Christmas Tags

I have had a frustrating day so decided I had to do something crafty and fun to brighten my day. I used the Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge for the tag cut at 3 1/2". I used the Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge to cut the Santa, Rudolph, Stocking, and the Christmas Tree all cut at 2". I used the Hello Kitty Greetings Cartridge to cut the star for the Christmas tree. I inked the edges of the tags. I used the Polar White Flower Soft for Santa's beard, mustache, and hat trim. The ribbon is some I bought at Michaels. I cut the tags using poster board and then covered them with the patterned paper that I bought at a garage sale. Thanks for looking.

Halloween Treat Boxes

I spent the afternoon making small Halloween Treat Boxes. Using my Cricut Expression and my Wild Card Cartridge, I cut the gift box at 3 3/4" using the blackout feature.  This allowed me to get 3 boxes out of a 12" X 12" piece of paper. I cut the scallops at 2 1/4" using my Accents Essentials cartridge. I stamped the scallop with a Trick or Treat stamp that I bought at Michaels using black ink and sponged black ink around the outside edges of the scallop. I used foam tape to adhere the scallop to the box. I filled the boxes with M&M's. Thanks for looking.

Blog Candy Giveaway at Cricut Creations

Amanda at Cricut Creations is giving away some fantastic blog candy to help get you in the Holiday Cardmaking spirit!

BLOG CANDY includes one of each of the following!!

Flower Soft - Christmas Green

Flower Soft - Russet Red

Flower Soft - Vintage Christmas

Flower Soft - Holly and Ivy Toppers

Flower Soft - Traditional Door Toppers

Flower Soft - Vintage Taglets

Flower Soft - Christmas Sentiments

Flower Soft Glue

 

Check it out HERE

One More Halloween Project

I saw a video tutorial on the blog Creations with Christina. She has done a series of videos using the Wild Card Cartridge. One of the cuts on the cartridge is this Gift Box. I wanted to make one after seeing Christina's video. I cut the box on my Cricut Expression using Fit to Page which cut the box at 7". It ended up being a little big for what I wanted to use it for but I liked the colors so went with it. I did do a test cut using Fit to Page and cutting two on a 12 X 12 piece of cardstock. They cut at 5" and might be a better size for what I wanted. I will probably make more of these using the smaller size. Anyway, I scored the box using my ScorPal. There is only one side that needs adhesive which I used my Glue Pro (which I love by the way and purchased through Cutters Creek). I cut a clear acetate to cover the window because I wanted the goodies inside to show. The acetate was cut at 3 1/2" square and I adhered it to the inside of the box with glue dots. I filled the box with some dark chocolate kisses and some orange crinkle paper. I loved how the purple covered Hershey kisses look with the box. Check Christina's blog for her video series.

Halloween Candy Dressed Up

I spent a large part of today dressing up some Fun Size candy bars for Halloween. I used some Stampin Up paper as well as paper from a Halloween Paperpak by Recollections that I got on sale at Michaels. I simply wrapped the bars in paper and closed it with some adhesive then ran the ends through my paper crimper and embellished. I used some ribbon that I had. The some of the spiders were cut from Doodlecharms cricut cartridge and the other spiders and bats were cut from the Wild Card cartridge. The pumpkins were cut from the Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge and layered. All the little critters were cut at 1". It took awhile to do but was fun and I like how they turned out. Thanks for looking.

Halloween Card

I made a Halloween Card today and wanted to share it. I kept it simple and used some Orange cardstock I bought at Michaels for the card base. The striped patterned paper at the bottom of the card is from Stampin Up! I used my Cricut Design Studio that I received a week ago for the first time to cut something with my Expression. My Lyrical Letters cartridge had the Happy Halloween on it and the spider, I decided I wanted the spider hanging from the word Halloween so I welded it to the Sentiment in Design Studio. Using Design Studio also allowed me to lengthen the spider's string so it hung down low enough. The bling on the card is some Halloween adhesive gems I got on clearance at Michaels.

World Card Making Day

Today, October 3rd is World Card Making Day. I made five cards today at a class on Flower Soft. We made 4 Christmas cards and one Thanksgiving card. The snowman was done with the Polar White Flower Soft and Fine Glitter. We put the Flower Soft on first and the sprinkled with the glitter. I love how it turned out. The other Christmas Cards were made using Card Toppers by Flower Soft. The card toppers have an image printed on them.The gold edge trim around each of the topper cards is also by Flower Soft. We used the Christmas Vintage color blend for the Lamp Post as well as gold Smooch on a sponge to give the light on the lamp post card a glow.We embossed the sentiment on the Seasons Greeting card with gold embossing powder and used the Russet Red Flower Soft to highlight the the red berries and flowers on the card topper. We used the Christmas Green on the Merry Christmas card. For the Thanksgiving card, we started with a stamped image that we colored in with chalk and then added Orange Flower soft to the edges of some of the bigger pumpkins. I had a great time at the class and learned a lot about using Flower Soft. If you are looking for Flower Soft products and can't find them at your local stores, Kim at Cutters Creek sells it.