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

Ink it Pink PbD04 - Keep it Cool

I decided to play along with the Pink by Design Ink it Pink Challenge.

This week the challenge is a project with a "keeping it cool" theme since it is summer.

Now, who doesn't love to keep cool with a delicious ice cream cone on those hot summer days?

Cricut Cut:

I decided to do an Ice Cream Cone shape card.

This cut can be found on the Something to Celebrate Cricut Cartrdge.

Everything was cut at 5.5.

Other supplies used:

The cute sentiment "What's the scoop?" is from Pink by Designs Simply Everything stamp set.

Love the variety of sentiments on this set.

To embelish my card I used Stickles: Star Dust, Ruby Slippers, & Glam Pink.

I also added some Divine Twine at the seam of the card.

To finish it I of course had to add feux stitching for a completed look.

This challenge is open until Tuesday July 3rd at Noon...so hurry and get your entry in. :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - Card Creating Tuesday

Good Morning Crafters,

Today is Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room. 

Did you know Erica from My Cricut Craft Room also has a Challenge Blog? 

That's right, there is a weekly card challenge that I have really been enjoying entering.

The Challenges are based on a sketch and color combo that she gives. 

My card today is for the Challenge blog.  So my card is based on this sketch below and the color combo we were challenged with are Apple, Blueberry, and Grape (Green, Blue and Purple).

For all of the details and to join in the Challenge please go Here.

I was also inspired by another DT sister for this card.  Last week Deidre posted a card with layers making it feel like a shadow box feel and I just knew that technique would be perfect for this Challenge.  To see her original post with this technique I was inspired by please go Here.

Unfortunately I accidently deleted my Gypsy file so I don't have the sizes of the cuts I used, but I did use quite a few different cartridges for this card.  Elegant Edges (Frame), Create A Critter (Sun), Sweethearts (tree), and Something to Celebrate (Title Banner).  My sentiment is from My Pink Stamper and it says I'm so happy for you.  I thought this would be a fun card to give to a newly engaged couple.

To see what other fabulous creations were made today by my DT Sisers please go to My Cricut Craft Room. I hope you decide to join us in the Challenge!

Thank you for stopping by,

Jenny R

My Cricut Craft Room - Card Creating Tuesday

First off I want to wish Erica at My Cricut Craft Room a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This card was made for our fabulous leader's Birthday.

I used three different Cricut Cartridges to create this card:

Create A Critter, Elegant Edges, and Something to Celebrate

Cricut Cuts:

Create A Critter: <Shift> Button 13 (Layers 1 - 3) cut at 2.0

Elegant Edges: Oblong Frame Feature - Button 22, cut at 4 x 5.25

Something to Celebrate: <Shift> Button 20, cut at 1.59 (this was cut 3 times for the banner)

To "hang" the banner I used Twine and Mini White Brads.

Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots was used for the frosting on the cupcake.

To finish the cute cupcake I used Stickles (Pink Glam & Lime).

My Sentiment is from Pink By Design - Take the Cake.

I hope Erica loves her Birthday card and has a fabulous day celebrating her special day!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - Would you guess Wednesday

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Today is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday at My Cricut Craft Room.  What does this mean, you ask?  Well on Wednesday's Erica challenges us to use only the Feature keys on the Cricut Cartridges.  I really love designing for this day becasue I tend to overlook the feature keys but there are so many treasures to found. :)

Today's project I made an A2 size card and a matching gift holder from the Something to Celebrate Cricut Cartridge.  They both can be found using the Decor Feature Key.

The card is button 37 on the overlay, cut at 5.5 x 4.25.  I used my Gypsy so I could use the exact measurements I wanted (this is one of my favorite features on the Gypsy). 

I then pressed Shift and the same key at the same measurement to cut the background which is the polka dot paper.  The Happy Birthday sentiment can be found on the Martha Steward Birthday Cakes Cricut Cartridge.  This was cut at 1.43. 

Did you know you could use Cricut Cake Cartridges to cut paper as well?

To finish my card I added some doodling and stickles for some bling.

The matching gift holder is button 22 on the overlay and cut at 3.5.

To get the polka dot paper cut you just push the Shift key and button 22 again cut at 3.5.

There you have it, now would you have guessed I could find a cute coordinating card and gift card holder using Feature Keys?  Don't forget to really look at all your options. 

It's a whole new world of possiblities.

Thanks for stopping by today and please don't forget to check out what my DT Sisters created by going to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com.

Jen