Everyday Cricut Hostess Set with Thanksgiving Seasonal Cartridge

It's the third Saturday of the month and that means it is my day as the Saturday designer at Everyday Cricut!  Melanie and Joy have returned to Christmas holiday projects, but I wanted to share one last Thanksgiving project.  Besides I am doing a week of Thanksgiving projects here at Busy with the Cricky and I did not want to change my theme!

My featured project at Everyday Cricut is a four part Thanksgiving hostess set:  place cards, wine glass tags, decorative plate pumpkins, and Yudu printed napkins (previously featured here). 

Please head over to Everyday Cricut for more information and additional photos.   Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Mini Monster Name Tags for the Office

Halloween is slowly working its way into our office area at work.  I have put up orange mini lights, a fall leaf garland and a few other odd and ends.  But this weekend I decided to make name tags to cover our door name plates.  Outside of each office is a plate that contains the office number and the first initial and last name of the office occupant.  For those in my area I crafted new name plate covers.

The little monsters should attach over top of the name section and leave the office number visible.  Our office is divided into quadrants and I did not feel obligated to make a character name plates for the rest of the office personnel, that would be far too many.  My area only has six people at the moment as some are on assignments out of the office and two people recently left.

The four Mini Monster characters here were cut using Mini Monsters with the Imagine cartridge on the Imagine machine.  It is possible to insert two cartridges into the Cricut Imagine at once, a regular Cricut cartridge (in this case Mini Monsters) and an Imagine cartridge.  You can then select an image (and the image layers) to cut and edit each layer.  For example, the Imagine provides to the opportunity to click on each layer of an image and change the color or pattern.  In the image above I cut the Susan tag in three layers - the base cut was colored goldish-orange, the second layer was colored white, and the top layer was colored black.  The Imagine printed and then cut my selections. It is a lot like the Cricut Expression, except instead of placing your color/pattern paper on the mat and cutting, you select your color or pattern electronically and the Imagine prints then cuts the image layers.

This final name plate was assembled then colored with Copic markers.  I also added discarded pieces from the previous characters, like the ribs and pelvic bones as well as the bones on which he is munching.

I will be back tomorrow with another new project to share.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day and BBTB2 Monday.  I hope that all of you have had a lovely long weekend.  We have had a nice relaxing weekend, I even managed to spend most of one full day in my scraproom.  It was very nice, I finished two BBTB2 challenges with The Sound of Music playing in the background!

This week's challenge cut at Bitten By the Bug 2 is a Reader's Choice where we had to use a number from the Mini Monograms cartridge.  I chose to use numbers as part of the face on my clock.  The clock is from the Picturesque cartridge.  I used the Amy Chomas mini pen holder and glitter pens to add the numbers to the clock face.  Amy's products are fabulous - in fact, I have added her button to my sidebar so that you can find her with ease.

The clock shadow cut used a super-heavy weight glitter cardstock.  I normally use the "multi cut" feature set for 2 cuts when cutting glitter cardstock.  This cardstock was soooo heavy it needed three multiple cuts to cut completely through.  The clock was affixed to burgundy Swiss dot cardstock. I used my favorite Stampin' Up border punch on the edges of the burgundy matting.
 
I used my printer to add a sentiment to the from of the card prior to cutting out the card.  I think this will be a wonderful anniversary card as the sentiment reads:  Every minute spent with you you makes me smile.  

I finished the card by adding layered flowers with gem centers over the clock flourish. I used three different flowers, white, black, and black & white.  I also added a smaller flourish in the blank area.  The small flourish was cut using Cindy Loo.

Please do go over and check out the design team projects at BBTB2.  I seem to be one of the few who was not ready to embrace Halloween just yet.