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

Christmas Cards

Here is a couple of Christmas cards I made. The first one is all glitter.

I learned this while at an expo form PK Glitz.
Recipe for card:
brass stencil
glitter colors of your choice
sticky paper
Apply gliiter one color at a time to designated areas. work from the outside to the inside.
Remove stencil and all areas exposed add glitter then adhere to card.


Here is the second card, I made this for my mother and she loved it~

Carstock is from DCWV Christmas stack, title from Holiday Time (walmart) flowers from Stampin up and I added stickles to give them some pop and a brad.

Christmas Stocking swap

Luvskrapin held a Christmas stocking swap. My partner is GrammaP. We were to fill a stocking with goodies and mail by Dec. 15th. Here is what I received from GrammaP. I forgot to take a picture of the ornaments she made for me and the cricut cart Lacy labels that she got me also. Thank you ladies for a fun swap!

Love the  dress form and dress. 

Cookbook filled with some very scrumptious recipes~

LOVE the handmade flowers!

GrammP did a wonderful job making this stocking for me. It hangs on my electric fireplace:)

More goodies!

Christmas Secret Santa Matchbox swap

I had alot of fun with this one. I love to alter items and I am starting to get hooked on altering matchboxes.

For this swap we were to alter a matchbox, make two flowers, a chunky charm with at least 8 items on it, 3 stick pins and a gift for around $10.00.  My partner is Hanaclimie from Canada and this is what I sent to her. I was a bit worried she would not get it in time. I received notice that she did and she loved it all!

Thank you luvskrappin for hosting and I will be watching for next years event!

close up of stick pin

Chunky charm bracelet.

I to loved how the flowers turned out.

Got this idea from a Jo-Ann how to freebie from 2009. I happend to come across cleaning out a box of scrapbook items.

I had already been in a stick pin swap and they have become addicting as well.

Twilight shoe/photo box swap

Hello, sorry it has been awhile since my last posting. I was busy working on a new swap and this was the first I had ever done and boy did I have fun!
Dalia hosted a Twilight shoe/photo box swap. We had a list of items to make/buy/or alter to put in the box:

1-altered notebook
2-1 yd. ribbon or lace, red, white and black
3- 3 ATC's embellished
4-bling it-red, white and black
5-Altered matchbox with two altered pins, 2 flowers and a chucky dangle charm
6- 3 altered tags embellished
7-2 or more flowers, red, white and black
8-Diamond, such as glitter glue or rhinestones and etc.
9-Altered box filled with goodies
10- 3 each of twinchies and trinches embellished
11-mini mini with quotes or pics
12-surprise day
13- 3 cricut cuts layered and embellished to do with Twilight
14-Twilight goodies
15- anything not twilight related

So here is the pics,

#15 altered photo holder, Tim Holtz Philosophy tags and a mini clipboard

 # 13 Cricut cuts

#12 Surprise day a bracelet

#11 mini mini album

#9 altered box filled with goodies

#7 flowers

# 6 tags

# 8 Diamond 

# 5 altered matchbox

other side of matchbox

Chunky charm, 2 flowers and 2 stick pins

# 3 ATC's

# 2 lace/ribbon

#1 altered notebook-back

back inside

front inside

front

The box I altered-side

front

and top

#4 Bling it

#10 twinchies and trinchies

Hope you like my creations~

Thanks for looking!