Unik By Liz

Good morning my fellow Cricuteers! I hope you have had a marvelous holiday season thus far. What a  better way to say good bye to 2013 than with a challenge at Exploring Cricut, the theme: Happy 2014! You are to create a project to celebrate the new year using any Cricut cuts, easy right? I just realized I have never decorated for New Year's eve!!! *GASP!!* You see I am a Christmas Fanatic - I keep my decorations till Jan 6th ;)- but this year I decided to- at least - decorate the mantel with a banner to welcome the year. So here it is:  For this banner I used the following cartridges: Party picks and pennants,  Baby Steps,  Create a Critter,  Gypsy Wanderings,  Disney Princesses- Happily Ever After,  Cricut Alphabet,  Chalkboard fonts and here are the close ups: The pennants were cut on White cardstock at 5.625" x 13.88" and black cardstock at 4.9" x 11.44", I stamped the streamers and confetti with Silver ink ( t...

Hello my fellow Cricuteers!  I hope your holiday season is off to a joyful start! Today is my turn to post for Exploring Cricut  and wanted to share with you one last fairly easy Christmas related project, I hope you like it! Since I am a fan of decorative plates, I decided to create this Nativity plate.  I have a set of 8 glass chargers that just were to plain, so this is the 2nd one I have decorated using my Cricut, 6 more to go ;) Cuts are: Nativity from Inspired Heart Sentiment from Teresa Collins' Christmas Sentiments ( Cricut Craft room Exclusive) Star: Disney Princesses, Happily ever after I used Red and Silver Cricut Vinyl . Thank you for taking time to stop by, I do appreciate your comment, have a wonderful and blessed holiday season!

Good morning my fellow Cricuteers!  I hope your week is off to a fabulous start. This fine Monday Morning brings us another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut: This week's challenge: It's beginning to look like Christmas!! ! Well, given that my life has been chaotic this past few weeks -to say the least LOL!- I decided to go with a simple project, I know you will appreciate that ;) For this ornament I used 6 stars from Birthday Bash ( you pretty much can use any stars you want, that is the beauty of it!) in three different sizes. I scored from all the vertexes to the center point and slightly folded them to give the "conical" look. I added some Liquid pearls to the edges  and covered the stars with Mod Podge before assembling. I used a beading needle with double nylon thread and various sizes of wooden beads to create the "trunk". I am pretty sure you can use craft wire to give it more support but since I used a small seed bead at the top (behind th...

Hello friends!  I hope you had a fantastic weekend!. Today I wanted to share with you a simple way to embellish a gift. I got a friend whose birthday is this week and of course she loves Autumn. I wanted to give her one last taste of it ;). I started by creating my wrapping paper using kraft paper and various stamps from Inspired by Stamping's Big Notes Series . I love how versatile these stamps are, they have a great size for Cards, Scrapbook pages and even this sort of project, cannot beat that! ;). Then following IBS WHW #125 : Burlap Flowers , I created my embellishment for the elastic Band. Here is a close up of the flower. My base flower was made out of Burlap Ribbon scraps, then added a lace rosette and three Skittles from Carri , a gift from my blogging friend Karen from LSP . What do you think?  Have you created Burlap Flowers yet? What technique do you like better? Well, if you feel inspired by this project there is still time to play o...

Hello my fellow Cricuteers! Welcome to another Terrific Tuesday for Exploring Cricut!  I hope your day is going well. Today I wanted to share with you an shaped easel card. my inspiration came from a card I saw the other day from Bi rd . Since I like snowflakes so much I could not resist ;) For this one I used Pooh and Friends, Nate's ABC's and Cricut Craft Room Basics. Sentiment is from IBS. Here is the cutting file. Please feel free to download it for your personal use just remember not to use it for publication or contests. Please give credit when it is due, I always do! http://www.4shared.com/file/3U9TZkDU/Easel_snow_flake.html   Thank you for taking time to stop by, I do appreciate your comment, have a wonderful and blessed day!

Hello friends!  I hope your day is going well. To all my US friends I hope your Thanksgiving celebration has been wonderful and blessed! We had a wonderful celebration! How fortunate and blessed!!! I just wanted to stop and share with you something I just learned about: Blitsy is having an awesome giveaway!!! I sure would love to have this at home ;) if you have not joined Blitsy yet and you feel inclined please use this  link,  it is my referral link so together we get a chance at this fabulous giveaway!!! Go here for the giveaway rules Thank you for taking time to stop by Have a fabulous weekend friends!

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE EXPLORING CRICUT'S TERRIFIC TUESDAY POST GO HERE Hello my crafty  friends!  I hope your day is going well, mine is been good so far :) So good, I am back to share with you another quick tag and a quick note card. And to show you my latest scarf - just finished it :) SOOO HAPPY today :) For both projects I used the WHW #124 Painters tape techniqu e with Archival Brilliance Pigment ink pad on PEACOCK. For the tag I used crocheted trim from Michael's, and IBS' "Holiday Sentiments". For the note card's front I used IBS's "Big Notes III". The edge of the card was created using MCT's " fun stitched edge dies". And the" inside"  of the card is from MCT's  Fun Variety on the Inside & Out Linking over : MCT Designer Challenge: Tag WHW Painters tape DLART november linking party Thank you for taking time to stop by, I do appreciate your comment, have a wonderful and blessed Th...

Hello my fellow Cricuteers!  Another Terrific Tuesday at Exploring Cricut is here :) And today I wanted to share with you two quick projects. The first one is a tag/ornament created based on the following sketch: For this I used Gypsy Wanderings (snowman tag) hid the snowman part and cut blackout on red and tag on red and white chevron from DCWV The basic stack.  Flower was made with MCT Rolled flower  using DCWV's stack 8.  The ribbon rossette is made with  sheer ribbon 1/4" wide.  Center of the flower is from Docerela,  a white mini rose.  More sheer ribbon, strung beads and lace - from stash- to finish the tag.  Sentiment " May your holiday season be merry and bright" is from IBS.  For the ornament hook I used 18 gauge wire, 4 bicone beads, 2 roundels and a tear drop bead, round nose pliers. Now for my second project. I followed this  LO sketch: I used Formal Occasions Cart for the frame (corsag...

Happy Monday my fellow Cricuteers!  I hope your week is off to a great start! This fine Monday morning brings with it another challenge at   Exploring Cricut,   the theme COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS !  make a card, layout, or paper craft celebrating   Thanksgiving .   For my project today I created a paper lantern, perfect to decorate anywhere around the house: Recipe: For this project using Cricut Craft Room, I welded 2 Leaf frames from the  Pooh  and Friends cartridge with a phrase from Gypsy Wanderings and a tag from  Cricut   Essentials ( to create the tab to close my lantern) The frame was cut @ 5" and the phrase @ (3.42 x 2.5"). Cut at this dimensions it also fits a square Box of Tissues so, I think I could add a lid and turn it into a tissue box cover!!! ( a project for another time :) Please NOTE : The base of the frame has all the marks to place the upper layers but once I welded the phrase with it they...

Hello my fellow Cricuteers!!! I hope your week is going well. Today's post is my project for Terrific Tuesday over at Exploring Cricut.   If you have followed me for a while you know that one of my favorite cartridges is Create a Critter and as unbelievable    as it might seem I have yet to use many of the images in it. With that said here is my project: a 3D Turkey plant stake.... This cute Turkey was cut at 4 in and the twist is not that he sits on a garden stake but the " 3D" effect on the back ;) I cut the "feathers" 6 times to create the fan on the back. This stake will embellish a terrarium I created for a dear friend of mine whose birthday is Nov. 28th and this year falls on Thanks Giving Day so nothing more appropriate than a Turkey right? *wink**wink* What do you think maybe adding a "gobble, gobble" tag to the front? mmh... will see ;) Now for a quick birthday card, seriously 10 mins flat!!!   This is a 5...

Hello my fellow Cricuteers!! I hope your had a great weekend. This fine Monday morning brings us another great challenge over at Exploring Cricut . This time around Diane has challenged us to create a project using 1 patterned paper,  2 CRICUT cuts and 3 colors. Any theme is allowed so let your creativity run free and come join us! Here is what I created: This card is from the Creative Holidays  Cart. cut at 8-1/4" and the tag is from Cricut Essentials.     Patterned paper is from DCWV Stack 8, Gold velum for the star from The Paper Co. UTEE in Gold for the embossing. Sentiment from IBS and a little bit of red ink to distress and give the border a little "lift" :)     In case you have not tried this cut, here is another example, what do you think?   For this one, I sew a piece of ribbon with the 3 colors of my choice underneath the focal point and tag.     I am pretty sure you have seen...

Good morning my fellow Cricuteers!   I hope your week is going well. I cannot believe October is close to an end!!! I guess time does fly when you are having fun right ? I have been back at the Sewing machine since I have been cricutless for the last week and a half **GASP** So I have been presented with a challenge I have feared for months: Create a project using the neglected always growing "incomplete projects" pile!!! ... So after going through half of the pile I decided I was going to create a super easy Scarf holder/Tag with a tag that was supposed to be the background for a Scrapbook page title ;) and this is how it looks: For this I used Gypsy Wanderings Décor Tag (Shoe 1) cut at 3"x 8-1/4" and Tag (Bottle) @ 2-1/4" x 6". DP is from K & Company, from an old stack and lucky me, the paper has a teal background that goes really well with the colors on the scarf  :) Distressed both cuts with Teal color ink, ...

WOOO HOOO! Back again! now with my first Xmas card of the year ;) Again I followed one of the sketches from IBS' Celebration . and came up with this card...   What do you think too red? I am hesitant about the ribbon :?...I was trying to keep it CAS and on the masculine side but I think the ribbon is too shiny LOL! Once again, sentiment and candy cane washi tape stamps are IBS Thank you for taking time to stop by, I do appreciate your comment, have a wonderful and blessed day! Liz

Happy Thursday everyone!!! I have been a very busy bee ;). Today I  wanted to share a Sympathy card I created based on the following sketch and color combo, from the 2nd Year celebration over at IBS   And here is my card:   The Iris and sentiment are from IBS Green ribbon is Stamping Up Blue ribbon from my stash ;) Base card is 5.5"           Once again I hope you have enjoyed your visit, thanks for stopping by!   Linkig to IBS Celebration Challenge Liz

Good morning friends!!!   I hope your day is going well. I think I am on a roll!!! LOL!!!! three posts this week?!, something must be going on and I wish it stays that way ;)...Anyhow, as I was finishing a NEVER ENDING scarf for my dear friend Z I decided it needed  a tag, so inspired by the color combo #2 from IBS's 2 year celebration challenge this is what I came up with:       I will show you pics of the scarf later as she might be reading this ;)   Teal flower is from IBS as wall as the Sentiment White Ribbon is from my friend KAren over at Little Scrap Pieces as well as little white flower. Tag is from recolections Distress ink TH Wild Honey   Thank you for taking time to stop by, I do appreciate your comment, have a wonderful and blessed day! Liz