December 100 Cricut Cart Blog Hop with MCCR

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's Monthly 100 Cartridge Blog Hop for December!!

If you got here from Mary's blog, great you are on the right track!

If not, head to My Cricut Craft Room to see all the great projects along the way!!

I had 4 cartridges to use this month. I combined them and made two projects.

For my first one, I wanted to do something Christmas since it is right around the corner

I used Teresa Collins Sophisticated and Gingerbread for this project. The scallop border is from Sophisticated (page 44, cut at 1 inch), the swirl is also from the same cartridge (cut at 2 inches). The wreath is from Gingerbread cut at 2.5 inches.

I added stickles in xmas red, green, gold and diamond to decorate my wreath. The paper is from last year's (I think) DCWV christmas mat stack.

For my other project I still needed some birthday cards so that is what I worked on!!

I used Pretty Pennants and Celebrate with Flourish for this project.

The pennants are cut from Pretty Pennants at 2 inches for the small ones and 3 inches for the large middle one. The happy birthday is from Celebrate with Flourish and was cut at 2.5 inches.

I ran the middle pennant through a cuttlebug folder and sanded the raised area. The pattern paper is from Echo Park - A Walk In The Park 6x6 paper pack. I inked everything in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Pink Cheeks.

Well I hope that inspires you to get out your cricut and start creating!!

Your next stop on the hop is my DT sister Teresa!!! 

Wait til you see what she has in store for you!

Have a great weekend!!

Here is the full line up in case you get lost along the way!!

My Cricut Craft Room

Jen 

Shelley

Kathy

Nadja

Sarah W

Erica

Mary

Liz <--- are="are" here="here" you="you">

Teresa

Jamie

Robin

Sarah H

Tami

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Cheerleader with Just A Scrappin'

Welcome back!

This week's challenge at Just A Scrappin is

CHEERLEADING and add some bling!

Had no idea what I was going to do with this one until I remembered Hello Kitty Greetings has a Hello Kitty Cheerleader! I of course had to do my Buckeye colors. I bleed Scarlet and Gray!!

I think this would be a really cute birthday card for a girl or an adorable card to send to your daughter away at college. OSU of course! lol.

I also did a tutorial on how I created her pom-poms

I started with my scarlet and gray twine, also known as Maraschino and Stone. And a fork

I wrapped the twine around the fork, I think 5 or 6 times in this case

I took another piece of twine and wrapped it around the middle through the tines of the fork

and tie a knot

then trim all the ends so they are even with the sides of the fork

cut the side loop of the twine. It can be a tight fit. It is better to stick your scissors in the loops while still on the fork, then pull it off one side and cut. if you pull it off then try to stick your scissors in the loops it will be hard to get them all without fraying your twine. It can be done, just not as easily.

Then it looks like this

then you just scunch up both ends

I used Beacons to glue them onto my Hello Kitty

and now you have cute color coordinated pom-poms! After the glue dries you can also trim the edges if you have 1 random long string somewhere.

The paper is from Echo Park and I inked the edges in Maraschino Cherry from Quick Quotes. I added a banner cut from Pretty Pennants and silver stickles in middle of them. One last glitter bling I had in my stash and your done!

I hope you enjoy my card this week and join us at Just a Scrappin! 

Think outside the box if you have to on this one. 

Cheerleader can also be a card or layout done in your school colors.

Or a layout with a school spirit title

Or you supporting a friend/family during a fundraiser. (think walk for the cure) or a marathon!

Hope that helps give you some ideas to play along!

Check back next Thursday for our next challenge!

~Liz

Boo Whoo Blog Hop!!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the Boo Whoo Blog Hop with Erica from My Cricut Craft Room!! I am so lucky to have found such a great hop to be part of! 

You should have gotten here from Susie Lewis Gerdes. If not, go here to start from the beginning! You'll want to since My Cricut Craft Room is doing an awesome giveaway!!

Be a follower of My Cricut Craft Room, and comment on each stop along the hop for a change to win!!

The Teresa Collins Chic & Scary cartrige as well as the Pumpkin Carvings cartridge!! Awesome!!

On to my project!

I LOVE Halloween! (It just happens to be my birthday) so I really wanted to make something over the top for this hop. I have been wanting to make something to hang in my little window at work and saw this as the perfect opportunity to get it done! I made the wreath out of tissue paper rosettes and glued them down on a circle. 

The spider web is from Pretty Pennants. Spooky is from Happy Hauntings. 

I cut the web and used ranger Enamel accents in black to make it glossy looking. I did the same thing for Spooky but I used ranger Glossy accents the clear version.

The swirls are also from Happy Hauntings. They are a branch that an owl sits on.

The spider is from October 31st. I cut it out of glitter paper and hung it from Charcoal twine. 

The flowers, charm, brad and ribbon were all from my stash.

Hope you enjoyed my project! If you liked it I would love for you to be a follower :)

Your next stop on the hop is Robin Carroll!!! Enjoy!!

Here is the full line up incase you get lost along the way!
My Cricut Craft Room- 
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Jenn Drowns Jackson
Lisa Chamberlain
Tara Barnes Bruening
Anita Thibodeau
Lori Johnson Apgar
Holly Switlik Gagnon
Laura Budde
Erica's Projects
Tami Allore Matheson
Ginger K. Morriello
Susie Lewis Gerdes
Elizabeth Kennedy <--- you are here!!
Robin Carroll
Theodora Diamantopoulos
Robin Lane
Jessica Shelton
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