20 NEW Cricut digital carts on Cricut Craft Room!!

With the opening of Cricut Craft Room comes the release of 20 brand NEW digital cartridges, available to purchase and use NOW! When you buy Cricut Craft Room Exclusives at Cricut.com they are available for you to use right away on Cricut Craft Room with any Cricut machine! Cricut Craft Room Exclusives are fun, never-before-seen image sets in themes and styles that are perfect for all kinds of projects. We will be adding more Cricut Craft Room Exclusives for purchase all the time, so be sure to check back often! Check out the projects on the Cricut blog lots of inspiration using the latest Cricut Craft Room Exclusives.

Just check out some of the awesome new digital carts!~ and,again, be sure to check out the Cricut blog for inspirational projects using these!

(Click on the names of the carts for links directly to these!)


Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, 3D Bows
Create beautiful bows for your gifts! There are nine different bows in the 3D Bows digital images.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, 3D Pinwheels
Make someone smile with the 3D Pinwheels digital images! You will love creating the five pinwheels in this set.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Arrows
Catch someone’s eye with the Arrows digital images! There are nine layered arrows included in this set.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Australia
Share a glimpse of the land down under with the Australia digital images! This set of images features a silhouette of Australia colored by the national flag, the Sydney Opera House, a kangaroo crossing sign, a koala, the phrase The Land Down Under and Ayers Rock.





Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Funny Faces
Give your loved ones something to laugh about with the Funny Faces digital images! This set of images features a blank male and female face with eyes, noses, mouths, and other features to mix and match as you desire



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Germany
Share some of your favorite parts of Germany with these digital images! This set of images includes a silhouette of Germany colored by the national flag, a beer tankard, a cuckoo clock, the Brandenburg Gate, lederhosen, and the word Deutschland



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Gnomes and Mushrooms
Add a touch of whimsy to your projects with the Gnomes and Mushrooms digital images! This set of images comes with one male gnome, one female gnome, a Gnome Sweet Gnome sign, a snail, a pair of mushrooms, and a mushroom house.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Greek Alphabet
You will love using the Greek Alphabet digital images for all your fraternity and sorority needs! This set of images includes the twenty-four uppercase letters of the Greek alphabet.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Human Body
Explore your insides with the Human Body digital images! This set of images includes a body and a close up of the head. The body image includes major bones and organs and the head has the major bones in the skull and parts of the brain.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Jewish Icons
Honor religious traditions with the Jewish Icons digital images! This set of eleven images includes a Star of David, a Menorah, a Torah scroll, and more.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Karate
Show off your skills with the Karate digital images! This set of images includes one female and two male athletes, a fist, and a fist breaking a brick. Haa-yah!



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Labels
Add a special touch to your projects with the Labels digital images! This set of images features nine different labels that can be used for cards, scrapbook layouts, home organization and office décor, and other projects.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Los Angeles
Recreate the look and feel of Southern California with the Los Angeles digital images! This set features six layered images including Sunset Boulevard, California, an I-10 road sign, and more.




Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Missionary Icons
Commemorate your missionary’s time spent in service with the Missionary Icons digital images! This set of ten layered images includes elder and sister missionaries, scriptures, a suitcase, and more.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Mustaches & Glasses
Be the hit of the party with the Mustaches & Glasses digital images! This set includes six mustaches and three pairs of glasses that are perfect for party games, favors, and other projects.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, New Orleans Party
Celebrate Mardi Gras with the New Orleans Party digital images! This set features six layered images including a mask, a jester’s hat, beads, and more.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Page Pals
Never lose your place in a book again with the Page Pals digital images! This set includes nine different page markers with cute designs that include a frog, owl, bookworm, and more. They are easy to assemble and an adorable alternative to bookmarks!



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Party Picks and Pennants
Make your party décor shine with the Party Picks and Pennants digital images. The set includes fourteen different flags and two ribbons that are perfect for bringing your party theme together.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Track and Field
Race to the finish line with the Track and Field digital images! This set of images includes two runners, a hurdler, a medal, a trophy, and a running shoe.



Cricut Craft Room™ Exclusives, Thanksgiving Table Décor
Set the perfect table with the Thanksgiving Table Décor digital images! These Thanksgiving images include place cards, napkin rings, cupcake wrappers, and more.




Don't you love them! Have a great day!, Charity

About me mini album

Sharing a mini album I made recently using Fancy Pants design Summer's End line and a Fancy Pants brag book. I like these brag books because they have pockets for holding things, extra photo pages to simply insert photos and pages with plenty of journaling space. This album is all about my likes, favorite quotes, Bible verses, etc. Thanks for looking!















Have a great day!

Northridge's Cricut Magazine design team!

I have such exciting news! I have been asked to be a part of a wonderful group of talented ladies working for a fabulous publication- Northridge's Cricut Magazine design team! You can read the announcement on the create blog here!




My fellow designers are:



roreerumph.blogspot.com



scrapinkris.blogspot.com





chelemom.blogspot.com



chelemom.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for letting me share my exciting news! Hope you'll check out the magazines!, Charity

Cricut Craft Room is OPEN!

Cricut Craft Room is a free online design tool that puts thousands of creative possibilities at your fingertips. With Cricut Craft Room, you can view and design with the entire Cricut image library, and cut with all the images you own. Looking for a specific cartridge? Trying to find a specific image? Or working with a specific theme or syle for your project? With a great search tool, Cricut Craft Room lets you find anything you’re looking for. And you can create anytime, anywhere, because Cricut Craft Room works with any laptop or desktop computer, on a PC or Mac. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection.

Cricut Craft Room Features:
Free to use
Access online from anywhere, anytime
Easy-to-use program
Design on a big screen
View and design with all Cricut cartridges
Search to easily find the right image
Digitally store all your cartridges and projects
Windows and Mac-compatible
Explore exclusive online content
Works with all Cricut Machines
Cricut Craft Room comes with a free online cartridge called Cricut Craft Room Basics for you to experiment and cut with right away. It features a fantastic font, as well as many great shapes. One of the great things about the shapes is that they include standard photo sizes for your scrapbook pages. Perfect for matting your photos in a flash! Below are a few projects I created with the FREE Cricut Craft Room Basics cartridge.

CLICK HERE to learn more about Cricut Craft Room and to GET STARTED!


Also, be sure to check out the Cricut Blog for project ideas!

Operation Christmas Child!

Our church has been collecting tons of boxes for Operation Christmas Child! You still have time to participate! National Collection is November 14- 21.



Be sure to check out the Samaritan's Purse website to find out how to pack a shoebox and the drop-off locations. You can search for drop-off locations near you here! I know that Lifeway Christian bookstores are taking them up during this time as well.

Shoebox Packing:
Use an empty shoe box (standard size, please) or a small plastic container. You can wrap the box (lid separately), but wrapping is not required. Most importantly, pray for the child who will receive your gift.

Determine whether your gift will be for a boy or a girl, and the child’s age category: 2-4, 5-9, or 10-14. Print out the appropriate boy/girl label by downloading the artwork to the right. Mark the correct age category on the label, and tape the label to the top of your box.

Fill the box with a variety of gifts that will bring delight to a child. Use the gift ideas provided on the bottom of this page.

Please donate $7 or more for each shoe box you prepare to help cover shipping and other project costs. You can give online by using our “Follow Your Box Donation” option, or you can write a check to Samaritan’s Purse (note “OCC” on memo line) and place it in an envelope on top of the gift items inside your box. If you or your family are preparing more than one shoe box, please make one combined donation.

Place a rubber band around each closed shoe box and drop off at the Collection Center nearest you during our collection week, November 14-21.

The best part about it- they share the Hope of Christ with every child!

Audrey's Cowgirl/Western/Horse themed 5th Birthday party!

Ready for a long post? We celebrated Audrey's 5th Birthday with a fun Cowgirl themed party!




The schedule/Activities-

Horse rides -there was a pony and a horse for the first hour so all the kids got to ride a LOT! The horses were so gentle and their hair had been braided with little bows in their hair! Cute!






Coloring - While the pony rides were going on I had taped down (it was a very windy day) some free printable cowboy/cowgirl pictures for the kids at their places at the table that they could color if they got tired of watching everyone else ride the horses.

Calf Roping - My mom found instructions online (I dont have the link, but you could google it I'm sure) and worked so hard to make the adorable little cow for the kids to lasso! She brought the lasso and manned the cow. She even had little prizes for the kids who played- thanks Mom! She also scored the cute little saddle that we set on a hay bale. The kids loved posing on the saddle and playing on it! Thanks to my mom's friend for letting us borrow the saddle for the day!





Find the hidden treasure- When it was time for the ponies to leave we hid some small bouncy balls in the back yard. The kids all went to hunt those down. While they were doing that, I got out the stick horses, also known as hobby horses that I had made for the party.

Stick horses: I do not sew, but I really loved the idea of the kids having a stick horse and decorating it themselves. I found this idea on this blog, but I did not want to mess around with PVC pipe. I found another similar idea but the woman used yard sticks for the stick of the stick horse. Here is what I did. I found a horse head template, downloaded it to my computer, blew it up and printed it out as large as I could on a 81/2*11" paper. I traced it onto posterboard and cut it out. That first cutout was my template to trace the rest of the ponies. Of course, you have to trace and cut twice for each pony you will make. I simply bought wooden spindles from Joannes fabric (around 90 cents each) Once I had all my horse heads cut out I hot glued the spinle onto one horse head. Then, I hot glued the two sides of the horse heads together. Next, I used a hole punch to make the hole where I thought a bit would be and threaded inexpensive twine thru for the reigns. Easy! Each table had crayons, markers and googly eyes for decorating. I could not believe how big of a hit this was- kids from 3-8 years old all loved decorating and playing with these! yay!






Photo Booth- The photo booth was an idea found online- I bought some hay bales from a local church the day after they ended their Pumpkin Patch. The small hay bales for the tables I bought from Wal-Mart. They're actually seasonal decorations for fall. I used a screw driver to make the holes in the decorative hay bales to put the horses in. I simply added the banners I had made for the background, my mustache piques and a sign to the side saying photo booth. Everyone had a great time being silly and taking pictures.





Gifts:I found a lot of fun items from Oriental Trading Company- the cowboy hats, pink bandanas, cowboy boot bags-



Decor:

I made many of the things for the party using my Cricut machine. I made the fun mustaches, the horses on the tables, the banner, the signs and the Audrey banner using my Cricut. Oh, I also made the cupcake toppers as well.









I used several carts to make my projects. The cute horses on the table were made using the Yee-Haw cart from Cricut!



Also, the cupcake toppers were made using both Yee-Haw and also the Imagine Country Carnival- I used the cut only option and used papers/colors that fit with the party instead of printing the colors/patterns that come on the cart.




The mustaches for the photo booth were made using the Cricut Lite Billionare Cart.




Food:
Honestly, I could not afford to go all out on food. We had the party from 12:30-2:30. I worded the invitation to say "Make sure you eat lunch before you come but save room for cupcake and lemonade." to let everyone know I would not be serving a lot of food.

We did have: Pink lemonade, Root beer, bottled water, popcorn in brown paper bags that I cut about half the top off (it was so windy outside that a lot of popcorn ended up on the ground though, lol). We also had the cupcakes, of course!





It was so windy out that we had to shelter Audrey's cupcake long enough to sing before she, or the wind, could blow out her candle!




LINKS to inspire you, as they did me! OH, and a tip- if you're googling for this theme party try all sorts of things- cowgirl, western, pony themed, horse themed, etc. to get more results.

Also, ETSY has tons of adorable printables for pretty cheap, there are some cute western themed clothes, crayons, etc. there too!

Cowgirl baby shower - http://blowoutparty.com/blog/2010/11/cowgirl-party-baby-shower/
Just too cute rhinestone cowgirl party - http://www.nofussfabulous.com/?p=13057
Cowgirl Party- http://www.thoughtfullysimple.com/cowgirl-party-saddle-up/
Fun ideas - http://ittybittybirdy.blogspot.com/2011/03/yippee-ki-yay-cowgirl-party.html
Cowgirl Carnival- http://blog.catchmyparty.com/2010/09/09/trends-cowgirl-parties-on-catch-my-party/
Adored this one- http://www.ucreateparties.com/2011/07/cowgirl-birthday-party.html
Totally fabulous - http://www.tonyastaab.com/cowboy-cowgirl-party/
So Super cute- http://www.hostessblog.com/2011/08/lulus-girl-chic-birthday/
Vintage Cowgirl Party - http://www.thetomkatstudio.com/sweet-customers-claires-vintage-cowgirl-birthday-party/
Amazingly Cute- http://andersruff.blogspot.com/2010/10/from-our-studio-caryns-cowgirl.html
Fabulous- http://www.blog.birdsparty.com/2011/07/real-parties-rootin-tootin-western.html
Delightful- http://diaperduchess.com/?p=1310
Sewing stick horses- http://babyccinokids.com/blog/2010/07/26/diy-stick-horses/
A must See- http://designdazzle.blogspot.com/2009/08/western-birthday-party-ideas.html
Wow!!! - http://athome.kimvallee.com/2010/10/a-sublime-cowboy-party-for-a-little-boy-second-birthday/
So Sweet and will bring a tear- http://zsthedaydesigns.com/blog/2011/10/gwendolyns-cowgirl-party/
Super ideas - http://frostmeblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/western-cowboycowgirl-party.html
Another one- http://cupcakewishesandbirthdaydreams.blogspot.com/2010/10/cowgirl-birthday-guest-party-and-oreo.html
Doable- http://thebeehivecottage.blogspot.com/2011/01/haileys-cowgirl-birthday-party-in.html
Amazing pony party- http://folio-love.com/portfolio/the-tomkat-studio-the-pony-patch-pony-birthday-party/
Cuteness- http://shadytreediary.blogspot.com/2011/06/horse-birthday-party.html
Cute cake- http://pennycarnival.typepad.com/penny_carnival/2010/10/catching-up-or-trying-too.html
Inspiration- http://www.etincellecreativestudio.com/2011/07/horse-birthday-party-party-stylist.html
Pink Pony party- http://topthatcake.blogspot.com/2010/08/pink-pony-birthday-party-and-pony-cake.html
Game ideas- http://www.chickabug.com/blog/category/party-themes/country-western-theme
Goodies- http://candysoirees.blogspot.com/2010/10/take-me-to-country-for-1st-birthday.html
Cool- http://ohsugareventplanning.blogspot.com/2011/04/featured-party-forrests-buckaroo.html
Pretty Pony party- http://www.yummymummykitchen.com/2010/09/pretty-pony-birthday-party.html
Fabulous cupcakes- http://www.hicketypicketyhandmade.com/2011/02/19/the-cowgirl-party/
Darling- http://www.lilsugar.com/Retro-Kids-Birthday-Parties-14806734
Looks like fun - http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/2010/07/cowboy-birthday-party.html
Fun bunting-banners. http://www.daydreambelievers.net/2011/03/cowboy-cowgirl-bandana-buntings.html
Pretty Pony party- http://beeinourbonnet.blogspot.com/2009/10/pretty-pony-party.html

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