Day 1 Stamp Release Party! Teacher Apple Box

Woo Hoo... today is day one of the Stamp Release Party at My Craft Spot, this week Kimberly and the talented design team (which I'm thankful to be a part of) will be sharing projects all week long from the five new stamp sets and one brand new metal die set, you are going to love these stamp sets and metal die.

Each day, there will be prizes at My Craft Spot, then on Saturday we'll have a design team Stamp Release Party Blog Hop with prized at each blog along the way! 

Join us everyday this week!!

 Today, day one, we are featuring the new "Stampin' Around Fall" stamp set and "Tiny Doily Metal Dies" (6 dies). Kimberly gave me the opportunity once again to design this fun stamp set along with these awesome doily dies. 

This stamp set is great for Fall, with three circle sentiments for our teachers, and three Fall themed circle sentiments, as well as three Halloween themed circle sentiments.  Included with this set are 13 tiny images to mix and match. 

The Tiny Doily Dies coordinates with the Stampin' Around Fall stamp set, and is also fun and versatile it can also be used with many other stamp sets, you will want to add this to your collection.

For my project I made a super cute teacher apple box using the Sweet Tooth Boxes cricut cartridge.  I haven't purchased a cricut cartridge for quite a while, until recently.... when I purchased this cartridge... my favorite place to shop for cartridges... ebay!  I picked up this one for less than $15 with free shipping.

My apple box (cupcake box) was cut ath 10"

The leaf was cut using Walk in My Garden cricut cartridge, the stem was cut by hand.

Below is one of the circle sentiment stamps and the apple stamp image from the Stampin' Around Fall stamp set that I used for my tag, the fun paper doily shape and the doughnut shape are from the Tiny Tags Metal Dies.

I attached the tag using Vintage Cherry Twine.

This stamp set and metal dies will be available for purchase at My Craft Spot on Saturday (8 Sept. 2012). 

Flip side of my tag.. it's double sided, another circle sentiment stamp with the book stamp image.

Side view of the tag, I popped up the doughnut shaped image using craft foam. Did you know that your metal dies can cut craft foam (sometimes called -fun foam)? That's what I did with the doughnut shaped metal die.

Apple box opened.

Thanks for stopping by today, and remember to head over to My Craft Spot to see the many other amazing projects made by Kimberly and her design team using the brand new Stampin' Around Fall stamp set and the Tiny Doily Metal Dies, also remember to leave a comment on Kimberly's blog (My Craft Spot) today for your chance to win the Hocus Pocus Crinkle Ribbon, this ribbon is perfect for you Fall and Halloween projects. click -HERE for My Craft Spot.

Happy Mothers Day!!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

I wanted to share the mother's day card that I made for my mom.
This card fits in the legal size envelope, not your regular size card and I love it!!!
I used the Heritage cartridge, and the small flowers were from Walk in My garden cartridge.
The border punch is a Martha Stewart punch.

Crochet Flower in a Flower Pot -Video -using Walk in My Garden Cricut Cartridge

I'm sharing another card using the lovely fuchsia crochet flower, if you didn't see my previous post here is a little info about the crochet item.
Today at Fantabulous Cricut we have a new daily feature "Sunday's Spotlight", where we will be "Spotlighting" a few of our wonderful sponsors.
A few of the design team got to create with a few beautiful crochet items from Viola's Boutique, she has an esty store where she sells handmade crocheted flowers, hearts and other items, she is one of our new sponsors.

This card uses the Walk in My Garden cricut cartridge.

Go check out Fantabulous Cricut and see the spotlight feature about Viola's Boutique, and see what the other design team members have created using viola's lovely crochet items. -HERE

Bridal Shower -Towel Cake

It's that time of year when there are many baby showers and bridal showers to attend, so I like to think of creative gifts to give.
I showed my diaper cake HERE with lots of photos and directions.

Today I'll show my towel cake using a dish towel set with cooking utensils and kitchen gadgets, items that the bride will soon need.

I used two sets of kitchen towels bought from Walmart, one had a hot pad, oven mit, dish rag and 4 matching dish towels, the second set was just a tan and white towel set ($5 each).
The oven mit and hot pad are rolled up in the bottom layer to give it thickness, the dish rag is the very top layer. I used safety pins to keep the towels rolled together.

The ribbon was hot glued to itself on the back side, then I carefully added the utensils and kitchen gadgets.

For the diaper cake I had twill (netting/fabric) to wrap around the cake. I didn't have any matching twill or fabric for this cake, so I had to get creative.... this is what I did.

I cut strips of cardstock, got it wet then wadded each strip up, carefully un-wadded the strips then let them dry. When they were dry they looked like a wrinkled mess, but this is what I used around each layer of the towel cake, tucking ends into the towel and wrapping around the utensils.

The flowers are made just as I did on the diaper cake using "Walk in my Garden" Cricut cartridge, except I used two layers here instead of three, and hot glued a rope knot in the center instead of a jewel (view the diaper cake to see how I made the flowers).
I used glue dots to adhere each flower to my wadded wrinkled paper strips, I didn't need to make stems like on the diaper cake flowers.

I used cardboard for the base covered with tinfoil.

Hello Tulips

A lovely card using "Walk in my Garden" my favorite spring Cricut cartridge. The image is on page 99 in the booklet. I used the border feature cutting at 4". The tulips were cut in yellow cardstock twice, one set covered the green tulips cut with the border, the the second set I popped up using pop-dots.

The word "Hello" was printed using my computer

Dragonfly Shaped Card -W/ Cut File

It's "Challenge Me Monday" at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog.

Challenge #6 -Winged Thing Theme:

Create a project that includes something that fly's, birds, butterflies, dragons etc...

Here is my card & matching envelope

The paper is from DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies stack, and DCWV glitter stack, I love these papers! I use the multi-cut feature when cutting these papers with my Cricut machine, they cut beautifully. Cricut cartridges used are "Walk in my Garden" for the card and "Wild Card" for the envelope

Just a little bling for the dragonfly's eyes.
Design Studio Cut Files
Dragonfly Card cut file -here
Envelope and Liner -here

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #4

Today is a new challenge at Fantabulous Cricut

Challenge #4 -Include a word and shape on your project:
the word is "Happy"
the shape is a "Flower"

Stretch your Imagination Cricut cartridge has a great card feature. The card I used was from page 75, cut at 4" to make a 4"x 4" square card.
Using my computer I printed the "you make me smile..."
The word "happy" was from Walk in my Garden cartridge page 122 I used the main happy word and the shadow feature cut at 1"
The cardstock is from DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies Stack, I love cutting that paper with my cricut, it cuts so nicely.

I cut a 3 3/4" square piece of cardstock using my paper trimmer to place on the inside of the card as shown in the photo below, this gave a nice background to the flower window that was cut.

At Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog we have an amazing design team that has created projects for this weeks challenge that will give you inspiration in using your cricut machine. Come on over and visit and join us for this weeks challenge.

Baby Diaper Cake

I got to go to a baby shower and the mom needed diapers... so what better way to shower her than with a "Baby Diaper Cake".

This is my first diaper cake and I know it won't be my last, it was so much fun to make, I love how it turned out.
First step, roll up diapers... lots of diapers then secure with a rubber band. I rolled 68 diapers for this cake.

The video link I gave below explains exactly how to put all the diapers together.
Top layer uses 8 diapers (one in the center then 7 around it) secure with a rubber band. The middle layer starts the same, with 8 diapers (secure with a rubber band), then add 12 around the 8 (secure with a rubber band). And the bottom layer builds the same as the middle, then adding 19 around the outside, secure with a large rubber band.

I used 4 skewers (two taped together) to keep the cake layers together I taped the ends so they wouldn't poke holes in the diapers. For my cake base I cut (OK, my sweet husband cut) a circle out of cardboard, then I covered it with tinfoil.
Now for the frosting, or rather the decorations for the cake.
I used Walk in my Garden cricut cartridge, this flower is on pg. 82, the leaf was on pg. 109 using the blackout feature.
I used a stylus to curl the flower petals (be gentle, it's paper and the petals can tear right off... as I did a few times).
Then I rubbed the stylus in the center to flatten it.

I layered 3 flowers together. The larger flower sizes are 2 3/4", 2 1/2", 2 1/4" the smaller, 2 1/2", 2 1/4", 2" the leaf was cut at 3/4" and 1/2". Adhere the flowers together, then use strips of paper for a stem, this is just to place in between the diapers and will not show at all. I added a jewel to the center of each flower.
Note: When making a diaper cake you don't want to stick pins or tape on the diapers because this may cause leaks when the mom uses them on baby.

The ribbon I chose was sheer and when I first wrapped it around the diapers, I could see the rubber bands, instead of using another ribbon over my wide ribbon, I chose to tweak it a bit. After cutting my ribbon the size I needed to go around the diaper layer, I cut strips of plain white cardstock the thickness of the ribbon minus 1/4", then just used tape to adhere it to the wrong side of the ribbon. You can see in the photo below where I pieced together two strips of cardstock. I used hot glue to adhere the ribbon around the cake layer just like in the video.
Around each layer are strips of pink and green twill about 3" wide, I just pushed it in between every second or third diaper. Then using the stems on my flowers I pushed them in between the diapers as well. With my extra ribbon I made a bow then glued it to the top layer ribbon band. Two yards of ribbon was used for my cake.
I love the cute pink ducky that sits gently on top of the cake.
I got my instructions from doing a google search, and found an instructional view Here. What I liked about this particular video, is Carolyn shares the number of diapers and shows step by step how she put a basic cake together, you may enjoy it as well.

In the next few days I'll be posting a dish towel cake that I made for a bridal shower, it turned out awesome!

What Grows in the Garden?

One of my favorite Cricut cartridges to use is A Child Year, I just love the silhouettes images. Well, I have found some great dingbat fonts that are so much fun to cut with my Cricut using the Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL) software, there are thousands of free dingbats font on the internet.

I came across a lovely silhouette font named "Gardening with Sue" download it here there are about 20 images and not all are silhouettes but ohhhhh so cute, you may like them too.

I made a card using one of the images, just lovely. The quote I used for my card can be found here I copied it to my word program, changed the color and font style, then printed it on cardstock and cut a rectangle around the words.Here is the very simple cut file of the gardening lady with her shadow image.

Come Walk in My Garden --Spiral Notebook

I bought a striped spiral note book from the $1 store, for yep... a buck... I love notebooks! I altered it and made it my own... so I had to share. Wouldn't notebooks like this make wonderful gift ideas.

I used Walk in my Garden Cricut cartridge for the flowers and ladybug ... oh so cute.
For the "notes" word I used the Tear Drop font cartridge. The leaves are ribbon stapled to the stems. Easy peasy, enjoy!

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)

Just Buggin' Challenge #17

Challenge #16 -Inky Fingers
This challenge is to use ink to alter your die cuts.

One of my favorite inking techniques is to use the Cuttlebug embossing folders then gently rub an ink pad over the embossed die cut, it makes the image look great.
The vase and shadow were cut at 1 1/4" from the "Walk in my Garden" Cricut cartridge pg. 102 I then embossed using the "Textile Texture" embossing folder. Flowers from pgs. 1 and 6 in various sizes ranging from 3/4" to 1 1/2" then embossed using the "Swiss Dots" embossing folder. I inked all die cuts over t he embossed image and the edges.





Just Buggin' has weekly challenges to inspire us to use our Cricut machines, come join the fun!

Have a wonderfully creative day!
Robin :)