Exploring Cricut ~ Love U ~

Welcome!  So glad you could stop by!  Today I have a card with a bit of a modern approach.  I love all the clean looking designs I see everywhere.  So I decided to try my hand at it!  I used Cricut Craft Room to create a negative base (circles cut at 1 inch) and trimmed it to fit my base.  This card is 4.25 x 5.5 inches.

 

 

  I cut a heart ourtof DP at 1.75 inches and added dimensional foam to make it pop above the brick panel.  The bubble is 2 inches with a letter U cut at 1 inch also.  Very clean and simple but it gets the point across.  Hope my hubby likes it!  Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to join us at Exploring Cricut Monday for our next biweekly challenge!  It will be fun!

 

Supplies

 

Cricut - Plantin' Schoolbook

Paper - Bazzill, My Mind's Eye - Rosy

 

Exploring Cricut - Back to School!

Welcome to another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut! This time we are creating for

Back To School

(Primary & Secondary Colors, ex. red, blue, yellow, green...)

And here's my take for the week.  I created a tissue cover for one of my fellow DT member who happens to be a teacher. 

 

another view...

and we can't forget the glue...

Surprise Emily! I hope you like it!

Cricut Carts

Plantin' Schoolbook

Makin' the Grade

Locker Talk
Simply Charmed

 

You can find the tutorial (including cuts and instructions) to create the base cover HERE at Splitcoast Stampers. 

For my base I used red card stock and cut the cover panels with black.  I wanted to mimic a chalkboard. 

Now for the Cricut cuts...

Makin' The Grade - 1.25 inches white CS - ABC & 123
Plantin' Schoolbook - 2.5 inches red, brown & green CS - Apple; 1.5 inches white CS - Miss Evertz
Simply Charmed - 4.25 inches red, blue, yellow, green & black- Crayons
Locker Talk - 3 inches - white & blue CS - Glue

Misc.

White Gel Pen (line letters on glue)
Dimensional Adhesive
Spellbinder Dies - Ovals Large (top base cut) & Labels Twenty (final decorative cut)
 

Exploring Cricut Challenge #12 ~ It's a Spring Thing

Welcome to another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut. Diane's challenge this week..

Create any card, layout, or papercraft celebrating Spring using the colors pink, green, yellow, purple, blue and white!

And here's my interpretation...



I opted to do a simple page I can add a couple of photos to. I used several carts on this project including George and Plantin' Schoolbook. I had to knock the dust off of a few of them! lol...

Cuts

Clouds - Everyday Paper Dolls - 6.5 inches - pg 42
Easter - Designer's Calendar - 3 inches - pg 38
Butterfly - Kate's ABC's - 2.5 inches - pg 62
Grass - Plantin' Schoolbook - 2.5 inches - pg 69
Eggs - George - 2.5 inches - pg 114

Embossing Folders
Swiss Dots - Butterfly
Birds & Swirls & Victoria - Eggs

Products

Paper - Bazzill & Colorbok

Thanks for looking and don't forget to stop back Friday for another fun Cricut project! Until then... blessings...

Fruit, News & a Challenge...

Today's card is for a challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ. The ladies have asked participants to create something using a fruit theme! I must say that apples are one of my favs. There must be something to that old saying an apple a day keeps the doctor away. It seems like when I eat apples regularly, I feel better!

My card is a z fold card. The inner panel has some lovely DP showcasing my fruit of choice. The outside features a Cricut cut with one of Our Daily Bread Designs recent releases, Apple Seeds, embossed in gold. I had to put a few black pearls on the corner to kinda mimic seeds. And if you look real close you will see the leaf is crinkled! I had to run it through the crimper... lol...

And here is my apple for the day...



And if you love your Cricut hang on to your stylus! I have been asked to join a fabbo new blog called Exploring Cricut! Each week the ladies will have a challenge for you! But not a traditional challenge! The blog name says it all! We want you to use all those cartridges gathering dust! We will ask you to create projects with a specific cartridge and cut in mind. Sounds like fun huh? The inaugural challenge will begin Monday October 10th! Kinda fitting way to celebrate Columbus Day and his exploration of a new world! Come out and explore some new waters with us! Bookmark this site -

Exploring Cricut

Thanks as always for visiting! Blessings to you!

Card Recipe

Paper - Bazzill, K & Co Halloween & Fall Paper Pad; Stamps - ODBD - Apple Seeds; Ink - Versamark; Embossing Powder - Ranger Queen's Gold; Cricut Cartridge - Plantin Schoolbook; Ribbon, Pearls, Paper Crimper

Hooray! A layout!

I have a confession to make! I am a procrastinating scrapbooker! Yes, it's true. I have TWO years worth of photos to work on. And let's be honest here... I have all the toys to do it... but I have just slacked off! I really got into making cards a few years ago and let my scrapbooking suffer. So here is my New Year's resolution... (not sure if I am REALLY late or REALLY early on this...) I will do more scrapbooking! Yes, you heard it here first! LOL...

Hope you enjoy browsing. I have decided to share everything I am creating. For those of you who follow my card making I hope you can find some of these layouts applicable. Thanks as always for following along and have a wonderful day!

Lori

Card Stock - Bazzill
Designer Paper - Karen Foster
Die Cuts - Provocraft Cricut
Title - Country Life
Grass - Plantin Schoolbook (modified slightly on my Gypsy)
Barn and Cow - Create a Critter



Notice how I cut the barn doors? I backed them with black cardstock. I hope to slip a photo in there! I also cut a second blackout layer in black so I could give my barn a black roof!



Bessie looks pretty cool, huh? My family milked holsteins growing up so my cow had to be black and white! I did not do the shadow feature on this (leaving off the horns). Who would "milk" a bull anyway? LOL (insert big goofy grin here...)