Scrap-Friendzy is starting out the new year with a Sketch-a-Thon for the month of January. A whole month of sketches to get your 2011 scrapping off to a great start! There are lots of friendly people there, and we'd love to have you join us!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Join us for the January Sketch-a-Thon!
Scrap-Friendzy is starting out the new year with a Sketch-a-Thon for the month of January. A whole month of sketches to get your 2011 scrapping off to a great start! There are lots of friendly people there, and we'd love to have you join us!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Time for another Sassy Lil' Card Sketch
Sorry to be late posting this, but we didn't have internet service this morning...I'm blaming it on the snow and cold weather!
Here's this month's card sketch:
And here's my card from the sketch. I was a little stumped at first about doing a sentiment focal point instead of an image focal point, but then I found a "Merry Christmas" stamp in my stash and it all came together.
If you use this sketch for a card, be sure to post a link back to Sassy Lil Sketches, for your chance to win this month's prize! And while you're at it, check out the new Sassy Lil Sketches forum and gallery - what fun!
Here's this month's card sketch:
And here's my card from the sketch. I was a little stumped at first about doing a sentiment focal point instead of an image focal point, but then I found a "Merry Christmas" stamp in my stash and it all came together.
If you use this sketch for a card, be sure to post a link back to Sassy Lil Sketches, for your chance to win this month's prize! And while you're at it, check out the new Sassy Lil Sketches forum and gallery - what fun!
Monday, December 13, 2010
It's time to Deck the Halls with Fantabulous Cricut!
Welcome to Brenda's Scrappy Blog and the third Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...Fantabulous Cricut's version of a blog hop!
In honor of the approaching Christmas holiday, we're having a "Deck The Halls" Crawl...each Design Team member will be featuring an original Christmas/Holiday-themed project that could be used to decorate and spruce up their homes for the Holiday Season!
If you've come from visiting Angji's blog, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start here.
Make sure to check out each DT member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be PRIZES along the way at some of the DT members' blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Deck The Halls" project at FCCB!
For my photo wreath project, I used George & Basic Shapes, Christmas, and Winter Woodland.
The base of my wreath is a wire wreath form from Michaels, but you could use a chipboard or cardboard ring, also. I used George & Basic Shapes to cut various size circles from chipboard and from pp, then adhered the pp to the chipboard circles. The bottom layer consists of nine 3.5" circles, then I layered some 3" and 2.5" circles on top, varying the placement and the patterned papers used. I cut some photos into 2.75" circles and placed them on some of the 3" circles adhered to the wreath. I added some 2.5" and 2" snowflakes cut from Winter Woodlands and scattered them around the wreath, adding some crystals to the centers and a little glitter penwork to the snowflakes. The final touch was the red bow, cut from the Christmas cartridge at 8", with a button and twine embellishment at the center.
Here's a closeup of a portion of the wreath:
We would love to see your "deck the halls" project this week, so please link your project back to the Fantabulous Cricut blog. Doing this will also get your entered for a chance at an awesome blog hop prize!
Now, it's on to Candace's blog for a look at her fantabulous project!
Don't forget to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!
Happy Crawling!
In honor of the approaching Christmas holiday, we're having a "Deck The Halls" Crawl...each Design Team member will be featuring an original Christmas/Holiday-themed project that could be used to decorate and spruce up their homes for the Holiday Season!
If you've come from visiting Angji's blog, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start here.
Make sure to check out each DT member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be PRIZES along the way at some of the DT members' blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Deck The Halls" project at FCCB!
For my photo wreath project, I used George & Basic Shapes, Christmas, and Winter Woodland.
The base of my wreath is a wire wreath form from Michaels, but you could use a chipboard or cardboard ring, also. I used George & Basic Shapes to cut various size circles from chipboard and from pp, then adhered the pp to the chipboard circles. The bottom layer consists of nine 3.5" circles, then I layered some 3" and 2.5" circles on top, varying the placement and the patterned papers used. I cut some photos into 2.75" circles and placed them on some of the 3" circles adhered to the wreath. I added some 2.5" and 2" snowflakes cut from Winter Woodlands and scattered them around the wreath, adding some crystals to the centers and a little glitter penwork to the snowflakes. The final touch was the red bow, cut from the Christmas cartridge at 8", with a button and twine embellishment at the center.
Here's a closeup of a portion of the wreath:
We would love to see your "deck the halls" project this week, so please link your project back to the Fantabulous Cricut blog. Doing this will also get your entered for a chance at an awesome blog hop prize!
Now, it's on to Candace's blog for a look at her fantabulous project!
Don't forget to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!
Happy Crawling!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge # 39
This week at Fantabulous Cricut, we're focusing on Christmas gifts and gift wraps made with the Cricut.
I used Tags, Bags, Boxes & More for these two gift boxes.
The tree box was cut using the "fit to page" feature on the Expression, which ended up at about 6.5". I folded back the tabs on the front of the box so I could see the tree shape, and then added pp strips to cover the box front. I added some punched border strips and a few beads to the tree, and then added a glittered star to the top. The star was cut at 1.5" from George & Basic Shapes.
The gift box is actually "Matchbox 2" on the TBBM cartridge. I cut this from cream cardstock at 8.25" for the box bottom and then at 8.5" from some Basic Grey Christmas paper for the box top. The reindeer from the Joys of the Season cartridge seemed like a great match to the patterned paper, so I cut it at 3.5", using the ornament option. This size box could easily hold a book, scarf, or a Cricut cartridge!
We'd love to see your ideas for Christmas gifts and giftwraps, so be sure to link them back to the Fantabulous Cricut blog, and you'll get a chance to win a gift of your own from this week's sponsor!
I used Tags, Bags, Boxes & More for these two gift boxes.
The tree box was cut using the "fit to page" feature on the Expression, which ended up at about 6.5". I folded back the tabs on the front of the box so I could see the tree shape, and then added pp strips to cover the box front. I added some punched border strips and a few beads to the tree, and then added a glittered star to the top. The star was cut at 1.5" from George & Basic Shapes.
The gift box is actually "Matchbox 2" on the TBBM cartridge. I cut this from cream cardstock at 8.25" for the box bottom and then at 8.5" from some Basic Grey Christmas paper for the box top. The reindeer from the Joys of the Season cartridge seemed like a great match to the patterned paper, so I cut it at 3.5", using the ornament option. This size box could easily hold a book, scarf, or a Cricut cartridge!
We'd love to see your ideas for Christmas gifts and giftwraps, so be sure to link them back to the Fantabulous Cricut blog, and you'll get a chance to win a gift of your own from this week's sponsor!
Friday, December 3, 2010
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas......
.....over at Practical Scrappers. Today's post is all about using our paper crafting supplies to make home decor projects for the holidays, and yesterday's post was full of great examples of Christmas cards! If you need some inspiration to get in the holiday spirit, make sure to check out the Practical Scrappers blog!
Here are a couple of the items I shared. The Christmas card was so easy - I cut the Santa image from one of the papers in Pink Paislee's "Father Christmas" line, and just added a little sparkler with a glitter pen.
The wall hanging started as plain acrylic frame. I just cut some squares and rectangles from various Christmas themed papers and adhered them to a cardstock base. Random embellishments, stickers and rubons were added, and then a bow and bells were adhered to the outside of the frame. Easy, inexpensive, but merry!
We'd love to see your cards and projects, so be sure to link them to the Practical Scrappers blog!
Here are a couple of the items I shared. The Christmas card was so easy - I cut the Santa image from one of the papers in Pink Paislee's "Father Christmas" line, and just added a little sparkler with a glitter pen.
The wall hanging started as plain acrylic frame. I just cut some squares and rectangles from various Christmas themed papers and adhered them to a cardstock base. Random embellishments, stickers and rubons were added, and then a bow and bells were adhered to the outside of the frame. Easy, inexpensive, but merry!
We'd love to see your cards and projects, so be sure to link them to the Practical Scrappers blog!
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