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If you are looking to see how I did the letters featured at this post you are in the right place ;)  If you haven't seen that post jump on over and take a look!

The lettering on this post is from A Child's Year.

1. Cut the letters on Core'dinations cardstock.
2. Cut the letters out on a cereal box.

   For this I use deep cut blade set at 5. 
3. I then embossed my letters on the cardstock using my Fiskars ShapeBoss and the "Stars" plate.

I love using embossing with this paper because it really does make it stand out more with the color core.
4. I sanded the letter after embossing with 120.
5. Ink the edges of the cereal box letters to match the cardstock letters.
6. I then used rubber cement to adhere the cardstock to the cereal box.

I hope this helps!

Tags, Bags, Boxes & More- cake slices

If you saw my cake here and wanted a tutorial on the cake "slices" you are in the right place.  If you haven't seen that post check out my cake!  There are step by step directions on the link I just provided if you are interested.

For the slices I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More that I got FREE with my Gypsy.  This was my first time using it successfully.  I actually found this to be easy!
* Each layer has 10 slices.
* The first layer is cut at 9.15 high according to Gypsy
* The middle layer is cut at 8.
* The top layer is cut at 7.

I did one layer at a time.
1. Cut the slices on your Cricut.
2. CAREFULLY following the scoring cuts that come out on the paper.  I make sure I am working in plenty of light to see those small cuts.
3. I use my Cricut bone scorer in my paper trimmer well to score every piece of it that requires it. If I remember right there are 8 lines to be scored per slice.
4. Fold up on each line and crease it well.
5. I used double sided tape to adhere the box together.
6. Stuff the box with goodies and close it up.

These were much easier to make than I thought they would be!

Paper Rosettes

Today is a SNOW day from work.  I am wondering if I am going to be doing a lesson on the 4th of July this year at school by the time we get out!

This week I have been working on a "bigger" project. It is taking me lots of time but I am loving it :)  Today I need to undo some of the neglect to my home and THEN maybe I will do some crafting.  I haven't posted much lately so I need to get going!  My lack of posting does not mean lack of crafting for sure ;)

I have my first Blog Hop coming up.  Most of my designers are set and ready to go.  There is still room for another one if you are interested!  Please email me for details and I will get back to you.  EVERYONE can participate in my blog hop though!  So be sure to "follow" this site so you know when it is up and what the twist is!

One piece of the project I am working on is paper rosettes.  I thought I would post those today and some how to instructions on how to do it. 

Here is a picture of my final product rosettes, to be applied to my OTHER project I am doing.  Look below the pic for a tutorial.

True to my form, I messed up on these :)  So I did them twice.  So you may notice the paper in the photos changes.  I am going to post the directions and include "what I learned from my mistakes" with it.

1. Choose your paper

2. Cut paper strips to come to 4 times the diameter you want the circle.  In the photo I made 6" rosettes.   So I cut 2 strips 12" each.  You want the width to be half the diameter of the rosette, so mine are 3". When this was done I didn't like the size for what I was doing.  So in my final pic you see 5" rosettes.  For cutting on those I did 2 10" strips by 2.5".

3. First I scored every 1/2".  I used my Fiskars cutter and Cricut bone scorer.  Then I folded it "accordion style." What a pain!!!  So, on my second attempt I "free folded" every quarter of an inch accordion style by hand.  I actually liked the finished product doing it with that method more!

 This is the 1/2" scored on my paper trimmer.

 This is folded "free hand" at 1/4" with the new paper :)

4.  Attach the 2 long pieces into one long strip.  Make sure to match up your folds.

5. Connect it into a circle/loop

This is the smaller rosette.

This is the bigger rosette.

 6.  make it into a volcano like shape bringing the center together and pushing the edges out.

 

7.  Keep pushing the center downwards and use a glue dot or 2 to stick it together in the center.  I found a couple started to come up again at the center and I just applied more glue dots.  I LOVE glue dots!

Voila!

Here is the finished rosette.  Stay tuned to see what I am doing with these!!!!