Steampunk flower centerpiece- my first try at it

Monthly Challenge!

Each month we will announce a new Monthly Challenge. The challenges are designed to inspire you to stretch your creative wings. Have fun with it! You will have the entire month to create a project for the challenge. The project must meet the challenge requirements in order for your name to be entered into the prize drawing.

APRIL MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Center of Attention Challenge!

Every good tablescape, whether it’s on a dining table, coffee table, side table, desk or elsewhere, can benefit from a beautiful centerpiece. Have you tried creating one with your Cricut machines? For the April Monthly Challenge that is exactly what we would like you to try! Create any type of centerpiece using your Cricut machines. We can’t wait to see what you make!
The WINNER of this challenge will receive a $150 Credit to Cricut.com!

The Challenge: Create a centerpiece using your Cricut machines.
Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing.
How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Monday, April 30th, 2012.
Prize: This month the winner will receive $150.00 in credit to Cricut.com.
Winner: The winner will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012.
Note: We want to be sure that everyone knows that you DO NOT need to have a blog to participate in the challenges here on the Cricut Circle blog. When the InLinkz tool at the bottom of the Challenge Post asks you for the URL of your blog, you can also type in the URL of a gallery you have uploaded your project to, a direct URL to the image (Photobucket, TinyPic, etc.) or even a message board entry where you have inserted your photo. If you receive an error while submitting your entry, look at the top of the screen and there will be three tabs to choose from. One of them will give you the option to upload your image directly from your computer. We are really enjoying your submissions! Keep them coming!


My centerpiece is a steampunk theme.  Hope you like it. The flowers I made are Kusudama. My cricut cuts are from the Indie cart. I used the gear and the barb wire. I cut them out using my Imagine and the Industrial glow cart for them and the flowers. I hope you like them. Can you see the clcks and the gears in the second picture. Sorry I forgot to put my white backdrop up for this.

            Recipe:
container wraped in aluminum foil
moss and styrofoam block
Kusudama flowers
2 cricut cuts- Indie art barb wire and gear
Tim Holtz clockspieces and sprocket gears
Tim Holtz alcohol inks for stainig foil
wire to attach barb wire
stickers for center of gears-Jolee'sAll That Bling studs with pearls
Cricut Imagine machine
Cricut Imagine cart Industrial Glow

Other challenges and link up partys:


Pink Cricut
My Sheri Crafts-challenge #84-april showers bring may flowers to mom

DECEMBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Holiday Gift Wrapping Challenge!

“Brown paper packages tied up with string . . . these are a few of my favorite things!”

The presentation of a gift can be just as special as the gift itself. Don’t you just love to receive a gift that is beautifully wrapped?! Why not give that feeling to someone on your gift list this year? It’s such a small thing, but makes a gift feel that much more special when someone takes the time to add a few unique or personalized details. It makes opening a gift an experience. That’s what our challenge is all about this month . . . How do you use your Cricut to add details or personalization to your gift-wrapping for those special people in your life? Show us! We can’t wait to see your ideas!

The WINNER of this challenge will receive a $150 Credit to Cricut.com!
The Challenge: Use your Cricut machines, Cuttlebug, Yudu, etc. to create beautiful gift-wrapping. We want to see the unique and personalized details you add to your gift packaging, wrapping, gift tags, cards and more!

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing.

How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Saturday, December 31st, 2011.

Prize: This month the winner will receive $150.00 in credit to Cricut.com.

Winner: The winner will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Monday, January 2nd, 2012.

 

I made a small gift box that is a sewing box. I made a pin cushion and hot glued it to the top of the box and added a small wooden spool to it. My 2 cricut cuts are From the Heart and Make do and mend all from the Country Life cart. Thanks for looking~

Recipe for pincushion:
1 small  or medium box shape of your choice
DCWV cardstock from The Christmas Stack
lace trim
PK Glitz glitter real red
meduim styrofoam ball cut in half
batting
piece of fabric and or lace to cover fabric
double sticky tape for gliiter on edge of lid
Country Life cartridge cuts at 1 inch

OCTOBER MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Halloween Home Decor Challenge!

Ghoulies & ghosties and Long-Leggity Beasties,

And things that go “YUM” in the night . . .

Hooray for Halloween!


It must be the kid in me, but I just absolutely love Halloween! Not the creepy, icky part of Halloween (I know there are people out there that enjoy that part of it) . . . but the endearing part of Halloween. The chance for kids AND adults to play dress-up ALL day if they want, the thrill of planning out your costume months in advance, the candy (especially the mini chocolate bars! YUM!), the class parties with Halloween games and fun where teachers let their hair down. Having a fun reason to visit your neighbors on a cool Fall night and see them act a little sillier than usual. The crunchy leaves beneath your feat as you walk, and the warm bowl of soup that awaits you at home. It all just makes my heart happy!

The WINNER of this challenge will receive a $150 Credit to Cricut.com!
The Challenge: Create a Halloween Home Decor project! Your project must include atleast 2 different Cricut Image Cuts.

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. You can create any type of project you would like (tag, altered project, mini album, etc.) but your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing.


How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Sunday,October 30th, 2011.


Prize: This month the winner will receive $150.00 in credit to Cricut.com.

Winner: The winner will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011.

1st flower is sun from GBS, 2nd,3rd and fifth from flower on GBS, 4th from Forever young

Mask cut file from Okieladybug, she Rocks!

Mask form Destinations Do you see the gate smiling? His eyes glowing?

Recipe for this:

Mask fit to page 8x8 cardstock and feathers

Butterfly mask cut file from Okieladybug Indie art and GBS cart- shimmer cardstock purple and green w/ blue gliiter cardstock glued to chipboard for stabilty

Black cat fit to page 8x8 cardstock

flowers: GBS-sun and 3 flowers, Forever young-flower at 2 1/2 inch

ghost, gate and spooky eyes from Oct. 31st cart.

stickles in: Orange Peel, Diamond, Black Diamond, Starry Night, Gold, Christmas Red and Dark Blue

Black swirl embellishments

2 lrg green bling brads, small matching brads for center of flowers

reindeer moss and batting (fog) for graveyard

spider from morab99 that I was in a Halloween swap with

BOO from a yard sale find

bamboo skewers inked in brilliance lighting black

Tim Holtz vintage photo rubbed on pumpkin for a fresh picked pumplin look

My first Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge

Monthly Challenge!

On the first day of each month we will announce a new Monthly Challenge. The challenges are designed to inspire you to stretch your creative wings. Have fun with it! You will have the entire month to create a project for the challenge. The project must meet the challenge requirements in order for your name to be entered into the prize drawing.

This month the winner will receive this jam-packed IMAGINE CARTRIDGE BUNDLE!

The Imagine Cartridge Bundle includes:

• Better Together
• Best Friends
• Blast Off
• Kate’s Kitchen
• Ancestry
• Mystical Garden
• Snapshot: Everyday

FEBRUARY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: BANNERS!

Banners are everywhere! We love their versatility and the way they can be customized for any occasion. For this challenge, we want you to create a banner with any theme you would like. You may use THIS POST as inspiration, or feel free to create something completely new. Project must be newly created for this challenge.
This challenge is open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your entry must include 3 or more Cricut Cuts and meet the requirements above in order for your name to be entered into a random drawing for the PRIZE. You must submit a project to be entered into the drawing. Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post and include your first and last name in the title. Entries are due by 11:59 pm MST on Sunday, February 27th, 2011. Winner will be announced on March 1st, 2011. Prize will be delivered to winner within 4 to 6 weeks of announcement.
Note: We want to be sure that everyone knows that you DO NOT need to have a blog to participate in the challenges here on the Cricut Circle blog. When the InLinkz tool at the bottom of the Challenge Post asks you for the URL of your blog, you can also type in the URL of a gallery you have uploaded your project to, a direct URL to the image (Photobucket, TinyPic, etc.) or even a message board entry where you have inserted your photo. If you receive an error while submitting your entry, look at the top of the screen and there will be three tabs to choose from. One of them will give you the option to upload your image directly from your computer. We are really enjoying your submissions! Keep them coming!
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This is my first montly challenge. I have been in a lot ot Twilight swaps and love the books and movies, I thought this would be the perfect banner to make.
Recipe for banner:
Black Bazzill cardstock for banner crests cut at 5 inch from Winter Woodland on pg. 37 and inked edges with silver
DCWV Champagne metallic cardstock for font cut at 3 3/4 inch from Winter Woodland and I used from PK Glitz wonder film and red rose glitter to fill in the open spots also
Antique Gold Bazzill cardstock for lions head cut at 1 1/2 inch and wonder film and crystal glitter from PK Glitz to fill in lions head
Ribbon French Block black 5 from walmart and swirl rhinestones from Recollections
DCWV the immortal love embellishments-apple, checkered and silver heart, chess piece, moon and eclipse moon and flower all pop dotted with foam dots
Marah Johnson layered stickers- true love and flourish and rhinestones in red, white and grey
Cullen crest pin
brads are Chatter box easy brad maker used for the E-Edward and B- Bella  printed from computer font is BE SAFE
feather and red ribon from my stash
Hope you like it! and thanks for looking~