My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - July

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100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE

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Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's one year "BLOG-iversary" of our first 100 cartridge Blog hop!

A year ago the blog was kicked off with the first design team members and daily postings. It took 2 months to get ready for this hop last year. Now we bring it to you the first full weekend of every month.

Collectively the design team uses over 100 different Cricut Cartridges in their projects during the two days of this hop. Sunday the new members of the design team will be announced and some have even made a project to share with you!! What an exciting weekend!!

As special treat enjoy 10% off of your total purchase with Erica's Craft Room Store.

Use the code JULY to see 10% off of your total purchase (No exclusions)

on July 7 & 8. Also on Sunday there will be an exciting announcement!!!

 

 

Now on to my projects...For this month I am using the following Cricut Cartridges:

Create A Critter, Gypsy Wanderings, Birthday Cakes, Something to Celebrate, and Greeting Cards Inside & Out Imagine Cartridge.

 

A friend at work is planning her daughter, Ryan's, first birthday.  She wanted an Owl theme so of course I automatically thought of the super cute owl on the Create A Critter Cartridge. 

I think I went a bit overboard, but I was so excited  to make all the following projects.

 

My first project are Cupcake Toppers...these may look familiar if you follow my blog as I posted these on Monday as a Sneak Peak of the coordinating Party Decor. For details on how these were created please go to my original post Here.

 

 

Here is a banner that I created for my second project. I used all of the cartridges listed above to create this project.  All of the paper on this banner was created using the Cricut Imagine and the Greetings Cards Inside and Out Cartridge. 

I love the colors and patterns on this cartridge!

 

 My third project are these fun goody bags for the kiddos that will be at the party. The goody bags include Stickers, a Glow Stick Bracelet, Play Dough, and a Squirt Gun since the party is going to be outside at a park. These are the first goody bags I have created and I had a fun with these.  The Thank you sentiment is from My Pink Stamper Fabulous Phrases stamp set.

My last project I am going to share with you will be the Centerpieces for the tables.  My friend has quite a big family and is expecting around 70 people at this party, so I will be working on creating 10 of these centerpieces this weekend. 



Fun Tip: Instead of buying filling for the bucket I am shredding paper myself so the colors will be a perfect match.

The Look Who's 1 sentiment is from Pink By Design Take the Cake stamp set.

 

I welded Look Whoos One to a Circle and this will be a frame for pictures of the Birtday Girl.

The Happy Birtday Sentiment is from My Creative Time Many Greetings Stamp Set.

Cricut Cuts:

• The Base for the banner is from the Tag Shadow Feature <Shift>, Button 14 on the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge.  These were flood filled with patterns from the Imagine Greetings Inside and Out cartridge.
• The Font is from the Font Feature and Font Shadow Fearture on Birthday Cakes. (this was used on the cupcake toppers, banner, and centerpieces.)
• The Owls are from Create A Critter, Button 2 on the overlay using Layer 2, & 3...I skipped layer 1 since I used googly eyes. (this cut was used on all projects)
• The Rossettes are from the Decor Feature, Button 35 on Something to Celebrate     (this cut was used on the banner and centerpieces)

 

Wow I've been busy and having so much fun creating these projects. :)

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post. 

I hope you have enjoyed my projects.

 

Your next stop is Bunny Freak

Here is the full line up in case you get lost along the way:

Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Jenn Lorist http://www.jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com

Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com

Kathy S http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/

Teresa http://www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

Kathy Jo http://skrappindiva.blogspot.com

Doris P http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com

Janet http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com

Jenny R http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com <<---You Are Here--->>

Bunnyfreak http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com <<---Go Here Next--->>

Erica's Project http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

Lisa Ch. http://lisacustomscrapbooking.blogspot.com

Ashley http://especiallymade.blogspot.com

Ava http://scrapbookdesign4u.blogspot.com

Sarah http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com

Mary http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com

pattie http://www.sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com

marji http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com

samantha http://www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com

Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine ation Monday

Happy Monday...today is My Imagine-ation at My Cricut Craft Room.  Which means you will be seeing projects that were created using the Cricut Imagine.  I just love my Imagine!!!

For today's project I have created some Cupcake Toppers.  I have a friend at work that has a sweet baby girl turning 1 this month.  I am so excited to help her by creating some decorations for her.

This is just one of the few projects I have been working on for this party. 

These were created using Greeting Cards Inside & Out Imagine cartridge, Create A Critter, Gypsy Wanderings and Martha Stewarts Birthday Cakes.

Gypsy Wanderings:

The Scallop (Feature: Decor Tag <Shift>, button 3 on the overlay, cut at 9.2rel) and

Circle (Feature: Decor Tag <Shift> button 9 on the overlay, cut at 1.8rel) 

Create A Critter:

The Owl (Feature: Layer 2 & Layer 3, button 2 on the overlay, cut at 1.7)

Martha Stewarts Birthday Cakes:

The 1 (Feature: Font, button 1 on the overlay, cut at 1.4rel)

All images were flood filled with Patterns and Colors from Greeting Cards Inside & Out.

The Look Who's sentiment is from Pink By Designs Take the Cake stamp set.

I will be showing the rest of the party decorations I created during this weekends My Cricut Craft Rooms 100 Cartridge Blog Hop, so make sure you stop by to see what else I have in store for you. :)

For today please make sure you go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com to see what the other lovely and talented Design Team ladies have created today.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny R

My Cricut Craft Room - Would you guess Wednesday

Good morning crafters and welcome to Would you Guess Wednesday feartured at My Cricut Craft Room.  Our Design Team leader Erica challenges us to think outside the box on Wednesdays.  We are to create a project using only the Feature Keys on any cartridge...or we can create a paper project using a Cricut Cake Cartridge.  Did you know you can use any Cake Cartridge on any Cricut?

Today I decided to use only the Feature Keys on the Cricut cartridge Gypsy Wanderings (this is a preloaded cartridge that comes with the Gypsy).  This cartridge is great as it has a lot of seasonal images.  I created this A2 size card to send to one of my friends to let her know that I am Grateful for our friendship this Thanksgiving. 

For my card base I used Kraft cardstock as my base.  All of the other paper are from my scraps. 

Cricut Cuts:

I used the same Button on all of my cuts (button 28 on the overlay)

For the frame I used the Feature Key: Decor Tag <Shift>  cut at 3.5

For the phrase I used the Feature Key: Phrase/Shadow <Shift> Welded to Decor Tag, sized at 1.55

Feature Key: Phrase/Shadow - cut at 1.55

For the leaves I used the Featur Key: Border/Shadow <Shift> - cut at 1.24

Feature Key: Border/Shadow - cut at 1.24

Hope you enjoy and take a minute to think of the things in your life you are Grateful for today.

Please stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other Wonderful projects were created.

Also check out Erica's preview day all day today at her webstore.

http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com

She is having a HUGE grand opening sale starting Thursday at 10:00 A.M. EST, but today she will be adding things to the store through out the day so you can preview what items will be available to purchase.

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Thank you for taking the time to stop by!

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - Would you guess Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!  We are already half way through the week...Woot Woot!
Today is Would you guess Wednesday and personally my favorite day to be featured on at My Cricut Craft Room.  What is this you ask?  Well on Wednesday's Erica challenges us to use only the Feature buttons on any Cricut Cartridge or a Cricut Cake Cartridge to make a paper creation (these cartridges work on any Cricut.)   For my card today I used Gypsy Wanderings.  This cartridge comes pre loaded with the Gypsy and is great.  It has a lot of seasonal images and great Feature buttons.

Cricut Cuts:
For my A2 (4.25 x 5.5) I used three of the Feature Buttons using my Gypsy for all of the cuts.
The first Feature Button used is Border/Shadow I welded the Shadow Skulls to a square and cut this in black for my mat. The shadow skulls can be found using <Shift>, button 46 selected twice, sized at .95 welded together and then welded to the rectangle that was sized at 5.25 x 4.  I then selected the top layer of Skulls by taking off the shift button and sized at .95.
The next Feature used is Decor Tag, button 14 on the overlay, cut at 5.14 x 2.85. (this is the striped jagedy cut)
The last Feature button used is Phrase/Shadow, button 46, sized at 1" then again with the <Shift> button on for the shadow.

Supplies:
Paper:  Recollections Printed Scrapbook Paper (from Michael's)

Thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by...please go to My Cricut Craft Room to see what other great creations the Design Team crafted for you today.

Happy Crafting,
Jen