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“Merry Holly Days” Winter Frolic Cricut Cartridge Christmas Card!


2010
12.01

Posted in Book Pages, Christmas Projects, Cricut, Cricut Card, Cricut Cartridges, Ephemera, Funky, Olive Juice Studio Inspirations(Gallery), Pop Dots, Project Tutorials/Instructions, Stickles, Tim Holtz ink, Vintage | 2 Comments »

And here is the second card I made!  *still wiping the sweat away…”  Man that was work grasping for a creative brain cell! *wink*

This card was also made using the Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge.  Did I mention that I LOVE this cartridge?  Yeah?  I thought I did but just wanted to make sure you caught that in the other post I made using Winter Frolic. *insert smirk here.*

So…here’s card #2 after almost two months of ZERO mojo….well…no mojo and no time to even attempt  to be creative but last night I pulled out my craft stuff and dug in…I actually think I might have time ( if I scramble) to whip up a few more things tomorrow before packing things up again….keep your fingers crossed for me! *grin*

This snazzy little penguin card was made using two different Cricut cartridges – Winter Frolic and A Child’s Year. 

Ingredients:

Cricut or Imagine

Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge

A Child’s Year Cricut cartridge

Core’dinations medium green/black cardstock

black, light pink, medium pink, white, yellow, light turquoise and off-white cardstock for Cricut cuts

small piece of sheet music

Stickles (glitter glue) I used yellow and Diamond (clear)

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen

felt snowflake pieces ( these are from Paper Studio- Hobby Lobby) 

1 light pink styrofoam ball  or a pom pom for top of hat (found in floral section at craft stores)

“Merry Holly Days” stamp or your preferred stamp sentiment or use your computer and printer!

2″ wide ribbon – I used a light pink with fuschia polka dots!

Preferred adhesive

Pop Dots

Scissors

Directions:

1.  Using “A Child’s Year” Cricut cartridge and the turquoise paper, cut the card from page 75 of the handbook.  I cut this card at 6″ so the actual card measures 4 3/4″ x 6″.

2. Using the score lines, fold the card using your preferred scoring tool.  Ink the edges using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Vintage Photo.

3.  Insert the “Winter Frolic” Cricut cartridge and cut the penguin at size 5″ from page 57 of the handbook.  Cut the bottom layer in the off-white cardstock and the top layer in black.  Trace the rounded part of the belly onto a piece of sheet music and cut by hand or cut the bottom layer using the sheet music and attach to the off-white cardstock for extra stability. Ink lightly using the Tim Holtz Distress ink in Antique Linen.

4.  Cut the lollipop parts by selecting  the “layer” feature key once with shift selected and once without.  Use a variety of colors to get the desired lollipop color  I cut the lolliop base in off-white, then the stripes in light pink, medium pink and turquoise.  Assemble and glue together.

5.  Cut the hat first in light pink at size 5″ and then the top layer in the medium pink.  Assemble by stacking and attaching with a pop dot between the layers.  Glue to the top of the penguin and attach the small pink styrofoam ball or pompom for the top of the hat.

6.  Tie the ribbon completely around the front panel and tie into a bow.  Trim the bow edges to desired length.

7.  Stamp card sentiment or print using your computer and printer on a piece of light turquoise paper.  Hand cut the sentiment and attach to a scrap of sheet music.  Again, hand cut leaving a slight border and then ink. 

8.  Cut the scarf found in the Winter Frolic handbook on page 31 of the handbook.  For this scarf to fit across the front of the penguin it needs to be cut at 7″ and then trimmed slightly.  Ink and attach.

9.  Attach the penguin to the card front overlapping the ribbon.  The penguin’s hat will hang off the top of the card.

10. Add the sentiment to the card front – use the sample photo for placement.

11.  Add three different sizes and colors of felt snowflakes stacked and glued together and then glued to the center of the bow.

12.  Glue felt snowflakes to the card front.

13.  Add Stickles (glitter glue) to the penguin’s scarf, hat trim, beak and feet.  Also add a few dots of clear glitter glue to the corners of the sentiment.

I4.  Once the scarf is dry, cut small slits in the scard ends and curl upward.

Wa-La!  Another super fun Christmas card using the Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge!  I hope you like it!

xKim

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Moonlight Press Single Page 12×12 Layout


2010
09.23

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Posted in Book Pages, Cricut, Cricut Cartridges, Funky, Funny, Grunge, Halloween, Halloween Projects, Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge, Humor, Humorous, October 31st Cricut Cartridge, Olive Juice Studio, Olive Juice Studio Inspirations(Gallery), Project Tutorials/Instructions, Random Posts, Tim Holtz ink, Vintage | 8 Comments »

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out….the mummies are  wrapped tightly and the moonlight glows eerily in this slightly creepy crawly layout waiting for your little goblins 2010 photo. :-)   This layout was made using the new Happy Hauntings and October 31st Cricut cartridges, along with some fabulous paper by Graphic 45.

Ingredients:

Graphic 45 “Society Page” from the Communique Collection paper

Making Memories “Spider Web Toil & Trouble” paper

Black, yellow and cream/off-white cardstock

orange glitter paper

2 manilla shipping tags

cheese cloth or gauze

orange pom pom fringe

olive green glitter ribbon

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and Tea Dye

Adhesive - liquid glue to attach pom pom fringe 

Directions:

Using Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge cut the following:

1.  The mummy from page 32 in the handbook.  Cut the base in black at size 5 1/2″ and then in off-white/cream using Layer 1.  Glue the offwhite to the top of the black base cut of the mummy.  Wrap the mummy in pieces of gauze or cheesecloth torn into small narrow strips and inked with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.  Using the gold Copic Spica marker, lightly outline around the eyes, nose and mouth.

2.  The frame(frame9) from page 46 of your handbook. Cut the base using the shift key and the Making Memories Spider Web Toil & Trouble paper at 8 1/4″  Cut the top layer using black cardstock.  Cut the bugs by selecting “Layer 1″ and “shift” and the orange glitter paper.  Glue the top layer of the frame to the base.  Attach the bugs to the sides of the frame. 

3.  Cut “moonlight”  at1 1/2″ - 1x with black paper which is the top layer and 1x with the same paper as the base of the frame by selecting the “shift” button - this is the shadow.  This phrase can be found on page 56 of the handbook.  Glue the black piece to the top of the shadow piece.

4.  Cut the letters “P-r-e-s-s” using black cardstock.  The font used was the ‘Spooky Font.”  The “P” was cut as an uppercase letter at 1 3/4″ and the rest of the letters were cut at 1 1/4″ all as lowercase letters.  Attach to the moon.

Using October 31st Cricut cartridge cut the following:

1.  Cut the moon at 3 1/2″ using yellow cardstock.  Ink the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye.  Add random dots with the black Copic Spica marker.

2.  Cut the skull and bones 1x with off-white and 1x with black cardstock – cut each at 2″.  Ink the off-white piece with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Antique Linen and Tea Dye.  Run under water and smear the ink.  Set aside to dry for a few minutes, then glue the off-white layer ontop of the black cutout so that it is slightly off-center to show a slight black edge.  Using Copic Spica Markers, add detail to the bones with the gold marker by lightly drawing and shading around the edges to outline the bones.  Add random dots with the black Spica marker.

The tags:

1.  Remove the white string and replace with the olive green glittered ribbon.  Tie and trim edges. 

2.  Ink the card edges using the distress inks.

3.  Using a fine tip black marker, doodle around the border of the tag to add some extra detail.

Assembling the page: 

1.  Glue a strip of orange pom pom fringe to the right side of the paper.

2.  Attach the frame to the 12×12 Graphic 45 paper by using pop dots around the edges making sure to leave the top and the center untouched so you can slip the tags underneath the frame.

3.  Glue the moon with ”moonlight press” to the upper right corner of the Graphic 45 paper.

4  Glue the mummy so that it’s walking in front of the frame.  when gluing to the layout make sure not to glue it to the frame so that you can lift the mummies body enough to slip a photo underneath.

5.  Add the skull and bones to the lower left corner.

6.  Slip the manilla tags under the frame where you left an opening.

The frame is large enough for a 5×7 photo OR you can use a 4×6 with a border of the background paper showing around the sides. 

I am loving these new Halloween cartridges!  There are so many things on each that my mind is just spinning with ideas!  Now to get my hands to work as fast as my brain…!

Hope you’re all having a great day!

xKim

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So Last Year… Cricut Easter/Spring Card


2010
02.02

Posted in Book Pages, Cricut Card, Easter Card, Easter Cricut Cartridge, Feather Boas, Flocked Paper, Forever Young Cricut Cartridge, Funny, Humor, Pop Dots, Prima Flowers, Spring, Stickles, Tim Holtz ink | 2 Comments »

Whip one up and send us a photo!  We’d love to see your spin on the card or the saying…or whatever!!! 

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