My Cricut Craft Room - Card Creating Tuesday

Today is Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room. I am so excited to be on this design team, it keeps me busy and inspired!

Today I made a ghost card. Since school is almost starting, it reminds me that Halloween is just around the corner which makes me excited. I love all the fall/Halloween colors so it gets me excited to craft!

I used my new Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge for this card, it is quickly becoming my favorite cartridge.  It adds the perfect touch to every card that I create.

Here is my cute ghost card!

I found a cute ghost stamp in the dollar bins at Michaels which inspired the whole card!

Recipe:

Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge - cut at 4.5 inches

My Minds Eye Blackbird Paper

Black Cardstock - Card cut at 6x6 (I like to make bigger cards)

Ghost stamp - Michaels

Martha Stewart Ink

Scraps of Echo Park paper and My Minds Eye paper for the ghosts

Sentiment is from Hero Arts Anyone Can Stamp set

Misc Buttons

Twine from the Twinery (the best twine ever)

My trusty pink ATG gun

I love this card so much! It gets me in the Halloween spirit and it makes me smile whenever I look at it.  I hope you like it too!

Love Always - Holly

To check out what the rest of my design team made, please hop on over to My Cricut Craft Room and prepare to be inspired! I know that I always am!

 

My Cricut Craft Room First Design Team Post - Theme Thursday Imaginisce Happy Camper

Today I made my first project for my new design team My Cricut Craft Room! 

I am so blessed to be on this new design team and I see great things in store for the next couple of months as I work on new and exciting projects/challenges.

If you visit My Cricut Craft Room you will notice that every day has a theme. Todays them is Theme Thursday and the theme is Imaginisce's new line Happy Camper.  I love this line, in fact I won this line in a giveaway from Imaginisce. It is full of cute animals, trees and all things camping. I am going to use it to scrapbook our camping memories because the paper is  so amazing.  One thing I like to challenge myself with though is to use the paper in a line in a less obvious way then it was intended.  Happy Camper has some of the most amazing patterned paper on the flip side of all the cute graphics.  So I challenged myself to use the patterns instead of the graphic sides of the page. This is what I came up with.

Recipe:

Cricut Elegant Edges

Brown and White Core'dinations Cardstock

Imaginisce Happy Camper green plaid, white polka dot and brown polka dot paper

Imaginisce Happy Camper cardstock smore cutouts

Martha Stewart Alphabet stamps

Paper Smooches love sentiment

White Gel Pen

American Crafts Yellow Ribbon

Atg gun

Modge Podge

Misc Cardboard

Twine from the Twinery

For the card I cut a 12x12 piece of white cardstock in half and then folded it in half to make a 6x6 card.
 Brown Cardstock was cut as a 6x6 square.
Green paper cut at 5.5 inches
Polka Dot Paper cut at 5 inches
Brown Polka Dot paper was cut at 4 inches. It is the first cut on page 46 of Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge.

I made a twine covered heart by taking a piece of cardboard and cutting out a heart. I covered the heart in modge podge and wound the Twinery twine around it to cover the heart. It turned out great!

I hope you love this project as much as I do. There will be many s'more to come in the future. :)

Love Always!

Holly

To visit the blog for the design team I am now a part of, please go to My Cricut Craft Room and check out all the talented ladies that I get to work with!

Also dont forget to become a follower. I lost all mine when I changed my blog name. I have a giveaway for a $20 gift card when I reach 100 followers!

Old School Cartridge Blog Hop!

**Winner of the 3 pack of stickles is comment #36 chosen by random.org. Laura, I will be contacting you shortly to get your address. I just want to thank everyone for their kind comments and thank you all for following my blog. Dont forget that I will be giving away a prize when I reach 100 followers again!

Welcome to Holly's Hobbie and the Old School Cartridges Blog Hop! 

If you've come from visiting Amy at http://www.lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com and start at the beginning. 

This hop is all about using Cricut Cartridges that are at least 2 years old or "old school"

So get ready for some super fun projects and some fun giveaways along the way!  

After you have finished the hop, be sure to head on back to INKING IT UP CRAZY (http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com) and create and link up a project of your own using one of your older cartridges.  The older the better!

Make sure to check out each member's blog. There will be some fun prizes along the way, AND there will be some AWESOME ideas! 

For my project I chose my favorite Cricut Cartridge ever! It is the one cartridge that I think everyone HAS to have... Create A Critter.  

 I chose the cupcake because I am in love with all things cupcake lately. 

Sentiment says "hello sweet thing" It would not show up in the pictures very well.

Recipe:

Create A Critter Cricut Cartridge

Echo Park Springtime Patterned Paper

Core'dinations White & Purple Card Stock

Misc Polka Dot Paper, Black & Pink Card Stock

White Gel Pen

Studio G Sentiment Stamp

Studio G Chalks - Pink

Lilac Twine from the Twinery

Pink Button

ATG gun

Modge Podge

** I will be giving away a Stickles set of 3 Limited Edition 1oz bottles in Red, Yellow and Blue for this hop.  I am also giving away a $20 gift card to either Michaels or Joanns when I reach 100 followers again (I just changed the name of my blog but the followers did not transfer over)  

In order to be eligible for both giveaways please become a follower and leave me a comment that you did so. If you are already a follower, just let me know you stopped by and you will be entered to win as well.

I will chose a winner via Random.org on Monday and will post the winner here. Please leave me a way to get ahold of you in case you are the winner!

Next stop...Diana's blog,  http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com. 

Go see what she has in store for you today...

I'm sure that it is something wonderful!

Lots of Love

Holly

In case you get lost on the blog hop here is the line-up:

Kassidy-  http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com

Peggy- http://ICrea8Cards.blogspot.com/

Justina-  http://www.justmycrafts.blogspot.com

Cheryl-   http://www.pinkandpaper.blogspot.com

Amy-   http://www.lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com

Holly-   http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/  

You Are Here!

Diana-  http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

Next Stop!

Cristi-  http://scrappin5littlecupcakes.blogspot.com/

Cindy- http://www.cindyrellascreations.blogspot.com

Kathy- http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/

Lindsey-   http://cricutcrazy94.blogspot.com/

Amy-  http://www.scrapthissavethat.blogspot.com

Susan-  http://www.itsmesusanp.blogspot.com

Birthday Card

Today our design team is doing one last project and we were asked to create a Birthday card that will be posted on Kassidys blog Inking It Up Crazy. I have had so much fun on this design team and am sad that our time is up! I have made lifelong crafty friends that I will someday (hopefully) meet! Thank you Kassidy for choosing me to be on your design team. What an amazing group of ladies it is made up of!

Here is the card that I made:

Recipe:

Simply Charmed

Cricut Essentials

My Minds Eye Hip Hooray Boy Surprise Paper

Misc white, red, blue cardstock

American Crafts Ribbon

White and black gel pen

Recollections button dimensional sticker

Atg gun

Action Wobble

The party hat is on an Action Wobble so it wiggles back and forth.

Hope you like it!

Love Holly

My Pink Stamper Design Team Call Submission!

**If you are looking for the Christmas in July Blog Hop post please scroll down! **

Robyn from My Pink Stamper is having a design team call and this time I am going to try out. I am nervous and excited at the same time. The first time I ever visited a site to learn about the Cricut, it was her site that I visited. I love all the tutorials she has on the Cricut and she also has her own line of really cute stamps! If you haven't heard of her or would like to learn more about her stamps or your Cricut machine, please visit her site at MyPinkStamper.com.

In order to get picked for her design team, you have to do the following;

Challenge: Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......
OrangeTurquoise GreenBrown(other optional color of your choice)... I chose Pink because it is my favorite!

For this challenge I chose to use my new Sweet Tooth Boxes Cartridge and I wanted to make a cupcake box because I thought it was adorable. I also wanted to show through this challenge that I am not afraid of trying new things. Usually I like to watch tutorials on how to make detailed projects like this but since it is a new cartridge I just made it on my own. The best part of the project is that an actual cupcake will fit inside the cupcake box. Such a cute idea for a birthday party!

Here is what I made:

Recipe:

My Expression 2
Cricut Projects Sweet Tooth Boxes Cartridge - Cupcake cut at 8"
DCWV the Celebration Stack polka dot paper
Chatterbox Chocolate Tweed Paper
American Crafts Ribbon
Scrap Pink Paper
Studio G Sweet Clear Stamps
(used sentiments I love cupcakes & Have your cake and eat it too)
White Gel Pen
Martha Stewart blank ink pad

I hope you love my project as much as I do. My dream design team would be to be on My Pink Stampers. Robyn is so sweet and I love the stamps that she produces!
Wish me luck! I know that I will be praying that I make it!

Love Holly

It's Christmas! Christmas in July Blog Hop

Welcome to Recycled-Genius and the ...CHRISTMAS IN JULY Blog Hop!

**WINNER OF THE CHRISTMAS CRICUT CARTRIDGE IS COMMENT #2 CHOSEN BY RANDOM.ORG. I WILL BE CONTACTING YOU SHORTLY! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO LEFT ME A COMMENT, I REALLY APPRECIATE THEM ALL!

If you've come from visiting Linda @ http://www.fancyframework.com/, you're in the right place! If you've just happened to come across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to Jamie’s blog at http://jmecreations.blogspot.com and start at the beginning. We would love to share some holiday ideas with you today. Each Fabulous Inking it Up Crazy Design Team member will be featuring a project made especially for this hop. We have a very talented and creative team, so make sure to check out each member's blog. There will be some fun prizes along the way, so get to hopping!!!!

Today we are celebrating all things Christmas! I love Christmas so any day I can celebrate it is a bonus for me!

For my project I decided to use my new Paper Smooches Santa Paws stamp set. I just got it in the mail and I love it. I have a new fascination with gate fold cards so I made one to go with the stamp. So adorable. I don't know who wouldn't love this little Santa!

Recipe:

Paper Smooches Santa Paws Santa
Martha Stewart black ink pad
My Minds Eye I Believe patterned paper
The Twinery twine
White Gel Pen
Misc Red Card stock
White Recollections Card stock
American Crafts Elements Glitter Buttons
Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridge
Atg Gun
Misc scalloped cut out

Hope you love this fun holiday card as much as I do!

Love Holly


Giveaway!

Since its Christmas we cant do a project without a present! I am giving away the Cricut Christmas Village Seasonal Cartridge. To be eligible to win you have to be a follower and leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite thing about Christmas is. I will randomly draw a winner on Monday July 18th. Good luck!




Your next stop on the hop is the lovely and talented

Courtney @ keezercrafts.blogspot.com

Here is the order of the hop in case you get lost along the way.

Jamie- http://www.jmecreations.blogspot.com/

Susan-http://itsmesusanp.blogspot.com/

Lisa- http://lisa-craft-blog.blogspot.com/

Linda-http://www.fancyframework.com/

Holly - http://recycled-genius.blogspot.com/ THAT'S ME!

Courtney-http://keekerzcrafts.blogspot.com/

Kassidy- http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/

Happy Hopping! And Merry Christmas in July!

Kassidy's Month Long Birthday Bash - Birthday Post

Its almost Kassidy's Birthday at Inking it Up Crazy! Kassidy has become one of my best crafty friends and I absolutely adore her! She is so creative and talented and it is a great privilege to call her my friend!

Today on her blog it is Birthday Day! You were to create something that is birthday related.
This is the card that I made for Kassidy for her birthday. It goes with the present that I am getting for her. I hope she enjoys it!

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge Simply Charmed
Cricut Essentials Cricut Cartridge
E2

Me & My Big Ideas Happy Birthday Paper
Echo Park Walk in the Park Polka A Dot Paper/Brown Paper
Scrap Pink, Hot Pink, Yellow, Orange, White Cardstock
Black and White Gel Pens
Misc Pink and Green button
The Twinery Pink Sorbet Twine (cant live without their twine)
ATG gun
Modge Podge

I hope that Kassidy has the most wonderful birthday tomorrow!

Love Holly

Walk in the Park Pinwheel

Tonight I felt the need to craft! I saw some amazing Pinwheels at the craft store and thought that I should give it a try. I have more I will be posting tomorrow but thought I would post my first attempt on here tonight.

Recipe:

Echo Park Walk in the Park paper (gorgeous!)
Misc Polka Dot paper
Button
Twinery Twine
Glue Dots
Brad
Pencil

Hope you are having a great start to your weekend! I know that I am!

Love Holly

Kassidy's Month Long Birthday Bash- Echo Park Day!

Today is Echo Park Day at Inking it Up Crazy! It is part of Kassidy's Month Long Birthday Bash and today I got to make something wonderful using some beautiful Echo Park Summer Days paper. I love Echo Park paper, it is one of my absolute favorites to work with. I am always inspired to make something utterly amazing when I pull out one of their stacks!

I also just learned how to make a gate fold card (see previous post - for first gate fold card and another card using Echo Park paper) so this is my second one and I love them! I dont know why I hesitated to make them in the past.

Recipe:

E2
Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge
Core'dinations Purple Card Stock
Misc Purple Polka Dot paper, pink, black and white card stock
Echo Park Summer Days Paper - ice cream and polka dot
Ribbon from Target
White Gel Pen


Hope you think this card is as "yummy" as I do. It makes me want to have an ice cream asap. Now if only it would get warm and stay warm here!

Also dont forget to visit Kassidy's site Inking it Up Crazy if you haven't already and leave a comment. There are some great giveaways and prizes going on, you don't want to miss them!

Love Holly

Gate Fold Card - Paper Smooches Monster Love

Today I made my first gate fold card and it turned out pretty awesome. I used some Echo Park paper and my new Paper Smooches stamps and voila! I love it. I am going to give the card to my husband for our anniversary next month. I cant say enough how much I love my Paper Smooches stamps, I dont usually stamp and once I got them, I just cant stop!

Recipe:

Paper Smooches Falling for You stamp and sentiment
Scalloped paper I got at a garage sale-maker unknown
Misc Blue Cardstock
Echo Park Summer Days patterned paper
White Gel Pen

I tied the card shut with some Twine from the Twinery! LOVE ME SOME TWINERY TWINE!

Hope you enjoyed the card as much as I do!

Love Holly