Exploring Cricut Saturday Post

Today I am doing the Saturday post at Exploring Cricut.  The picture of my project is not very good because I had to use my phone because my laptop crashed and this old PC does not read my camera card.  This old PC is on the last leg too, but at least right now it works.  Shopping for a new one today!  I have thank you cards I created using the Christmas Noel cartridge.  I only cut the snowflake at 2 inches and added a pearl.  The paper is from Simple Stories Holiday collection.  I made the cards and I also made the envelopes using my WeRMemory Keepers Envelope Punch Board.  I love this thing and if you haven't seen how it works, go to You tube and there is a video, simple and easy.  I also just made a liner for the envelopes to match the paper.  For the outside of the envelope, I used a Martha Stewart Punch.

Tuesday Daily Project over at Exploring Cricut

Welcome to our Tuesday daily project over at Exploring Cricut.  I turned this thrift store find into a really cute winter scene picture.  The inside of the frame measures 5.50 x 5.50 so it was not that big and I knew my items would have to be small.  The picture does not do it justice, very beautiful, but lots of rain and cloudy when I took the pictures.  I used the cartridges Winter Frolic, Christmas, and Christmas Cards. Below the pictures are my details.  Be sure to enter the challenge over at Exploring Cricut too!

Shadow box frame from Goodwill store for 1.50
Gave it a fresh coat of white paint.
Cartridges:  Winter Frolic-Winter Wonderland title cut at 1.5 inches
                   Christmas-house cut at 3.25 inches
                                    trees cut at 2.5 inches
                   Christmas Cards-horse and sleigh cut at 4.5 inches
Cardstock Bazzill and Pattern Paper some old Chatterbox in my stash
Eucalyptus and crystal stickles

Something to share

This is a layout I created for the magazine "The Bug " which is no longer printed. I loved how it turned out and even though they did print it in the last digital issue, I wanted to share. This is a layout of my granddaughter Peyton's first time in the snow. Below the picture are the details and the many cartridges I used to make this fun page. It is hard to see but I used Close to My Heart Liquid Applique on the hat and mittens which made them appear to have fur.

Pattern Paper-Holiday from 3 Bugs on a Rug
Cardstock-Bazzill
Liquid Applique-Close to My Heart
Stickles
Colorbox chalk
Snowflake embellishments in stash
Cricut Cuts
Title cut at 3.25 from cartridge-Winter Frolic
Snow flakes cut at 2 inches-Home Accents
cut at 2 inches-A Childs Year
cut at 2 inches-Christmas
cut at 2 inches-Graphically Speaking
Circles cut at 2.5 inches-Create a Critter

New challenge at Exploring Cricut

This week the challenge at Exploring Cricut is called "Winter Wonderland". You are to create a card, layout or papercraft using any cricut cuts of a winter scene or winter activity. I created a scrapbook page using the cartridges Winter Woodland and Christmas. Below the picture is the details and materials of my page. Please join us this week for the challenge.
Materials:
Blizzard Swirls pattern paper by Chatterbox
Cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
stickles-Diamond

Cuts:
Winter Woodland-snowman cut @ 2.25 inches
Title cut @ 3.50 inches
snowflakes cut @ 3.50 inches
Christmas Trees cut @3.5 inches
House cut@ 4.5 inches

Wednesday Daily Project

Today I am filling in for one of the design team members at Exploring Cricut and it is also my birthday today so I am happy to share my project with you! I created a two page layout using the cartridges Winter Frolic, Accent Essentials, Christmas, Graphically Speaking, and George. Below the picture are the directions and measurements of my page. Paper-Bo Bunny and Bazzill cardstock
Title-Winter Frolic cut @3.5 inches
Snowflakes-Christmas cut @ 1.5 inches, 3 inches, and 4.5 inches
Accents Essential cut @1.75 inches
Graphically Speaking cut @ 1.5 inches
Circles-George cut @ 1.75 inches and 2.5 inches
Used Martha Stewart punches
Colorbox chalk
Stickles
Kaiser Crafts Pearls
Making Memories snowflake brads

Exploring Cricut Challenge #6

This is our last challenge of 2011 at Exploring Cricut and it is to make a card, layout , or papercraft using a pine, fir, evergreen or Christmas tree in any colors or themes you would like! I hope you will all join us in this last challenge. It is a easy one and crafting will help you destress in this stressful time of the last few days before Christmas. Below the pictures are my directions and materials for this page. I used the cartridges Christmas Noel and Teresa Collins Holly Digital. Merry Christmas from Happyscrapperdiane!

Directions:

Christmas Noel cartridge

Tree cut @ 8 inches

Teresa Collins Holly Digital

Title cut @ 4.5 inches

Holly cut @ 10.667 inches in craft room all layers the same

I used Close to My Heart Mistletoe Collection pattern paper and cardstock

Liquid Applique

Red Stickles