What Does the Fox Say?

That is a very popular question lately and I think I've found the answer. I will reveal it at the end if the post.

I made a quick and easy Valentine's card using my Cricut, the Wild Card 2 cartridge, and some My Mind's Eye paper. I have to admit, that little fox is what sold me on this cartridge. 

I used some core'dinations cardstock for my base and sanded it to bring out the embossed design. I then cut the heart and the adorable little fix out of different patterned papers from the My Mind's Eye  6x6 pack. I finished the card off with some faux stitching and some googly eyes.

Now to answer everyone's question, what does the fox say?

Happy Heart Day of course, it's almost Valentine's Day!

Get Carried Away with Animal Antics

I have gotten carried away with Disney projects the last few months and it was nice to sit down and make a card again.  I decided to play some more with my cricut since I had a couple of cartridges I hadn’t opened yet.   I used my Imagine to make this card so that all I needed was a couple pieces of white cardstock. 

I layered different patterns of paper from the Spring Chic Imagine cartridge on my cardfront and then used some 3D foam pads to pop my rhino (from the Animal Antics cartridge) up from the background.  I love his chevron print glasses. 
I printed some more cardstock for the inside of the card and added my sentiment which is also from Animal Antics.
 
That’s it a super quick and easy card.  Don’t get too carried away that you forget to do what you enjoy.
Supplies Used
cardstock
ATG tape
Cricut Imagine

Disney Autograph Book pages

It’s a lot of work preparing for a Disney trip. I’ve always tried to make a special autograph book for my daughter to take with her when we go to Disney.  This time I’m starting early so I have to time to finish it without killing myself and running out of time.  I’m using my cricut and my cinch to make the book.  I love the cinch, I find it much easier to use than my bind it all. 

The book is going to be 8 x 8 and each page will feature a certain character with their name and a space for their autograph.  I’m using my Imagine with a list of Disney RGB codes I found online to fill in each individual layer.  This makes it much easier than trying to find the right color of cardstock for each little piece. 

Here are a few of the pages I have done so far. 

I’m cutting the characters at 4.5 inches.  This allows them to fit on the page, but most of the layers are big enough to work with.  The size of the borders and the titles vary, but most of them are around 2 inches.  After I have all the pages finished, I will bind the book with my cinch.
I’m off to a good start, but I still have a long way to go. 

supplies used for this project
cricut cartridge Mickey and Friends
various patterned papers
cardstock
Cinch

Let's Talk Turkey

The current Cooking With Cricut challenge is Let's Talk Turkey. I have another turkey card to share with you.

For this one I used the Create a Critter cartridge I wanted to make a turkey shaped card this time instead of just another card with a turkey on it. I tried welding 2 of the turkey shapes together on my gypsy but it just didn't work. It was too small, so I came up with another idea. I cut 2 of the turkey shadows the size I wanted them and then cut all the layers. I scored the top of the hat about 1/2 and inch down and then glued it to the back. I have a couple of cartridges with turkeys on them but I have to say I think this create a critter turkey is the cutest one!

Something to Celebrate

Hi, it's my turn to host the Cooking With Cricut cartridge showcase. I have chosen to showcase the cartridge Something to Celebrate. This is a newer cartridge and it is adorable. It has a little something for all sorts of events like birthdays, baby showers, graduations and more. The cartridge has several features -- there are shaped cards, a font, font shaped cards, and decor items.

My first project is this adorable cupcake shaped card. I cut the card at 5 1/2 inches and then cut the actual cupcake and it's layers at the same size. This worked great and the card base served as a shadow for the layered image. I finished the card with some googly eyes which are perfect for this cartridge because most of the images have faces on them. If you are not a fan of the faces, you could definitely hide them with your Gypsy, Design Studio or in the Cricut Craft Room.

For my next project I used one of the images by itself. I chose this piece of pie and decided to make it look like pumpkin pie. This makes a great Thanksgiving card. Once again I used googly eyes on the piece of pie and added the image to the card with an action wobble to give it some movement.

Next I decided to make two of the decor items from the cartridge. The hot pink pillow box is the decor item from the pennant cut on page 45. I cut it at "fit to page" which ended up being 5 3/4 inches -- a really nice size. You could fill this box with some candy and a gift card and give it to someone for their birthday. That would be much more exciting than just putting the gift card in an envelope. I decorated my box with a birthday cake, but you could easily change the cake to the graduation cap or the stork and use it for whatever you need.

The other decor item I made is this little pink polka dotted favor box. This is the decor cut from the streamers image on page 40. I also cut this at "fit to page" and it ended up being 2 1/2 inches. This is the perfect size to use as a little candy favor box to put on the table at a shower or birthday party. I have only touched the tip of the iceberg with this cartridge. As I mentioned before it also has a font letters and number with and without a little flame on the top. You can also make a shaped card out of the numbers and letters. The number shaped cards would be perfect for a child's birthday. I hope I have inspired you to take a look at the Something to Celebrate cartridge and see what you can make with it.

Adopt a Shelter Pet Blog Hop

Welcome to Scrappy and Piggy and the CookingWithCricut.com “Adopt A Shelter Pet” Hop! October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, but we wanted to honor and celebrate all of our furry friends! If you've come from visiting Melin at the Cooking With Cricut blog, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to hop along with us, you can go to CookingWithCricut.com and start at the beginning.

We recently adopted a new puppy. She is a little mutt, but we love her. I have used my cricut to make this layout and display some of her adorable baby pictures.

For this project I used two different cricut cartridges. For the little Snooki dog I used Paper Pups. I have to say this little dog looks a lot like her. For the rest of the layout, I used the Cricut Imagine cartridge Baby Boutique. This cartridge has some great elements. I printed and cut the frame with the crown and the title. The background paper which is kind of hard to see in the picture was also printed on the Imagine as well as the giraffe print border on the bottom. I added some bling to the crown and the title because you can never have enough bling!

I do have a small blog candy package to give away to one person who leaves a comment on this post.

Now it's your turn! Link up your purr-fectly wonderful pet-themed project at CookingWithCricut.com. Here are a few guidelines:

Must follow the challenge topic.
Must be a NEW project for this challenge. No back dated posts please.
Must have a link back to this post on your blog.
Must link your project post through Inlinkz and not just your blog.
Must use your Cricut in some capacity.
Must HAVE FUN!
You may gladly combine challenges . . . we love to pile it on TOO!

The Design Team will pick their three favorites and one lucky person will be chosen randomly to win one of the prize packages being offered in this hop. There is also a prize package for just leaving us some love (a comment) on the CWC blog. One catch, those leaving comments MUST be a CWC follower. Each prize winner will receive a $20 gift voucher-download from PaperCraftingWorld.com. The Design Team’s top three will each receive $5.00 gift voucher-download from PaperCraftingWorld.com.

Now head on over Adrian’s blog at byadrain4u to see what they’ve cooked up for you!

“Adopt A Pet” Blog Hop Participants:
Melin-CWC http://www.CookingWithCricut.com
Mindy - http://scrappyandpiggy.blogspot.com
Adrian - http://www.byadrian4u.blogspot.com
Charlotte - http://alittlebitofdetail.blogspot.com
Madison - http://funkycards.blogspot.com
Nita - http://www.niftynitanotes.blogspot.com
Jill - http://www.jaihartjustlovelydesigns.blogspot.com
Holly - http://ribbonsandglue.blogspot.com
Maria Elena - http://mariaelenaworld.blogspot.com
Linda - http://www.lindascreativity.blogspot.com
Heather http://www.heather-p.blogspot.com
Felicia - http://scrapperinthemaking.blogspot.com
Court - http://courtscraftcorner.blogspot.com
Elizabeth - http://ejoym.blogspot.com
Debbie - http://workinscrappinmomof4.blogspot.com
Dalis - http://stampergirl.com
Jen - http://gator-4-life.blogspot.com

Me and Mom

It's time for another Papercrafting World challenge! This time our them is Mother's Day.

I have used the file Hogs and Kisses for this challenge . The files are available in many different formats. I have cut mine in Make the Cut.

I cut the stading pig twice once larger(for the mom) and a second time a little smaller to be my little piggy.

We love pink and black at my house. If you throw in some houndstooth and some zebra stripes, even better! The paper I used on this project is from Glitz. I cut the title from the cricut cartirdge Don Juan and added some litte white polka dots for decoration. I can't wait to fill this layout with pictures of Piggy and I.

Arrrgh

This card is for the new challenge on Scrappy Frog which is titled "Arrrgh". We decided we would to see what everyone could do using the same digital background from Dustin Pike. A link to the background can be found on the Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog. I made a gate fold card so that I could get the background big enough for my stamped pirates. This is the outside of the card. One side of the polka dot paper lifts up and it opens out flat.

This is a picture of the inside when it is folded out. The background is in the middle with the two pirates (Ian and Anya from The Greeting Farm) and the sides feature a parrot and a treasure chest. This card uses a little bit of everything on it.The background and the barrel the parrot is sitting on are digital images from Dustin Pike printed out on my computer.

The parrot itself is from Cornish Heritage Farms along with the arrgh sentiment. I drew the treasure chest on my cricut using the cricut markers and the treasure chest from the Life Is A Beach cartridge. I then cut it and colored it with my copic markers to match the rest of the project. I then added some adhesive rhinestones to make it look like jewels spilling out of it.

If I am ever caught by pirates, I hope it's cute pirates like these too with a pink and black pirate ship and pink parrots flying around. Although, pirate Tilda didn't look too mean either these two look like they have a better ship.

Butterfly Bling

I made this card for 2 different challenges. The first challenge was to add butterfly wings to a Tilda image that did not already have wings. The second challenge was the bling challenge on Sugar Sweet Paper Treats. I colored this adorable little Tilda with copic markers and then

accented her with my copic spica pens for a little bling factor. The frustrating thing is that I went totally crazy with the bling in the project and it just doesn't show up in the photos no matter what I tried. For the mushroom, I stamped it once on white paper, once on the striped paper and once on the polka dot paper and paper pieced it together. The striped paper is glittered cardstock, but I added some additional stickles to it as well as stickling the polka dots on the green paper. Her butterfly wings were cut from Pooh and Friends on my cricut. It was actually just half a butterfly and I cut it once and flipped it and cut it again then attached the 2 together. I added some stickles to her wings for more bling. Finally, I cut the butterfly border from Paper Pups and Hi There from beyond birthdays. Even though these were cut out of bling cardstock, I stickled on top of it to make them even blingier! I had a lot of fun with this project. I like combining my 2 favorites things- stamps and my cricut!

Hello Kitty Card

I used my cricut again tonight, poor little guy has been neglected lately. I recently got the Hello Kitty Font cartridge. I didn't think I needed it because I didn't think I needed another font. Well, they put the most adorable Hello Kitty images on the font one (of course). So it turns out I did need it.

All the cardstock is from the cricut paper packs. They were in with the prize the swarm I attended won. I cuttlebugged a border and added little gems to the center of the flowers. This is just the cutest little Hello Kitty I've ever seen, so I didn't want to do much else to it. I made it for the pastels only mingle in my yahoo cuttlebug card exchange group, but I don't know if I can let go of it.

Hello Kitty

My Hello Kitty Greetings cricut cartridge arrived this weekend. It is the cutest cartridge ever!The pieces are very simple to put together. Every image can be cut as a card and there is a Hello Kitty for every season. Here is an example of a birthday card I made for one of my daughter's friends.
I also made a card out of the just Hello Kitty's face using the card feature. This one is so cute and extremely easy!





Last, but not least is one of the Holiday images. There is a Hello Kitty for every situation- birthday, Christmas, Halloween, graduation, bon voyage, get well, thank you, thinking of you, Valentine's day, friendship, and I'm sorry. This is my elf Hello Kitty that I will be using on a Christmas card.

Swaps are done!

I think it's time I take a little break from swaps. I did so many this month, I thougth I'd never finish! I am almost done. All that's left is Christmas tags and they should be fun. I have a lot of new stuff and I really just want to play around with it for a while and make some Christmas gifts. Here are my final swap projects. This first one is my Halloween layout. I changed it in my head so many times, and this is what I ended up with. I love owls so I thought it would be cute to use an owl in a Halloween situation.

The other projects I finally finished up were my calendar pages for November and July.The big square mat is where the calendar will go and the other mat is for a photo.

more and more swaps

Ok, here are a few more. I am not done yet, but all the rest are due in November. I made Fall themed birthday cards, June calendars, butterflies, tiggers, cards, and pumpkins. Sounds like fun doesn't it. It really was. It takes a lot of time, but it is worth it in the end when you get all your great stuff back in the mail. The butterflies are from the Storybook cartridge and the owl is a sizzlits die. My next challenge was to create a CD calendar page for the month of June. Nothing says June quite like penguins! I had to make orange shapes for another swap. Immediately I thought of pumpkins for Fall/Halloween. The tall pumpkin border is from Stretch Your Imagination and the other pumpkins are from Pooh and Friends. I still needed one more orange shape, so I decided on Tigger. He's orange, he's cute, he's tiggeriffic!! Last but not least, my purple birthday cards. I finally used the cards from Stretch Your imagination and it turned out really cute.