JME Creations DT Brown & Blue Challenge

Today over at JME Creations the Design Team

was challenged to use the colors Blue & Brown.

I have a really hard time making cards for 

guys. So, I decided to take this challenge 

to a further level and make a card I could 

give to a guy and not feel like "was that

card to girly"

The card base is 5 X 6 1/2.  I found the stripped

paper at Michael's on sale this week for 5/$1.00

(and if you have the phone app you can get an

extra 20% off.)  The Squirrel with cut from Create

a Critter at 3 inches and the "Nuts about U" is cut

at 2 1/2 inches. 

All of my Design Team sisters did a wonderful

job on this challenge.  Please go to 

http://jmecreations.blogspot.com/

to check them out. 

I really hope you liked my card today.  Please stop

by again soon.

Sweet Wishes, Sharon

Thankful Thursdays Fall/Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to the Thankful Thursdays Fall

& Halloween Blog Hop featuring the DT.

If you are joining me from my design 

team sister Christle at

http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com

Then you are in the right place.

If you just happened across my blog and would

like to play along in our fun hop, you can go to

Crazy About Cricut at

http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

and start at the beginning.

There are so many amazing and talented

ladies in this hop make sure to check out

each one.

I choose to use the Hello Kitty and Tags,

Bags, Boxes & More cartridge for my 

projects today.  I used the popcorn box 

for the treat box. I cut the box with the

fit to page button on.  It ended up being

4 1/2 inches tall.  The handle is a 2 inch 

wide strip of matching paper with a border

punch added to each side. Miss Hello 

Kitty was cut at 4 inches and embellished

with icy colored stickles to add that extra

sparkle.

This Hello Kitty Witch is made with the

 card feature button.  She is cut at 6 inches.

  And I had to add bling to her also.

The grand prize for this hop it the beautiful

Celebrate with Flourish cartridge.  To enter

you need to leave comments on all the blogs

in this hop.

Now that you have seen my projects for

today, please head on over to my DT 

sister Lola for another wonderful project.

http://purplepeepstechniques.blogspot.com

Sweet Wishes, Sharon

My Cricut Craft Room's Theme Day Thursday "Baby"

Today over at My Cricut Craft Room is Theme

 Day Thursday.  The Theme for today is Baby.

  Please hop on over to

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

to take a peak at what my wonderful Design 

Team Sisters have made today.

I am happy to announce my Sister In law & Brother

had a happy and healthy baby girl on 9/01/11.

Here is my new niece Sierra Rose. 

Isn't she just precious.

This baby card was made just for her. 

I decided to go with a Peach and Ivory color theme.

The card is 4 1/2 X 6 1/2.  I used the Stamping

Cartridge for both the butterfly and the "little one"

They are both cut at 2 inches.  

The paper is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery stack.

I found the ribbon at a place called "SCRAP" here

in Portland, Or.  They only sell items that people

would normally sell at garage sales or toss out.  

I Love going to SCRAP because they usually 

have vintage sewing items.  This ribbon was one

of those vintage finds.  It is called extra superfine

twilled tape.  I know Martha Stewart does sell a 

similar twill tape. The color of this ribbon 

matched perfectly.

I hope you enjoyed meeting one of my newest 

family members.  Please come back soon for more

"Sweet" projects.

Sweet Wishes, Sharon

Today my Design Team Sisters and I were

asked to make some thing with an APPLE

for our first DT project over at JME Creations.

Please head over to

 http://jmecreations.blogspot.com/

to check out what my other amazing Design 

Team Sister created. 

I decided to make a treat basket for my daughter 

to give to her teacher on her first day of school.

The basket was cut from the 2010 Easter cartridge. 

I cut it out with the fit to page button. I thought it 

looked to flat so, I used my MS score board and 

scored it at every 1/4 inch going both ways. I then 

used a light brown chalk to make the lines pop out.

 The apple is from Doodlecharm 

and is 

cut at 2 1/2 

inches.  

I added the shadow 

to the back of the 

apple to give it 

some depth.

I hope you enjoyed my Apple treat basket. 

Thank you for visiting me today. Please feel 

free to leave me some Blog love.

Sweet Wishes, Sharon

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

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 

September's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop.

 If you are joining me from 

 http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/  

Then you are in the right place.

If you just happened across my blog and would

like to play along in our fun hop, you can go to

My Cricut Craft Room at

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

and start at the beginning.  

There are so many amazing and talented
 ladies in this hop.  The idea of this Blog hop
 is to show you all the ways you can use
 100+ Cricut Cartridges.

I had a BLAST making this Mini TP Album.

I have found out one of the tricks to get

the TP rolls flat is to iron them. Yes, I

said iron. For some reason when you iron

them it makes them the flattest I have ever

worked with. In the past I have just used a

bone folder and flattened the edges but, they

still puckered up. With this trick you will

never have to worry about them puckering.

For this Mini TP Album I used 5 different 

Cartridges. Accent Essentials, Story Book,

Cindy Loo, Paper Doll Dress Up & Tags,

Bags, Boxes & More.

Front Page:

I cut the flower for the front page starting 

at 2 1/2 inches and then went down a 1/2

inch for the next 4 layers.  The flower

was cut using Tags, Bags, Boxes & More

with the blackout feature.  The flower can be

found on page 107

I added ribbon to the binding make it more

girly.  As you look at each page you will

notice that I have added LOTS of BLING

 to give it a bit more sparkle.  Because what 

girl doesn't LOVE SPARKLE!

Page 1:

The envelope I used is found on page 76 

of Cindy Loo. It was cut at 3 1/2 inches.

There is a matching card inside the envelope.

Page 2:

The flower accent is found on page 36 of 

Story Book and was cut at 2 & 2 1/2 inches.

Page 3:

I cut a mat with my paper cutter for this page.

Page 4:

The Floral corners were cut from Accent 

Essentials on page 47.  They were cut at

1 1/2 inches.

Page 5:

The two felt flowers have ribbon for the stems.

Page 6:

For the oval I used page 50 from Story Book.

They were cut at 2 inches & 1 3/4 inches.

The fancy corners are also on page 50 of 

Story Book.  Those were cut at 1 1/2 inches.

Page 7:

I cut a mat with my paper cutter for this page.

Page 8:

This frame was found on page 57 of Cindy Loo.

It was cut out at 2 1/2 inches.

Page 9:

Lots of BLING.

Page 10:

I used Paper Doll Dress up for the floral

border on this page. You can find it on 

page 78.

Tags:

The tags that are sticking out of the pages

are cut depending on how wide and long

your TP rolls are.  The flower that is on the

end of the tags is cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes

& More with the blackout feature. You can 

find the flower on page 107.  

Now that you have seen mine go try

and make your own. And don't forget

to use your iron.

I hope you enjoyed my project.

For you next stop

Please visit my DT sister 
Shelly at:

 http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/

Here is the lineup in case you get lost 

or need to stop along the way.

  http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

http://gettingcraftywithma.blogspot.com/

http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com/ 

http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-project-for-100-cartridge-blog-hop.html

http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

 http://micraftygal.blogspot.com/

http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/ 

 http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/  

You are here:
 http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

Your next stop is:

 http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/

http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/  

http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com  

http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/  

 http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/

http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/

http://craftsbyamanda.blogspot.com/

 http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/surprise-giveaway-saturday-september-3.html

http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com/ 

 http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com/  

http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/ 

http://gscraptime.blogspot.com/

http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/

http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/  

http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/

http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/

http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/ 

http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/

http://www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/ 

http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/

http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com/  

http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/ 

http://thegrowinggibson.blogspot.com/ 

 http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/reserved-for-this-weekends-blog-candy.html

Sweet Wishes, Sharon