Cricut Lightning Concert....

Who knew the judge was so cool?

Look she even has a tattoo



A Cricut Lightning Meet and Greet

OK I blame my husband for this one!!! I was joking around and saying I should make another little Cricut display and he told me I should make a ROCK band. Are you laughing as hard as I was? He really was serious. I told him I had no idea of what to make - so my hubby went to the cartridges and pulled out Rock Princess. Yes!!! I know shocked. He told me I should make the guitar, drums, and a singer. OK so I ran with it and Cricut Lighting was born. He thought it would be funny if I gave them all tattoos, just like real rock stars. (Oh and no we don't have any tattoos).  So I went to town thinking of the dresses, the stage and all and this is what I came up with.

I loved the idea of the meet and greet so the stars could thank their fans. I couldn't part with the past decorations of a few vinyl bugs so I just left them and added a few little extras.

I used mainly Rock Princess - the guitar was cut at 2", and the drum set was cut at 3" but I clipped the "drummer" out to be able to add Cricuts.
He told me I should use the lightning bolt theme. I loved that idea.
The lightning bolt is cut at 2 1/2"
The Cricut circle is cut at 4 1/2"

I had allot of fun making these for the Cricut Circle challenge. I think this is one of my FAVORITE challenges.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Cricut Dress up - Beach Style

So I must admit I'm loving dressing up my little Cricut Vinyl's. They already have a cute little personality but dressing them up really adds so much more. I couldn't bring myself to undress the other Criuts.  So I just selected a few little guys/gals (HAVE we figured out yet is Cricut a Boy or a Girl)? I am making mine both little gals and guys. :).

I wanted to make a cruise/beach theme so I thought this would be fun. I used only 1 cartridge - Pack your bags.

I will give you a small little tip... If you are going to cut really tiny detailed items use vinyl - it's perfect. - The drink, bathing suits, and snorkel gear all cut from vinyl.

I made Red -- a cute little bathing suit I actually took the bikini from Pack your bags and trimmed it down. (I didn't photo her but she actually has the tie in the back). I added a few little gems to her but and added a yummy summer drink.
The bikini was cut at 1" and the drink at 1 1/2" w/ the layers.

Green - has the full set of snorkel gear on complete w/ the fins, and flaoties.
I used my Gypsy to figure out what size snorkel -- which actually cut at 6" because it is a layer to the scuba diver on Pack your bags.

Boat cut at  7" w/ layers
Sand Castle cut at 3" w/ layers - some ink

I then cut some coral, fishes and star fish - random sizes from different colors.

I really had fun with the fair so I thought this would be equally as fun. I really hope you enjoy it. I know it makes me laugh. She must of had too much of that yummy drink as she fell over.  (or a little 3 year old kept messing with her)... :).

Hope you enjoy and

Happy Scrappin'

NOVEMBER EXCLUSIVE SOPHIE CARTRIDGE CONTEST!

This months Cricut Magazine Challenge was to use the Sophie cartridge. I must admit I got it and put it on the shelf and hadn't played with it until recently. Can I just say there are some mighty pretty little doilies, and other cuts. I think I"ll be using this cartridge more often now.

So here is the Magazine challenge rules:

We love our darling Sophie cartridge so much that we want to feature it in this month’s contest! Use your exclusive cartridge to create something fabulous for the upcoming holidays!
Contest Rules: Use your Sophie cartridge for at least 3 cuts to create your project. Contest will open on November 18th. Please upload a working link or picture of your project to the blog under the Magazine Challenge tab. Please, one entry per person. Entry deadline is Friday, December 9th. The winner of this contest will receive $150.00 credit to Cricut.com! We know you are looking forward to spending that fun money!!

So for this I made a cute little house I thought that when I saw some of the fancy cuts I was trying to figure out how to make it work for this little house.

I know your looking for the Sophie cuts trust me they are there.

Here is how I made the Box -

It is cut from the "House on Sweet Treat" cut at 10".

Then I attached the layers of the door, the "grass" which I changed up and made it white for snow. I didn't put the flower boxes as I knew that I'd be making this more Christmas style.

IF you look out my front door right now there is a ton of snow so this really kind of mimics my house and is where I got the inpiration from. There is also the roof cut from Sweet treats but then it's all changed from there.

I was looking through the book on Sophie to figure out how I was going to make the shingles. Trust me I had several thoughts in my head and none of those were looking just right. So I turned to my Wonderful Hubby and asked him -- after all he took tons of drafting classes and has a degree as an engineer. HE then looked at the book and saw this cute little "shingle". He told me to use the Accent 4 - and then cut them in half. TaDa it worked. I think it layered nicely to form Shingles.

I cut 40 Accent 4 base pieces at 2" each - cut in half.

The snowflakes are cut at 1.5" from the Doily Snowflake function. I cut 8 of those added some Stickles for some sparkle.

I then cut the Doily at 5" and trimmed around it to make the garland hanging outside of the windows.

The final cut was the adorable little Christmas tree - just used some red paper and green paper (scraps) and cut that 2 times at 3" -- then of course added some pretty Ruby Stickles.

I put this all together - can I just say it just sparkles. I added some Star Dust stickles to the snow just like real snow glistens when it 1st falls. I think I might put some little cookies in this and give to my neighbor.

Well hope you enjoy

Happy Scrappin'

September Magazine Challenge

Close up of the sides

For this month the Magazine Challenge for the Cricut Circle Blog was to use any collection of paper from Echo Paper.

Let me just tell you this paper is so adorable I bought several paper packs a few months ago just because it was purely CUTE. I bought a total of 5 paper packs. (SHHH don't tell). Playground paper pack has to be one of my favorite papers: It has Hopscotch, Red Rover, Heads Up Seven UP, Jump Rope, Mokey Bars, Hide and Seek, Capture the Flag, merry Go Round. All of these papers remind me of my childhood.
I bought Playground paper pack to make something for my daughters Pre-School teachers. I had no clue what I was going to make and was just holding the paper. This challenge came along and I instantly thought about what I would make.
I made a cute little box, a pencil with a topper and a sticky note pad . I thought this paper would be perfect for this challenge.
The box is really simple to make but just takes a little practice and some cutting. I used a thicker weight bazzil paper for the base and then layered the Echo Park Paper on it.
I used my cricut to cut the cute little kiddos. They are all cut at 2.5" and are from Playtime cartridge. Can I just say these little kiddos are so adorable. I used Peachy Keen Faces for them.
I used the Echo Park Paper for most of the clothes.

The pencil toppers I made using my Martha Stewart score board -made 2 rosettes, and then topped them off with the cute little apple from Create a Critter. The scallop is from Art's Philosophy cut at 5". I added some star dust stickles to the leaves.

The sticky pad holders were made using Echo Park Paper and the scallop is from Art's Philosophy (love that cartridge) cut at 2" and the letters are cut from Country Life.

I really enjoyed making these little projects and hope her teachers love them too.

Happy Scrappin'