Thankful For You -Fantabulous Cricut Challenge

I'm thankful for my my dear husband who serves this country and is away from us at this time of year, we'll be together soon.

I'm also thankful for you! For taking the time to visit my blog, I love the comments you leave it truly makes my "Creative Cottage" all worth while. Thank you so much for visiting!

Today's project is a Fantabulous Cricut Challenge "Thankful For..." Create a thankful project.


I used the Heritage cartridge, the leave from page 24 & 25. I crumpled them a bit before adhering them. The frame was on page 31 and cut at 1". The sentiment was printed using my computer.


Remember to visit the other "Thankful" project at FCCB and see what the design team has created -HERE.

Crochet Flower in a Flower Pot -Video -using Walk in My Garden Cricut Cartridge

I'm sharing another card using the lovely fuchsia crochet flower, if you didn't see my previous post here is a little info about the crochet item.
Today at Fantabulous Cricut we have a new daily feature "Sunday's Spotlight", where we will be "Spotlighting" a few of our wonderful sponsors.
A few of the design team got to create with a few beautiful crochet items from Viola's Boutique, she has an esty store where she sells handmade crocheted flowers, hearts and other items, she is one of our new sponsors.

This card uses the Walk in My Garden cricut cartridge.

Go check out Fantabulous Cricut and see the spotlight feature about Viola's Boutique, and see what the other design team members have created using viola's lovely crochet items. -HERE

Hello Card -using crochet flowers

Hello friends,
Today at Fantabulous Cricut we have a new daily feature "Sunday's Spotlight", where we will be "Spotlighting" a few of our wonderful sponsors, also we will be spotlighting the design team in the near future.

A few of the design team got to create with a few beautiful crochet items from Viola's Boutique, she has an esty store where she sells handmade crocheted flowers, hearts and other items.
I created using the "fuchsia crochet flowers and leaves" these flowers are quality work and such lovely colors. I also used the cricut cartridge Lacy Labels for the frame and butterfly.

The frame measures is the "All Boy" from Lacy Labels, the white is cut at 5 1/4" the green patterned paper at 5".

The butter fly "buttrfly" is cut at 1", I cut two and one of them I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder "Textile Textures" then rubbed a bit of pink ink over the embossed. I bent the wings up just a bit, then glued the center to to second butterfly.

The "Hello" was printed using my computer.

I would love you to visit Fantabulous Cricut and see the spotlight feature about Viola's Boutique, and see what the other design team members have created using viola's lovely crochet items. -HERE

Oh Christmas Trees -using Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge

It's Friday already... where did the week go? I've loved sharing with all of you my creative projects at Everyday Cricut, I hope is that you've been inspired in some way or another.
I want to thank Joy and Melanie for the opportunity to be the guest designer for Everyday Cricut... thank you so much ladies! I love being able to inspire and share with others!

Today I'm sharing a home decor picture frame, using Christmas Cheer, and the Winter Frolic cartridges. Picture frames can be purchased very inexpensively so they are great for Cricut projects. I've used vinyl on the frame glass.
(I apologize, some the photographs are not very clear).

For details about this project please visit Everyday Cricut -HERE.

Here are a few close up views of the finished project.

After cutting my image, I carefully remove the outer and inside pieces of the vinyl (view 1 & 2).

I then place clear transfer tape over my design, then burnish (rub) the image so it will stick to the transfer tape (view 3).

I turned the image over then slowly and carefully removed the backing from the vinyl (view 4 & 5).

Now the fun part is to place the image onto the glass. I remove all the backing and papers from the frame, then press the prongs back down so the glass will stay in place, now I know where to add my image on the glass. Then I carefully placed my design where I wanted it and rubbed it again, and slowly and carefully remove the transfer tape.... Love it!
I measure the papers that I removed from the frame and cut my patterned paper the size that will fit the frame perfectly.

I've decorated my cricut expressions using vinyl you may want to check it out -HERE.

Thank you for visiting me this week, and leaving such wonderful comments, each one meant so much to me... thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Come on back to my blog often and see that I've been creating, who knows you may get loads of Inspiration... I hope so :)

Stars and Swirls Box -using Winter Frolic

I love to create 3-D projects and small boxes are perfect for a yummy little treat! Even thou I used the Winter Frolic cartridge, this box could be uses for any many different occasions. This is a super easy project. I used my design studio to weld the stars and swirls together, it is quite easy to create, however, I do have a cut file at the end of this post if you would like to grab it.

For details about this project please visit Everyday Cricut -HERE.




I'm so glad you came to visit today.

If you download this file, please leave me a comment on this post, it really makes my day great! Thank you. :)
Design Studio cut file -HERE

Tea For Two -Once Upon a Princess

I'm enjoying my week at Everyday Cricut, and I want to thank you all for you wonderful comments, it really makes my day great!

So today I couldn't decide if I should do a Fall/Thanksgiving project or a Winter/Christmas project, so I decided to do neither and play with my Once Upon a Princess cartridge, after all, it's the give-a-way cartridge this week at Everyday Cricut.

I have to admit this is the first time I used this cartridge and I've had it for about a month now. This is such a fun cartridge and quite cutesy, but I wanted to create a project that wasn't cutesy just to show the versatility that you can get by using different colors of paper.

I love the way this card turned out, and I think it could work for several occasions, friendship, birthday etc. The weathered patterned paper is a very old pack of Stampin' Up! designer paper I've had it for several years.

For details about this card visit Everyday Cricut -HERE





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I hope you like today's card and can see that the Once Upon a Princess cartridge doesn't always have to be cutesy :)
Thanks so much for visiting today.

Pilgrim Frame Give Thanks -A Childs Year Cartridge

I'm guest designer at Everyday Cricut all week long.

Thanksgiving is a time of thanks, a time to gather family and friends together and eat all day long... ok some where in there we take a nap.

Today I'm sharing a lovely Thanksgiving card that I designed in Design Studio, I've used three cartridges for this card, A Child's Year for the pilgrim people, George and Basic Shapes for the oval frames and the rectangle layers, then I used Doodletype for the words "Give Thanks"
I do have a cut file available at the end of this post.

For details about this project please visit Everyday Cricut -HERE.
I purchased my gel pen holder from Amy Chomas -HERE.



I'm so glad you stopped by today, thanks for visiting!

If you download this file, please leave me a comment on this post, it really makes my day great! Thank you. :)
Design Studio cut file -HERE

Guest Designer for Everyday Cricut -Leaf Shape Card

I'm so excited that Joy from Everyday Cricut asked me back as a guest designer this week, I had a blast in June when I go to share a few Summer and Father's day projects, view those posts -HERE. This week I'll have a few Fall, Thanksgiving and then Christmas/Winter projects. I hope you'll join me all week long and gather some awesome inspiration for your crafting projects.

I love Fall, it's a gorgeous time of year, I love to see the beautiful colored leaves on the trees, although most are now covering the ground ready to be raked into a huge pile and then jumped into by smiling faces, young and old. :)

My first inspirational project this week is a lovely leaf shaped fall card, I added a birthday sentiment, but it surely could be used for any type of greeting. I have a Design Studio cut file for this project at the end of this post.

For details about this project please visit Everyday Cricut -HERE.
Below is a photo of all that cuts that I used for my card, obviously they are different colors then the above photo, and that's because I'll will be making another card using different colors and this time I'll make a video of the step by step process and that will be coming soon, keep a watch out for it.
I hope you liked the leaf card today and got inspired to create your next project.

If you donwload this file, please leave me a comment on this post, it really makes my day great! Thank you. :)
Design Studio cut file -HERE

Snowman Card --using Cricut Cartridge Winter Woodlands

It's Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, and this week it's a Color and Shape challenge.

color "green" and shape "circle"
Use the shape-CIRCLE and color-GREEN somewhere on your Cricut project.

Do you love snowmen... I love snowmen and that saying "Snowmen melt your heart" is true for me. I do hope we will get lots of snow this year, however, I heard that it may be a mild one here, so we'll just wait and see. But in the mean time I can create the cutest snowman here in my crafting space. This snow man is from Winter Woodlands cricut cartridge on page 46 of the booklet and cut at 6 1/2".

For my circle shape I added two green buttons to my cute snowman.

I popped up the snowman from the card to add dimension.

Now you've got to see the clever and amazing projects that the FCCB design team has made, head over to Fantabulous Cricut -HERE.

It's a Bird Bonanza!

Today at Fantabulous Cricut the challenge is to create a project using something having to do with a bird (bird cage, owl, bird, etc.).

I love this bird from the Home Decor cricut cartridge so I couldn't wait to cut him out, I like to think of him as my "Fall Birdie" he's just too cute and ready to sing me a song.
The branch is from Home Decor as well, I cut it out twice using a light brown cardstock and a dark brown to give a bit of a shadow look.

Want to see more birdies? Head over to Fantabulous Cricut and see all the amazing inspiration from the design team -click HERE