Did you hear the great news?
The Official Cricut Blog
sponsored by the Cricut Circle
www.cricutblog.org
Provo Craft has announced the launch of the Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle! This all new blog will go live Thursday, May 19, 2011 and they want you to be a part of the celebration!
The Official Cricut Blog will introduce artists and crafters to the benefits of the Cricut Circle. It will showcase inspiring projects designed by the Cricut Circle Design Team and provide a central location to receive announcements, promotions and updates on everything Cricut, directly from Provo Craft.
The Official Cricut Blog sponsored by the Cricut Circle will feature the following:
· Inspirational projects using your favorite Cricut machines. The Imagine, Expression, Cricut Cake, Cuttlebug, Yudu and more.
· Hello Thursday Cartridge announcements.
· Educational videos and tutorials directly from Provo Craft.
· Occasional sneak peeks into the exclusive Cricut Circle Community.
· Access to the latest Cricut.com deals.
· And much, much moree.
So today in helping in the celebration of the launch of the Official Cricut Blog by offering a giveaway on my blog. So today I am giving away the chance to win $100 gift certificate on Cricut.com. You just post anything TODAY on my blog. I would love to know if you are a Cricut or Imagine owner. Their only request is that you become a follower of the Official Cricut Blog by visiting the blog at: www.cricutblog.org
Enter as many times as you want and good luck winning $100.00 on their site!!!!!! I announced on my facebook page last night that TWO of my cartridges Baby Boutique and Black and White will shipping VERY soon now. I will announce it here,but www.cricutblog.org will be making announcements as well each day. I am so excited about this!!!!
Today we are on DAY 3 of the blog swap with Cordinations Collections. There are prizes being given away on their blog and facebook so make sure you are visiting their sites. Today I am showing some of the BOY lines that I designed. Cheri Piles did a great layout and you can really see the texture and dimsension of the cardstock in this photo:
Core'dinations - On The Edge All Boy layout
Designed by: Cheri Piles http://cherinspirations.blogspot.com
Featuring: Teresa Collins Designs – Core’dinations On The Edge, Blingage (http://teresacollinsdesigns.com)
Supplies:
Core’dinations; On The Edge Papers: Words, Guitar, Griffin paper, Plaid & Tags, Trims, Stamps, Brads, Die Cut Card Set & Elements. Blingage: Ty’s Stars. Misc: Sand paper, sewing machine w/black thread, edge distresser.
Instructions:
Preparing your page components:
- Cut Guitar paper 6.5 x4.5
- Cut Plaid paper 9.5 x 4 ¾
- Cut a strip of stars from the tags (back side) paper and trim to 9 inches
- Cut top of Griffin paper 7 ¾ x 1 ½
- Cut out from words paper Genuine and Boy
- Punch out from Die Cut Card Set: all boy and star sheild tag
- With your edge distresser, distress around all edges of items 1-6.
Assembling your page:
Sand your paper revealing blue Fleur Di Li's
- Adhere your 4x6 photo to back side of guitars paper.
- Adhere your photo with border to plaid paper 7/16 from left edge of plaid paper centering vertically on paper and adhere plaid paper to your Core’dinations base paper with right sides even.
- Adhere stars strip one inch from left side of paper abutting the bottom of your plaid paper.
- Adhere Griffin paper even with left side of stars paper also abutting the bottom of stars.
- Adhere word genuine 1 ½ from left side of paper overlapping bottom of griffin paper ¼ inch, leaving a space adhere the word boy to the right of genuine.
- Adhere star shield tag ½ inch from right side of plaid paper overlapping the upper right of your photo.
- cut a 2inch length of blue ribbon from the trims paper and fold in half and tuck under the photo mat ¼ inch below the star shield tag.
- Adhere the tag All Boy a ¼ inch from the right of photo matt and ¼ below the ribbon.
Stamping:
Stamp double star in black ink with the top of the star ½ inch from top of top right page three times.
Stamp inside the crest frame on lower right of paper over the inner star creating a black outline.
Stamp the word all boy even with the top of your plaid paper five times.
Sewing:
Stitch ¼ from right side on plaid paper starting and ending on your base paper.
Stitch ⅛ inch from edge of stars and griffin paper and the left side of the word genuine
Stitch along upper edge of genuine and boy starting above the 2nd letter N in Genuine and ending just before the B in boy.
Stitch along upper left side of plaid paper starting on base paper.
Adhere Blue and Grey chipboard Star Element and place over third star from left below photo.
Blingage:
Adhere Ty’s stars in center of stamped stars and on top of chipboard element star.
Brad:
punch hole in paper ½ inch from the left side of genuine and insert blue on blue star brad.
Trim:
Adhere black bead trim around bottom left corner: 1 ¾ on left side and then a strip 7 ½ along bottom, don’t try to do this with out cutting the strips and adhering them, because they are beads and so small you won’t be able to achieve a crisp corner - it will turn out rounded.
Make sure to check out the Teresa Collins Design Team Blog (http://teresacollinsdesignteam.blogspot.com/) and Core'dinations Blog (http://www.coredinations.com/index.php/category/scrapbook-blog/) to see more great inspiration during our Blog Swap! Make sure to check the blogs everyday, you never know when we might be doing a giveaway.
Day THREE for me today at the gym. It is a love/hate relationship. I still HATE going in the morning. I know they are going to kill me, BUT I am addicted to how I feel after I am done. Today I am finishing week 6. I wish I had done this YEARS ago!!!!!
Have a FABULOUS day and enter to win the $100.00 gift certificate!!!!!
Good Luck!!!!!
