Exploring Cricut ~ Christmas Blessings ~

Good morning!  Thanks for joining me for

another great Exploring Cricut post! 

 

This week I am featuring a card project!  With Christmas on the horizon, I need more cards in my stash!  So I pulled out my Winter Woodland cartridge and went to work...

 

 

I chose a snowflake cut (page 35) and cut it at 4.5 and 2.5 inches.  They are stacked on top of each other with dimensional foam.  The card base (white CS) is 5.5 x 4.25 inches with a dark red CS matting.  I chose some DP by Teresa Collins and hand cut the zig zag border following the design.  I added the snowflake, stamped my sentiment on white CS and hand cut a banner.  The final touch...  a white button with a bit of red & white jute for a jaunty finish! 

 

Thanks for joining me!  Don't forget to stop back by tomorrow as we celebrate Our Daily Bread Designs' December release! 

 

{hugs}

 

Supplies 

 

Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Vintage Pattern Ornaments

Ink - Memento - Rhubarb Stalk

Paper - Georgia Pacific, The Paper Studio, Teresa Collins - Santa's List

Misc. - Jillibean Soup - Baker's Twine, Button 

TLS384 ~ Let a Little Snow Shine In

I know!  How could I possibly be talking about snow?  But with temps in the triple digits here in Kentucky I can honestly say a little snow would be nice!  So with that in mind, I took a sun burst challenge at Splitcoast and turned it into a snow burst one...  The challenge was to create a project with rays.  Here's my interpretation...

Stay cool and thanks so much for stopping in! In a few minutes (8AM EST) Our Daily Bread Designs will post the Shining the Light Challenge! Don't forget to stop back by. Blessings...

Card Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Peace and Joy
Paper - Bazzill; Prima North Country
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Die Cut - Provocraft Cricut - Winter Woodland (snowflake cut at 4.75 inches)
Misc. - Spray Adhesive; Martha Stewart Coarse Crystal Glitter

Exploring Cricut - Let's Take a Sleigh Ride...

Or you could use a sled... This week's challenge at Exploring Cricut is all about the wind in your hair and preferably no trees in your path!

And here's my project for the week...



I decided to make a tag this week. And with monogramming being all the rage right now, I decided to make some monogrammed tags for Christmas. This one belongs to our grand-daughter Gloria. Since her papa is a BIG University of Kentucky fan I went with a Big Blue theme.

The cuts are from Winter Woodland. And the specifics...

Sleigh & Shadow - White Card Stock - 4 inches (pg. 53) - 1 piece each
Sleigh top - Blue - 4 inches (pg. 53)- embossed with Cuttlebug Folder Snowflakes - 1 piece
Sleigh Trim - Silver - 4 inches (pg. 53) - 2 pieces
Holly - Red & Green - 4 inches (pg. 53) - 1 piece green holly, 2 pieces red berries
Shadow G - Silver - 2 1/2 inches (pg. 56) - 1 piece
Letter G - Blue - 2 1/2 inches (pg. 56) - 1 piece

I cut all of my pieces. I glued the shadow and white sleigh base together. I ran the top of my sleigh (the blue piece) through the Cuttlebug using my Snowflakes folder. I stamped the back of the tag with one of my favorite scriptures (you could also put a Christmas sentiment here) and then glued it to the white base. I glued one silver trim layer directly to my sleigh and then used dimensional foam to add the second silver layer. I then applied 1 of the red pieces to the green holly. I then placed this on the corner of the sleigh with dimensional foam. I placed another tiny piece of foam on the 2nd red berry piece and applied it over the first. I glued the blue letter G on the silver base and adhered the entire unit on the sleigh with 2 pieces of dimensional foam layered on top of each other. This made it really stand out!

Here's the back... I used a recent release from Our Daily Bread Designs called The Word of God. Thanks so much for stopping in and I will see you next time!


Ingredients

Paper - Colorbok, Bazzill; Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - The Word of God; Ink - Memento Danube Blue; Dimensional Foam; Cricut Cartridge - Winter Woodland