Spotlight Sunday!

Happy New Year!  It is Arin here and I am thrilled to be back in the Sunday Spotlight saddle ringing in the new year showcasing one of our very own design team members, Missy, from Quick Chick Designs.
Her blog's name says it all on her style and what she does in her other favorite past time.  Not only is she a master of executing amazing projects with quick techniques that looks like she has spent hours on it, but she has a passion for lacing up a pair of running shoes and hitting the pavement.  This is when she gets her inspiration for many of her projects.
Her style has given her the privilege to be a apart of some amazing design teams and following her is just a daily treat to see what she has up her sleeve of inspirations.

Taking a look back for the year 2012, here are three amazing projects found that just jumps off the screen!

If you are looking for some amazing Valentines inspirations here are a few projects that are just perfect!

Valentines  Mailboxes

Valentines Boxes

Cute Valentines Card

Missy's favorite cartridge is Create a Critter (and that includes Create a Critter 2) and her favorite technique and product go hand in hand!  She loves the finishing of a project by adding the embellishments!  Bring on the bling, the faux and real stitching  the stamping and most of all the ribbon or twine! 

Before singing off  let's take a peek at a couple more of her fun projects that she did with her favorite Cricut Cartridges, Create a Critter and Create a Critter 2.  Be sure to pop over to FCCB's  Thursday's Tutorial where Missy is giving a great crash course on Cricut Craft Room! 

Happy New Year! 

Arin

Scrappin' Saturday - Get Organized

Hello Everyone!

Susie Craft Happy here with today's Scrappin Saturday!  

Get Organized

This week our Fantabulous Design Team featured some awesome projects to inspire you to get organized and while out on my bloggy visits I am across some pretty awesome organizing ideas. 
Ian over at A Newbie Crafter created some awesome school scrapbooks!  You know you can't save every single piece of paper that comes home, but creating a personalized school scrapbook for your student each year is one way to keep their most favorite memories.

Janis over at Pause Dream Enjoy, created a really cute calendar using Cricut's Designer Calendar cartridge.  Just imagine the possibilities of having these for any special purpose and how you can personalize them for your home and even better...your craft space!     Lori over at Scrappin My Stress Away, created some awesome projects for her in-home daycare.  One item I especially liked was the clock she made using Cricut's My Quiet Book cartridge.  This would be a great way to teach younger children about time and could help them know what time they should be ready to for school, church, etc. 

Well, that's going to do it for me today and again, apologies for not being able to share the actual pictures of these awesome projects with you. 

We want to see your

challenge layouts and projects where you have used a cut from a Cricut Cartridge....please leave a comment and link to your blog so we can stop by to see them! Hope you're able to find some time to do some Scrappin’ this Saturday.

Thanks for stopping by!

   

Fantabulous Friday: Getting Organized

Welcome to the first Fantabulous Friday for 2013!

Happy New Year!

A new year means new year resolutions and what better resolution is there than to get organized!

So, here are some great ideas to inspire you on your road to organization!

The first idea comes from:

Joy and Melanie

Michelle

Mary

Hope this helps inspire you to some organization, at least in your craft room!

Thank you for joining me again this friday, be sure to check back tomorrow for Scrappin Saturday!

Cricut Craft Room: Let's Go Shopping!!

Good morning everyone! 

This is Missy from Quick Chick Designs here with another Cricut Craft Room tutorial for you.  Now, I know that many of you may have received some of the green stuff under your tree or in your stocking this holiday season.  Did you know that with Cricut Craft Room, you can go shopping instantly??  Provo Craft makes it so easy for us to purchase cartridges we want right there within the craft room program.  Here's how.

When you are working in Craft Room, up in the tool bar at the top of your screen, you have an "Options" tab.  Click on "Options" and then select "SHOP".

Once you select "Shop", you'll be sent to the www.cricut.com online store.  You will find yourself on the Today's Deals screen.  This shows you everything  that Provo Craft has on sale right then.

If you look down the left hand side of the screen, you'll see a list of shopping categories.  If you're wanting to purchase a cartridge, either digital or physical, you want to click on the "Cricut Image Library" link. 

Once you select the image library, you will see a list of categories of cartridges.  You'll see the font carts, Famous Friends, etc.  The categories coincide with the way the cartridges are organized in Craft Room, by the way. 

Another thing you might like----see where it says "Single Images"??  There are many images you can buy as stand alone images, which is really nice!!  Provo Craft also does specials where you can buy small sets of images from cartridges. 

The really nice thing is, if you purchase either a digital image, or a digital cartridge, once you check out, you can immediately cut from it.  This means when you're working on a project and you suddenly find the PERFECT image, but you don't own it--you can simply go online, make a few mouse clicks, and then viola!!!  There you are, cutting out that perfect image you didn't even own five minutes earlier!!! 

I hope you've enjoyed today's Craft Room tutorial!!  See you next week!!!

Wednesday Winners Challenge #142 Shaped Card

Welcome to the first Wednesday Winners of 2013 !! x !! x !! x

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and fabulous start to the New Year.

Thank you all for your patience in waiting for the winners of 

Challenge #142
Shaped Card 

Our sponsor for the challenge is 

Simon Says Stamp 

  with a prize of a very generous $25 gift voucher

...SO...

Choosen by random.Org

The winner 

...IS...

No 2

Created with Christmas Solutions Cartridge

Marcia T

Congratulations Marcia. To claim your prize please contact Janea at... recollection alley @ gmail . com (remove all spaces) 

You have two weeks to claim your prize.
Remember to grab your "FCCB Winner" blinky to display on your blog, you can find the blinky code in the right hand side bar.

DESIGN TEAM TOP 5

We had 27 amazing projects to choose from this week.

Thank you to every one who joined us. 

No 1
Created with Quilted Christmas
Jenny

No 12
Created with Noel Christmas
Kim Ogden

No 16
Created with Simply Charmed
Cricutalltime

No 17
Created with Elegant Edges, Go Canada
Scrappyhappymommy

No 22
Created with Simply Charmed
Sherrie K

Congratulations ladies don't forget to grab your "FCCB Top 5" blinky to display on your blog! 

You can find the blinky code on our right-hand sidebar.  

  

We hope you are all playing along with this week's Cricut Crawl and getting organised with us !!
Don't forget there is extra candy up for grabs on some of the blogs, including my own, for this special event.

As ever, please use a new project with at least one Cricut cut and tell us which cartridge(s) you have used, I had to discount a beautiful card this week :-( such a shame after all the hard work.

Wishing everyone a Fantabulous 2013 !!

How to tie a ribbon bow

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!  

This week's Quick Tip is, well, very quick =) How to tie a bow with ribbon.

This video is from Jak Heath, you can find it HERE.

I hope you have a safe holiday and stop by tomorrow for the Wednesday Winners!