Happy Birthday Exploring Cricut

One year ago today, I started the Exploring Cricut blog.  I have enjoyed so much meeting all the talented crafters via our blog.  Please be sure to check out todays post so you can see the Birthday gift I will be giving this week along with a prize for the challenge!  I created a card today for my daily project.  I used the cartridges Cake Basics and Birthday Cakes.  I ran the base piece through the Cuttlebug and did a little sewing with my Janome Mini.  I cut the Cupcake at 3 inches from Cake Basics and the balloons were cut at 3 inches from Birthday Cakes.  I used some scraps of paper and cardstock, a stamp I had on my shelf with no name, and odd and ends pearls and jewels.  Fun and easy!

Mother's Day Card

Today I have been working on cards and one was a Mother's Day Card. I am making a few this year for special people who are mothers in our family. I need to also get a birthday card ready for my grandson so maybe that will get posted next! I love the pitcher of flowers on the Country Life cartridge and have seen a few cards made with it, but this is my take. I made this a 5 x 7 card and custom sized the white doily for the layer at 4.75 inches x 6.75 inches and cut from the Cake Basics cartridge. The picture and flowers were cut at 6.25 inches in the shadow and other layers from Country Life. I double cut the flowers and popped them with pop dots. I added some Kaiser Crafts pearls. The pattern paper is a scrap from Recollections and all the cardstock is scraps too except for the card base. The Mother's Day stamp was from EK Success. Thanks for looking . I will be entering this card into Fantabulous Cricut challenge and Cricutcardz challenge at Cardztv.

Mother's Day Project

Hello! Today I am sharing my Mother's Day project for the challenge at Exploring Cricut . You are to create a card, layout or papercraft celebrating Mother's Day. I used the cartridges Cake Basics, Fancy Frames, Art Philosophy, and Indie Art. Just make sure it includes cuts from your Cricut. Please enter the challenge by Saturday, May 12. I am also entering this in the Cricut Circle Blog Art Inspiration Challenge for NSD. Below the picture is the details of my page.
Happy Mother's Day cut at 4 inches-Cake Basics
Frame cut at 8 inches-Fancy Frames
Flowers cut at 3.50 and 3.75 inches-Art Philosophy
Butterflies cut at 1.75 inches-Indie Art
I used pattern papers from Kaiser Craft and Bazzill cardstock
Pearls from Kaiser Crafts

I am also entering this in Fantabulous Cricut Mother's Day challenge

New Challenge at Exploring Cricut

This weeks challenge at Exploring Cricut is "Happy Birthday" making a card, layout, or papercraft using any Cricut cuts and the colors red, green, blue, yellow and white. We hope you will join us for this fun challenge. I created a birthday bag and a small card for it. I used the cartridges Birthday Cakes, Celebrations, Carousel, Cake Basics and Base Camp. Below the pictures are the measurements for the cuts and supplies.

Materials:

Bo Bunny pattern paper and dotted cardstock

Stickles

White uniball pen

Cartridges and cuts

Birthday Cakes-Title cut @ 3 inches

Carousel-Balloons cut at 2.5 inches

Pennent cut @ 2 inches

Base Camp-to you words cut at .50 inches

Celebrations-Party hat cut @2.5 inches

Confetti cut @ 3 inches on shadow

Cake Basics- Cupcake cut @ 3 inches

Challenge at Paper Cutz this week!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous start to 2012! This week the challenge at PaperCutz is to make a card, layout or papercraft for the New Year. I decided on making a card and I used the cartridges Sesame Street Elmo's Party, Cake Basics, and the digital cricut New Year's Eve 2012.
Please join us this week for the challenge so we can see what you create! Below the picture is the materials and measurements that I used.

Materials:
pattern papers-Gold Stars and Streamers from Masterpiece Studios
Cardstock-Georgia Pacific and Recollections
Silver stickles

Cuts:
New Year's Eve 2012- 2012 cut @ 1.5 inches
Cake Basics-celebrate cut @ 1.5 inches
Sesame St. Elmo's Party-Confetti 1.5 inches