Finish it Friday with Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Anything Goes

Today I am sharing a Christmas page I made using the following Cricut Cartridges:  George (circles), Close To My Heart Art Philosophy (Square doily), and Joys of the Season (leaf and berry sprig).  I am entering it in the Anything Goes Challenge at Fantabulous Cricut.  
The paper is K and Company (except chevron) and the snowflake rosettes are Tim Holtz.  I love the Tim Holtz rosettes and was so excited to find the snowflake die at It's Always Fabulous on Etsy.  The red stars are Queen and Co.

Work the Stash Wednesday

If you have scrap booked as long as I have, you may have a large stash of paper that you have promised you will use.  So, today I am using some of my stash and sharing a page I made with a photo from a family Christmas card.  The snowflake is made with Winter Lace Cricut Cartridge, and the title is Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Cartridge.  The paper is Basic Grey and I have had scraps of it forever.  It was just too pretty to put in the recycle bin, so I have fussy cut the poinsettias and added them to the page.  The brads are Close to My Heart.  Small snowflakes are made with Martha Stewart punch and then punched with Creative Memories Circle punch.

Shared it Sunday: A Christmas SVG Title

You may be sharing on Facebook all the things you are thankful for this November on a daily basis or seeing all those sharing things they are thankful for, and all this sharing has reminded me of things I am grateful for.  One of the things I am grateful for is my blog and online crafting friends, so I thought it time to share a SVG I made for a Christmas page.  If you like this title, enough to download it, I would love for you to comment here and let me know.  It might encourage me to make and share more SVGs.  I am thankful that I can cut SVGs on my Cameo!
The SVG has "C" on one end of the circle and the rest of the word "hristmas" on the other end.  I love this look!  Here is the link for the file.    Below you can see how I used it on a page.  Wondering about that translucent doily?  It's Stampin Up die cut in wax paper.  I like to use wax paper between my card stock and detailed dies to make the card stock easy to remove and sometimes the wax paper is just too pretty to throw away.  I thought it was a great addition to this page and the winter and snow!  The other snowflakes are Martha Stewart punches and the paper is old Fiskars.

Adding Sparkle to Holiday Projects

Joy Card

Supply List

Art Glitter 332 Red Rocket Chunky Opaque Hologram Glitter

Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Glue

Art Glitter Ultra Fine Tip

Northwood Stamp P9239 Berry and Leaf Tree

White Card Stock

Red Card Stock

K & Company patterned paper

K & Company Rub on

Martha Stewart Snowflake Border Punch

Teal Marker

Red Swiss Dot Card Stock

Red Ink

To create this card, Clare stamped and cut a Christmas tree using Northwoods Berry and Leaves Tree Stamp.  Clare applied Art Glitter dries clear glue using the Ultrafine tip to the ribbon only on the tree stamp.  She added Art Glitter 332 Red Rocket  Chunky Opaque Hologram Glitter and allowed it to dry.  She then matted it on red card stock and cut around it.  She cut a white mat and faux stitched it with a teal marker.  She matted that on some red Swiss dot card stock.  She punched the Martha Stewart snowflake border along the edge of the white card stock and adhered  the border to the back of the K & Company patterned paper.  She used a K and Company Rub on for the Joy to the World Sentiment.  She then assembled all the mats and borders.  

Christmas Tree Star Page

Supply List

Art Glitter 332 Red Rocket Chunky Opaque Hologram Glitter

Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Glue

Art Glitter Ultra Fine Tip

Northwood Stamp P9239 Berry and Leaf Tree

October Afternoon Good Cheer:  Falling Snow Paper

Cream Card Stock

Red Card Stock

Red Ink

Forever in Time Gem Swirls

Silhouette America Merry Christmas Title

Clare loves to stretch her stamps to make multiple images with one stamp.  For this project she used the tree stamp to create a star.  To create the star, she stamped and cut 12 Christmas trees using Northwoods Berry and Leaves Tree Stamp.  Clare cut out all 12 trees.  Using Art Glitter Ultra fine tip and Designer dries clear glue; Clare applied glue to the ribbon only on all 12 trees.  She added Art Glitter 332 Red Rocket  Chunky Opaque Hologram Glitter.  She allowed the glue to dry and using 6 trees placed them in a circle to form a snow flake, matching ribbon ends.  She adhered the trees to red card stock and cut around snowflake to form a red mat.  

Using the next six trees overlapping ribbons, she created a smaller snowflake on red card stock.  She adhered the trees and cut out the smaller snowflake.  She adhered the larger snowflake to page, and adhered smaller snowflake inside larger snowflake, alternating tree points.  Clare cut her photo in circle and placed in center of the snowflake, fussy cutting the baby’s hand and feet because they were just so sweet she could not crop them out! 

Clare created the title using a Silhouette file and the Cameo to print and cut the title.   She added the Red Rocket to the title using the Ultra fine tip as well.  She added bling in the lower right hand corner.

A Little Sparkle Page 

Supply List

Art Glitter 183 Blue Angel Ultrafine Pearlescent Glitter

Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Glue

Art Glitter Ultra Fine Tip

K & Company  Patterned Paper

Cricut Disney Tinker Bell Cartridge (fairy and title)

Tombow Marker 743

Tombow Marker 452

Tombow Marker 055

Tombow Blending Mister

Small Water Color Brush

Karen Foster Sparkle Burst Brads

Want2Scrap Red bling

Chomas Creations Pen holder

Red Card Stock

White Card Stock

Cricut CTMH Artist Cartridge (ornament)

Fiskars paper crimper (top of ornament)

Microtip black marker

Gold Card Stock

For this project, Clare wanted to try using the Tombow marker to color Tinkerbell.  Clare loves how vibrant these markers can be and that they can also be as soft as a water color paint!  If you have every tried to cut a Tinkerbell and all of her little parts (eyes, fillagree wings, lips, etc) you may understand that Clare find cutting these tiny pieces, lifting them from the mat and gluing them too frustrating!  So she loaded the Chomas creations pen holder in her Cricut and drew the detail Tinkerbell to use as a coloring guide.  She replaced the pen holder with the blade and cut a separate Tinkerbell black out in white card stock.  She placed the pen drawn Tinker bell behind the blackout Tinkerbell on a light box and colored it with the Tombow markers.  

For the skin color, Clare blended Tombow 933, 743, 055.  For the Wings, Tink's Eyes and the large Christmas ornament, Clare used Tombow 452.  Clare is so excited to play with these markers again, because of all the water color posibilities with the control of a marker!  To keep the water content low, Clare sprayed as she worked onto a scrap piece of clear plastic and added more water as needed.  You can find lots of videos on using these markers on Youtube.  Just search for Tombow marker tutorials.  

Clare also used the Chomas pen holder for the title outline and then colored it in with Tombow 452.  She then applied Art Glitter Blue Angel to the title and Tinkerbell's wings using the Ultrafine tip.  She added a few rhinestones and a Sparkle burst brad and a Christmas Card Photo.  The top of the ornament was crimped with Fiskars paper crimper to look like a real ornament in gold card stock.  

A Season of Blessings Card

Supply List

Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Glue

Art Glitter Ultra fine glue tip

Art Glitter 280 Lime Rind

Art Glitter 110 Taupe

Art Glitter D95 Guava Art Hexi Transparent

Northwood Stamp P9239 Berry and Leaf Tree

Copic Markers

Velvet Ribbon

Zipper

Orange Card Stock

DCWV Brown Card Stock

Green Check patterned paper

CTMH chip board arrow

CTMH Flourished Blessings Stamp

Momento Black ink

Distress Ink

Glue Dots

Pop Dots

Clare stamped the fall scene using Momento black ink, so that she could use alcohol markers without the image smearing.  She colored the image and used the Art Glitter Designer Dries clear glitter and Ultrafine tip to apply the 280 Lime Rind Glitter to the leaves and centers of the Sunflowers.  She applied 110 Taupe to the cornstalks in the same manner.  

To achieve the texture I the mums, Clare applied several small dots to some of each flowers petals, but not the entire flower.  She sprinkled on the D95 Guava Art Hexi Transparent glitter.   To add dimension and glitter to the cornstalks, she used Art Glitter Taupe and she used Lime rind on the sunflowers, pumpkin stalks, and leaves. To get the fine detail, Clare loves the Art Glitter ultrafine tip and Designer dries clear glue! She then set this aside and allowed it to dry.  Once dry she matted it on brown card stock.

She stamped the sentiment onto a piece of chipboard and distress inked the edges.  She then matted the arrow on a bit of orange card stock.  She added a scrap of khaki colored zipper and a scalloped velvet ribbon using glue dots.

And the Winner Is...

And the winner of the Cricut Expression Dust cover is:  lindaplus3.  She said:  Sooooo cute,,, gives me ideas,, thank you and the cover is so pretty :).  Thanks Linda!  I will contact you via email for shipping address.  Thanks!

Cake Challenge Birthday Card

I'm up for another challenge to get a project done.  This one is a birthday card and I am entering it into Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday:  Have Your Cake Challenge 181.    The Happy Birthday to you and bottom line of music is from Paper Lace 2, welded to a circle from George in CCR and the cupcake is Cricut Close to My Heart Art Philosophy Cartridge.  I cut some overhead clear sheets to make a see through card front and placed the lace cut on top.  I doodled some faux stitching and place a bit of ribbon under the cupcake motif and the card is finished.