Cricut OCTOBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Halloween Home Decor Challenge!

The guidelines for this project are:  Create a Halloween Home Decor project! Your project must include at least 2 different Cricut Image Cuts!
A Halloween wreath would perfect for welcoming my guest at the front door, so this was inspiration for my creation.

This would have been a perfect "repurpose" project.  I wrapped the wreath in a knitted scarf that when washed, ended up a tight mess, but the perfect texture of wrapping around the wreath alternating with orange ribbon.

The cartridges I used:

Celebrate with Flourish for:  Happy Halloween, Treat or Treat, and witch on broom with moon behind her,

Pumpkin Carvings for: cat, bats, spider, ghosts, tomb with RIP, and round spider web.

October 31st:  Spiders, bats, long spider webs, pumpkin, skelton, and witch's hat.

Hope you enjoy it as much fun as I did making the spooky wreath for my front door.

Cricut BLOGIVERSARY: Imagine Layer and Print Challenge!

The criteria for this challenge is as follows:
Use your Imagine Machine to print a background . . and use it on your project as well as cutting an image of your choice in layers- that’s right, choose the layers option on your image and print out one or all of the layers offered, piece them together on your project!
All of the images in the card created are from the Imagine cartridge "Snow Angel."

CricutBLOGIVERSARY: Circle Cartridge Challenge

In celebration of Cricut's one year anniversary of their blog, there are many challenges to win some great prizes. The rules for this challenge are:
Create a project of your choice with one or more of the Cricut Circle Exclusive cartridges! (French Manor, Shall We Dance, Cricut Everyday, Pop-Up Neighborhood, or Sophie) Your project must include atleast 2 different Cricut Image Cuts. And YES! You can mix in other cartridges with your Circle Exclusive cartridges.
This is a great challenge.  I love the new Sophie cartridge.

The card was cut from the "Sophie" cartridge.

The flowers are from the cartridge "Mother's Day Bouquet."

The saying, "you make my heart sing" is from the Imagine "Better Together."

I really enjoyed making this card and I hope you enjoy.



Cricut BLOGIVERSARY: Recipe Challenge!

In celebration of Cricut's one year anniversary of their blog, there are many challenges to win some great prizes.  The rules for this challenge "Use your Cricut machines to create a project using the following “recipe.” It must contain 1) A Title; 2) Atleast 2 Cricut Cuts, and 3) Atleast 3 buttons."
Fall is my favorite time of the year.  Apples are dropping from the tress, so I used this as my inspiration for this project.  Hope you are enjoying this time of year.

There are three apple buttons on the top of the brown/green layout square and there are three buttons on the apple pie dish.

The tress were from the cartridge "My World."

The barrel of apples is "Pop-Up Neighborhood.

The apples are from "A Child's Year."

The word apple & harvest are from the cartridge "Freshly Picked."

The word pie and the apple pie image are from the cartridge "From My Kitchen."







Cricut Circle BLOGIVERSARY CHALLENGE: Sketch Challenge!

It’s been ONE YEAR since Cricut Circle Blog was launched! It has been great and congratulations for the Circle. BLOGIVERSARY! In celebration of this anniversary, there are many challenges to win some goodies. The first involves using a sketch, at least two different Cricut cuts.  The sketch is as follows:

Hope you enjoy my card.

I created the flower using the "Floral Embellished" cartridge  with inspiration from an image from "Just a Note" cartridge.  I have the Anniversary edition of the Cricut Expression that has this cartridge preloaded, but couln't get it to work at the time.

The Yellow circle behind the flower face is from "Elegant Edges.:

The bird is from "Sophie."

The feel better is from the "Everyday Pop-Up Cards."

The blue background behind the bird is cut from "Fancy Frames."

Cricut SEPTEMBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Window Dressing Challenge!

This month the criteria for the challenge is:
For this next challenge, we want to see you give your next project a “window” element of some kind. Almost like you are dressing your own window into your project and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts.

My precious granddaughters, Glory & Libby, love to play in the "pretty room" aka the formal living room. It has a large bay window and they love to look out the window. I took the picture of then in front of the window in their pretty dresses on Valentine's day.

The chairs are cut from the Sentimentals cartridge.  
The table, vase, and some of the flowers are cut from the Serenade Cartridge.
The altered window (center window panes cut out) is from the Christmas cartridge.
The valance at the top of the window is from the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cartridge.
The curtains are from the Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art Cartridge.

Love My Flowers

I wanted to share my love of flowers.  Currently, my favorite in my garden is my Hibiscus plant.  It has bloomed all summer long and the flowers are bigger than my head, lol!

The first picture is on a day that five flowers bloomed at the same time.  The second picture is the flower in comparison to my hand (I am 5' 8" tall).