Hugs n kisses

Don't fall off your chair, but I (gasp) actually used my Cricut!!!  

I KNOW right?  I love my Imagine but have been neglecting my sweet Iggy. ;)

I got the Create a Critter 2 cartridge months ago and finally pulled the sticker off the cartridge.  I haven't even added the points to my account yet!!

The card I cut from a file available through the Silhouette store so I cross contaminated my card, roflmbo

The base of the card and layers are from the The Delighful stack from DCWV, the pattern on the cuts is from the Kitchen Imagine cartridge.

I mounted my sweet cloud on an action wobble because we all know how fun those are!

So this is a super simple, fast and sweet card! I added some fun bling for shimmer

Cookies or milk challenge

Cookies or milk is today's theme, so of course I went right to Christmas with that thought.  I'm ready for this horrible heat to be gone and I love Christmas, the decorations, music, movies, family time. It's all so fun and don't forget all the yummy treats that come along with the holiday.

These cuts are all from the From my Kitchen cartridge

My chocolate chip cookie being removed from the cookie sheet

Here's the fully page.  I'm not 100% satisfied but I can't think of anything else to add.  I played around with a few photo mats and it looked too cluttered.  With all the glitter I was afraid to add more.  If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks in advance.

Is that the cutest gingerbread man?  He has glittered gum drop buttons and a glittered smile and eyes.  I love glitter glue and that red paper.  Whenever Joann's has paper 5 for a dollar I buy more glitter paper. 

My original idea was to make this as a card but I couldn't get the tray to cut right or fold right when I welded images together. So I abandoned that idea and I think that's why I'm not thrilled with the outcome here, I still have my original idea in my head.

Cooking with Cricut/Papercrafting World blog hop

Welcome to the CWC & PCW design teams Home Decor blog hop, we've joined forces to show you how to decorate your home with your Cricut cartridges.
Welcome to Paper Crafting World 


(http://www.papercraftingworld.com) and Cooking With 


Cricut’s (http://www.cookingwithcricut.com) Home Décor


Blog Hop!  Our Design Teams are so excited to bring you a 


two-day hop that focuses on projects for your home – that’s


right no cards or scrapbook layouts in this hop!  You should


have arrived here from visiting Madison at 

http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/ If you’ve joined us in


mid-Hop and would like to


check out all the other fantastic projects head on over 


Melinda’s Paper Crafting World   


(http://www.cookingwithcricut.com) and start at the 


beginning.

Today I have chosen to show you my very first vinyl project.  I was really nervous but turns out it's not much different than using paper.

 I love Cherries and turns out, it's not so easy to find cherry kitchen stuff.  Well, I made my own and I love it! Even the hubby likes it and he usually doesn't have many comments about my work.

 I used the From my Kitchen cartridge and cut the oven mit at 6 inches, the pot holder is cut at 4

If you look really close you can see my boo boo's, a few bubbles and not perfect alignment. But it's home made and I'm not trying for perfect, it makes me happy and that's why I love crafting.

And for my second project, I made this gorgeous flower tree.  I recently signed up for Close To My Heart and I got the Art Philosophy cartridge.  There are several different types of flowers you can cut from this cartridge.  I used 3 different ones on my tree. I started with a Styrofoam cone, cut lots and lots of flowers in sizes 2, 3, & 4 inches in peach, yellow and purple paper.  I then quilled and quilled and quilled.  Once the flowers were dry I put some more glue on the foam then used a pearl headed pin to stick it to the foam.  I used a very random placement. I went very fast to keep my perfectionism at bay and to avoid a pattern.  The ribbon on top is from my stash, I just tied a bow at each end then stacked them and tucked the loose ends under and stuck it to the top with a pin.
I LOVE this project and it will be displayed prominently in my home.  I plan to make more of these for gifts.

There are a whole list of projects from yesterday too, so head back to the beginning once you finish today's list, to check out all the projects for both days.

Thanks for looking please head over to Jamie's blog

Here's the line up in case you want to revisit anyone or get lost

Melin - http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/

Becky - http://www.scrapcircus.blogspot.com/

Sharon - http://www.sharonscraftycards.blogspot.com/

Madison - http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/

Marji - http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com/

Jamie A. - http://www.scrapqueen141.blogspot.com/

Christel - http://www.onescrappinsista.blogspot.com/

Linsey - http://www.linseyrickett.blogspot.com/

Evelyn - http://mylittlecraftblog.wordpress.com/

Court - http://www.courtscraftcorner.com/

Melissa - http://www.craftygator.blogspot.com/

Jamie L. - http://www.babyjaydensmommy.blogspot.com/

Jenny J. – http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

Kimmi - http://www.impressivelyyours.blogspot.com/

Jen - http://www.gator-4-life.blogspot.com/

All bundled up

Welcome if you are new to my blog, please follow me and welcome back to my returning guests. So, on to the projects!

 My retro fridge card! I am SO tickled with this card, I got rolled eyes from my husband and a shake of the head when he saw this one. I guess too corny for him, lol, he loves me anyway. So I used the From my kitchen cartridge on this one, the paper is just random stuff from my piles.

 I merged two of the shadows on my gypsy then adhered all the layers to the front, the white pieces are from a pearly cardstock I found, super cute and yes, if you were wondering, tweezers were used to put them on the card. 

Here is a screen shot of my gypsy so you can see how I laid it out, I cut it all at once, the chill worked out pretty good placing it on the card itself, that way when I placed the back piece on I just had to put the word in place and done! Well, I take that back I had to add some glitter.

Project #2

This cartridge was a Christmas gift so I couldn't wait to play with it! This is the Snow Angel Imagine cartridge and may I say, I have a new favorite, well a tie for favorite, Create a Critter is my original love.  I used a gorgeous blue metallic paper for the background (explaining the horrible glare), cut my snow angel out at I believe it was 6 inches, the gloves at 3 and the snowflakes were also 3 I think, I was bad and didn't write the measurements down.  I cut them using the layer option so I could piece them back together using pop dots,  I love me some pot dots! The 2 snowflakes by the photo mat are cut in half so I only printed 3 of them.  The Title, All bundled up, is cut from Ashlyn's alphabet, my favorite by far of the font cartridges. I added stickles to the title. The corners are a punch from EK success and there are bigger ones on the corners of the page but it blended in on the photo, sorry for the glare, I tried and tried but since the paper is metallic I just couldn't' get a perfect pic.

Project #3
Well, a post or so back, I attempted to make an adorable banner that said Welcome to the Franklins to hang on my entry way wall.  I could not get it strung right so I cut it apart and decided to make a scrapbook page. So the birds are cut from Give a Hoot and the title is cut from George & basic shapes

I kept it simple, there are rhinestones for the birds eyes so I'm not sans bling.

Project #4

I used Give a hoot again and as we all know, projects don't always turn out like we see them in our head, (perfect example project above) but, sometimes it does!

This card started with finding a gift on my front porch from my Cardinal.  I call him mine because he is the only bird that eats from my feeder outside my front window.  So I was so excited to turn his gift into a perfect card. So in preparation for this hop, I was going through my Give a hoot handbook and saw the nest and the vision was born.  On my gypsy I created a card by merging two of the base nest pieces, they started out around 4 1/2 inches. Then I cut a single base piece and the twigs piece all  from kraft colored card stock.  I cut another twigs piece from dark brown card stock.

The eggs are cut from plain white paper and sponged with caramel and chocolate chip ink (SU colors) I molded the eggs to give them a realistic egg shape, oh, I googled cardinal nests an d made the eggs look like they are supposed to.  I sponged all the pieces with the chocolate chip ink then came assembly.  Sorry to go on and on, but this is my self proclaimed masterpiece :)

My mother gave me the paper twine from something she bought and it works great! I really wanted to add some glitter but restrained myself. I kept it realistic and just added some trendy twine in yellow and green then tucked my precious gift in.

Card Day-Use a cuttlebug embossing folder

Today I used my From my Kitchen Cricut Cartridge. I cut the toaster from page 33 with the shadow feature, cutting 2 of them at I think it was 5 1/2 inches, I used my gypsy so it's a little hard to get the exact size if you just use the machine, anyway, cut 2 then glue the sides and bottom together, leaving the top unglued.  I the cut the rest of the layers using 2 different colors of yellow and then the cord I used a metallic for the plug ins and the matching yellow for the big part.

 I used a pop dot to adhere the lever on the toaster.  I used my owl embossing folder to make the top layer on the toaster more interesting then chalked some color on so it would stand out better.  I ended up with a pretty cool 1970's circa toaster!

 So on to the toast, I used the loaf of bread on page 64, I cut one at 3 inches and another at 5.  To get the slice I cut the main image from dark brown and the layer image from cream.  After gluing the cream to the dark brown I trimmed away the loaf to have just a single slice.  Then I chalked the cream to make it look toasted and buttered, have to have lots of butter on my toast.  I used pop dots to adhere the smaller slice to the toaster then wrote my message on the bigger slice.  Then slid it inside the toaster.  I placed a pop dot down inside close to the bottom to make it easier to get the toast in and out. I did this last to make sure of the placement with the toast.