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 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!!

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!