FCCB Challenge #236 - sketch

This sketch looked really masculine to me, so I took advantage of that and made my brother-in-law a card for his 50th birthday. I like the way it turned out. The "extreme" is from the Dude cartridge and the truck is from the Father's Day cartridge. The font is Simple Celebrations and the 50 is a digital number that you can search.

DT day at My Cricut Craftroom

The theme for today was everyday. I took that to a bit of a different place and created this card. I found something similar on Pinterest and scraplifted it with several changes. 

Front

I used a flower from the Don Juan cartridge for the front and the inside. I love how you can take one simple image and do so many different things with it when you use the Explore! I cut the original flower for the base (reflected), and then used the slice feature to cut off the stem for the top flower layer. I know I could have just cut it off, but I'm still learning so I like to try new things when I can. 

Inside

For the inside I reduced the image size and changed it to writing. I like that it continues the image inside the card without adding bulk. I inked around the front and inside rectangles with Vintage Photo Distress ink.

Here is a closeup of the flower center. I cut a black circle the size of the center and glued it to the flower. It looked a little plain, so I decided to try some Glossy Accents. It was good, but the card seemed to need a bit more color. I added some micro-beads to the glossy accents. It was kind of cool, they just sunk right in and made a lumpy flower center. I decided to add another layer of Glossy Accents to get a smoother appearance. I think this will have to happen a few more times before I tire of it and move on to something new.

I hope everyone has a great day! 

Here's the product information for this card:

Recollections solid color card stock

Micro-beads from my stash

Tombow mono-multi liquid adhesive

ATG gun and 1/4" tape

Glossy Accents

American Crafts Precision pen/black

Cricut pen/silver

Pearls from Recollections

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

KI Memories Berry Blast patterned paper

FCCB challenge 234 - Fright Night

Welcome to another Challenge Me Monday...

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #234 Halloween Projects

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Halloween Projects

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

For my project this week I made some Halloween cups. Lots and lots of them, actually. Here are a couple of them.

There are images from several cartridges on them, including (but not limited to) Stretch Your Imagination and Happy Hauntings.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week, and a safe and fun Halloween if you celebrate. Remember to join us at FCCB for this great challenge!

Playing on the Explore - file share

 I was playing in Design Space today to make some tea light holder for Halloween. There was a definite learning curve with the slice feature, but I finally got it to work.

The mistake I made on this one was not measuring the tab for putting them together. It was easily remedied by cutting off the tabs a bit, but hopefully I will remember next time I do this.

With the light - sorry about the bad picture:/

This one is a little more friendly for those of you who don't like scary. I'm not sure why my camera wouldn't focus, this was the best shot of the bunch.

All of the images are Cricut so I can share. Here's the link if you want to try one. These only have faces on two sides, I left the extra faces on the mat in case you want to add more.

https://us.cricut.com/design#/canvas/project/21595808

Hope that works. Have fun! 

MCCR - Retro

Today's theme at My Cricut Craft Room is Retro. I used a couple of images from the Nifty Fifties cartridge to create this card. I am really enjoying the new slice feature on Design Space. It's been fun to play with and is allowing me to add dimension to my cards in different ways.

I also used the writing feature on this card. I used an American Crafts purple marker, and the font from the Billionaire cartridge, to create the sentiment.

You can see some of the dimension on these two shots.

I cut the background from the tennis shoe image out of the middle of the solid card stock using the slice feature, then changed the color of the paper so I could cut that piece from the patterned paper. It was nice to not have to re-size things, just cut. I have the pink piece left from the front and will insert that on the inside of the card. I ended up with more negative space than a pile of piece stacked on top of each other. Kind of cool. Hope everyone has a great day!

Mickey, Minnie and Me Blog Hop with MMCR

Thank you for joining us on My Cricut Craft Room's Minnie, Mickey and Me Blog Hop

Today I made a glass cutting board with my first ever split design!  I have the Disney cartridges so I can play with them in Design Space. The image is from the Mickey and Friends Cartridge.  I split it myself using the slice feature (can't wait to play with that more!) and inserted the name. 

I did remember to reverse the image before I cut, yay!  There are some bubbles, but not as many as it looks like there are in the picture. The top has a textured surface so it photographs kind of funky.

Next you will go to Sonja's Blog 

Start

1. Start- http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com 

2.  Rebecca- http://queenmommiedom.blogspot.com

3.  Pam http://www.psiloveyouscrapbooking.com/

4.  Lynn  - http://mycardsnstuff.blogspot.com/2014/10/mickey-minnie-and-me-blog-hop-with-mmcr.html

5.  Sonja- http://sugarbeancards.blogspot.com/

6.  Brenda - http://www.disneygirlcrafts.com/

7.  Craft Lovers Come Here- http://CraftLoversComeHere.blogspot.com 

Enjoy the hop!

Pun Fun at FCCB

Hello, Welcome to another Challenge Me Monday

Challenge #232 Pun Fun
Make a project using a pun

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For my card today I used an image from Groovy Times in Cricut Design Space. I've found myself in need of some cards for guys recently and thought this would be a great opportunity to make something.

The sentiment is from KAndrew Designs (sadly no longer in production) and it lent itself really well to this challenge.The papers are all Recollections. I think the embossing folder is from Darice, and the silver dots are from my stash. 

I hope everyone has a great week. Remember to join us for some punny fun!