Princess Party Gifts

Happy Monday!
So I have been working on my daugther's Pricess party all weekend and I am so excited to share with you today what I came up with.  Have any of you tried Cricut Craft Room yet? It is a free design software that Cricut came out with that can be used with all of your Cricut Machines. Well I was one of the Beta testers on the software and at first it had so many issues that I hated the program. I just couldn't figure it out and I have a gypsy so I thought no way am I ever going to like this CCR.... Well, I watched some videos on how to use it and then tested it out this weekend. Happy to say the bugs and the problems I was having with it before seem to be worked out. And if you have an Imagine CCR is perfect for you. You can place the images anywhere on the mat and it is so much easier to use then the Imagine screen. I still love my Gypsy for all of my Expression work, but I think CCR is so easy to use with the Imagine and I am so excited I have finally figured out how to use it.
So this months Cricut Circle Magazine challenge is to create something in the CCR.
I am telling you this because this weekend I designed my own Princess paper with CCR and the Imagine and I just love the way it turned out.

I just love the way it turned out. I didn't have any kind of Princess paper on hand and I am trying not to buy more supplies and use what I have, so I thought this is the perfect solution.

Here are the gift boxes I made with this paper.

I used the Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge and cut at 11.5". These are meant for cupcakes but I am going to put the party gifts in them.
Thank you for visiting me today.

Gift Card Holders & Gift Boxes

Happy Thursday Everyone!

I am so excited because I have the next 5 days off of Christmas and I am ready for it. I am taking the extra time off before Christmas to finish up my Christmas projects and I wanted to share with you a quick idea for Gift card holders. I saw this idea on the Cricut Message board, I can't remember the poster, but I will try to find it.

Here is a Gift card holder I cut out with Wildcard, page 46 called All in One, it is cut at 4.25"

Then I made these boxes to put the gift card holder in so they also have a present to open on Christmas too.

I got this box idea from the Cricut message boards and I just loved it so much, I used Art Philosophy for the box cut and all the tags and labels on the boxes, then added name tags and ribbon. I think is is great because then the people who get gift cards feel like they have something to open too.

Make sure you check back tomorrow, I made some glazed candle holder (my first time) and I can't wait to share those presents with you.

Gift Box with Flower Shop

HI my crafty friends,

I am so excited because I actually had time to craft last weekend and now I feel great! I was sort of in a crafty rut, but it is over now.
I made this cute gift box with Tags, Bags, boxes and more and Flower Shop.

I used my Gypsy, but I made the box as big as a 12x9 piece of paper.

I am entering this in the Anything Goes Challenge over at Crafty Sprouts

I have awesome news too- I am hosting the Fall Decorations blog hop this weekend Nov 19th-20th and I hope you will stop by and join me. I will be giving away a Cricut cartridge and a K.Andrews stamp set. And you will have a chance to play along too by making your own Fall Decoration and sharing with all of us.

A Few of My Favorite Things Blog Hop!

Welcome to Creations With Becka and the ...A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS Blog Hop!


If you've come from visiting Meagan at http://beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/  and start at the beginning. We would love to share a few of our favorite things with you today!  Before we start I would like to give a special thanks to Kassidy over at http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/ for putting together and hosting this awesome hop today!

Each Design Team member will be featuring a project made especially for this hop using their favorite crafting tools and techniques. Make sure to check out each member's blog. There will be some fun prizes along the way, AND there will be some AWESOME ideas!

So I would like to share some of my Favorite things with you! Of course my all time favorite cartridge is Create A Critter, my favorite stamps are My Pink Stamper Stamps and my favorite adhesive for cards is the 3M ATG Gun!!! YEAH!!!
For todays project I made card sets and boxes to hold the cards in. Here are some of the pictures of the cards I made to put in the card holders:

For this card I used Pink 8 1/2 x 11 card stock, cut it in half to create an A-2 size card, then the patterned paper I am not sure who from, I bought it a long time ago, I used Create A Critter cut at 3.5" and then My Pink Stamper stamps.

I used 8 1/2 x 11 light blue card stock cut in half for an A2 card, Create A Critter cut at 3.5" and My Pink stamper stamps

Again, I used Create A Critter and My Pink Stamper stamps.

I used Create A Critter at 3.5 and My Pink Stamper Stamps.

Here are the boxes I made to hold the cards. I just thought these would make really nice gift sets.

I used Storybook for the letters and DCWV cardstock as it is a little thicker and better for holding the cards weight.  If any of you would like more information about how to make the boxes please leave it in your comments and I will make another post with a video to show you how.

Okay, so what is a blog hop with out some blog candy??? So for todays hop I will be giving away one of my favorite things that Bobbi Jo over at SweetSassyDiva introduced me to last year. I have been hooked on it ever since. So to win this awesome Pink ATG Gun, you must be a follower and leave a comment on this post. Please one comment only and US residents only, unless you would like to make up the difference in shipping costs.

On now you are off to  the next stop...Theresa's blog, http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/. Go see what she has in store for you today...

Here is the order of the list. Some of you may want to add the entire blog hop list so no one gets lost and confused where to go next.

Kassidy – http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/
Lisa – http://www.lisa-craft-blog.blogspot.com/
Kristin – http://www.kristinscraftykitchen.blogspot.com/
Jessie – http://www.scrappyjess.blogspot.com/
Jamie – http://www.jmecreations.blogspot.com/
Susan – http://www.itsmesusanp.blogspot.com/
Erika – http://www.cricutlove1.blogspot.com/
Celeste – http://www.ccscards.blogspot.com/
Amanda – http://www.amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Meagan – http://beyondpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/
Rebecca – http://www.creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/   This is ME!
Theresa – http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/   NEXT STOP!