My Cricut Craft Room - Would you Guess Wednesday

Happy Wednesday...that's right we are half way through the week. Wahoo!

Today at My Cricut Craft Room is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday, which means that Erica challenges us designers to only use the Feature buttons on the Cricut Cartridges.  I love creating on this day because I always find cuts that most times get overlooked. 

For today's creation I took Would You Ever Guess Wednesday a step further and used paper from a Christmas stack...now would you have guessed this paper came from a Christmas stack? 

It is from the Echo Park Holly Jolly 6x6 Paper Pad. 

I just love the colors in this collection. 

Also my tip for my alternative to border punches.

I love the look of border punches but

1) I don't want to spend the money on the punches

and 2) I don't have room to store bulky punches

Sooo...using my Gypsy I created my own Border "punch" by selecting the border from

Elegant Edges and welding it to the rectangle from Gypsy Font.

I love the welding feature on the Gypsy.

Elegant Edges has the perfect borders in the Borders feature for this technique.

Cricut cuts:

Straight From the Nest:  Border Feature, Button 33 on the overlay, cut at 1.75

Elegant Edges:  Border Feature, Button 23 on the overlay, cut at .52

Gypsy Font:  Monogram Shadow <Shift>, Button 44, cut at W5.25 x H3.62 (this is a square made into a rectangle with the Gypsy)

To finish my card I added my Ribbon and Divine Twine, doodled around the edges of the card and added my Sentiment which is from Pink By Design: Take the Cake.

Please go to My Cricut Craft Room to see what my Design Team sister's have created today.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny R

My Cricut Craft Room - Scrapbook Friday

Today is Scrapbook Friday at My Cricut Craft Room. 

With the wedding season upon us we were asked to create Layout's with a Wedding Theme.

I am slowly working on my Wedding album and was excited to get to show what I have been working on (to see my other wedding layouts go to my Labels: Scrapbook Pages-Wedding).

These two pages are exchanging the rings and the Vows.

Instead of having a unity candle my Hubby and I decided to do a Love Letter/Wine Box (this is the picture of us screwing a box closed.)  We wrote a love letter to one another and sealed them in a Wine Box with a good bottle of wine.  If we come across issues in our Marriage we are to open this box and read the letters that we wrote to eachother, drink some wine and hopefully remember the reasons we fell in love and committed our lives to one another in the first place.  However, the ultimate goal is to make it to our 25th Wedding Anniversary and open the box together to celebrate our love.  In essence it is kind of like a time capsule.  We are going on our 4th year of marriage and have not even come close to needing to open this box. :)

Cricut Cuts:

Elegant Edges - Button 4, cut at 8.81 x 10.76 (using my Gypsy)

All of my words were cut from Gypsy Font and welded together...there are a variety of measurments.

Here are the pictures again bigger...above I wanted to show them side by side.

Please go to My Cricut Craft Room to see what my wonderful Design Team sisters have created.

Thank you for stopping by,

Jenny R

My Cricut Craft Room - Theme Day Thursday

Today is Theme Day Thursday at My Cricut Craft Room...and today's theme is Weddings.  This happens to be perfect for me since I have been working on my wedding album.  I like to do clean and simple LO's especially for this album since I really want the focus to be on the pictures.

Cricut Cuts:

Page 1 - Sweethearts Cartridge: Here Come the Bride can be found by pressing Shift and is button 30 on the overlay, cut at 3.5.  I also ran this through the Cuddlebug using the Swiss Dots Folder.

Unfortunately I can't remember which cartridge I got the frame on the picture to accent my dad walking me down the aisle, but any frame would work.

Page 2 - Gypsy Font: We gather here today was welded on my Gypsy and cut at 1".

Here are the pages larger...I just wanted to show them side by side above. :)

For more Wedding LO's go to my Labels and click on Scrapbook Pages-Wedding.

Now go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com to see what other projects were created with a Wedding Theme.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - Would you guess Wednesdays

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Wednesday which means we are half way through the week.  Wahoo!  It also means that it is Would you guess Wednesdays at My Cricut Craft Room mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com...What does this mean you ask?

Well, on Wednesdays the Design Team can choose any Cricut Cartridge but we are not able to use the main image on the overlay/handbook...we can only use the feature buttons (these are the 6 buttons at the top left of your overlay) The only exception to this is that we can not use the Shadow or Blackout features as these are basically like using the main image.  The other option is to use any image from the Cricut Cake Cartridge to create a paper craft.  That's right you are able to use Cricut Cake Cartridges in any Cricut machine.  

For my project I chose to use the Cricut Cake Cartridge Birthday Cakes along with my Gypsy.  The cuts I used are the Square from the Gypsy Font Cartridge which can be found by pushing Shift and selecting the Monogram Shadow Feature.  The square is the 4th button in from the right on the bottom row.  I like to call these shapes my hidden treasures. :)  This is sized at Width 5" x Height at 8" essentially making a rectangle.

From the Birthday Cakes Cartridge I used Border 10 found on page 76 in the handbook.  This border was welded to my square/rectangle and is sized at Width 5" x Height 2".  With the border welded this makes my card base 5x10.  I copied Border 10 at the same size so I could layer it over the base with a different color cardstock. On page 56 of the Handbook I selected Robot 3 hit Shift and selected the same button to grab his layers. He is cut at 3.5".


 Now it's time to cut.  When I am placing my papers on my mat I like to turn my Gypsy so the arrows on the mat's match  This way I know the Cricut is going to cut at the right places.  The really funny thing is I originally took a picture for this tutorial and still didn't place my papers on the mat correctly.  Trust me it works if you are paying attention. :)  After everything was cut (correctly) I layered my two base cards and my cute Robot.  I added some doodling to my Robot to give him some finishing touches and pop dotted him to give some dimension.  I stamped my Happy Birthday sentiment which is from Many Greetings by My Creative Time with Emma and my card is complete.

Here is a side view of the card...I am trying to show that the Silver paper is shimmery.  Soo fun!

Supplies: 
Cricut Cartridges:  Birthday Cakes, Gypsy Font
Paper:  Recollections Rockets N Sprockets Gear Head & Shimmer Cardstock (Silver)
Bazzill Basics Paper (Navajo)
Recollections - Foam Adhesive Squares
Close to my Heart Ink - Grey Wool
Stamp:  My Creative Time (Many Greetings)
Zig Writer (Black)
Adhesive:  ATG & Zig two way glue pen

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today.  Please go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see what else was created on this Would You Guess Wednesday.

Jen