Countdown to Christmas - 4 days!! with MCCR

Welcome back!

What a perfect theme for today since we are getting hit with our first snow storm here in Ohio!

Today with My Cricut Craft Room, we are doing a winter theme!

I made these gift card holders using Teresa Collins December 25th.

I cut all the different snowflakes at 2 inches. I covered the holder on the left with Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap and the one on the left with Tim Holtz Tissue Tape. Added a little bit of stickles and they are done!

I love these quick easy but beautiful techniques. 

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend!!

~Liz

Shape Card with Just a Scrappin

Welcome back!

This weeks challenge with Just A Scrappin is to 

Make a card that is not square or rectangle!!

Here is my take:

I adore the way this turned out. A perfect card for my boyfriend's grandma if you ask me :)

Here is how I did it:

I cut a bell from the Teresa Collins December 25 Cricut Cart (I believe it was about 4inches) and taped it to the top edge of a folded piece of cardstock the color I wanted my card base to be. Make sure you let some of the top of the design hang off to keep part of the fold intact. This is what will hold your front and back together!

Trace around and take the "template" (the blue piece) off.

Cut on the lines making sure to leave a little piece of the folded edge of your card intact

And that it! Super simple!

Here is what it looks like open

Then just decorate as you want :)

I used the Teresa Collins December 25 cartridge again for all of the cuts on the front of the card. I added some silver stickles on the Joy to give it more interest. There are also red stickles on the holly berries.

The bottom of the bell is Melisa Frances silver glass glitter. Its super chunky and I love it!

Then I just put a simple stamp on the inside.

I hope you join us this week! I would love to see your take on this great challenge at Just A Scrappin!!

~Liz

Baby Girl

My co-worker asked me to do a book for her daughter who is graduating this year. I have many pages to do from birth to graduation but we started with some of the big events to have done for her graduation party.

I wanted to do a birth page since that is where we all start. I had purchased this great Teresa Collins paper pack on one of the deal-a-day sites (I don't remember which one now). Pink really isn't my thing so I wasn't sure when I would be using this paper. But when I was going through my stash to see what I had, I thought Bingo! Perfect!

I used some white glitter paper to create the border. I cut 1/4 in strips and cut the corners to make them all fit around the page.

I used my new Stampin Up Banner punch for both banners and added some buttons and bling from my stash, along with Stone twine from the Twinery.

I borrowed some baby stamps from my mom and stamped them in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Pink Cheeks. I also used the Midnight Confession to ink other elements.

I have to say, even though pink may not be my thing, I absolutely LOVE this page!

Class Pages

January - Bo Bunny

 I live in Cleveland and we get tons of lake effect snow every year so you can never have enough snow layouts! I read this quote somewhere "Snow is Winter's Butterfly" and knew it was a perfect title for a layout. When I saw Bo Bunny's paper, it was a match made in heaven! I love their stuff.


 February - 3 Birds

 3 Birds Warehouse is in Cleveland and they have a mega sale every December. My mom went last year and saw these kits for a $1!!!! The only thing I added was a couple buttons and some twine. The solid paper was all in the kit, I just took it out to do some cuts on my cricut with the Teresa Collins Sophisticated cartridge.



 April - Teresa Collins

My favorite class page of all! the border, grid, phrase and bird are all from one sheet of paper that I cut apart and layered on a 12x12 yellow. I got the inspiration from the Teresa Collins design team blog. For the second page, I fussy cut apart the yellow flowers from a third of another sheet of pattern paper and layered them over each other. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way this turned out!

I am so sad to say this is the last class page I will do, for now that is! I didn't know it at the time, but after April, I decided to discontinue my local classes. I am still working out details of doing some sort of packaged kits without the class, but that is a couple months out at least. I have so many projects to work on before that! But, this is definitely giving me time to work on those other projects, along with maybe getting some of my own scrapping done in between! Something I haven't done for about 3 years!