Erica's Cricut Craft Room Blog Hop

WELCOME! My name is Tracey. Today I am one of the stops in...

October's My Cricut Craft Room's Blog Hop 

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's October's Blog Hop 

Collectively the design team and guest designers have made some amazing and special projects to share with you... over 60 projects are on this hop, but it is in less than 20 stops. .  

All of the stops along the hop are featuring at least two projects made with Cricut machines. I love using my Cricut along with my Gypsy or the Cricut Craft Room to manipulate images. My favourite thing is making logos or just changing the cuts to suit my photos.

I started this layout by googling images of Mary Poppins. I was hoping to cut her silhouette flying in the sky with her umbrella but then I came across a movie poster and the font looked easy to duplicate.

I used Cricut Craft Room Basics to create this title. The cityscape is from Plantin Schoolbook. The umbrella is a cut from Paperdoll Dress Up.

For this layout, a created the game spinner by cutting out the coloured circles and hand cutting them into pie shapes. I then found an arrow shape and added a brad. I wanted to cut out something that represented our favourite games. I did a Google image search and realized that Skip-Bo cards would be easy to design. I used Cricut Craft Room Basics and Cuttin' Up to create the playing cards. I am very new to using the Cricut Craft Room and am enjoying how easy it is to view all of your layered designs at once and how you can change the color.

I love how they turned out!

Erica invited all of the bloggers involved to also post two older projects. I chose two creations that represent the type of things I love to design. If you would like more info on them you can check out my post with the label "minion" and the post with the label "Core'dinations creative frenzy".

Your next stop on the hop is

Oh Kissa

If you get lost along the way here is the entire line up

1. Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com
2.  Vivi J http://www.vivijdesigns.blogspot.com
3.  Cindy M http://www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/
4. Shawn Mosch - http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/
5. Liliana Umpierre - http://www.likidesigns.com/blog
6. Leslie Wrege McGrath - http://scrapnlifeaway.blogspot.com/
7. Roberta Swisher - http://queenbeepapercrafts.blogspot.com/
8.  April Nourse www.curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
9. Brenda Knapik -  http://www.disneygirlcrafts.com/
10. Lourdes - http://creativecraftsniche.blogspot.com/
11. Vicki Glenn - http://www.vickiscraftroom.blogspot.com/
12. Erica http://EricasProjects.blogspot.com
13. Connie Walsh - http://www.ConnieCreates2.blogspot.com
14. Tracey  http://www.thecroppingcanuck.blogspot.com
15. Oh Kissa http://www.ohkissa.com/thought-bubble.html
16. Sandy- http://www.aworkingmomsjoy.blogspot.com
17. Kris Dietz -- http://http://kreationsbykrisdietz.blogspot.com/
18. Mayra- http://mayrasdesigns.blogspot.com/
19. Cheryl www.Cricutobessed.blogspot.com
20. Crafting Blog Events http://craftingblogevents.blogspot.com</  

Have a great day!

Baby boy card

The hubs needed a new baby card this week. So I did a search on Pinterest to look for some inspiration. This is my Pinter-theft or maybe I should call it Pinter-lift?.



Since I was only going to have font on my card, I thought it would be easier to have my letters lined up if I used my Gypsy. That is one advantage to using the negative image of a word, no eyeballing for placing the letters. One disadvantage though is gluing the teeny, tiny center of the letter "e"s.

Yolo layout

Do your kids say this? I wanted to scrap it so that 30 years from now I can remember some of their sayings.





I bought this tie-dye paper years ago at Micheals because the open stock paper was on sale. Originally I was going to place strips of paper below my cutouts to make a rainbow but then I remembered that I already had "rainbow-ish" paper. I have not made a layout with negative images in a long time so this was fun to create. I also glued down twine for the very first time and didn't make too much of a mess.

BTW - YOLO is an acronym for You only live once.

Monster hoodie layout

Hello All!
It's been busy around my house this February with hockey, my birthday and the flu :(. Thankfully, we are all well at the moment and I was able to scrap a bit!

Does it seem silly to scrap clothing? My daughter and her friends all love these hoodies (bunny hugs if you are from Saskatchewan). They are all animals, creatures or dinosaurs.

I used all papers from the DCWV Great Vacation Stack. My creature is from the Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge.

Have a wonderful day!

Hockey layout

My son's hockey team is winless so far in this hockey season. Last weekend he was named "Hardest Working Player of the Game". I wanted to scrap these photos right away to show him how proud we are of his perseverance (no matter what the scoreboard shows).

I guess I should mention that the award is a white hard hat that the deserving player writes his number on.

I whipped this layout out quick using Craft Room Basics for the first time. It was a nice surprise to see it on my Gypsy after updating yesterday.

I love these little hockey skate brads I bought a few years ago!

Have a great day!