{ Hello Thursday on Tuesday! }

ProvoCraft announces new cartridges on the third Thursday of the month. This past Thursday was that day. In her usual succinct and informative manner, Diane from Capadia Designs has summarized the important information on her Blog. Go =>HERE<= to see what is coming up, what is retiring, and get links for the Girls who have already created projects using the new cartridges!

She also has included very useful information about updating your Cricut Design Studio (CDS). With new cartridges coming out every month, knowing how to "check" your version of CDS is important and might save you a step when updating.

Happy Cricut-ing!

{ Just Be You }

Sometimes I am inspired by a sentiment, sometimes by a die cut or image, and sometimes by patterned paper.

This time it was the patterned paper. Check this Moxxie 'Glamour Girl' paper out:

I have three words for you...FAB. U. LOUS!

I immediately thought of my Paisley cart, with its cute Girly images and phrases. So, here's my Card:

I cut my hair dryer shadow as large as I could to fit on a 5 X 7 Card. The shadows on this cart are enormous! I cut my hair dryer on purple shimmer paper, which, btw, cuts divinely on the Cricut.

I chose not to cut some of the layers on the hair dryer itself, but left the "cut outs" for effect. The sentiment is not from that particular cut, but I really liked the message, especially for a teen or a tween.

I added a little bling, and that is it! Cute, huh?

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{ Thank Ewe }

I am having a love affair.

With the animals featured on the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.

They are the cutest things! See my darling Sheepie below:


This fun patterned paper (pp) is 'Farmyard' from October Afternoon's 'Farm Fresh' line and it was my inspiration for the card. I used Core'dinations color core cardstock for the fence, the little Sheep and the grass. Its really easy to sand for an aged look!

I used my fave Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder on my Sheep. The flowers are from Paisley and the sun is from Mickey & Friends.

Stay tuned for more PDDU Animals!

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{ April Showers Bring May Flowers }

I wanted make a Card using the Card Feature on the Paisley cart. I searched both the Cricut Cards and the Paisley threads on the Cricut MB for posts using the Paisley Card Feature...nada.

So, here is what I did:


I found what looked like an Envelope cut on the cart. Using leftovers of my Pink Paislee 'Cupid' pp, I cut the Envelope using 'Fit To Page' on my Expression and it calculated 4.5 inches. See the back of the completed Envelope below:


Then, I then cut the Card at 4.5 inches as well (in red Bazzill Smoothie). Next, I cut a rectangle in the darling pink gingham pp and carefully glued it to the back of the front of the Card. The pink gingham has flowers on the back, so it looks nice on the inside as pictured below...and it ties in with my Sentiment:


Then, I cut the Paisley umbrella both in the striped pp and brown Bazzill at 3.5 inches. The shadow of the umbrella was SO big that it took over the whole card, so, I opted to just offset the brown umbrella (in the same size) underneath the striped one and adhered it to the Card with 3-D dots. To accent the rain boot, I cut a tiny ladybug at 1 inch in pale green and added some doodling and a button to her. I stapled some blue rick rack to the top of the boot as well. More doodling.

The Card is kind of a tri-fold with a slot in the back. I punched a 1 1/8 inch circle in the pink gingham and adhered it to the back "closure". You can see the back of the completed Card below:


Yes, I had some sort of Cricut mishap on that back piece, but I am pretending its not there!

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{ You Rock } and { U Rock }

Yes, I have done TWO cards using the same patterned paper. I can't help it! What's not to like about Pink/Black, Leopard and Sexy Guitars???

See what I mean? This Moxxie 'Jammin' paper...well...Rocks:


I featured the Leopard side on this first card and used a Sentiment from the Jubilee cart. I have had my eye on that Sentiment since I got the cart...it was perfect here!

For the second card, I broke out my Hannah Montana cart, which I purchased solely for the Guitar cuts:


The "U" and the bracket are also from Hannah Montana. I think they are pretty cute! I carried my sentiment through to the inside of the card, using the "Rock" from HM as well. Now, this, I LOVE:


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{ Moxie Fab! }

If you don't "know" Cath Edvalson of Paper Crafts Magazine, you are missing out! She has a truly delightful blog called Moxie Fab World, where she features new products, issues challenges, and inspires us, all with amazing wit and flair. I highly recommend checking her out!

Having gotten that out of the way, I was inspired by Cath's 'Taintor-tude Challenge'. She reminded us about Anne Taintor (I didn't know the name, but I have sticky notes that say "Medicated and Motivated", which, are in fact, created by her), the genius behind the witty and sassy quotes paired with 1950-ish pics of women.

You can see what I mean here:


I just knew that Graphic 45's 'Domestic Goddess' patterned paper would work perfectly for this challenge. I did some heavy distressing and came up with my sarcastic sentiment...and that was it! I didn't even use the Cricut...or Pink...or Bling!

Go check out the Challenge winners...and be ready to laugh!!!

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{ Hello Thursday! }

I am going to send you to Capadia Designs ==>Blog<==, where Diane has the posted the following information:

• New Cartridges that Cricut announced yesterday (including pics!)
  
• Retiring Solutions Cartridges
• Links for Blogs where Joy, Melanie, Tammy and Robyn have created projects using the new cartridges

Happy Friday and Happy Cricuting!

~Molly