March 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog hop with My Cricut Craftroom

Welcome to the March 100 Cricut Craftroom Blog hop.  You should have come from our hostess Erica's blog My Cricut Craft Room.  If not, please start over there - My Cricut Craftroom so you don't miss a thing!

If you've never hopped with us for this event before you should start now!  The design team will be using at least 100 different Cricut cartridges through out this hop, so you will get to see what wonderful and different cuts are out there.

And be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....

And I'm sure you'll want to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore!  http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

This Friday she will announce February's Scrapbook swap.... She has a swap each week and you have two weeks to make your project each month. There will be a card, scrapbook, tag, die cut and embellishment swap each month! http://ericascraftroomswaps.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

If you get a chance please visit Erica's Webstore and enjoy 15% your total purchase this weekend.

Enter the code MARCH during the third step of check out to see the discount.

She has everything crafty.... Cricut cartridges, adhesive, papers, stamps and so much more.....

Now on to my project .......

I chose to use the following cartridges this month:  Don Juan, Luau and Life is a Beach.

This card was made using the window card feature on Don Juan, it was cut at 5 1/2".  "Aloha" was  cut at 1 1/2" and the flowers at 1" using  real dial size, both cuts are from the Luau cartridge.  "Aloha" is heat embossed with clear embossing powder for shine and the flowers were highlighted with purple glitter.  The three purple embellishments in the left corner are actually glitter too, I used dimensional glue and sprinkled glitter on them.

The base paper is from We R Memory Keepers, "Willie".  All the extra cuts is this card, and the card below, were cut from Paperlayerz by Megan Elizabeth "Waiting in line"collection.

This card was cut from Life is a Beach.  It is the project card in the handbook.  I like to revisit the tutuorials every so often to get reminders on how to do things. For instance in this tutorial the card base cuts out with the coconut drink attached to the card front and you need to cut the coconut again to get all the layer colors.   The "Luau" on this card is actually being held by a crab in the original cut that I trimmed off. If I hadn't done the tutorial I may have not realized for similar cards that I could cut sections off to layer because the Luau w/crab was cut at 5" , usually a size too large for that cut to be used as is.  The card was cut at 5 1/2" and I also used Paperlayerz by MeganElizabeth for the drink cuts.  The card base paper is from the Animal Crackers paper mat stack.  The cherry and orange slice were Stickled for a little extra shine and to avoid needing to cut yet another color.
Make sure you visit My Cricut Craftroom tomorrow for a whole new line up and different projects to finish out the 100 cartridges and I know Erica will have wonderful blog candy up for grabs for those who comment along the way!

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on this wonderful hop is Jenny R. http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com

Here is the entire line up for today in case you get lost:

 Saturday's Line -up
1. My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
2. Liz http://tryin2craft.blogspot.com/
3. Jenny r http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/
4. Doris http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com/
5. Janet http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
6. Tracy http://scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/
7. pattie http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
8. karey http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/
9. jen l http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/
10. Samantha http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/
11. Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
12. Erica http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/
13. Enjoli http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com/
14. heather f http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/
15. sue-ann http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/
16. lisa - http://allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/
17. sheila http://2pawprints.blogspot.com/
18. kathy http://3spoileddogs.blogspot.com/
19. kym http://kimmyskards.blogspot.com/
20. amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/
21. connie http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/
22. Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/