Erica's Craft Room 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE

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100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

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I made this Christmas scrapbook layout to share with you all today. I made this layout using Christmas, Joys of the Season, Everyday Paper Doll Dress up, Winter Woodland and Martha Stewart Elegant Cake art.

 for my elf, I cut him out at 3.50 and stamped his face using Everyday Character Assortment by Peachy Keen Stamps. The Santa bag is from Christmas and cut at 4.25. The presents are cut at 1.25

Santa hat is cut from Winter Woodland 1.50. I hid the snowflake in the middle with my Gypsy.

Christmas is cut at 9.50 from the Christmas Cart.

Christmas tree is cut at 9.50 and the star is cut at 1.50.  (The strung lights are from Jolee Embellisments)

The presents are cut at 1.30

Eve I created from Martha Stewart Cricut cake cart at 5.50.

Now your off to:

Amber - http://pixichickpapercrafts.blogspot.com/ 

Complete Line Up in case you get lost!
Start-  Http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Heather F - http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/
Tammy S - http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com/ 
 Suzy’s Crafts - http://suzyscrafts.blogspot.com/
Yvette - http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Jen Lundy - http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/
Karey - http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/
Jenny R- http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/
Erica’s Projects http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
Rosa - http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/
Samantha- http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/
Enjoli http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com/
Pattie- http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Dana- http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Amber - http://pixichickpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/
Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Scrappy EMT Design Team Introduction!

Hello and Welcome to my crafty corner. I want to thank Audrey for having me on her Design Team and look forward to working with some very crafty women. One of our design team members can't be with us today as her son is very ill. Please pray for Melissa Pinter and her 2 year old son Ethan. They are in our thoughts and prayers. Sending hugs and lots of prayers their way.

 For today's project I made a Valentine's Day wreath using the new Close To My Heart cartridge Art Philosophy.

Close up of roses.

What you will need to create roses..

To make this wreath I cut out about 150 roses at 3.50 and rolled them using a quiling tool. Can be purchased at your local hobby store. I used Alene's Tacky glue to hold my roses in place. I did buy pearl sewing pins from Walmart and stuck it right through the middle to hold my roses in place on the wreath. I did ink the edges of my roses using red and light pink on cream paper. 

 Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed today's project. 

You are now on to see: Nicolette Simpson- www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com

Complete List in case you get lost:  

Marleeen Gallagher - http://www.marleens-crafty-space.blogspot.com/
Christina Capps ~ http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/
Dana Tarchala- http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Nicolette Simpson- www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com
Kimberly Pate ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/
Audrey Dickinson - www.scrappyemt.blogspot.com

Red, Brown or Pink!

Welcome today's theme for Erica's Craft Room is Red, Brown or Pink. I made a layout today using a few different cartridges. I had an idea in my head for what I wanted to do and just ran with it. I really like how it came out too.

 To make this project here is what you will need:
your choose of pattern paper (mine was from Joann's)
glitter paper (mine is from hobby lobby)
Shimmer paper your choice of color ( I used recollections)
ribbon (pink ribbon was from Walmart)
ATG gun
Glue Dots
Zig Glue Pen
Stampin Up pop up glue dots
Cricut cartridges used: Cricut Alphabet ( Love AE2), Desinger's Calender (Be Mine), Art Philosophy (font),  Sweet Hearts (Cupid), Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (Pocket Tag).
Gypsy


I designed my photos where I wanted to them to be, since I like to mat my photos I then took a piece of scrap paper to measure out a 4x6 photo mat. Then I added ribbon and made sure it was pretty loose so that when I do add my photos I won't have a problem. I used glue dots on the back of the paper to hold the ribbon in place. Next I cut out my cupid from Cricut Sweet Hearts cartridge at 2.99 and the Shadow feature is 3.12. I used Stampin Up dimensionals to give it a popped up look. I did this for all my cuts besides my pocket folder. Next I cut out my heart Be Mine from Designer's Calendar at 3.90. Since this heart doesn't have a shadow feature I created one using my Gypsy. What I did is I hid the cuts and lined it up I believe the cut is 4.20. My pocket folder was a pocket tag from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. I cut my pocket tag at 4.02. Then using my scraps I cut 10- 3/4"w x4"h to make my pull out tabs. Using the cluster of hearts on Sweet Hearts I used those to add the numbers as a pull tab I used  my zig pen to glue all those little small pieces together. For the wording 10 Things I Love About You I created that using Art Philosophy Font and Cricut Alphabet for the word Love. These were all cut out at 1.00 and .75.



Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed everyone's projects today!

25 Days in December-Trees

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Here is my project....

To make this you will need the following cricut cartridges:Christmas (noel), Winter Woodland and Winter Lace. The font is cut at 1.88, the tree is cut at 4.92 and the Snowflake is cut at 1.79. I purchased all my vinyl from Ohmycrafts.com. The green vinyl has a flake in it not sure what the name is, the silver is called silver brushed vinyl and the snowflake is glossy white. I would suggest cutting everything out on paper and making a template so that when your ready to lay your vinyl you will make it straight and not crooked. I learned my lesson with another charger. I purchased my chargers at Walmart they were. .98 cents. 

Thanks for stopping by!

25 Days in Christmas- Ornaments

 

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

25 Days of Christmas,

with 25 Cricut projects a day.

Don't forget to stop by Erica's blog to see 24 more projects today....

and every day in December.

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

 Here is my project....

I used my gypsy so here are the sizes 0.92, 1.17, and 1.32. The foil looking paper for the ornaments can be purchased at Hobby Lobby for 1.99 (I usually wait til its 50% off). The background paper was from a christmas stack at Hobby Lobby also. The red paper inside the card is from Joann's. To make this card take an 8.5x11 piece of cardstock fold it half. I then took another piece of paper and cut about 1/4 of an inch off the sides. I glued it down and started on my ornaments and piecing them together to make them look like they were hanging at different lengths. I was going to use rhinestones but decided on the green ribbon and a red bow. The Bows I bought at Menards 6 for 1.00. I took some twine which is a Teresa Collins Christmas trim and added it to the side of my card. I put a rhinestone in the middle of the bow too. The inside is stamped with a stamp from Close To  My Heart and its from Christmas Love. 

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Holidays!!!

Christmas Decorations Blog Hop Dec 10-11

Hello Ladies,

I just want to first thank you all for the well wishes, I am feeling much better. Secondly I'd like to say sorry this post was not up this morning I had some last minute details to add and when I was ready to post I had blogger issues! Anyways, Its up now and I really hope you like it!!!

Good morning my crafty friends

This weekend is the Christmas Decorations Blog hop with Creations with Becka.  If you arrived here from Tonya then you are in the right place. If you just happened to stop by to say Hi, then please start at the beginning of the hop over at Creations with Becka http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com. Please make sure you stop by every blog on the list and leave a comment so you are eligible to win the grand prize blog candy- which is a cricut cartridge

So today we thought it would be fun to showcase Christmas Decorations for the Holiday season. There is a great line up of wonderfully talented ladies who all more awesome decorations to share with you.

I love this time of year…Christmas  the time we put up our trees, hang lights and of course decoration our homes.  The smells of cookies and pine tree, and just the general joy of the whole holiday season. We all have so many Cricut cartridges that we can easily make our own decorations than spending money to buy them.  So this weekend we will share with all of you some of the decorations we made and we hope that we have inspired you to dust off those cartridges and make some of your own decorations.

For today's project I made this Christmas wreath!

Here is a quick run down on what you will need to make this wreath and how to make it. I took some pictures of the process sorry I didn't do it through the whole project I was sick and I swear my brain was only working 50% off the time LOL.

above is a picture of everything i used minus the red paper which is at Joanns by the Paper company. The red is called Ruby Red Jewel Metallic 8.5x11 and the White is called Arctic Snow Cool Metallic 8.5x11. The leaves I used the DCWV shimmer stack the dark green leaves are on the red paper and the lime green is on the white paper. I did also use a cuttlebug folder called Swiss Dots (forgot to take a picture). Also, the silver glitter paper is from the paper studio and I purchased that at Hobby Lobby. Oh my goodness almost forgot, I bought my wreath in the craft section at Hobby Lobby and I bought silver glitter ribbon at Joann's in the Christmas section. I bought 4 rolls and to wrap my wreath. The cartridge I used to make these flowers are on Joys Of the Season Cricut (layers feature). The leaves are from Mothers Day Bouquet cricut cartridge.


Ok, first things first. wrap your wreath with the ribbon. when its finished it should look like the picture below. 

now comes the long process of making flowers, you will need 8 sheets of red and 8 sheets of white paper to make this wreath. You will make 12 flowers total. The size I made for my flowers at 2- 4", 1-3" and 1-2". I used my gypsy so I think its 4.08,3.08 and 2.08. After you have have cut out the red put those aside, with the white flowers you want to distress them first with Tim Holz vintage linen and then curl them with your stylus. I have the one by McGill and I used the largest tip. So once you are done distressing they should look like this...

after you have distressed all your flowers you now want to add diamond dust (which can be found at Hobby Lobby). I used glossy accents but you can use any clear glue you wish. I went around the edges with glossy accents and dusted the flowers off with diamond dust. It is very  messed so I'll warn you now. I loved it though. Next you will put those aside to dry and work on your red flowers. I used glossy accents and Martha Stewart garnet glitter. Its a very fine glitter and I love how bold it is after it dries. (Before you add glitter and glue curl your petals first, its hard to curl them after you have done this step). Below is a picture of what your flower will look like with diamond dust added after you distress the flower, i love the gold/beige color around it.

so while your flowers are drying now is the perfect time to make the leaves for your flowers. I cut the leaf from Mother's Day Bouquet 2 different sizes 1.60 and 1.80.  I used two different colored leaves from the DCWV shimmer stack, the dark green and light green. After they were cut out I inked the edges with Stampin Up Garden green for the darker paper and Lucky Limeade for the light paper. The reason I did that is because the edges were white. After I inked them up I ran them through my bigshot using the Cuttlebug folder Swiss Dots. After that i glued them to my flowers with some adhesive let them dry for a few minutes.



After they all dried take the smallest flower and add rhinestones to the middle. I used Tulip clear rhinestones to my white distressed and a yellowish color to the red by Jolee they are swarovki elements (you can find these at Michaels). 


Now your ready to assemble your flowers, all I did was offset the petals and once I liked the look I glued them together using Scotch Quick Dry adhesive. 


Now before you put your flowers on your wreath your going to want to add your sentiment to the middle of your wreath. I used fishing wire to hang mine. I cut out my SVG at 10" (should of made it a little smaller). I cut it out of chipboard (found at Joann's) and silver glitter paper (found at Hobby Lobby). 


 After you have your sentiment in place now its time to add the flowers to the wreath. You want to use a low temp hot glue gun because your wreath is foam based and it will probably be too hot use a Hot temp glue gun and melt the foam.  I did pick up some wreath decorations at Hobby Lobby on sale for 50 cents and I bought 5. I wanted to add pinecones to my wreath and I thought they were just small enough and would look perfect. its optional you don't have to add them.

sorry for the long long long long post but I hope I wanted to give you a good enough recipe so you can make your own. If you have any questions about what I used or I left something out please let me know!

My blog candy is a 10.00 gift card to Michaels!!!! All you have to do is comment on this post below! Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you liked my wreath!

Christmas Decorations Blog Hop Dec 10-11

Hello Ladies,

I'm sorry I don't have a post ready for you today. I came down with the flu this week and have spent most of my time in bed resting instead of crafting. I will have my post ready tomorrow so please come see me tomorrow! I do have blog candy available, 10.00 giftcard to Michaels. You can comment on this post and tomorrow to be eligible to win. Again, I'm so sorry I don't have a post for you today but I can't help when I'm sick.