Paper Succulent Terrarium and Cards

I recently redecorated my main living spaces and purchased a beautiful succulent centerpiece.  I love it so much that it inspired me to create a paper version and coordinating cards.

Materials Used:

• Cricut Cartridges Botanical Prints, Flower Shoppe, Bridal Shower
• Paper Doilies
• Vellum
• Cuttlebug embossing folder Wood Grain
• Donna Salazar Butcher Block & Blossoms cardstock
• Recollections Kraft cardstock paper
• Stampin' Up! Notebook punch
• My Pink Stamper stamps and Texas Chocolate Ink
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Crushed Olive and Worn lipstick
• Tattered Angels Viva Pink glimmer mist
• Stampin' Up! Whisper White craft ink
• Stampin' Up! Linen thread

All images were cut using my Cricut Explore and images from the Cricut Library.  The terrarium was created from a diamond box from the cartridge Bridal Shower.  I simply spliced in some triangles for the terrarium windows.  The real photo images of the various succulents are from the digital cartridge Botanical Prints.  My succulents were pieced together from flowers and petals from the cartridge Flower Shoppe. 

Spring 2014 Flower Swap

I recently hosted a Spring 2014 Flower Swap on the Cricut Circle message board and wanted to share all the lovely creations made with you.  Each participant was simply given the guidelines to choose any flower she would like using any Cricut cartridge and include an embellishment.  That's it!  Here is what my crafty friends came up with:


RockinRenee (that's me) - AG Soiree Lettering 

Gina Piazza - Mother's Day Bouquet

Caffinee - Flower Shoppe

Jodie R -

TinaW528 - Forever Young

Granny Anne - Mother's Day Bouquet

Eyelet - Flower Shoppe

Pinkbug - A Walk in My Garden

albrennick - Flower Shoppe

RockinRenee -

Sage - CTMH Art Philosophy

Violette - Pagoda

Jodie R -

cricutaddicted -

JoJoy - Rock Princess



misawasan - Flower Shoppe

oswaltb -

LoriSjogen - Flower Shoppe

 

KimberlyMaehrer - Essentials



KauaiMelody -

I also received a number of goodies and handmade treats for hosting the swap:

This beautiful wreath crafted by Eyelet - It's PERFECT Marty!  Thank you!

A sock monkey (she knows I have affinity for these guys) and a hand embellished and colored doll/girl by crafted by none other then Gina Piazza.  Her craftiness never ceases to amaze me!

A crafting bag full of goodies from albrennick.  The "thanks" was  SO cool!  Did you cut out multiple layers and glue to create the thickness?

And even more crafty goodies.  Thank you ladies!  I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

And that's a wrap for this swap.  I hope you enjoyed viewing all of the lovely flowers and are inspired to make some of your own.  Happy Spring!







Creative Color Challenge 05-21-12

Welcome to this week's Creative Color Challenge.   Here is my project with this week's colors:

CCR file:  https://www.box.com/s/faae449f4d0f9a1c2b59
Gypsy file:  https://www.box.com/s/fa2af433cf3caf6f6899

 And the colors:

Very Vanilla RGB: 255, 250, 226

More Mustard RGB:  212, 161, 80

Basic Grey:  118, 122, 121

We had some fun projects linked in last week!  Here are the winners:

Jennys Scrapbooking Haven

Carolyn's Creative Corner

 Please feel free to grab your winner's button from my right side bar.  In  addition, you will each be entered into the monthly drawing for the Cricut cartridge Once Upon A Princess.

As always, I look forward to seeing what you come up with this week's colors!

You're Berry Special ~ 5th Pie in the Series

Hi Everyone.  I am super busy again, but wanted to get on to share today's pie slice:  Strawberry!

Now I know that making the 3D strawberries is nothing new, but maybe it's new to making them into a pie slice!  =)  I used THIS tutorial to make my strawberries and this pic as my inspiration:

My whip cream is the same cuts from the pumpkin pie.  I simply didn't use all the layers and used the technique of turning them upside down to burnish them to give them dimension. 

My Gypsy file:
http://www.box.net/shared/c2v2b9dfnkfhgbta5fh7

I am out of time but will add more detail and directions later.  =)

"Pretty" Scary Halloween Tag

Our next Cricut Circle Blogiversary Challenge is:

The Challenge: Create a project of your choice using your Cuttlebug machine as the main focus. Your project must include at least 2 different Cricut Image Cuts.

I haven't made a tag lately, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to prepare for my spooky gift giving.  Carts I used include October 31st, Flower Shoppe and the Shape Library from the Imagine. I fulfilled the challenge by utilizing the web cuttlebug embossing folder.  Other materials used included SU & Core'dinations cardstock, Martha Stewart chunky glitter, SU elegant eggplant craft ink, Ranger forest moss distress ink, Adirondack metallic paint dabber in silver, Teresa Collins gem and hand dyed seam ribbon that I made last week.

I wanted to give the tag a spooky feminine look so I added the flowers to create the spiders body in addition to the chunky glitter.  I also raised up it's legs to complete the 3D effect.  I then finished the look with the hand dyed seam ribbon and gem.  "Pretty" scary...isn't it?  ;)

I also entered it into the following challenges:
RRR: Halloween
Crafty Ribbons Challenge  #3

HSN Contest Banner #2

Here is banner #2 for the HSN contest highlighted in yesterday's post:

I used the banner template I created for the birth of my daughter earlier this year.  I added some more elements to it to make it more "shabby" and 3D.  I thought I was overdoing it, but in retrospect, I think I should have added some more cuts.  I am hoping to see it on TV Sunday night.  =)