Rosettes from Artiste

Rosettes from Cricut Artiste cartridge. the video explains what buttons I chose. The Artiste cartridge is so much fun and has so much on it to play with.

 

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Cradle from Baby Shower cartridge

This is the 3d cradle from the baby shower cartridge. Was doing a diaper card for my daughter and found this cradle so just had to make it.

3D Ferris Wheel from Artiste

I love making 3D things and when I saw the Ferris wheel on the Artiste cartridge I couldn't resist making one. It is not 3d on the cartridge but with a little bit of work I made it so. I cut 2 of the wheels and 2 of the stands and then cut 16 carts and put them together either side of a small box that was also on the Artiste cartridge. The base is just a straight piece which I have attached the legs to. The wheel turns and the carts swing.

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Cricut Education Weekend in Palmerston North

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Unicorns in Sparklie Iron On Vinyl

This weeks Bitten by the Bug 2 challenge was Life's a Zoo. I have been playing with the sparklie Iron on vinyl and my DGD loves unicorns and when she went to the zoo she said "there were no unicorns, Nana" so I just had to make her a T shirt with unicorns.The unicorn comes from the pixie button on PDDU and the grass from CAC edited on CCR to make it the right size.

 these 2 pics show how sparklie it is

 

Playing with Canvas

.Bitten by the bug 2 has a challenge for Flowers so I made this canvas of flowers. The flowers, trees and Penguins are from Cricut Alphabet the writing is Cricut markers from Extreme fonts. the cloud is from CCR basics and the speech clouds from 3 bird on Parade

Disney Pixar Cars - McQueen

. So many of the things I do are to try something out and this time its the Disney/Pixar Cars cartridge by Cricut. McQueen the car on button 5 had some very small cuts in it and Raine and I were looking at the size it needed to be cut. Raine had cut it with a size of 6 inches and this makes him 11 inches long. Having said that some of the fine detail is still only a hair thickness and would not cut on a smaller size. But mostly I think you wouldn't notice so much on a smaller size or you would put the detail in with pens. Now this is what I will try next but this time I have made the Shadow in black, the base in red card stock, the top is Red sparkle vinyl the yellow is cardstock, the silver gold and blue are all vinyl and sitting on my wall he just sparkles. When I did the base in Red there are areas that need to be black so a sharpie marker did the trick.

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The Cricut can't cut that! Oh YES IT CAN!

.So many times I hear that the Cricut can't cut something. Now I'm not saying that the cricut can cut every material but there are a heap that it can cut if you just have the settings right. Recently I have heard the cricut can't cut xxx card stock but I have been cutting it for some time really well, Now a few days ago I was told it couldn't cut the DCWV Adhesive Fabric paper in fact they told me it doesn't cut with the cuttlebug or big shot either. Oh wow this was a definite challenge as any of you who know me know I have all these machines. The DCWV Adhesive Fabric paper comes in a stack of 12 sheets and when I bought it I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it but it looked pretty. Well the challenge was I had bought it to cut on the cricut and now I had to check to see if I could do just that. Well I loaded a very pretty sheet of the fabric paper and as it had a pattern I decided to cut it on centrpoint and used a star shape from the internal cart on the Cricut E2. I chose a 3.5 inch shape as that was what was in the machine when I turned it on and it suited what I wanted to do. I set the blade depth on 5 and changed the settings to speed 3 pressure 5 cut 2 and you can see the cut on the pic of my diary. I then decided I wanted more stars so cut some more at 2 inches. I cut my name and also a scroll. I did find that if I cut at 1.5 inches the material would pick up from the base so I didn't kiss cut due to it being fabric. the smaller sizes I will admit didn't cut as well but from 2 inches upward it did. Now to put it through the manual die cut machines. The thin dies like the nestabilities didn't cut the fabric well leaving areas where the cottons were still joined but the StampinUp small sizzlits of the hearts and the butterflys cut really well with no problem. The sizix thick dies that Tim Holts alterations were used cut well and there is a little fraying from the fabric that goes along with cutting fabric. But I would say this "fact" that the DCWV fabric paper can't be cut on the Cricut and Cuttlebug and Big shot is BUSTED.

Covered the notebook with the spare pieces left over then added some of the cuts. It looked so good I ran distress ink over it and this highlighted some of the edges. Can you see the hearts the butterflys the dress form. Its like a puzzle every time but I love it.

This is my diary which I put the starts and swirls on as well as my name. All these were cut on the Cricut

cut with alteration die

Butterflys and hearts cut on SU sizzix embosslits

These are the projects and the dies haven't photographed the Cricut

 Below is the DCWV fabric paper I used

Cricut Education weekend June 8 & 9

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Minnie, shoes and fonts Cricut E2

.Playing with the E2 again. DGD loves Minnie so I have cut 3 Minnie Mouse from the Cricut Disney Mickey and Friends Cartridge. I used Stampin Up cardstock which I cut at medium paper settings with a blade depth of 4. I also cut the shoes from the Cricut Alphabet cartridge and played with Font 1 and the shadow to cut the name below.

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Cricut TBBM2 Bride and Groom boxes

I needed to make the Bride and Groom boxes from Tags, bags, boxes and more 2 but wanted to see just how big I could make them. I put them on the mat at 11.5 inches using a 12x24 mat the Bride comes out at 7 inches and the groom at 9.24 inches. The groom is much bigger than the bride but in saying this he fits all the chocolates from the Cadburys Favourite box in him. With the bride I used the ebosser and embossed the front and back of her dress then I put a versamark pad to the embossing and used StampinUp heat and stick and then dazzelling details to glitter the back and the Stampin emboss Iridescent Ice to glitter emboss the front. The sad thing is the glittering embossing has not come out well in the pictures. I tied StampinUp satin whisper white ribbon round the waist of the bride and put a bow of the same ribbon on the back. The groom I put together and embossed dots on the box then added clear buttons. I decided I wanted to see what the Log Cabin Glimmer spritz from StampinUp would do so sprayed the box with this, what I noticed is that the clear buttons coloured with the spritz. I added Love you as a sentiment as it is coming up to Valentines day and I thought this would be appropriate.

check out the buttons coloured with the spritz

From the back still hard to see the glitter which shows well IRL.