View of Niagra Falls from the Canada side

Before we headed for home from Alliston, Ontario. We stopped and spent the night at Niagra Falls. This was really beautiful. I did not know that Niagra was actually two falls, The American and The Horseshoe. At night the falls are lit up and are just as beautiful. TFL and THANK YOU CANADIANS! For a wonderful time in your country:)

This weekend is National Scrapbooking Day!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

May 5, 2012 | Author cricutblog

You didn’t think we’d let a scrapper’s holiday pass us by without having a GIVEAWAY did you?! Let’s give away a Cricut Expression Electronic Cutting Machine! Woot! Woot!

As papercrafters we LOVE our craft spaces! It’s a place we go to experiment, create, ponder, relax, putter, and more! Not only do we love our own “happy spots,” but we love seeing where others create.
And now we want to see where YOU create! And we want to see YOU in it! Take a quick snapshot of youurself crafting in your scrap space . . . it doesn’t matter if you scrapbook on the floor, at the dining room table, or in a scrapbook room . . . we want to see! Upload your picture along with your FULL NAME using the InLinkz Tool at the bottom of this post. You will have all next week to upload your picture. The GIVEAWAY will close at Midnight on Friday, May 11th, 2012. We will announce the randomly selected winner here on the Cricut Blog the following week.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day from your Friends at Cricut!

 

This is a picture of me in my scraproom. I took it my self. You can see I have been busy this past week. I needed this picture for the contest. Wish me luck and good luck to the other ladies. Sorry for the mess LOL:)

 

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I now have the comment section working. I made a few changes and did a test comment.

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Dress Form Mannequin pin cushion

I saw this on DIY-DISH and just fell in love with it. I plan on making some more for family and friends that sew this year as Christmas gifts. This was the first one I made. I used some paisly fabric, green crossgrain ribbon, added a black pearl in the center, some green beads for a neclace and a flower. As soon as I find candlestick holders I will be adding them. Click on the DIY-DISH above and check out these two twin sisters video.

After I made this one I thought of Sarah Hamer aka Pink Cricut. I beleive she would love to have one for her craft room:) See the pink purse ( not the best pic), I transformed in into this pin cushion. I bought 4 of them at target for $1.00. It took three to make it. I tore them apart for this and used one of the handles for the belt, then added some bling and feathers, now to find the perfect candlestick for this and all will be complete.

Do you like how the dress forms GLIMMER. I found out my Nikon D60 has a filter feature. I chose the cross function and this is what it does. It makes your pics POP!

TFL~

Challenges and link up partys I am entering in:

Pink Cricut
My Craft Spot: challenge #54 Mothers Day
RRR #47 Mothers Day/ Feminine plus Ribbon Challenge

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

Easter/Spring SS Swap

 My SS Craftyoldbat made these items for me.  Are they just adorable! I love the wreath and the altered book. The box is springy!!

Thanks for my basket of goodies. The chocolate that came with basket did not last long LOL!

link up party at Pink Cricut

I am entering this at Pink Cricut's link up party. This mask I made for a Masquared swap. Below is the matching box. Paint I used is Apple Green. Bling and freathers from walmart, lace trrim from K&Co. I beleive . This was my first mask and I really enjoyed making it. TFL~

End of box.

side of box,

top of box

front of box

Changing my Imagine to Pink

I bought the pink end caps to put on my Imagine. Since my Cricut is pink, along with most of my craft tools, I felt it was only fiting for my I to be pink also.

My New Craft Toys!

I recently got me a Gypsy and an Imagine. I am slowly learning what I can about them. So far I do love the Imagine. Just got to get my designing down, so hopefully the CCR and my gypsy will help with that, once I get them learned!


I bought the Cherry blossom cover for the gypsy to keep it from getting scratched.

My first test print and cut

This is from the Imagine More cart. I printed this on a generic sticker paper. Not sure where I bought it from.

Link up party at Pink Cricut

Sarah Hammer is having a link up party on her blog this week. This is a mug that I have altered into a pin cushion. I made three stick pins to go with it.

TFL~

 These I did as extras to send also.

Will be posting soon

I am currently working on a couple of swaps and full time work six days a week. As soon as I get
the projects done, I will post. To give you a hint one is like Mardi Gras and the other has to do with Spring/Easter. Watch for updates soon.


Thanks for looking!