Sunday, November 14, 2010

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

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Friday, November 12, 2010

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 :)

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

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

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

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.

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