For baby! Sweet Elephant Gift bag!

It is hard to believe that we have already received our welcome back to school paperwork in the mail yesterday! I had big plans for crafting this summer, but my days were filled with running, working, cooking, cleaning, laundry and dealing with 2 tweens..... Oh how I miss my summer days! Anyways I was lucky to be working from home yesterday, so I woke my girls up at 5:30 am to get some miles in and they both fell back to sleep when we got home. This gave me just enough time to make this sweet baby gift bag. At first I was going to use it to hold a gift card, but now I think I want to make a mini baby album to slip inside.

Gift bag and tag are cut from Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge
Elephant is cut from 9 months
Tim Holtz Die tattered Pinecone 
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Butterfly charm from Stash
Pearl
Recollections lace trim
hemp
The Twinery Seaweed Color
For Baby stamp Docerela Creations
Lemonade Skittles DoubleClick (soon to be released!)

Entering into:
The Kraft Journal: Babies
Cuttlebug Mania: Make your own flowers ( I used The Tim Holtz Tattered pine cone die in my cuttlebug machine for my flower and my swiss dots embossing folder)
Party Time Tuesdays: Wing it (butterfly Charm)
My Craft Spot: Wrap it up
Lil Red Wagon: Momochrome
Divas by Design: Charming
Cute Card Thursday: Good Luck Charm
Really reasonable Ribbon: Anything but a card + Ribbon
4 Crafty Chicks: 3-D projects
Delightful Challenges: On the Fringe
Pin and tack: Spark your creativity Now 

Dl Art: Linky Party
The Twinery: Circus ( I used an elephant and a ticket die punch + Seaweed from the Twinery)

Top 3 At Really Reasonable Ribbon!

Top 3 at My Craft Spot! 

Welcome to the Mother's Day Gift Idea and Challenge!

Welcome to the Mother's Day Gift Idea Blog Hop and Challenge with the Creative Cutter Room!

How about a fun hop and challenge?

Theme: Mother's Day Gift Idea!

Visit each of the following 4 Design team members, find the required element from each DTand submit your project at Creative Cutter Room for a chance to win a prize!

And what is the prize? How about Mother's Day Bouquet Cricut Cartridge!

Challenge Starts today April 21 and runs until May 4!

You will need to collect  4 elements total and include each element on your project and then submit your project at the Creative Cutter Room!

My Required Element: Use ribbon

Carri (that's me!)

Gaby

Jenny

Melin

Here is the project I made using all 4 elements!! This is what I will be giving my Mom with some candies, and a gift card inside!

Have fun hopping!

 Box from Life's a Party

Blog Hop Day 4 !!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 4!!

Today I will be showing you a gift box that is so fun and easy to make!

This box is on page 80 of the Wild Card Cartridge, it is the giftbox 2 (so use the shift button)
I picked a 12X12 sheet of pattern paper from the Color Bok School Life pack, I did use a heavier paper because I am putting treats on the inside. I used the fit to page button so this would cut it as large as it can on a 12X12 sheet and it cut it at 5 3/4". I scored all the lines then I measured the open window and glued in some acetate paper that was 3"x4". I then glued the box together.

Here is the front:


Here is the back:
Then I filled it with LifeSaver Candies:
And added some red twine to help keep it all together!




I will have my chickie give this to her teacher so she can have some treats in her desk!

I'm sure you can tell I love super fast, simple and fun projects! I learned if I think about it, and think about it my projects look busy and I never like them. Now I just go with my gut and say less is more and now I always like how they look! It is easier to add than to take off!

** For those of you who have asked, I used my ATG gun to adhere all my projects together.**

If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Be sure to come back all week long for fun and exciting ideas!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Multi-taking: This is being entered over My Sheri Crafts: Back to School!

Wild Card Gift Box

I decided to do a video on how to make the gift box using the Wild Card Cartridge. I really like how cute this box is and I filled this one with Candies so it is even better!

Watch it being made:

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge Surprise

I was flipping through the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and on page 80 found this really cute gift box. It was super easy to put together and it came out great! The first try I used an 8 1/2 X 11 Sheet of card stock and hit the fit to page button on the cricut. This made the largest size possible which came out to be 4" wide by 3 1/4 " Tall by 1/2 deep. I added some vellum paper to cover the cut out, shading, a cute lady bug and it was perfect! I'll use it for a gift card, or fill it with candies. Here is what it looks like:


My second try I used a 12x12 sheet of patterned card stock and hit the fit to page button and the box came out to be 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 x1/2 deep. I stamped it with a thank you stamp and I will fill this with candies to give to someone! So cute and so easy! The great thing is any pattern paper will look great!