Check our new Cricut FANatics Blog

Hi All...I started up a new blog with several other Cricut lovers and it's called Cricut FANatics.  Today is the grand opening of that blog.  We have about 45 designers who will be posting Cricut projects exclusively on the blog for all to enjoy. You get to see new projects by a designer each day of the month.  Isn't that fun !

Here is the layout I posted on there today....you can see more details on the Cricut FANatics blog.

 

Kiss Me I'm Irish !

I am hosting a Weekly Cartridge Exploration Challenge on the Cricut Circle Message Board. This week I chose to  use the Art Philosophy cartridge by Close to My Heart.  This cartridge is so awesome...lots of great images on it, a wonderful font, cards, tags, borders...you name it and this cart has it. 

With the last name of  O'Neal for our household, we hold St. Patrick's Day dear at our house so I decided to make myself a new pin to wear using Art Philosphy.

I used the tag feature for the background. The white

paper is actually white cardstock that I embossed

with the Simply Charmed Embossing folder with

Shamrocks on it. Then used antique ink over some of the embossed images

and added glossy accents over the top.  Other images have

Perfect Pearls rubbed over the top fo the embossing.

The stripped Shamrock is cut out of DCWV glitter paper

and outlined in Golden Rod Stickles and popped dotted up.

The lettering is also cut from Art Philosophy and gold

stickles added for some shine.  The tag is inked with antique gold ink.

I can hardly wait for St. Pat's day now so I can wear my pin !!!!! 

Cricut Circle Blogiversary - Sketch Challenge

One of the perks of being a Cricut Circle member is that we get to participate in craft challenges using our Cricut products for a chance to win awesome prizes.  The Circle is celebrating the Blog Anniversary with an even more spectacular giveaway.  I have decided to participate in a few of them and will be posting pics of my Challenge Entries to share with all of you too.

First up is my entry for a chance to win an Cricut Imagine (it's the only Cricut machine I don't already own) she says sheepishly. 

We are supposed to use this sketch they provided and create any project of our choice using at least two different Cricut cuts from any cartridge we prefer. 

Here is my entry based on the sketch

The Cricut cuts used on this card are all from the new Creative Memories Art Philsophy cartridge including the card base.  And I also used my new Snowflake Cuttlebug embossing folder too.  As you can see, I added some Crystal Stickles to add that special touch to the die cut snowflakes and the embossed piece.  The card is gorgous in person but the shiny paper I choose was a little hard to photograph to get the luscious colors to show better. 

Good luck to all others who enter the contest too!