Would You Ever Guess Wednesday?! With Flowers!

Good Morning Everyone!  Hope you are all enjoying this crazy time of year!  Even though we are all losing our sanity right now, crafting must continue!  This week at Erica's Cricut Craft Room, it's Would You Ever Guess Wednesday/Flowers Day! 

I've created 2 little projects to share. the first was my very first attempt at using Flower Shoppe. The base is an empty ribbon spool, covered in paper and ribbon. The flowers on top were cut in various sizes and just glued on! Cute huh?!

Next is a tree that I made using Flower Shoppe.  This took ALOT of time and ALOT of flowers!  I think it's best if you use double sided paper so you get color all around the flower.  These were all cut at around 5 inches, so a bit bigger, some smaller.  I painted the cone form in cream first, let that dry, then adhered the flowers using Aleene's Tacky Glue in the Gold bottle, GREAT STUFF!  Once the flowers were set and the glue had dried, I went back and used DecoArt Dimensional Writer Glistening Snow to fill in each center of the flower for some sparkle!  I really liked how these came out!  Once I play with this cartridge a bit more, I think I'll really enjoy using it!

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Lisa

Trying, but failing...

I think I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.  I am doing my very best to do what people have asked of me.  I have been respectful of time, and space, and feelings.  I have apologized, I have held my tongue, I have stayed away and allowed them to move on.  It has been so hard and I am sad, but then when I get asked why, I tell them I am respecting their wishes and still that's not right.  I miss my life the way it was, and after a year of a shattered heart, lost friends and losing the one person who believed in me always, my Dad, I still can't seem to get anything right.  What more am I supposed to do?  I've said it before, I just want my life back.  I want my Dad here, I want to be able hug him and call him and know that no matter what else is messed up in my life, he will be there, he will love me. I want to express my opinion and not have it literally affect how my family will live or even be loved.  Apparently I cannot voice my opinion, have any feelings, or speak out when I have questions because it's not allowed.  Life should not be so hard.  I do the very best I can everyday.  I mess up all the time.  I try to learn from it, I try to do better next time.  I am not responsible for everything that is wrong is every situation.  I am not to blame for it all... 

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday?!

Okay, I have to be honest, I'm a bit behind!  This holiday season is really kicking my butt!  My little one was home last week with a nasty virus, and as you can image, that just set me back with all my other "stuff".  I kept her home and she's doing much better!
Family always comes first!

That being said, my post for this weeks Would You Guess Wednesday?!, is rather simple.  I used the font on the Car Decals Cartridge to make a page title.  I used to hand-write letters like this "back in the day", while sitting in chemistry class doodling my boyfriend's name all over my notebook!

I also created 36 glasses for a local Veteran's Army/Navy Game celebration.  Each glass was being sold to raise money for the groups future endeavors.  A wonderful Army Sgt. asked me to create these glasses, half said BEAT ARMY and half said BEAT NAVY, so when you are drinking from the glass, the person sitting across from you sees who you're cheering for!  Cute huh!

I used blue and green vinyl to cut each word, then weld each letter together using my Gypsy.  I also used Pebeo Medium Brilliant Gloss Medium.  I painted on four coats of medium and then waited 24 hours between each coat, finally you have to bake the glasses for 40 minutes in order for them to become "permanent" and withstand dishwasher heat.  I think they look pretty good!

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Lisa

 

Card Creating Tuesday!

Sometimes, it's the simplicity of just creating something so basic that is beautiful!  I often forget that I don't need to over embellish, or glitter something to death.  A simple shape, a rectangle can be folded, and twisted and made into something pretty amazing.  I am making a scrapbook for someone and made this "card" on a page.  I used George Basic Shapes.  I stretched out a rectangle on my Gypsy and cut 2 long rectangles, scored them on my Martha Stewart Score Board and accordion folded them together, to make a card album on a page.  I cut the page protector in order for the card to be interactive and so that you wouldn't have to take the page in and out each time you wanted to see the pictures in the card.

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Lisa

Bella's Birthday Blog Hop!

Our Design Team Leader Erica, has a little cutie pie named Bella.  Well, Miss Bella has a birthday this month and the Design Team is helping create scrapbooks for her!  She is a girly girl, who loves Princesses, Pink and anything GIRLY!

You should have arrived here from the very crafty and talented, Enjoli.

I used two cartridges to make a 2-page~12 x 12 layout for the birthday girl!  Preserves for the cherries and Simply Charmed for the yummy cherry pie!  if you look closely, you'll see that the 4 x 6 mat above the pie has a tab that says "OPEN ME!", a little hidden flap for more pictures to go underneath!  I love surprises!  I also included a little quilling on the mat too!  Stickles on the pie for the stem, eyes, cheeks and smile!
Hope Bella likes it!

 

 

 

 

 

Hop on over to my fellow Design Team partners to see their creations for Bella!

Here's the line in case you get lost:

 Cricut Craft Room~

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Tracy~http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com
Karey~http://www.creativecraftcorner.com
Enjoli~http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com
Lisa~ www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com

 YOU ARE HERE!
Jenny R~http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com

 Your next stop! 

Heather~www.operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com
Bella’s Mommy~http://ericascraftroom.blogspot.com
Pat~http://micraftygal.blogspot.com
Rosa~http://kleymanr.blogspot.com
Lezlye~www.lezlyes.blogspot.com
Gayle~http://gscraptime.blogspot.com
Doris~http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com
Jen L~http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com
Blog Candy~http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com

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Happy hoppin'!

Hope you enjoyed my stuff today!

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Have a great day and keep crafting!

Lisa

Would You Ever Guess Wednesday?!

I have a few things to share with you today on Would You Ever Guess Wednesday!  I was going through some stuff I made and found these.  I forgot how much I loved them, and I am pretty proud of them so I'm sharing them with you today!

I was in a recipe swap and the only stipulation was we had to use our Cricut Machines!  These were two of the first things I ever did on my Cricut!

The first was a recipe I called "Little Clouds of Love".  Talk about YUMMY!  I used Zooballoo & Graphically Speaking, and my Cuttlebug for the clouds.  Most items are "fuller" if they have a shadow or blackout feature key, so keep that in mind if you need a "chubbier" image!  The hearts were a paper punch I have and I cannot for the life of me remember where the little bread rounds are from!  Sorry!  Stickles really do make everything better!  I did get a close up of my recipe, so give it a try!  It is DELISH!

Next, is my take on Slow-Cooker Chicken Salsa!  I used, My Community for the hen and chicks.  The stamp set is from Stampin' Up!(Just Chicken).  I watercolor painted the chicken in the circle, which by the way is really easy and fun!  Throw in some ribbon, brads and funky patterned paper, and you've got yourself a cute recipe card!

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Lisa

Card Creating Tuesday!

'Tis the season to be jolly......Christmas is just around the corner!  Here's a little card I whipped up for Card Creating Tuesday at Erica's Craft Room!  For this card I used the Give a Hoot cartridge as well as the Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder on the tree and the snowflake embossing folder on the background. Added a little gold ribbon, some bling and a quick Christmas card is created!
Hope you enjoy!

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Lisa

Erica's December 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!

Happy Holidays!

You know the first weekend of every month, Erica's Craft Room has a 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog hop!

You should have arrived here from the very talented and crafty Laura at:

 http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com

This month I choose to use Quarter Note and Word Collage!

Quarter Note is an interesting cartridge!  It has lots of musical "stuff" on it, but it also has great sayings and a beautiful font.  I used my Gypsy to weld the words "before" and "after".  "Amazing" and "Beautiful" were phrases that were already on the cartridge.  This layout is from July when my oldest daughter Jordan got her braces off!  She had them on for 2.5 years, she had to wear headgear, rubber bands and had all kinds of appointments!  But when they came off....OMG!  She was even more beautiful than I could have imagined!  When we asked her what she wanted to eat more than anything....POPCORN!  Gotta love her!  We are so proud of her!

Next up is the Word Collage Cartridge.  If you are familiar with this cartridge, you know that it basically is a series of words, themed together to make a pretty collage.  I've used this cartridge to cut out Halloween sayings and other fun themes.  But as you can guess, there are alot of little pieces that need to be glued down and sometimes, they get lost.  So this time around, I used my Cricut markers in my Expression to make this sign!  The mat board is actually a 11 x 14 flat canvas, that I stamped with coffee cups from the Fiskars coffee stamp set.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge for some color, as well as the i-Rock for some bling in the corners.  I matted the green paper with black card stock and added a bow!  I love how it turned out!

Here's the whole line up just in case you got lost!

 My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

Melissa http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com/ 

Jen L http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/

Jenny R http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/
Heather S http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/
Laura http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/

Lisa www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com YOU ARE HERE!
Karey http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/ Your next stop!

Suzy's Crafts http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/

Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Blog Candy! http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much again for stopping by!

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Lisa

Card Creating Sundays!

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone, shopping and decorating have begun for most!  I'm being very "frugal" this year.  This economy is just brutal so I am shopping locally, and trying to make lots of my gifts! 

This week for Card Creating Sunday, I am showing you the cutest Christmas card! I saw the directions online at Splitcoaststampers.com (Pyramid Card by Kirsteen Gill). I just thought it was adorable and easy to make. I tweaked a few things to make it my own so to speak. I used Twinkle Toes for the tree skirt and the squares were cut at 3.75" from Plantin Schoolbook. I added lots of holes with my Crop-O-Dile and then added bling! The gathered ribbon around the based of the tree skirt is actually paper I accordion folded and glued down. I do recommend using Terrifically Tacky Tape to hold down the completed tree skirt. Have fun and enjoy!

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Lisa

Would You Believe it Wednesday?!

It's Wednesday and you know what that means, it's Would You Believe It Wednesday?! at Erica's Craft Room!  We only use the features keys to create a project.

Today I'm sharing two nursery room pictures.  I used Animal Kingdom, the "head" button as well as the "sound" button.  You just gotta love a pink pig and a purple lamb!  I also used my Cuttlebug to give the lambs tuft of fluff some pizazz as well as the pigs snout a little something extra!  Googly eyes and ink accents along the edges complete the look!

 

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Lisa

Giving Back Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Giving Back Blog Hop! We wanted to give back to the person who has given so much to us! So, this is in honor of Erica from My Cricut Craftroom.   

You should have come from http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com tina's blog .
If you are starting at my blog, you will want to start with Kat’s Blog, http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com, so you don’t miss any of the great layouts.

When you get done hopping, you will want to go to Erica’s Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/EricasCraftRoom) and leave a comment on her page.
We will be randomly selecting someone from those comments to win blog candy.

Some of you have asked, what do you do on a design team?
Well I suppose it's different depending on the person in charge, but for Erica's team, we are given differnt themes and weekend blog hop challenges and we areasked to create something to share with all of you!

We are incredibly lucky to have someone who shares our love for the Cricut!  Erica is kind, caring, flexible, generous and most of all she has allowed me to become part of a community of people who just care for each other so much!  So much has been going on in my own life personally, that this design team is a refreshing outlet for me.  I can find comfort in knowing that others care and don't judge.  For that I am truly grateful!

Here's my page for Erica! The tag pulls out and I wrote her a note of thanks on the backside of it. I used Cursive 101 and Plantin Schoolbook for the tag, the word Thanks is from Gypsy Wanderings. I also used the Cuttlebug to emboss the tag itself. 

The next stop on the hop is http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com

The entire lineup in case you get lost is listed below.
http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com                    kat
http://papercrafteranonymous.com heather
http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com melissa
http://grammiejudys.blogspot.com judith
www.lezlyes.blogspot.com lezlye
http://gscraptime.blogspot.com/ gayle s
http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com sue-ann
 http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/ rosa
http://cema1cema.blogspot.com christina
http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com/ madison
http://micraftygal.blogspot.com patricia
http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/ samantha
http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/ ricki
http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/ pattie
http://craftsbyamanda.blogspot.com amanda
http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com connie
http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com tina
http://allmadebylisa.blogspot.com lisa *YOU ARE HERE!
http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com enjoli  *NEXT STOP!
http://kccroppers.blogspot.com shelly lynn
http://www.creativecraftcorner.com karey
http://www.lauriecandoit.blogspot.com laurie

Thanks for stopping by and THANK YOU ERICA!

Card Creating Sundays!

This is my first time posting something for Sundays!
I made just one card this week.
I used Freshly Picked as well as the i-rock gem setter by imaginisce.  You can see that there's alot of layering on this card.  This does take some time, but I think the result s are well worth the effort!

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Card Creating Tuesday!

Well, it's card day! I have been using my Cricut so much that I have ignored my other love, stamping.  So this week I wanted to combine the two.  I have a few cards to share and some are stamped with Cricut embellishments added. 

The first on is from Pagoda. Just a simple flower to set off my Christmas Rose card.   The stamp set is from Stmapin' Up!, I used watercolors to color the image and a yellow skittle for the flowers center.

Next up is From My Kitchen.  Just a little card to send to a friend!  The background paper is from DCVW.

Last but not least, is a pop card that I used Plantin School Book on.  I think sometimes I try to over embellish, and often, simplicity is best.  I used the rectangle and the circle cuts from Plantin to give me the mats and base for my card.  Each chef is water colored and glitter pens were used as well.  The stamps and the papers are from Stampin' Up!

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Lisa