New Blog For Cricut Lovers

Hi Friends and Fellow Crafters!

I wanted to share a new blog with you today. Since there are no longer Provo Craft Cricut Circle or Public Blogs, a group of very talented crafters have gotten together and formed the Cricut Fanatics blog that is launching today. I am lucky to be a part of the team.

We have a lot of crafty inspiration planned for you each and every day all month long.

 

Our designers have been hard at work preparing some amazing projects to inspire you. Each day different designers will showcase the Cricut in their own unique ways. Be sure and stop by every day to get your crafting dose of goodness.

 

Each month we will have a Theme of the Month that our designers may follow. Our theme for September is End of Summer...projects can run the gamut from Back to School, Vacations or Things We Loved About Summer.

 

We have some great challenges planned for you to join us and show off your own creations.

On the 5th of each month we have our Cricut Crafty Challenge. We will give you a "recipe" you need to follow to create your own project and then you link up in that thread to be eligible to win a prize.

 

On the 20th of the month we will have our Cricut Sketch Challenge. You use the sketch we provide and make either a card or layout following the basic sketch design and your Cricut. Link up your project and we will select a few people the following month on show off their sketch project on Cricut FANatics. It's a great way to get to know members of our Cricut FANatics community.

 

And on the 15th of each month we have lined up some Special Guest Designers to wow you. These are some of our favorite Cricut Designers we have all come to know and love their Cricut projects. You won't want to miss their special projects.

 

But wait, that's just the great stuff that will happen EVERY MONTH on Cricut FANatics.

 

So how are we going to celebrate Cricut FANatics Grand Opening...why with prizes of course !

 

During the entire month of September we are going to be giving away one Cricut cartridge every Friday and one BIG grand prize at the end of the month.

 

For a chance to win each week you need to do the following:

1. Be a follower of our blog
2. Make one kind comment on each designers blog post during the week to be eligible for the weekly prize.
3. The weekly comments deadline is at 11:30 pm CST on each Friday in September.
4. Weekly Winner will be announced on the following Saturday.

     
The Grand Prize drawing will be held on the last day of September and a winner will be drawn from all weekly entry comments. More info on the
    

Grand Prize will be announced later this month.

 

Be sure and grab our Cricut FANatics Blog Button when you stop by the blog. We hope what we have planned inspires you to create with your Cricut products.

So here is the link to this wonderful new endeavour. Won't you stop by and see what is happening?
Cricut FANatic Blog

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Happy Crafting!

Colleen

Another Movable Monster ( With Some Style!)

The Sophisticated Mrs. Frankenstein

Hi Friends and Fellow Crafters! Today I am posting another Movable Monster from the Cricut Craft Room. This is the more stylish Mrs. Frankenstein! Once again I broke out the DCWV Glitzy Glitter Paper to use on her evening wear and added some metallic bling from Imaginisce using my I-Rock. I had to be extra careful because I found that the Glitzy Paper burns easily. I had to re-cut the top because I burned some of the glitter off when the I-Rock accidentally hit the paper.

I didn't have the right color green cardstock I was picturing for her skin, so I used some green cardstock I had on hand, then blended Tim Holtz Distress Inks Weathered Wood and Mowed Lawn on it to achieve more of the hue I wanted.

I cut 2 layers of her hair, a black layer and a layer using some Spider Web paper. I think it was from Graphic 45. I also cut 2 layers of her face, one green and one silver. I trimmed the black hair layer so that I could place it behind her eyes.

I trimmed the silver lightning bolt and adhered that to her head.

The Spider Web paper to give her a chic hairstyle. LOL!

I used a red Atyou Spica Glitter Pen on her mouth.

Putting her together was interesting. I didn't realize the digital handbook had become available, so I was still flying by the seat of my pants. I had cut the lower part of her arms in the glitter paper, but then I saw the book yesterday and it showed that piece cut in green. So I re-cut the pieces in green as suggested. I really didn't like the rounded part of her hands showing, so I used the original glitter sleeves I cut and layered them on the green arms giving her hands a more "finished" look. Later, I altered the glitter paper to have a straight sleeve.

I added a belt to her waist with a scrap of paper on my table to break up the all black gown. I painted her nails a nice shade of red using Smooch, then added some red sparkle using an Atyou Spica Pen. A few pearls for a necklace and a couple of pearls on her fingers for rings gave her a little extra glamour. Thank you Nadia from With Glittering Eyes for giving me some courage to alter my cuts a little more. I have been experimenting with more my cuts because of her amazing paper art.

Like the cat before her, she is also gigantic. LOL!  She stands at a statuesque 14 inches. Now that I have a better feel for putting them together, I may downsize them a bit.  :-)
Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Happy Crafting!

Colleen

Stick Pin Swap! The Results Post...

Hi Friends and Fellow Crafters!
I love swaps! I haven't been doing many since our fabulous Yahoo Group disbanded, but recently I have been dipping my toes back into the swapping waters. There was a Stick Pin on the Circle boards hosted by the wonderful JJewel and it was a blast! Here is my contribution.

My name on the board is GoneScrappin', so my Cricut bug was going scrapping, or maybe card making.

Here's what 20 bug tags looks like!



Making the pins was much easier than I thought they would be. Of course mine aren't nearly as ornate as some that I received, but I have plenty of fabulous ideas for future pins and swaps! Here are the tags I received in the swap. They are all gorgeous little works of art! Boy, there are incredibly creative people on the Cricut Message Boards and I am very happy they are there! There were 3 groups, but I was only in Group 1. The next time I will make sure to join all the groups.


Momto2cuties

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Missie T.



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Nana Donna

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St. Kitt's Scrapper

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Scrapperbecka

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Caffinee



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ScrapCat



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Seisa

Misawasan



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Maile Lei

Maile Lei

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Rockin Renee



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TulipCollector



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Granny Anne



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Go Cricut Go

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JodieR

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Kimberly M.



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Bleeding Cricut Green

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Sis O'Snap

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The next set of pins were a direct swap between group 1 and Group 2 because we each had 1 drop out.

Frankenstein475 - Direct Swap Pins

And finally, JJewel's pins

JJewel

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A big thank you should also go out to HodMom for helping to mail our boxes. She was kind enough to put my tags in a smaller box to help save some of the shipping costs.

Jewel was an awesome hostess and kept the thread lively and fun. She also provided us with some great links for creating these stick pins. I really liked this video, so I am sharing it with you today. Maybe these will inspire you to try some pins out for yourself. Be forewarned, it is really fun and addicting!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Happy Crafting!

Colleen