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

Weekly Challenge #40: Glittery Card Sketch Challenge!

The Challenge: This week we want to see your interpretation of the following card sketch. Please include some kind of glitter or bling on your card.

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. One entry per person, please.

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 Thursday, September 15th, 2011.

Prize: This week the winner will win $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.

Winner: The winner will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, September 16th, 2011.


Hello, Circlets! Are you ready for another Weekly Challenge? I apologize for getting the challenges up late this week. It is completely my fault and I hope you will forgive me.

Let’s do another Card Sketch Challenge this time around and let’s make those cards sparkle! Pull out the glitter, the gemstones, the pearls . . . whatever strikes your fancy . . . and give your project a touch of bling.

Here is what I created for the challenge. Since I had not used the Cricut Everyday cartridge, I felt this was a good one to use.

Recipe for card:

4.5x6.5 card
cardstock of same size from DCWV RockStar
Tim Holtz vintage photo ink around the edges of the cardstock
3 gliiter adhesive dots from Recollections
Ribbon from my stash
plastic case from a cricut got cart cut at 1 3/4 inch wide and 5 inch long & run through cuttlebug folder cricut circle heads
Tim holtz sunshine yellow and sunset orange dabbed onto plastic
Cricut cake, gypsy logo and Cricut Circle head cut at 2 inches and pop dotted on card
gliitery cardstock
sentiment: I heard you caught the bug!!! computer generated.

TFL~

Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge Valentine contest

MY SWEET VALENTINE CONTEST!

We want you to create a fun Valentine’s Day Project. It can be anything from classroom treats to a gift for your sprecial someone!

Please use at least four Cricut cuts and include something edible in the design (even if it’s just candy inside). Upload a picture of your project to the blog under the Magazine Challenge Tab. Only one entry per person. Please include your first and last name as the title of your entry. Entry deadline is Friday, February 11th, 2011 at 11:59 pm Mountain time. Just in time to give it away on the 14th!! Winner will receive a Cricut Cake Mini Machine!!  Prize will be shipped within 4 to 6 weeks after the announcement.

Recipe for paint can:
6 inch med. paint can (Joann's)
Alcohol inks-Cranberry and gold
Pink fiber
2 heart buttons
Frame ( will holder a picture 3x5)and bottom border on can from artistic expressions Beauty by Rhonna Farrer
Adhesive ribbon Love from DCWV
Stickles-Fruit punch, Cotton candy, Xmas red on mini hearts of crown  and platinum on star and Love Forever all from Rock Princess cart-crown cut at 3 inches
Flirty and Lace heart doily's from Lovestruck cart cut at 2 inches
Love memory gem title from Top Line Creations
candy from sweethearts-Fire, Ice and Forbidden Fruits from Twilight Saga

Cricut Circle Magazine challenge Thrift store find contest~

THRIFT STORE FIND CONTEST!
We are taking the challenge from Lisa’s Design Star Feature for our contest this month!

Find something from the thrift store to repurpose with your imagination and your Cricut Machine. Please use at least four Cricut cuts in your design. Upload before and after shots of your project to the blog under the Magazine Challenge Tab. Only one entry per person. Entry deadline is Friday, January 14th, 2011. Winner will receive a new April Showers cartridge!!  Prize will be shipped within 4 to 6 weeks after the announcement.

I found this at our local thrift store a few months ago and was not sure what to do till now. This is what it looked like before I altered it, I beleive I only paid a few dollars for this, I know it was not much more than 5.

Recipe for this:

White Tulle

4 sheets silver translucent paper form The Paper Company + 1 sheet for alcohol inks to be applied to

alcohol inks: Carmel, Butterscoth and Lettuce

2 heart buttons

Black vinyl 

Cricut cart. Home Accents-words used are Home, Family, Faith and Grow 

2 bunches of flowers from local craft store Darice classical silks brand

Gold Tattered Angels glimmer mist

Tim Holtz distress ink Vintage photo

battery operated frosted white lights

1 small strand of green beads

1 sheet of plexi glass

GBS cart for ovals. 

I first applied the vintage photo ink to the window frame here and there to give a distressed look and then sprayed glimmer mist on it. Not sure if you can tell in photo, that it has some glimmer and looks aged.

Here is pic of it with lights on.

I cut the words Home and Family at 1 inch, Faith and Grow at 1 1/2 inch so it would look proportioned. When they were all cut a 1 inch the words Faith and Grow looked smaller so I adjsuted them.I applied them to the front of the plexi glass.

I then took one sheet of translucent paper and applied carmel all over it then took the butterscotch and lettuce here and there. I then cut out 4 ovals from the sheet with GBS cart. at 5 inches wide and 2 3/4 inches long in CDS. I applied them to the back of the plexi glass. Then I took the other 4 sheets of silver paper and put them over the glass.

       I then wrapped the beads around the tulle pulled the tulle through the button holes on the back and glued to each corner. Then I arranged the flowers and lights. I even glimmer misted the flowers with gold so they to would have a bit of shimmer.

TFL

12 day Christmas gifts # 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10

Day 6 I got 12x12 cutting mats for my cricut (sorry no pic) Day 7 3 bottles of stickles

Day 8 birthstone brads

Day 9 Jolee's silver & gold stars with I rock pearl glams

Day 10 red & green stars with alcohol ink pads, I can really use them! I go though them alot.~

12 day Christmas gifts # 3,4 & 5

On day 3 I got alcohol inks in Red pepper and Pesto.

Day 4 3 packs of ribbon in Forest, Natural and Lovely.

and day 5 is a bottle of Gold Glimmer Mist. Thanks to my Secret elf on the Cricut MB. We are all having fun seeing what we are getting~

Altered Stampin Up tin

I found a couple of these tins at a yard sale over the summmer.

So I decided to alter it to be used for a Christmas gift. I used GBS for this. It took several tries, but I thought it turned out pretty nice.

Inside of tin.

I used Tim Holtz alcohol inks silver and gold to put on the edge. Sorry pic is not very good. As soon as I can I will have the cut file uploaded to my account on mediafire.

Twilight saga ATC cards

I made these for a swap I am in on the Cricut MB.

I did one for Jacob and one for Edward. I thought these are the best I have made. I used:

Inkssentials gloss paper by ranger for the cards

Edward's atc:

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks-Pitch black, metallic silver, cranberry 

Ribbon 7/8 inch-Simplyshr Black by offray

black and white pearls by Martha Stewart

Twilight Cullens crest stamped image from NECA stamp set

and quote font is BE SAFE, inked edges with cat's eye black colorbox

Jacob's atc:

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks- Metallic copper and gold, latte, caramel and ginger

ribbon 3/8 inch-Organdy copper by Wright

brown diamond gemstones by Martha Stewart

Quilette crest stamp image from draonflycurls and embossed with Powder Keg's black  

 paw print from artfulinkables Fictionally Inspired set

font is almagro for quote and edges inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo

I am really liking the alcohol inks alot!