Monday Madness..."Imagine" That Challenge - Episode #324

Good Morning everyone....hope you had a wonderful weekend!! It was beautiful here in Wisconsin just a little windy!! Emma over at My Creative Time has asked us to use are Imagine for this challenge and if you don't have one you can still join in and make a project using patterned paper and the colors Teal - Red and Pink. I have many Birthday's coming up so I have decided to make a card again. Hope you enjoy!!

Recipe
Imagine
Better Together Imagine Cartridge
Card is 41/4 x 5 inches out of  Kraft Cardstock (JoAnns)
Teal Paper print and cut (2)  6 inch square
Red Mat cut at 5 inches
Pink Mat cut at 3 1/2 inches
Cupcake cut at 3 inches
Button from my stash
Embroidery floss (JoAnns)
Glossy Accents on cherry
Glitter Martha Stewart fine and tinsel (crystal)
Stickles (Icicle)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)
My Creative Time stamp set Wow so Many Candles

Birthday Card!!

Happy Friday Everyone!! This BDay card is for my sister in-law....she loves flamingos and her daughter is in dance. Emma over at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ is having a challenge to use any cricut lite cartridge you want and add some bling! Robyn over at http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ is having a color challenge....colors to use orange, turquoise and green! I am entering this card in both of these challenges. Hope you enjoy!!

Recipe

Cricut Imagine
Elise Imagine cartridge (All Paper)
Paper Doll Dress Up (Palm Tree cut at 4.7 inches...cut three times and layered on my own)
Twinkle Toes (Flamingo cut at 2.7 inches)
Martha Stewart Onyx Glitter (eye and beak)
Stickles Lime Green (palm tree)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen
Boa Feathers on Flamingo Skirt
Stampin' Up Marker Old Olive
Close to my Heart Marker Barn Red
Me and My Big Ideas (Gems)
Corner Punch Marvy
Fiskars Punch
Pop Dots and Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip Stamp Pad
Stamp Set Wow! So Many Candles
This is one of  Emma's stamp sets
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MPS Challenge # 7

Hi Everyone.....again here is another challenge from NSD over at Robyn's site http://www.mypinkstamper.com/. The challenge was to make a scrapbook page. I pulled out my dog's photos that have been sitting here for about a year in a half and decided to start his album. Thanks Robyn for including scrapbook pages to, now that I have them out I want to keep going!! Hope you enjoy!!

Recipe

Cricut Imagine
Nursery Tails Cartridge
2 (8 x8) layouts
Border cut at 2 inches
Tag cut at 2.5  and 2.8 inches
Sweet Dreams cut at 3.5 inches
Embellishments (Jolee's Boutique Bath Time)
other items used
Coluzzle
Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)
Pop Dots

MPS Challenge #5

Thanks to Robyn http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ and all her DT team.....yesterday was a fantastic day!! Still trying to finish up a few projects....here is mine from challenge #5 make anything but a scrapbook page or card. Hope you enjoy!!!

Recipe
Cricut Imagine
Imagine More Cards cartridge
Cream cardstock
Bag cut at Fit to Page
Center Medallion cut at 2 inches
Love cut at 3 inches
Bow is crochet trim (Victoria) from Stampin' Up
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Worn Lipstick

Imagine Card

Hi everyone...hope you are all having a great week! Emma over at My Creative Time challenged us to challenge ourselves. We were asked to join in the fun and create a square card using our Imagine and then to share it over on her blog. I had a great time with this card and it was soooo easy. Hope you enjoy!!

Recipe
Imagine
Better Together Cartridge
5 inch square card
Striped paper cut at 4.5 inches
Solid paper cut at 2.5 inches x 4.5 inches
Flower cut at 4 inches
Sizzix Impressions Flower embossing folder
Martha Stewart Glitter (peridot) on leaves
Ice Stickles (Crystal Ice)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink (vintage photo)
Gem
Button
Image is layered with dimentionals added

Emmas Throwback Thursday Challenge...Episode #167

Good Morning Everyone!! Hope you all had a great weekend!! Emma has challenged us to use the Walk in my Garden cartridge and to make any project  that includes a flower on it. Here is my card....Hope you enjoy!



Recipe
Gypsy  (weld together beehive to make card)
Cricut Expression 
Cricut Imagine
Walk in my Garden Cartridge (for images)
Kate's Kitchen Imagine Cartridge (for patterned and solid paper of beehive) I used patterned paper for the beehive to give it added dimension and distressed it with Tim Holtz distress inks (vintage photo, antique linen and tye dye)
Card base kraft paper from JoAnns
Paper for bee's and flower from my scraps
Martha Stewart glitter (malachite,onyx and fire opal)
Beehive cut at 4.5 inches
Bees at 1.5 inches
Flower at 1.75 and 2 inches
Gem for flower center



Emma's Imagine Nation Monday Challenge...Episode #154

Good Morning to everyone...hope this Thursday morning finds you well. Well it is snowing here this morning but only 1 to 2 inches expected. On with Emma's challenge...this was a project of our choice and the theme was Sweet/Valentine. I made a 5 x 7 card hope you enjoy!

Recipe:
Cricut Imagine
Carts used Simply Charmed and Imagine More
Bowl patterned paper from Imagine More cart
Strawberries RGB code 209-7-18
Card and Background paper DCWV Citrus Paper Packs
Peachy Keen Stamp Set Everyday Character Faces Parts and More
My Pink Stamper Fruit and Veggie Puns Stamp Set
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo
Ribbon JoAnns, Ice Stickles (Crystal Ice)
Cuts are 3 1/2 inches

Happy Chinese New Year!

Good Morning Everyone!! I made this A2 size card for a challenge Emma is having over on her blog  My Creative Time. I had to do a search to find out more on the Chinese New Year. I learned that 2011 is the year of the rabbit and that the White Water Narcissus (Daffodil) is believed to bring good fortune for the year if it blossom's exactly on New Year's Day. I made this card with yellow daffodil's and of course a rabbit....Hope you enjoy!!

Recipe
Cricut Imagine
Best Friends Cartridge (for all solid colors and tag)
Walk in my Garden (daffodils)
Create a Critter (bunny)
Tim Holtz distress ink (vintage photo)
Chalk , Stickles and Martha Stewart glitter
Daffodil's cut at 4 inches
Bunny cut at 3 1/2 inches
Tag cut at 1 1/2 inches

My Pink Stamper Design Team Call / Challenge and Submission

Hello Everyone!! Robyn over at My Pink Stamper has two openings for her upcoming 2011 MPS Design Team. We can make a card, scrapbook page or any other project using her favorite colors pink, green, brown and a optional color of our choice. I decided to make a 5 x 7 card and here is what I came up with. Hope you enjoy!!

                                                            

Recipe:

Cricut Imagine Machine

Cartridges- Winter Woodland (regular cart.) for skater image.  Mr.  Frosty (Imagine cart.) solid colors for dress, skates and fur also used Stampin' Ups  RGB code #80-57-49 (Expresso)  for skaters body. Snow Angel (Imagine cart.) was used for the 5 x 7 patterned paper card.

Vellum (Alabaster) from The Paper Company.  Irridescent vellum (Pink) from Stamp on It embossed with Cuttlebug Snowflake folder.

My Pink Stamper Winter Punnies Stamp Set

Marvy Corner Punch

Tombow Glue Stick to attach vellum

Stickles, Gems and ATG Gun

                                                 

Merry Christmas To All !!!

Good Morning Everyone!!! I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! Here are just two more projects I have completed for the Holiday's that I wanted to share. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.





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This is a card I made using the Cricut Imagine and the Snow Angel Cart. The greeting on the front is from Robyn's (My Pink Stamper)  Christmas Wishes Stamp Set. I am also entering this in one of Robyn's Challenges over on her site to make a Christmas Card or layout.



This little box was made using the Cricut Expression, Tags Bags Boxes and More Cart. and Jolly Holidays Cart. I filled it with Bit-O-Honey's for my Dad.

Christmas Card's made with the Imagine

Good Morning Everyone!! I just thought I would post some card's I made with the Imagine and the Snow Angels cartridge. The card's are all 5 x 7 and the images are cut at 4 to 5 inches, I also added some stickles and gems and chalked around the edges with Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink. The greeting on the front of the card's are from Robyn's (My Pink Stamper's) stamp sets Christmas Wishes and Winter Punnies. Hope you enjoy!!

These gift tag's were also made on the Imagine with the Snow Angel cartridge. I cut all the tag's anywhere between 2 to 3 1/2 inches. Layer's were done on some of them and stickles were added for a little sparkle. I also used Epson photo paper to print them out.

My Christmas Trees

Good Morning Everyone.....It has been a crazy past couple of week's!! I would like to share some pictures of my tree's with you. I will be posting some Christmas Card's I have been working on next week. Hope you enjoy some of my Holiday Decoration's.



Living Room Tree!





Tree in my Creative Space!



Banner

I used foam snowflakes I bought at the Dollar Store for the base. From the When It's Cold Outside Cartridge I cut out the snowflakes in the middle and used Storybook for the letters.The deer at each end also came from the Dollar Store. The Banner reads Believe!!





Tray on my kitchen table. The boy, girl and tree were all cut from the Imagine using the Snow Angel Cartridge.

MPIW Challenge

Good Morning Everyone!! It is going to be a cold day here in Wisconsin. My Pink Stamper Robyn is having a My Pink Imagine Nation Wednesday Challenge.....make something with your Imagine. I made this page dedicated to one of my very dear friend's Kathy (front) who past away earlier this year. I used the Imagine More cartridge for the whole layout. I also inked all edges with Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink and added some stickles and button's to the flowers. To add dimension I layered the flower's and some of the leaves and added pop dot's to them. Hope you enjoy!!

Emma's Imagine Nation Monday Challenge!!

Hi Everyone and I hope you are having a wonderful week!! Today I made a card for Emma's challenge....add button's to your imagine project. This is a 5 x 7 card  which I used Paper Doll Dress Up regular cartridge for Santa cut at 3.5 inches and his bag cut at 1.5 inches. I wanted Santa to look really old fashion so I choose paper from the Imagine Best Friend's cart for Santa and Imagine More cart for his bag. I also inked everything with Tim Holtz Distress Ink vintage photo and used a little grey chalk to highlight his beard. The tag is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cut at 2 inches with a hand written wish.  Also added some scrapper's floss around his boots and to buttons. (I only had green so I distressed it with the Tim Holtz vintage photo ink) The snowflake background paper is from Cloud Nine Design Seasonal Paper Pad. The crochet trim (Victoria) is from Stampin' Up. Hope you enjoy!!!

Imagine Warm Wishes Card

Good Morning Everyone!!! I made this card using pattern paper and solid from the Imagine More cartridge and the regular Simply Charmed cartridge for the Hat, Glove and Title. The Hat and Glove are cut at 3 inches and the title at 1 inch. The patterned paper on the Hat, Glove and Title are from IM cartridge and the solid colors of the three are also. I also printed the card from one of the solid paper's on the cart. on a 8.5 x 11 inch paper and cut it down so it would be a 5 x 7 card. Light Blue paper I had and used the Martha Stewart snowflake punch on it and then took the punched snowflakes, glittered them with MS glitter added a gem to the middle and scattered them on the card. Added some stickles and a ribbon and I was done. Hope you enjoy!!!  Warm Wishes to you!!!

Think Pink Week

Good Morning everyone! This week is Think Pink Week over at My Pink Stamper and Cricut Critters they are trying to flood the mailboxes of two crafty ladies in the community of crafter's. They are both going through operations this week for Breast Cancer. You can read about everything on the sites listed above. My good friend Kathy fought a long hard battle with Breast Cancer but passed away this year. This card I made is dedicated to her and will be sent to Monique or Brenda. I will make another card so they both recieve one from me. The card was made using the Cricut Imagine and the Imagine More, Nursery Tail's and Winter Woodland cartridges. The banner was cut at 1.5 inches and the letter's and bird at 1 inch. The church was cut at 3 inches. Thank's for stopping and taking a peek!!

Cricut Imagine Nursery Tails, Imagine More Cartridge's and Winter Woodland

Good Morning!! This is my 3rd card I made for Tammy's Design Team Call. I hope you enjoy!! On this card I used the regular Winter Woodland cartridge and pattern's from NT and IM cartridges. The card is a 5 x 7 which fit's in a A-7 envelope. The tree's were cut at 5 inches and I inked the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink vintage photo, added Martha Stewart Glitter and used Snow Writer by Deco Art  for the snow cap's. The pattern I used was from the imagine more cartridge. The snowman and lady were cut at 3.5 inches. The pattern for the snowman is from the imagine more cartridge and the snow lady is from the nursery tail's cartridge. I also inked around all edges with Tim Holtz vintage photo, broken china and worn lipstick distress ink and used Martha Stewart glitter and added a gem to each of the scarves. The background is a piece of mulberry paper embossed with the cuttlebug's snowflake folder then torn around the edges and inked.

Cricut Imagine Is Here

 Hope all of you will have a good day!! I stalked the UPS man on Tuesday and he finally arrived!!! Soooo excited. Got it out of the box, set up and all updates done on the CI and gypsy went great!!! Here are a few pictures of CI's arrival.

Stalking the UPS Man

Good Morning everyone. This afternoon I will be stalking the UPS Man!!! My new Imagine is out for delivery and I cannot wait for that huge box to arrive! Oh and with all the updates to the Imagine and the Gypsy it is even going to be harder to wait! Can't wait to play!!! Hope all of you have a Great Day!

Cricut Imagine Nursery Tails Cartridge

Happy Wednesday! My project for Tammy's Design Team Call over at CreativeCritterz Imaginations. Card #2 I made with the Imagine. I again inked all the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink (vintage photo). All cuts are layered and I used foam dot's to pop them off the page. I added goggle eyes to the frog to make him fun and the stamp is from My Pink Stamper Punny-licious stamp set. Love them!!! Also used some stickles and a small piece of white felt distressed to the top of the cattail. This is a 5 x7 card which fits in a A7 envelope.