Cricut Dress Up

Hi everyone! I am back with a silly sort of project for you today :-) The Cricut Circle Magazine challenge this month was to create a costume for our little vinyl Cricut guys using Cricut cuts.
At first I was totally discouraged by the contest and couldn't think of a single thing to do. Then I took a look at all of the other amazing entries and decided I should at least give it a try.
I decided to go with a pirate theme and used the Buccaneer cartridge with my Imagine machine.

I cut the purple shirt from the boy image on the cartridge and couldn't just leave his head there (he looks angry) so I made a "mask" for the green Cricut guy.

The map was cut at 10.5", the boy was cut at 5" , the hat at 2.5" and the 3D treasure chest was cut at 6".

I kinda feel like I cheated on this challenge, since I used the Imagine and everything was already in layers, and I was finished so quickly, but it is a Cricut machine, right?

Hope you like it!

#96 Blackletter - More Pirate Party Decor

Hi everyone! Yesterday, my son had his 4th birthday party. He had such a great time! I thought I would show you the banner and birthday cake I made for his party.

The cake was so fun to decorate!

The letters were cut from fondant and the ship was cut from gum paste using the Cricut Cake machine. The ship was cut at 5.5" from Wrap it Up and the letters were cut at 2" from Blackletter. The skulls were made using molds and Wilton candy melts.

For the banner, I used the Imagine with the Buccaneer cartridge to create the 4.25" pennants (from Birthday Bash). The letters were cut at 3.39" from the Blackletter cartridge ( the PERFECT pirate font! :-)). I sized the letters on my Gypsy for the uppercase letters to fit perfectly. The four images between the words are from the Buccaneer cartridge. Each pennant was attached using twine.

Hope you like my projects!

It's A Wrap Blog Hop - #95 Life's a Party

Hi everyone! Welcome to the It's a Wrap Blog Hop hosted by Cool Beans by L.B. Do you like to receive gifts? How about give them? Well this hop is all about the outside...the wrapping. Gift bags, boxes, baskets and more. There are 22 wonderful stops on this hop and we hope you will take some time to stop in and see everything we have created for you.

You should have arrived here from Crafts and More by Suzelle If you are just finding our hop in the middle you can go to the beginning at Cool Beans By L.B.

Today is my son's 4th birthday party so I have been super busy creating decorations and such for that. He chose a pirate theme this year...Aaarrrrggghhh! I have a couple of things to show you!

For my first project, I created treat bags for all the little party guests (and maybe some bigger guest too:-)).

I used paper lunch bags purchased from the Dollar Store then decorated them. The background paper was printed with my Imagine using the Buccaneer cartridge. The treasure chest was cut at 4" and "Arrrrg!" was cut at 1.75" from the Life's a Party cartridge.

For my second project, I altered this kraft gift bag (also from the Dollar Store).

The background paper was again printed from the Buccaneer cartridge. All Cricut cuts on this one were also from Life's a Party. The skull was cut at 3.5", Arrrg! was cut at 2" and "A Pirate's Life for Me" was cut at 4.5". I added some twine to the background prior to gluing it to the bag.

Well, that is all for now! Hope you have enjoyed my projects! Unfortunately, I am unable to provide blog candy this time but would still welcome and enjoy any comments! :-) Thanks for stopping by on this fun hop. Your next stop is Once Upon a Paper. Have fun!

Pirate Party Invitations!

Hi everyone! My son is having a pirate themed birthday party in a couple weeks and I thought I would show you the invitations I made using my Imagine machine and the Buccaneer cartridge.

I cut the invitation and envelope at the maximum allowed size, which was 10.5".

On the envelope I added the pirate and banner images. On the inside of the invitation, I added another pirate. I am LOVING this cartridge, not just the images - the patterns are fantastic too!

The word stamps on the inside are by CTMH.

I am entering this over at the new Cricut 360 challenge blog, where they are having their first-ever challenge - to make an invitation.

Hope you like it!
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