Feature Key Fabulous!

Another fun day at My Cricut Craft Room! Today I chose to share in the challenge use your feature/icon key! Here's my creation! I used A Child's Year for the head silhouettes, flipped one on my Gypsy and had them face one another. Reminds me of an old time portrait! I used the negative instead of the actual die cuts!  The word Family is from Gypsy Wanderings. Enjoy!

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Feature Key Fun!

Todays' theme At My Cricut Craft Room is using the Shift Key with the Feature Buttons! HUH?! Basically what that means is on the pad overlay (for those of us with a regular Expression or baby bug!) the gray buttons on the left are the "Feature" keys. Some might be a font some might be a saying, just depends on the cartridge! However the twist is, use the feature key THEN press shift! Those are sometimes the most interesting images!

I'm going to show you a few little projects I've done using these guidelines!

First up is Nifty Fifties!

This cute little name signs was made for a friend at school! His daughter Molly joined the family and every girl needs a name plate!

I used my Gypsy to weld the letters together. The background paper is by DCWV, it's sparkly in the flower centers.

Here's her brother's sign! Don Juan for the font! DCWV is the background paper too!

These next pictures are the six pillars of character that our school district has adopted. I used vinyl to make these words a permanent part of the school.

These next two pictures are signs that are in the school. The school store sign is laminated and the pocket to the right shows the different options that can be hung from the sign. There is Velcro to hang each label. I used Plantin Schoolbook for the font and stars.

Hospitality Sign in Teacher's Mail room! Cuttin' Up! of course (my fave!)

The feature keys not only help build layers to the main image, they also have opitons that make them stand out on their own! Explore your cartridges and think outside of the box!

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Scrapbook Your Food Friday!

Happy Friday! Well for this week’s Friday post, Erica from My Cricut Craft Room has challenged her Design Team to scrapbook food! I am sharing my daughter’s science fair project! I ordered the photos but they haven't arrived yet! So let me show you what she did and as soon as the prints come in I'll post the actual pages!

 

 

 

 

Her experiment was on Bread Mold, YUCK! She collected her data and then she made this board. She used Cuttin' Up1! Cursive 101, and from My Kitchen Cricut Cartridges. On the bread slices, she used a green verdigris embossing powder! I must say I'm VERY proud! She got at A!

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February 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

   
Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have arrived here from
Michelle
http://www.paperaffair.blogspot.com/

This month I'm showing you 3 different cartridges, Cuttin' Up!, Christmas Solutions and Indie Art.  I used all three of these in a scrapbook I made for a friend. I think sometimes we get caught up in the "name" of a cartridge, for example the Christmas Solutions cartridge.  You can always go outside the box when creating a page, it doesn't HAVE to be used for Christmas!  I love this scroll sign and its old fashion feel!

The next pictures are also from the Christmas Solutions cartridges.  I also used the i-Rock tool.  OMG I LOVE THIS LITTLE TOOL!  So much fun!

I used this next tree from the Christmas cartridge and added pictures for the decorations.  Fun huh?!

If you are a follower of my blog, you know how much I LOVE CUTTIN' UP!  I would use this font cartridge every time if I could!  LOL!  Okay my things would be very similar but I don't care!  There are phrases on this cartridge as well. 

Last but not least is Indie Art.  I honestly got this cartridge because I fell in love with the

band-aid! It's just too stinkin' cute!  I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the center of the band-aid to give it some dimension.

Below is the line-up just in case you get lost!  Head on over to

 Laurie at http://mincedpaper.blogspot.com

 next for some more fun things!

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Shelly http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/

Jenny R http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/

Karey http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/

Jen L http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com

Sharon - http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

Pattie http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Enjoli http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com/

Sue-ann http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/

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Sherri http://squeakyscrapper.blogspot.com/

Kym http://kimmyskards.blogspot.com/

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  Be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....

Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps and special online coupons.

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge or K. Andrew Its Valentine stamp set that Erica is giving away today.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

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Theme Day Thursday!

It's Theme Day Thursday at my Cricut Craft Room!  Today's choices for the theme were Sports or Winter Activities!

I made this poster for our high school varsity girls soccer team!  This season they made the state championships!  They came is second place, but in our eyes they are true CHAMPIONS!

GO LADY HAWKS!

I used theSoocer Solutions and Cursive 101 cartridges for this project!

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Embossing Powders!

Hello everyone!  My blog post for My Cricut Craft Room has to do with using embossing powders on cards!  I used Doodlecharms and Paisley along with clear embossing powder for this cute little card!  I also used the i-Rock tool for the metal rivets of the basket!  I just love that little tool!

You'll see the clear embossing powder was used as an accent on the little red apples and I covered the green apple completely.  If you've never heat embossed before, remember a few things:

*The heat gun gets WICKED HOT!

*Use the little pull down foot when not in use!

*DO NOT LET KIDS OPERATE THE HEAT

GUN WITHOUT ADULT SUPERVISION!

*To prevent stray powder from getting heated,

use the little magic embossing buddy pad BEFORE

your stamp the Versa Mark

*(Embossing Buddy is a small "bag" filled with

cornstarch that you swipe across the paper)

I like to heat my images in a small, metal brownie pan.

 I also use a wooden skewer to "hold" my paper still. 

Heat embossing can be so much fun and adds just a different element to your cards, scrapbook pages and other crafty stuff!

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TODAY IS THE GRAND OPENING!!!!!!!!

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WYEGW?!

Hi everyone!  It's time for another Would You Ever Guess Wednesday!  This week I used the super, uber cute Cindy Loo cartridge!  This is from the scrapbook I made for some friends, like I told ya, just a few pages at a time!

The tree is from page 65, using the shift option .  It's about 10" in height and I just let my Gypsy calculate the width!  I made this a family tree of sorts.  As you can see the second page is actually the negative from the cut out tree.  I'm not wasting any Bazzill paper!  That stuff ain't cheap!

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Grand Re-Opening is Janaury 24th!

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