Another Cricut Card Idea ~ Making a Dollhouse Card using the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge
Ya gotta love the Cricut Expression machine. I had to make a birthday card for my niece. I knew that she was making a dollhouse with her mom, so I wanted to make this handmade greeting card special. After finding out her colors that they were painting the dollhouse, I decided to use the same colors for the handmade card.
Using my Cricut Expression and the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge was the perfect choice for my cricut card idea. All of the samples showed this Wild Card Cricut Cartridge being used for moving/change of address, but I decided to make it a dollhouse instead.
I set my Cricut Expression to cut the card at 7″ and it was a great size since I wanted to embellish this handmade greeting card with some cute card and scrapbooking embellishments that I have.
I used a pink rhinestone for the door handle, I had a 3D EK Success sticker of a white picket fence that I cut down to size and also some fun stickers of palm trees to accent the front door. I finished it with a pink butterfly 3D sticker again from EK Success.
For the inside I went trough all of the rubber stamps that I have (and that’s a lot of rubber stamps, good thing that I have my rubber stamping supplies organized in containers that are labeled) but what I decided was to make the inside of this handmade greeting card very simple and just used a rubber stamp that said Happy Birthday.
I love the way that it turned out.
Wishing Riley a Very Happy Birthday!
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Find the Cricut Ticket
Hi Fellow Cricut Lovers,
I just received an email from Provo Craft announcing a new promotion called “Find the Cricut Ticket”.
If you find a ticket in one of the Cricut Cartridge boxes, you will win a Seven day Cruise to the Eastern Caribbean for 2 and also $600.00 for airfare and hotel expenses.
There will be 20 winners ~ One of them could be you!
Here is the LINK to get the itinerary and rules.
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Using the Home Decor Cricut Cartridge to Make an Elegant Wedding Album
Creating an Elegant Wedding Album
Last weekend my husband and I attended a wedding. Have you ever been at a wedding and once you saw the bride you thought that you were in a fairy tale and met Cinderella?
Well that is how I felt at this wedding. The bride was so beautiful that I could not stop taking pictures. So what I decided to do was to make a wedding scrapbook for her to remember her fairy tale day.
I didn’t want to take away from her beauty so when I created this wedding album, I wanted it to be elegant. So I choose the Cricut cartridge Home Décor just because of the beautiful lacy scroll work that it had. It added the perfect touch that I was looking to achieve.
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News for all Cricut Design Studio Users
Today is our Lucky Day!
The Update for the Cricut Design Studio has been released and is available for download from the Cricut.com site now!
The newest cricut cartridges that they added are:
Hannah Montana
Jubilee
Life is a Beach
Lyrical Letters
Simply Sweet
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Stamping (Solutions Cartridge)
Stand and Salute
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How To Use The Wild Card Cricut Cartridge To Make A Custom Graduation Card
Using the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge
I needed to make a Graduation Card. I looked through all my cartridges and decided to use the Wild Card since it had the best graduation cap. The only thing that I added was making some fringe cuts on the tassel to look like a “real tassel”.
Then after I cut the envelope, I just added the graduates name to the front
The card was cut at 6 inches, and the envelope at 6 ½ inches only because I did not want the tassel to get messed up.
How cool is this card and envelope?
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Using the Cricut Expression Machine with the Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge
I needed to make a birthday card for a friend who is turning 60. I wanted to create a custom handmade card that would be fairly special. I was determined to use my cricut expression to help me do this. As I went through the various cricut cartridges I had in my supplies, I came across the animal kingdom cricut cartridge and thought that would work just fine for me. Let me share with you what I ended up doing.
What you’ll need:
Cardstock: Hobby Lobby patterned paper and solid brown and beige paper from World Win Papers, Die cut machine: Cricut Expression, Cricut cartridge: Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge for Owls and the word Whooo,: Plantin Schoolbook for the numbers 6, 0 and the letter’s, Little Greetings from hero Arts 3×6 card with envelope, All Night Media mini Pop Dots, Zig 2 way glue, K&Company permanent tape runner, Zig Memory System chocolate colored marker, and Rhinestones that I had in a jar.
How to make it:
I started with a neutral card base. Cut a strip of the patterned paper and adhered to the card with tape runner.
Placed the paper on the Cricut cutting mat as shown in the picture and loaded paper into my Cricut Expression. I selected the size that I wanted to cut out the images. For the words and numbers I used size 1 ¼”, Owls were cut to 1 ¾” and 1 ¼”. Pressed the image that I wanted on the keypad and then the Cut button to start cutting.
When the cutting has stopped, press the unload paper key. Using my spatula tool I removed the images from the cricut cutting mat.
Wanting a stitched look I used my Zig marker and went around the letters and numbers making little dashes, then using my pop dots and glue stick, I put the images to the patterned paper, and then added rhinestones for the eyes.
I was pleased the way it turned out and I know that he will not be getting a duplicate of this card. It is a one-of-a-kind Joan’s Craft World creation.
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National Scrapbook Day a Success!
I hope that everyone had a great National Scrapbook Day. I accomplished what I set out to do and which was to complete one album. Here are a few pages of the Easter Scrapbook Album that I would like to share with you.
I wanted the pages to have a nice spring look so I gathered up all the April scapbooking ideas I could. Some of our family from the East Coast joined us in the great southwest for the week of Easter and I wanted to capture in this scrapbook everything that we did in one week. My niece is in these pictures with us and her fantastic smile will put a smile on anyone’s face.
I also got creative for the last page of my scrapbook and did what I call “A Week in Review”. I wrote down just a little one line caption of what we did each day, and then added some embellishments to coincide with what we did.
I feel good about accomplishing what I did and we now have an Easter Scrapbook that we can enjoy forever. What did you do on National Scrapbooking Day?
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Celebrating One Month at a Time….April Scrapbooking Ideas
If you are overwhelmed with the idea of Scrapbooking and Journaling, why not take the approach of Celebrating one month at time.
I write in a journal every day. Some may call it writing in a diary, I call it journaling. I write down things that I have done that day, how I was feeling, what struck me funny, what made me sad. I also always have a camera with me whenever I leave my house. My friends call me “Auntie Flash”, because I am always taking pictures of something.
Since the month of April is now in the history books, I am going to make a Scrapbook page just for the month of April. I have pretty cool April Scrapbooking ideas. I will go through my journal, take a highlight from each day and some pictures that I have taken during the month and let my artsy juices flow. I am going to incorporate my own handwriting along with some computer generated thoughts that I will print it out on cool paper.
Some April Scrapbooking Ideas that you can add to your scrapbook page can consist of; April fools, Easter, Passover, Earth Day, and some birthdays and anniversaries were on my calendar; maybe you had some on yours as well.
This also is a good way to use seasonal papers and embellishments that you have hanging around your craft studio, or a great reason to go and buy some new ones. For example, you can use bunny or Easter egg brads to adhere your scrapbook page. There are so many ribbons with the theme of Easter and spring. The same goes for paper, stickers, rub-ons, and anything else that you can think of.
Join me on this April scrapbook challenge. It will be fun. One month at a time.
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What to do on National Scrapbook Day?
Come on fellow Scrapbookers, there is a National day for us. On this day there will be no doing laundry, no cleaning the house or even doing yard work on this day. All we are going to do is have fun and scrapbook!
National Scrapbook Day is May 2nd. What are you going to do? Go to your local scrapbook center and crop the day away? Or, stay at home and have your own scrapbook crop with your friends?
Did you know that National Scrapbook Day is the first Saturday of May? Well it looks that way to me, so if you have other plans this year, mark your calendar for next year so that you don’t miss out on the fun.
I am staying home this year, but I made a goal for myself, and that is to start and finish one scrapbook. I will not come out of my craft studio until I finish. That sounds like I will be trapped but I Love It!
I will post some of my scrapbook pages next week to show you what I accomplished. It’s going to be a surprise for me too. I can’t wait to see what I do.
Whichever way you choose to spend your National Scrapbook day, make it a great one and let your creativity go wild!
