Cricut Fanatics Blog starts this Saturday 9/1!

Hi everyone!  I have exciting news!  We are starting a new blog on Saturday, 9/1 called Cricut Fanatics.  This will be a blog for anyone that is interested in daily Cricut inspiration.   Please check it out.  It should be pretty exciting on Saturday!  I will also be a designer on the 8th of every month.  I am so excited!  There will be different designers for each day and special guest designers.  I can't wait for Saturday.  :)  Here is the link to the blog:

http://cricutfanatics.blogspot.com/

Cricut Teen Scene Swap-June 2012

 

Hi everyone,

These are the two dolls I made for the Cricut Teen Swap.  I made the Chloe doll-swim suit outfit and the Alex doll-swim suit outfit.  All dolls were cut at 5".  We could use any hair and any paper we wanted but had to make the outfit.  The teen dolls are alot of gluing since they are several layers but the layers make them nice and thick.  They will look good on cards and layouts.  I used Scotch quick dry to glue all of the layers and seemed to work out nice.  I made 20 of each doll for the swap.  I used tan paper for the skin layer since the dolls should be tan for the beach and inked the edges of the dolls with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo.  I used a peachy keen stamp for Chloe's lips and a red jelly roll pen on Alex.  I also made a pink and gray beachball to go with Chloe's bikini.  TFL. :)
                  

Cricut Circle Box Swap-May 2012

Rockin Renee hosted this swap and it was a lot of fun!  This was my first box and I am so happy with how it turned out.  All of my supplies came from Pat Catan's (aka Darice) or from Michael's.  All of the paper is Bo Bunny black and white.  I used several different patterns.  The white paper with black roses on the top of the box is fabric paper from Michael's 8 1/2 x 11.   After gluing down the paper with Liquitex Gloss Heavy Gel, I hot glued on the black lace around the top of the box and glued on the string of pearls.  Oh before I forget, I inked all of the edges of the box with TH Black Soot Distress Ink and inside the box too.  I inked the outer edges of the box with TH Broken China Distress Ink for pop!  On top of the box I used TH die cuts of the Bird, birdcage, dress form and button.  I also inked the bird which was cut out of grunge board. 

July Tag-Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2012

This is my Tag for July.  I did not have a Statue of Liberty stamp so I used a flag stamp I had.  I also did not use the silver metallic ink, I used a firework stamp and stamped in silver ink over the blue and red fireworks.  I also used my picket fence distress markers on the edges of the tag since I had not have the picket fence distress stain.  I added some black stars.  I think the tag turned out good. It was fun to create.  I would still like to get the Statue of Liberty stamp.  On the second tag, I did not have another metallic number four so I cut one out using my cricut cartridge Platin Schoolbook.  TFL. 

April Tag-12 Tags of 2012

Here is my tag for April.  I have made three of them so far.  I love these tags.  I used a music stamp instead a word stamp.  I thought the music stamp was appropriate since birds sing and I am very into music.  I used my cricut to cut out the bird, crown and branch since I did not have the TH die.  I also did not have TH's word bands at the time, so I used a word tag I had.  I did use the following inks on the tag: vintage photo, wild honey, peeled paint, broken china and stormy sky.  I can't wait until the May tag.  The last three tags have been great.  I am looking for crinkle ribbon-more than one yard, if anyone know where to get this, please let me know.  Thanks.

Graycie and the wedding wishing well

Rock Hall pics

Hi bloggers,

I went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in good old Cleveland, Oh recently with my family.  Here are a few pictures that I took.  Enjoy!

Tim Holtz-March 2012 Tag

Hi everyone,

I made a simplier version of  the mosaic butterfly tag.  I did order the walnut stain, the TH sayings stamps, the wonder tape and the TH Lost and Found paper stash but of course they are not in yet.  Since I would like to enter the TH contest, I came up with this butterfly tag but will make the mosaic one once the supplies are in.   I went to Pat Catan's the other day and found the large die cut Butterfly (TH Alterations Bigz Fanciful Flight Die) on sale for $10 and the wood grain and brick embosser (TH Alterations Texture Fades folders) on sale for $6.00 so I made this tag.  I started with my kraft paper and used the TH tag die cutter.  Next I cut a hole through the top of the wood grain embossing folder and slid the kraft tag into it and embossed with my cuttlebug.  I case you need to know, I used the two "B" plates to make the cuttlebug sandwich.  Then I used the colorbox cat eyes Chestnut roan inker and ran over the wood grain tag.  I also used my paper distresser to distress the edges of the tag and inked with the cat eyes Chestnut roan.   One thing to know this Fanciful Flight die can be used on a regular cuttlebug.  Just because it says Bigz-I used this on regular cuttlebug with no problems (also the Tattered Florals). I used the Fanciful Flight to cut out the black butterfly. This die has both the solid part and the cut out butterfly part-so I embossed both on black paper.  You need to cut two images each to make the butterfly.  I used My Mind's Eye-Stella and Rose 6x6" paper pad for the mosiac part of the butterfly.  I took one piece of paper and used the Fanciful Flight die and cut two pieces each for the butterfly mosaic.  This paper was patterned with several colors and looks mosaic.  I glued the black cut out paper, the mosaic paper and the black solid paper together to form the butterfly-3 layers.  I inked the butterfly with Colorbox-Treasurers copper ink.   I used the TH Alterations Tattered Florals and cut the two smallest flowers out of purple and light blue felt and added a brad from paper studios I believe. I stamped my sentiment (from Pink Stamper I believe).  I did not come out dark enough so I hand wrote over it with black marker.  I adhered the flower to the bottom of the tag.  I put pop dots on the back of the butterfly and adhered to the tag.  I folded up the edges of the butterfly for dimension.  I added TH Idea-ology trinket pin and Darice tokens to the pin and added to the tag.  I added a pink sheet ribbon to the tag and completed.  I hope you like it!  

Tim Holtz Valentine Tag-finally finshed

Hi. Better late than never right? Made my first tag-Valentine tag for 12 tags of 2012.  Finally finished yesterday.  I dry embossed the tag with the cuttlebug using the Tim Holtz Love a2 folder.  I wet embossed the tag using Ranger snowflake
 embossing powder.  I inked the tags with distress inks: barn door, victorian velvet and pumice stone.  I stamped black ink on white tissue paper using the K & CO Smashbook stamper with the date February 14, 2012.  I hand cut out the red heart out of honeycomb paper.  I made small folds out of the tissue paper and attached to the back of the red honeycomb heart.  I used Martha Stewart lace punches for the borders on the bottom.  I cut the cupid out of the Victorian Romance Cricut cartridge. I sprayed the white seambinding with sugar plum fairy Tattered Angels Glimmer mist.  The small gold tags are from Darice.  The baubles, pin, white seambinding, words are from the seasonal book are all from Tim Holtz.  This took longer than I thought it would be tried a lot of new techniques and they turned out pretty good.

I made two tags-Here they are!  Enjoy!

KittyScraps in Action

Hi Everyone.  After reading a fun thread on the Cricut Circle message board about pets interfering in crafting, I decided to post some pics on my KittyScraps in action.  I hope you enjoy them!  

Cricut Secret Santa Stocking Swap

I received my big square box in the mail two weeks before the swap open date on 12/14.  Couldn't wait to open it.  I had to hide the box in my scraproom so I didn't, I was so tempted!  It was worth the wait!  Look at the goodies!  A big Thank-you goes out to Secret Santa Liz for the goodies.  I got lots of Smashbook supplies and can't wait to use them.  I love smashbooks.

 I received my favorite goodies from Smashbook, Bo Bunny, Sixxiz, Martha Stewart and various stickers and holiday items.  My favorite items were the handmade items from Liz.  Liz is very talented.  I just love my Bo Bunny Butterfly book.  Liz really did a nice job on it and I am going to put it to good use.  Liz also made me a green Cricut holder filled with Reese's cups-my absolute fav and a nice Christmas card!  Thanks again Liz and Happy 2012!