Jeans -  http://www.creativecraftcorner.com
 6.  Jenny R  http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com
 7.  Gayle - http://gscraptime.blogspot.com   <--- You are here 8.  Laura  -  http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com   <-- Go here next
 9.  Heather S -  http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com
 10.  Lezlye    http://lezlyes.blogspot.com
 11.  Rosa    http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/
 12.  Autumn Willis -   http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com
 13.  Lisa Newton-Orensky -  www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com
 14.  Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com
 15.  Kat http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com/
 16.  Laurie   http://lauriecandoit.blogspot.com/
 17.  Blog Candy  http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

 

Thanks for hopping!



Theme Day Thursday - Cricut Circle Cartridges

It's Theme Day Thursday again at My Cricut Craft Room today!  Today's theme is - Cricut Circle cartridges!  If you aren't a member of the cricut circle this is your chance to see some great projects made with cricut circle exclusive cartridges!  I just recently joined the circle and I think it is well worth the money!!!  When you sign-up you are sent a welcome package which includes an exclusive cart.  Throughout the year you can get 3 more exclusive circle carts.  You also get 10% off at cricut.com and free shipping on orders over $25.  There is a circle messageboard and a circle magazine that has some amazing projects in it.  You really should check it out! 

Ok, on to the fun stuff!  Hope you enjoyed all the projects at My Cricut Craft Room today.  Here is my scrapbook layout that I made using 2 cricut circle exclusive carts.

My little ballerina layout was created using 'Shall we dance' cartridge! If you have a dancer in the family this cartridge is a must. 

This little ballerina is just too cute!! I used my gypsy to hide the face cuts and instead used a Peachy keen Stamp from the Wide Eyes Kids assortment.  Love those face stamps!  The ballerina was cut at 5.5 inches.  The flowers were cut at 2 inches and from the same cartridge!





The two sayings were cut out at 2.85 inches including the word shadow.

The ballet shoes I cut at 4 inches and added a little bling to the tie.

I used the circle cart 'Frech Manor' to cut out the frames for the pictures.

Well that is my layout for today! I hope you enjoyed this little look at the Shall we dance cartridge! Be sure to check out My Cricut Craft Room to see what other great projects were created using circle cartridges.

Scrapbook Saturday at My Cricut Craft Room

It's Saturday!!! That means it's scrapbook layouts on My Cricut Craft Room.
For today's project I decided I wanted to try something a little different for my layout!  My kids have spent hours each day playing outside in the backyard this summer.  I have so many pictures of them on the swings, running through the yard, coloring on the deck, just having fun!  I wanted to try to capture the look of watching them through my kitchen windows! 

The window panes can be used as a mat for the pictures!   It's a pretty simple layout but I think it definitely reminds me of the joy I feel watching my kids play together outside!!!

I used 3 carts for this layout.

Twinkle Toes

Nate's ABC

Accent Essentials

The window panes are from using the negative space of cutting four 5 inch squares from Accent Essentials.  I then placed this layer onto a blue background paper to appear as sky!

The curtains are actually from Twinkle Toes! I love this cartridge.  Using my gypsy I hid the cut for the curtain top since I knew I wasn't going to use it.  I can't tell you again how much I love my gypsy!  I love that I can see exactly on the paper where i am going to cut and how I can choose to hide some cuts to save paper! 

The letters are all from Nate's ABC cartridge.  I really like the simple, clean font on this cartridge.  All letters were cut at 1 inch.

Well that's my layout for today!  I hope you enjoyed it.

Don't forget to check out all the other Scrapbook Saturday layouts on My Cricut Craft Room.

September My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have come from Courtney's blog: http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/ 

If you did not please start at the begining of the hop at
http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

For today's project I created a one page layout!

For this treat layout I used 7 cartridges:

Sweet Treats,

Celebrations,

From My Kitchen,

Doodle Charms,

My Community,

Carousel,

Strech your Imagination

My idea for this layout was to have a whole wheel of treats that would be for a kid to spin and pick their favorite treat to eat! 

This layout is for one 5x7 picture.  I'm sure I have a picture of one of my kids eating some yummy treat that will be perfect on here!

This spinning wheel comes from My Community cartridge and was cut at 6.5 inches.

The balloons come from the Celebrations cartridge and were cut at 3.5 inches.

The treats all come from the rest of the cartridges:  Sweet Treats, Carousel, Stretch Your Imagination, DoodleCharms and From My Kitchen.  The cuts range from 1-2 inches.  I used my gypsy to design this layout and made sure to size everything to fit into the wheel openings!  I love my gypsy.

Hope you enjoyed my layout!

Next you should go to Heather's blog at http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/

I'm sure she made an awesome project!

If you get lost along the way here is the entire line-up

 

1.      My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  
2.      Mayra http://gettingcraftywithma.blogspot.com/
3.      April http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/
4.      Melissa http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com
5.      My Project http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-project-for-100-cartridge-blog-hop.html
6.      Pattie http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
7.      Patricia http://micraftygal.blogspot.com/ 
8.      Ricki http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/ 
9.      Rosa http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/ 
10.  Samantha http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/ 
11.  Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/
12.  Shelly http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/ 
13.  Suzy's Crafts http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/ 
14.  Tammy S. http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com 
15.  Tanya http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/ 
16.  Tracy http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/
17.  Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/   
18.  Amanda http://craftsbyamanda.blogspot.com/
19.   Giveaway http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/surprise-giveaway-saturday-september-3.html
20.  Autumn http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com/ 
21.  Connie http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com/ 
22.  Courtney http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/ 

23.  Gayle http://gscraptime.blogspot.com/                              ----YOU ARE HERE------24.  Heather F http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/         ---- GO HERE NEXT ------

25.  Heather S http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/ 
26.  Holly http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/
27.  Jen R. http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/
28.  Jenny R http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/ 
29.  Laura http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/ 
30.  Lisa http://www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/ 
31.  Karey http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/
32.  Kat http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com/ 
33.  Lezlye http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/ 
34.  Lucinda http://thegrowinggibson.blogspot.com/ 
35.  Blog Candy http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/reserved-for-this-weekends-blog-candy.html

 

Thanks for hopping with us!!!

 

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!