The winner of the cricut challenge

hasn't been picked yet. :D I am sorry guys, I had a catasthphoe at home, my dog decided my sofa made a good chew toy. (oh i am very mad!) Anyway, then I had to work tonight, so I will do it when I get up this afternoon. (late afternoon). The girls have done a great job! stay tuned. :D

National park Brijuni layout with use of Cricut

Hi you all, Peggy here.

I did a simple layout with use of 2 Cricut cartridges. I used the street sign font for the title and the fabulous finds cartridge for the tab above one of the pictures. The paper and rub ons are by American Crafts. For this layout I rubbed the butterfly onto a piece of plastic (I used an empty embellishments package for this) Then I cut out the butterfly and created my own cute little embellishment. I added paint to the background and to mimic the pattern of the red paper I also stitched holes in the background of my paper for a fun effect. Hope you will like it. Thanks for looking and have a great day.

A Cricut Painting

Hello, Natalie here. I've made my Cricut challenge into a painting.
I used the Cricut Expression, Accent Essentials, and contact paper. I cut out concentric circles that I used as stencils.

To make the circles, I set the blade housing at 3, the pressure at med, speed to low, and the result was the blade cut through the sticky side of the contact paper, but not the backing. Now I know that PC makes vinyl, but because I didn’t use it, I can’t say this would be the right settings for their vinyl.

I first pressed shift, and the circle 4th up from the bottom on the left side of the overlay. (accent #11) This gave me a single circle. Then I changed my dial size by ½ inch, moved it back to the starting point, and moved the blade housing into the circle three nudges. (this would be from the right edge of the matt, not the inserted edge. Then I cut out the funky circles button third from left on the bottom row of the overlay. (Accent #43)

I cut them out in multiple sizes and stuck them to my canvas one set of circles at a time before stenciling my paint on.

For a full how to, visit my blog by clicking on my name in the Inspirational Team members list.

TFL and TFVisiting.

Cricut Card

Hey Everyone! This is Robyn and I just love what the other girls have created with their Cricuts! I can't wait to see what you all created as well! Well, I've been dying to make a wedding card using the wedding cake that's on the Paper Dolls Cartridge, so here's my card! I used my favorite cartridge, Opposites Attract, to cut the "love" at the bottom of the card.I know the colors are a little non-traditional, but so am I and I really like the pink and black together. Hugs!

Cricut Challenge

So I challenged some of the irls to use their Cricut this month. Love Jen's example below. I did a couple of layouts- I love the trees-- they have trees on a few different cartridges-- storybook, mickey and friends, stretch your imaginaton, I think wild card, can't remember the others, but there is alot you can do with them. :D
I have 3 layouts here, and I guess I am in a tree mode, cause they all have them. I made a card for world cardmaking day too, and yup-- it has a tree, but I won't post that one yet. :D Love birdies too.
I will draw a winner tomorrow for the mini monograms cartridge-- and hopefully I can post those layouts that were sent in too! I love my cricut. :D


trees, birds, heart, and doilie were made with my cricut, and design studio.


The circle with flowers in the middle, the scrollie thing behind the tree, the tree, and the dandylion things on the bottom right were cut with the cricut.

The trees were cut with the cricut, the circle things on them are epoxy.


The butterflies, large flower, frame around journaling, and title were cut on the cricut.
Come back for some more great ideas later! :D

Cricut Challenge

Jen here...Shel asked all of us to try her challenge and I wanted to try making something different. When I saw this cute bag by Stacy Armstrong http://www.creativexpress.com/community/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=33794&cat=500&ppuser=359 I was inspired to try it myself. I must admit that this was so much fun to create that I can't wait to try making some more. Here's my version of a Cricut gift bag. I used my new Expression (I've only had it for a week, but I am way beyond impressed) for this along with the Plantin Schoolbook and Cuttin Up cartridges.

Oh yes little mr and mrs. funkettes

all submissions must be newly created for this challenge. That's why-- it is a challenge! :D so while I won't be a nazi police making sure, you are on your honor, lol. Some of us here will be taking the same challenge, and posting at the end of the month-- so if you want to see some fab ideas for that little/big bug-- stay tuned. :D