Enchanted Mirror Mirror...

This is Misty from The Daily Scrapper

I made this super cute card as a invitation for my daughter's birthday coming up.  She is such a princess so she wants a girlie party.  

The paper is Enchanted Mirror Mirror from Imaginese.

I used Craft Room Basics for the circle and the scallop circle.  The diamond is from Girl's Makeup Party.  I also used my new mini.  It cuts great but the scallops are still wonky and for some reason as I get closer to the bottom of the mat it shifts it so it is not straight.  So far it has not hurt the cuts but it bend my mat.  It is super quiet and pretty fast.  I don't like that I can not adjust the cutting depth only the blade depth but I will get used to that.  It is not meant to be my workhorse and I got it for around $90.

I hope you are enjoying the design team challenge "diamonds" this week.

Tissue Box Cover!

Hello everyone, Mindy here from Grammies Craft Room.Today I am sharing a favorite project of mine.... a Tissue Box Cover......that can be decorated for any theme or holiday that you need. The wonderful directions can be found  at Splitcoaststampers. I have shared this tutorial many times because Diane has done such a great job describing the easy steps to make this versatile home decor accent. I used my E2 and Imagine to cut from Sophie and Trim the Tree cartridges.  I am showing the screen shots you will see when you design and cut using the Cricut Craft Room.

The doily is sized at 4" and cut out perfectly on the E2. Now we move on to the candy cane and the skate, both from Trim the Tree. These are cut at 2.5", and I am here to tell you that I will never cut anything on this cartridge this small again. I started out cutting them on the E2 with terrible results. I then moved over to the Imagine. They cut out better, but I still had LOTS of clean out work to do....moral of this tale.... make them BIGGER :)

I ran the red parts through my Zyron machine and the applied red glitter. If you haven't tried this method of applying glitter, I totally recommend it. The white doily was just to plain for my liking, so I wove thin ribbon through the tree edge and tied a bow. Then I glued that down too sides and added the skates and candy canes using dimensionals. Around the top edge I stamped snowflakes from My Pink Stamper with Versamark and heat embossed with white powder. I added stickles to the snowflakes and called it done.

Supply list: Cricut E2 Cricut Imagine Cricut Sophie Cartridge Cricut Trim the Tree Cartridge Card Stock - Stampin Up Patterned Paper - Hobby Lobby Stamps - My Pink Stamper Versamark Ink White Embossing Powder Ribbon Dimensionals Adhesive Glitter Stickles I hope you check out all the great Hostess/Housewarming gift ideas the design team have for you this week :)

Little Mermaid!

This week at SweetSassyDiva's we're doing the Disney Theme. My kids are way past that age, but when my daughter was younger, she LOVED the Little Mermaid. The dress she's wearing in this picture (which I did save for her!) was her favorite one and trying to get her to wear something else was a challenge!



I used Disney - Princesses Dreams Come True cartridge and Cricut Craft Room! There is a great blog on how to do faces on in CCR, Cricut Craft Room blog, however with the new build it didn't work correctly for me. So instead I followed the directions but did a Print only and cut it out myself. Ariel isn't a hard shape to cut out. She was cut @ 5 and then I did an extra cut of her hair, flower and top. I added crystal stickles to her hair and yellow stickles on the flower center. I used glossy accents on her top and flower.

In CCR I also cut out Flounder @ 2.5 the same as Ariel and cut him out myself also. (I'm hoping this gets fixed quickly, I hate cutting things out by hand! LOL)



The bottom border was cut @ 7.25 and the frame was cut @ 7.5. Stickles were added where ever I could. :)



To get the picture to fit the frame, I cut the background piece out of scrap paper, but I did NOT lift it off my mat! I lined up where I wanted my picture to show through the frame by laying the picture under the scrap paper and moving it around. Once I picked out what I wanted, I smoothed the picture on the mat and removed the scrap paper and cut again. Perfect every time!! (Sorry I forgot to take pictures of the process) Stop by my blog, 3 Cats and a Bug and e-mail me to let me know if you need help with this.



I added a 4.5 X 12 light pink paper and a 1.5 X 12 dark pink strip of paper to add some contrast. With the exception of Ariel, this was one of the simplest LO's I've done in awhile.

Be sure to enter the SweetSassyDiva Design Team Call!






Thanks for looking!

Let's EAT!

Hi all.  Bekah from Shalomcrafts.blogspot.com here!

This time, for SweetSassyDiva's design team, I've done a mix-it-up.  It's a
BBQ theme using at least 3 different Cricut Cartridges.

I cut the body of the paper doll on 'blackout' feature.  That way, you can

use a Peachy Keen stamp to do his face.  I colored in the whites of his eye
with a white gel pen.  Peachy Keen stamps really are my favorite; they
stamp so well and they make the Cricut Paper Dolls so much cuter!

I used Everyday Paper Dolls to make the little chef and his grill.  The
banner at the top of the page is from Wild Card.  The title of "Let's Eat!"
and the soda and burger came from the Locker Talk cart.  I then matted some
4 1/4" yellow backed with 4 1/2" green for 4x4 photos and make a little mat for
journaling.

Hope you're enjoying your summer grilling!

Shalom

It's A Circus!

Good Morning! This is Jen from 3 Cats with a Bug.



This week on SweetSassyDiva's; the theme our design team picked was circus. I picked doing a word book, I love making these! All my patterned paper used was DCWV and Core'dinations for the solid paper. I used my Cinch to put it all together.



I started out cutting the chipboard, the last page is 4 x 11. The first page is 4 x 3 (not counting the letter) and an inch more for each letter afterwards.

Next I cut out all the background papers and then flipped them to cut out the reverse side.

I used the Carousel lite cartridge and cut out the letters and their top layers @ 3 and glued them all down. I only did the letters on the front side.

The only thing that wasn't cut from Carousel was "It's A Circus" from Animal Kingdom, cut @ 2.5. I used design studio to hide the word circus. (Sorry for the blurry picture)

The dog was cut @ 3.5

The bear was cut @ 3.0

The house was cut @ 3.75

The elephant was cut @ 3.75

The lion tamer was cut @ 3.25

The lion was cut @ 2.25

The photo mats were cut at whatever size fit.

Thanks for looking!