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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Hope you enjoyed my stuff today!

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Have a great day and keep crafting!

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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for some amazing deals on Cricut cartridges,

stamps, and so much more!

Join Erica's blog to learn about upcoming

Blog Hops and new exciting stuff!

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Have a great day and keep crafting!

Lisa