Sleigh Treat Holders

Felt Hat Cards

Felt Hat Cards

I am just loving my Cricut Mini and playing with Cricut Craft Room.
These are both made out of felt and glued onto cardstock card.
I stitched it with twine to accent the hats.

 Supplies:

The hat is from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cartridge.
The hat is sized in Cricut Craft Room Width - 3.514  Height 5.167
I welded the 2 hats together to form the card. 
Then cut the layers in felt.

Cutting Felt With The Cricut Mini

I got a cricut mini. I wanted it for cutting felt. This is how I prepared and cut regular craft felt to cut using my Cricut mini. Different felts require different preparations. These instructions are for Craft Felts (high-quality polyester fiber) I found this felt at Walmart.
Cut Settings I used
Speed - 2
Multi-Cut 4
Pressure - High

*Note to myself: I am going to try multi-cutting 2 times. Then not remove my mat.
Clean off the blade. Then do another multi-cut 2 times to see if it cuts cleaner.

My Son's Birthday Card

My son's birthday is this month and I made this card for him.

Card Size - 5-1/2x8-1/2
I used the camping out cartridge for the pine trees and deer.
I used vintage papers Imagine cartridge for the worded background paper.
I used Stampin up paper for the border around the card.

Pine Cone Topiary

First I gathered up some pine cones around our yard.

Next I bought 6- 4" clay pots

I painted the with Turquoise Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint

that I picked up from Walmart.

With The Imagine Snow Angel Cartridge I printed out 2 sizes of snowflakes.

1-1/2" and 2" snowflakes. You can find these snowflakes on page 18 of the handbook.

They did not cut out. I guess it is another gliche with the update.

So I had to hand cut them out.

Before I hand cut the snowflakes out I sealed the paper with Triple-Thick Crystal Clear by Krylon.

I didn't want the ink to run when I used Mod Podge to adhere them to the pot.

Next I applied Mod Podge to adhere the snowflakes to the pot.

After I applied Mod Podge the snowflakes to the pot and they dried I sealed the entire pots with

Triple-Thick Crystal Clear by Krylon. This gave it a nice shine and protects the paper image.

I glittered the rim of the pot with Martha Stewart very fine glitter. Some of the pots I glittered with Martha Stewart Tinsel glitter for a different look.

Next I purchased a 6 pack of 3"styrofoam balls.

I chose my pine cone by selecting the ones that were the same size.

Then I glued them onto the styrofoam balls with hot glue.

Next I weaved some holly ribbon through out the pine cone ball

I found a Walmart.

 I found the berries at Walmart also and cut apart the bouquet for the berries on the topiary.

I inked a dowel rod with brown in for the stem of the Topiary.

I pushed it into the styrofoam ball and secured it with hot glue.

I put styrofoam in the Pots and stuck the dowel into the pots and secured it also with hot glue.

Halloween Treat Bags And Candy Wrappers

Happy Halloween!!

I've been making some last minute quick and easy treat bags and candy wrappers for Halloween.

These are super easy and fun to make.

This bag was decorated with a pumpkin cute from Smiley Faces Cartridge.

I used felt fusion to decorate the bottom of the bag and ribbon to accent the top.

I put Halloween tissue paper on the inside to finish the look.

I used Micro Bags 4" x 5-1/8" . These are a perfect size for treat bags.

This bag I made a window with the Martha Stewart punch all over the page punch.

I decorated the bag with felt fusion and twine.

I framed out the window on the bag with patterned paper.

I accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

This bag I used the Smiley Face Cartridge for the candy corn die cut.

I accented the bag with ribbon.

This bag I also accented the inside of the bag with Halloween tissue paper.

To wrap your candy cut your paper to size for wrapping.

In this instance I cut a 6" x 7" piece of cardstock.

For these Kit Kat mini candy bars I used a 6" x 6" cardstock to wrap them.

I applied double sided tape to three sides of the paper then wrapped them.

I took my Marvy paper crimper and crimped both ends of the candy wrapper.

I accented them with patterned cardstock and ribbon.

Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

Pumpkin Box Treat Holder

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Sweet Tooth - Pumpkin Treat Box - cut at 7".

Cricut Cartridge - Mother's Day Bouquet - Leaves - cut at 2".

For the stem I just rolled a small piece of paper into a tube and adhered it on with a glue gun.

Monthly Circle Challenge - Halloween Home Decor

This is my Monthly Challenge for the Circle Blog. We are to make a home decor Halloween Project.

Yellow Circle cut at 3" cat cut at 2.5"

I used Chic & Scary Cartridge

Pumpkin Cut at 3" from Chic & Scary Cartridge.

Spider Web cut at 4", Spider cut at 2"

I used the Chic & Scary Cartridge.

Circle Cartridge Challenge

This card was made for a Circle Challenge.

Cartridge used: Sophie and Cricut Everyday

Flowers Cut at 2.5"

Circle Logo cut at 1.5"

Trendy Alternatives - Clear Embellishments

Trendy Alternatives - Clear Embellishments
I saw an embellishment online called clear pops. I thought it had a neat effect. What it looks like is a sticker with a clear acetate overlay. I saw it on Pink Paislee website. It is from the Butterfly Garden Collection.  

Pink Paislee

Well I thought this would be a neat project for my Trendy Alternatives post. They are hard to find and I found a trendy alternative for making these yourself.

First I printed and cut the butterfly from the Lori's Garden cartridge on my Imagine.

You can make these clear pops with any clear packaging. I used a cartridge box.

I cut on side off the box.

Next I used the cut only feature on the Imagine and muti cut 4 times.

I did not use the print feature. Pressure and Speed were 5.

Next I adhered the clear acetate overlay on top of the butterfly cut with terrifically tacky tape.

I just put the adhesive on the body of the butterfly.

I then inked the edges so the clear acetate would stand out more.

I bent the wings up to give the butterfly a 3D dimension.

I also used this method with my Vagabond Machine.

I cut my pieces out with the vagabond machine.

First the patterned paper and then the acetate.

I inked the edges of my flower .

I poked holes through the acetate and the paper flower to adhere a button in the center of the flower.

I sewed the button in the middle of the flower to hold the two pieces together.

I inked the edges of the acetate so the clear piece was defined.

I bent the petals up slightly to give the flower dimension.

Here's the card I made with this flower.

You could also make these embellishments with a regular sticker.

Print an image from your computer and cut it out by hand.

Cut the acetate by hand to overlay on top of the image and you have a pretty 3D embellishment.

You could also print the image with the imagine on ink jet transparency.