Happy Saturday--A Small Home Decor Project

Good morning everyone,

Its Liz from www.lizziesworldofcrafting.blogspot.com !!!  I have a home decor project for you.  I host a small group of crafters every few months of so and what is a crop without CHOCOLATE.  Since we are all cricut FANatics, I came up with this project for candy dishes on each table, but they could be used for almost anything. 

I started out with a few cricut green containers from Target's dollar spot (2/100) and they were the perfect size. 

Next I used the Cricut Circle Cartridge Cricut Everyday for the "bug".  Isn't he the cutest????  I cut all the layers at 4"s.

Fill it with candy and you are done.....

Here is the finished project:

I hope you have enjoyed my project!!!

Have a sparkling day and stay warm!!!  Its frigid here in the Northeast (and I know other parts of the country).

Liz

Card for Crafter

Welcome everyone I'm L.B. from Cool Beans By L.B. Can I just say that I look forward to my FANatics post day each month? I so enjoy all the work I see here and love the way Circle members came together to create this special place. With that said I want to share a card I made for a crafting friend who surprised me with a card a few weeks back.

For the card I sent back I wanted a crafting theme, so I went to my Cricut Everyday cartridge and cut out both pairs of scissors. I wanted mine to be more fun and pretty so I cut the handles using patterned paper from my leftover pieces.

Next came the card base, a simple square card cut at 5 inches and a matching lace like base from Just Because Cards. Before I put down the lace cut 100% I remembered I wanted a ribbon so I used my own scissors to hold up the space and placed the ribbon right in.

I final addition to the card was this fun sentiment stamp.

I hope she liked her card when it arrived in the mail.  I know mine was such a fun snail mail surprise and it lifter my heart the day I got it. This is the season for things like that and I hope you all have wonderful holiday times over the next few weeks.

Design Information:

Made by: L.B.

Machines & Carts: Expression & Gypsy, Just Because Cards (pg 62), Cricut Everyday (pg 55 &56)

Additional Supplies: American Craft Ribbon, Pink By Design Stamps, DCWV cardstock

Every Day Pop Up Cards

Hi Everyone!  This is Erika from EKittyscraps.blogspot.com.  Today I would like to share two cards I made using Every Day Pop Up Cards.  I have always liked pop up cards and was very excited when the cartridge was released.  So on to the cards.  The first card I made for my DH's birthday and the other card was for my MIL's birthday. 

Here is the front of the card with Cricut driving the birthday cake.  The truck was cut at 5 inches and cricut and 1".  Here is the pop-up:

I used the frosting background paper and cut the pop-up of the cake at 4 inches.  I used Bazzil cornmeal paper for the cake and this paper has raised dots on it for texture. This was a very simple pop up-two slits in the middle of the paper folded out.

The next card was a more complicated pop up and took me awhile to figure out.

My MIL loves elephants so here is her card.  I cut out the elephant at 3 inches nnd used the Marth Stewart punch for the Happy Birthday.  I added some silver bling to the Happy Birthday and the elephants ear.  Now for the popup.

  The elephant was cut a 3 inches.  The pop up took a while to get the folds correct on the base.  I did use two light blue brads to secure the sides of the base since the glue was not holding very well.  The brads worked out great.  The ears and tusks were folded out to add dimension. There are four cuts through the pink paper to secure the base.to the paper underneath. I added some Martha Stewart flowers for fun.
I hope you enjoyed these projects and would love to see more pop up cards. 
                                                                  Happy Crafting!  Erika

Supplies Used:
Cricut Machine: Expression
Cartridges:  Everyday Pop Up Cards and Cricut Everyday
Solid Papers are all Bazzill and Happy Birthday and Frosting paper purchased at Joann's.
Martha Stewart flowers and Happy Birthday Punch.
Birthday ribbon from Joann's
silver bling and red ribbon

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Calling Card Organization

Hello friends. Cindy here from scrap-obsessed.blogspot.com. I can't believe we're in November already! Time is flying by. I have a pretty simple project for you today. I've been lucky enough to go to a few Cricut Circle events and have received some beautiful calling cards. I've been trying to come up with a way to store the cards so that they would be organized and visible. I think I finally found what works for me.

My husband (my biggest enabler) brought home this old computer disc holder because he thought I could use it for something. I think they were called floppy discs? Well, whatever they were called doesn't matter. The important thing to know is that it's the perfect size for our calling cards.

I used solid cardstock squares cut an inch bigger than the calling cards. I then used my label maker to add the Circlets name on the top for easy alphabetizing. The calling card is attached to the cardstock and on the back I wrote the event where we met.

To dress it up a little I added some vinyl that was cut from the Cricut Everyday cartridge.  The green Circle head was cut at 3" from page 21. The Proud Cricut Circle Member was cut at 2" and was also from page 21.  That's it. Easy peasy.

My calling cards now sit very proudly on my desk where I can look through them and remember the fun we had.  I hope you like todays project and that it gives you inspiration to find something old and make it new again.