Letter of the Day - R

Welcome To

Hello Crafty Blends.

Today is my day to share

a DT project with you

from My Cricut Craft Room

I have a short post for you today!

I created this Christmas Card

using the
REINDEER from Create-A-Critter.

Kraft Base

Bo Bunny Mistletoe (white with blue polka dots)

Spellbinders Impressabilities - Snowflake die.

Forest Green Distress Ink

 
RED Stickles on the nose

RED Twine from the Twinery for the bow in her hair

and to use to hold the stocking charm on top.

 
ROSES from I am Roses

Now head back over to My Cricut Craft Room 

to see more wonderful creations 

by the Design Team Members!

Remember to 

Keep Crafting, 

Because

♫ CRAFTING ♫ 

♫ ROCKS ♫ 

\m/-_-\m/ 

:O) 

Jessica

The Letter "M"

My Imagination Monday & The Letter of The Day - M

September 24, 2012 

Hello Crafty Blends.

I am exited to share another

altered journal with you today.

For our DT projects today at

 My Cricut Craft Room,

 we were to create

a project

using The Letter M.

I instanly thought of McKenzie, my oldest daughter.

I had her help pick out the fun cuts that I would

use for the altered composition book.

She closed her eyes and spun her finger around

in circles around the images on the back 

of the Cricut Slumber Party cartridge.

How funny is it, that the images she landed her finger on were

a Microphone and a Moon!

You can't get much more PERFECT than that!

She also asked me to use 

the Cricut Jasmine cartridge for the font (her name).

Here is the finished altered notebook:

She really isn't all into the color Pink, but

accepted the fact that all of the Design Team projects at

My Cricut Craft Room through October  15th

will be 

I tried to use a minimal amount of pink, which was difficult for me,

but I toned it down with the Teal Paper by K&Company-Embossed Winter.

I used it to cover the front and back covers of the book.

Teal is her Favorite Color!!!

The Microphone and Moon

were both cut at 4" each using

various colors of cardstock.

McKenzie was cut at 2" for each letter, with the letter M

being the only letter I cut from the Charm Feature

on the cartridge.

I used Versa Mark inks in Black and Champagne Dazzle

then heat embossed the Sheet Music stamped background (by Unity)

with a black glittery powder

and heat embossed the stamped foliage (also by Unity)
 in the lower right corner using

a clear glitter powder from Ranger.

Please head back to My Cricut Craft Room,

to view all of the wonderful projects that the Design Team is

sharing today!

and

Remember

to

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