Snow Angel Earrings and giftbox and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I made these for a few of my friends for Christmas and had the Cricut Circle in mind! But am just now getting around to posting! I am such a procrastinator! I knew today was the last day!

The Challenge: Use your Cricut machines, Cuttlebug, Yudu, etc. to create beautiful gift-wrapping. We want to see the unique and personalized details you add to your gift packaging, wrapping, gift tags, cards and more!
Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts.

Recipe:
Cricut Imagine
Shrinky Dinks for the earrings, at 3.5" (they loved the earrings!!) The snowman is an image on the Snow Angel cart
Imagine Snow Angel
Cricut CTMH Art Philosophy
Walmart ribbon
Colorbok white paper

Cricut Circle August Monthly Challenge: Create a Scene Submission

Hello my scrappin' friends! Been a little while. I've been on vacation for a few days visiting family in St Louis. And thought about this challenge while high in the sky! I have so much scrapbooking to catch up on it was hard to choose which group to do a "scene challenge" with! But I always love spring and Easter! so...for this challenge I chose a few Easter pics from Spring from a couple of different seasons, thats why some have jackets on and some don't! The Easters in March are sometimes cool here in Texas! Just having to pick out a few pics helped remind me I really need to get all the years scrapped!!
The Cricut Circle challenge is to create a scene with cricut cartridges! of course...preferably, but not required, using the 4th quarter Circle Cartridge: Pop-up Neighborhood. This was my favorite circle cart until we just received "Sophie"!! Love this one most of all the Circle carts! Awesome...Well, you only had to use 2 cuts! I used a whole lot more than that! and I made some I didn't even end up using! The winner is chosen at random (thank goodness! I might have a chance!) and the prize is:

Recipe: (yikes, I hope I remember them all! The gypsy doesn't show you what carts it uses on the Imagine app)
Imagine
Expression 2
Gypsy
The background pages were printed on the Imagine using the Better Together Bonus section and printed full pages.
Cuttlebug and d'vine swirls and swiss dots
Imagine Better Together: little girls on right side cut at 2.5" and balls cut at 1"
Imagine Best Friends: girls on left side of page cut at 2.5", kite at 4", doghouse at 4", flowers cut at 1"
April Showers for the Spring Banner cut at 9"
Campin Critters for the tree with dog peeking out
Pop up Neighborhood for the tree with tire swing
Kate's ABC's for the little bunny in the left hand corner
Lori's Garden for the butterflies, cut and doubled at 1"
Playtime for Playtime title
Enjoy the Seasons for the barbecue pit cut at 3"
Thanks for stopping by!! Hope I remembered them all! Wish me luck! and if you're entering, I wish you luck!! That would certainly buy a few carts at least!

Cricut Circle July Magazine Contest - Pop Up Neighborhood

This month the prize is $150 on Cricut.com! Woohoo! Would sure love to win that! The rules for this contest:
Use your exclusive Pop Up Neighborhood cartridge for this new contest! We love the fun versatility of this fabulous cartridge and want you to create any kind of project for this challenge. Design a home décor project, Layout, Card or mixed media project.Use at least 4 Cricut Cuts from Pop-up Neighborhood Cartridge in your design. Contest will open on July 23rd. Entry deadline is Friday, August 12th.
I wasn't going to enter because I have so much going on right now, but I just couldn't help myself! I had a day to play and decided to go for it, since I'd been rolling some things around in my head for a few days. I chose to make a card but I wish I'd made it a layout about 1/2 way through! I would have liked to make a bigger baby bassinet that I put in the window and the silhouette of mother of child, which is an SVG.  They were very tough to get that small!
Here's my card:

I think I used several more than 4 cuts for this!
The recipe:
Imagine
Expression 2
Gypsy
Orange Stickles
Blue Stickles
Peals
Pop-Up Neighborhood - the house was cut 3.7" colors from Imagine Basic colors and the roof, porch and mailbox (cut at 1 1/2") using Snapshot-Texture, the visitor is the "housewife" in the handbook. I didn't think she needed the apron! The dress was cut using  Audrey Pattern Cart at 3". The fence was cut using the gypsy and the E2 so I could size it and cut at 1.6 x .84 to line up with the front of the house.
MS Seasonal for the grass cut at 1/2" with paper from my stash
Birthday Bash -  balloons, cut at 3" but the strings didn't make the cut, so I used sew'n sew thread for them and attached them to the bouquet on the housewife, colors from Nursery Tails Imagine Cart
Nursery Rhymes - the bassinet cut at 1/2"!! The Imagine couldn't cut it very well at that size due to the rocker on the botton so I just printed it and then hand cut it since all I needed was the top portion.
Simply Charmed for the "Welcome Baby" cut at 1.2" with paper from my stash
Wish me luck! and thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! I'm going to be busy selling backpacks at one of the schools in Azle. I hate to see school start this year! My DGD and I have had so much fun and I have enjoyed keeping a couple of days a week. Sometimes 3! I wish there was more time to spend with my DGS!! I miss him!

Cricut Circle blog May Magazine Challenge!

One of this months magazine challenge submission is inspired by Shanatie's gazebo card :

MAKE IT YOUR WAY CONTEST!

Use this month’s magazine as a stepping off point for you to create something your way. Use one of our Designers projects to help you create something similar and yet has your own style. You might see a flower, paper, design element or maybe just the concept to help you design something of your own. CONTEST RULES: Use at least 3 Cricut Cuts and an idea from the magazine in your project. Contest will open on May20th. Please upload a picture of your project  to the blog under the Magazine Challenge tab. Please, one entry per person. Entry deadline is Friday, June 10th, 2011. Please make sure you have a working link to view your project and if possible list what you used for inspiration. Don’t forget… the winner of each contest will receive an E2 Machine!! Good Luck!!

My recipe:
Gypsy
Expression2
Cricut Imagine
Cricut Imagine Cartridge Lori's Garden
Cricut Cartridge Freshly Picked
Pearls
Pearlessence Paper from Walmart, white
Recollections Precious Metals paperpak
Cuttlebug, Damask folder
The card base was welded on my gypsy, using Freshly picked gazebo, and cut at width of 4.5" and length of 10.2", making the card 4.5 x 5.1 completed. The flowers were cut from Freshly picked also, the banner and butterfly were cut from Lori's Garden at 2".
Bride and Groom diecut is from the Wedding Cartridge, cut at 3.5" tall. I used a black base for the shadow and the metallic paper for the groom and the white pearlessence paper from Walmart for the bride and cuttlebugged the skirt of her dress. I love the cuttlebug! especially for bridal gowns!
 The bird is the 3 dimensional bird from Lori's garden cut at 1".  It looks so pretty sitting on top of that gazebo in person!
The big pearl on the front and the little bitty pearls on the flowers and the bride are actually leftovers from a package of alphabet pearls that I had bought to use on my son's "love" mini that I made for the wedding last year. I just cut off/separate the parts of the letter I want!
There are 2 challenges for a chance to win the Expression this week, but you need 3 Imaginisce products this month. I only have 1! And I'm not going to have time to shop, go to my grandsons for a couple of days, and get that completed by Thursday night!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a great week!

May Monthly Challenge submission!

MAY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Tic Tac Toe Challenge!

Tic Tac Toe . . . Three X’s in a Row! That’s the goal in this challenge. Look at the tic tac toe board below and choose three squares in a row. Use the challenge prompts from all three squares to create your project! In Juliana’s sample project below she used the bottom row of the Tic Tac Toe Board; Flower Image Cut, Cuttlebug Folder, and Imagine Papers. We can’t wait to see what you do! This month, in honor of National Scrapbooking Day (May 7th) we will be giving away a Brand NEW Cricut Expression 2: 5th Anniversary Edition to FIVE WINNERS!!!! Yep! You heard me right! FIVE WINNERS!!!!!

 This is my submission:

 Not much of a recipe!!
Cricut Imagine and Lori's Garden
Thanks for stopping by again! Wish me luck, good thing they choose at random!!

Circle Stampede Online Swarm - Last Submission!

This is my last submission, a sketch, for the Cricut circle message board. I used Disney Princesses Dreams Do Come True and DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies Paperpak and Walmart glitter paper pads and DCWV Flower Shower glitter paper stack. The border is cut with Martha Stewart's butterfly border punch. You can't tell but there are raised and cut butterflies.The pictures of Faith are from last years Halloween pics. These are some of my favorite pics of DGD! Thanks for stopping by again!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #21: Animal Magnetism submission!

Hello my friends! I have so wanted to scrapbook this page for a long time. Jana did a layout on the circle blog that inspired me to do this page and be able to use it as a submission at the same time!!

This week we have been paying tribute to the critters in our lives and now we want you to do the same!  For this challenge your project must include something  related to an animal. You can create your project for or about an animal, include an animal cut, use animal print, etc. Project must also contain atleast 2 Cricut images to qualify.

Faith loves Angel, my Schnauzer, to death. And she was so cute in these pics and they make a perfect scrapbook page! I love these colors also! And the title from Winter Frolic just speaks volumes on this page!

Recipe:
Imagine: Colors of dog and "gather here" is from Audrey and green circle behind "angels" is from Nursery Tails 
Paper: Big Lots Baby Boy Bundle
Collar: Paper Pups and black vinyl from Sign Warehouse and Frosted Lace Stickles, that hasn't dried yet!
Angel: SVG and Holographic Embossing powder on Post-It paper
"Angels Gather Here" - Winter Frolic
Dog cut and circle tag at top for journaling: Paper Pups

Thanks for stopping by! The weekend is coming!! Have a great one! I'm cropping with a friend all day Saturday while my husband is at a swap meet! Woohoo! hope you have something fun planned!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #20: Love Notes Challenge!

Holy cow, my blogger friends, this is the second completed project today! I'm on a roll now! and have my grandsons birthday card to make yet!

This weeks challenge is to:

Put your scrappy skills to use by creating an extra special note for someone you adore. It can be a friend, your mom, a lover, your child, a neighbor . . . anyone! Your project must include a heart and embossing (we want to see you incorporate those Cuttlebug embossing folders). Project must also contain atleast 2 Cricut cuts to qualify.

I used Imagine More and Imaging More Cards and the Swiss dots Cuttlebug folder. Thanks for stopping by again!

Boo! Challenge #4 at Cricut Circle Entry

Good morning ladies!
I created this for the Circle blog weekly challenge. They wanted us to: create a Halloween project that incorporates some kind of transparent element (vellum, acrylic, plastic packaging, overlay, etc.) and use 2 cuts from Cricut.


I used vellum and colored it yellow for the windows although the yellow isn't showing up much, but neither is the glitter on the background. Its really pretty in real vision! that background is covered with a glitter glue from Elmers that also has stars and some moons. (That moons doesn't sound right?!) I used the house from October 31 and the fence and bat and "happy haunting" from Happy Hauntings. The trick or treaters border is an svg from "images by heatherm". Click on the "svg" it will take you there to get a copy!! I couldn't wait to use it! It's so cute! That adorable owl in the tree has real feathers! it was in a package by Jolee's Boutique and was sent to me by my Cricut Circle Sister as well as the little ghost! Its transparent and adorable too but doesn't show up well in this pic either. 
Wish me luck, although its a random.org drawing!  and thanks for stopping by!!

Well I decided to make it an easel card and send it to my grandson! that picture didn't show the border as well!  Depends on the lighting! took them outdoors but several hours apart!