R is for... Raccoon!

Believe it or not, I had such a hard time coming up with something that starts with the letter R for today's post at My Cricut Craft Room! I thought R would be such an easy letter, but apparently, I was wrong. After flipping through many cartridge handbooks, I came across the raccoon in Create a Critter and knew that was what I wanted to make!

The raccoon is cut at 3" from Create a Critter and the tree is cut at 4" - a little bigger than I expected, but that's okay. All paper is from Recollections and I decided to add some detail to the tree by using Stickles to create berries. The raccoon is also on an Action Wobble... my first time using one! :)

Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other projects the DT ladies have created for today's letter of the day!

Trick or Treat!

This week's Would You Ever Guess Wednesday at My Cricut Craft Room is all about using the Create a Critter cartridge, without using a critter! Sounds sort of difficult at first, but with the phrase and accessory features, it's actually pretty easy to come up with something. I created this Halloween card using the Create a Critter 2 cartridge:

Both the treat bag and the 'Trick or Treat' phrase are cut at 3 inches. The papers are from the DCWV Halloween & Fall 180 sheet paper pack and the green buttons are from my stash. I decided to try something different and distress the buttons to match the distressed treat bag/candy, and I think it turned out okay. Had the candy not been cut with the treat bag, I would've made the candy bigger and not used the buttons. But I needed something to fill that corner spot and the green buttons matched the patterned paper perfectly, so I decided to give it a try. Sometimes a little improv is all a card needs! :)

Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see how the other design team members used their Create a Critter cartridges without the critters. :)

Have a great day!

Ashley

Nuts About U

This week's Theme Day Thursday at My Cricut Craft Room is all about falling in love and/or fall flowers. I chose to make a card to go with the falling in love theme, and used the Create a Critter cartridge to help me make this cute acorn-shaped card - my first shaped card ever! :)

To make the card, I welded together two acorn shapes at 5.5" each in Cricut Craft Room and cut the welded shape out and scored where the two acorns connected. Then I cut the top brown part of the acorn to fit the shape, and embossed it with a polka dot embossing folder using my Cuttlebug. I used Copper stickles to add some sparkle to some of the dots, along with the tail on the squirrel. The little guy is cut at 3" and the leaves are cut at 1.25" also from the CAC cartridge using patterned DCWV fall paper. The phrase on the inside of the card was cut at 4" and I even used patterned paper that had acorns on it. :)

And now for an apology...

This month at My Cricut Craft Room we are supposed to use pink on our projects for breast cancer awareness. I could NOT find a way to use pink on this card, but couldn't pass up the "nuts about you" idea to tie in with the falling in love theme. I PROMISE there is pink underneath the top of the acorn, but silly me forgot to take a picture of it before covering it up! I was just too excited to finish the card... I'm so sorry!

Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other fall projects the design team ladies have created to share with you!

October's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop with My Cricut Craft Room!

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!

DAY TWO 

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning. :)

Today I've created a few projects to share with you using the 3 Birds on Parade, Artiste, Elegant Edges, and Stretch Your Imagination cartridges. Normally I try to combine multiple carts to make one project, but for this hop I decided to make multiple projects. :) I apologize in advance for the picture-heavy post!

The first project I'd like to share is a card I made using the 3 Birds on Parade cartrige. I had just seen a button flower idea on Pinterest and wanted to try it out.

The second project I made (and probably my favorite) is a fall card using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. I went all out with the glitter on this one!

The card base is cut from Stretch Your Imagination at 5.5" and the pumpkins and leaves I believe are cut from the Create a Critter cartridge, while the 'Fall' sentiment is cut from the new Create a Critter 2 cartridge. I'm in love with the sparkle! This was before I started collecting Stickles, so all the glitter on here is dry that I applied to a fast-drying glue used on the pieces before applying the glitter. 

A couple of months ago a coworker of mine celebrated her 21st birthday, and I decided to make some Oreo cupcakes along with cupcake toppers to bring to work to share with everyone in honor of her birthday. (You can view the original post about the cupcakes here). I used Elegant Edges to make the shape of the topper and then Artiste to cut the numbers. I put some adhesive in between the layers and stuck a toothpick in there to hold it all in place. :)

And that's all for me! Your next stop is

Marji's blog!

Here's the complete line-up in case you get lost along the way:

1. MCCR http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
2. Jamie L http://babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/
3. Ashley http://especiallymade.blogspot.com
4. Marji www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com
5. Miranda http://www.nanasscrapspot.com
6. Sarah http://www.craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/
7. Melissa http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com
8. Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/
9. Erica's Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
10. Jamie M http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
11. Amy http://clayfulimagination.blogspot.com
12. Jodi http://jodiesscraplab.blogspot.com/
13. Tess www.sassycricutcrafting.com
14. Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com
15. Jessica W www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com
16. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

WYEGW Goes Pink!

It's time for another Would You Ever Guess Wednesday segment at My Cricut Craft Room! This week the DT ladies were challenged to create a project using ONLY page 25 of the Create a Critter cartridge handbook... and to also use pink on their cards for breast cancer awareness. 

Straight from the digital handbook on the Cricut website, here's what page 25 looks like and the cuts we had to choose from:

I chose to use the owl, the flower, and also the branch, but the real challenge was figuring out a way to use pink! 

Luckily I was able to find a sheet of pink patterned paper from one of my Recollections stacks that had a stripe of teal in it, which was the exact color of the owl in the handbook! I usually make the images my own design/colors and don't follow the handbook, but every once in while I can't help but be inspired. :) 

Stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see how the other DT ladies used page 25 of the CAC handbook to make their projects for today. :)

Ashley

Halloween Party Treat Box

My Cricut Craft Room has turned pink! From September 18th - October 15th, all of the design team's project will feature pink to honor those who have suffered from breast cancer. Even if it's covered up, all of our cards, layouts, and projects will have pink on them somewhere. What a great tribute to those who have lost their lives or are suffering from breast cancer.

This week's Theme Day Thursday is all about Halloween parties! Invitations, decorations... you get the idea! I decided to make a 3D treat box for each of the party-goers to take home, sort of like a goodie bag, only a box instead. :)

That dang side just wouldn't stay closed! Sorry!

I thought it would be really hard to use pink on a Halloween project, but luckily I had some Halloween paper that actually had pink on it! The paper is from the DCWV 180-sheet Halloween and Fall paper stack. Because the paper is very light cardstock, I cut the template for the box on Kraft cardstock (which is much heavier) and then cut it again with the striped paper, and adhered the striped paper to the Kraft with my double-sided tape runner. 

Each of the candy pieces are cut from the Mini Monsters cartridge at 2" and were all made with solid colored cardstock by Recollections. The box was cut from the Artiste cartridge and is about 3" by 3"

Stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other pink Halloween projects the design team has made to share with you!

You're My Mane Squeeze!

Happy Monday! I am coming a crazy busy weekend and am SO glad I scheduled this post in advance. :) Today's Letter of the Day is L at My Cricut Craft Room! And what better critter to represent the letter L than a lion?! :)

The lion is cut from the brand new Create a Critter 2 cartridge (one of my new favorites) and the stamp is computer-generated. If you look closely at the last photo you can see the lion's mane is embossed with the D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder. :) I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink and tied some raffia around the corner for a "jungle" look. Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see the other projects the design team made to share with you today! 

I also have some exciting news for you! Erica from My Cricut Craft Room has released a 78 page FREE handbook for Cricut Craft Room! It is AMAZING and can help you with just about any issue you may be having! Here's all the info and the link to download the guide:

When you open Cricut Craft Room now there is a GREAT video that pops up and welcomes you to Craft Room. If you have ever been intimidated by the idea of Craft Room…. NOW is your chance. There is a 4 minute video that welcomes you to Craft Room and will help you get aquainted and NOT intimidated by Craft Room!
It really is great, no matter what your computer skill level is. Please take the first step and try Craft Room if you have not taken that step yet. I have done a few Ustream tutorials to help with Craft Room, but no one can do it better than Provo-Craft themselves! Here is the welcome screen now when you go to Cricut Craft Room.
Here is the link to ALL of the Craft Room tutorials that Cricut has made! *Erica

This guide came from www.cricut.com and was assembled by
Erica’s Craft Room™ My Cricut Craft Room™
and Affordable Crafting Concepts™ Copyright 2009-2012

Visit the blog for 6-10 Cricut made projects each weekday.
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On Hello Thursday visit Erica’s blog for the projects made with the newest cricut cartridges and the Cricut Craft Room files to go with them.
I will have a project made with them and all of the Cricut Craft Room files for them to make your crafting easier and less frustrating.

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Have a great day!

Ashley

Fun with Create a Critter 2! :)

I am so excited to share with you the first card I made using the new Create a Critter 2 cartridge! It is for this week's Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room. :)

Create a Critter 2 was released by Provo Craft last Thursday (September 6th) but for some reason Joann's had them on their shelves a week early! I was so excited to hear it, and when I called my local Joann's to see if they had it in stock, I almost had a heart attack when they said it was there! I hung up the phone and got in the car to go pick it up. :) It was on sale for $34.99, and I don't normally pay that much for cartridges, but this one was so, so worth it.

The cartridge contains some of the favorites from the original CAC, along with a few new critters as well. This one is much more seasonal than CAC, and a lot of the critters have cute outfits/accessories that go along with the seasons. I just can't get enough of it! For my first card, I used my favorite critter... the penguin!

My 3D item is the flower/asterisk shape cut from the Artiste cartridge. For the center I cut an image from Elegant Edges (the same one that's behind the penguin, just smaller) and stamped it with a CTMH stamp that goes along with the Artiste cartridge. This is one of my favorite cards I've made! 

Come see what other cards the design team created for this week's Card Creating Tuesday!

You Make Me Smile

Hi everyone! I'm back with another post for this week's WYEGW segment over at My Cricut Craft Room. This week's theme was all about using a layered image on a cartridge, or in other words, not the main image that you see on the back of the box.

I create this card using the Artiste and Create a Critter cartridges (I also found Create a Critter at my local Joann's the other day - before it was even supposed to be put on the shelf! I can't wait to share the projects I've already made with it). The dragonfly was cut at 3" from the CAC cart and Artiste was used to make the card itself. The stamp is a CTMH stamp that came with the Artiste cartridge, and the paper is from a Recollections paper pad. 

This card is super simple and I normally embellish much more, but it's been a crazy week and I think the polka dots speak for themselves. I just started a whole new set of classes (I'm studying to be a teacher) and have also been balancing work and my blogs. My mind is in a million different places!

Stop by the blog to see some more fabulous projects made by the design team!

My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's September 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!

You should have started at My Cricut Craft Room, if not please start at the beginning. :)

I've made a couple of projects to share with you during this weekend's hop. :) The first mini project I made using the Elegant Edges cartridge are labels for drawers that I keep right next to my crafting table.

I believe the paper is Bo Bunny and the reason I chose it is because it matches the colors of the room - maroon and gold. The labels were made using a label marker, I didn't want to have to cut super tiny letters with my Cricut since those tend to frustrate me, LOL. :)

The next project I made is a card using the Create a Critter and April Showers cartridges. I've had this idea in my head for a while now to create for one of our 100 cartridge hops, but I just got around to it now. It's the first scene card I've made in a while.

The house is cut from the April Showers cartridge at 2" and the sun and tree are cut from the Create a Critter cartridge. The flowers are from my stash and I used pearls to give the house a path to the sidewalk. The house is also embossed with a polka dot Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Your next stop is Lisa's blog!

Here's the entire lineup in case you get lost along the way:

1. MCCR http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
2. Ava http://scrapbookdesign4u.blogspot.com/
3. Jamie L http://babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/
4. Marji www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com
5. Jamie M http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
6. Janet http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
7. Ashley http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/
8. Lisa Ch http://lisacustomscrapbooking.blogspot.com/
9. Erica's Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
10. Nanne http://nannes-creations.blogspot.com/
11. Jessica W http://www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com/
12. Susie http://susiesscrappers.blogspot.com/
13. Mary http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/
14. Jodie http://jodiesscraplab.blogspot.com/
15. Tess www.sassycricutcrafting.com
16. Sarah http://www.craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/
17. Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

18. Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/19. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Happy hopping! :)

The Letter of The Day Is... H!

Every Monday at My Cricut Craft Room the design team creates projects inspired by the Letter of The Day. Today's Letter is H, and I'm excited to share with you the Halloween card I made!

This was the first Halloween card I made this year, and it left me feeling anxious to make more Halloween crafts! The ghost is cut from the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge (which is why it has feet). The background paper is Recollections and the stamp was found in the $1 bin at Michael's. I distressed the stamp and the background paper with black ink and then added black ribbon as an accent.

Stop by the blog to see the other projects the design team made to share with you!