Exploring Cricut and More Thursday Project

Hello! I am sharing today at Exploring Cricut and More. In keeping with the challenge I created a project for Mother's Day including a ribbon in my floral arrangement.

I created 7 flowers with the Flower Shoppe cartridge.There are quite a few videos on youtube.com showing various methods of making paper flowers. I really like this one and used it as my inspiration. She has other videos on different flowers as well that are awesome! I chose to not have them so tightly cupped for a different look.

The wire was hot glued between the folds of the layers and then the button was hot glued to the center. 

The butterfly has a vellum overlay that is hot glued in the center. It also has a wire attached with hot glue to the back.

I inked the flowers prior to using the stylus, as shown in the video, to cup the flowers. I stickled the edges of most of the petals once the flower was put together.

Recipe:

Cricut Expression

Flowers - Flower Shoppe (Fun2)

Butterfly - Everyday Pop Up Cards

Fruit Punch Stickles, Floral wire, Buttons, Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Annette

Exploring Cricut - Graduation Cupcake Stand

Hello! It is my turn to share at Exploring Cricut and I am so excited to do so. My house has been a whirlwind over the last week with graduations and winding down the school year. We have a busy weekend coming up with dance performances. It is all so exciting  but I will be so ready to take a breather.  I'm sure you all are feeling the crunch too with the season. 

I have a fun project and oh so simple for those last minute ideas in decorating for graduation parties. I created this cupcake stand and wanted to share with you. I used my Cricut for the graduation cap and lettering. I adhered the cap, with a hot glue gun, to a popsicle stick that I painted white. It slipped nicely in between the notch at the top and I didn't even have to glue it in place.   

This cake stand holds approximately 48 cupcakes and is made out of styrofoam. I added the polka dot ribbon and the tulle at the bottom using a glue gun to adhere. 

You may remember that I had made candy tags for the table and I thought I would show you what the finished buffet looked like.

It was a great party and people really enjoyed the fun candy and cupcakes! Remember you have until Saturday to enter our challenge at Exploring Cricut!

Recipe:

Cap - Everyday Pop-Up Cards

"Class of" - Wild Card

"2013" - Birthday Bash

Tulle, ribbon, Yellow Stickles

Thanks for stopping by!

Annette

Exploring Cricut Project for Thursday

Happy Thursday! It is my turn at Exploring Cricut today. I decided to make a sympathy card for one of the women in my bible study. Her son was on a school trip in Thailand and was in a tragic accident. Any prayers for she and her family would be appreciated during this difficult time. 

Ok, on to my project. I used Versamark and UTEE (ultra thick embossing powder) to embellish the butterfly.

The blackout feature was used for the butterfly and I heated UTEE on it to give it some texture. The UTEE I used was a blue iridescent that really gave a different color to the paper. On the top layer I used clear embossing powder with Versamark and heated it. This gave both pieces a nice shine. 

The sentiment was then embossed with black powder and Versamark. I then used Versamark over the entire sentiment with clear embossing powder. I hadn't done this in awhile and was concerned the black would reheat, but it came out just fine. 

When attaching the top layer of the butterfly I only glued the middle section so that the wings would pop up and the underneath would have a nice shadow as well as visibility of the blackout section. 

Recipe:

A2 cardbase

Butterfly - Everyday Pop Up Cards 3.71"

Sentiment - K. Andrew Designs

Ribbon, pearls, black embossing powder, clear embossing powder, Versamark and iridescent blue UTEE.

Don't forget you have until Saturday to enter your project in the "Summer Fun" challenge. I always look forward to what you all create too:)

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Exploring Cricut Daily Project

Hi Everyone! It's that time again to share with you a project for Exploring Cricut. The school year is finishing this week. Time has just flown way too fast. I'm sure many of you have last minute thank you cards that need to be made. My older daughter needed to write thank yous for presents from her birthday last week. I was able to whip this out fairly quickly using Everyday Pop Up Cards. I made a set of 8 for her to use and they took less than an hour. The longest part was drying of Stickles and Glossy Accents. I used Glossy accents on the teapot knob and the flowers. The Stickles was used for the center of the flowers.

I was able to get 8 teapots on a 12 x 12 sheet of paper at this size; using only 2 sheets. Using my Gypsy I manipulated the cut to fit adequately. I think, for me, making multiple cards of the same theme needs to be utilized more often. It would really save me time when I need a card in a hurry.

Recipe:

A2 card base

Papers - DCWV and American Craft

Teapot - Everyday Pop Up Cards 3"

Sentiment - TradeFish Designs

Diamond Stickles and Glossy Accents

Just a reminder Exploring Cricut has the "Cricut Choice" challenge that ends Saturday. Hope you can play along:)


Thanks for stopping by!

 Annette

How About A Color Challenge!

Good Morning! Where did this week go! It won't be long before Spring Break is here and then not much more before school is out. Feels like we just started. I guess times does fly as you get older. I think it needs to slow down a little so I can catch up:)

Today I am sharing a card that I created using mainly Paisley. Have you ever bought a cartridge for a particular cut, but when you get the cart it's not the first cut that you use? Well, that was Paisley for me. I bought the cartridge because of the cute dolls. After all this time, I am finally using this sweet doll. As I have said in previous posts, this is one of my favorite cartridges. I am really pleased with how she came out and hope you like her too.

I used sequins and gems on the doll. I didn't have a purple gem so I put Stickles on a clear gem and it worked perfectly on the tag.

Inside of card

Recipe:

A2 card base

Papers - DCWV, Bazzill, K&Co., scraps

Doll - Paisley 3.08"

Flag Banner - Everyday Pop Up Cards 1.05"

Tags - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More

Inside Flower - Paisley 2.68"

Sentiment - Tradefish Designs

Turquoise, Firefly, Lavender, Diamond Stickles

Recollections gem, pop dots, black pen, sequins, Prima flower

Entering:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #100 purple, turquoise, green
Party Time Tuesdays Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday Real or Faux Stitches
Make It Monday Anything Goes
Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Friday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Annette

Exploring Cricut Daily Project - Lover's Lane

Good Morning Everyone! I'm so glad you stopped by as it is my turn to share with you a project for Exploring Cricut. I have a Valentine's layout for you and it was so much fun to do. I used quite a few carts to accomplish this one and a lot of stickles:) The name was chosen because my husband's hometown has a street called Lover's Lane and I have always thought it was a very pretty road to travel; perfect for a Valentine page.

Once I have decided on a theme I like to use my gypsy to map out the cuts so I can see how big everything needs to be. From that point, I will either make a tab for each item to cut or group by color. For this particular layout I chose to have a tab for each cut instead of color. I wanted to make sure that the cuts stayed together since there were so many pieces per item.

As you can see, I changed my final layout once I cut them out because I didn't like that the road was hidden. The border was welded together to fit the length of the 12 x 12 pages.

I really like the letters from Storybook. I haven't used this cut very often and it was helpful for me to have the booklet out so that I could make sure and get the right accent frame to go with each letter.

I used the white Signo pen on the wheels and then I added Glossy Accents to it as well as to her shoes, lights and Stickles on basket.

Glossy Accents was added to the cat's heart, the cat and dogs' black eyes and the dog's collar.

Recipe:
12 x 12 2 page layout
Papers - Crate Paper Farmhouse, Bo Bunny Crazy Love, DCWV, stash
Border - Elegant Edges 1.02"
Title - Storybook 1.31"
Apostrophe - Indie Art (actually a rain drop) .79"
Girl w/scooter - Sweethearts 3.45"
House - Everyday Pop Up Cards 3.15"
Heart chimney - Sweethearts 2.85"
Volkswagen car - Sweethearts 1.62"
Road - Paper Dolls for Everyday 2.69", Argyle Cuttlebug folder
Tree- Sweethearts 4.99"
Dog - Sweethearts 2.19"
Grass - Paper Dolls for Everyday 1"
Cat - Sweethearts 1.92"
Peachy Keen Critter faces
Stickles - Fruit Punch, Xmas Red, Stardust, Firefly, Cinnamon, Golden Rod
Liquid Pearls - White Opal and Pewter
Ribbon - Joann Fabric's
Prima flower, brown ink, pop dots, Glossy Accents, white signo pen, black micro pen

Thank you for stopping by! Don't forget to enter the challenge over at Exploring Cricut. We'd love to see what you create:)

Annette

Sympathy Card

Hi Everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! Ours was definitely busy with Nutcracker. It was beautiful! Today I wanted to share a card made for a friend whose mother passed away suddenly. This was a lift from the boards and I can't recall to whom the credit goes...sorry. I really like the simplicity of this one and hope they will too. Have a great day!

Recipe:

A2 size card

Papers - Stampin' Up

Sentiment- Wild Card 5.47"

Bird -Everyday Pop-Up Cards .96"

Branch - Gypsy Wandering 1.27"

Prima flowers, Stickles

Thanks for stopping!

Annette

Hello Earthling!

Good Morning! Did you all have a nice Thanksgiving? It always goes by so fast. Today, I'm still working on some birthday cards and this time I chose Everyday Pop Up Cartridge as my base card. I just got this over the weekend and haven't had to much time to check it out. Yes, I'm sure you are looking at this thinking how could this be for a birthday:) Well, my older brother likes space stuff and I thought this was just silly. The inside sentiment says happy birthday. I also used Paper Dolls for Everyday and PK Stamps for the face. I used the hide feature on my gypsy and eliminated the cuts on the face so that I could stamp myself. Have any of you stamped on glitter paper before? Well, I hadn't and wanted to give it a try. This glitter paper is from DCWV and the black ink is Staz On. It worked beautifully:)

Recipe:

A2 base Everyday Pop-Up Cards 5.38" height

Papers - Bazzill, DCWV, Deja View

Alien - Paper Dolls for Everyday 3.82" height

Sentiment - All Mixed Up .99" welded together

Silver Star - Paper Dolls for Everyday 2.32"

Face - PK Monster Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!

Annette