Zoo Day pages

I am really working on my scrapbooks lately and did some pages over the NSD weekend. I finished this page today and really like how it turned out. The lighting is not too great, but I still have to get the right bulbs for the lightbox my husband made for me. I used the cartridges Create a Critter, Life's a Beach, George, and Zoo Day. The animals were some cute chipboard ones from K & Co that I had in my stash and I added google eyes to them. Below the pictures are my cuts and sizes. I used my Janome Mini Sewing machine to sew the zigzag stitches around the paper. Palm Leaves cut at 3.25 and 4.75 inches-Create a Critter
Palm Leaves cut at 1.75 inches-Life's a Beach
Grass cut at 3.75 inches-Life's a Beach
Flowers page 36 cut at 2.5 inches -Life's a Beach
Circles cut at 4.5 and 4.75 inches-George
Title cut at 3.5 inches -Zoo Day

My Easter Mantel

I did not realize until this week that Easter is upon us and we usually decorate for every holiday so when the grandchildren come and visit that they enjoy it. Truth be known, we love it too! I am going to try to get into my cartridges more and at least two to three times a week create something with a cartridge that I have not used in awhile. With over a collection of almost 200 and many digitals, I should take advantage of all Cricut offers us. I am glad to finally get my replacement E2 and have been playing with it alot. This week I ordered the mini cricut to use at crops and giving my oldest granddaughter my bug which is one of the first machines out! I hope she will enjoy it as much as I have. Today I am exploring a digital cartridge Easter Magic. I have decorated my mantel and used it to decorate my plate and make a banner. I really liked this one and will be using it more for layouts for Easter pictures.

The blocks are from Close To My Heart and I have decorated three sides of them now for the holidays. I cut the square from George and the lettering from Art Philosophy. I had some stickers for the blocks on the end.

The plate is done with the Easter Magic digital cartridge and the Happy Easter is cut at 2.5 inches and the bunny with basket is cut at 5 inches. I used a removable adhesive on the items.

The banner is also done with the Easter Magic digital and I cut the eggs and the bunnies at 5 inches each. The bunnies are dimensionalized too. I hope you have enjoyed seeing my little bit of Easter on my mantel and would love to see what you create too!!!

Tuesday Daily Project at Exploring Cricut

I have the daily project at Exploring Cricut today, and I did a couple Valentine projects that were fast and easy. I did the block that spell out Happy Valentine's and added vinyl to my place and candles. I used the cartridges George, Art Philosophy, Wedding, Sweethearts, and Home Accents. I have the directions below.

Materials

Papers were from my stash of old Valentine pieces

Cardstock from Bazzill

Stickles

Vinyl from Expressions Vinyl

Jewels and pearls from Kaiser Crafts

Close to my Heart Rock the Block blank blocks

Cuts
George-squares cut at 2 inches

Art Philosophy-letters cut at 1.5 inches

Wedding-Double hearts cut at 1.5 inches

Sweethearts-cupid cut at 2 inches

Home Accents-Love cut at 5 inches

hearts cut at 2 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

Papercutz Challenge

This weeks challenge at Papercutz is "All Hearts Come Home for Christmas". Make a card, layout or papercraft using hearts and use any colors you would like. I decided on a card and I used the hearts from George Basic Shapes. I cut 3 hearts at 1.5 inches and 1 heart at 1.25 inch. I inked the edges with white and positioned them into a Christmas Tree. I used some Queen and Co jewels to adorn it. I also used Bazzill cardstock and I embossed the white with my Cuttlebug. Fast and easy card! Please join us this week with your creation.

Wednesday's Exploring Cricut Post

Today I am helping out one of our Exploring Cricut design team members who is not feeling so well . I created a scrapbook page using the cartridges Holiday Cakes , Stretch Your Imagination, and George Basic Shapes. I have recently purchased the cake machine and tried it out once, but love the cake cartridges for all the wonderful designs it has. Below the picture is the directions for this project. Be sure to stop by Exploring Cricut tomorrow for another daily project and be sure to enter our challenge this week too!
Holiday Cakes
Wreaths cut @ 5.50 inches
Title cut @ 3.50 inches

Stretch Your Imagination
Holly cut @ 1.5 inches and 2.00 inches

George Basic Shapes
circles cut @ 5.50 inches

paper was from paper pack of Martha Stewart (last year, not sure name)
Bazzill cardstock
Chestnut roan ink
white uniball pen

Challenge #113 At PaperCutz this week

This weeks challenge at Papercutz is to use the shapes circles, diamonds, and stars in a Halloween theme card, layout or papercraft using any colors. I decided on a layout that will be perfect for one of the granddaughters Halloween this year. Please join us this week for our challenge and details of how I made this layout is under the picture. Be sure to stop by my other blog Exploring Cricut too!
Materials:
Paper -Pink Paislee-Twilight collection
Bazzill cardstock
Recollections cardstock
green, orange, yellow, and purple stickles
ribbon from Walmart
Cartridges and Cuts:
Happy Hauntings-Haunted house cut at 7 inches
Witch cut at 3.5 inches
Title cut at 3 inches
Ghost (2) cut at 1.5 inches
Frame9 cut at 11.25 inches and cut in pieces

October 31- Moon cut at 1.5 inches

George Circles cut at 1.5 inches
Diamonds cut at 1.5 inches
Stars cut at 1.25 inches