Fall Soccer layout

Hello!  This is Michele from www.MicheleGreen.com.  I'm happy to be back again this month!  When I think of October's theme fall, the first thing that comes to mind is jumping in the leaves!  But... I don't have any pictures of that.  I must be too busy in the leaves myself - ha!  Another fall thing in our house is soccer.  So that is what I bring to you today - a fall soccer scrapbook layout.

My older DD really likes to play soccer.  She plays in the rec league in our town.  When asked what she liked best about last season, she said, "I guess everything.  And I really liked my team."  So I guess that was a pretty good year!

So how did I make this?  Well, the soccer green pattern paper was in my stash.  The soccer girl is cut from the All Sports cartridge.  She was cut at fit to page, which ended up being just over 8".  A little tidbit about this girl - she does not fit exactly on her base layer.  I had to do a little trimming so that she didn't have grass growing off her arms and legs.  Or... in soccer you do get a lot of grass stains, maybe they meant it that way?!

The title was cut from Varsity Letter, the Lite cart.  Fall was cut at 1.5" and Soccer at 2".  I used the Narrow feature key because I think those letters are so much easier to glue together than the normal font.  I'm not sure the name of them but I used the Scotch dimensionals that you see in the picture to pop up the word fall. I love these when I want something to stick up but not too much.  They are made of a soft foam and are easy to squish down.

Here's just a fun pic of the layout in progress as I thought things out and decided where things were going to go.

Here is a closer view of the left hand final page for you:

The journal box there is from the phrase key of the soccer girl I used from All Sports.  It was cut at 2.5" in purple and 2.25" in white.

And of the right side final page:

And lastly, I have one fun picture for you.  Do you ever wonder what someone's desk looks like in the middle of a project?  Here was mine in the middle of this layout.  Do you see all that nice corner desk work space?  Yeah, me neither!  All that space and somehow it all gets instantly covered up and I end up working in a 6x6" area.  Sheesh!  :)

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

CRICUT INFO & SUPPLIES USED: 

Designed by: Michele Green

Cricut Machine Used: Expression

Cricut Cartridges Used: All Sports, Varsity Letter

Other Supplies Used: Green soccer paper; white, black, green, and purple cardstock, black ribbon, Scotch Pop Ups

Cricut Crafty Challenge #2- Creepy & Spooky Halloween

Welcome to the Cricut Crafty Challenge # 2- Creepy & Spooky Halloween

 I love Halloween and Fall! Halloween is my favorite holiday and Fall is my favorite time of year! The leaves are changing colors and it is not too hot outside, it is perfect! This is also one of my favorite seasons to craft.
This month's challenge is to make a Halloween project- your choice of what you want to make, you just have to use cricut in your project. If you don't celebrate Halloween then you can make a project for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Here is my project:

I used a fake pumpkin from Michaels and some flowers my aunt gave to me. I cut the top off of the pumpkin (it is hallow on the inside) Then I used the cricut to make these Halloween cuts. The Oct. 31st cartridge is awesome! The spiders are cut at 4inches and the sign is cut at 5 inches all from Oct. 31st cartridge.

Ok, so here is the low down on how to participate in the challenge, make a Halloween project. This can be any project you would like to do. Or if you don't celebrate Halloween make a project for Breast Cancer Awareness month.  The only rule is that you use your cricut to create it.
You have until Oct 26th at midnight to enter the challenge. To make the challenge easy to find I also put a link to the challenge on the Challenge page of the blog.

This months Challenge winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to a store of their chosing. This awesome price was donated by GypsyRose. You can visit her at http://scrapbookingfunbiz.blogspot.com to give her some love and thank her for this awesome prize.

To link your project use the inlinkz button below and please make sure you link directly to your post.

Recipe book

Hey ya'll, this is Trinity from http://trinityscraftingcreation.blogspot.com/. Welcome to the second month of our new blog.
Today I have made my very first recipe book with my cinch and the From My Kitchen cartridge. This was made for MizEster for our fall swap that Sherry put together for us. It was so much fun and can't wait for the christmas on to come around.
The book is an 8x8 chipboard and I used a piece of pattened paper from The Paper Studio's Persnickety pack. I love all the pinks and browns and greens that they have in it. I took a strip of brown craft paper and used my MS leaf punch and punched both sides for a boarder that went acroos the middle of the book. I cut the apron from page 51 out at 4" and also used a piece of patten paper out of the same stack. I cut the bowl from page 48, timer from page 54 and oven mitten from page 53 out at 1.5" and used the same paper as the apron and cuttlebuged the bowl and used gel pens to make it look like a set of temp tations bake ware that I have. I cut the measuring cup and spoons from page 47 out at 2" and used liquid glass for the dark blue liquid and also used it on the spoons. I took some white Enamel Accents and put it on the white trim on the apron and oven mitt and also used it on the cuttlebuged swirls on the bowl. I took my white gel pen and put the number lines on the timer to give it a little extra. I cut the word "recipes" from page 43 at 2" and the paper came from the same stack as the other did. I used my white gel pen and kinda stiched on it some. I cut out another but 1/4 inch bigger and kinda off set it from the printed paper word to give it that shadow look. I also took and to give it a little bit of a girly look I took some pink and white ribbon and tied it on a few of the loops. On the inside I took 50 recipe cards and broke them down into 5 groups of 10 and stair steped them with tabs(sorry I forgot to take a picture of that before I sent it to her).

 



Designed By: Trinity Wallace
Cricut Machines Used: Annv. Expression 2, Cuttlebug
Cricut Cartridges Used: From My Kitchen
Other Supplies Used: Cinch, Enamel accents, liquid glass, gel pens, pattern paper from the paper studio, solid card stock

Getting Ready for Christmas

Hi everyone! This is Beth from SeaSwan's Thoughts. Can you believe, Christmas is only 82 days away?  I know, we are suppose to be making Halloween things but at my house your Christmas Wish List is due the first weekend in October.  I have all ready started making gifts for friends and dds teachers.  I am giving this cup to my mom.  She drinks a lot of Kool Aid and coffee flavored drinks. 

I used the Mixed Drinks cart. and my Gypsy to design the cuts.  They are cut at about 5 inches.  I used vinyl from printonit.com.  They put together a 20 piece sample package for about $20.00.  The mocha drink has a red base with a tan dink and white whipped topping.  The very berry Kool Aid has a white base with a red drink and strawberry, and a bright yellow straw. The lemonade has a green base, yellow drink and a red straw and umbrella.  I cut all pieces from 6inch by 12 inch vinyl.  I used 1 piece each of red,  yellow, and  green 1/2 sheet of tan and white.

It's time for you to start making your own Christmas crafts!



Lovely Lemonade

 

Very Berry Kool Aid

Marvelous Mocha



Two Cards: Enjoying Autumn & "Scare" Globe

Hi!  This is Lori from The Singing Shell blog with an autumnal card and a Halloween card for you.

I had no idea what to make for this month's post but then I got inspired to make two cards.  Here is the first:

ENJOYING AUTUMN

I love autumn for all its beautiful colors and for the cool breezes it brings.  I wanted to make something whimsical and carefree so I chose the barefooted girl riding a bike from the  Something to Celebrate cartridge.  She is on page 37.  With her hair flying behind her, she looks happy - doesn't she?  (Even though she has no facial features!  I am reading body language :)   She was cut at 3 1/2 inches. .  I also used Distress Ink Pads for the hardware on the bike.

  I used Distress Markers to outline the edges of the dress
and then added glitter to make her stand out.   

The tree [tree3] is from the Heritage cartridge and is cut at 4 1/2 inches.  I inked that up with lots of different Distress Ink Pads because I couldn't find the right paper.  I gently tapped the colors randomly onto the die cut.

Colors used: Evergreen Bough, Festive Berries,
Antique Linen, Wild Honey.  

The leaves [leaf] are from the Doodlecharms cartridge - an oldie but a goodie.  I cut those at a 1/2 and 3/4 inches.  I was nervous because I never cut anything that small on purpose.  But it worked like a charm.  I inked those up with the same Distress Pads, too.  That way they would match my tree.

Now for the background.  I used washi tape to create a kind of road across the background.  I used the Musical Flourish folder for the background and then inked the embossed parts lightly.  I only embossed the part above the washi tape to create a distinction between earth and sky.  I rounded the corners with We R Memory Keepers corner chompers.

I purposely made the tree bigger than I needed so
I had to trim it.  It took me a day to find
the courage!

The final product :)

So that's it - an auutmnal card for any occasion.


"SCARE" GLOBE

This is a snow globe with a twist.  And I know - it is not really a “scare” globe.  This little guy is too cute to scare anybody:)  I picked "scare"for strictly for its Halloween appeal. 

 

 

The snow globe aka “scare” globe is from Joy of the Season and is cut at 5.25 inches.  I added a little blue on the left side of the globe to give it a little dimension.  I used the Tumbled Glass Distress marker and then just went over it with a wet detail brush to lighten it up and spread it out a bit.  The spider web is from Chic & Scary and cut it at 3 inches.  I used only the edges and then cut off the top.

 

Mister Bear from Teddy Bear Parade is cut at 3 inches.  I didn’t use the trick or treat bag because it would have made the little scene too busy.  I ran the Spiced Marmalade Distress Marker over the edges of the orange part of the markers.  I used the Forest Moss Distress Marker for the green.  For the ears, I used a Rose Red Copic Marker.  For the muzzle I also used a Copic Marker – Chamois.

 

TIP: You can make your own custom color ribbon.
 The ribbon is actually plain seam binding that I colored with
 Spiced Marmalade and Forest Moss Distress Markers.
 I added some water to soften the colors. 

Although I really loved creating Mister Bear, I loved making the spiders more!  I added glitter - Glow-in-the-Dark Glitter.  First, I cut the spiders from Doodlecharms at a ½ inch.  Then, I made their eyes with Glossy Accents.  That way when I added the glow-in-the-dark glitter and turned off the lights, you would be able to see the eyes, too.

Spiders Before.

 

Spiders After

 

I hope this inspires you to make your own "scare" globes.  They might even be scarier than mine!

Thank you very much for all your compliments last time.  It made me feel great for days!

Enjoying Autumn Card
Cricut Info & Supplies Used:
Designed by: Lori Sjogren
Cricut Machine used: Create
Cricut Cartridges used: Something to Celebrate, Heritage, Doodlecharms
Other supplies: Bazzil, solid cardstock; Webster's Pages, pattern cardstock; Musical Flourish embossing folder, Cuttlebug; Ranger, Distress Markers and Distress Ink Pads; Denami Designs, Sparklets Lemon Sorbet glitter; Close to My Heart, Vanilla Cream ink pad; We R Memory Keepers, corner chomper.

 "Scare" Globe Card
Cricut Info & Supplies Used:
Designed by: Lori Sjogren
Cricut Machine used: Create
Cricut Cartridges used:  Teddy Bear Parade, Chic n Scary, Joy of the Season, Doodlecharms
Other supplies: Bazzil & Recollections, solid cardstock; Die Cuts With a View, pattern cardstock; Ranger, Distress Markers & Glossy Accents; Martha Stewart Crafts, Glow-in-the-Dark glitter;

A Little Halloween Decorating~

Hello, this is Sara from www.sarawandrews.com.
I thought I would do a little special Halloween decorating of Me And Ashlyn!

I have wanted to make my own paper beads for a while now, and when I flipped through the DCWV The Bewitched Stack I knew it was time.

I chose two patterned papers, a glitter polka dot paper and the gorgeous orange glitter cardstock.  Love it!
I used CCR to stretch a simple triangle from the George cartridge for my beads.
I made two different sizes one being 1.5" wide and the other .75" wide.
The length of your triangle will determine the thickness of your bead.

Wrapping the beads~

I used a kitchen skewer to wrap the paper around and glued the ends with Glossy Accents.

Finished bead~

I set them aside to dry for a few hours.

Now comes the fun part.
I dug into the wonderful collection of Blue Moon Beads that DCWV sent me to make my jewelry. Thanks DCWV!!

My orange bead necklace and bracelet~

My black bead necklaces~

A full view~

I must share that these were super easy and fun to make.
I even made all those paper beads without gluing my fingers together. Yippee!

And even better was the fact that my teenage daughter was actually a little excited to try the jewelry on.
She even smiled while wearing them. Double Yippee!!

Cricut Info & Supplies Used:
Designed by: Sara W. Andrews

Cartridges Used: George and Basic Shapes for triangles cut at 1.5 x 11.04" and .75 x 8.5"

Cricut Machine Used: Cricut Expression

Project Type: Jewelry

Project Theme: Halloween

Other Supplies Used: DCWV The Bewitched Stack and The Bewitched Cardstock Stack

Blue Moon Beads: Glass Pearls, Shell Beads and Clear Transite Cord
Glossy Accents and Jewelry Essentials Findings

Pumpkin Place Settings and Home Sweet Home

Happy October 2nd. This is Cindy from Scrap-obsessed.blogspot.com with a couple of fall home decor projects. Before getting to my projects today I'd like to say 'Thank You' for having me back. Not only is it an honor to be able to come here and share some of my projects with you, but I also love coming here to look at all of the wonderful projects made by the other designers. They are all such an inspiration.
For my first project today I wanted to use my new Close To My Heart Artiste cartridge. I just got it in the mail a couple of days ago and I absolutely love it. There's an image for just about everything. With Thanksgiving in mind, which will most likely be at my house this year, I was looking for a way to make place settings. I found the perfect images on page 78. I cut the 3D pumpkins at 4" and 5". The patterned papers I used are from an old paper stack called Femme Fatale by Recollections.

Before assembling them I inked the edges with Pumpkin Pie ink by Stampin' Up. Once the pumpkins were put together I cut the leaves at 4" and 5". I inked the edges with Old Olive ink by Stampin' Up, added twine and a button.

I then cut some of the very cute tags on page 32 at 2". This cartridge has some of the cutest tags, not just the ones I used. Again I inked the edges and then stamped the names of family members using the Close to my Heart Type Face letter stamps.

For my other project today I would like to share an idea I found on Pinterest. (love that site)

This front porch planter was super easy to make, but was a big hit at my son's housewarming party. I used three planters stacked one on top of the other in 3 sizes (largest on the bottom). I then added the words Home Sweet Home cut out of vinyl from the Quarter Note cartridge. Each word was welded  using my Gypsy and cut at 3 1/2", 3 3/4, and 4" respectively. I then added my plants of choice and that was it. Super easy.

My Ghouls

Greetings! Christel aka scrapworm here for my second posting on Cricut FANatics. I have truly enjoyed all the lively creations designed by all the lovely and talented ladies. I have been inspired and taught so many new things.

Fall is my favorite time of the year! I have so many memories of my childhood and with my own children during this season. Halloween has been such a fun time for my family. From hayrides to haunted houses, I have enjoyed every minute of this memories. No matter how old the kids get they will always be-my "ghouls"!

The layout I created for this month's post marks the last Halloween my daughters went with me through the neighborhood. I used the following products:
Echo Park paper, Tattered Angels black mist, We R Memory Keepers' bat pin, Melissa Frances sticker, Prima flowers,seam ribbon, Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge

I used the headless horseman frame and witch silhouette for this layout. When I am designing a layout, I like to sketch it out. This gives me an idea of where to place the objects. I like to use a lot of space and typically I have one side of the layout heavy with embellishments. The papers I use tend to be from one collection like the Echo Park Halloween pack. It is so much easier to match colors if using only one pack. I hope you enjoyed this layout. God bless and craft on! Have a Happy Halloween!

Fall Mini Album

Happy Fall Ya'll !   This is Debbie O'Neal aka ScrapHappyDeb of Debs Electic Thoughts Blog. Our Cricut FANatics October theme is  FALL  (Halloween, Fall, Thanksgiving projects of any type).  Our designers, of course, are free to share any type of project in October but I wanted to show you a FALL project.

I just love the colors of fall...warm reds, orange, browns, tans, etc.  Plus Fall items always seem to have a lot of texture too don't they?  So my project is a Fall Mini Album album I made recently for a swap I was in on the Circle MB.  I tried hard to incorporate the feeling and texture of fall in to it.

I used the new Mini Books Cricut Cartridge to create the mini album base. If you haven't bought this cartridge yet, I am issuing an enabling alert !  LOL   You will want to own this cartridge after seeing how easy it is to make one of the mini albums included.

I selected the Mini Book Accordian Album on page 13 of the handbook. The assembly directions are on page 27 of the handbook.

 

I wanted my book to be 6" wide so I cut it at 6".  But that meant that the length was longer than

a regular 12X12 mat so I used the 12X24 mat and a white poster board cut in half so I could make the cover as long as was needed.  

The cover was then folded at the scoring marks to create a 6 X 6 square.  Notice there

is a little tab where the open end of the cover is tucked.

Next I cut the three pieces at 6" that form the inside of the album again using the larger mat and poster board.  Once the three pieces were cut, you adhere them to create the accordian fold shown above.

Next I adhered one end of the accordian fold inside the cover. Then repeated with the other end on the opposite side of the inside cover.  This forms the base of your mini album.  It creates 8 pages for your book.

 

Now on the the fun part...decorating the mini album !

I used the patterned paper and journaling cards from the new Simple Stories Harvest Lane line.  Yummy colors and patterns in this fall line were perfect for my Fall album.  I covered the square album pages by cutting the patterned papers and solid colored cardstock into 5 3/4" X 5 3/4" squares and inked the edges and adhered to each page of the album.  For the outside cover of the album

I  hand cut the patterned paper for the curved piece of the album cover.  Where that little flap was cut, I used my exacto knife to make the slice in the patterned paper so it could still be used.  I put some jute twine in a button and then used a glue dot to adhere it to the little flap.

 As I mentioned above, I cut the squares of patterened paper and cardstock and adhered to each page to form the base.  I used some Washi Tape to adhere some of the cute paper embellishments and journaling cards to the inside of the album pages.

You can see here where I made sure an added the Washi Tape on both sides of the journaling card so that it now flips over in the book like a page.  I even added some Washi Tape as a bit of embellishment on the cardstock page.

I repeated the process of alternating cardstock pages and patterned paper through out the album and the journaling cards and Washi tape.

It was fun alternating the patterns and colors.

On the last page I made a pocket out of cardstock cut from page 16 and embellished it with some Washi Tape.  Instead of the tag for the pocket, I used one of the SS Harvest Lane Bingo cards and added a button with jute twine to it for the free space on the card.

 

To finish off the cover there is a band that goes around the mini album.  I used a gold foil paper and the Autumn Type Cuttlebug folder to emboss it.  Layered some felt flowers I cut out with my Cuttlebug and used a button with jute for the center of the flowers.  I tied some just to the other end of the band to fnish it off. 

 

Since this project was for a swap, I also included the matching set of embellishment stickers and alphas and a baggie of embellishments so the receiver could add the final touches to the mini album to match the photos they put in it. 

 

I can hardly wait to make more mini albums using this cartridge !!!  Happy Fall Ya'll

 

Cricut Info and Supplies Used: 

Designed By: Debbie O'Neal aka ScrapHappyDeb

Cricut Machines Used: Expression and Cuttlebug

Cricut Cartridges Used: Mini Books

Other Supplies Used: Autumn Type Embossing Folder, Simple Stories Harvest Lane Paper and journaling cards, felt, gold foil cardstock, buttons, jute twine, ink, washi tape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cricut FANatics Grand Opening Winner Announcement

WOW...the month of September has just flown by.  When we started the blog a month ago, I wasn't sure if we would attract viewers daily but based on all the the wonderful comments made by our viewers so far, we believe that Cricut FANatics Blog is a big success !  So thank you for stopping by everyday to get your Cricut inspiration and to show your support to our designers.

I know I have been amazed and delighted with all the variety of projects shared on the blog so far.  Myself and all the administrators and the talented designers who contributed projects are so happy you all have enjoyed the blog so far. 

If there is anything you would like us to change or do on the Cricut FANatics blog we welcome your suggestions so feel free to leave a comment or send us an email.  This blog is about inspiring you to use your Cricut die cut machines more...and we hope to continue to inspire you.

The wheels are already turning on all the projects our designers want to plan to share with you all in the coming months so please keep coming back for more !

Don't forget that even though our Grand Opening Month of prizes has come to an end, we still have a Monthly Cricut Challenge on the 5th of each month you can join to win a prize.  And a Sketch Challenge on the 20th of each month for you to play along.

Okay...I know you all want to know who won the CRICUT FANATICS GRAND PRIZE. But don't you first want to know what they will win ????

Grand Prize includes: A set of Cricut 12X12 Mats, a set of Replacement Blades

and a Geometric Rings Embossing Folder set donated by ScrapHappyDeb (me)

PLUS A Quilted Christmas cartridge donated by ScrapperBecka

 

So without further delay...

the winner was drawn from all the designer blog post comments made

during the month of September.......and THE WINNER IS: 

 

SeaSwan 9/05/2012 09:56:00 PM

What a beautiful card! I love the embossing. TFS

 

So join me in congratulating SeaSwan.  Please contact ScrapperBecka via email at creationswithbecka@yahoo.com . You have two weeks to claim your prize or we will need to pick another winner so don't delay contacting us with your mailing address.

 

AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF CRICUT FANATICS BLOG.

 

 

 

Final Friday Weekly Cartridge Winner

Hi everyone...we have our final Grand Opening Weekly Cartridge winner to announce....

 

DRUM ROLL PLEASE

 

OUR FINAL FRIDAY WEEKLY CARTRIDGE WINNER IS:

 

blurobin9/29/2012 01:11:00 PM

Your layout is great! Love the window cut and the fence!!

 

 

Congrat to BlueRobin !  Please contact ScrapperBecka via email at creationswithbecka@yahoo.com

to claim your cartridge.

 

The Designers really appreciated seeing all your wonderful compliments about their projects throughout the month of September.  Starting today we are no longer giving cartridges away each week but we sure hope you continue sharing your comments with our designers to keep them motivated to make more lovely projects for us.