My Imagine Match Game!

I needed to make a game for my DGD's for vacation to play at the lake. They love playing match game, with any kind of cards! But I chose to use my Imagine to make a "girly" match game! The Cricut Circle once again inspired me! The monthly challenge for July:

JULY MONTHLY CHALLENGE: Family Fun Challenge!

The WINNER of this challenge will receive a $150 Credit to Cricut.com!

The Challenge: Create an activity or project of some sort with your Cricut products that your family can enjoy together. (Examples: Game, Dessert or Food item with the Cricut Cake, etc.)
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.

 I used my Imagine and Best Friends cart, Yummy cart and Better Together cart and added the pics to the  mat in every 3" square. I made 14 sets, or 28 cards. Then just cut them with paper trimmer every 3". Worked out great! This is one mat setup.

I then used TBBM2 cart and cut the candy box to fit the cards, which made the box 3.25"x4" with my E2 so it score it for me! Score! yay! love that it scores for you!
I used Mickey Mouse Font for the Match Game on the front. I was in a hurry to leave for the lake, as I did this at the first of the month (and took pics and am just now posting,) so I cut the candy box and the printed the images on the back of a paper from, if I remember correctly, DCVW's Animal Crackers.

This was so much fun making and the girls love the game!!! Especially Faith! She also usually wins!

Well, I'm certainly glad to be back in my craftroom! I've reorganized and totally love it! And now ready to get to work! Vacation is fun and its great to go but its great to be back home isn't it?!!
Good luck to all my Cricut Circle friends! and thanks for stopping by!

Welcome to Day 1 of the Spring/Summer Imagine Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Spring Summer Imagine Blog Hop Day 1! I'm so excited to be among such talent and inspiration! 

Our sponsor for the hop is Erica's Craft Room, you can find Erica's Craft Room Shop here: http://shop.ericascraftroom.com/   Erica is offering a $25.00 gift certificate grand prize for the hop! To be entered in the drawing, please leave a comment on all the blogs with your name and a way to contact you. (To help prevent spam, please leave your email address in a safe manner, ie. ssmith at hotmail dot com is best.) The winner will be drawn on May 20, 2012. Please check back at any of the blogs on that day. You do NOT need to follow the blogs to be entered, just leave a comment please. Some of the blogs are also offering blog candy and you can check out the details as you hop. I have blog candy also. More on that shortly!

You should have arrived here from  Cricut Crafty Clare's blog.  And if you are just dropping by and want to start the hop from the beginning please start at Robin's blog here:  http://custom-comforts.blogspot.com/

I got my inspiration for this house from Erica's blog hop last week, at KraftyKaboos.blogspot.com. Check her out if you get a chance! She did an awesome job and thought my Imagine could do wonders with this and my DGD would love, love, love it!! I have made cards with the kids from Best Friends in the windows and love how easy the Imagine makes that! I kinda wish I'd made it big enough for her Barbie! But didn't want to go overboard. She'll love it anyway!

I used the Sweet Tooth Boxes cart and cut the shop at 11" and flood filled it with the papers from Yummy Imagine cart. The tables shown are what's on the walls inside you can see thru the windows! They are made from Kate's Kitchen (not to be used yet in CCR!!!?) As I said the kids are from Best Friends, the gifts are from Yummy. Love that cart! The couple on the back is from Sweethearts I believe!




Now for my blog candy! I'm giving away the MS Stamp Around the Page with 8 stamp set and 6 inks. I have this set and loved it so much I bought 1 to give to my friend and 1 for this hop!! All you have to do is leave a comment with contact info. You don't have to be a follower, but I'd love it if you became 1! I will draw using random.org Monday! Good luck!

 Thanks for hopping with us! Hopefully we have inspired you! Come back tomorrow for more inspiration from these very talented ladies!

Your next stop on the hop is Janet's Creative World. Below is a list of all the stops on the hop in case you get lost!

1. custom-comforts at http://custom-comforts.blogspot.com/
2. LauraLeesDream at www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.com 
3. Cricut Crafty Clare at http://www.cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com/
4. Scrappin Nanapuddin at http://scrappin-nanapuddin.blogspot.com/ You are here!
5. Janet's Creative World at http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/ Next!
6. LadyLuvBug at http://www.ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/
7. My Bug & Me Create - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com 
8. ScrappinMyStressAway - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
9. Nana's Scrap Spot - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/
10. Scrappin' With Chriss and Lou - http://chrissandlou.blogspot.com/

 

Campin Mini for my DGS!

My DGS went on a camping trip to Colorado (brrrr...too cold today! and they had to wear jackets in July! We barely wear jackets here in December in Texas!) last summer and I've been wanting to make a mini for him. I used the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge as my reason to do it NOW! I've got a birthday party this weekend for DGD and luckily I have some Dora decorations that I made last year thats going to help me a little this year. I posted those at this time last year! The Magazine Challenge is to use Cricut Craft Room. I don't stand much of a chance of winning, but it was fun making it just the same! I hope he likes it as much as I enjoyed making it!
Deadline is tomorrow! Finally finished yesterday. I had finished earlier but decided to add a back page due to the diecuts I had added on the previous last page! Thats why the challenges are good for me! I'd never be finished! LOL!

I used a whole pile of cartridges! Cricut Imagine and Legacy carts! The book is 11x7! I wanted him to have room for his 4x6 photos, so almost all of the frames on all of the pages are framed for a 4x6 pic. After I was about 1/2 way into the book I had watched a video about layering the images to print and cut on 1 page and not having to deal with the little bitty eyes. I don't like working with the little bitty eyes, but I'm not crazy about the image all printed in 1 layer either, so I did texturize the animals that I did print in 1 layer! That was easier than dealing with eyeballs! But I like the layers otherwise!
I used:
Imagine Better Together, Imagine Enjoy the Seasons, Campin Critters, Pooh and Friends, Imagine The Good Old Days, Cindy Lou, Create a Critter, Imagine Country Carnival, Imagine Nursery Tails, and the Cinch to bind the book. I usually add ribbon to the binding but since its for my DGS he would not like ribbon! I'm going to think about that and what to use in its place before I give it to him this weekend at DGD birthday party!
I used 3d paint on the marshmallow! Too cute! and stickles on the fire!
Thanks for stopping by! Maybe I've inspired you to make a mini?! I love them myself! I've gotten to love those better than regular scrapbooking! I've done a couple of digital books also! Love those too! 
Good luck to all my circlet friends!

The Year in Review by my DGD

The January Monthly Challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog is: The Year in Review.

The year 2011 has come and gone and now we want you to take the opportunity to look back at what this year has meant to you. Create a scrapbook page or mini album celebrating the events of 2011. It could be a page that uses just one photo, like Shantaie’s, or 12 different photos (one summarizing the events for each month). You might not want to use any photos at all and just use journaling to tell your story . . . it’s up to you!The WINNER of this challenge will receive a $150 Credit to Cricut.com! The Challenge: Create a scrapbook page or mini album reviewing the year 2011. What was memorable about the year overall? Or maybe you want to summarize the events that happened each month in your life. Whatever your approace, use your Cricut machines to tell your 2011 story.
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

This is my submission:

I couldn't come up with anything until DGD Faith was here this week and she had written a note about her dog her mom and dad had to give to a friend at the end of the year because they didn't have a fenced in yard and he was not a good inside dog, being a dalmation, and she still misses him terribly. His name was Max. And she didn't know what to do with that note. And she had just been looking at some of pics from last year from a trip to Hot Springs with my DD and DGS and then all kinds of things that happened last year. Then the light bulb went off. She LOVES this book that I cut some paper from my stash and added to this "your story" cover and is loving making diecuts to go with the pages! This is what she has done so far, besides blinging the front! I think she enjoyed that most! The little girl and puppy are from Imagine Better Together, the Ipod is from Paisley. The Faith and 2011 on the front cover was printed and cut using vinyl and Blast Off! Love that cart! I'll show you more as she finishes more! She's busy cutting dogs and cakes and presents for her birthday party! I'm amazed she didn't start there!
Thanks for stopping by and good luck to all my circle friends!

Creative Resolutions Challenge!

Happy New year! This is my first post in the new year so I hadn't had a chance to wish all my blog friends a happy new year! The Circle challenge for this week is: Creative Resolutions for 2012! Whenever the New Year rolls around, we tend to do a little self-evaluation and decide what we want to do differently in the year to come. For the challenge this week, we want you to think about your CREATIVE resolutions and record them in some way. Do you want to stretch your creativity in new ways? Maybe you want to try a new hobby or learn something new. Maybe you want to simplify. Whatever it is, get those goals down on paper! Jennifer Yates has a sample of her project below.
Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include at least 2 Cricut Image Cuts.

My recipe:
Cricut Imagine
Better Together Imagine Cart for frame cut at 7.4 x 11
Blast Off Imagine Cart for numbers cut at 1 x 1.22
CTMH Art Philosophy for banner cut at 6.6 x 1.35
Kate's Kitchen Imagine Cart for "made with love" cut at 2.4 x 1.3
Recollections Chalk Board Paper
Crayola Dry Erase Crayons (They work like chalk and write better!)
Thanks for stopping by and good luck to all my circle friends!

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 Monthly Let's Eat challenge!

Hello Friends!!
Time once again for the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog! I've told you numerous times that I'm working on the scrapbook for the Lions Club outgoing Pres. and this month the challenge on the blog was to create something with a BBQ, Picnic, or Patio theme, AND a gingham or check pattern. Well, that announcement made my day!! I'd been working on one of the Texas Lions Camp pages for the scrapbook and of course its at camp! so it helped me decide what to do with the picnic table on the page!! These are very busy pages because they are very busy at Lions Camp! Its a camp for disabled and/or diabetic children that is owned and operated by the Lions Club, I'm proud to say! Lions club is all about glasses for kids but there is also this camp that a disabled child can go for a week and learn and do things they never thought possible. When we have our yearly meeting with the school nurses to encourage parents to utilize this free camp there are parents that volunteer to come with their child that has been to camp to speak to the nurses as well. Well, there is never a dry eye in the house because these kids come to tell us they "learned to ride a bike when they never dreamed it was even possible!" Or swim or horse back ride! There are tons of things to do, everyone there has a handicap as well as they all learn together! Its awesome. If you know a handicapped or diabetic child in the state of Texas they too can go for free!

This is my submission!

Well, Blogger is having a tantrum I guess again and can't load a close up of the page with the gingham table cloth. I'll try again shortly because thats the page I want to load on the Circle Blog site. I had forgotten to take the picture before I added the pics to the page so I have covered faces using Photoshop Elements. They weren't bad pics!
I used several carts and my Imagine for this layout.  The paper is DCWV Green Stack. The Wood looking paper is from a stack of hodge podge papers I picked up at CK Convention last year from Little Yellow Bicycle. They had a sale where you could fill a box for $20. It held probably 200-300 12x12 papers at least and I filled it to the brim! That was the busiest booth in the center, beside Tim Holtz' booth! The wheelchair is from one of the Paperdolls carts, I use both of them a lot! The #1 badge is from American Alphabet I think on the E2.The papers were from Michaels package paper of 8 1/2 x 11. I should have written all this stuff  down! The lettering for Texas lions Camp is from Old West, paper is again from the hodge podge of paper! The cute little tent with the cute little boys is from Nate's ABC's! I flocked the little doggie with Martha Stewart flocking! Love that stuff! The little girls, the sun, the owl,  and the birdie on the tent are from Better Together and Imagine More and done on my Imagine! Love it! The little cooler and the picnic bench is from an SVG that was in a kit called "Panda Picnic Party" from www.svgcuts.com. I bought it because of the picnic table. I don't have a cart with a picnic table!! It had a bunch of cute little things for picnicking! The sunglasses is from Best Friends. The cookie jar is from Kate's Kitchen. The wheelchair and the bike was cut using a metallic paper so they look really cool in person! And vinyl for the tires!

And last but not least and the whole reason for posting this is the gingham paper! Its from DCVW Flower Power Paper stack and was cut by hand! hence, the reason its cockeyed but I figure a tablecloth's corners are never straight and even anyway!! But it looks cute anyway! I thought so anyway! I'm going to try to post that pic here! Woohoo! it worked.
Have a great Sunday! Get some much needed rest and relaxation and have a great week!  I'll be back later to post my cute snow cones for the day the lions actually went to the Lions camp and served snow cones! They are awesome looking and look like real snow cones! Thanks to "diamond dust" and glimmer mist! Wait til you seen them! Thanks for stopping by!!

MPS Challenge #10- use a pet ! submission

Well, I'm really down to the wire on this one! We only have 30 minutes left! and I'm down to 2 sheets of paper for my Imagine!! Eeeeekk! I have ordered more of the Bazzill white from HSN, best paper, best price, but its on backorder! I may have to pick up something before it says its going to be here on the 27th.

Challenge #10--Make a layout or card with a pet in it! (I saw other frames too, I think a frame can be considered a layout in a smaller arena, right?!)

I used my trusty Imagine! of course! I tried to find something to do on the E2 but would have taken too long. I used Better Together and cut the frame at 4" for a 4x6. The little girl and puppy are cut at 2 1/2" and Best Friends tag is cut at .8. If I'd had more time I would have added some bling with my I-Rock. It is for my DGD's picture with her puppy, Max! May need to make another one with a little boy for my grandson and his best friend too! I have a picture of my grandson with his dog he just loves to death. Not enough time to dig it out to put it in before the deadline! 
Thanks for stopping by again! Hope you were challenged and had as much fun as I did! 
I'm done. finished...too pooped to pop! and loved every stinking minute of it!

Cricut Circle Blog challenge #14 - Getting in Shape

This weeks challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog:

Weekly Challenge #14: Getting In Shape!

According to polls, “getting in shape” is among the Top Ten Resolutions people make each New Year’s Eve. Let’s do it! Let’s start the New Year off right by getting in shape . . . a shape other than a rectangle. We challenge you to create a project in a shape other than a square or rectangle. Your project must also include a number somewhere and bling of some kind (to go along with this week’s theme of  “Blinging in the New Year”!
Project must be newly created for this challenge and must include atleast 2 different cuts from any Cricut cartridge to qualify. This challenge is open to Cricut Circle Members only. Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. You must submit a project to be entered into the drawing. Entries are due by 11:59 pm MST on Thursday, January 6th, 2011.. This week the winner will receive a Circle Scarf of their choice or $25 added to their Cricut.com account. Prize will be shipped within 4 to 6 weeks of Winner announcement.


I'm finally back in the swing of things and somewhat got my mojo back. I was getting worried! All this equipment and toys and couldn't think of a thing to play with! Well I'm sure glad I got something back, not sure if its mojo!! I actually did 2 projects today! Woohoo! I can do a lot when I don't sleep!

So here's my blinging shape!

 This is a "bonus" purse shape card on Imagine's Better Together. I had made a bracelet for a friend's 18 year old granddaughter and I hadn't seen her yet so I used it as a prop for more "bling"! The flower that I added to the bag and the high heel on the bracelet (which I created with shrinky dinks!) is also from Better Together, also bonuses! The butterfly is from Lori's Garden. I "stickled" it up with red and green and added the bling to the closure on the card, posing as a handbag! This is printed at 8", but it would make a great gift card holder as well!
Thanks for looking and stopping by! Don't forget to come back for the "getting ready for valentine's day" blog hop! I am putting the finishing touches on that and deciding on blog candy choices!! This valentine card for my valentine is very hard because my husband is not the mushy type. He's totally into cars and his Harley. So...not much on cricut to work with, but I think I found something with Imagine and cricut that I hope he will like and give you some inspiration, as well!!  See you again in a few days!  have a fabulous evening!

My entry for Cricut Circle Blog weekly challenge!

I'm back with another entry for the Cricut Circle blog's weekly challenge! Had to choose 3 of 5 choices of pin, ruffles, scallops, glitter and jewels. I hope you can tell I chose glitter, pink and scallops! I used Lacey Labels for the scallop and Imagine Better Together for the cute little cupcake. I ran the cupcake paper through my crimper and I used red stickles for the cherry on top! The pink glitter paper is from Walmart.

Thanks for looking! Tell me what you think!!