Boo Banner (Cricut DIVA)

Hello Divas!  I am sharing my Halloween Banner today at Cricut DIVA!!  

I know it is a little early, but Halloween is my very favorite holiday and I start early every year with my decorations!!!

Today I made a BOO Banner to share with you.  I used my Gypsy and Cricut Expression to decorate my it.

I used BOO! from CTMH Artiste sized to 2 inches.  I used Hide Contour to hide the inside cuts and the "!".  I cut this out of glitter cardstock.  When I use glitter cardstock, I reverse the image (I am showing the original image here) and place my cardstock glitter side down.  I use multi-cut 2.  When I am done, I wash my mat with dish soap and a scrubbie to get the glitter off.

I cut these 3D flower shapes from CTMH Art Philosophy sized to 5 inches.  I rolled them up with my McGill tweezers and used liquid glue on the center to hold them together.

I needed something to mount the letters on.  I cut this image from Teresa Collin's Chic and Scary sized to 3 inches.  I used Hide Contour to hide the inside cuts (oval and witch hat).

I used papers from my Halloween stash for all of my cuts.

I cut the triangles out of chipboard.  I traced and cut the paper to fit.  It was later (after I cut the paper) that I thought to cut everything out on the cricut.... at least I only had 3 banner flags!!

After I adhered the green paper to the banner flags, I used black acrylic paint to paint the edges.

Here is a close up of the 3D flower that I rolled up.  You can also see that I pop-dotted the letters onto the orange paper.

I finished the banner off with some orange ribbon.

I hope you have as much fun decorating for Halloween (or fall) as I do!!!

Cricut DIVA Decorated Metal

I am a DIVA today - a Cricut DIVA!!  I have a fun project to share with you using my Cricut Imagine and Square 1 Masterpiece Repositionable Fabric.

For information about this awesome product, or to order some for yourself just go HERE.

I used my Cricut Imagine and Imagine More Cards cartridge to print and cut out this heart image.  It is sized to 7.5 inches.

I put the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet landscape on my mat to fit the images.

I found these 8x8 metal wall decor pieces at Michaels in the Dollar Bins.  They are normally $2.00, but were 40% off - score!!!  I thought the image was permanent and I was prepared to sand and paint the metal, but these are stickers that peeled off pretty easily!

I peeled the heart off the paper backing and stuck it down.

The image is cute, but pretty flat so I grabbed some flowers and ribbon!!

I layered three flowers.  These are Recollections flowers from Michaels and come in two sizes.  I layered two large flowers on the bottom (one upside down) and a smaller one on top.  I fastened them together with a brad and put a rhinestone gem on top.

I tied some 3 Girl Jam crinkle ribbon around the metal piece.

Here is a great wall decor piece.  I tied the ribbon on and used a glue dot to adhere the flower to the ribbon.  This piece is totally temporary as you can remove the Square 1 fabric and change the look!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Froggie Gift Bag (Cricut DIVA)

Cricut DIVA Lori here with a fun gift bag.  I used my Cricut Imagine and Nursery Tail cartridge to make this cute gift bag for my friend's baby boy!

I print and cut out the image at 5.5 inches and 2.5 inches.  I inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink.

I cut a brown mat and used some washi tape to make a side border.  I put two pieces of tape side by side.

I adhered the brown paper to a kraft gift bag.  I then adhered the frog image to the brown paper.

I cut a piece of kraft cardstock to 3x6 inches and folded it in half to make a gift tag.  I trimmed the brown paper to 2.75x2.75 inches and put one piece of washi tape on the side.  I adhered the paper to the front of the card, and the frog image on the paper.  

I punched a hole at the top corner of the card (by the fold) and tied the gift card to the handle with some hemp cord.

Here is a super cute gift bag with matching gift tag!

Come over to CricutDIVA to see my and my DT Sister's cricut creations!!

Bunny Love LO (Cricut DIVA)

I have some Bunny Love to share with you today!!!

This is my beautiful niece and her bunny on Easter this year.  I have all boys so I don't get to create a girly layout very often, but I make sure to go girly for Easter each year!!

I am excited to share my layout at Cricut DIVA today too!!

I started out putting two 4x6 rectangles on my gypsy (to represent my photos) overlapping them the way I planned to do on the page.  

I opened another Layer and grabbed this scallop shape from Artiste.  I sized it to 11.07 inches.

I wanted a border punch look but honestly don't have the patience for the actual punches!!!  Luckily, MS Elegant Cake Art cartridge has several borders that are just like her punches.

I welded three of these together sized to 1.10 inches.

You will notice on my layout that the cuts inside the scallops did not cut out.  I was having trouble with this paper as the back side has a glittery flower pattern on it.  The paper kept slipping, so I just hid the inner cuts after ruining two cuts!!

I added this doily on another layer.  This is also from Elegant Cake Art and is sized to 7.82 inches.

I opened up another Layer and positioned my title where I thought it would go.  The font is Elegant Cake Art and the letters are sized to .77 inches.

I used the negative piece of paper as a template and adhered the letters down on my page.

I ended up moving my title to the top because I wanted ribbon to go right where I put the title!!  No problem, just used my cricut spatula to carefully peel the letters up!!

I inked the white photo mats, scallop background piece and doily with hot pink ink.

I needed some flowers!!  I used Mother's Day Bouquet for my flower shape.

I cut the flower out five different sizes ranging from 1.18 - 2 inches.

I used two shades of pink cardstock, as well as the paper I used for the scallop and the border.

I inked the edges with the same hot pink ink I used for the background pieces.  I used my stylus to curl up the petals.  I adhered the layers together with glue dots and put a clear gem in the center.

I put in three butterflies.  These were used with Square 1 Masterpiece adhesive back fabric and you can see how I made them HERE.

Here is my title at the top and a butterfly in the corner of the photo.

Beautiful layout of a beautiful girl!!!