Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My Cricut Craftrooms Card Tuesday!!





Hi everyone! this week the theme is Get well cards.



All of the papers were printed from the Imagine cartridge Floral Emporium. Including the paper I used to make the old fashioned rose.The base is a standard Rectangle and I flooded it with color from the floral emporium cartridge using Cricut Craftroom. The Get Well Soon cut is from Imagine cartridge Good Ole Days and you will find it by hitting the icon button. The scalloped Oblong with the butterfly cut out is from Elegant Edges and you will find it on page



30 in your booklet. The flower was made using flower #3 on page 65 of the Elegant edges booklet. I use cricut craftroom on all of my projects so what I did was I cut 2 flowers at 2 inches and 3 flowers at 1.50 inches and flooded them with a red floral print from floral emporium.
You will need to poke a hole in the center of each flower. Then you will need to spritz each one lightly with water and stack them starting with the 2 larger ones then the 3 smaller ones on top and put a brad in the center to hold them together. Next you want to carefully wad them up
then using the tool of your choice you need to carefully open each layer until you get the look you want. Then you allow it to dry completely. It will be stiff when it is dry. Keep in mind that if you use colored paper or ink your flowers you may want to wear gloves because you will get color bleed on your hands. Now I wanted this flower to look like an old fashioned rose but you can also use the same cut to make a carnation. You just need to make more layers 6 to 8 layers getting smaller with each cut. I have also made these using white paper and instead of water I spritzed it with Maya Mist. It is a little messy and takes a little time but I love to match my flowers to my projects!! I hope you enjoyed my card and I hope it inspires you to make some flowers!!






To check out more great cards like this one!!
Happy cardmaking :)



Shelley



Saturday, April 7, 2012

My Cricut Craft Rooms 100 cartridge blog hop

My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Hop


Welcome to My Cricut Craft Rooms 100 cartridge blog hop
You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons. Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/ Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and yesterday to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today. Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday! Now you should have come to my blog from my fellow My Cricut Craft room Design Team Sisters blog and here is that link in case you got lost a long the way :)
ava http:scrapbookdesign4u.blogspot.com
A special thank you to this weekend's Blog Hop Sponsor.

The Scrapbooking Queen

The Scrapbooking Queen



In honor of her Birthday she launched her stamp line.....
Each day we have one set of stamps to give away. You can also purchase them in her store and enter to win the Silhoueete Cameo that she is giving away. She has Action Wobbles, Royal Twine, and foam squares in her store.http://www.thescrapbookingqueen-royalshoppe.blogspot.com/
Also Erica put a ton of items on sale in Erica's Craft Room. ALL Cricut $33 or less. Copic Markers 25% off and more tomorrow.


















On this project I used:



Floral Embellished, Potpourri Basket, and Imagine cartridge Floral emporium.

I started by rounding the edges to give it a finished look and faux stitched around my base with a white gel pen. I then glued down my largest tag centering it as much as possible. I then attached the 2 smaller tags to use as the back drop for my flower and butterfly. I then put a small brad in to hold it together and used perfect Pearls to outline it and cover the brad. The butterfly is a cut from Potpourri Basket and I cut it at 1 and 1/2 inches. It is a clear cut using Graphix clear cut plastic. You will need to use the multi cut feature and cut it twice. I then used perfect pearls to outline the butterfly. The leaves are actually rain drop that I cut at 1 inch from the Potpourri Cartridge then used perfect pearls to outline them. The Best Wishes Sentiment is from the phrase feature on the Florals Embellished Cartridge and I did it in layers. I love color and normally use pretty bold colors and I love to bling projects up. Thank-you for joining us this weekend and good luck on Erica's drawing!! Next you will go to Cheries Blog and here is that link:
http://cheribug-lovincricut.blogspot.com/


Now here is the full line up in case you get lost along the way.


1. Start My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/


2. Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/


3. doris http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/ -


4. Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/


5. pattie http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/


6. heather f - http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/


7. Sue-ann http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/


8. claire r http://www.threewaterscreations.com/


9. heather m http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/


10. Ericas’ Project http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/


11. Miranda http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/


12. heather e http://pinkpunkcosmo.blogspot.com/


13. gloria c http://craftnthings.blogspot.com/


14. Vickie M - http://stayathomemomof2inohio.blogspot.com/


15. lisa carrier http://ourcraftingcorner.blogspot.com/


16. claire s http://www.scrapmyway.blogspot.com/


17. Deirdre http://glitteredroses.blogspot.com/


18. ava http:scrapbookdesign4u.blogspot.com


19. Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/


20. Cheri http://cheribug-lovincricut.blogspot.com/


21. kathy jo http://skrappindiva.blogspot.com/


22. Candice http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/


23. Sara W - http://www.craftingwithsarah.blogspot.com/


24. Erica’s Blog candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/


Be sure to leave a comment on each blog along the way to be entered into the drawing!!!
Have a great creative Sunday!


and a


Happy Easter


Shelley



















































































Tuesday, April 3, 2012

My Cricut Craft Rooms Baskets and Bunnies Card




Hi everyone! This is my first project as a design team member for My Cricut Craft Room!




For this 1/2 fold card I used Cricut Craftrooms Happy Easter and Create a Critter cartridge. I also used Ribbons and Rosettes to make the border.




I cut the bunny at 4 inches and used the layer features . I did the base layer in Black then the next layer in pink and the top layer in Grey. I then used the last layer feature to give her a pink tummy. I placed the yellow tulips behind the bunny to give more spring color. The tulips were cut at 4 and 5 inches. I used jell pens to give the blooms a little faux stitching. The basket I did in 2 layers and the cut size was 4 inches. The eggs were cut at 1 inch and I used acrylic dabber paint to color them. The sign was a cut from create a critter and the happy easter is from Cricut Craftrooms Happy Easter. The yellow border is a border cut from Ribbons and Rosettes and was cut at 8 inches.
Be sure to check out the rest of the great Bunnies and Baskets Cards that my fellow design team sisters have created!! Here is the link back to My Cricut Craft Room!!


Thank-you for stopping by!


Shelley






Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Sunflower Card

For this card I used the amazing websters pages and Prima line now available at
http://stores.ebay.com/Paper-Patch-Crafts?_rdc=1


On this project I used the Cricut Flower Shoppe Cartridge and cut the sunflower at 3 inches in 4 layers then used a brad to hold it together and placed the cute sunflower chipboard in the center.
Hop on over to Anne's store and check out the cute new lines that she is carrying in her store!

Have a wonderful day

Shelley

Monday, March 12, 2012

2 cards using the new prima line at Paper patch Crafts



Both of these cards were made using the New Prima Sunkiss line of papers.

The flowers and Wooden embellishments and die cuts are all Prima, and websters Pages.

I used 2 different lines of Prima on my cards. I used Sunkiss and Nature garden.

They work very well together. Here is the link to the items I used.



The whole line is a pleasure to work with!

Have a great scrappy day!!

Shelley



Saturday, March 10, 2012

My first board book using the Beautiful new prima Embellishments

My First attempt at a board book!!!


For this project I used a Kaiser Craft board book and painted it with Adirondack Paint dobbers.
Then I used Paper from Websters Pages and they are available here :http://stores.ebay.com/Paper-Patch-Crafts?_rdc=1 All of the embellishments and flowers are Prima and also are available at Paper Patch Crafts. So is all of the trim used and I believe it is all Webster's pages. This book was a challenge for me and I discovered that I have no patience for drying time. This line was a joy to work with and I love every flower and embellishment in it!!LOL Hope everyone likes it and has a wonderful crafty day!!!




























Friday, March 2, 2012

Challenge Card for Erica's Craftroom

This is a card I just finished for a challenge at




I used the Easter 2010 cartridge for the cuts. I cut the lamb at 2.50 inches and did it in layers.


The bows are from the same cartridge but I used the bunny bows at .50 inches.


The Happy Easter Cut was done at 2 inches. The Foil Circle was a 4 inch circle cut and I embossed it with a cuttlebug Die. The foil is available at Erica's store and this stuff is awesome.


This one is actually a beautiful pastel Orange but would not show at it's true color no matter what I tried. Hop on over and check out the challenge!!


I am back :) Here are a few cards that I recently made

After a very long break from blogger due to my blog being a mess when my blog designer quit hosting the blog design. I am back  With a be...