Weekly Challenge 16 - Cute as a button!

Man, I have been SO off lately! I was really uninspired until earlier today. My kids were sick, I was going crazy, yet the design popped into my head. I can't believe I actually finished! We were to follow a page sketch and use buttons/stamps in our layout. For my stamps, I pulled out my layering stamps that I have never used. I'm not much of a stamps person, but at least it matched my layout! The button colors were perfect as well. All in all, I'm really happy with how it turned out! This will be the front page of my family scrapbook for 2010! Best of ALL, I got to use my new cart, Groovy Times! Love it!

Magazine Thrift Store Challenge!

I LOVED this challenge! This month's Cricut Circle magazine challenge is to take something bought at a thrift store and repurpose it using the cricut. So, here's what I chose! I bought this little shadow box for $2.99 and instantly knew that I wanted to use my Nifty Fifties cart to make a wall hanging for my retro kitchen. My kitchen is blue and black, my dining room red and I am an avid Coca-Cola collector so everything is pretty retro in appliances and decor. Here is my before photo:

And here is what I came up with! Using cuts from a dark blue (the same color as my walls), light blue, glitter red, pink, black and white, I now have a new wall hanging! I LOVE how it turned out! Thanks for looking!

Weekly Challenge 15 - Feeling Frosty!

Time for this weeks challenge! We were to use white paint, a snowflake cut, and something metal in our project. I obviously have the snowflake cuts within, splattered the background of blue paper with some white paint for snow effect, and used some small metal brads to hold on the 10 Months tag and for the center of the bottom snowflake and the snowflake in snow!

Dog Birthday Card

I had a lot of fun creating this "Boofday" card using my new Four Legged Friends cart!

Queen Card

I LOVE Rock Princess! Made this fun card from it also!

Produce Stand

A different kind of post. I've been inspired to work with wood lately and Ana White's site is awesome! I used plans for a produce stand, did a little editing on the bottom for more shelf space and voila! Perfect elf-made Christmas present for the kids! My husband and I had a great time making it together and it was really pretty easy! I still need to stain it and will probably be using my Cricut to add a label to the front, but the main part is done!

Weekly Challenge 10 - Holiday Recipe

This week's challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog is to make something that is about, includes, or holds a recipe. Since I am making some gift boxes this year I decided to do some chocolate pretzels and package them up in a cute penguin box! Here is my entry! Cute and simple!