Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #11 - Card or Tag Sketch

This week we had to create a quick tag or card using the sketch provided below. It can be holiday themed , but it doesn’t need to be.  Project must be newly created for this challenge and must include atleast 2 different cuts from any Cricut cartridge to qualify.

Sketch that was provided for Challenge

My Card with my Interpretation

Recipe:

*A2 Size Card in Gray

*Imagine Mr. Frosty Cartridge Custom Papers

*Imagine More Cartridge - 3.0 inch Scallop & 2.5 inch Scallop

*When Its Cold Outside Cartridge - Snowflake 1.5 inch

*3 Snowflake Buttons

*i-Rock Silver Jewels

*Gray Marker

*Siver Ink Pad

*Snowflake Emboss Folder

*Sizzix Uppercase doodle Block Alphabars

*Scrap of Striped Paper



Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #10: Holiday Recipe

Challenge Rules:
Project must be newly created for this challenge and must include at least 2 different cuts from any Cricut cartridge to qualify.  Create a project that is about, includes, or holds a holiday recipe. This could be a scrapbook page, a mini album, a recipe box or book, a Gift for a Neighbor . . . the sky’s the limit. But they want to see us pay tribute to a holiday recipe in some way.

Recipe:

*Your Story Photo

*Your Story Photo 4x6 Folder

*Scrap Paper

*Tartan Emboss from Cuttlebug Winter Bundle

*From My Kitchen Cartridge Gingerbread Man - 2.0

*From My Kitchen Cartridge Recipes - 2.0

*Songbird Cartridge and Gypsy to Weld Holiday - 1.0

*We R Memory Keeper Buttons for Gingerbread Men

*Dew Drop Chalk Ink

*Recycled old album pages to hold and protect recipe cards

December Digi Day : Cookie Recipe Exchange

I made a Christmas Card with this adorable image from Digital Delights called Oops a Daisy Ginger.

Recipe:

5.5" x 5.5" Card

*Scraps of Paper

*Purple with Glitter Dots Celebrate It Holiday Ribbon

*Adorable Gingerbread Image from Digital Delights

*Martha Stewart Pencils to color image

*Merry Christmas Stamp - Michael's Dollar Bin

*i-rock jewels on Gingerbread buttons

UPDATE:  Yay!  My name was drawn and I won a Gift Certificate with this entry!

Circle December Monthly Challenge: Holiday Gifts

The theme for this month’s challenge is geared towards helping cross off one of the names on your holiday gift list! We needed to create a Holiday Gift Item. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include the following elements to qualify: use a tag made with a cartridge (there are so many great tags on so many cartridges), use the color red somewhere, use ribbon, and use the Phrase Feature from one of the cartridges

• Use at least 2 Cricut Cuts
• Use a tag made with a cartridge (there are so many great tags on so many cartridges!)
• Use the color red somewhere.
• Use ribbon.
• Use a phrase from one of the cartridges

For my Holiday Gift I made my Husband a Journal to include a stamp I know he really liked when he seen it at the store.

Recipe:
*YourStory Photo
*5X7 Brown Folder
*Oriental Weave Embossing Folder
Very Merry Tags - Snowflake Tag - 2.0
*Imagine More Cartridge
*Secret Phrase - 1.0
*Tick Tock Clock - 2.0
*Remember Journal page cut into layers 4.5
*take some time stamp - Michael's in dollar bin
*Letter Stamps - Michael's
*Martha Stewart Score board for 7x7 Gift box
*My Mind's Eye Wonderful Winter Paper Stack for Gift Box paper
*Tis the Season Merry Christmas Ribbon
*Cream Colored Ribbon glued in Journal for Marker

Cricut Circle December Magazine Gift Bag/Box Contest

Contest Rules:
Must create a gift bag or box using a base from one of the many Cricut cartridges available. Embellish it to fit your style!  Use at least 4 Cricut cuts in the design and incorporate something from one of the November Circle magazine sponsors in the back of magazine.

I wanted to make a gift box that can be used as a gift box but also as home decor' for my niece that is having a baby girl this month.  I wanted to use not so traditional colors to add my own style to the gift.  I also added a matching card and platform to set them on.  The little vase is made out of a prescription bottle and decorated with paper and ribbon.  The top box can be used to put a gift card or small gift inside.  For advertising and because I love this tool....I used the Imaginisce i-rock tool to put the silver bling on the corners of the boxes and the middle of the quilled flowers.  TFL

*Tags, Bags, Boxes & More Cartridge - size 11.59 x 9.00 on my Gypsy

*Ashlyn's Alphabet Cartridge - letters and shadow 1.3 on Imagine

*Cuttlebug Quilled flowers

*Prescription Bottle

*Imaginisce i-rock

*Celebrate It ribbon

*The Breathe Paper Collection by Corina Nielsen

*Dew Drop Gingerbread Chalk Ink

* I also cut 4 boxes from white cardstock and used my ATG (Advanced Tape Glider) to attatch them to the colored paper because the particular paper I used is pretty thin and I wanted the boxes to be sturdy.

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #9: Black Friday

This weeks weekly challenge must include the color black in our project and recycle or repurpose something.  Project must be newly created for this challenge and must include at least 2 different cuts from any Cricut cartridge to qualify.  I decided to use a shoe box for my ribbon that I just bought.  I ran out of space on my ribbon holders so this was the perfect solution for me.  I used the following items:

*Small Shoe Box
*Black Paper
*12 x 12 sheet of polka dot paper from Imagine Audrey Cartridge
*Celebrate It Ribbon and I used weld on Gypsy
*French Manor Cartridge for other cut
*Silver Bling Gems between Daisy Chain letters

November Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge - Home Sweet Home

The theme for this month’s challenge is all about cozying up your home with Handmade Home Decor! Need to create a home decor project. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include the following elements to qualify:

• Use atleast one Cricut Cartridge Cut
• Use the Cuttlebug in some way (embossing folder, Cuttlebug die, Quilling kit, etc.)
• Use Felt in some way
• Use the color GREEN somewhere on your project

My 12 year old daughter wanted something to hold her markers and she has a blue room with Zebra Stripe bedding so this was made to match her room.  

*Zebra is size 4 and from Create a Critter

*Tulip is size 2.5 and is from Create a Critter

*Celebrate It Zebra Ribbon

*Pink flower on Zebra is a fabric Imaginisce flower and a pink Bling gem

*Blue Felt covers the lid

*Zebra flowers on top where made with the Cuttlebug Quilled Daisy Kit.  I used white paper and used a zebra print stamp to make the zebra petals.

Thank You Paula for the Stylish blogger Award!

Thank you Paula from Raspberry and Lime Designs for this awesome blog award! I am so honored that she enjoys my blog and projects.  Paula is very talented and has really great ideas and projects on her site as well so stop on over and check out her blog!  

Now, this award does come with some rules so please follow along:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

 Okay, so here are 8 Things about me:

1.  I am happily married and we have been together for almost 15 years.

2.  I have 3 beautiful girls that make me smile every day.

3.  I love to design almost anything.

4.  I want to learn how to web design.

5.  I love Coffee from Morning until night.

6.  I am a sale addict...LoL

7.  I would love to have a career that would allow me to work from home and work with crafts.

8.  About three years ago my husband and I were homeless for few months after he was injured during war and one day we put our finger on the map out of all the states and we chose to make our home North Carolina.

I would like to send this award out to the following blogs:

1.  Going Buggy

2.  Got Scraps?

3.  A splash here and there

4.  CardDreams by NanaDonna

5.  Spyder's Corner

6.  Houses Built of Cards

7.  Southern Yankee Crafter

8.  Bodils scrappeverden
9.  Cute Sprinkels

These are just a few of my favorite blogs....There are so many talented people out there!  Yes I know there are 9 instead of eight listed but I just visited one of my followers and I really wanted to add her to my list!

Cricut Circle November Magazine Ornament Challenge

Samantha

Lakyn

Taleah

I made 3 ornaments for the Cricut Circle November Magazine Challenge.  I had to make 3 because I have 3 girls and we buy them an ornament every year but this year is a little tight so what better thing to do than make one for each of them.  I have cardboard tubes cut and painted in silver with silver ribbon wrapped around it and silver bling surrounding the outside and inside.  I used the Hello Kitty Greetings Cart and made her 4.5 on my Imagine.  I used Recollections Foil Paper for the Silver shirts and on the petals that I made with the Quilled Daisy Flower Kit that you use with the Cuttlebug.  The rest of the paper was custom from the Imagine and the Mr. Frosty Imagine Cart.  I also used Martha Stewart Glitter for Hello Kitty and the Hat.  It is hard to see in the pictures but it looks really cute with the glitter. Last but not least I used the i-rock for the nose and the silver buttons on the shirt.  TFL

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #7: Thank You Color Challenge

I made this Thank You card for the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge.  I love the colors together that they chose to be required in the challenge.   Thanks for stopping by my blog to check it out!
I used:
Cindy Loo Cart for the Thanks
Straight from the Nest for the Butterfly
Cuttlebug Quilled Daisy Kit for the Flowers
My Minds Eye Paper from La Paperie Stack
Recollections Owl Be Falling In Love Orange & Yellow Paper
Butterfly is custom colors on the Imagine

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #6: Feathered Friends

I made this card for the Circle Weekly Challenge.  I used the Flamingo Digi and Sentiment from Digital Delights.  They have the cutest Digis there and they give away a freebie every week.  I colored the Flamingo with Martha Stewart Pencils and Markers.  I also used my Home Decor' Cart to make the frame around the Flamingo and my Everyday Paper Dolls to make the bow.  I used Matha Stewart glitter on the bow, i-rock for the gems, My Minds Eye Organic Glitter Paper and white snowflake buttons that I inked red then wiped off with a tissue to get the pinkish color.  I inked and sewed around the sentiment.  I probably would have done more sewing if it would have worked better for me.  I did a trial run and it worked perfect until I tried it on the actual card then tension wasn't right.  Go Figure :)  Well...Thanks for looking and if you joined in on the Challenge...Good Luck!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #5: Birthday Sketch

This is my Cricut Circle Birthday Sketch Challenge.  I love the colors in this card and I had a lot of fun using a sketch!  I never used a sketch before and I really enjoyed it and look forward to doing another one soon.  I used the Imagine Mr. Frosty Cart to print out the pink paper on the background, I made a 4 inch circle from the Imagine More Cart, Happy Birthday is from Gypsy Wanderings, and the Love You is from the Imagine Best Friends Cart.  I cut off the flower on the Love You tag and made a jagged cut to match the other side. The frames are cut from Sizzix Original Die frames 655002 and I cut them with chipboard as well as paper to add dimension.  I used brown and pink inks, Imaginisce Blossoms, buttons, and ribbon.  TFL

Cricut Circle October Monthly Challenge: CELEBRATING CREATIVITY

I have never enjoyed making anything more than I enjoyed making this project for my Craft Room.  I made 3 hanging pictures to match my Cricut Circle Certificate that I had already framed and added my own creativity to it as soon as it arrived in the mail. I had a couple old pictures that my Mom always had hanging on my bedroom walls when I was a little girl but they were a little banged up and they don't go with my daughters bedroom decor anyway so I decided to repurpose them and use them for my October Monthly Challenge: Celebrating Creativity.  I will also post the old pictures that I used to make my project.

I used my blog name on the 3 pictures OWL, BEE, & SCRAPPIN and then made each picture to tell the Celebrating Creativity Story.  Thank you Provo Craft for such a fun project and the chance to win the most awesome prize!!

OwlBeeScrappin

OwlBeeScrappin

Owl

Bee

Scrappin

My Old Pictures

They hung on my bedroom wall for many years when I was a little girl.

The pictures were glued to these particle board pieces.  I had my husband cut them for me so I could make the Owl, Bee, & Scrappin Pictures.

This is the group of all the pictures I have made for my Craft Room.  I love bright colors and don't use them really for my home decor but in my craft room anything goes!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge 4: Boo!

Okay I was going to enter into this weeks Challenge Friday for Cricut Circle but I obviously forgot what day it was and didn't get it posted in time so I decided I will still put it on my blog.  I made this Halloween Candle Holder out of plastic that my Sizzix was packaged in.  It was all I could find in my craft room that was transparent.  It was fun being creative and I decided to do something my husband would like and he loves the skull and crossbones so this project will now belong to him. 

I wish I could get a picture when it is dark and all lit up because it really does look cool.  I won't post those pics I have because my camera just does not do it justice in the dark.