MCCR Theme Day Thursday

Happy Thursday everyone!!  Today is Theme Day Thursday at My Cricut Craft Room, and it is my day to post a project.  Todays' project  is party elements...Invitations, decorations, and other things you would see and use at a Halloween themed Party.

     Before we get to my project I just wanted to mention the change in the "Theme day Thursday Banner and how it is  Pink.  For now and until October 15th, we will be displaying pink Banners as well as using pink in our projects in some way to remember  those who have suffered with Breast cancer and in honor of Breast Cancer awareness.

      Now for my project, I did not have any particular project in mind...no end point, no vision of what I was going to do for this.  brain freeze,  So I just grabbed come solid color card stock I got from Walmart, my Atg Gun, Gel pens and zig pen and used the cartridges that were in my Jukebox, and looked for Halloween images and let it take me where it would.   This is what I cam up with....

I made this project using 5 solid color card stock, orange, black, purple,bright green and white.  There is a witch hat centerpiece, a cupcake wrapper, a cup cake topper, a place card, an invitation and 3 popcorn treat boxes.

The hat was cut at 7" fro Artiste and the black base is a 7 " circle.  I adhered the green cone to the black base with Fabri-tac, because before it dried I put some frilly black ribbon around it to hide where it attached.  I then cut a strip of  white tuhle  and glued it on.  there are paper flowers cut from Art Philosophy and Artiste/  The Pumpkin was cut from Simply Scarecrow, but the face on it I got from Artiste.



  I cut the cup cake wrapper from Artiste, the one that had a spider web at the top of it.  I then put the stars that were cut from the hat onto it to decorate it a little.

And, of course you have to have a little cupcake topper... so I cut some zig zag circles and layered them with a spider and stuck some balloons on tooth picks with liquid glass, to hold them up.

 I love the little popcorn boxes you can cut with the Artiste cartridge.  they are just the right size at
 4 1/2" to put a few little goodies in.. I had bought some chocolate for when I made this to decorate, but I ate it, I am a chocoholic!  I added the names of my grandchildren on each box so I can surprise them when they come over.  I also added some Jolees Candy corns , to embellish them.

Here is the table Place card....there is a spot on the back to write a name, I think it is cute:)

This is the invitation...the card was cut from Art Philosophy.  the sentiment was from Artiste as well as the jagged edged shape.  the Black dripping goo is actually an Icicle cut from Martha Stewart Seasonal CakeArt.

This is the inside of the card.  Love the Boo!

Well we are nearing the end of today's post, but before I go I wanted to show you my Pink.
I added a dimensional sticker on the back of one of the pop corn boxes/  It has pink Ink and pink rhinestone in the middle.   I hope this post was not too picture heavy for you, I really like how it came out for not really having a plan.

Thank you for stopping by and now to see more projects like this, you will want to go to
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Congrats!

Today is a quick post, the project is a congrats card.  I have been making quite a few cards lately, but been  selling a  lot of them faster than I can post them...which is a good thing!

I had not done a Congrats card in a while, and the ones I did do were all brightly colored so I decided to do one a little more subdued.  I found these beautiful wedding papers from Little Yellow Bicycle's Swoon papers.  They are such Pretty papers.  I just simply made a quick card...8 1/2 by 5 1/2/    White card stock,  white tulle, white circle for Wishing you Congrats stamp from Close To My Heart { which you can order from me:) a paper ribbon, which I love, that you can cut and put together in a flash, from the Artiste cartridge, which you also can get through me:)  I used I used a rhinestone brad to hold the bows together.

I added a few buttons on the top, whit black and w/b.  Of course used Cricut Expression 2, paper trimmer, Liquid glass from Close To My Heart. fabri_tac to hold the tulle down. and that is it. I think it is pretty, hope you like it. leave some love and stop back again:)

                                                              Happy Crafting!!
                                           Cathy

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CTMH September Autumn/Halloween Blog Hop!!

                    CTMH SEPTEMBER Autumn/Halloween  Blog Hop

Welcome to OUR September Fall/ Halloween Blog Hop!  Each month we will showcasing a Theme of OUR amazing ARTISTE Cricut Cartridge which can be purchased Exclusive through your Close to My Heart Independent Consultant.

We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a awesome lineup with some amazing talented CTMH Consultants ladies.  There will be lots of fun project along the hop!!

If you came from Sandra's then you are in the right place!

Your next stop on the hop is Candice

       Good morning to all my crafting friends:)  For sure Fall is in the air around here.  I live in the foot hills of Maine. and the evenings are getting cooler, we have even had a couple of frost advisories.  I love fall, it is a beautiful time of year around here,  The foliage is just beautiful, and the air is feels brisk and fresh.  I also love the colors of the fall flowers.  I am a flower lover, I used to plant alot of flowers, but not so much any more, so for my project today, I decided to use the Artiste cartridge to make a vase and some fall colored flowers to put in it.

The vase, I found in the booklet with the 3D images. middle row next to the last image.  It is cut at 8 and one half inches.   I used papers from a stack from K&Co , I don;t have the cover for it so I am sorry I do not have the name for it right now, I will try to find it again and post later.

The butterflies were cut from the cartridge at 2 inches and Bo Bunny rhinestones added for bling.  On each flower I cut a button flower from Artiste for the centers/

I cut several of the different flowers at 2 to 2 and 3/4 inches, from the cartridge and most of them I made at least 2 layers.

I inked the edges of all the flowers with Tim Holtz distress inks...Spiced Marmalade, Walnut and Olive.  Then I curled the edges of the petals.  I added one of my Vines I had at home to fill it in a little.  I put a sea sponge inside the vase, glued each flower to floral wires with a glue gun. and poked them down inside.

For the front of the vase I  added a couple 3D roses from the cartridge and inked them, and made a "FALL" sign stamped with Close To My Heart's September Stamp of the month set..Fall Favorites.  I inked around the edge with spiced Marmalade.  And lastly, I cut out one of the 3D bows for the front of the vase, they are so cool, they have holes in them pre-cut so you can just put a brad through to hold together the bow...Love them!!

Other supplies used:

Stickles, on leaf

CTMH Autumn Terracotta ink

atg gun

pop dots between flower layers

Cricut

Ribbon to hang it

Thanks for hopping along with us:))

Now you are off to 

Candice

In case you get lost here is the line up,

Vanessa http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/

Michelle Stewart ~ http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca

Sandra Rosario http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/

Cathy Derouche http://cathyplus5.blogspot.com

Candice Fields http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com

Faith Abigail http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/

Melissa Lind http://www.mywatermelonmoon.com/

Dana Taft http://papermemories4u.blogspot.com/

Happy Crafting Cathy

MCCR ~~ WYEGW

Good morning everyone, today is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday,  at My Cricut Craft Room and this is my day to create something this week using as many Cricut cartridges and cuts on a project.
  I used 16 cartridges to make this Happy 13th Birthday card:)

I also want to mention before we go to my project that you will notice the graphics from today until October 15th will be pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness.

     On the front of the card I used Art Philosophy to make the frame on page 64 in the booklet. The square, patterned paper I used Georges Basic shapess,, the orange frame was Cricut Alphabet,  the cupcake was Straight from the Nest, The 13 in a circle is from Designer calender, the rosette is from Ribbons and Rosettes,  the gift from Stretch Your Imagination,  the Hat is from Sweet Treats and the circle is from the Robotz cartridge.

     On the inside of the card, The girls head comes from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, the bubble that the sentiment is in comes from 3 Birds on Parade,  the banner above and below are form the Wrap it Up cartridge, and the Happy Birthday comes form Create A Critter cartridge,

     On the top of the inside I added a balloon from the Artiste cartridge, the lollipop from the Paisley button feature. and the banner is from Martha Stewart seasonal cake cartridge.

     That is it for the cartridges used, other materials used is of course my Cricut Expression2, zig pen, atg Gun white gel pen,black gel pen some pink rouge for the girls check in honor of Womens Breast Cancer Awareness and , some green stickles on the cup cake  and glue gun for rosette and green gems on front of card.  I believe that is it:) I hope you like all the details.  And now to see more projects like this, you will want to go over to

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                      Have a great day!!

                                    Cathy


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Super Marioooooo

Mario and friends Birthday

   

     Good evening everyone!  It is a rainy, blustery evening here in Maine, we have wind advisories here, and a few streets over the power is out already.  It would be a good night to craft, but I have a cold and I just puts some vaporub on and am going to relax.  I made a card earlier today for my eldest son who turned 30 today......boy am I feeling old.
      His name is John and when he was little he was allllll about Mario, and Luigi and the Mushrooms and Yoshi.  so I fired up the Cricut and with using just the Cricut Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges I made him this card.  It is just a bunch of circles, Ovals. and a square used to make them, ranging in sizes from 1/2 inch to 3 inches.  If you would like the sizes, I am sure I can gather them up for you:)
       I added the 30 and blinged them up with red stickles, hi-lighted with gel pens, used Core'dinations card stock, Recollections card stock and a Birthday patterned paper from my stash of assorted papers.

     I hope you like my version of the Famous Mario and friends,   Have a great night.  come back again tomorrow for my WYEGW Design team post for My Cricut Craft Room

                                                           Happy craftin ~~ Cathy

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