My Cricut Craft Room's Card and Invitation Blog Hop

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Rooms Card and Invitation Blog Hop

You should have come from Tammy if not please start at My Cricut Craft Room,

hosted by the very lovely and talented Erica, for the beginning of our blog.

My first project is a birthday card made for a very sweet baby girl who is turning one.  She is the daughter of my granddaughter's lifetime friend.

Cricut carts I used~

Elegant Edges

George And Basic Shapes

Wrap It Up

I number the grapics in the handbook and overlay 1-50

Using the Gypsy I chose #4 shown on the overlay in Elegant Edges cart.

cut~ 5.74-7.00

I then layered # 17 in the George and Basic Shapes (rounded corner rectangle)

sized at 3.16-4.29 in the center of #4 to create a frame for the front of card.

Using the Gypsy I made a duplicate and welded the two together on the sides

to make a complete folded card.  I removed the cut-outs on the right side with the

 hide/contour feature as seen in the picture below.

This is after welding and hiding the cut-outs.  What you see in red is what will cut.

I cut two, one in white for the outside and one in pink for the inside.

I used Colorbok cardstock.

Next I cut the #17 rectangle out of a pink and white zebra patterned paper purchased at LSS.

Gigi Pink Zebra by Glitz Design

cut~ 3.34-4.53

Cut just a little larger then opening to place in frame between white and pink.

Wrap It Up Cart~

Candle - Cut~0.86-4.18

I cut out flame with yellow cardstock and yellow vellum and layered for a glowing effect.

Inside of card~

One Year Old, # 41 Phrase/S in the Wrap It Up Cart

Hide candle

Cut~4.34-4.18

The phrase was actually One Year Older and I cut off the er.

I used the green from Provo Craft Cricut Rainbow.

This was cut on the Expression ~ Settings low speed, medium pressure, blade depth 6 

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby Girl!

My next project is a Back to School Card

One of my daughter's BFF's who is a first grade teacher asked if I could design a back to school card to send to the students that would be in her class. She decorated her room in a circus theme and it is truely magical! I wish I were a kid again...this room is awesome!

Her idea of a ticket worked out great as I had just picked up the Cricut Carousel Lite cartridge.

I chose what I thought was a pretty simple image #55 <Font/s>, unless your doing multiples

I used red and yellow cardstock by Recollections Primary, cutting red with ADMIT ONE

and yellow with out. 

The image has three cuts ~

Outer part of ticket, frame and center.

The centers were removed and replaced with white card with information 

generated on the computer.

To keep the letters uniform and  make the project faster I placed the negative rectangle

back in the frame.  I then applied glue in the negative space and replaced the letters back in like

a puzzle.  (One at a time)

I used the Cricut tool to smooth into place and help hold letters down as I removed the

negative.

I carefully pulled up the negative immediately, leaving ADMIT ONE exact everytime.

 Welcome back to school!  I hope everyone  has a great  year! 

Next you should go to

Simply Sweet By Sharon

 If you get lost along the way, here is the entire lineup...

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

http://www.micraftygal.blogspot.com

http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com

http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com

http://scrappingwithpirkie.blogspot.com

http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

http://britkdesigns.blogspot.com

http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com

http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com

http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com   ~you are here~

http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com

http://jshandcrafts.blogspot.com

http://scrapininthewoods.blogspot.com

http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com

http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com

http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  (special post for blog candy)

Thanks for stopping by

and

Happy Crafting!