Scrapbook Friday at MCCR

Welcome to my design team post for My Cricut Craft Room Scrapbook Friday project.  This weeks post is a scrapbook page focusing on Fall. What I decided to do was use a picture I just got of my beautiful 2 year old grand daughter Isabella Maye who recently went to Pumpkin Land here in Maine. This is a place that is known for having a lot of fun things to do and see, for people of all ages.  A lot of people look forwar to it opening in the fall.  There is a big corn field Maze, rides, a bunny farm, a barn with cows and pigs, goats and ponies for rides.  Games and rides and lots of fun things to do.

 

She is like me and LOVES animals as you can see.lol.   She kisses them all!

 

I used my Art Philosphy cartridge to make the mat under the picture, a well as the leaves down the side, the fonts and the hearts and tag.

 

 

For the tag, I created a pocket for it to go in and added some paper lace that a Scrappin friend gave to me.  On the tag and the font below I added a pumpkin I cut from the Happy Hauntings cartridge.

After I put the page together, I went around the page and added some hilites with a white and black gel pen, and added pearls from Bo Bunny. I put pop dots under the hearts just to add a little dimension.  Papers used were from Close to My Heart, and some papers I purchased from Erica, and can not remember who the company was. Of course I used my Cricut Expression 2 and my fiskar paper trimmer, and atg gun and zig pen.  That is my project for today, so to see more projects be sure to go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
 
Have a great day and happy crafting....Cathy

update

Hello  Blog friends, I have been MIA a little lately, been real busy, hopefully I am back to post more frequently.  For a couple days, I could not ,log on anyways, do not know what was up with that???
 

  I also wanted to remind you there is only one more day if you want to place an order with Close To My Heart from me and get the Stamp of the month for $5.00 with a $50.00 order:)  just go to my site and place your own order and chech out by tomorrow night, or clck Join to either of the on going parties at the bottom on the web page and order from there.  go to  http://cathyplus5.ctmh.com

And lastly, go to this  blog page and check out the great talent and enter their giveaway:)
http://studio12creative.blogspot.com/2012/10/november-giveaway.html?showComment=1351637822531#c1206216632673738251

Have a great night, be back tomorrow:)   Cathy

Craft Fair goodies

       Hello my friends, I been busy the lasr few days making some goodies for a craft fair I am going to. so I thought I would share some with you:)))

Here are some coffing cany treat boxes I made with the Artiste  cartridge. and 3 Girl Jam ribbon and other cricut cuts and bling.

I used the art Philosophy to cut the top note for the bag toppers and circles and oval for eyes and nose and gel pens for the rest.;

 

Lastly, I made these with the Artiste cartridge and stamps from Close To My Heart!!  I purchased some plastic test tubes and filled with mini M&M's.  Then the regular  M&M's with tag toppers:)

That is it.....Hope I inspired you to give these a try:))  Happy Crafting,  Cathy

Card Creating Tueasday @ MCCR

     Welcome to my Design Team post for Card Creating Tuesday.  My project today is a card, that was to be mostly pink, by bringing awareness to womens' breast health, by which is recognized in general by a pink ribbon.  My card, while it is mostly pink, I was also thinking that the month is October in which womens breast health is recognized, as well as halloween, so i combined the 2 and tried to made a little card of encouragement and to let someone know I care and are here for them.

     I used the 4 Birds on parade cartridge to cut the bird vampie count, at 3 1/2 inches and the sentiment.  I used some scrap papers from my stash, not sure what company, sorry.   The flowers were cut from the Artiste cartridge and then I put a pink Rhinestone from EK Success.  The rhinestone swirl in the upper right corner is from Ek Success too..  On the white mat I cut one end with a Martha Stewart border punc.

     Here is the lil bird close up, I used Tim Holtz Antique Linen Ditress ink  on  the wing tips and   gelpen for nose and eyes.

    To fnish it off, on the inside, I used a Creative memmories punch to add a pink ribbon.  So there you have it:)  I hope you like it.  To see more wonderful projects from other design Team members go to Ericas' My Cricut Craft roo  here>  mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Thank you again for stopping in and please come back again:)   Cathy

Trying my hand at Tags:)

     Hello crafting friends in Blog land,  the weekend was very craft productive, and it is not even over with yet!!  I had a couple friends ove this weekend that want to learn a little about putting a card together, and we had a great time.  I have been doing a lot of crafting getting ready for aq craft fair too, but I wanted to just relax and try my hand at a few tags.  I have ALWAYS admired Tim Holtz, he is amazing when it comes to making tags!!

     While scrolling through the internet, I found his 2011 12 tags of Christmas, and I did not want to totally copy him, just try to make something like it. After all I do not have all his wonderful tools yet.


                                                                             First Tag

 

                       I apologise that it is sideways, I tried to rotate it, but it still loaded on its side:(


                                                 Second tag

                                           Third and last tag

I really had fun making them, I think I am going to make some more:)  Below you will find a list of supplies used to make them.

I bought a package of craft tags
faux pearls from MBTreasurista
silver brads
Artiste Cartridge*
tear drop pearl strand, was a gift
fuzzy red ribbon strand, a gift
Stampin up "Merry Christmas"stamp
Burlap, I cut in strips
assorted Cricut embossing folders
Cuttlebug
Martha Stewart branch punch
Fabritac adhesive
Tim Holtz Holiday Wishes stamp set
Zig Pen
Tim Holtz Distress inks- Fired  Brick, faded Jeans, Walnut and Forest Moss
Trendy Twine
MS Seasonal Cake art Cartridge, Art Philosophy


I believe that is it.  I hope you enjoyed seeing as much as I enjoed making:)  Have a great day.

*  you can order the Artiste, or Art Philosophy cartridges from me on my webstore here

Have a greagt time Crafting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Cathy

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Thanks and have a great day!!      Cathy

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday?

 

 

     Good morning friends, this is my design team post for My Cricut Craft Room.  Today is Would You Ever Guess Wdenesday, and what we do on this day is make a project, not using the main Character images, and trying to show other ways, other then the obvious ones, on using a cut or cartridge.  This week I have to use a Create A Critter cartridg and not use the Animal cuts. 

 

 

     Papers used were from Michael's Recollections collections and DCWV and MY Mind's Eye. What I decided to do was take the Stamp cut on page 67  as an accessory,and instead of using it as a stamp, I made it into a picture frame.  I cut it out at 5 1/2.  I then took a piece of My Minds Eye and made the Mat.  Cut it at 3 1/4 by 4 1/4.     I then cut a log on page 72 in the accessory column at 1 1/2 and inked it with TH distress ink Walnut stain.  My next cut was the behive on page 68, cut at 2 1/2, and the edges were inked as well, and then a small piece of Trendy twine was added at the top.  Next I used the  flower accessory cut on page 69. cut at 2 inches.

     Lastly I used the Artiste cartridge to make a bow on the bottom of the card....I just Love this feature!!   After I cut it out, I used a white gel pen to make Faux stitching around the edges. and added a Rhinestone brad to the center.  I used the stamp Your the Best, from CTMH. For bling, I used Bo Bunny gems .

Well that is today's project, hope you like it, leave a comment:) I love them.

Now to see more projects like this head over to Erica's at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com


Have a super day!!              Cathy