25 DAYS OF CHISTMAS! THEME: SPORTS

Welcome to the 25 days of Christmas from Erica's Craft Room and Design Team!  As many as 25 projects everyday in December!!!!  Once you are done here, make sure that you head back to check out all of the fabulousness happening back at her blog!

I wanted to share pictures of a room design I put together using the Soccer Cartridge and Sophisticated Cartridge.  I was asked by a friend to design something for her daughter's bedroom - she had looked everywhere for a girly soccer design and couldn't find anything, let alone something with the name "Julianna".  Pictures below are what we put together.  Simplu cut from large pieces of vinyl - no alterations here.  Thanks for stopping by today!!!

 The transfer tape allows you to stick the images up on the wall to try them out without committing them to their spot until you are ready - you can see we tried a few different things before we decided on a final version.

The soccer ball was cut twice, once from white, once in black and layered.  It comes from Life's a Party.

 

And I can't beleive I didn't take a picture of it, but I cut a matching "J" from t-shirt vinyl and adhered it to a pillow case to tie in her bed with a personalized touch.

As always - thank you for stopping by!

Sophisticated Cartridge Feature with Erica's Craft Room!

Hello!  I am excited to share a new feature as part of Erica's Design Team projects we are now posting themed projects, daily cartridge explorations, and in December TWENTY FIVE projects a DAY!  Whew!  I am exited to say that I will have approximatly TWENTY posts between now and Christmas!  So I hope that I don't overwhelm you!

Once you are done checking out this post, make sure you stop back at Erica's My Cricut Craft Room to see what my DT sisters are up to today and if you haven't picked up yourself something special yet - check out the awesome deals she has going on at her store! 

So here is my project!  I was askked to create some custom work for a friend's daughter's bedroom, as her name is impossible to find - there is more to share with this project that I will be posting later in December - a full out Soccer Wall for a girl!  These pictures show the process of the placement of the vinyl after it was cut, and then once it was adhered.

I love the feminine look of the font in this cart!  Thank you so much for looking!  If you have any questions, please let me know, I'll be glad to answer them.  Have a great day!

Card Creating Sunday!

Hi!  Two posts in a row!  I'm out of control!

Today's post is part of Erica's My Cricut Craft Room's Card Creating Sunday.  Please make sure to check out her blog today to see the other fantastic creations my Design Team sisters have created to share with you!

So....  I'm not a big card maker.  I'll MAKE them, but I'm more of a scrapbooker.  But with all of the incredible toys I have at my disposal, buying cards at the store seems like a silly thing to do.  Not to mention, my family sees me make projects and things for others all of the time.  I want them to know that they are worthy of my time and effort on a hand made project too.

My Husband?  He's a MAJOR card guy.  He'll spend hours picking out just the right card, that says just the right thing - they matter a lot to him - what the cards say, whether its funny or serious each card has a point that comes from his heart.  Not just cards for me either - he's like that for anyone he buys a card for.... they LOVE him at the Halmark store : )

So for our 5th anniversary, I wanted to make him something that was meaningful, something he would appreciate.  I used Sophisticated to cut a 5 in black and a white shadow at around 4.5".  Then I used a punch to make the black arrow which points down and placed ot on a damask paper (Recollections) with a blue band (these were the colors used in our wedding).  So, the front of the card reads, "Five Down".  Inside I wrote, "and forever to go."  I listed at the top of the card my five favorite things about being married to him - some funny some serious, all true : ) 

This card idea could be incorporated for any anniversary year and could be done with or without the list.  I thank you for taking the time to read my story today and check out my card - you make my day when you stop by!!

Have a great day today!

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday! October 12

Welcome to Would You Ever Guess Wednesday!  The day of the week where we, the member's of Erica's My Cricut Craft Room Design Team, create projects using nothing but the creative features on our cartridges, helping you find the full value of the catridges we all love to spend out hard earned cash on : )  Once you are done here, hop over there to see more projects!

Today I'm excited to share with you an invitation I made for my daugther's 13th birthday party.  We have a local tea house that serves a proper "English High Noon Tea", complete with scones and tea sandwhiches.  Its a lovely place - and we wanted to create just the right invitation.  I found just the thing on "A Child's Year" - not the first place you'd go to look for a 13-year old's party invitation.

A Child's Year features a card making button!  Choose the proper size (I chose a 5 x 7 card, and cut at 5") and embelish at will.  I also thought it would be neat to cut the image again using patterned paper and hand cutting the tea pot away from the card for a layered look, but thats not what my daughter wanted. 

The letter is from Sophisticated and the bows are handmade with a bow easy.  I really liked that when you open the card, there is a little tea pot icon inside as well.  We printed the party info on velum and placed that inside using vellum tape (can't see it).

Erica's Cricut Craft Room 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's August 100 Cartridge Blog Hop.

You should have come here from the fabulous and talented Jackie Lodge's (Jack Rabbit Scrappin) page.  If not please start at the beginning at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/.

Here is the fun projects I made to share with you this month!  For this project I have used the cartridges:

• Elegant Edges
• Mother's Day Bouquet
• Sophisticated 
• Tags Bags Boxes and More

Do you like mini books?  Lately I'm a little obsessed : )  I've decided to try and make 50 of them for an upcoming trade show, so we'll see how it goes : )  If you DO like mini albums, the Elegant Edges Cart is a MUST HAVE.  It makes the process SO fun and easy!  Mini Albums can be made by simply cutting chipboard into squares or using the cricut to cut out shapes into thinner chipboard.  Either can be embellished with a full coat of paper adhered by Mod-Podge or left "naked", like I did with the "Tween books below."  I make my books in sets of four and all are in 6 x 6 size. 

Here are the Tween Books:

I love that doodle-y trim!!!

The second set of books aren't quite done yet, but they have a more "shabby chic" feel to them and are accented with handmade flowers from Mother's Day Bouquet.  These Flowers are SO simple to make, just cut in various sizes and colors, wet a bit using inks (I used Walnut Ink), water, or glimmer mist crumple or bend, let dry, then put them together.  I just kind of do it haphazardly... playing around with which ones I think look best with what.  I also change up the centers, but when I'm making many, I tend to go for glitter glue, it's fast, easy and CHEAP : )

***Please note - I mix in Prima's here and there, but 95% are my handmades.

First some close ups of the flowers:

Flowers "In Action"

And here are some pictures of the other mini's I'm working on:

 

"Thankful" is from Sophisticated.

Please stop back by through out the week as I will be posting more pictures of these projects and the additional minis I'm working on.  I hope you have enjoyed my post today!  THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to stop by : )

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