My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday!

Today I have a Valentine's Day card I made for my Sweet Hubby.  Erica at My Cricut Craft Room has mixed things up this next term for her design team...all fun and exciting things to work on.  On Monday's we can create anything using any of the following machines...Imagine, E2, Cricut Mini, and Cricut Craft Room, or we can create anything starting with the letter of the day.  We will be working our way through the alphabet and today's letter is B.  This can be anything from the cartrdige we use (Baby Boutique), the actual image (Bird), or a feature (Borders). 

Today's creation fit's in both categories...I created this card on my Imagine using the Baby Boutique and Best Friends Imagine Cartridges. 

The heart can be found on Baby Boutique (Page 4, cut at 3.8)  The heart is a pastel pink on the Baby Boutique Cartridge and I wanted a brighter color, so I found this perfect pattern paper (Page 42) on the Best Friends cartridge and flood filled my image using my Gypsy. 

If you don't have a Gypsy or don't use Cricut Craft Room you can Cache the Pattern.  If there is a certain pattern you want to use with another cartridge you would put in the cartridge with the pattern you want to use (in my case Best Friends)  You would find the pattern you want to use and hold down that button with your stylus until a window pops up that reads Cache Pattern.  The Imagine will then save that pattern to your queue.  Then you would insert the cartridge that has the image you want to use (in my case the heart from Baby Boutique) When you edit your image using the little pencil icon you can scroll through the patterns where you will find the Cached Pattern from Best Friends.

I just love how you can change the patterns on any image and make it your own. 

I used my Cuddlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder for the red background paper and the key hole. 

I wrote in my senitment and added some stitching and ribbon to finish off my card.

I also gave the inside some finishing touches and I am done.

The inside of my card...the key was cut at 3.0.

Please go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com to see what other great creations were made today.

Thanks for stopping by,
Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday...It's Thanksgiving week.  Is everyone ready for yummy food and spending time with family?  I am super excited for the short work week!  For today's project I am feartured on My Cricut Craft Room's My Imagine-ation Monday.  I created this plaqure for Thanksgiving.  This is the first Home Decor project I made and really love how it turned out.

For the plaque I used a foam board that was in my husbands Nook packaging as extra filling.  I love finding ways to reuse packaging like this.

Cartridge Cuts:

Create A Critter - Button 47 on overlay including all three layers, cut at 3.5

Storybook - Feature Key Shorty/Holes <Shift>, button 40 on overlay, cut at 4.5

Holiday Cakes - Feature Font <Shift>, button 46 on overyay, cut at 1.5

Imagine Better Together - Images flood filled  with patterns on pages 38,40, & 42

I embossed using the Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots embossing folder and added some ribbon to complete my Happy Thanksgiving plaque.

I hope you enjoyed my project.

Please go to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other Design Team members created.

Thanks,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Wow, It's Monday again...the weekends always go too fast.  Today my A2 sized card is featured on My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room. 

The two cartridges used today is Imagine More and A Child's Year.
The first cut is a rectangle measured at 5 1/4 x 4 and flood filled with pattern from page 36.
The second cut is from the stock images on the Imagine cut at 3.2 and flood filled with pattern from page 39.
I inked the edges of this image and stamped my sentiment.
For the third and last cut I used black cardstock. This cut can be found on A Child's Year...page 53, Icon Feature <Shift> and it is cut at 2 1/2.
I added some ribbon and brads and there you have it.

I hope you enjoyed and have a great day,
Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday Crafty Friends,

Today is My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room.  Today's creation was made for my Boo at work.  What is a Boo?  Every year at the office we pick a name and we get to surpirse our Boo with a special treat.  My Boo this year has two little boys, so I wanted to make them a special treat as well. 

The door hanger is from Close To My Heart Art Philosophy. 

The cut can be found using the Decorative Font Feature Button <Shift>, button 5, Fit to page.

Count and Frank are found on Mini Monsters and Flood filled with patterns from Imagine More.

Count is button 7 and Frank is button 17

The cuts and layers are sized at 2.8 Rel

The boys names were welded together using my Gypsy.

The letters are sized at 1"

I am really happy with how these little guys turned out and I can't wait to surprise my Boo with these treats.

Now head on over to Erica at My Cricut Craft Room to see what else has been created by the wonderful DT.

I also recommend checking out Erica's webstore...She has amazing prices.

http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/

Thank you for stopping by today,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday,

This pumpkin with his big grin makes me happy! :)  Today is My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room, which means we can make any project using the Cricut Imagine.  Today I made this card that can be found on Mini Monsters and flood filled with patterns from Imagine More (Imagine Cartridge).  First I printed a pattern for the inside of the card.  I didn't want to print a whole page so I selected the 3:5 rectangle in the stock photos that come on the Imagine.  I wanted the flood filled image towards the right (this way when I flip it over the cuts will be in the right place) so I selected the rectangle twice.  The first one is .8 (Rel) with no pattern so it does not print anything.  Then the second rectangle is sized at 5.5 (Rel) and flood filled with a pattern from page 42.  A tip for the next time I do this is to cut off the white edge on the right of the printed image so my paper starts at the edge of the mat.  When I cut the pumpkin card there was just a bit of the white as shown below.



Sorry for the side view...blogger is being difficult, but I wanted to show that I inked the edge to cover the white and added a sentiment.



For the front of the card I selected Mini Monsters and used the Card Feature, selected button 32 on the overlay, and cut at 5.5 (Rel) in order to fit in an A2 envelope.  I then selected all of the layers which were all cut at 5.5 (rel) as well.  The patterns I used to flood fill can be found on page 36 (orange polka dot) and page 41 (green gingham).

Supplies:

Paper - Bazzill Cardstock (White)

Close to my Heart Stamp

I hope you enjoyed my card today...for more Imagine inspiration please visit My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other talented Design Team members created.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen







My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday Crafters,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a chance to craft.  Today is My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room and this is the card I created using Kate's Kitchen.  **Enabler Alert - I just bought this cartridge from Erica at My Cricut Craft Room.  She recently opened a new webstore and I bought Kate's Kitchen for $19 which is an amazing deal.  This cartridge is now on Erica's webstore for $12...Can you believe it?  Here is the link to the webstore http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/ . 

You should definitely check it out.

Today I created an A2 size card (5.5 x 4.25).  The red mat was cut at 4 x 5.25 and ran through the cuddlebug.  The Cricut Cuts from Kate's Kitchen are as follows:  I love these little cherries from page 20.  I chose the combined image and cut at 4".  Then I chose the layer feature and selected the cherries on the stem (cut at Rel 4") to pop dot on the combined image.  I also selected the two cherries twice for a total of 4 cherry faces (cut at Rel 2.7").  My last cut on the front of the card is a border from Elegant Edges (Border feature, button 11 on overlay, cut at 1.2") and I flood filled with the Cherry pattern on page 40.  My last cut can be found on page 26 (cut at Rel 5") and is on the inside of my card.

Supplies:

Paper:  Bazzill Cardstock (White), The Paper Company Ice Cream Social 

Stamp:  Close To My Heart (Pair a Phrase), Desert Sand Ink

Cuddlebug: QuicKutz Embossing Folder (Rings)

Recollections: Foam Adhesive

I hope you enjoyed my creation today.  To see more Imagine projects head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other wonderful Design Team members created.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday...today is My Imagine-ation Monday at My Cricut Craft Room.  For today's creation I made an A2 size card (4.25 x 5.5).  I made this card for my sister as she has decided to go to Massage Therapy School and I wanted to send her an encouraging card.  I know she is going to do great.
The pink and turqoise background papers are from my stash...I ran the pink paper through my Cuttlebug using the Stylized Flowers embossing folder.  For my first cut I used Hannah Montana using feature button Daddy's Girl/Shift and selecting button 50 on the overlay, then flood filled with the pattern on page 43 from the Best Friends cartridge.  This is cut at 3.5".  For the Sparrow I used the same feature button which is button 59 flood filled with patterns from pages 37 & 44.  Cut at 3".  My last cut is from Straight From the Nest using the Phrase feature button.  It is button number 7 flood filled with one of the coordinating colors on the Best Friends cartridge.  This is cut at 1.6".  To finish off my card I added some ribbon and stickles.

Thank you for stopping by today...now please head over to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see what other great Imagine projects have been created by the very talented Design Team.

Have a blessed day,
Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

I hope everyone had an excellent weekend and is having a fine Monday.  Today I have a A2 size card (4.25 x 5.5) using my Imagine, which is what Monday is about over at My Cricut Craft Room.  For my card I used the Best Friends Imagine Cartridge.   For the first cut I used the square with the rounded corner from the stock images that come with the Imagine machine.  This is sized at 5" and flood filled with the pattern from page 43. I love this Tweet bird cut found on page13.  I used the layer feature so I can add dimension.  I embossed the base layer with the Cuttlebug using the flower folder that came with the Cuttlebug.  Then I used foam adhesive to pop up the bird and You're Tweet sign.  I finished up my card with stickles and some doodled stitching.

Supplies:

Paper:  Recollections Kraft Cardstock, Bazzill Cardstock (White)

Ribbon:  Celebrate It (Brown)

Stickles - Cotton Candy

Pen: Sakura Gelly Roll (White)

Thank you for taking the time to stop by and please go Here to see what the other Design Team members created for this Imagine-ation Monday.

Have a blessed day,

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

 

It's Monday...I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.  For today's My Imagine-ation Monday at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ I created an A2 size card. An A2 card measures at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.  For my card today I used the Nursery Tails Imagine Cartridge.  The first cut I did is from the stock images that come pre installed in the Imagine.  It is a scallop circle and I flood filled it with the pattern from page 42.  This was cut at 4.2" and I inked the edges.  I then wrapped it around my card so half of the image is on the front and the other half is on the back.  Then I chose the Mushroom from page 11.  This is cut at 4.0 combined...then I chose layers and selected just the Butterfly and Dragonfly at 4.0" Rel.  I attached these to the combined image and folded up the wings to create some dimension.  To finish up my card I doodled around the edges, Stickled, and added my sentiment which is from My Pink Stamper - Fabulous Phrases.

Supplies:

Imagine Cricut Cartridge - Nursery Tails

Paper - Bazzil Cardstock (White), Kraft Cardstock

My Pink Stamper Stamps - Fabulous Phrases

Color Box Ink - Old Rose, Magenta

Stickles - Star Dust

Pen - Zig Memory System (Pure Pink)

Adhesive - ATF, Zig 2way glue pen

Thanks for stopping by.  Please go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see what other great creations were made with the Cricut Imagine. Happy crafting!

Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Love is a Journey

Happy Monday,

It is time for another My Imagine-ation Monday over at My Cricut Craft Room.  Today I created an A2 card for my Anniversary, which is coming up in September.  This year my wonderful hubby and I will be celebrating 3 years of wedded bliss.  My hubby is my best friend and I am so blessed to share my life with him.  It has been a wonderful journey thus far. :)

Now on to my card - I used two images from the Imagine More Cartridge.

*The first cut is from page 18.  I used the base image and changed the pattern to the pattern on page 36.  (when I chose this pattern I didn't realize it included the alphabet so I covered that with a thin red ribbon that i had in my stash.)  I then took the first layer and changed the pattern to the pattern on page 39.  These were both cut at 5" (Rel).  I layered this a bit different then the booklet shows

*The second image used is on page 12.  I chose layers and just cut the Eiffel Tower at 4" (True) and the Journey sentiment at 5" (Rel).

I inked the edges and added some foam adhesive squares to add some dimension. 

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge - Imagine More

Paper - White Bazzil cardstock, Textured Value Pack Ice Cream Social (from Joann), DCWV - Lemon Flower Stack

Close to My Heart Ink - Desert Sand and Black

Stamps - My Creative Time (Many Greetings)

Adhesive - Recollections Foam Adhesive Squares, ATG

To see what else has been created on this fine monday please head on over to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Thank you for stopping by - Jen

My Cricut Craft Room - My IMAGINE-ation Mondays

Today is my first post as a Design Team Member for My Cricut Craft Room.  I am so excited to be working with Erica and this talented Design Team.  At My Cricut Craft Room there is a different theme for everyday of the week.  Today's theme is My Imagine-ation Mondays. 

For my post today I have made an A2 size card.  To make an A2 card cut at 8.5 x 5.5  then fold in half making it 4.25 x 5.5 which will be your base.  I then layered two other pieces of cardstock cut at 4 x 5.25 and the top layer is cut at 2.5 by 5.5.  Now for my Imagine cut this is super simple.  I used Imagine More Cards and chose the super cute rocket image from page 11.  I picked the Layers button so each image would cut individually and then I can layer the images with pop dots to add dimension.  Now when you are cutting layers you want to make sure to cut each image at the same size using the Relative size...there is a choice between True and Relative and you must choose Rel to make sure your layers layer correctly.  I cut all of my images at 3.5 Rel.  I pop dotted my images together added it to the card and added some doodling and Voila...a super simple, but oh so cute birthday card.

Supplies:
Paper - Kraft Cardstock, Bazzill (don't know the name of the color)
Adhesive - ATG (Advanced Tape Glider) and Recollections Foam Adhesive Squares
Cricut Cartridge - Imagine More Cards
Sakura Gelly Roll Pen - White

Thank you for taking the time to visit today and I would love it if you would go to http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to see what the other wonderful ladies have created today.

Crafty Hugs,
Jen