Thanksgiving Cards

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, but I feel like it always gets overshadowed by Christmas :-( So, in a gesture of defiance against the Christmas-Industrial Complex, I always make a bunch of Thanksgiving cards and deck out my house in a flock of honeycomb turkeys, pumpkins, and Pilgrims. This year, I played with the fabulous Simply Charmed turkey cut, and I used a great cornucopia I received from the KC Croppers cut swap. The paper is a mix of Me and My Big Ideas and Target dollar spot fall collection.

Viva Thanksgiving!

My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop

Welcome to
"My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop"

You should have came from Heather's blog at http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/

if not please start at the beginning over at
Erica's blog at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

For this blog hop, I created a baby gift bag and card
using four cartridges... B Is For Boy, New Arrival,
San Serif Font & Once Upon A Princess.

The gift bag was cut from
Once Upon a Princes (p. 65) at 6.75"

The tag on the bag was also cut from
Once Upon A Princess cart (p. 65) at 2"

The 'BABY' wording on the bag was cut from
B Is For Boy cartridge at 1/2"

Glued together using Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

The card was cut from
New Arrival cartridge (p. 85) at 6"

And I used San Serif font cartridge to cut the Congrats
wording on the card... sorry.. forgot exactly what size I cut it.

Not super thrilled at how the baby's face turned out on the card...
I was in a bit of a hurry when I was working on this and it
really shows. But I love how the mini gift bag turned out.
I added a small button bow to accent it.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my projects for today!

Next... go check out Laura's adorable cards over at http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/


My Cricut CraftRoom - http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
Melissa - http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com
Holly - http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/
Samantha - http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/
Heather F - http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/
Suzy's Crafts - http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/
Tracy - http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com
Heather S - http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/
Shelly http://kccroppers.blogspot.com --- YOU ARE HERE!!!
Laura - http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Ricki - http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/
Madison - http://funkycards.blogspot.com/
Jen Bowker Ranney - http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com
Alishia - http://alishia-myscrapping.blogspot.com/
Blog candy - http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

~ Shelly ~

Festive Friday: Halloween Mini Book

TGIF!

Today, for Festive Friday over at My Cricut Craftroom,
I am sharing my mini book that I created using
Halloween cuts from two different cut swap groups
that I participated in during October. I challenged
myself to use as many of the cuts as possible...
some I used on Halloween cards but most of them
I used in this book. It was a lot of fun and I am very
happy with how it turned out. Thanks to everyone who
swapped cuts with me!! I couldn't have done this
book without ya! I apologize that I can not be more
descriptive about which cartridge every cut came from.

The front cover includes two pull out tags.

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On the inside cover is a spider web photo frame...
a photo slides behind it. To get a better look
at each page, you can click on it to enlarge it.

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The flag banner in the middle of the page
(on the right) is velcroed and opens up to more
pages... as you can see in the next picture.

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Each of the flaps that open have two tags that pull out.

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This is a pic (above) with both flaps open.
They close like barn doors and velcro shut again.

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The yellow photo mat (on the right page) opens up
(with velcro underneath) and the Dracula stamped image
on the right is a pull out tag that pulls out upward.

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The black photo mat also opens up... or shall I say
opens downward... as you can see in the next pic.

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Ta-Da... three more photo mats!!
It's very difficult to show you the full effect of this
album in photos... a video would have been much better.

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The Trick-or-Treat page (on the right) opens up.

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And another flap on the bottom right side
opens downward. There is also an orange ticket
tag that pulls out from the Too Cute To Spook
Stamped image. I thought the backside of the
tag would be perfect for a little bit of journaling
with my white gel pen... bc the backside is black.

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Near the purple ghost on the bottom flap
is the back of the orange ticket tag.
And the center is a polk-a-dot photo mat.
So there are plenty of spots for photos.

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Above is a close up of the ticket tag... it
slides in and out of a little "hidden" pocket.

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Both of these pages are flaps that
open to the left and right. And there
is space to add a photo under the
HALLOWEEN cut on the left page.

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In the above pic, the left flap is
open and the right flap still closed.

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Here is a closer pic!! Ya Gotta
LOVE candy corn!! YUM! YUMM!

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Now both flaps are open to reveal more photo mats.

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Here is a close up of the right page
once it is opened up. The stamped skeleton
image is another tiny tag that slides in
and out of the pocket underneath.

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Above... There are 3 flaps (on both sides) that open
up to more pages. The first two flaps on top are
just decorative with cuts... then when you open
those to the left and right... you will see (the next pic)...

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After opening the spider and jack-0-lantern
flaps above, this is what you will see... room for
2 more photos and some journaling on the right side
next to the tonic tag. Then you open these two orange
flaps to reveal the last photo mats in this section.

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Space for 2 more Halloween photos!
I added a little bit of green stickles on the jack-o-lantern's
leaf to give it a little bling. The spider has bling on her bow.

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Such a cute Jack-o-lantern! I love it!

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The polk-a-dot mat on the right opens up to...
can you guess... more photo mats!!

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Under the ghostly gathering square are 3 pull out tags...
more for journaling. And room for 3 photos on this spread.

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The witch flap opens up (as you can see in the next pic)
to the Pumpkin Patch section of my mini book.

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You can't really tell in this pic but the orange
photo mat is embossed and it
opens downward for more photo mats.

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Once the top and bottom flaps are open...
you see two more flaps.
These flaps open to the left and right.
Photos can be added to the polk-a-dot flaps.

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Once all four photo mats are open... you see four
pumpkins and a place for a pumpkin patch
photo in the center. Remember... these are all
cuts I received from others! :)

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The last two pages are more flaps that open up.
I added two buttons on each section and wrapped
embroidery thread around them to keep them in place.
To open the flaps, you unravel the black thread on one side.

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Here is a close up of how I closed these
flaps instead of using velcro again.

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When you open the first two flaps (on the left)
here is what you'll see... and the
RIP cut is a pocket for another tag.

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On the inside back cover... DEAD END!
But room for two more photos on the
inside of the left & right flaps!

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Uh-oh.... my book will no longer close!
LOVE IT!!

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Here is the completed book... as you can tell,
it no longer closes correctly.
It will just have to sit on my shelf like this!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE creating mini albums!

Be sure to check out the Festive Friday projects
from the other Design Team Members over at
My Cricut Craftroom.... oh, and be sure to stop
in this weekend.... we are having another
100 cartridge blog hop going on!!

Happy Friday!!!

~ Shelly ~

Scrapbook Saturday

For today's MY CRICUT CRAFT ROOM
design team project, I created this layout using
Once Upon A Princess cricut cartridge.

I also added a sheer bow to this layout...
I love adding bows to everything...
someone asked in a comment the other day
how I create my bows... I use the EZ bow maker...
it's awesome. I highly recommend it! I think I paid only
$5.00 for it a couple of years ago... and have used it soooo much!
Sorry, I can't remember the exact website I purchased it from, but
I'm sure if you do a google search... you'll be able to find it.

Be sure to check out the other awesome layouts
created by fellow dt members over at
My Cricut Craft Room! Have a fabulous day!! :)

~ Shelly ~

Festive Friday

For today's MY CRICUT CRAFT ROOM
design team project, my hubby created the Haunted
House from the Happy Hauntings cartridge.
Yes... I said my hubby!
He is into paper crafting and is actually much better
at it than I am. Here are pics of his 3D haunted house.

Be sure to check out the other Festive Friday
projects over at My Cricut Craft Room.

Have a great weekend!

~ Shelly ~

Theme Day Thursday.... Pirates & Princesses

For today's MY CRICUT CRAFT ROOM design team project,
I made both pirate page layouts and a princess banner.

My nephews always spend a couple weeks with me during
the summer and we always throw a party for them and
my friends kids before they go back home to St. Louis.
This particular year, the 7 yr. old wanted to do a pirate party.
We played games, made a craft, ate pizza, and went
on a treasure hunt. The kiddos had a great time.

To create these layouts, I used Life's A Party cartridge.
This is one of my favorite carts!

I also used it to create the Valentine card below.
The tiny hearts (eyes) were from a small punch.

To create my princess banner,
I used the Nursery Rhymes cartridge.
And as you can tell, I am a bit obsessed with bows!

Be sure to check out My Cricut Craft Room for more awesome
Pirate and Princess projects created by other DT members!

Have an awesome day!! It's my birthday so
hubby and I are planning on going out to see a movie and
probably dinner at my favorite pizza place, Gambinos! :)

~ Shelly~

Scrapbook Saturday

Hello!

Here it is almost 4 am... and I can not sleep.

I thought for sure I would be exhausted
by the end of Friday... spent almost the
entire day at the Creating Keepsakes convention...
walking around the vendor fair... shopped all day.
Found lots of goodies. I will share pics of my 'haul' later.
Got some really great deals! :)

Anyway, today is...
Scrapbook Saturday
over at My Cricut Craftroom.
So, for today, I created this layout using the
Paisley cartridge and DCWV cardstock.
Yes... it is an 8.5 x 11 layout...
I like doing those every now and then.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!
Please be sure to check out the other
Design Team members beautiful layouts
over at Erica's blog,
My Cricut Craft Room!!

~ Shell ~