Exploring Cricut Challenge Starts Today

Welcome to another challenge from over at my other blog Exploring Cricut. Our new challenge is a Cricut Choice. You can use any cartridge, any theme but must include 1 pattern paper, 2 cricut cuts, and 3 colors. How easy is that!!  For this challenge I am sharing this recipe book and a couple pages I created.  I figured maybe my granddaughters might like my recipes someday and I will start putting in some favorites.  I used the From My Kitchen, Pooh Font, Preserves, and Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cartridges.  Below the picture are the cuts.  Be sure to link your project by Saturday, November 9.  Can't wait to see what you enter!

From My Kitchen-apron cut at 4.75 inches
                             oven mitt cut at 3 inches
Pooh Font              titles marker font cut at 1.25 inches
Preserves              cherries cut at 3 inches
Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art-pumpkin cut at 3 inches

Tuesday Daily Project at Exploring Cricut

Welcome to the Tuesday daily project for Exploring Cricut.  I made this simple thank you card using the Preserves, Simply Charmed and Stamping cartridges.  Very easy for a quick thank you and ready to send.  Below the picture is the measurements of the cuts.  I made this card a 5 x 7.  Be sure to enter our challenge over at Exploring Cricut this week!

Preserves- strawberry cut at 2.5 inches
Simply Charmed-berry sweet cut at 2 inches
Stamping-thanks sentiment cut at 1.5 inches

New challenge at Exploring Cricut

Today we are starting a new challenge at Exploring Cricut. It is called "Food Frenzy" Create a card, layout, or papercraft using an item of food cut with the cricut. You can do any theme or colors, just let your imagination go wild. This week my granddaughter Peyton who is 2 1/2 years old came to stay with me one day and we had some bananas that need to be made into muffins. She loves banana muffins and she loves to help. She peeled the bananas, smashed them, (her terms) put them in the batter, taste the batter when nana went to get the pans, put in pan and bake. This is how she described to her Dad on how she baked muffins complete with hand gestures, but he was on the phone lol. Her favorite part was eating them when they were finished. For this project I used the cartridges Everyday Paper Dolls, Create a Critter, Preserves, and From My Kitchen. Below the picture are the measurements.

Banana cut at 3.5 inches-Create a Critter

Muffin cut at 4.5 inches-Paper Dolls for Everyday

Word Muffins and Banana cut at 2 inches-Preserves

Pot Holders cut at 5.50 inches-From My Kitchen

Paper and cardstock from Recollections

Tuesday Daily Project at Exploring Cricut

Hello, glad you stopped by today. I created this two page layout for the daily project at Exploring Cricut. I made this to use on some pictures of my granddaughter Mary-Kate. She is my berry sweet girl for sure! I used the cartridges Hello Kitty Font and Preserves. Below the picture are the directions for this project. Be sure to enter our challenge at Exploring Cricut this week too.

Materials: DCVW pattern paper and CTMH cardstock
Martha Stewart Punch
Title cut @ 1.50 inches from Hello Kitty Font
Strawberries cut @ 1.75 inches from Preserves.

Thursday Post at Exploring Cricut

Hello everyone and I am filling in again for one of the DT members at Exploring Cricut for our daily project. I created a scrapbook page using the cartridges Preserves and From My Kitchen. I was lucky enough to have both of my granddaughters to bake cookies with me before Christmas. I was hoping to get another page with my other granddaughter completed for this post, but did not get finished. Below the picture is the directions and materials I used. I am also entering this into a challenge at Heart to Heart challenges.
Materials:
Paper and cardstock from Close to My Heart

Preserves- Title cut at 1.25 inches
From My Kitchen-oven mitts cut @ 2 inches
Apron cut @ 3.5 inches
Utensils cut @ 2 inches

Great challenge at Papercutz this week!

This week at Papercutz the challenge is called "Gobble Gobble" and you are to make a card, layout, or papercraft incorporating a recipe for one of your favorite Thanksgiving dishes. I decided to make a recipe board. I love thrift stores so I found this frame and told my husband to get me a piece of tin cut to fit. I painted the frame black and the tin white. I made the magnets from cricut and copied my favorite recipe on a card. Below are pictures and the directions along with this yummy recipe for Pumpkin Roll Cupcakes. Please be sure to sign up for my email updates on the side of this blog.

This is the finished project of my recipe and these are so good too and easier than pumpkin roll.

I found this cupcake pan from Debbie Meyer that has this thing that makes the holes in the cupcake while it bakes. Makes it so easy to fill!

I used the cartridges From My Kitchen

recipes cut @2.50 x 5.25 out of vinyl

pie cut @3.5

rolling pin cut @ 4.75

cupcake cut @ 3.25

cake cut @ 2.75

From the cartridge Preserves

cherry cut @ 2.75

I used bazzill cardstock and put a magnet on the back

Recipe for Pumpkin Roll Cupcakes

4 eggs 1 2/3 cup sugar

1 c. oil 15 oz can pumpkin

2 c. flour 2 tsp. baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

Preheat oven 350. Mix eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin, beat till fluffy. In another bowl, mix flour,

baking powder, salt,cinnamon and soda. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture. Bake 20 minutes till done. Makes 24 cupcakes.

Frosting

4 oz cream cheese softened

1 stick butter softened

2 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Mix together till smooth, fill holes in center of cupcakes when cool and add frosting to top.

Note** sometimes I make batch and half of frosting because I like it stuffed!