CCR Monday

Hello Monday! Today I am posting as DT Member of the My Cricut Craft Room Design Team. Today is all about Cricut Craft Room.

I used my Imagine, the Cricut Craft Room and the Cricut Craft Room Basics Cartridge.

This cartridge has some FANTASTIC shapes!

A onesie shape, heart, duck some FABULOUS shapes to choose from!

I used the onesie shape layered it 

and the duck shape

to create this boy onesie card

I also used the rectangle shape to create the blue background

The white background was created using wordle art and printing

I added baby themed words and such for my Niece's upcoming Baby Shower.

Thanks for stopping by today, be sure to

check out the My Cricut Craft Room DT Posts for today!


After a year of being in the My Cricut Craft Room I have stepped down as a Design Team Member. I thank Erica for the opportunity of working with her on her Design Team for the length that I did and I enjoyed being a part of the Design Team.
Thank you for giving me a reason to use my Cricut more often.
I hope all of you DT Members will check in once in a while as I will check out your creations on your blogs. 

Theme Thursday

Welcome to Theme Day Thursday with My Cricut Craft Room..

Todays Theme is Patriotic..

What I chose to do was create a table top piece for my dessert table for the 4th of july..

It is really simple, sparkly and just a little bit of a nice touch..

This is SUPER Glittery!

On the words Pursuit of Happiness 

there are 3 Layers

Base - Blue

Shadow - White

Top - Red

The Blue & Red layers have been run through my xyron and given a good heaping

of glitter to them.. I had to use Diamond Glass and a weight to make sure

the layers glued together ..

The anchor represents my husband and his naval career

Shadow is Blue top layer is glittered red

The flowers were not the blue I wanted so I added some spray adhesive to the blue flowers then sprinkled the blue glitter on them

After our 4th of July Party I can add a small photo to this or remove the flowers and add a little bit of a larger photo and then place it in a frame..

The piece measures 5x7

I used Chipboard and adhered some White CS to the top

I then cut a piece of chipboard and scored it to make the stand for the

piece and glued it to the back

Be sure you check out the My Cricut Craft Room blog today to see what 

the other DT Members have created today. 

**Note**

After a year (almost to the day) of being on the My Cricut Craft Room Design Team I have stepped down as a Design Team Member. I thank Erica for the opportunity of working with her on her Design Team for the length that I did and I enjoyed being a part of the Design Team.

Thank you for giving me a reason to use my Cricut more often.

I hope all of you will continue to check in once in a while as I will check out your creations on your blogs.  I will have one more Design Team post on the 25th of June.

Have a FABULOUS Thursday!!

Father's Day

What a FUN Father's Day today!

We had the in-laws (Mother & Sister) Fly in today

went out to lunch ran around and when we got home at 5pm.. I went right into the kitchen

to start prepping everything for the BBQ..

We had Pork Riblets I used a new recipe with

Brown Sugar (splenda) and they came out DELICIOUS!!

Tons of food gave the Hubby his gifts and Cake!!

I also used Authentique Paper from the Free Bird Series NEST

as well as American Crafts CS for the embossed Gray paper

Nestabilities Die

and 3M Foam Adhesive

Black ink and Memento Bahama Mama Ink

This is the card I made for my kids to give to their Dad

today..

I took this picture for the Getting Cricky Challenge

In my quest for reducing packaging to leave a smaller carbon footprint on this earth, I asked Starbucks about bringing in a cup, and they sold me TWO eco-friendly resuable tumblers for 14.99! They are BUY ONE GET ONE this week! This means every time you grab a cold coffee you can SAVE the earth from unnecessary plastic packaging that will sent for a hundred years under the earth! TOTALLY awesome! Send me a picture of YOU with your reusable COFFEE mug (any type/brand) and I'll enter you into a drawing for 50.00 worth of STAMPS!!!!

This is me in my Toxic Sass headband, check her Blog out!

I love this picture of Draco & Luna sleeping on the windowsill in my craft room

Our NEWEST Kittens!! <3

WYEGW

After the catastrophe of the NEW build release, and having to re-install and re-start my computer I am happy to report my Imagine is working! Yeah! Though I am worried about a troublesome click noise like something is snapping while cutting, but what can I do?

Back to todays post! 

Today is Would You Ever Guess Wednesday over at My Cricut Craft Room and

as a Design Team Member I chose to work with the

Birthday Cakes cartridge to create something for you today.. 

I of course never know what I am going to do when I sign up for the days that I post..

I am LOVING shaped cards right now so I started with that in mind and looked at several image options on the cart.. I didn't want to do something I have done before so this time I chose this cute little bouquet cut.

After it was cut out I heat embossed the green layer with Zing Embossing Powder

and the flowers I used Stickles and or Doddlebug Glitter

and added these cute little flat green gems by Recollections

I also added glitter to the ribbon..

It is a cute card, not my favorite that I have made but it's cute.. 

If I had to do it again I think I might use some pattern paper or something, it feels

like it needs something more... LOL

Have a FABULOUSLY crafty Hump Day and be sure

to check out My Cricut Craft Room to see what the

other DT members have cooked up for you today!

Cricut Craft Room Update Build 151

After updating the Cricut Craft Room to build 151 my Cricut Imagine stopped communicating with the Cricut Craft Room.

So i went to Cricut Sync and found out my Imagine was a little behind as I needed to update it. I did that and restarted my computer and voila communication with the CCR Program and my Imagine started..

 However my machine would only print and not cut, no matter if I chose cut only or print and cut it would only Print and just mimic the motions/time of cutting and spit the paper out uncut..

FRUSTRATED!! That is what I was, very very frustrated.. I have all kinds of projects due and my Imagine is MY main machine..

Thankfully a DT Sister Shelley Peeler posted this today:

here is a link for people to revert back to the old version of craftroom so that they can cut with the imagine again.... Didn't know if you would want it on your regular page or not so I am leaving that up to you!!!

http://www.cricut.com/imaginedownload.aspx

I downloaded this installed it, chose replace current version and then had to restart my computer. After restarting my computer I chose 2 new images to print & cut from the Lori's Garden Cartridge and CCR & the I communicated beautifully and print and cut both images for me!!

Yeah!

So if you updated and are having issues you can revert back, I believe this is build 133.
Don't forget to restart your computer!

I hope to be beach next week with a lot more projects since my machine is now communicating with what I consider my Cricut part of my brain! LOL

Oh and I do not know if I ever shared this!! But here ya go, have fun with it!

100 Cart Blog Hop

Welcome to the FABULOUS June edition of the 

100 Cart

Blog Hop!

This is Day 2 of the Hop!!

 The Blog Hop is EVERY month, the 1st weekend of EVERY month and 

is brought to you by Erica of My Cricut Craft Room & Erica's Craft Room Store

As part of the DT my job for this hop was to choose 3 cartridges to showcase for you today...

Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when

she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

CONTEST TIME!

This month Erica is doing CUTTLEBUG giveaways!

Everyday this month she will be giving away

Cuttlebug folders.  She will even be

giving away a Cuttlebug!!

So make sure you visit

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

everyday during the month of June and leave a comment!

The Hop always begins with Erica at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com, so if you did not come to my blog from Amber's http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com please head to Erica's blog and start at the beginning of the hop.

Cardgredients:

Fish - Cricut Alphabet

on a Wobble

On an Acetate Card

BG Paper from Cricut Imagine Audrey Pattern Cartridge

sentiment stamp - {ippity} Fishy Philosophy stamp set
Action Wobble provided by The Scrapbooking Queen
Tombow Adhesive
Twinkle Dust
Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Fish - Blackout

Fish - Shift/Lock

Fish

This File also has this card on it

Greeting Cards Inside & Out

Just a standard print and cut card with a plain shape on the inside

of the card for a sentiment stamp or personal writing..

I previously showed a bag in these colors with this Design.. 

I have a little theme going for Baby Shower gifts.. 

Stork Delivery CardGredients:

CTMH White Daisy CS

Provo Craft Black CS

Offray Ribbon

Cricut Imagine Greeting Cards Inside & Out Cartridge

Teresa Collins Baby Boutique

This is a take on a card I did about a year ago when my Great Niece Ella was born..

As you can probably guess she is now 1 years old.. So this time I added Glossy Accents to the black on the frame and I used twinkle dust on the E

Popped it up and layered it on top of a pattern paper from the same cartridge TC Baby Boutique and then on the inside I added a blank white oval to write my birthday wishes to her.

Framed E Cardgredients:

CTMH White Daisy CS

Provo Craft Black CS

Cricut Imagine TC Baby Boutique Cartridge

Tulle

Glassy Accents

Twinkle Dust

3M Foam Adhesive

Next up please go to the ever so talented Christina's Blog!!

Here is the Blog Hop Line Up in case you get lost along the way...

Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com

Heather F. www.papercrafteranonymous.com

Christina - http://cema1cema.blogspot.com

Kathy Jo- http://skrappindiva.blogspot.com

Candice- http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/

Heather M. http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com

Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com

Erica's Project http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com

Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com

Sheila - http://2pawprints.blogspot.com

Raquel- http://kraftykaboose.blogspot.com

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Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

Half Full - Release Party

Today is the FABULOUS Release of the Magazine

A Homespun Affair..

If you have been following and participating you  know

how much FUN we have been having leading up to

this FABULOUS day!

I am on the Design Team for the Magazine and am Featured in the section 

called Card Attack. Where  I work wonders on fantastics cards, and share inspiration each month 

(Click on Photos to View Larger)
I am entering this card in the Unity FWF Link up
http://theunitystampco.blogspot.com/2012/06/girl-land-friday-and-friends-with-flair.html

You can read the instructions & materials used for this

card in the Card Attack feature of the

A Homespun Affair Magazine

Subscribe to the A Homespun Affair Magazine HERE

You can view the First Issue HERE

I hope you enjoy the First Issue, don't miss out on the FABULOUS Giveaways!

Also you will want to see if you were a winner from the Facebook Release Party!

There is a great Color Challenge in the Magazine as well that you will link your entry up to at the Homespun Affair Blog

Unity & KOM Challenge

I am entering this altered gift card holder into the Following Challenges

Unity KOM Sketch Challenge

http://theunitystampco-kotmsketch.blogspot.com/

Unity Challenge

http://www.theunitystampco-challenge.blogspot.com/

This month we are showing our STRIPES!!!

Anyway you want to...

just be sure to use Unity Stamps

somewhere on your creation.

On to my Entry...

I took the sketch and flipped it like this

Instead of an Oval I used a Heart

Starbucks Coffee Sleeve

Paper Authentique Free Bird Series

ChipBoard Heart from Basic Grey

Stamps: 3/12 KOM From Head to Soul

Ink: London Fog

Green & Pink Copic Markers

CTMH Distress Block

This is me showing MY Stripes on a Heart..