Teeny Tiny Rose Tutorial

Since the team over at Fantabulous Cricut  http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2011/08/thursdays-tutorial-birthday-projects.html choose to feature my tea light cake and teeny tiny roses, I thought I should do a tutorial!

You can use any scallop circle and size it according to your project. I used Elegant Edges and 1.25 inch circles for the roses I made for the tea light cake. If your image doesn't have a center circle cut out, use Design Studio, a Gypsy, CricutCraftRoom or a punch to add one.

Then snip between two of the scallops (anywhere is fine).

Take your quilling tool and insert the end to the left of where you cut the scallops.

Begin rolling the quilling tool toward you, keeping the paper tight around it.

When you reach the end of the strip, pull the rose off and let it "relax" a bit. Then glue the end to the roll.

Let the glue dry and use your fingernails to bend back some of the scallops.

And, there you have it. . .a cute teeny tiny rose for your project!

Tea Light Cake

Yes, today is my birthday! And I wanted to show you a cute little cake made with a tea light. The basic instructions are from SplitCoastStampers and I used Elegant Edges for the scallop circles and Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art for the scallop border. The roses were made from scallop circles from Elegant Edges and then rolled with a quilling tool. Now, for the Make a Wish part. . .

One lucky follower of my blog, who leaves a comment on this post, will get to choose any cart they want from the Cricut Rewards Program and I will use my reward points to get the cart for them! That's right. . .any cart that is available on Cricut Rewards could be yours if you win this blog candy! I'll use random.org to choose a winner next Saturday, 8/20. So, follow my blog {if you aren't already} and leave a comment on this post and you might be the person making a wish! What cart do you think you would want?

A Hat for the Louisville Kentucky Circle Meet Up

When I heard there was going to be a hat contest for the Kentucky Meet Up, I immediately thought "derby hat"! So I took a plain white hat (from Party City) and wrapped the band with pink netting, leaving enough for a big bow and tails. Added lots of pink flowers that I cut with my Cricut using a DS file created by Capadia Designs. Added some thin green ribbons and more pink netting. A few Circle logos cut from glitter paper and viola!

Grandmother's Garden

Here is the gift I made for my MIL for Mother's Day using the paper rosettes. The three children shown are mine and the blank ones are for her other grandchildren. I let their mothers pick out the photos and didn't take a picture of the totally finished project. The fence box was created in Design Studio using the Wrap It Up cart. The Grandmother's Garden sign is from Pooh and Friends.

Sneak Peek of Rosettes for Grandmother's Garden

I used Design Studio and MS Elegant Cake Art to cut paper strips and make these rosettes for a Mother's Day project for Grandmother. More to come!