Rudolph Lighted Nose Ornament

While putzing around today doing laundry, cooking, cleaning and waiting for my Purchase Code to come through for my Cricut Circle Membership I decided to take a little break and play around with my Cricut Mini which happened to be the closest machine to me and the fact that I wanted to use up some of my 8.5x11 stash of cardstock that I'm slowly dwindling down. 

I have been seeing these tealight ornaments all over the internet and Pintrest, I don't know if anyone has made one from the Create A Critter cartridge but I thought I'd give it a try.  Here's the results...I think he's adorable!!  I used Create a Critter for Rudolph and CraftRoom Basics for the circle nose hole.

Click here if you'd like to download the CraftRoom files.  I needed 8 ornaments and that is how many I made the file for, delete any extras you don't need.

Assembly is pretty easy, be sure to line up the "nose" holes so you can insert the tealight through.  Glue the brown piece to the cream/tan layer, then glue those 2 pieces to the black layer, locate the hanger string where you want it on the white layer put a dab of glue to hold the ends in place and then glue the black/tan/brown layer over the string.  Add the red collar/ribbon last. 

After the paper layers are all assembled add your choice of adhesive that will hold the plastic tealight and paper pieces together around the top of the tealight.  Gently push the flame part of the tealight through the nose hole.  My light had a bent tip so I twisted the light until the tip faced upwards,  be sure to arrange the tip how you like it before allowing the adhesive to set up.  I used a piercing tool to push the edges around the hole back down flat then held the pieces in place until the glue set.

Enjoy...

Freda

My first Challenge Submission

Sorry for the crooked look....that is just an optical illusion from the photography....lol
Everything is really straight in the layout itself

 

The Cricut FANatics have posted their first blog challenge today.  The theme is School related.  This is my submission for the contest.  I tried uploading from Snapfish but it says I deleted the picture, I guess the only other thing I can do is make my own blog to link to it.

I'm a little behind on my grandson's school scrapbook so this is a perfect time to get last years school pic on a layout before he's graduating...lol   I have been thinking about this design since the free month of exclusives at cricut.com and the release of the Team Spirit cartridge.  I ordered  the cartridge and it finally arrived so I have been able to finish my layout with the school mascot included.

My favorite part of this layout is that he's old enough to write so I printed questions on a 4x6 index card and had him write the answers.  This will really be fun to look at as he gets older to see how his writing, career choices and friends may change throughout the years.  He and I occasionally talk about how things were when I was in school, the little writing on the bottom of the card gives some trivia about how much breakfast, lunch and milk cost, when popcorn day was and the cost....and a little info about a field trip to Safetyville (he broke his finger on the bus trip home from Safetyville).  

I'm hoping to keep more up-to-date on his School Scrapbook in the future.  I liked the index card so much I'm thinking of creating a couple with the months listed and having him write something he learned each month...that would make a cute flip-book.

Thanks for looking,

Freda