Exciting News this Halloween!

Still time to enter Holiday Challenge by clicking{ HERE} 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I hope everyone is ready for all of the spooky, creepy, crawly Goblins to come out tonight and say

TRICK or TREAT

I received and early Halloween Treat this year when the

{Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog}

allowed me to be part of their new Design Team!!!!

I am so SUPER excited and can't wait to start working with the talented group of ladies on this site.

Click on their name above to visit them and check out all of the Cricut Fun!!

Here is this year's Halloween Keepsake Mini Album

Halloween Inspiration

I wanted to share some Halloween Projects from past postings that may inspire some

new Halloween Fun this year.
Just Click on the Name of a Project and you can check it out.

HALLOWEEN EXPLOSION BOXES

HALLOWEEN MINI IN A BOX

HAUNTED HOUSE MINI ALBUM

FRANKENSTEIN LIGHT BOX

COFFIN MINI ALBUM/BOX

My family LOVES Halloween and all of the activities.  Here we are Pumpkin Carving.....

Yes-I use my Cricut for this too!

Here they are harvested and ready for their big night!

While the kids are carving I usually work on the goodie bags for school.  This year my little one

Kylee decided she wanted to do her classroom treats with Mom.

Her face says it all....

This is how I feel when I work in my Craft Room!!!! 

Here are our results......boy she is good......I may have to hire her!!!

Hope everyone's Halloween Prep is tons of Spooky FUN!!!

I see Dots & Stripes......

To enter Holiday Challenge for a chance to win some fabulous Bo Bunny Paper CLICK HERE

Echo Park put out a Challenge on Facebook this week to create a project using some of their
Dots & Stripes Paper Collections.

Since I have been making some Home Decor items this week I thought I would post my project using the Christmas 6x6 Dots & Stripes Paper Pad

Here is a shot of the same project hanging on my front door.

Don't you love versatile crafts!

I used about 10 sheets out of the 24 double sided papers in this pack.

I also used the following Cricut Cartridges:

Winter Woodland

Christmas

Joys of the Season

The frames came from Roberts Arts & Crafts. I simply removed the glass from each frame to create a shadow box look and painted with Green Metallic paint (2 coats) and when dry I added Making Memories Sea foam glitter paint.

Some string pearls, a couple of mini candy canes and some ribbon for the finishing touches.

Here is a close up of  one letter box.

Emma's Design Team Call

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Emma from My Creative Time recently posted her Design Team Call and I was so excited!

I love visiting her site and love using her stamp sets...so I immediately began working on a project to submit to her site.

I used the following supplies:

An 8x8 shadow box frame

Mom You Rock Stamp Set by Emma

Abbey Road Bo Bunny Collection Papers

(the giveaway for my Holiday Project Challenge)

Ribbon, String Pearls, Silk Flowers & Leaf

My Gypsy 

Cricut Cartridge Sophie

I want to share a fun tip I used while putting this piece together.

I wanted to make sure the picture of my Mom & Grandmother didn't get lost among all of the stuff so I matted it on a piece of foam board covered in coordinating paper.  I inked the edges and mounted to the center of my doily cut from the Sophie Cart.

I also created my own trim fiber by braiding my string pearls in between two different colors of sheer ribbon.

I really love the effect and used this piece all the way around the photo.

My Mom is a huge butterfly fanatic.  She collected them when I was a kid so I made this piece to give her as a gift.

Her Birthday is on Halloween so I hope she and Emma both like it!!

Holiday Tradition Blog Hop and Challenge Reminder!

Just a reminder about the Holiday Tradition challenge going on here at the Creative Cutter Room!

  

 Theme:  Holiday; Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah 

and must include 3 elements!

HINT HINT!!

Make it a Holiday Theme... and

Mollie- must include a button

Carri- Must include Glitter

Christel-must include a type of embossing (dry or "wet")

Submit your new project at the below for a chance to win a prize
 And what is the prize?

A Bo Bunny Page Kit with enough supplies to make a 2 page layout like this one or a similar layout.

Challenge Starts today Oct 20 and runs until November 2!

You will need to collect  3 elements total and include each element on your Holiday Themed project  then submit your new  project here.

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

Some Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog

You have until November 2, 2011 to enter your project.

 

Christmas Cards from Scraps?

Some of you may remember a Talk Time Tuesday post from Carri that shared some tips for using up paper from our Scrap Collection.

Well…..I did just that this past week when I felt inspired by a  new patterned paper collection  and our Holiday Challenge.

I pulled out all of my leftover RED cardstock and found some Christmas themed acrylic stamp sets and got to work.

I started cutting the cardstock to make some common sized cards 3x3, 3.5 x 4.5 and I even had enough to make some 4x5 and 4.25 x 5.5 sized cards.

I used maybe a total of 3 pieces of patterned paper and one piece of paper that had images I turned into die cuts with a lot of fussy cutting.

You can see that I not only cleaned out a drawer from unused cardstock but I got a JUMP START on my Holiday Greetings.

Hope you like them!

If you feel inspired then: Click{ HERE} for Design Time Thursday Holiday Challenge

Tip Tuesday Here at the CCR! Dew Drop Fun!

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Happy Tuesday! 

It's Christel from Scrappin' Sista with your Talk Time Tuesday Tip for the Creative Cutter Room.  Recently I posted a card for the Link Up to Pink Party hosted by Gaby, Celeste, and Yolie.  On that card, I featured some homemade dew drops.  I had a few people ask how they were created so I thought I'd share a short video tutorial for you.

They are extremely simple to make.  I hope you'll take a shot at it.  See you real soon.  Scrappy hugs!  And remember, I love you and there ain't NOTHING you can do about it!

Thanks Christel for this great tip! 

BOO! Ghost Shaped Card

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Does she scare you?

I hope not… this cute little ghost is trying to get your attention so she can share an important message.

Just peek inside to see………

I made this card using my Gypsy and:

Paper Doll Dress Up-Ghost

MS Seasonal Cake Art-BOO

Sports Mania-Banner

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Spider web

Stamp set by Hero Arts
Confetti Spider & I-rock bling.


Entered this in a couple of challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut#83: Ghost Project
Cardz TV #94: Ghouls & Goblins

Wedding Gift Idea

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My friend Kristina got married this month and I wanted to use her beautiful announcement and

engagement picture to create her a Wedding Gift Keepsake.

The announcement had a black large black damask pattern that didn't work with the LUSH collection from My Mind's Eye: flocked red patterned paper I was using so I trimmed the pattern down and then used my

Perfect Layers Rulers (1/8" size) (click on product name to get a set of your own)

to trim coordinating cardstock layers around the announcement.

I LOVE how precise the lines turn out!

I then used my Cricut to cut an elegant frame around her picture and then had so much

fun dressing up the look.

I used my glue gun to secure the Prima Embellishment and button and then added half backed pearls.

I left a little room above and below announcement in case she wanted to add personal notes or memorabilia.

I finished by adding the shadow box frame from Roberts Arts & Crafts and then packed it up.

I know you can tell from her wedding colors that I just loved working on this project and can't wait to make something similar for my Family Christmas Picture this year.

Red, White & Black-are FANTASTIC colors.

Hope you like this Kristina!

also....

Provo Craft has released more cartridges!!!

This time there were 13 new ones in lots of different categories:

3 Cricut Imagine Cartridges:  Santa's Village, Santa's Wish and Floral Emporium
3 Cricut Lite Cartridges: Cricut Pet Shop, Fast Food and Sweater Weather 

 Available at Cricut.com
6 Cricut Full Size Cartridges: Noah's ABC Animals, Ribbons and Rosettes, New Testament, Go Canada, Paper Trimmings (Cricut Circle Exclusive) and Cricut 'Tis the Season (Creative Memories only)
1 Cricut Project Cartridge: Cricut Stencil

I personally can't wait to get Go Canada and finish scrapbooking my Cruise to Alaska that ended in 

Vancouver!!!

Holiday Tradition Blog Hop and Challenge!

Welcome to the Holiday Tradition! Blog Hop and Challenge!

 How about a fun hop and challenge?

 Theme:  Holiday; Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah 

and must include 3 elements!

Visit each of the following 3 Design team members, find the required element from each DT Member and submit your new project for a chance to win a prize!

THE PRIZE

A Bo Bunny Page Kit with enough supplies to make a 2 page layout like this one or a similar layout.

Challenge Starts today Oct 20 and runs until November 2!

You will need to collect  3 elements total and include each element on your Holiday Themed project  then submit your new  project here.

Looking forward to seeing your creations! 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

Some Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog

You have until November 2, 2011 to enter your project.

Here is the Line Up You will need to follow to collect all the elements:

Carri

Mollie 

Christel 

October 7-9 2011 Retreat Fun

I want to share some of the Good Times shared on my

 BOO TO YOU Getaway!

My Creative Cutter Friends are the BEST-

I laughed so hard the whole weekend and had a blast eating, relaxing and creating with this wonderful group of ladies. 

My good friend Joyce-brought a wonderful Cricut Cake

to help me celebrate completing my Cricut Book.

It was YUMMY-Thank you so much my Friend!!!

Hope to have more Creative Cutter Fun with you soon at one of my Retreats.

I welcome any out of town guest and have shuttle service from the airport when necessary.

~Thanks for sharing in the FUN~

Design Time Thursday:Fall is Here! Winner

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Congratulations!!! Please use the contact form to send me your snail mail and the I-rock will be on its way!
Thanks for playing along with us at Creative Cutter Room

Sketchy Mondays

This is a One Page Sketch from PageMaps.

I love the Fall theme and thought you might like to give it a try.

They are having a sketch contest based on this sketch for anyone wanting to submit their best attempt.

Great prize package so be sure and click on their name above and check it out.

Hope everyone is getting lots of inspiration from the posted sketches.  My design team is working on a really special posting based on a Christmas Themed Sketch that we will share shortly.

Sketches can be a great way to jump start the creativity.