Reindeer Christmas Card Using the Cricut Machine

This Christmas Card is 5"x7".  Cut your paper 10" x 7" and fold in half.
Cut the next sheet 1/4" smaller than 5"x7".  Paste the two sheets together.  You will see a 1/4" border.

Next cut a sheet of paper 3 1/2" x 5". Now cut a sheet 1/4" smaller than the 3 1/2"x5". You will see a 1/4" border.  Glue these two sheets together.

Cut out a border to glue on the bottom of the 3/12"x5" sheets.  You make use any design and any height you like best.  Now use a piece of ribbon on the 3 1/2"x5" bottom. Wrap a small amount of ribbon to the back and tape the ribbon to the back.  Then take another piece of ribbon and make a knot and cut the ends.

Stamp "Merry Christmas" to the top of the 3 1/2"x5" sheet.  You can color in the areas of the stamp or leave as is.

Now you can use pop ups to attach the 3 1/2"x5" sheets to the 5"x7" sheets.  You will see that it is raised a little and not sitting flat on the 5"x7" papers.  This gives some dimension.

Lastly, I used my Cricut Expression and the "Joy of the Season" cartridge to cut out the deer on page 35.  I cut the deer at 3".  I first cut out the deer using the SHADOW.  Next I used the Deer1.  I used a lighter brown color for the shadow and a darker brown for the deer and a yellow for the antlers, tail and maine.  I used red for the collar.  I used pop ups when pasting the deer to the shadow and I glued the tail, antlers and collar and maine. 

Lastly, I used pop ups when attaching the deer to the 5"x7" sheets.

(Use coordinating colors for paper.  Example: Dark green and Light green or red and white.)

I cut a 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" piece of white paper and taped it to the inside of the card so I could write Merry Christmas and Happy New Year inside the card.

Hope you enjoy making this card. 

Robot - Robotz Cricut Cartridge

This little robot is made from the Robotz Cricut Cartridge on page 77.  This Robot is cut at 6".

I cut the following pieces:
Robot50
Robo50-s
Layer 1 (both lower and upper cuts)
Layer 2/Shadow (both lower and upper cuts)
Retro Botz (both lower and upper cuts)

All you have to do is make the folds on each piece (cricut cuts marks on where to fold), glue all the pieces together and assemble according to the picture.

You can make the robots at any size. I previously made a very large one and then made this smaller robot. They are both adorable, but the little one is just too cute.

This cartridge gives you several robots to assemble, as well as robots to put on cards or scrapbooks. Very cute!!  I will tell you that some of the robots you assemble are harder to figure out than others. We had extra pieces left on the large robot we made because we could not figure out where they were suppose to be glued.  The robot on this page was very easy to assemble and I used all the pieces.

Glass Etching - Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge

GLASS ETCHING

This glass was made using Armour Glass Etching Cream and the Animal Kingdom Cartridge.

Cut your frog on the cricut using vinyl, at 2 1/4" in height.

Weed out the pieces you will not be needing (use the negative).

Save the small round pieces for the eyes and on the body.

Cut a small strip out of vinyl for the mouth.

Apply the transfer paper to the front of the negative by peeling apart the transfer paper and placing the sticky side of the paper on top of the frog.

Peel the backing off of the vinyl.

The top of the frog is 3/4" from the top of the glass.

Place the vinyl on the glass and make sure to get all of the bubbles out of the vinyl close to the edges of the frog that will be etched.

Place the eyes, mouth and bodies small round pieces of vinyl on the glass if you don't have them already on the transfer sheet.

Apply a generous amount of etching cream and leave on for 15 minutes.

After the 15 minutes put the glass under warm running water and quickly get all of the etching cream off and then pull the vinyl off of the glass.

Dry the glass and you have an etched glass.

You can use any figures for your etching.

I use a permanent marker to mark where I want to place the figure on the glass. Permanent markers will wash off of glass.

You can check other glass etching projects I have done earlier on my blog.

You can fill your glass with candy, tea's or any other goodies you would like. Tie a ribbon on your glass and you have a nice gift for weddings, birthdays, thank you's, etc.

Have fun!

Glass Etching - Blackletter Cricut Cartridge

This glass was etched using Armour Glass Etching Cream and the Blackletter Cricut Cartridge.

 The lettering is 2.245" wide and 1.157" high.

Weed out the pieces you will not be needing (use the negative).

Apply the transfer paper to the front of the negative by peeling apart the transfer paper and placing the sticky side of the paper on top of the word Ervin.

Peel the backing off of the vinyl.

The top of the capital letter E is 3/4" from the top of the glass

The bottom of the E is 1 3/4" from the top of the glass

Place the vinyl on the glass and make sure to get all of the bubbles out of the vinyl close to the edges of the lettering that will be etched.

Apply a generous amount of etching cream and leave on for 15 minutes.

After the 15 minutes put the glass under warm running water and quickly get all of the etching cream off and pull the vinyl off of the glass.

Dry the glass and you have an etched glass.

March Calendar - Designer's Calendar Cricut Cartridge

This March 2011 calendar is made using the Designer's Calendar Cricut cartridge. The calendar is 8"x8 1/2".

Recipe:

Background Colors of Cardstock:  8"x8 1/2" and  7 3/4"x8 1/4"

Background Printed Paper: The Paper Studio - Affinity - cut at 7 1/2"x8"

Calendar outline from cartridge - cardstock - cut at 7 1/2"x6"

St. Patrick's Day - cardstock - cut at 3/4"

March - cardstock - cut script shadow 4.007w and 1.63h

March - cardstock -cut script 3.918w and 1.553h

Days of the month - cardstock - cut at .781h

Glue the above together and you have a nice calendar.

Thank You Cards - Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge

I needed to make four Thank You cards so here they are. They are:

Size: 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"

Figures are 3 1/4" using Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge

Paper: Stampin Up

Ribbon: Stampin Up

Stamp: Stampin Up

Dimensionals: Stampin Up

Glitter: Stickles - Star Dust

Happy Birthday MPS Card - Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge

This is a birthday card for Robyn, MPS, for her birthday 1/24/11. Happy 38th birthday Robyn.
This card is made for the MPS Birthday Challenge. The winner will receive either Simply Charmed or theTwinkle Toes Cricut Cartridge. For more information go to Robyn's site at: http://www.mypinkstamper.com/

RECIPE:
This card is 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" cardstock
Bird is 3 1/4", pg. 65, using bird1, layer 1, 2, 3 and shadow
Balloon is 3", pg. 30, using baloon2, layer 2 and shadow
Diamond Stickles
Grass is 3", pg.45
Pink Stampin Up ribbon
Dimensionals
Creative Memories mps lettering