Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge - March 2011

I'm proud to say that Provo craft is invested in helping the community and our education system. This month, the winner of this challenge wins a lightly-loved Cricut Expression machine and 4 cartridges for their child's school!

I am so excited because I use my Cricut a lot to lead the children in projects and would love for them to do even more with their own machine! We had to create a project for a child with the Cricut including at least 2 cuts.

I chose to make a 2 pocket folder for my daughter who is in kindergarten. She needs a new one often. It seems like every other week. I used the Tinkerbell and Storybook Cricut Cartridges.

1. tinkerbell - butterfly, flower cut at 5"


2. storybook - "Zora" cut at 3"


3. folder - pink Cricut 12/24 cardstock - hand cut to 19'x12" with two pockets for inside cut at 4 3/4"x 9 1/2"


4. bling from my stash

Wish me luck!

La-Vie

Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge - Banners

Each month the Cricut Circle announces a monthly challenge. For February, the challenge was to make a banner of any theme including 3 or more Cricut cuts. A random drawing will be done on March 1. The prize is 7 cricut imagine cartridges. I really really really want to win!! Pray for me and wish me luck!!

For my banner, I chose a supergirl theme. Since I am an at-home mom, I decided to make a supermom banner for my craft room. Please flood me with comments because I am super jazzed about this banner. It's my first one and it came out beautifully!

Here's the recipe:

• Blue banner base and red banner base layer cut at 7" from cricut cartridge "tie the knot"


• Supergirl 1 & 2, all layers and shadow cut at 5 1/2" from cricut cartridge "superman"


• Supergirl symbol and all layers cut at 5" from cricut cartridge "superman"


• Font and shadow cut at 3 1/4" from cricut cartridge "superman"


• 5 yards of yellow ribbon


• opaque white gel pen


• Adhesives - Zots small glue dots, ATG gun, Zig 2-way glue pen

Notes: Putting together the licensed characters are very challenging. There are tiny pieces that look like nothing until they are all assembled and they are very delicate. I learned that leaving the pieces on the mat or together as a set still attached to the paper where it was cut very valuable. That way I would not lose anything or not be able to figure out the orientation of everything. I also used a skewer to help me place small parts in place. I used an opaque white gel pen for the eyes instead of trying to cut and place tiny white eyeballs.

~La-Vie