September 2013 Cricut Cart Hop

Welcome to the

September Cricut Cart Hop.

 

We are so happy you could join us.  You should have come from Cindy.  If you happened by my blog or are joining me from your dashboard, head over to Luisa's blog to start at the beginning.  We don't want you to miss any of the fun!

The design team each selected different Cricut cartridges that they would like to showcase for you today.  This is a one day blog hop, and we appreciate you leaving a comment letting us know what you think and telling us what is your most favorite cartridge to create with. 

The cartridges I used for the hop are: 

• Kate's Kitchen Imagine
• Live Simply Lite
• Mustaches and Glasses
• Pretty Pennants
• Simply Sweet
• Storybook 

Following are my four projects with links to give you more images and directions for creation.

1.  A Tisket a Tasket

• Cartridge:  Cricut Storybook
• Flowers and Butterflies:  Martha Stewart punches
• Accent:  Stickles

A Tisket A Tasket
Cricut Storybook cartridge

 

 

2.  Eye Chart Card (with a hidden message):

• Cartridges:  Simply Sweet and Mustaches and Glasses.
• Designer Paper: Recollections.
• Embossing:  Cuttlebug "Script" folder.

Eye Chart Card
Cricut Simply Sweet cartridge
Mustaches and Glasses Cricut Craft Room Exclusive

3.  Chef - Enjoy the Simple Pleasures:

• Cartridges:  Cricut Imagine Kate's Kitchen and Cricut Pretty Pennants
• Designer Paper:  from Cricut Imagine Kate's Kitchen
• Sentiment:  My Favorite Things "Flopsey Goes Camping" stamp set.

Chef - Enjoy the Simple Pleasures
Kate's Kitchen Imagine cartridge
Cricut Pretty Pennants

4.  Mushroom Love:

• Cartridges:  Cricut Live Simply Lite and Pretty Pennants.
• Designer paper:  My Mind's Eye "Up and Away" 6" x 6" pack.
• Punch:  from Martha Stewart
• Sentiment:  My Favorite Things "Clearly Sentimental About Gardens."
• Accent:  Liquid Pearls.  Gem from Michaels.
• Other:  Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.

Mushroom Love
Cricut Live Simply Lite
Cricut Pretty Pennants

Thanks for stopping by for this month's hop.  We hope that you enjoyed hopping along with us as much as we enjoyed putting our projects together for you.  Next up is Kathy . . . until next month! 

Here is the full line up:

1- Luisa - http://lepaperstudio.blogspot.com
2- Sandy- http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.com
3- Cindy - http://inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com
4 -Marilyn - http://marilyncricutcards.blogspot.com/ 
5- Kathy U - http://kathy213-kathyscorner.blogspot.com/
6- Vivi J- http://vivijdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/08/september-100-cricut-blog-hop.html



Mushroom Love

I have a new set of stamps that I won.  They contain all sorts of gardening phrases.  Here's the mushroom from Cricut Live Simply Lite cartridge with one of the stamps from that set.

Cartridges:  Cricut Live Simply Lite and Pretty Pennants.
Designer paper:  My Mind's Eye "Up and Away" 6" x 6" pack.
Punch:  from Martha Stewart
Sentiment:  My Favorite Things "Clearly Sentimental About Gardens."
Accent:  Liquid Pearls.  Gem from Michaels.
Other:  Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.

A2 sized card = 5.5" x 4.25"
Cricut Live Simply Lite cartridge
Cricut Pretty Pennants cartridge

Card Recipe:

• Mat 1 (brown shimmer) = 5 3/8" x 4 1/8".
• Mat 2 (stripped border) = 1" x 4 1/8".
• Pennant:  Cut at 2.75" (using fit to width feature) from Cricut Pretty Pennants cartridge; [BnrSclp2].  Banner hand trimmed length-wise to fit sentiment.  Edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.
• Sentiment "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt": from My Favorite Things "Clearly Sentimental About Gardens" stamp set.

• Mushroom:  cut at 3" from Cricut Live Simply Lite cartridge: [Mushroom].  Image edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.  Liquid Pearls added to flower centers.  Mushroom attached with foam tape.
• Bow on Mushroom:  from Martha Stewart punch.  Gem in center of bow from Michaels.

Inside of Card

Inside of Card:

• Mat 1 (brown shimmer) = 5" x 3.75".
• Mat 2 (beige) = 4.75" x 3.5".

Inch Worm - Thinking of You

Inch Worm is Thinking of You.

A2 sized card = 5.5" x 4.25"
Cricut Live Simply Lite cartridge

Card Recipe:

• Mat 1 (polka dots) = 5" x 3.75".  Paper from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Madison Ave.  Edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.
• Mat 2 (pink) = 4.5" x 3.25".  Paper from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Madison Ave. Edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.  Mat is mounted with foam tape.
• Mat 3 (brown) = 4.25" x 3".  Mat embossed using Indeztz Vine #1 folder.  Edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink. 
• Inch Worm and Flower = cut at 2" from Cricut Live Simply Lite cartridge; <Catpilr> found on folder.  Paper from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Madison Ave. Edges inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink.  Image mounted with foam tape.
• Ribbon = ric rac ribbon from Hobby Lobby.
• Small flower by sentiment = from Martha Stewart punch.
• Sentiment "Thinking of You" = from TPC Studio "Greetings" stamp set. 

Inside of card

Inside of Card:

• Mat 1 (beige) = 5" x 3.75".
• Flowers = from Martha Stewart punch.

Enter on Operation Write Home Midweek Throwdown Bug's Life.

Ladybug Birthday Card

Z-Fold Card.  Closed card is A2 size.

To create card base:
Cut card stock at 4.25" x 11".
Score and fold at 2.75" and 5.5"

Front mat (black & white polka dot print) =  2.5" x 4"

Ladybug = cut at 2" from Live Simply Cricut Lite cartridge.  Mounted with foam tape (don't tape portion of image that hangs off edge).

Ribbon from Michaels.

Inside Left Panel:

Mat 1 (black & white polka dot print) = 2.5" x 4"
Mat 2 (red) = 2.25" x 3.75"
Mat 3 (white) = 2" x 3.5"

Inside Right Panel:

Mat 1 (black & white polka dot print) = 5.25" x 4"
Mat 2 (red) = 5" x 3.75"
Mat 3 (white) = 4.75" x 3.5"

Sentiment "Happy Birthday" = from TPC Studio "Greetings" stamp set.

Flower from small punch.   One green and one red punch flowers stacked on top of each other.   Center of flower is Viva Decor Pen (Cream color).

Owl - What's Up?

Operation Write Home - challenge #9

Created using Live Simply Cricut Lite cartridge.  I have only used this cartridge once since I purchased it over a year ago.

A2 sized card.  

Mat 1 (brown) = 5.25" x 4"
Mat 2 (clouds) = 5" x 3.75"   paper color from Best Friends Cricut Imagine cartridge.

Border = punched from EK Success Punch

Tree with Owl = cut at 3.5" from Live Simply Cricut Lite cartridge.   Second image on folder. <Tree>

Sentiment = "What's Up?" My Pink Stamper "Punny-licious"

Inside of card.

Mat 1 (checkered) = 5" x 3.75"; paper color from Best Friends Cricut Imagine cartridge.

Mat 2 (white) = 4.75" x 3.5"