Thursday's Tutorials: Family Tree Frames

Happy Thursday!

This week's challenge theme is "Leaves" and what better time to display your family tree...
Here is a two-part tutorial I found by SlaterDee on YouTube:

First video:

Second video:

Aren't those adorable?  I can't wait to get started on one for my house!

Happy Crafting!

Wednesday Winners #31

We had such fun "on the wall" entries for our challenge, you are all so clever with the way you decorate!! Thank you to all who joined us.

~This weeks Winner~
$25 Gift Certificate -Cutters Creek
#11 Elsa - Cricut LVR
Congratulations Elsa!!!

To claim your prize please contact Robin at...
fantabulous cricut @ yahoo .com (remove spaces)

You have two weeks to claim your prize. If anyone knows the winners of our challenge this week, please let them know they're a winner at FCCB.

Remember to grab your "FCCB Winner" blinky to display on your blog! You can find the blinky code on our right-hand sidebar.

Design Teams Top 5

#1 Shell - Shell's Stuff
#7 Patty - Dream Cards
#8 Kelly - creative warcraft
#20 Erika - Cricut Love
#23 Chris - Love to Scrap, Love my Cat

Congratulations Ladies!!!

Remember to grab your "FCCB Top 5" blinky to display on your blog! You can find the blinky code on our right-hand sidebar.

Thank you to all those who played with us this week!

Come join us for this weeks "Falling Leaves" challenge -HERE

Quick Tip Tuesday: Cricut Cartridges

Welcome to Quick Tip Tuesday!  Today we will be discussing the types of Cricut cartridges.  There are a variety of Cricut cartridges on the market which are suitable for different needs and budgets.

Font cartridges contain the entire alphabet, along with numbers and various types of punctuation.  Often, these cartridges will contain shapes and word art as well.

Shape cartridges focus on a variety of shapes along a specific theme.  At times, these cartridges will also contain a font and word art.

Classmate cartridges are perfect for school-related projects and displays.  These cartridges have school themes and were specifically designed with classrooms in mind.  However, these cartridges are not limited to school use.

Licensed cartridges are cartridges containing characters and/or images with a registered trademark, such as Mickey Mouse, Sesame Street, and Hello Kitty, etc.

Solutions cartridges contain a limited number of designs and features but are also priced more inexpensively than other cartridges.  These cartridges are packaged without a storage binder or booklet.

Seasonal cartridges are limited edition cartridges which contain 50 images per cartridge.  These cartridges are available until initial production is depleted.  Although these cartridges do not contain creative features, they may include some special additions such as three-dimensional shapes.  Like the Solutions cartridges, Seasonal cartridges are packaged without a storage binder or booklet.

Lite cartridges are available exclusively at Wal-Mart.  Each cartridge has 200 images, which include creative features, as well as layering and shadow images.

Cake cartridges provide a number of options along a variety of themes geared toward cake decorating.

Imagine cartridges work differently than the cartridges created for the original Cricut, Expression, and Cricut Create.  Imagine Cartridges contain icons and layered images, as well as colour palettes and patterns.

To the best of my knowledge, cartridges are interchangeable within the different Cricut machines.  However, some features may not be available when cartridges are used in machines other than the ones for which they were originally intended.

Happy crafting!

Challenge Me Monday #32

I love the crisp cool air of Fall. The weather is getting cooler and leaves are falling everywhere, Fall is beautiful!

Challenge #32
Falling Leaves:
Create a project using at least one leaf.

As always there needs to be an image cut using your Cricut on your project to be eligible for the prize.

Design Team Projects

Candace
Gypsy Wanderings, Simply Charmed, Tags Bags Boxes and more cartridges

Kate

Ashlyn's Alphabet, Nursery Rhymes cartridges

Jamie
Create a Critter cartridge

Lori

Storybook cartridge

Michelle
Don Juan, Heritage, October 31st, Pumpkin Carvings, Sentimentals, Serenade, Walk in My Garden cartridges

Penny

French Manor, Stretch Your Imagination, Winter Woodlands cartridges

Sherri
Doodlecharms, George and Basic Shapes, Paper Doll Dress Up, Stretch Your Imagination cartridges

Sharon

Thanksgiving cartridge

~This Weeks Sponsor~

$20 Gift Certificate -Paper Wishes

Scrappin' Saturday: Display Your Pages "On The Wall"!

Happy Saturday!

In honor of this week's challenge theme, "On The Wall", I want to share some creative ways to display your beautiful scrapbook pages or papercrafting projects up on your wall before they get tucked away in an album forever! Click on the name of the website below each photo to be taken directly to the site for more details:

Multi-page display:

By Jessica Taylor at "Ink It Up"

Scrapbook Wall Hanging:

Barb Mullikin from "Stampin Is My Job"

8x8 Clearview Page Frame:

Digital Scrapbook Place

Scrapbook Wall Calendar:

Shirley Pando, from "Scrapbook & Paper"

And here's a scrapbooked wall canvas I made a while back:

Lori at Organized Chaos

Give your projects the spotlight they deserve!

Happy Scrappin'!!!



Fantabulous Friday #31

Good morning everyone!
It's another FANTABULOUS FRIDAY!!!! This is Melin your new "Girl Friday" As part of our Fun here on FCCB, each Friday I will be "Exploring" a cartridge. I will showcase some of the wonderful cuts and or cutting files that we can use to make some FANTABULOUS projects.
So without further adieu...this weeks lucky cartridge is....
Mr. Classmate himself....
50 States

Yes, this studious little cartridge has been around for quite some time. I must admit, if he had been released this year with all the other TONS of Cartridges, he probably would have been "kicked to the curb". He was definitely marketed to the education community. And the packaging made it a little hard to think beyond the 50 states shapes, flags and the educational needs he would meet.

BUT...if you look beyond all that, he has some little gems stored within the "prongs" of his case.

Today I am not focusing on anything but the FLOWERS! Yep that's right....the FLOWERS. So here are a few...not 50, just a few flowers I was able to come up with by working with this little fellow.

The Yellow Flower ~Tutorial HERE

This is the "Kansas" Flower on Page 28.I cut him in 4 different layers and at 4 different sizes. I then cut "slits" to make the individual petals. I then "Fluffed" the petals up to give it the dimension.This flower looks a bit like a Carnation or it could be a sunflower.

The Pink Flower ~Tutorial HERE

This is the "North Dakota" flower on page 46. I cut this flower in 4 layers in 3 different sizes. I cut "slits" so the petals would be a little more loose. To me this one looks like a rose.

The Purple Rolled Flower ~Tutorial HERE

This is the "Ohio" flower on page 47. After cutting this flower out, I cut a slit to "open" up the flower. I then glimmer misted it and rolled it. These are much like all the other "rolled" or "lollipop" flowers that have been floating around the net most of this summer....Who knew...they were tucked away all this time in our little cartridge :-)

The Red Flower

This is the "IOWA" flower on page 27 and the center set is the "North Dakota" one. For this one I did use my Gypsy to "hide" the center cutout. But I think you could still achieve this look without doing that. I did, once again, cut the petals "loose" so they would have more play. After glimmer misting, I waited until it was just about dry to "shape and sculpt" the petals. This is just a matter of sitting down and playing with the petals until they look the way you want them to. Crazy thing is: once the glimmer mist is completely dry, the paper gets pretty hard and so these flowers keep their shape really well.


The Orange Flower

This is the "Maryland" flower found on page 32. I cut out the flower option that had two cut at the same time, one with a circle cut out and one without. I then once again cut "slits" so the petals would be loose. I then staggered the layers starting with one that had a hole so that the top layer would be a solid. I then curled the petals just before they were dry.

The Teal Flower

This last beauty is the "North Carolina" flower found on page 45. For this one, I simply cut 3 flowers two at 6" and one at 5". I then glimmer misted and then layered them by "mirroring" them. I then "shaped" the flowers just before the petals were dry to give it dimension. I finally layered the 3 centers and "fluffed" them and added a touch of sparkle to it.

Yep...that's right, all these beauties were created with the 50 States Cartridge. I don't have them on any projects yet, but they are now a part of my flower stash and ready to go at a moments notice :-)

For more details including some step by step pics of how I did some of these flowers, please hop over to my blog. Who knows, there just may be an extra something there for you :-)

My blog link is: HERE.

Thank you for joining me today! I hope you were inspired to make a whole bunch of "pretties"

Have a Fantabulous Friday!

Melin