Olympic Blog Hop

Hello Everyone and welcome to our Olympic Blog Hop.  This a great way for us crafters to show our support for TEAM USA.  We are proud of everyone that has given their time and determination to become the best of the best and compete at the highest level.  I hope you all will find some inspiration with our fun projects.

You should have arrived here from Erica and My Cricut Craft Room.  If not, start there and visit all the stops along the way. 

Last week I showed a party invitation for the night of opening ceremonies.  Now I needed to add some party favors.  Only problem is that they had to be small and travel on a motorcycle to our party place.  I decided to build cupcake toppers, or more like M&M bowl favors. 

I started with George and Basic Shapes to cut out my rings.  I cut circles at 3/4 of an inch and then used a 5/8 punch to cut out the centers.  Trying to put 3D foam dots on the back was not my best idea.  Very long process.

I then used Sports Mania to grab the team and Stand and Salute for the USA.  The words are covered in red stickles.

I used Heritage for the gold, Pink Journey to get for and the Soccer Solutions cartridge for the GO.  I'm really glad that I'm able to hide the parts of the cut I don't need.  I sure had to search around a lot for the right parts and pieces. 

The base of the toppers is from Elegant Edges.  I kept trying to get the Olympic rings to fit in a circle topper and finally had to concede that it wasn't going to happen. 

The stick is some 1/8 inch dowels that are cut in half.  I secured them onto the tags with some terrifically tacky tape.  Then used three layers of foam tape between the front and back labels. 

Here are my three versions. 

I hope this inspires you to create something to cheer on our USA Olympic Athletes.  GO USA!!!!

Your next stop is Wendy at Create your Classroom

There are more stops along the way.  Here is a complete list of stops if you get sidetracked along the way.  Erica has blog candy at the end so be sure to make all the stops. 

http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com/
http://Createyourclassroom.com/
http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com/
http://Www.thecricutchirp.com/
http://especiallymade.blogspot.com/
http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/