A little catching up!

Hello everyone! I know I have been gone for awhile, but I am doing my best to get back in my craft room! Having a 4 yr old and a 8 month old keeps me on my toes! I have been able to get a little time here and there in my craft room, so I will share a few of my projects with you. :)

A few months ago, I was asked to be a instructor in a card class I attend. So most of these cards are ones that I have done for the class or while attending the class! It is a super fun time each Saturday morning, where we get together at a local coffee house and make 3 cards while visiting and having something yummy to drink!

I also wanted to share with you all a design team call for a blog that I really enjoy following, and have made the jump to apply to be apart of. This crafty blog is dedicated to nothing but boy layouts! And being a mom of 2 boys, I get a ton of inspiration from it! So head on over and check out their design team call!

Its about a boy design team call!

January 100 Cartridge blog hop!

 

 

 Welcome to the January 2013 100 cartridge blog hop! If you have just stumbled upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning, head on over to My Cricut Craft Room! 

For my project today, I used the Close to my Heart Art Philosophy cartridge and the matching stamp set Ornamental Cheer to match up my stamps to my cuts! 

The first 2 pictures are the same cut - just front and back. I decided to make this cute cut into a very cute tag to go onto a present. 

This 3rd cut, I made both into a tag for a present by stamping to and from on the other side, but I also stamped it the same on both sides to make a cute, simple ornament for my tree!

And my final cut was this larger ornament. I stamped one side in green and one in red and used it as an ornament on my tree.

For all my ornaments and tags,  I used Divine twine limited edition holiday twine. 

The next stop on the hop is SARA!

 And just in case you get lost along the way, here is the entire hop line up! 

Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Jamie M. http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/

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Lisa LeMay - http://scrapnooker.blogspot.com/

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Mary M http://Mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com/

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Robin Carroll - http://cutonedesignsbyrobin.blogspot.com/

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Erica's Projects - http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/

Samantha - http://www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Sarah - http://craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/

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Sarah Mae - http://itswhatkeepsmesane.blogspot.com/

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Tami - http://scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/

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Erica's Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

I'm Back!

Hello everyone!! I am back to crafting, and blogging! On October 1, my husband and I welcomed our second son into the world! We have been enjoying being a family of 4 and enjoying both of our boys!

Today theme is snowflakes with My Cricut Craft Room, so I made some snowflakes cut from adhesive vinyl for my older sons pre-school. His teacher asked me to cut out some snowflakes to place on the walls to help make it feel like winter in the class room. I immediately pulled out my Artiste cartridge and started having fun! I cut 2 different snowflakes at 5, 3.5 and 1 inches so that his teacher had lots of them to hang all over the walls!

Maternity break

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to let you all know that I am taking a little break from crafting and blogging due to the impending arrival of my second son! He is due in the next 2 weeks, and I am spending as much time with my husband and other son as I can before our new bundle of joy arrives! Don't worry, I will be back, it just might be a bit!

Theme Day Thursday- Shoes!

 

 Today's theme is to make something with shoes! We are also using pink in honor of Breast Cancer awareness month that is coming up in October! Here is what I came up with. :)

Items used and how to:

• I started with an A2 card base, and some patterned paper. I trimmed the paper to fit the front of my base and wrapped some twine around it. Before securing it to the base, I inked the edges with some Tim Holts distressing ink. 
• Next I cut out my cute little flip-flops at 2 inches from Cheerful Seasons! I had to cut the strap layer multiple times as the strap for the right flip-flop didn't want to cut without coming out in 3 pieces. After trying and trying to get it to cut in one piece, I finally just gave up and pieced it together. I wish it would have cut correctly, but I think it just might be a little to small for it to have a nice crisp cut. 
• I attached my flip-flops to my card base using some pop-dots. 
• The inside is stamped with a sentiment from Pink by Design's Breast Wishes stamp set. 

As always to see more projects from today's theme, head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to check out what the other design team members have created for you today! 

My exciting new adventure!

I am so excited to announce that I will now be a Craft Contributor on Our Knights Life blog (formally known as Family and Life in Las Vegas)! My first post goes live next week! Make sure to stop by and check out my craft tutorials, and product reviews!

Card creating Tuesday - card with a window

Welcome to Card Creating Tuesday! Today we were challenged to make a card that has a window in it. I knew right away the perfect cartridge to pull out and that is Art Philosophy as it has so many card bases that have windows in them! After flipping through the entire cartridge book, I finally settled on this card! 

 

• Card is cut out at 5 inches (I was able to cut 2 at this size from a 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper) 
• I took the negative stockings that were cut out to make the windows, and put them through my sticker maker and then covered the adhesive with glitter. I then put them back through my sticker maker to make the back of the stockings adhesive and placed them on the inside of the card so that they show show through the window. 
• To add some more color to the front, I added a ribbon around the front and then stamped both the front and inside of the card with sentiment stamps from Pink by Design's Christmas Wishes set.