Cricket Couple is Celebrating

Cricket Couple not only passed 500 followers, they passed 600!  To celebrate they are having a giveaway which will be awarded on Nov. 28th.  Click on the Celebration button to go to the site for all the info.

Happy creating!.  Rae Ann

Checking In

I won some blog candy for the Fantabulous Cricut Harvest Blessing Crawl Blog (what a mouthful!).  It comes from Scrap Queen at http://scrapqueen141.blogspot.com/  What a nice surprise!

Since following the crawl blog I've found some wonderful sites and a bunch of neat challenges.  More of my entries will be shown here soon.

Happy creating!  Rae Ann

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #35

I'm trying another challenge, this time at Birthday Sundaes.  Challenge #35 is to include a tree in the card.  I used a tree in the Cricut cartridge My Community to create this Cupcake tree.

Happy creating!  Rae Ann

My entry for Fantabulous Cricut Harvest Blessing Blog Crawl

I never followed a blog hop (or crawl) before.  This is a great way to find inspiration and learn about other people who share the same creative joy.  For this week's challenge the requirement is red, orange and brown for fall.  Here's my entry:

My card is 6 x 6 inches.  I used the Picturesque cartridge for the fancy leaf and curlycue.  The small leaves and pumpkin came from accessories on Everyday Paper Dolls; I just used the real size button to make them 2 and 2 1/2 inches in size.
I look forward to these challenges.  They make me push my creativity in new directions -- and I love it.

Happy creating!  Rae Ann

I'm an now a Cricut Lover!

It's been a long time since I've been able to blog.  I've been spending more time making things for my group, Inchies-1x1 and Paperfollies, and now, experimenting with my Cricut.

I love searching online for ideas and tutorials and found the site, Fantabulous Cricut.  They have a Monday Challenge and I've entered in two of them.

The first Fantabulous Cricut Challenge I entered was to make something containing a ghost.  I used elements from Simply Charmed and My Community.  Here's my effort...

My second entry in a Fantabulous Cricut Challenge  was called 'for the birds'.  I used the Pagoda Cartridge to create this...



Having the themes to provide a direction is fun and challenging. 

While experimenting with Cricut cardmaking I realized I have the perfect gift for my sister this year.  She gives a lot of Birthday and Get Well cards during the year so I am making her a collection of cards she can use.  Here are some of the easy designs I've come up with so far...

The words came from George and Basic Shapes.



This is a variaton of the card in Just Because.



The cake and phrase are from Simply Charmed.  One of the flowers is from George and Basic Shapes.

The scalloped background is from Just Because.  The words are from Simply Charmed; I punch a circle out where the little smiley faces are.

These are only a few of the items I've made.  More will be posted later but, as you see, I'm really enjoying my cricut.





Catching up with Every Inchie Monday

I was very behind with my 'once-a-week' inchies because I've been focusing on bigger projects.  But this weekend I decided to catch up.

Strength



Sunset



Rust



Imagination



Change (a change jar)





Every Inchie Monday - Nest


Until next time, Happy creating!

 

Mini books & Button Fairies

Hi!  Again, even though I haven't been writing here I have been working.  Two new fun things I'm doing are one-sheet mini books which are so easy to create.  It takes longer to decorate them than to make them.  No pictures of them yet so here's my other recent delight -- button fairies.

My first button fairy.  The theme was holiday of choice for a swap at paperfollies. Since Halloween is so near...

The next one I made was for Winter: