100+ Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

Hi Everyone! Thank you for joining us for the 100 + Cricut Cartridges Blog Hop hosted by the lovely Erica. You should have come from Connie's Blog. If you didn't, please head on back to Erica's and start from the beginning. It would be a shame to miss any of the wonderful projects along this hop.

Since it's June and Father's Day is just around the corner, I decided to make my wonderful husband a Happy Father's Day banner. I truly appreciate everything he does for our family by working so hard to allow me to stay home with our beautiful girls for the past 4 years (and also enabling my love of crafting supplies..hehe).

I used the Birthday Bash cartridge. I cannot tell you enough how much I LOVE this cart. There are so many wonderful cuts. I use it ALL the time.











{NOTE: I don't recommend using popdots to layer the banner parts. For my next one I will definitely use my atg gun and some eyelets for the ribbon holes. I sincerely apologize for the horrible pictures - Hubby is home far too much lately and I didn't get the other ribbon added.}
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My second cartridge was Sweet Treats. This is another favourite of mine. For this project I decided to make a gift bag with matching card for an upcoming birthday my daughter is invited to. I basically took a basic Kraft bag (reused from a recent purchase of K Cups for my Keurig) and cut a piece of paper to fit where I wanted.






The mini card was cut from scraps also. It measures 3x3”. The sentiment “Its your birthday” is from Pink By Design’s Simply Everything set.
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My third project is with Sugar & Spice. It’s a lite cart but I love it. I had this gorgeous stack of boy themed paper that I really had no use for but picked up because it was so cheap. I decided to make Sugar Spice work for me in boyish colours for this explosion box.













I’m not going to go into great detail on how I created it. Its quite a simple project but very time consuming.

Anyway the explosion box is essentially 4 pieces of 12x12 cardstock cut and scored. The outer piece is 12x12, scored at 4” & 8” on all sides. Cut away the 4 corners. You will have to trim your second piece of cardstock to 11 x 11, scoring at 3-3\4” & 7-1\4”. Cut away these 4 corners. For the third layer, cut your paper down to 10 x 10 inches and score at 3-1/2 & 7”. Trim these 4 corners away as well.

I then measured and cut mats from patterned paper (from My Minds Eye - Twinkle Twinkle Little boy pack) but you could embellish any way you want. The first layer mats are 3-3\4 x 3-3\4”. The second mats are 3-1\2 x 3” and the third layer mats are 2-3\4 x 3-1\4”. The cricut cuts are about 2-1\2”.

Trim your lid cardstock down to 8 x 8”. I think I scored it at 2”. Instead of cutting away the 4 corners like in the previous steps I just made one cut, added some score tap and folded over.
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And last but not least is a project from the Robotz Cartridge. My 4 year old picked this one out. She has been asking for this for awhile so I figured I might as well go ahead and do it. I was truly expecting her to pick out pink paper so I was a little shocked when she picked out the green floral for the middle.



I didn’t use all the cutouts with this. I decided to use brads for the eyes and ears and foil for some of the gears. Heavy paper would have been better for this project. I also found scoring the lines helped with getting everything to line up nicely. So thats it. Next up is the talented duo Erin & Erica. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by. Please visit again soon.

PS - I have 2 giveaways happening.
3 mini stamp sets, 6 ink pads, floral fantasy cuttlebug folder and 2 containers of Dew Drops.


6 stencils and 3 rubber stamps from Magenta.