Heart Shaker Wand

This is a project I made for the Cricut Circle Blog weekly Challenge. The theme is Whatevah! And the requirements are that you use the same shape three times in the project and some spray ink.



I used Cake Basics for the base heart shape. I used my gypsy to make a silhouette layer, and then a solid layer for the back. I placed smaller hearts onto the heart base and silhouette layer and then sprayed it with Glimmer Mist in Candy Apple Red. I then cut a solid heart in acetate and adhered it to the back side of the silhouette layer.


I then cut a lovebug on page 31 from Simply Charmed. I put some googily eyes on him to make him a little sillier.

I attached foam adhesive strips to the perimeter of the base heart, and that gave my sides for the shaker box.

I filled the shaker with Hearts cut from Lacy Labels, and some small glittered heart stickers from my stash. I then inked the sides of the foam tape with red so they blended more with the heart.

I inked a skinny dowel rod with colorbox ink in Cyan, and then attached it to the back of my shaker with E6000 adhesive. I tied some ribbon in red and pink to the dowel right under the heart.

Sweet Tweets Valentine's Day Treat Bouquet

Here is a Valentine's Day Treat I made. I have bought these clear bags from my Stampin' Up consultant quite a while ago and have been waiting to use them.


I needed to use the Songbird cartridge as part of my own cartridge challenge, so I chose the frame cut from page 62. I cut two and sized them in order to have a shadow layer. I then used my gypsy and the word tweet on page 69 and welded an s to the end I then cut that image twice. I also used a capital S and just cut off the t and s for in order to spell Sweet. The adorable little bird is from Create a Critter on page 65. I flipped the image in my Gypsy before cutting it. I also cut the little flower for her head twice for and extra layer, and used a stylus to give it some shape. I added a gem to the cneter for some sparkle.

The flowers were made using a 2.5" scallped circle punch. The rosettes were made with 1" strips of heart print paper I found in the dollar bin at Target. I used my Martha Stewart Scoreboard to make the rosette. I hot glued a small heart punched from a Creative Memories punch to the center of the rosette. I stapled the scalloped circle to the top of the clear bag, and then glued the rosette to the circle.

The clear bags can be found at www.ClearBags.com
The ones I used are 1" by 8" with a flap seal.

Have a Great Day!

Cartridge Challenge - Week 6

Here are this weeks cartridges picks:
ZooBalloo

This is really cute font with animal to go with each letter. I have used the font alone many times. I have also used the animals for various projects too. Being an older cartridge, the cuts and layers are simpler than the new cartridges. Sometimes the simpler cuts can be easier to use. What I haven't used on this cartridge is some of the other features like the card or box feature. Perhaps I will explore those images first.
Mother's Day Seasonal

There are some lovely intricate lace designs on this cartridge. As this is a seasonal cartridge, there are fewer images to choose from, which can make the decision making both easy and difficult.

I am enjoying the challenges I have faced so far in using these cartridges as I draw them from my jar.

Have a great week!

Smiley Cards Birthday Placemat and Card

This is Week 5 of my Cartridge Challenge. It was also my daughter's Birthday this week, so I chose to use a Birthday Image and Phrase from Smiley Cards and make a placemat and matching card for her.

I cut the Birthday Cake image from page 41 in the Handbook. I also used the phrase from that page too. I cut Maddie from Pooh Font. All solid carstock was from my stash, most likely it was Smooth Cardstock from Archiver's. The plum floral paper is from DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack from last year. The thin blue border is older stickers from Creative Memories. I then laminated the sheet using my Your Story Machine. Now we have a placemat that Maddie can use year after year.

Here is a matching card I made for her too.

the card base was from an older, card making kit. I cut a plum piece of paper to gon on the front and tied it with piece of white ribbon from Hobby Lobby. Inside the card I put a matching Ha-P B-Day cut.

Have a great week!

French Manor Cartridge Challenge Jars

I have wanted to make labels for these jars ever since I started this challenge, so when the French Manor cartridge was pulled from the jar, I decided to use it. I chose black and white paper from my scraps stash as my scraproom accent colors are black and white.

I used my gypsy and chose a square tag. I then chose a rounded square from George to make a frame for the tag instead of using the artwork already on the cartridge. Since this cartridge doesn't have a shadow feature for the tags I just sized the back layer up slightly bigger than the front frame layer. I made two of these tages and printed the phrases from my computer and adhered them to the frames.
I also cut the lock and keys from French Manor. I cut each key three times and then glued the three layers together to give it some strength. I glimmer-misted each key and then used some ink to distress them. The lock cut is backed by a scrap of shimmer paper and pop dotted to the frame.

The jar labeled Cartridge challenge holds the slips of paper with the names of the cartridges I have not used yet. The Unlock you creativity jar is where I am putting the cartridge names after I have used them, rather than just throwing them out. Perhaps when I complete this challenge I will start it all over again. LOL Well lets just get through this one first though before I decide whether I will repeat this challenge.

Have a great day!

Cartridge Challenge - Week 5

Hi All,
Here are the Cartridges pulled for this week:
I have used both of these cartridges in the past.

Smiley Cards

Smiley Cards I have only used once for the martini glass cut, but I think it will be easier to cut some things now that I have a PDF of the handbook. I use my handbooks quite a bit, and was frustrated when I first received the Smiley Cards download. It was difficult to figure out what exactly I was looking at on my Gypsy screen with regards to the layers. A GREAT BIG THANKS to ProvoCraft first for giving us this great cartridge as a free download, but then also making up a PDF handbook just like the other cartridges have

Songbird
Songbird has a wonderful cursive font that welds together nicely, and the Birdhouse Font is really cute.

Better Together Candles

I made these candles a couple of weeks ago for some friends. I forgot to post it, so when I drew this cartridge for the week 4 challenge, I thought, terrific, I already had a project done!

The top candle was my first attempt at this tissue technique. The second candle is one I made for my Bff for a gift.

First step in this project is putting a regualr sheet of cardstock on the Imagine Mat, and then taping a piece of tissue on top of it. That way the tissue doesn't stick to the mat. I thought it might be too fragile to remove from the mat without ripping.
Then I printed the image without cutting it out. Earlier attempts at sutting the tissue with the Imagine, ripped the tissue, so I settled for hand cutting the image out.

The next step is to place your image on top of your candle and use a heat gut to melt the candle underneath the image. The wax seeps through the image and adhears it to the candle.
This is tricky, take your time so you dont' overheat the area around your image. I did get a few spots onteh candle where drips were showing. I tried to heat and smooth them out the best I could. I think next time I will heat them much slower to keep the area around the image looking neater.

I added twine to the first candle and some flowers and ribbon to the second one.



It was a fun little project and I would definately try it again. However, I am not sure how burning a candle with the tissue on it works, so if you choose to do so, be careful.