Hey there and welcome to the EIGHTH Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, Fantabulous Cricut’s version of a Blog Hop! If you’ve come from visiting Amy L. over at The Red Headed Crafter, you’re in the right place! If you’ve just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE.
It is already that time of the year and we are all getting ready for BACK TO SCHOOL! Each talented Design Team member will be featuring an original BACK TO SCHOOL Project that includes a SCHOOL RELATED Item, such as crayons, rulers, pencils, book, school bus, etc. along with at least ONE Cricut Cut. There will be PRIZES along the way at our DT members’ blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a “Back to School” project at FCCB! Now how is that for clearing up the case of the “Monday’s”!
Before I get into all the details and recipe of the project I want to let you know that I am thrilled to be able to OFFER A FUN GIVEAWAY from Scrapinkris’s Esty Store. You will get to personally pick out FOUR of your favorite crinkle ribbon colors. I will be announcing the winner on Friday. All you will need to do is leave a comment on what is your favorite Cricut Cartridge and/or crafting supply. Please be sure to include a way for me to contact you!
For my project my four-year old help pick out the inspiration of a bird house for her teacher that she will have this year. I kind of pulled out the kitchen sink of crafting supplies to do this project including recruiting the hub’s bandsaw to cut the pencils and rulers for the roof top. I used Mod Podge for adhering the paper to the bird house and had some fun with my NEW Cricut Catridge, Doodle Charms! NOW I know why all the fuss over that cartridge and am kicking myself for not getting it sooner!
Next up is the fantabulous Cicily over at Pink Dalmations Scrapbooker! What a treat she has in store for you AND DON’T FORGET to get in the game and link up your project to FCCB’s Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!
Thanks for sharing a piece of “fantabulous Cricut Crawl” pie with me!
Project Recipe:
Cricut Cartridge – Create a Critter (owl cut at 2 inches) Doodle Charms (Apples cut at 3/4, 1/2 inches) Platin Schoolbook (rectangle for blackboard cut at 1 1/4 inches)
Paper- Recollections Solids and Brights and Creative Imaginations Studio 101 (for designer paper)
Punch- EK Success
Sentiment – My Pink Stamper: School Days
Stamp Ink – Close to My Heart: White Daisie and Topiary (for edging)
Stickles
Glossy Accents
Uibal Signo White gel pen (for stitching)
Mod Podge
Toothpick
No. 2 Pencils
Wooden Rulers
Wood Bird House (Michale’s)
Hot Glue
Happy Crawling!
Also Linking Up To:
A Piece of Life's Pie 
After seeing the sneak peek, I knew this was going to be special…and it is! You did an awesome job and Im sure itll be a treasured gift for your daughters teacher. Kathie
What a wonderful project and what attention to detail! Love it. My favorite cartridge? It has to be Create a Critter because of all the cute images
OMG !! This is totally totally awesome Arin the details are wonderful what an amazing gift xhugsx Nikki
The birdhouse is adorable! I love the ruler roof and pencil stoop. My favorite tool is my Gypsy. My favorite cartridge various like the seasons. Right now it’s Gypsy Wanderings
This is amazing Arin. Love everything about it. Doodlecharms is still one of my favourite and most used carts.Thanks for joining us at BBTB2.
Jayne
Fellow FCCB DT
I too love Doodlecharms cart…. I always turn to it when I can’t find what I need on another. This is a most wonderful schoolhouse with all of the fabby details. Thanks for joining us on our BBTB2 Back To School challenge.
Carole
Wow this is an amazing project! So much fabulous detail! I love the pencils and ruler s used for the roof and so many cute cricut cuts! Absolutely wonderful! My favourite cart at the moment is a Childs Year but it does tend to change! Thanks so much for joining us at BBTB2
Juliex
What a fabulous project! I just love everything about it 🙂 My favorite crafting tool is my Gypsy girl and my favorite cartridge is Create a Critter. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂 TFS
michelle
http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com
Wow, so many details. You did an awesome job on your project.
Amazing. I love the roof with the rulers and pencils. Your 4 yearold did good helping you.,
wow, this is adorable, look at all those fab details, thanks for joining us at BBTB2, hugs
WOW!!!! This is fabulous!!! I love it!! Just love it!!! Your daughters teacher is gonna be thrilled with her birdhouse. It is beautiful. My favorite crafting tool I own is my Gypsy Girl. I use her for almost every project I make. My favorite cartridge is all of them that I own. I love them all in a different way for the different things on them that I use. Thanks for the chance to win.
Thank you for joining our challenge at Exploring Cricut!!!! 🙂
Your project is stellar!! I love, love, love it! My favorite cartridge is Art Philosophy, but that may change since Artiste just arrived!! My favorite crafting tool is my ATG gun. I hated running out of tape so often before I bought it! Thanks for the chance to win the ribbon!
This is just adorable. It will be cherished.
Oh my your project is absolutely amazing! Great job!
Hugs,
Jamie
http://scrapqueen141.blogspot.com/
what an absolutely amazing project love love love all the hard work you put into this birdhouse.
-jamie l
babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com
absolutely amazing birdhouse i love it and can’t imagine all the time and hard work you put in. thanks for sharing.
-jamie l
babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com
Cute little birdhouse
I can’t live without my George and Basic Shapes cartridge. I use it all the time.
How cute! and great colors ! My favorite go-to cartridge has got to be Create a Critter. My favorite crafting tool is the ATG gun 🙂
Sheri R
sherii at cfl dot rr dot com
Love this project and all the supplies you used! Great idea!
Sheila FCCB DT
Awesome “Back to School” bird house! Thanks for joining our CropStop Challenge.
Such a fun bird house! I really love all the detail that you have put into this project 🙂
My goodness!!!! I am blown away!! This is absolutely incredible, Arin!! Your daughter will be so proud to give her teacher such a wonderful gift – and I know the teacher will be thrilled!
Love this Arin! This is sooo me…Mod Podge, power tools, wooden birdhouse! Totally in love with it and Doodlecharms really is an oldie but goodie cart. Great Job girl- Holly 🙂
How super cute is this!! I love al lthe super cute little details you added—the trim on the roofline, chalkboard, etc. The MPS sentiment looks terrific, too!! And GREAT give away idea—don’t you just LOVE her ribbon!!!
This is so darn cute! I love it! So many cute little cuts and what an adorable birdhouse.
OMG this is so freakin adorable! This is quite the project, my friend! Love love love it! Oh I almost forgot, my favorite cart would have to be a tie between Art Philosophy & Artiste.
Diana 🙂
Leelee Card Designs
Awesome job girlie!! What a talent you have! It’s so hard to pick a favorite cartridge, but I’d have to say at the moment it is Doodlecharms. It was one of my first cartridges when I got my first Cricut machine and I still use it regularly.
Debra Hudson
onecraftygirl2010@hotmail.com
This is a really superb piece of work, Tthank you so much for joining in my ‘It’s a Gift’ theme at Allsorts this week,
B x
What an adorable project! That is just so cute! My favorite Cricut cartridge right now is Create a Critter and Art Philosophy. I have a lot of favorites but I use these a lot. Thanks so much for sharing and for the chance to win! Have a wonderful day! lindagk23ataoldotcom
This is too cute. Love that cart. Thanks for joining us at BBTB2. Stephanie
Love your project and thanks for joining us at Exploring Cricut this week
This is so fabulous, really love the vibrant red!!. I think that my favorite crafting tool as of right now, (it does change), are my mists. I am new to them, but really love the effect they have on projects.
What a super cute project. Thank you for sharing it with us at BBTB2.
Beautiful creation, it clearly shows that you have spent a lot of loving work on it. I am very pleased to have you join us this time at Lexi’s Creations, unfortunately I cannot see a mention of our blog in your list of challenges that you have entered into. I realise this could be an oversight so if you wouldn’t mind adding us to your list you would then be considered for a prize at the end of the challenge.
Your creation is gorgeous and it would be a shame to miss out on being chosen as a winner!!
Love and hugs
Susan xxx
What an awesome gift for a teacher. Love your creativity on using all the school supplies on the birdhouse. My favorite Cricut cartridge is Art Philosphy. There is just so much on this cartridge. Thanks for sharing your project.
scrappingnana4 at yahoo dot com
My favorite cartridge of the moment is Happy Hauntings!
Love your project!
mb6464@hotmail.com
marciasmemories.blogspot.com
This little bird house is just to stinkin’ cute! I love the rulers on the roof and I love the pencil on the lower roof. Your colors are fantastic as are your die cuts. Isn’t Doodlecharms just awesome?!! I think you will enjoy this cart for a long time. Thanks for joining us at BBTB2 😉
Wowzer, what an awesome project. I’d love it in my classroom, if I wasn’t retired. Thanks for sharing with us at BBTB2.
Amazing! This is awesome! Love it!
Arin, my friend! You absolutely knocked my socks off with this! I can’t even begin to tell you how impressed I am with this project!
You get an A+++
Hugs, Janea
http://www.recollectionalley.blogspot.com
OMG! How adorable and how clever. Super creative idea.
marg0006 at verizon dot net
This bird house is soooooo adorable! This is one lucky teacher! My favorite crafting item has got to be Tim Holtz Distress inks, I was only introduced to them a year ago and have managed to collect them all! They are so versatile and since I love vintage they are a must for shading the edges of any vintage image! Along tose lines, I would have to say Sentimentals is one of my faves, but I adore Art Nouveau too. I have Create a Critter and have used it a ton since I purchased it and finally let me say that I just got Simply Charmed last month and it\’s pretty Adorable! Sorry so wordy!
Blessings,
Adrienne
http://paperdivascraps.blogspot.com/
Such a lovely creation, the owl is so cute! Thank you so much for entering this in our Allsorts challenge and good luck!
This is absolutely AMAZING! First of all, how cute can that owl possibly be? 🙂 I love your use of the rulers and pencils. They add the perfect amount of dimension and texture. Thanks for sharing!
Amazing creation!! I think my most favorite cartridge (at the moment) is the CTMH Artiste Cartridge – so many cool 3D projects.
Beyond ADORABLE — my favorite thing is the pencil perch — LOVE it!!! Thanks sooo much for sharing with us @ My Sheri Crafts!!!
My fav Cricut cartridge of late has been Locker Talk for back to school items. My fav craft supply has been Kraft cardstock and my Tim Holtz scissors. My email address is and you will need to sub the symbols for the characters in parens ():
sunshine_honeybee2004(at sign) yahoo(dot)com
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
That is s cute! I love it!
Great project! I love it!
sooooo cute!!!
Absolutely love this project! When I saw this I had to show my 10 year old daughter who now wants to make one of these too! What a great family project that has so many possibilities!
Carol (Carol’s Creations)
4evercarolscreations.blogspot.com
So cute.love every detail.Great basket of apples.
Wow! This is super cute…I heart all of the details and had to keep looking…Thanks for joining us at BBTB2…Krista
This is fab brilliant & love the bright colours!!!
Thanks for joining us at lexi’s creations
Tracey dt
Wonderful back to school project! Love all your amazing details! Thanks for sharing with us at BBTB2!
Glenda
Love your project, sooo cute..