St. Pat's Hat

While visiting Disneyland last weekend, my daughter and I saw these cute Mad Hatter Hats that were rather on the small side and had an elastic chin strap (and a $40 price tag too).  I thought it would be fun to make something similar out of paper (for pennies) for a challenge at the Cricut Circle's Blog.  The challenge is to make something to wear for Saint Patrick's Day. To make this hat, I used the cupcake wrapper from the new Bridal Shower cartridge and cut two circles from George and Basic Shapes.  The hat band has a buckle from Fabulous Finds.   The four leaf clover is from Give a Hoot.

Santa Flying off the Tag

Exciting news for me, I was asked to be a guest designer at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog!  The challenge is to make a project with Cricut tag cuts.  The prize this week is Coredinations paper and cuts beautifully on the Cricut. 

I have a very thin mantel with a frame above it so this project has a perfect spot in my house.  I used a welded tag shape from Fabulous Finds for the base.  On my gypsy I layered another tag shape to create a frame the "Ho Ho Ho" charms.

Cuts:

Tag Base- 5 in, Fabulous Finds, cut 2 gluing one more pane base

                 4 in tag window welded with Gypsy

Ho, Ho, Ho- 3.25 in, Christmas Cheer, charms suspended with thread

Sleigh- 2.25 in, Christmas Cheer

Santa- 3 in, Christmas Cheer, Face Peachy Keen Stamps

Deer- 2.25 in, Christmas Cheer

Santa bag, 3.25 in, Joys of the Season

Deer is attached to sleigh with floral wire.



Sweet Witch Shoes

Here is another project for the Cricut Circle's Blogiversary.  The Challenge: Create a project of your choice using your Cuttlebug machine as the main focus. Your project must include at least 2 different Cricut Image Cuts. 
This is an easy favor to make with just one cut from Princess Party and a buckle form Fabulous Finds Cricut cartridges.  For a more sensible witch shoe, I cut a 1 1/2 in circle to make a closed toe shoe and glued the circle at the base of the shoe folding it to cover the open toe.  I cut the purple rose from flower shoppe.  The shoe cut was cut at seven inches.  I cut another shoe and cut the surfaces that show on the outside of the shoe to roll through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder.  The buckle was de-bossed with Tiny Bubbles folder to give it a hammer metal look.

The Love Bandit

Yippee it is Throwback Thursday Challenge time again.  Emma, at My Creative Time, runs this challenge to inspire you to use the older cricut cartridges.  This challenge you could pick any older cartridge but need to include a heart cut somewhere on your project.  I made the cute raccoon from Create A Critter, his stolen heart is from Doodlecharms, card base from Twinkle Toes, and the journal spot is from Fabulous Finds.