Imagine That Blog  

Thursday, April 23, 2009

So, there is a great new blog that I just discovered called Imagine That. They used to be known as Everything Cricut. It is a really great blog that is scrapbooking related. They have lots of information on sales (which I love) and even more information on the Cricut (which I LOVE EVEN MORE!!!!). Check them out at the following link:
http://everythingcricut.blogspot.com/ (I Imagine (no pun intended...lol) the web addy will change soon.)

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Butterfly Aperture Card-BBTB Contest  

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Front of Card-1
Front of Card-2

Inside of Card-1

Inside of Card-2

Back of Card
I am entering another contest over at Bitten By The Bug. Regina's sight is full of inspiration and totally ROCKS! The details for the contest are at http://regina-bittenbythebug.blogspot.com/2009/03/contest-time.html. The idea is that you have to take inspiration from an amazing piece of jewelry designed by Theresa Rose Designs. You have to use at least one Cricut cut and the due date is the end of March. Well the jewelry is a necklace that is silver and pink with a butterfly on it. It couldn't be more perfect for me. Pink is one of my 2 fave colors (brown is the other) and I am a total butterfly lover!
I cut the card "old school". I cut a piece of 12x12 card stock in half and folded that piece in half. Then I took my circle cutter and cut a cirlce in the middle of the front of the card to make it an aperture card. Then I cut a piece of patterned paper with a circle in the middle just a bit bigger than the one on the card to frame the front of the card. I did the same exact thing with yellow cardstock to frame the inside left of the card.
I took the 2 circles that I had cut from the yellow cardstock and the pink cardstock (for the card) and mounted the pink on the yellow and mounted it so it fit the hole in the front of the card (without the yellow showing through).
I cut the butterfly at 3 1/2 inches with the Walk In My Garden cartridge on my Cricut E. I cut the shadow in black. Then the bottom layer in a medium pink. Then the top later in a darker pink. I glued down the top butterfly only in the middle so the wings could kind of "float" up throught the middle of the hole on the front of the card. I cut the center and accessory pieces of the butterfly in 2 different pieces of yellow. I added glitter pen, pink chalk ink and pen dots for some detail. The little butterflies on the inside are a Martha Stewart punch. The photo corners are an EK Success punch. The words are all rubber stamped.
On the front I cut flowers at 1 inch and 1 1/2 inches from WIMG. I used gems for the centers. The leaves are cut from yellow cardstock with a Punch Bunch punch. The photo corner is cut from the Jasmine cart at 3 1/2 inches (rds). I used 2 pieces of 18 inch ribbon (1 yellow, 1 red) and tied them around the top, in seperate bows. I stapled them at the top and bottom of the card.
On the back I used the same patterned paper as on the front. I mounted it on yellow paper and inked it with pink chalk ink. TFL. Wish me luck!




















































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Baby Onesie  

Monday, January 26, 2009






This is a card I made for a friend who is expecting. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies stack. The flowers are made from the DCWV Glitter stack. The whole card was made with the Cricut. I made the onesie in Design Studio so it folds over at the top and makes a card. Then I cut a matching one for the front and back. The flowers were made with George. I cut a rectangle with rounded edges for the inside and cut the word "Congratulations" with a shadow and put it on the inside. TFL!







































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Thank You Bird  

Monday, January 5, 2009



I really wanted to send out Thank You cards to everyone that gave our family gifts this holiday season. So, this is the first one that I came up with. I made 6 of them. I have to make about 5 more Thank You cards, but I want to do something different for those.
For this card I used Home Accents for the bird. The scallop and its center are cut in Design Studio and are designed by Okie Ladybug from the Cricut Message Board. The scallop oval is in a deep aqua and the smooth oval is in a lighter aqua, but it is hard to see in the picture. There is also a frame of the lighter aqua paper behind the patterned paper. I also used a corner punch on the corners of the patterned paper. I used some clear skittles and colored them with a Sharpie on the smooth oval. I used Chesnut Roan Cat's Eye chalk around the edges of the light aqua paper. The "Thank You" is done with a rubber stamp. Other things I used: aqua/brown polka dot ribbon, glitter pen brown pen.

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BBTB Challenge Baby Boy Card  

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Front of Card

Inside of Card
So, it has been sooooo long since I have posted! Between the Holidays and my health having some problems, I haven't had alot of time to do much scrapbooking or cardmaking. I did do a few cards and a wordbook for Christmas gifts.
Anywho, my wonderful husband has been home for the last week on vacation and I have spent the last couple of days working on a card. I should be doing some house work or something else productive. But, me and my guys (husband and 3 sons) are mostly being lazy and taking naps and eating way too much junk food!
This brings me to my card. I have made it to enter into a contest over at Bitten by the Bug. They have amazing contests over there. Not to mention their weekly challenges where their designers post great inspiration with Cricut cuts.
For this contest you have to use primarily yellow, pink, green and blue, have at least one Cricut cut on it and it has to have a star.
For my card I used New Arrival for the airplane, banner and card. I used Pooh and Friends for the clouds on the outside and inside of the card. The ribbon is by DCWV. The saying on the inside, the feet and the word on the banner are all rubber stamped. The airplane is on pop dots to make it look like it is flying above the clouds. TFL.

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