Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Little Cocoa Purse

I love the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut cartridge, don't you?

Boxes are so much fun to make. I made this adorable little cocoa purse to hold cocoa, and chocolates, also herbal tea packets would fit perfectly in this box.
Here is a mini tutorial of how I put together this box.

With Tags, Bags.... cartridge I used the pattern on pg. 118, I used the shift key to cut the circles for the handle. I Cut out two boxes at 7", one in a solid color heavy cardstock for the base of the box then the second using pattered paper.
I score all the markings on the solid color cardstock, and with the pattern paper I cut it apart where the marking are.
Then I cut about 1/8" off each side of the pieces shown below, I discard the pieces I don't need (I did cut decide to cut 1/8" off the scallop edge -not shown in photo below). Adhere trimmed pieces to my solid cardstock and glue the tea cup and steam (from Joys of the Season cartridge) on my box before putting the box together. For my ribbon I taped two different ribbons together, put it through the holes and tied a knot.
The tea cup is embossed using the Cuttlebug "Snow Dots" embossing folder, then I added brown ink around and on the tea cup, and using a white ink pad I rubbed over the snowflake then added stickles on the snowflake and the steam. I always let the stickles dry before putting the box together. A velcro dot was used for the closure of the purse.If you have any questions just ask in the comments section.

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Embossed Christmas Card

I created this quick Christmas card useing the Cuttlebug "Textile" embossing folder halfway on 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" gold cardstock.
I used my "Very Merry Tags" Cricut cartridge for the first time... waahoo! I cut the Joy tag out at 3 1/2" twice once on gold cardstock (used only the "joy" words) then again on using DCWV Holiday Collection Glitter Matstack (on sale from Joann's) Using the stencil of "Joy" not the letters. Place the gold "joy" into the red glitter "joy" stencil.
I also cut out the plain oval to back behind my tag. Added gold ribbon then backed the card with red cardstock.
Embossed Christmas Card
Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)

Monday, December 7, 2009

Blog Candy --Winner--

I'm so excited to announce my 1st blog candy winner from a wonderful list of 20 kind people leaving comments on my blog, thank you so very much for participating.

To be 100% fair I went to random.org and used the number generator and the winning number is...#1








Yes #1--- wahoo to ~KarenJG~ she said...

Congrats on 50 followers! That is awesome!

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Karen please contact me at robinscreativecottage@yahoo.com with your address and I'll send your goodies right away.

Thank you again every one who commented and for wonderful new friends who follow my blog. As of today there are 59 followers. My heart is full.

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Just Buggin' Challenge 14

Just Buggin' Challenge #14 is here -Layers

The challenge is to use at least two die cuts and layer them together. (for instance, cut out flowers in two different sizes and layer them on top of each other, two snowflakes, etc)

I have so much fun creating this card, then after I made it I referred to the challenge... does this cake and the cake shadow count as two die cuts? hmmm... well this was just fun!

Layers
Cricit cartridge used: Stretch Your Imagination page 61
I cut each color of cardstock several times then layered them on top of each other making a very thick cake, even the candles are layered.
The card is cut 8 1/4" x 9 1/4" then folded in half the long way. This card fits in a legal size envelope.

Just Buggin' has weekly challenges to inspire us to use our Cricut machines, come join the fun!

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)