Fantabulous Cricut Crawl.....Bug Hugs for You

Welcome to  SEVENTH Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...

Each Design Team member will be featuring an original Up-cycled-Themed Project that includes  a Reusable or Recycled item along with a Cricut cut.

Sounds fun, huh?  You know we've all got some horded craft items we can recycle, right? 

If you've come from Faith's blog at Faith Abigail Designs, you're in the right place!  If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE.

For my earth Saving Project, I recycled a Pringles can!   Yep-this clever idea originally came from my blog bestie- Jill at Jaihart and I wanted to give it a try. 

So, I gave my kids a can of Pringles and said " Eat up kids, Mama's got to make a craft and try not to slobber on the can please."

The caterpillar is cut from Stretch Your Imagination.  This cartridge was the perfect choice to decorate a Pringles can because you can stretch the cuts to fit on the can.   Stretch Your Imagination cartridge may be an oldie but still a goodie. 

I then wrapped some embossed cardstock around the can,  added a few paper flowers on the lid and stuck a little flag stamped with a sentiment from My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies.

Creative, huh?  Now you wished you'd kept those Pringles cans that you just threw out in the trash this morning, right?

 

Anyways, I'm celebrating my one year "Blogoversary" soon so I'd like to offer up some blog candy to y'all....

I can't believe how many friends I've made since starting this blog and how much I've learned and been inspired by all you crafty friends of mine! 

So, if you want to win my blog candy make sure you're a follower and leave me a comment telling me what's your favorite Pringles flavor (mine is Cheddar Cheese-Yum!) and I'll pick a random winner on May 7th which is my actual Blogoversary! Yeah...me!!

Now keep on crawling and make sure to check out each DT member's blog for more inspiration. There will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant who links up a "Save the Earth" project at FCCB!

Next stop on your crawl is...Jamie's blog at Scrap Queen, let's see what she's has in store for you......

Happy Crawling!

Linking with:
Paper Play Time- Anything Goes
Crafty Boots- Yellow
Pink Cricut Link Up Party
Paper Players- Tic Tac Toe (green & yellow+embossing+ anything)

Get Well Bugs....

Today's Thursday's Tutorial over at FCCB features a fun tutorial by

Dr. Sonia from Cards, Crafts and Kids Projects  on how to make Cascading Cards. 

I've never made this type of card before and since we had the "sick bug" running through my household a couple weeks ago, this cascading card gave me the perfect excuse to try this tutorial and create a "Get Well Bug" card for us.

You can check out my post and Dr. Sonia's tutorial over at FCCB- HERE!

After I made my cascading card with Kraft paper, I thought "Whoa...there's alot of empty space on this card to fill up...Yikes!

I added pattered paper, embossing, faux stitching and my cute little bugs ( if bugs can be cute) are cut from the Paisley cartridge.

 

 

The stamped sentiments are from My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies which are glued on toothpicks.  I then added a few buttons and paper flowers from my stash and my first cascading "Get Well Bug" card was finished. 

 

 

 

  Cute little bugs, huh?  And to think I pay $50 every other month to keep these little things out of my house....

Thanks for looking! 

Linking with:
Bitten By the Bug-Bees & Ladybugs
Simon Says- Anything Goes
The Kraft Journal- Just for Kids
Party Time Tuesdays- Kraft
Shopping Our Stash- Things with "B"

The Paper Variety...Vellum Votive's Tutorial

 

I'm posting a tutorial today for The Paper Variety  on how to decorate votive candles with vellum.

I came up with  a few candle designs  that could be used as decorations for a wedding's, baby showers, garden parties or as home decor.

 

Here's the supplies I used:

Various clear votive candle holders

Score Board

Colored Vellum

Double Sided Tape

Decorative Stamps and ink

Border punch

Liquid Pearls

Ribbon & Jute Twine

Embossing folder

To decorate the large candle, I stamped two pieces of 4 x 11 inch vellum with decorative stamps.

I then scored the vellum at 1/2 inches and adhered the two pieces together like you would to make a rosette. Use double sided tape to adhere the vellum around the candle.

.

Another way to decorate a votive is to use a border punch along a strip of vellum.

You can embellish your votive's anyway your like. I added some liquid pearls and a ribbon bow around one and then added some white vellum flowers cut from Flower Shoppe to another.

 

Another way to decorate a votive is to use embossed vellum.
 

 

 

I embossed 4- 2 1/2 inch squares of vellum and then adhered them to the sides of the votives.

I hope this vellum candle idea inspires you to brighten up your day or nights !

Thanks for looking!

 

 

Like Me on Facebook!

 

Linking with:

Jaihart- Link Up Party

Pink Cricut- Link Up Tuesday
Ribbon Carousel- Anything Goes

Smash Tape Flower.......

I was browsing through Target's craft area the other day, which BTW is way to small but I did notice they now sell Smash Tape.   I wanted to see what this craze was all about so I threw a roll in my cart. 


I wasn't really sure what I was going to do with it but this is what I came up with:

 I made a Smash Tape Flower! 

I cut a few black and white flowers from George and Basic Shapes in various sizes and I covered one of the flower layers in Smash Tape.  That's it....plain and simple.  

I added a little bit of embossing to the card, a black button with a twine bow along with a Studio G stamped sentiment and now I can say I just made my first Smash project. 

Thanks for looking!

Linking with:
Paper Issues- Smash it Up
Paper Playtime-Say it with Sentiments

Just Monkeying Around......

I rarely buy presents anymore for wedding's or baby showers.  I give what I love to do most.  Create a unique and personalized gift for the special occasion. 

I made this 12x12  monkey shadow box for my friend who's having a baby boy.  Can you guess she's having a monkey theme nursery?

Here's how I made it:

Life's a Party- Monkey and layers cut at 9 inches
Birthday Cakes- Font cut and layers cut a 1 inches
Dot embossing folder
Black Stickles
Glue Dots & Pop Up Glue Dots

Thanks for looking and Oh...BTW- you can always invite me to your wedding or baby shower and I'd love to make you something unique too....LOL

Linking with:
My Craft Spot- Make it Pop
Decorate to Celebrate-Baby Shower
More Than Favors-Baby
Pile it On-Pot it Up
Patches of Pink-Baby

I'm on the Jinger Adams Design Team...

I still can't believe it and I've been "All Smiles" since I found out!  Makes for a really happy household too...LOL.   The creative talent that Jinger had to select from was amazing!

Jinger Adams Blog

Here are the designer's that will bring you inspiration from Jinger's new line.

	Jinger Adams	Theresa Harris	Amanda Bodine	Amy Crockett
Corri Garza	Cristal Hobbs	Emma V Aguilar	Holly Gagnon	Jillian Shelton
Katie Jones	Mandee Gillen	Liz Munoz	Tammy Skinner

I can't wait to get my hands on some of Jinger's new craft products!  WhooHoo!  Thanks so much for this opportunity.

The Paper Variety Challenge..... Button Flowers

We've got a fun challenge for you this week at The Paper Variety.  We want to see you "Scraplift" any project that any our design team members have created since January. 

There are 10 of us on TPV design team that bring you two challenges a month along with a tutorial.  Yep- get those creative juices flowing because we've given you lots of inspiring ideas and we'd just love to see them lifted!

.

For this challenge I made a flower pot card inspired and "scraplifted" by Sandi's Button Flower Tutorial.  

I hoard have jars and jars of buttons so I knew these Button Flowers would be perfect to addition to my card.

The base flowers are cut and layered from George and the Flower Shoppe cartridges. I used a 1.5" scallop circle cut from Alphalicious for the base of the flower button and the leaves are cut from Doodlecharms.   

 I'm so happy the way these flowers turned out, I think I've got a Mother's Day card already finished!

 As you already know, these ladies on TPV are super talented and they've given me so many ideas over the past few months.  I've actually made 4 other projects (make this 5 now) using there tutorial's. Yep- they do inspire! 

Here's are some of the projects I've made thanks to the inspiration and tutorials from my fellow design team members:

Sara's Glimmer Mist

Suzanne's Faux Paper Lace

Marcia's Debossing

Abby's Shaped Cards

Sooooooo, we want you to:

We want to thank  Studio Calico as our sponsor for this week challenge.

We look forward to you linking up your project at TPV and seeing our creative ideas "lifted".

.

Linking with:

My Pink Stamper- Mother's Day

Go Fish- Anything Goes

Jaihart- Link Up Party

Made Especially for You- Three Flowers

Die Cuttin Divas-Garden Party

Pink Cricut- Link Up Tuesday

Pinewood Derby...AREA 51

 For my sons Cub Scout Pinewood Derby car this year I finally had the idea of using vinyl!  I seriously don't know why I never thought of this before. Those expensive car decals transfers are a pain to work with and the variety is limited. 

I have to give all the credit of this car to my husband from using the jig-saw to shape the car, coming up with the theme and even transferring of vinyl to the car. Yes-he did!  Of course, my little Scout had his input too but Daddy did most of it.

We used Indie Art for the decals.  The vinyl idea started by just cutting flames then my husband saw what else was else was available on the Indie Art cartridge and he came up with the idea of AREA 51. 

We actually do live in Nevada, so the AREA 51 idea seemed pretty cool and my son thinks aliens are awesome anyways.  

Here's how I made it using my Gypsy:

Indie Art- atomic decals cut 1 inch except alien head & flames.

The alien I enlarged on my Gypsy because it's actually the center of the atom symbol.

BTW-I had no idea I had an alien in my Cricut collection!

For the flames I needed to adjust the size manually to 1 inch high and 3 inches long.

Printing Press- Area 51 font cut at .75 inches.

 So, we didn't have the fastest car, Daddy definitely needs to work on some speed next year but the car looked way cool!

Linking with:
Jaihart- Link Up Party

Re-using my Scraps...

I was cleaning my craft area and I found this star scrap that caught my eye.  Ok....my version of cleaning my craft area is basically just  putting things in piles,  I have a lot of piles....Bleek! 

Anyways, the star is the negative cut from a star that I used on another project.  It should of been thrown away after the original cut but it wasn't, just ended up in a pile. 

I'm so glad I kept it now (Thank you hoarding problem!) since my Thursday Tutorial post today at Fantabulous Cricut features some clever ideas from Marcia at One Scrap at a Time on debossing.

   You can check out my post and Marcia's tutorial at FCCB-HERE!

Here's how I used up some scraps:

Kraft Paper
K & Co- Handmade Paper Pack ( love this pack!)
George and Basic Shapes- Star cut at 4 1/2 inches using negative part.
Core'dination's paper (another piece of scrap laying around)- debossed and sanded
Button, twine and pearls

How cool does that star looked debossed?   It totally looks like a seashell to me-Love it!
Thanks for looking!

Linking with:
Use it Tuesday's-Anything Goes
CropStop-Bows and Buttons
The Kraft Journal-Use your stash