My Kitchen Christmas Tree

The Cricut Blog's Weekly Challenge is to create an ornament with glitter.  Why make one ornament when you can make a dozen?  I used the gingerbread cricut cartridge to make my ornaments. I sprayed the "gingerbread" with craft glue spray and then dredged them in salt.  (I thought about using real sugar, but I live on an ant hill.)  The white paper frosting was outlined in quick dry glue and sprinkled with glitter. 

July 2011 Crop Challenge #6: A Baker's Dozen

Kathryn at Life on the {Scrap}beach is hosting a series of challenges and this is my 8 by 8 scrapbook page entry for Challenge #6.  For this challenge, you must create something inspired by baking or cooking.  I am not much of a cook but I do enjoy baking cookies with my family.  Every Christmas we bake and decorate Christmas Cookies. 

Apple Gift Card Holder.

There is no worm in this apple, only a delightful gift card.  This project came together easier than I thought it would. I cut 17 apple shapes from the Give A Hoot Cartridge, scored them in half.  Then I placed hot glue on the the score line and stacked 8 apple shapes on top of each other.  I glued this section to a full apple base, repeating all of this for the second half.  Then I made a pocket with wet glue when I joined the to apple halves together.  Fan the apple shapes out. There was a gap in the center so I "sliced" one apple in half to fill that gap.  Cut a tag from the same Cricut cartridge and attach with twine and a button .  -Easy and fast enough make for all the kid's teachers this year.  I am also entering this project in the Cricut Circle's Weekly Challenge

Santa Baby 2.1

I am not done with Christmas projects.  The good this about waiting so long is that I was able to get some embellishments for a big discount.  This is a project called Santa Baby 2 by Kathy at http://www.paperphenomenon.blogspot.com.  BUT I was  not able to buy the kit or even get the same materials so this is different than Kathy's but very similar at the same time.  Cricut Gingerbread cartridge was used to make flaps for page pockets. 


Front of House, this is a box that the lid comes of to store a mini album



Back of the House

Front Cover

Sample of page, the red page folds and goes into a pocket.  The cabin stamp on the circle opens for more pictures and journaling.  You can also see the back of a gingerbread cookie flap.

An inner page, the gingerbread house cookie pulls out to reveal another pocket page.