Cartridge Showcase: Joys of the Season

Today over at MyPaperCrafting.com I have teamed up with my fellow CWC Design Team member, Court of Court's Craft Corner, to bring you all things Christmassy with the Cricut Joys of the Season (JOTS) cartridge.  This is the first holiday/seasonal cartridge I purchased and it is the only Christmas cartridge I had until just recently.  So I have used it a lot!

Here is what I created just for today's showcase . . .

This is an interactive banner/wall hanging for my 8 year old daughter.  Her Winter Break from school starts December 20 and classes resume on January 3.  The holidays are always such a busy time and quite often I'm not as available as she needs me to be.  This little project will ensure that my girl gets special "Momma time" each day.  Each of the pockets has a tag with an activity that she and I will do together.  

There is a tag for each day, except Sundays.  Here is a sampling of what is on the tags:

• On the 1st day of Winter Break my Momma said to me:  "Let's bake some Christmas cookies."

• On the 5th Day of Winter Break my Momma said to me . . . “Merry Christmas!  Let’s spend the day with family.”

• On the 6th Day of Winter Break my Momma said to me . . . “Let’s pop some corn and watch a movie.”

• On the 10th Day of Winter Break my Momma said to me . . . ”It’s New Year’s Eve—let’s stay up late!”

• On the 12th Day of Winter Break my Momma said to me . . . ”What do you want to do today?”

The pockets are the gift card holder on the JOTS cartridge and they measure 4" tall by 2 7/8" wide.  The tags are also 4" tall, but measure 2 1/4" wide.  The numbers are the "12 Days of Christmas" numbers and they are 1 1/4" tall.  I used tons of left over stickers to decorate the pockets and tags.  The little gingerbread man and woman are 4" tall and were cut using the Gingerbread cartridge. 

Next up is one of my all-time favorite scrapbook layouts.  Most of the cuts were made using the JOTS cartridge.  For more details on the cartridges used and the cut sizes click here.

Here's a quick little gift card holder.  The "J" Christmas stocking, the "O" snowflake and the tag are all from the JOTS cartridge.  Click here for the original post for more details.

I love to use my Cricut to cut fabric!  I have made so many shirts and onesies for the kiddos in my life . . . here is a onesie I made for one of our nieces last Christmas using the JOTS cartridge.  Click here to see more details.

And last, but not least, is a candle holder featuring poinsettias cut from the JOTS cartridge.  This is one of those projects that I wasn't too sure was going to turn out the way I envisioned it.  I love the way it looks -- very elegant with the gold and ivory!  Click here to see the details on the original post.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope that I've inspired you to pull out your Joys of the Season cartridge and create!  Want even more ideas?  Then head on over to MyPaperCrafting.com and check out what Court created too!

Make sure you mark your calendars!  December 1st kicks off MyPaperCrafting.com's 3rd Annual 25 Days of Christmas Crafting with 25+ Designers, daily freebies, tons of holiday inspiration and weekly prizes.  You won't want to miss it!

~ Jen

CWC Challenge: Christmas Card Outreach

It's another wonderful Wednesday and today I'm sharing a "Hoot" of a card!  Our "Crafts With Cutters" Challenge this week at My Paper Crafting was to create a card for the "I Feel the Love" Project's November/December outreach.  Our teammate Madison is collecting Christmas cards for children that will be spending the holidays in the Children's Hospital of Central California.  I really hope you'll join us and make a card to cheer up a sick kiddo!  (Click on the IFTL Project link for more information.)

Here is what I came up with:

And here's the recipe . . .

• Cricut Hoot 'n' Holler cartridge.
• All of the paper is from my scrap stash except for the card base.  It is a light blue card stock by Recollections.
• My card measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 (folded).
• The branch is cut at 4" wide; Santa Hat is cut at 1 1/4" tall; and the Owl is 2 1/4" tall.
• The "Ho Ho Ho" stamp is by Studio G.
• I inked the edges on the branch and ornament bulb with rubber stamp ink.
• The red glitter and holographic glitter (on the hat and text) are by Studio G/Hampton Arts.
• I used a hot pink Gelly Roll pen by Sakura for the doodling on the owl.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Now head on over to My Paper Crafting and check out the cute cards the other Designers created.

~ Jen

Princess Cake!

Our niece Layla turned 5 years old last week and we celebrated this afternoon at a local park.  Her cake request . . . "A Sleeping Beauty Cake, please!  With lots of pink!"

Dee has been wanting to make a "doll" cake for quite awhile and now she doesn't ever want to make one again!  LOL!  This cake takes forever to bake and she had a lot of trouble with air pockets in the cake.  Now, having said that . . . this was a gorgeous cake!  The cake is chocolate.  She cut it into four layers and used chocolate mousse filling in between the layers.  It is iced and decorated with buttercream only.  The birthday girl loved it!

The Sleeping Beauty doll is sporting a buttercream bustiere with a buttercream necklace.  She also used sugar pearls along the waist, the edge of the dress and on the necklace.  I used my Cricut to create the text on the cake board -- Mickey Font (text) and Happily Ever After (crowns) cartridges.

Cupcakes were also important to the birthday girl -- they are Funfetti cake and frosted with buttercream.  Dee also made little rosettes with sugar pearl embellishments for the tops.  The wrappers were made using the Cricut Princess Party cartridge.

I always makes a special shirt for the birthday girl (or boy).  And Layla's had to be princess-themed, of course!

This was created using the freezer-paper method.  The tiara is cut from the Cricut Princess Party cartridge, the pink text was cut using SCAL and the "Princess" is from the Cricut Life's A Party cartridge.

Isn't she cute!  It is hard to believe that she is already 5 . . . which means very soon her brother will be 2 and her sister will be 4!!  They are growing up way too fast!

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Jen