Special Guest Designer: Michele Kovack

Cricut FANatics is very pleased to announce that our very first Special Guest Designer is one of our all time favorite Cricut Designers, the very talented Michele Kovack.  As many of you know, Michele was a former Circle Blog Design Team Member and is also a contributor to the Cricut Magazine by Northridge Publishing.  Michele was very excited to hear we were creating a Cricut inspiration blog and was gracious enough to agree to be our first Special Guest Designer. 

 Let's give Michele a  warm Cricut FANatics Welcome  !  

 

Hi there everyone. Michele Kovack here from Thoughts of a Cardmaking Scrapbooker!  I am so excited to be sharing here with you!  I feel a bit "out of the loop" lately and am so happy for this opportunity to connect with all of you!  

 

As many of you know I am a teacher....a 5th grade teacher to be exact.  School is in full swing, and life has gotten a wee bit crazy!  Soon I will be back in a routine and it will feel like I never left. ; )  

So of course I had to make a school house.  A vintage school house at that! I used the new Something to Remember cartridge.  It is such a cute cartridge and I just fell in love with this image.  I love making shaped cards because I feel they are so much more interesting....so I welded the two school house cuts using CCR. I used all of the layers and added a bit of vellum behind the windows. 

Lace, seam binding, and a glittery wooden button were added to add a bit of charm....

And of course a flower....I can't seem to help myself from adding a flower to everything lately.

 

 

I am so glad to have had the opportunity to guest design here today....

.and reconnect with old friends, and make new ones! 

 

As a SPECIAL SURPRISE, I want to do a giveaway to help inaugurate the new Cricut FANatics Blog. I will draw a winner from all comments made on this post  by Monday 9/17 at 10 pm CST  

The Giveaway includes: Type Candy Font Cricut Cartridge, a Cricut Cartridge Binder, 2 My LIttle Shoebox stamp sets, Piggy Tales Interactive Barndoors, Faber Castell Watercolor Canvas Art, Fancy Pants Glitter Cuts, and a Maya Road Clear Album.  

Cricut Info & Supplies Used :

Cricut Machines Used: CCR, Cricut Expression

Cricut Cartridges Used: Something to Remember Cartridge

Other Supplies Used: Cardstock: Kraft, black, cream,Vellum,Designer Paper: red/white, blue/white

Lace, Wooden button, Twine, Glitter, Seam binding, Pearl Black brads

Cricut Cuts:

Something to Remember

Use CCR to weld 2<FstDyScl> at 5.5" 

Select Layer 1 and cut 1<FstDyScl> at 5.5"

Cut 1<FstScl-s> at 5.5"

Select Layer 2 and cut 1<FstDyScl> at 5.5"