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

Erica's Blog Candy

Same Card 2 Way! Part 2

Welcome back to same card 2 ways!

I was working on more Thank you cards. I wanted what I would consider clean and simple. I have been loving working with craft lately so I pulled some of that out. I haven't used my Stampin Up Medallion stamp in a while so I got that out too. Here is what came out

I stamped right on the craft with Stampin Up Cranberry Crisp. The thanks is SEI stickers from my stash. I added some Cappuccino Twinery twine and I thought it was exactly what I wanted.

So again I wanted to turn one into a birthday card. I didn't have any other letter stickers I thought would work so I used this cute sentiment from a Stampin Up set called Bring on the Cake. I stamped it on a cranberry piece, tore the bottom and added a couple layers of twine.

I love that medallion stamp! It really doesn't need too much more embellishment to look lovely!

Remember:

~If you want to see a cute tutorial and enter to win some great Quick Quotes product, check out my first August Guest Designer Post to comment and enter to win! And check back tomorrow for a new project!

~Check out Just A Scrappin this week for a great challenge! The other design team is up this week but they have some great projects to share!

~Liz

Same Card 2 Ways! part 1

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! I am now in Tennessee enjoying some vacation time with my boyfriend and his family.

Sometimes when I make a card, I thought it was so cute/easy/fun I want to make another just like it!

So today, I am going to show you the way I took the same design card and make it for 2 occasions.

I saw the original design in a card magazine from a couple months ago and tucked it away as something I wanted to re-create.

The first one started as a Thank You card. I have been getting requests for these at work lately. The glitter paper is from SEI that I have had forever. The twine is of course from the Twinery, in Charcoal. The sentiment is from a Unity/Jillibean Soup set called Apple Cheddar Soup.

Since I need so many birthday cards, I also wanted to make this into a birthday card. The sentiment I wanted to use, from Close to My Heart, is bigger than the thank you. So I stamped in on another panel and moved the placement. 

I inked the edges of everything with Quick Quotes powder puff ink in Maraschino Cherry.

Remember:

~If you want to see a cute tutorial and enter to win some great Quick Quotes product, check out my first August Guest Designer Post to comment and enter to win!

~Check out Just A Scrappin this week for a great challenge: Celebrate using Pink, White and Blue with pearls or rhinestones. You can see my take on the challenge here 

Lots going on this month! Check back Thursday for another version of same card 2 ways!

~Liz

We all have birthdays!

Yes, we do! We all have birthdays! Every year!

So birthday pages are always needed! I LOVE this stack from DCWV, Celebrations! It is all birthday themed stuff. My co-worker is really getting some great pages!

I inked everything with QQ Powder Puff Ink in Blue Hawaiian.

I added twine accents in Maraschino.

and lots and lots of stickles!!

I pulled some coordinating ribbon from my stash and used Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to make little flags by the journal lines.

I love the paper and I really think it showed!

Remember to stop by tomorrow for the Just A Scrappin blog hop!!

~Liz

Manly Birthday Card

Ahh, the manly card. This always seems to be every one's nemesis.I am here to tell you it's not that bad!

When my boyfriend bought a Harley, I knew I had to have this stamp set from Close to My Heart called Born to Ride. And my Uncle whose birthday this month also owns a Harley so this was perfect! If the motorcycle wasn't manly enough, just stay away from bling, flowers and buttons. I don't know why buttons, but my boyfriend always says, why is there a button there? So I avoid buttons on anything I do for him which turns into anything I do for a guy. The phrase is also from Close to My Heart.

I added some twine and dots with my viva pearl pen in black.

The paper is from Echo Park's dots and stripes line. 

The stars are from the same motorcycle set. I stamped them with Versamark on the green. Then I stamped one on a scrap piece of green, cut it out and used a pop dot.

Hope you like the card and this inspires you to do something a little manly for the wonderful men in your life. Check back tomorrow for a simple card :)

~Liz

Pinwheels!

Hello again! I hope everyone is working on their wedding card for this week's challenge at Just A Scrappin'!

In the mean time, I am still working on birthday cards for my family. I told you I have a big family! LOL

I started at the Anything Goes Challenge Blog where they asked us to create a polka dot birthday. I had purchased some 6x6 paper pads from ScrapAce a couple months back that included an Echo Park dots and stripes pack from their Soda Fountain line. The perfect polka dots!

I wasn't feeling completely inspired just by the paper so I checked out 365 Cards. They do a new challenge everyday! Day 116 was a lovely sketch. And over at Krafty Girls, they are  having a fun in the sun challenge. I love watching pinwheels spin in the sun so I had all the ideas for my card!

 

 Here is a close up of the pinwheels. I used Twinery twine in Buttercream, Caribbean and Maraschino in the middle of the buttons. The stamp is from CTMH. The inside says "I'm just extending the celebration!" So perfect for those belated birthday cards. I think I used this stamp about 5 times this month alone! I still believe better late than never :)

I normally don't blog on the weekends, but I have a lovely family layout that I have been wanting to share all ready for tomorrow! 

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

~Liz

Celebrate with Craft!

While catching up on my new years resolution, I am trying to get some of the cards entered in challenges. Over at Little Red Wagon this week, they challenged us to use craft cardstock. Lovely! I had seen a craft and white card done with a doily in a magazine somewhere and knew that is what I wanted to base my card off of. 

 I got the doily from the bakery section of Michael's. The lace ribbon is from my stash. The Celebrate and Fleur de Lis were both cut from Teresa Collins Sophisticated cricut cartridge. I added some detail on the Fleur de Lis and under the Celebrate with my Viva pearl pen in cream.

The piece of doily I trimmed from the bottom of the front, I added to the edge of the inside to really finish up the card.

I hope you like my clean and simple version of a craft card!

Come back Thursday for my first design team post!!

~Liz

Fussy Cutting

So to break from all the layouts I have been doing, today I am finally starting to get caught up on past due birthday cards! I don't want to break my new years resolution so I am starting back with birthdays from April! This one happens to be for my mom. I know, of all the cards to miss, this one should not have been it!!

You might recognize the paper from a layout I did earlier. When I showed my mom the page, she loved the paper line so I got out the scraps I had left over to get working. The paper is from My Mind's Eye and their June challenge is fussy cutting! How perfect :)

The flowers and the saying are from a set of border strips that I cut apart. I put part of the title on the front and the rest on the inside below. I inked everything in Quick Quotes Powder Puff ink in Mai Tai.

I added a couple more flowers from the border without the stems. then put some pearls on the flowers and it was done!

Cute simple and quick card for the most wonderful mother.

Check back tomorrow for my father's day card! I normally don't post on the weekends, but I want to get it in before Sunday :)

Happy Crafting!

~Liz

Birthday Card Update

Well I have to say, sticking to my new years resolution was good until April! I have 2 months of cards to catch up on, but here are the cards I sent for February and March!

For my Uncle who loves his tools. I have this wonderful diamond plate embossing folder that I used on a "Mr. Fix It" page and it is my go-to item for guys. The paper is also left over from the same page.

One of my cousins it typical all-boy-dare-devil-motorcycles- and anything that goes fast. So I pulled out the same embossing folder and my aluminum foil tape. I found that at Home Depot by the Duct Tape. Or Tim Holtz sells full sheets of it I think. Then cut the motorcycle from my cricut and it was the perfect card. The happy birthday is from Stampin Up.

I needed something quick and simple for this cousins birthday. I saw something similar to this in a magazine and filed it in the back of my head to use someday. Quick triangles on the cricut, a stampin up birthday phrase and this card was done in no time. Paper from My Mind's Eye, Lime Twist

I adore this paper line from Echo Park. It is called This and That. I usually struggle with manly cards, but these colors are just perfect. This uncle used to be a boyscout so the campground makes sense. and I love to add twine to everything lately!

There are a couple other cards that went out that I didn't get pictures of. So sad! I also have a Mother's Day card I did coming up soon!

Thanks and come again!

Guest Designer @ For Fun Challenges!! - Project 1

YAY!!!!

I couldn't be happier to tell all of you that I am the guest designer at For Fun Challenges for 2 weeks!! If you are not a follower of For Fun already, you really should be! They always inspire me with great challenges.

This weeks Challenge is Anything Goes! 

There is no sponsor this week so just use some of your stash and have FUN!

I knew I wanted to use my new Tim Holtz On The Edge Die: Scrollwork. And keeping with my New Year's resolution, I wanted to make a birthday card. I started pulling supplies and knew I was going to end up with a masculine card so that is how it ended up being my cousin's husband Tim's card.

I used the Stampin Up set Sense of Time for the background and the big clock and Bring on the Cake for the Happy Birthday. I distressed the edges and used Quick Quotes ink in Mocha Mama to make the distressing darker

After stamping and cutting and distressing, I used Tim Holtz tiny attacher to attach the border and the Happy Birthday rectangle. Then I used it to "hold closed" my torn spots on the clock.

I absolutely LOVE the way this turned out. 

Then I have a little funny story. I mailed this out to Tim on his birthday and on my way home I realized I never signed the inside of the card! LOL. Has this ever happened to you? My return address is on it, so he should know who it came from but I couldn't believe I just simply FORGOT! So now as soon as I stamp the inside of my card, I am signing it immediately!

So I hope this inspires you to use some of your stash and enter this great challenge. Entries are due by 1/17/12!

Come back next Wednesday the 18th to see my second project with For Fun Challenges!

~Liz

3rd Birthday Card for 2012

Hi all!

I shared with all of you my new year's resolution: To send a birthday card to everyone in my family

I shared my first card here, for my Aunt Dawn. And today I am showing you the card I did for my cousin Manny.

I am going to be the Guest Designer at For Fun Challenges on Wednesday!!!! Come back on then to see the card for my cousin's husband Tim.

I used My Mind's Eye: Fly a Kite 6x6 paper pack. 

I thought it would look great for a teenage boy.

 

I used my new stamp from Unity. I love this balloon.

I paper pieced it together. Stamp on white and cut out the image leaving a little around the edge. Stamp the image on orange and cut out just the top of the balloon. Glue on top of the white piece. Stamp the image on striped patter, circle pattern and yellow paper. cut out the 5 middle pieces of the balloon and glue them on top of the orange. I LOVE the way it turned out!

 

Manny's favorite color is yellow so I knew I had to get it in there somewhere. Since there was no yellow in the pattern papers, it didn't look right when I tried to make the card yellow. 

So I cut a star (Plaintin Schoolbook) that I added yellow flock to and a cute yellow button. I wrapped some brown baker's twice around this square to give it a little more interest. I inked the edge's of all the pattern papers in Quick Quotes "Green with Envy".

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

Cooking With Cricut: Something New and a Cricut Cut

Little Red Wagon: Felt or Flocking

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges: Something New

Hope you like the card and remember to come back Wednesday to check out my Guest Designer card for For Fun Challenges!

~Liz

Something New with Color!!!

Happy new year everyone!

It is that time a year for new year's resolutions! Most people have typical goals: lose weight, save money (which are 2 of mine as well lol). But I wanted a different resolution!

My mom inspired me for this one. She is normally pretty good about sending out a card to each family member around their birthday. I say around because some tend to be a couple of days late and I am giving myself that time frame as well. So my new year's resolution is to send everyone in my family a birthday card. Doesn't sound too bad huh? Well there are 28 of us of my mom's side! And one of my cousins is pregnant so I am adding the baby to the list to make a total of 29 cards! That is more cards than I have ever made in 1 year!

There are 3 birthdays in the first week of January! So for my first card for my Aunt Dawn I went to check out some challenge blogs for inspiration.

Play Date Cafe's color challenge was this great combination:

Very typical Christmas. But since we are past christmas time, I wanted to use the colors in an untypical way. I pulled out a 6x6 paper pack from Echo Park's Victoria Garden line and found the perfect paper. 

I love the pink and green roses. But I had to make sure I got red in there so I made this tissue paper rose that I saw on Tim Holtz's blog during the 12 tags of Christmas.

I love the way it turned out! I added a pre-made flower for the center of my tissue flower, some bling and I was done!

So that is my "Something New" for For Fun Challenge Blog's challenge this week too! My New Year's Resolution! Wish me luck throughout the year!

Also this week is my cousin's husband Tim and little cousin Manny.

Tim's card will be a special one. He is the lucky guy with a birthday close enough to get the card I am making as my project for a Guest Designer next week! Check back on the 11th to find out where and see my masculine card.

~Liz

Birthday Card Giveaway

Hope everyone is having a great week. It has been a rough work week here and I am getting excited for my move! So I should have one more post before the move then I will be off for at least a week while I get my new room setup.

So I thought I would get one more challenge card in this week. It happens to be a birthday card, so if your birthday is coming up, or you know someone's birthday coming who would love to get this card, be a follower of my blog and leave a comment here before Tuesday 3/24/11 at noon EST and I'll pick a random comment to receive this cute birthday card. Great for male or female (although there is some glitter on it)

The stamps are all from Stampin Up! as is the scallop punch

I used packing tape to tape the wrong side of the card over the opening created from the scallop punch so that the sticky side was up and covered it in glitter

I used zots and a stapler to create this ribbon loop

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Clauda & Co.: Girl Birthday Card (I think this card is great for girl or boy)

Wee Memories: Get Sticky! (the packing tape and zots)

The Paper Players: Cherry/Navy/Brown

Remember if you want to get this card from me to post your comment below 

(after you are a follower of course)

~Liz

recent work

so i figured even though i started posting pictures of all of my stuff on cricut.com i am going to post them here as well. maybe not everyone is in all the swaps i am! lol so here are some recent layouts with cards





the fist one is my favorite. the blue love layout. i dont know what it is about it but i love the colors (even though i normally dont like brown) and i love that its a love theme and its not all pink. i really dont like pink. although i still use it in my layouts cuz i know other people do! LOL i have 2 more to finish that i thought i would get done today and didnt... today just ran right by me. although i might work on them some more tonight. i cant wait to get these back!