April's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop for My Cricut Craftroom

Hello and Happy Easter to you all!

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning.

Be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....

Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

It is hard to believe it is already the first weekend of the month and time for another Blog Hop with My Cricut Classroom!
For my projects this month, I chose to use the following Three Cartridges...

Cindy Lou, Paper Lace and Live Simply.

Knowing a lot of you will be very busy this weekend with Family activities, and knowing you have a lot of wonderful blogs to see in this Hop...I will try to keep it short!

For my first project, I decided to combine Cindy Lou along with Paper Lace.
I think it made a lovely card for my daughter, who loves these Russian Nesting Dolls!
I cut the Doll from the Cindy Lou Cartridge (page 59) using all the layers from that image.
I used foam dots for the various layers which really gave the card a lot of fun dimension.
I inked all edges of the card also, but not sure it shows up very well in the photos.
(Please Click On Any Photo to enlarge and get a better view.)

I then decided to layer the doll on the flower image from the Paper Lace Cartridge, on page 22, using both the Lace 2 Shadow and the Lace 2 feature keys.

For the floral design at the bottom of the card, I cut that also from the Paper Lace Cartridge... found on page 46. I cut the base Shadow at a width of 3.83" using my Gyspy to size it just right, then layered the main cut on top, cut at 3.7" wide. I accent the flower centers with Liquid pearls.
I added foam square between most of the layers to give a lot of added dimension to the card.


For my second project, I chose to use the Cricut Lite Cartridge called Live Simply.
I "simply" love the butterfly on this cartridge! I used all the layers and then ran the body through the Cuttlebug. I cut one extra set of wings so I could layer them on top of the first set, giving it more dimension after I pop dotted it!

I added a sunflower, also from the Live Simply Cartridge - using all the layers for it and then added a piece of Brown scrapbook paper and also used the Swiss Dot folder to give it a bit more presence.
Everything got a touch of ink on the edges and I used my White Uni-ball Signo gel pen to add a cute little face, dots on the antennae and on the body.

Here is the line up of all my fellow Design Team Members just in case you get lost along the way!

1.	mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com	Start
2.	craftingandbeyond.blogspot.com	Susan
3.	janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com	Janet
4.	jennspapercrafts.blogspot.com	Jenn Lorist
5.	myimagitivity.blogspot.com	Jenny R
6.	tryin2craft.blogspot.com	Liz
7.	scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com	Tracy
8.	www.creativecraftcorner.com	Karey
9.	ericasprojects.blogspot.com	Erica's Projects
10.	danascraftycorner.blogspot.com	Dana
11.	ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com	Tonya
12.	mary-fortheloveofart.blogspot.com	Mary
13.	2pawprints.blogspot.com	Sheila
14.	3spoileddogs.blogspot.com	Kathy S
15.	pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com	Amber
16.	mincedpaper.blogspot.com	Laurie
17.	fstampaholic.blogspot.com	marji
18.	cema1cema.blogspot.com	Christina
19.	kimmyskards.blogspot.com	Kym
20.	scrapbookdesign4u.blogspot.com	Ava
21.	sabrinabellabeautiful.blogspot.com	Sabrina
22.	angel4ever-thecraftyteacher.blogspot.com	Tiffany
23.	createenjoyshare.blogspot.com	Teresa
24.	ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com	End

A very special thank you for today's Sponsor of our Blog Hop

In honor of her Birthday she launched her stamp line.....

Each day we have one set of stamps to give away. You can also purchase them in her store and enter to win the Silhoueete Cameo that she is giving away. She hasAction Wobbles, Royal Twine, and foam squares in her store.

http://www.thescrapbookingqueen-royalshoppe.blogspot.com/

Also Erica put a ton of items on sale in Erica's Craft Room. ALL Cricut $33 or less. Copic Markers 25% off and MORE

Remember...return to My Cricut Craftroom tomorrow for even

more wonderful projects from the rest of our talented team!!

Thank you SO MUCH for visiting! I love to read your comments!
Have a wonderful weekend!