Cricut Circle Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

This month the Circut Circle is doing a Tic Tac Toe Challenge, they had a Tic Tac Toe board with 9 different tasks, you pick a row of tasks that you would like to combine and make a project with them.  I choose to do the bottom row that had Cut a Flower Shape, Cuttlebug Emboss on your project, and print a patterned paper from your  Imagine.

For my Flower shape I used the Pagoda Cartridge Flower8 on page 57.  I cut the flower at 3 inches and the petal part 2 times in at 3 inches also.  I also cut the base at 3.1 in Green again so a little would stick out around the flower.  I felt like my flower needed a little something more so I went to my Walk in the Garden cartridge and looked for a leaf.  I found one I liked on page 90 I cut out the shift shadow option for the leaf.

For the Cuttlebug Embossing I used D'vine Swirl on the petals of the flowers, then I used some distressing ink to give to make the embossing stand out more.  I  also embossed my leaf for that embossing I used the Textile folder.

For my printed patterned paper printed from my imagine I went to my Lori's Garden Cartridge and choose the light green pattered paper with the white dots going across the page in a wave.  I choose to put the patterned paper on the the page sideways to give it a different affect.

After I was done putting all the pieces together I added some bling to the middle of the flower and used my pen to roll the petals of the flower to give it some more dimension.

Overall I am happy with my cards I made.  I plan on using them for mothers day.  I need to find a stamp to put on the front still but even without a stamp I think they came out nice.  It was a fun project to work on and I enjoyed the challenge.  

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #2: THINK PINK!

For this Challenge we were supposed to use any 3 of the following, Pink, Ruffles, Scallops, Flourishes, Glitter and Jewels.

I used my Nursery Tails Imagine cart to make everything on this card. I like that it is not a normal shaped card. The green pattered paper was cut at 4.7 and the Its a girl was cut at 4.5. That takes care of my Pink. I liked the bunny from another paper better then the Lamb so I used her, and since she had green on here that is why I put the green background. I used a Jewel to dot the I in Girl. I also went and bought glitter clue and traced Girl with it. I bought a crop-a-dile a while ago and never used it so I went to Youtube and watched a video on it and decided to make this a card that swings open. I am very happy with this card!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #1: OOH, LA LA! FRENCH MANOR!

This is for the French Manor Weekly contest.

I cut the peacock out in pink, then I used this cool paper and cut her tail out a few times. I also cut the green background out from French Manor. I then added bling to her tail. I think she is very pretty, I am still learning how to make things and getting comfortable with my work!

Hi All

I was on a another blog today and seen something similar to the Cricut but you don’t have to use carts!

Tidymom’s blog is giving one away and I hope to win one so I can try it out
http://www.tidymom.net/2010/08/free-silhouette-craft-cutter-giveaway.html

I think I really need to look into this more!

MPS Challenge #12

For this one I made a butterfly and had the card open from the bottom I know it is plain but I am still working on my skills

MPS Challenge #11

This one I really went out of my box for me, this is not my norm type of paper and I also used a ribbon and I tried to do the pink stamper cheater meathond but i did not do to good.

MPS Challenge #9

For my shaped card I made an Owl, I like him it was something diffrent to make