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

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

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!

Hot Shot - WYEGW

Welcome to another segment of Would You Every Guess Wednesday at My Cricut Craft Room! This week's WYEGW is all about using the phrase feature on Cricut cartridges.

I decided to use the 'Hot Shot' phrase from the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge since I mainly use the cuts from the cartridge and not the phrases. I think the phrase feature is great for when they can be cut large, but they can be hard to use on cards since they have to be cut so tiny. I do try to use them as often as I can, though. :)

The basketball/net image is cut from the Father's Day cartridge. I propped up the basketball a little bit using a couple of pop dots to make it look like it was being tossed into the net. The stars are actually chipboard that I painted with orange acrylic paint and then used chipboard pieces for the # and 7, which is my favorite number. :) Even though the card is rather simple I love the way it turned out. I definitely think it would be a great card to make if you had to make a lot of them for an entire sports team, and then you can personalize them with everybody's number.

Stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other phrases the design team has used on their projects this week!

Ashley

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

Hi everyone! It's been awhile since I've signed up for a Would You Ever Guess Wednesday challenge over at My Cricut Craft Room - even though it's probably only been a month, it feels like forever! These are one of my favorite "challenges" because they allow you to think creatively about different ways to use a cartridge WITHOUT using the main die cuts that are shown on the back of the cartridge box. This WYEGW project has got to be one of my favorites so far... you'll see why in a second. :)

The most recent addition to my cartridge collection is Elegant Edges, and I absolutely love it! I don't have many cartridges because I'm on a tight crafting budget and only purchase cartridges I know will spend more time in the machine than on my shelf. :) Just by looking at this card I would never guess that Elegant Edges was the only cartridge used to make it!

I love this card because it's simple yet elegant at the same time. It's also a smaller card (4" by 4") and normally I stick with making larger cards cause I like to have room to rearrange and to not have to work with super tiny die cuts to make them fit on the card. I bet you're wondering what Elegant Edges was used for though, right? :) 

The butterflies were cut from the Elegant Edges cartridge using one of the butterfly frames. Rather than using the frame (that would be too obvious) I decided to use the punched out butterflies from the frame instead! I cut out 3 of them and then embossed them with polka dots and distressed the edges a bit before applying them to the card with a pop dot. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Make sure to check out My Cricut Craft Room to see what other inspiring WYEGW projects the design team has created for you. :)

Ashley 

WYEGW - Phrase Feature

I'm back with other card for this week's Would You Ever Guess Wednesday (WYEGW) over at My Cricut Craft Room! If you've never heard of WYEGW before, here's the scoop:

" We take some of the feature keys of a Cricut Cartridge, you know on the keypad layover the keys on the far left on the top three rows.... sometimes called layer, tag, card, font ...etc. We use ONLY those keys, and not the image or its shadow. Basically if you can see it on the back of the cartridge box.... we don't use it! Or its shadow which is about the same thing ;) We might also use a Cake cartridge to make a paper creation (All cake cartridges work in ALL cricut machines) But sometimes people forget about those cartridges. So we want to show you some of those and make you say "I would never have thought of that."

This week's WYEGW challenge was to use the Phrase feature of any Cricut cartridge. Can you tell which cartridge I used just by looking at the card? :)

If you guessed the Create a Critter cartridge... you're right! :) I paired the 'Busy' phrase with this adorable freebie digi from Meljens Designs. I don't see digis paired with Cricut cuts too often, so I thought I'd give it a try. I think it actually worked really well! :) Here's what I used to make the card:

Paper

- Black, yellow, white, and purple Recollections cardstock

- Gray patterned paper from The Paper Studio

Embellishments

- 4 black rhinestones

- 3 purple brads

Adhesives

- Therm-o-web Sticky Dots (die-cut transfer adhesive)

- Therm-o-web 1/2" Zots (glue dots)

Coloring Supplies

- Blending stump

- Baby oil 

- Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils #745 Crimson Red, #741 Light Cerulean Blue, #735 Canary Yellow, #747 Black, #753 Metallic Silver, #734 Warm Grey, and #742 Violet

Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what other phrases were used by the design team members for this week's Would You Ever Guess Wednesday!

Thanks so much for reading!

Ashley

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to announce that a few weeks ago I joined the design team over at My Cricut Craft Room! It's an absolutely amazing blog with so much going on and TONS of crafty projects every week! 

I had never heard of Would You Ever Guess Wednesday before (WYEGW for short) but immediately loved the idea as soon as I found out what it was. Here's what it's all about:

" We take some of the feature keys of a Cricut Cartridge, you know on the keypad layover the keys on the far left on the top three rows.... sometimes called layer, tag, card, font ...etc. We use ONLY those keys, and not the image or its shadow. Basically if you can see it on the back of the cartridge box.... we don't use it! Or its shadow which is about the same thing ;) We might also use a Cake cartridge to make a paper creation (All cake cartridges work in ALL cricut machines) But sometimes people forget about those cartridges. So we want to show you some of those and make you say "I would never have thought of that."

I had so much fun making a card for this challenge! I love making cards using different techniques and a good crafty challenge is always fun. Can you guess which cartridge I used on my card? :)

Close-up of the embossing on the stamp

If you guessed Create A Critter, you're correct! Tricky, huh? The postal stamp and 'Love' were cut at 1.5" using the Accessory feature on one of the icons. I would've never guessed Create A Critter just by looking at the card!

Here's What I Used To Make The Card:

- White and red cardstock

- 'Love Typewriter' paper by The Paper Studio

- 5" by 7" notecard cut down to 3" by 3.5"

- Cuttlebug with the 'D'vine Swirl' embossing folder

- Red rhinestones

- Flower brads

- Typewriter alphabet stamps with black ink

Make sure to stop by My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other DT ladies created for their WYEGW projects!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ashley