October 100 Cartridge Hop with MCCR

 Welcome to 

the

My Cricut Craft Room

100 Cartridge

Blog Hop

October 1 & 2 

If you are arriving from Lisa Carrier 's Blog, then you are on the right track.
If you need to start from the beginning, please head over to
My Cricut Craft Room.

This month we got to choose 4 Cricut Cartridges that we wanted
to use on our projects.
I chose to use:
Doodlecharms, Holiday Cakes, Nickelodeon SpongeBob, and Slumber Party.
(I threw in a 5th cartridge, too . . .Pretty Pennants)

I have promised each of my kids
that I would make them
a special altered
notebook to draw
and write in.

This one is for Lance Jr.
It was a hit!
When I handed it to him, he told me
"I really super duper like this Mommy"!

Most of the papers used were from my
leftover scraps.

 I tried to take some angled picture so you could see
that I raised SpongeBob up on 3D foam squares.

Bubble Border cut from Holiday Cakes cartridge at 1"

 Seahorse cut from Doodlecharms cartridge at 2"

SpongeBob cut from cartridge at 5"

 Soak It Up Phrase also cut from the SpongeBob cartridge at 5"
 

Alarm clock cut from Slumber Party cartridge at 2"

Banner was cut from Pretty Pennants cartridge at 3/4"
I will be linking up my project
to the Unity Theme challenge - Banners and Pennants.

Papers  

•  Recollections Aqua Card Stock
• Core'dinations Cardmaker Series Pearls (Golden Pearl)
• other papers and card stock from stash

Stamps

• Unity Stamp Co. - Ippity set here and now 
• Unity Stamp Co. - Bitty Backgrounds

Inks

• Adirondack Brights - Sunshine Yellow
• Rubber Stampede - Fresh Mint
• VersaColor - Black
• VersaMagic - Cloud White
• Studio G - Aqua 

Other Tools and Supplies

• Cricut Expression (of course...LOL)
• Paper Trimmers
• UTEE Embossing Enamel by  Ranger - Clear (purchased from Erica's Craft Room!)
• Corner Puncher
• Twine from stash
•  Zig Pens, 3D Foam Squares, and ATG gun
• Felt Tip Marker (black)

Now it is time to Hop over to the Blog Candy Blog as the next stop!

If you get lost along the way,
please follow this lineup for Day 1 of the Hop!

Also be sure to stop back at  My Cricut Craft Room tomorrow for Day 2.

1. MCCR
2. Kathy S.
3. Shelley 
4. Claire
5.  Mary 
6.   Lisa Charmberlain 
7.  Nadja  
8.   Janet 
9.  Jenn Lorist 
10. Erica's Projects
11.  Heather Lynn  
12.   Robin 
13.  Teresa   
14. Tammy    
15. Cathy
16. Lisa Carrier 
17. Jessica S 
18. Blog Candy

Keep Crafting 

:O) 

Jessica

Letter of the Day - "H"

Welcome to 

Monday's
Letter of the Day

 Today I get to share with you how

I created a Halloween  Theme treat bag,  using

the Holiday Cakes Cricut cartridge 

and some suggestions from Heather to make a 

Haunted House and use some  

Hexagons and Harvest Orange Crinkle Ribbon.

Shwoo...I think I covered the H's pretty well, don't you???  LOL

Thanks for the ideas Heather Lynn!!!

This was super fun to play around with and create!

I started with a simple brown paper lunch bag.  I then grabbed my Unity Hexagon 

background stamp from  the June 2012 Kit of the Month {sweet summer love}

and inked it all over the bag using TH Distress Ink - Black Soot.

I grabbed some American Craft - Damask Specialty card stock to begin

making some fun Halloween Cuts from the Holiday Cakes cartridge.

I have to be Honest and tell you that I was not pleased with How

a few cuts (set at 2") turned out using this paper.  

The intricate details (swirls and small negative spaces) were 

jamming up my blade after starting.    

After struggling several times, I changed the original size of my 

Haunted House up to 4"

and switched a few of my paper choices around for the 2" cuts.

All was not lost!!!

The solid black and solid orange card stock for the pumpkins

on the top are from the AC-Damask papers. 

All of the white card stock you see in this project

is by Recollections and used as a Base Shadow and Plain Shadow 

to emphasize the images made with the darker papers.

The pumpkins were cut at 2" then I applied a coat (using a small paint brush) 

of orange Studio G-glitter glue over top.

The papers for the Haunted House

are from the Cloud 9 Designs Harvest Holiday stack.

The Haunted House was cut at 4".  

After laying down a strip of Martha Stewart Decorative Tape, 

I used 3D foam squares to raise the House away from the bag.

The yellow card stock for the moon is Core'dinations - Sunflower Yellow.

I also stamped and cut a few of the Hexagons out of the matching papers

to be raised with 3D foam and 

applied randomly around the bag 

for extra dimension.

I used the Lacy Labels Cricut Cartridge to create a fold over flap at 

the top of my treat bag. 

I cut the layers at 6" and then used 

my ScorPal to score down the middle of each layer.

(Card stocks used were orange AC Damask and Yellow Core'dinations)

I adhered them together using my GluGlider Pro.

 Before adhering the pumpkins and sentiment,

I added a strip of coordinating Cloud 9 Papers

to the flap of the bag (after it was rolled several times) 

to hide the portion of brown paper bag

that peeked out a bit 

behind the flap when it was closed shut.

I added some 3M Adhesive Velcro to the bag and flap for a closure.

To apply a handle for my bag, I decided

to use two small eyelets by making memories at each end.  

This allowed me to feed some fabulous

Harvest Orange 3 Girl JAM crinkle ribbon

through and tie a nice bow on one side.

 I also strung some Twinery Twine - Charcoal through as well.

I twirled the twine around the Orange ribbon 

so neither would be Hidden 

and both would compliment each other well.

 Here is the close up of the finished flap.

 I also decided to "tassle" more of the Charcoal Twinery Twine

so it could lay above the chimney of the Haunted House

and appear almost like smoke coming out.

I sure hope I thought to share all of the details about my project, 

and would welcome any questions if I have left anything out!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Make sure you stop back over to

see the other wonderful

projects the DT created!!

Keep Crafting 

:O) 

Jessica