Mommy & Me Playdate

Yesterday my mom and I spent the day playing with the Cricut.  Using the MTC software and a purchased pattern, we cut these out and spent the day assembling them.  They are in rough draft form right now because I wanted to give you a sneak peek, the finished product fully embellished with a teacup, teabag dispenser, spoon and vase with flowers will be revealed on December 18th on the Cricut FANatics blog.

Although a daunting looking project, the store where I purchased the svg file from had a video that was quite easy to follow, after 3-4 more of these I'll be able to whip them right out assembly line style because everyone who sees it will want one in my family....lol

My mom made this set for a friend who is retiring, loves tea and collects teapots.  I think it's perfect.  She went home with some matching green stickles to embellish the panels after she gets home so they'll have time to dry without having to transport while still wet.  Hope she takes a picture of the finished teapot for me to be able to post. UPDATE-scroll down to see her picture after she applied green stickles to the white areas of her teapot.



This teapot is mine, I tend to go for the heritage/antique look, I just wonder if it will turn out as I am envisioning it in my head.  It has been assembled and the panels have all been inked which really makes it pop.  I have already added some pearls to it in spots and will be embellishing it more before it's debut on the blog December 18th. 
 

Thanks for stopping by to peek...Keep watching for the final set...

Freda

UPDATE:
My mom just sent this pic of her teapot with stickles applied to the cracks, I'm loving it....the pic is from a cellphone so it isn't the greatest, but it helps to show the panels on the teapot better.

Christmas Swing Card

Here's my project for the November 18th Cricut FANatics blog.  I am fascinated by the swing cards on the Artiste cartridge, guess I need to get moving and make some more of these so I can get them in the mail before Christmas....

Hey there, it’s Freda from CannCreate Designs, stopping by with a quick Christmas Card Project.  It seems that once people discovered the swing cards on the Artiste cartridge they are popping up everywhere.  The designs with the coordinating cuts make the swing card extremely easy to make.  I used my Imagine to print double sided paper from the Christmas Wish Cartridge for the card base.  Be sure to let your ink dry completely before flipping and printing the second side or you’ll have a beautifully printed mat and faded papers.

Step 1:  Cut the shapes listed at the end of this posting.

Step 2:  Score card and fold in half.  Score the front where indicated and fold back to reveal the cut swing shape.

Step 3:  Adhere the stamped 2 ½” white Shape 10 cut to the 2 ¾“ dark coordinating color.  (On the next card I will pop up the sentiment piece).  Attach this piece to the revealed window are of the front of the card.

Step 4:  Assemble the remaining 2 ¾“ shape 10,  2 ½” Shape 10, and 2” white stamped Shape 10.   Adhere to the center of the white doily.  (sorry for the blurry, the camera  just wouldn’t focus on this for some reason)

Step 5:  Open the card and align the sentiment/doily piece with the front sentiment  so that the inside sentiment won’t be seen when the card is closed.  I held them in place with tweezers while closing the card so the doily adheres in place to the back.

 

I thought the card needed a little bling so I added pearls to the front sentiment.

 

Thanks for looking and have a Happy Thanksgiving.  Freda

 

Directions:

Imagine& Christmas Wish: Print your own double sided paper

 

Artiste:

Double sided paper: Page 52, <shift> Accent 1, Cut at 5 ½”

 

Art Philosophy:

Dark Coordinating color: Page 67, Shape 10, cut 2 at 2 ¾”

Double sided paper: Page 67, Shape 10, cut 1 at 2 ½“

White: Page 67, Shape 10, cut 2 at 2 ½”

White: Page 65, Font Layer feature <shift> Petal 1, cut at 4”

 

Cricut Info & Other Supplies Used:

Designed By: Freda Cannon

Cricut Machines used: Imagine, E2Cricut Cartridges Used: Artiste, Art Philosophy, Christmas Wish

Other Supplies Used: Queen & Co Pearls, American Crafts White cardstock, Stampin Up Taken With Teal Ink, Stamps-CTMH  Holiday Wishes and Christmas Joy Holiday.

Been a little busy with helping my son fix up his new house...Had to take a bit of a break from painting, cleaning and remodeling to complete my project for the Cricut FANatics blog....here it is hot off the press, won't be available on the blog until the 18th.

Hey there, it's Freda of CannCreate Designs.  It's an honor to be here sharing my favorite hobby with you again.  I've got a Halloween Layout I made for my grandson's Halloween costume this year.  He has decided to be a Zombie again this year.  Not one of those cutesy little ones, he and his dad go all out - complete with fake bloody wounds with glow in the dark maggots...Gross!!!  Obviously, I had to make a layout fit for their gory get-ups...no cutesy layout again this year...lol  I have included a link to the CCR cut file for this project since I manipulated the height/width ratios on 3 of the cuts which can't be done outside of the software.

 

 

Supplies Used:  Dk Blue, Gray, Black, Orange Metallic, and Cream Cardstock.  Sakura Gel Pen-turqoise colored.  Queen & Company Black Pearls and Turquoise teardrop.  Martha Stewart's Fine Black Glitter.  Adhesive spray, Pop Dots and Scotch Fast Dry Adhesive.

 

Cricut Products Used: E2, Cricut Craft Room, Craft Room Exclusives Zombie, Cricut Craft Room Basics, Happy Hauntings.

 

Click Here to Dowload CraftRoom Cut File

 

Zombies:

 

Zombies Title and Shadow @ 1.75"  (I wanted an additional layer so I glued the top layer to black cardstock and hand trimmed a thin border before adhering to the cream shadow 

 

Cricut Craft Room Basics:

 

2012 @ .625" out of black cardstock (if using craft room place these letters over the gate sign, do not

          weld so they cut out of the sign.

 

Happy Hauntings:

 

Frames - Page 43-Cut 2 <Frame6> @ 5"

Hands - Page 47-Cut 3<Fram10-s> Layer 1 @ 2.5"

Hands - Page 47-Cut 3<Fram10-s> Layer 1-Flipped @ 2.5"

Hands - Page 47-Cut 1<Fram10-s> Layer 1-Adjust height to 5" and width to 2.75

Hands - Page 47-Cut1 <Fram10-s> Layer 1-Flipped-Adjust height to 5" and width to 2.75

Moon - Page 60-Cut 1 <Grave1>  Layer 1 - Hide grass make moon 10.5" Or any 10.5" Circle

Gate - Page 60-Cut 1 <Graveyrd> @ 5.75"

Headstones - Page 60-Cut 1 <Grvyrd-s>  @ 5.75" leave height the same, change width to 11.25

Grass Mound - Page 60-Cut 1 <Graveyrd-s> @ 5.75" leave height the same, change width to 11.25

Gate Sign - Page 60-Cut 1 <Grvyrd-s> Layer 1 at 5.75"  I hid the brad holes in Craft Room and added

                   the 2012 to make a single layer sign

 

Assembly Directions:

 

Step 1 - Start with a dark blue 12 x 12 piece of carstock for a base, sponge with white ink/chalk to make it look like a night sky with faint clouds. 

 

Step 2 - Sponge areas of black and white on the Moon cut to give it a little texture.

 

Step 3 - Have your orange gate sign, a post it note (use the adhesive part of the post it to cover the 2012 letters-including the center of the "0" in the correct position), some black glitter and a glitter tray.  Spray the front of the gate with spray adhesive, move gate to glitter tray, quickly place the gate sign in place-remove post it  then cover gate in black glitter.  Shake off excess glitter and remove the post-it.  Set aside to dry.

 

Step 4 - Using black ink or chalk, sponge around the hands, grass, tombstones, frames. 

 

Step 5 - Overlap the cuffs on the hands and glue as seen in the pictures.  Take a black marker and create "fingernails" on the fingers of each of the hands.  Using a Sakura glitter gel pen of your color choice color over the black fingernails.  Let dry and apply a second layer of gel pen.

 

Step 6 - Adhere the tombstone layer even with the bottom of the page leaving a spot at the top of the mound to slide the moon behind.

 

Step 7 -  Adhere the moon with the bottom slightly behind the tombstone layer.

 

Step 8 - Next adhere the bottom only of the grass lined up with the tombstone layer. arrange the 3 small pairs of hands between the grass and tombstone layers in front of each tombstone.  Place adhesive on the back and front of the cuff on the hands so the grass layer is secured.

 

Step 9 - Place adhesive on the bottom flat portion of the gate only.  Line up with the bottom of the page and adhere.  Choose one of the hands that is by the gate and pull it through to the front...( the rest of the gate will be glued down in a later step)

 

 

Step 10 - Arrange the 2 frames around the gate, leaving room for the title.  Place a small dot of glue on the bottom flourish of each frame (leave enough space to add your pictures). 

 

Step 11 - Arrange the large Zombie hands behind the gate sign area and arrange fingers over the photo frame area.  Glue cuffs behind the gate sign.  Place 1 pop dot in the palm area of each hand, place 2 pop dots stacked on top of each other closer to the finger area of each hand.

 

 

 

Step 12 - Glue a few loose edges of the gate down, add a Queen and Company Goosebump Teardrop to the finial of the gate.  Place Black pearls on the Gate Sign, the picture frame and skull eyes in the title.

 

Step 13 -Pop dot the Zombies title in place.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Freda 

 

Cricut FANatics crafting is our passion: Operation Christmas Cards

I just realized that I never created a link to my posting on the Cricut FANatics blog...this is a great site created by Cricut Circle members who lost their Circle Blog and really missed it.  So we got together and are making our own design blog.  There are some really talented folks here, you should check it out via the blinking Cricut FANatic icon in the right column or the link at the bottom of this post....

Pinecone Merry Christmas Card

 

Correction to instructions....you need to cut 28 leaves to make this card (14 leaves per pinecone).  The CCR cut file download has the correct amount of leaves (plus a few extra just in case) if you use that.  You can access the cut file via the link below which takes you to my Box download storage.

 

 Click here for Craftroom Cut File Download

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Freda

Cricut FANatics Blog Link

Floral Spray Swap.....

I joined a floral spray swap online. I'm soooo glad these are behind me...I've got to  touch up the "snow" on the pinecone because the inking on the edges turned the liquid pearls green in spots so I've sprayed workable fixative on them to seal them then I'll re-pearl them in a couple hours.  Lesson learned "Always Use Stazon For Inking" so it doesn't bleed.  I used the CTMH ink, I thought it looked great on the flower tips but then again I wasn't using white pearl on them...lol

sorry about the glare, the perfect pearls on the flowers is reflecting the light

I decided to go for a more compact look because I don't care for the wires showing and filled in the back with TH greenery cuts. The leaves have wires glued almost all the way through them so they can be bent and arranged to look less "flat." Thought this would look great on a Christmas present instead of a bow....If I ever join one of these again they will be purely paper sprays, all that wire twisting made my hands sore!!!

Thanks for looking,

Freda

Winning!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I went to an all day crop at a church in Broolyn with my friend Allison....We had a great time.  I worked on my flowers for the Flower Spray Swap I joined.  (I'll never do another swap like that where everything has to be wired...the next one I do like that will be strictly paper/flat ones that go on scrapbook pages-all that wire twisting made my hands a little tender).  Allison completed 6  2-page layoauts I believe....they all turned out very nice.

I couldn't believe my luck yesterday...pulled in quite a prize haul!!!  I won the 3rd place Grand Prize, 4 bingo prizes, scored freebie stickers, a square punch and hand lotion....

Prize Haul from the crop.

I told my hubby that we should go to the casino before my winning streak eneded...guess I could've bought some lottery tickets.  Oh well, I'm very happy with my prizes.  I had a very productive day, had some good food, good friends and got my work done!

Can't wait 'til the next one in March.

Freda

Welcome....

If you've come here from the Cricut FANatics website, Welcome!!!  I created a new blog that will be dedicated more to the Cricut side of crafting, and a smattering of our newest hobby Becoming Pilots!!!

Take a look around and let me know what you think.  Soon I'll be going through my photos to get some more postings up. 

Thanks for stoping by,

Freda