Day Two 100 Cart Blog Hop

June's 100 Cricut cartridge blog hop Day ONE

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http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

if not please start at the beginning

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CONTEST TIME!

This month Erica is doing CUTTLEBUG giveaways!

Everyday this month she will be giving away

Cuttlebug folders.  She will even be

giving away a Cuttlebug!!

So make sure you visit

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

everyday during the month of June and leave a comment!

 

Don't forget to comment along the way on

all of the blogs today to

be entered to win the BoBunny Prize package that

Erica is giving away this weekend.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

You should have come from:

Christina

Make sure that you commented on ALL of today's blog to win the Big Bo Bunny prize pack!

I have three projects to share with you today. I signed up for three carts for the hop: Cursive 101, Independence Day, and Superman. I ended up using those and three more: Mother's Day Bouquet, Street Sign, and Stand and Salute. I really enjoyed all three of my projects for this hop.

We will start with the project for Stand and Salute and Independence Day. I applied vinyl to a galvanized tub for holiday entertaining. It can be used to hold bags of chips like I show in the pic or filled with ice to hold drinks or condiments you want to keep chilled during the cookout.

 This was not easy to photograph. The surface is so reflective that outside it was blinding me and inside my reflection is in it. I picked the tub up for $3.50 and all of the vinyl was scraps from other projects, so this was a great frugal project.

 The stars were cut from Stand and Salute. The larger stars were cut at two inches. I layered many of them with the shadow feature. The solid stars are simply the negative space from inside the stars.

 The smaller stars were cut at 3/4 inch. I did not use transfer tape on these since I was just placing them randomly.

I cut the 4th of July at 4 inches in both red and blue. I hand cut the "th" and of from the blue and layered it on the red. I love the way it came out and am thinking about going back and getting a few more tubs to decorate for other holidays.

My second project was a set of baseball jerseys and coach's shirts. I used the Superman cartridge and Street Sign. Because these were done on dry-fit shirts, I used Gorilla Grip II. This means I had to use a heat press, but if I had been doing regular t-shirts I could have used vinyl that can be applied with a regular iron.

 I used the font and font shadow feature to cut out the word Havoc. The shirt was designed in Cricut Craft Room. The key to success with vinyl is kiss cutting and reversing the image.

The back has their name and number.I also cut layered vinyl for their batting helmets.The boys wore the jerseys for a tournament last weekend and they love these jerseys. The number are so different. They aren't the same block letters most of the teams are wearing. We looked great out there.

The third project was a layout and I used lots of fun goodies while working on this. The papers are from BoBunny's Timepiece collection..

 Overall I like the feel of this layout. It was fun playing with some of my favorite new products.

 The flowers were cut from Mother's Day Bouquet. It was flower #15 amd I cut them at 2", 1 1/2", and 1". I then layered them. I didn't have a brad that matched well. These little flower brads were pastels colored. I help them with tweezers and heated it until it was good and hot. Once it was hot, I dipped it in the GlobeCraft Memories Copper Kettle embossing enamel. I heat set it for a nice smooth finish. The flower needed just a bit more, so I spritzed it with copper glimmer mist.

  I cut the title from Cursive 101 using craft cardstock and the fit to page button which made it cut at 3". I then worked a couple of letters at a time and covered it with enamel adhesive and temple stone embossing enamel.

 I took this photo to show the different stages of melting this embossing enamel. You can leave it as rough or make it as smooth as you would like.

I melted it until it was shiny and smooth like my granite countertop. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this stuff.

The little stem/vine is a Picollo lasercut piece of chipboard. I used the CopperKettle enamel powder on that too.

I little handwritten journaling. A few flourishes for that added touch. They are also Picollo pieces.

I hope you enjoyed my projects as much as I enjoyed making them. Now head on over to

 Candice

I am sure she has something fabulous to share with you. Here is the whole lineup in case you get lost along the way.

Start http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
Amber - http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/
Heather F. www.papercrafteranonymous.com
Christina - http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/
Kathy Jo- http://skrappindiva.blogspot.com/
Candice- http://stampinpearls.blogspot.com/
Heather M. http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/
Ashley - http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/
Erica's Project http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Shelley http://shelley-scrapbookingforfun.blogspot.com/
Sheila - http://2pawprints.blogspot.com/
Raquel- http://kraftykaboose.blogspot.com/
Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

Happy Crafting and hope to see you soon!
KathyJo