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Saturday, September 15, 2012

HIMCR-Technique Week!

Hey All!!

Today is Technique Week over at Hiding In My Craft Room!

For this weeks technique, we are doing Distressing or Antiquing!

There are MULTIPLE ways that you can distress or antique an item. You can sand, ink, rip, cut, crinkle, etc to give an item a distressed or aged look! You can do it to ANY item!!

I am used to distressing my cards or scrapbook layouts. For today's project, I wanted to think OUTSIDE the box and try to distress/age something different! So...here is what I wanted to distress:

 
These are 4 regular glass bottle that I found at AC Moore for $1.49 each!!! Now, its almost Halloween and I have been checking out prices on the decorations. WHAT??? Are they NUTS??? To but a "spooky" bottle decoration was going to cost me about $12! I KNEW I could make my own, so hence... Here is what I aged:
 
 
Here is an up close view of the first bottle. (After I took this picture, I knew it needed something...then came twine)

 
Here is what all 4 bottle look like after I distressed them a bit!
 
Supplies:
 
ModPodge
Silhouette Studio Files for labels
Vellum
Tim Holtz Distress ink-Vintage Photo
Brown and White Twine-Martha Stewart.
 
 
So, remember, you can give ANYTHING an older look! Try it out on a card first, then move on to something a little harder! Now, check out the rest of my DT sisters for some more inspiration! And make sure you enter this weeks challenge by clicking HERE!
 
 
OK all, hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'! 


Friday, September 14, 2012

Fall Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Fall Ball Blog Hop, brought to you by the design teams of Made Especially For You and I Heart {ippity}!


Today we're happy to share with you all sorts of fall-themed projects to get you in the mood for a season full of crisp leaves, bountiful pumpkin patches, warm apple cider, and all those other things we love that make fall such a wonderful time of year.

If you've come from HEATHER's blog, you're in the right place. If you just came across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Made Especially For You.

For my project, I created a Thank You card!!
 
 
 
This card SCREAMED fall to me :) I think it was the colors and the leaf that made me feel like fall!


 

We also have some wonderful sponsors giving away prizes to those who comment on every stop of the hop!
$15 Gift Certificate

$20 Gift Certificate

The winners of the blog candy will be announced on Made Especially For You on Tuesday September 18th. Please make sure to leave your contact information when commenting to be eligible to win!

Your next stop is LAURA'S blog 

 Here's the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:


Happy Hopping!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

My turn at Exploring Cricut!

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Hey All!


Today its my turn over at Exploring Cricut!

I wanted to share the cards I am making for my family and friends and their generosity they showed my husband and I for our housewarming party! I wanted to put just as much TLC in the thank you as I did the invites!

Here it is! Hope you like them!


I used my Cricut Imagine and Imagine More cards to create this card. I also used my Polka Dots embossing folder and some brown ribbon from my stash. Not sure who its from, but I had a lot of it!

Thanks so much for checking out my project today! Please don't forget to enter your MUST HAVE A PERSON project for your chance to win! You have until Sunday evening!!

OK all, hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room!

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Hey all!!
 
 
First and foremost...Being it is September 11, please keep your hearts open for the men, women, and children who lost lives 11 years ago today. God, I will NEVER forget where I was or how sad I felt after that day. I will explain to my son now that he is getting older what happened that day, and how it changed our world for the future.
 
Now, for my project...
 
 
Its time for another project over at My Cricut Craft Room!!!
 
 
Today, its Card Creating Tuesday! And we have to make a 3D Card!!!
 
For my card, I decided to pull out my Cricut Mini and play with that! I got an email from Cricut saying that if you link up your mini to the craft room, you will get access to 100's of images for FREE!!! Well, I LOVE free, so I hooked it up!!!
 
There were a few images that they gave us....Cricut Mini Baby, Cricut Mini Celebrate, Cricut Mini Elegant, and Cricut Mini School. Now, I also so Barack Obama and Mitt Romney...Not too sure if these were part of the Cricut Mini freebee's!!! LOL!!!
 
So,  here is the card I created for today:
 

I used Cricut Mini Celebrate and cut out the confetti with different pieces of background paper! I poped the pieces up on pop dots, and stamped CELEBRATE on a piece of purple paper to look almost like a forturn cookie paper....at least that was the look I was going for!!!



I hope you can go and check out the rest of the DT projects to see what they created!

Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!
 
 
 


Monday, September 10, 2012

Made Especially For You & Exploring Cricut Posts!!

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Hey All!!

WOW!! Sorry for the lack of posts this past week! I have been utterly exhausted after my trip to Florida! We had a wonderful time! Other than being in the hurricane for 3 days, it was AWESOME! We made the best of it!!!
Then, this week at work has been quite busy and we have been doing some entertaining with some of our family! Again, it was a WONDERFUL time!!!

So, I usually dont do this, but since I have been so behind on posting, I am combining my two posts for today!

I have my project over at Made Especially For You first. Here are the details of this project:

Week of September 10th - September 16th
Challenge: Create a card inspired by the provided sketch

Sponsor: Bugaboo Stamps - http://www.bugaboostamps.com/
Prize: 7 images of the winner's choice
Sponsor Button:


And, here is my project:

Please make sure you check out the rest of the DT to see their awesome projects!!!


Next, here is the info for my project over at Exploring Cricut!

Monday, Sept.  10- Sept. 16    Challenge-Cricut choice make any card, layout of papercraft in any theme or color, but must include one person cut (man, woman, boy, girl) from any cartridge that have those images.

As for my project this week, I wanted to make something "sporty" to give my hubby as a present. I thought about it, and thought about it, and I finally found what I wanted to make him. I will say, I am not happy with the colors so much because I did not have the team's CORRECT green, but he got the point and said he would put it out on Sunday as a good luck charm for his team! They were loosing all the way until I brought down his gift, then they won by 1 point!!! Woo Hoo!! So, here is my project:

 
I used the Cricut Cartridge Autumn Celebrations for this project! I cut the orginal image at 8 inches and all of the relative parts at 8. I used Craft Room Basics for the letters!
 
Make sure you get over to look at the rest of the wonderful design team's projects! And remember you have a week to enter your project for a chance to win!!


OK all! Hope to catch you all Craftin' and Stampin'!

Saturday, September 8, 2012

HIMCR Super Scraps Saturday!

Hey All!!

Quickie post today!! So sorry for that, but life is HECTIC!!!

Here is my project for Super Scraps Saturday over at HIMCR!!!

 
 
Can I just say how much I ADORE playing with my scraps??? Makes making cards a breeze! Now I got another extra birthday card to add to the collection :)
 
Head on over and check out the rest of the DT's cards! Then, enter your own in to win!!!
 
 
OK all! Hope to catch you Craftin' and Stampin'!
 


Saturday, September 1, 2012

September 100 Cartridge Blog Hop with My Cricut Craft Room!

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Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop Day ONE



You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning



Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 100 cartridge Blog hop!
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Collectively the design team uses over 100 different Cricut Cartridges in their projects during the two days of this hop. Sunday the new members of the design team will be announced and some have even made a project to share with you!! What an exciting weekend!!


For my project, I created a crayon box for my son to use at school! I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2, Locker Talk, Word of Mouth, and Sesame Street Font.
 
 I used my Cricut Imagine to color all the pieces and to make the backgound paper!

The background paper for this box is one of the background pieces from WORD OF MOUTH

 
The box was cut at 9in from TAGS BAGS BOXES AND MORE 2. I also cut the crayons from LOCKER TALK at 4 inches.

 
I also decided to use my GYPSY to weld my son's name from SESAME STREET FONT and put his name on one side.

 
Used SESAME STREET FONT again to spell and weld the word crayons.