My Cricut Craft Room 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop - Day One

Happy Saturday Crafters,
Thank you for joining us today on the first 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop of 2012.  You should have come from Karey's crafty goodness.  If you came across this post as one of my followers please start at the begining of the blog hop Here.

For my project this month I made a calendar using Chipboard Hanging Calendar that I got from Erica from My Cricut Craft Room.  I used Create A Critter for my images and patterns from the following Cricut Imagine Cartridges:  Best Friends, Better Together, Imagine More, Imagine More Cards, Kate's Kitchen, & Nursery Tails.  For the calendar part I used My Creative Time Stamps (Whimsical Calendar Days & XL Label Borders)  I also used the XL Label Die that coordinates with these stamp sets.  I am going to use this as my Birthday Calendar in my craft room since it is not year specific.  I didn't want every month to show so instead of hanging it as intended I am going to have them sit on the pictured easel three months at a time.

 

Below each picture is the Imagine Cartridge used and the size of the Critter.

Better Together (Pages 38, 39, 44)
Penguin (Page 39 Cut at 3")
True Blue Stickles

Best Friends (Pages 39, 42, 43)
Ladybug (Page 66 Cut at 3")
Xmas Red Stickles

Nursery Tails (Pages 36 38, 40)
Rabbit (Page 26 Cut at 3")
Frosted Lace Stickles

Nursery Tails (Pages 36, 39, 44)
Zebra (Page 47 Cut at 3")

Best Friends (Pages 37, 42,44)
Hippo (Page 44 Cut at 3")
Star Dust Stickles

Imagine More Cards (Pages 34, 37, 40, 41)
Crab & Sandcastle (Page 40 Cut at 2.3" & 3")

Imagine More Cards (Pages 34, 37, 39, 43)
Turtle (Page 64 Cut at 2")
Waterfall Stickles

Best Friends (Pages 40, 41, 43)
Owl (Page 25 Cut at 3")
Star Dust Stickles

Kate's Kitchen (Pages 41, 43, 44)
Apple (Page 24 Cut at 3")

Imagine More (Pages 39 & 42)
Octopus (Page 42 Cut a 3")
Frosted Lace Stickles

Better Togeether (Pages 37, 40, 42)
Turkey (Page 70 Cut at 3")

Imagine More Cards (Page 40)
Reindeer (Page 73 Cut at 3")
Star Dust Stickles

On the back of each month I created a pocket and used the My Creative Time's die so I can write the name of who's birthday's are on that specific month or any other notes I might want to add for that month.  I like to include the year the person was born...I have a lot of kiddos in my life and it's getting harder to remember their ages, so this helps me a lot. :)

I had such a blast with these Critter's and the Imagine patterns.

Your next stop on the hop is Erica's Project http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com

Below is the entire line up if you get lost along the way:

Erica - http://MyCricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Heather F - http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/

Tammy S - http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com/

Suzy’s Crafts - http://suzyscrafts.blogspot.com/
Yvette - http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Jen Lundy - http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/
Karey - http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/
Jenny R- http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/ <---You are Here
Erica’s Project---- http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/  ---NEXT STOP---
Rosa - http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/
Samantha- http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/
Enjoli http://mississippihippycrafts.blogspot.com/
Pattie- http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
Dana- http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Amber - http://pixichickpapercrafts.blogspot.com/
Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com/
Blog Candy http://ericasblogcandy.blogspot.com/

My Cricut Craft Room - My Imagine-ation Monday

Happy Monday I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  This past weekend was the 100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop hosted by Erica at My Cricut Craft Room.  I want to say Thank you to everyone that left such sweet comments.  I had fun reading them all weekend. 

Today is My Imagine-ation Monday hosted by My Cricut Craft Room.

Monday's are all about the Cricut Imagine at My Cricut Craft Room.  I used two Imagine Cartridges for the card I created today, Baby Boutique and Imagine More.  This is an A2 size card (5.5 x 4.25), the base of my card and the green layer was some cardstock I had in my scraps. 

The scallaped rectange is one of the stock images that come programmed in the Imagine. 

This was cut at 4.0 and flood filled with a pattern from Imagin More (Pg 44) 

The framed tree is from Baby Boutique (Pg 33 ) cut at 2.7. 

I inked the edges of the frame with ColorBox Petal Point Ink (Amber). 

Blessing is also from Baby Boutique (Pg 13 ) cut at 1.2.

Hope you liked my quick and easy card today.

Please head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other Design Team members created today.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today.

Jen

My Creative Time's FIRST Design Team Call!

Happy Saturday Crafters,

Today I am posting my entry to be a part of the My Creative Time design team. Miss Emma from My Creative Time has a fabulous line of Stamps/Dies that she releases every month. Click Here to check out the amazing stamps she has currently. I have two set's of the My Creative Time stamp line which are Many Greetings & Gift Card Sentiments (this goes perfectly with the Embossed Gift Card Holder Die). I chose to work with the Gift Card Holder Die and the Gift Card Sentiments stamps today. Since Christmas is right around the corner (can you believe it) I decided to make an M&M Cookie Mix in a Jar to get started on some gifts. I have to give a disclaimer and say I was a bit out of my comfort zone with this type of project. :) The original recipe I had didn't fit in the jar so I cut the recipe in half. I don't bake very often and think I may keep this first one and make the cookies to make sure the recipe is correct. HA! Okay so onto the details of the part of my project that I am comfortable with (the paper part LOL). :) 

Blogger keeps changing this picture to the side. :(

I wanted to show another way to use the Gift Card Die, so I used this to hold the list of additional ingredients/baking directions needed.  I stamped the Sentiment from the Gift Card Sentiments stamp set (fit's perfectly!)  I am sooo happy with how my project turned out.

Recipe:

From Top to Bottom:

Circle cut from Art Philosphy flood filled with pattern from Imagine More (pg 41)

Santa's Sleigh and all layers from Jolly Holidays cut at 1.8 rel.

Stamped ribbon around rim with Gift Card Sentiments added some stickles.

My Creative Time Die (Embossed Gift Card Holder)

Sentiment from Gift Card Sentiments.

The adorable house is cut from Jolly Holidays at 3.2 rel...these cut's were flood filled with patterns/colors from Kate's Kitchen.  (pg 43 & 46)

I used White Flocking Powder for the snow cuts on the house. 

The last cut is the inside of the Gift Card Holder, which was flood filled with the same pattern of the circle with Santa's Sleigh.  I was going to type the directions, but decided to handwrite them for a more home made feel.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridges:  Art Philosophy, Jolly Holiday, Imagine More, Kate's Kitchen

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - D'vine Swirls

Ball Smooth Jar

Celebrate It Ribbon & Tulle

Recollections Flocking Powder

Xmas Red Stickles

Adhesive - ATG & Zig 2 way glue, Recollections Foam Adhesive Squares

I hope you have enjoyed my entry and keep your fingers crossed for me. :)

Good luck to all of the amazing talent out there.  Emma has her work cut out for her. LOL

Have a fabulous day!

Jenny R

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







Cricut Cardz Challenge #89

I haven't done the last couple challenges at Cricut Cardz, but I  wanted to do this one because I just got Create A Critter and I couldn't wait to use it. :)

The challenge for this week is "It's a Jungle Out There!" Make a child’s birthday card using something you’d see in a jungle…monkey, lion, tiger, giraffe, zebra, hippo, etc, and any cartridges or colors you’d like.

I used Kraft Cardstock for my 4.5x4.5 card base.  The background paper was from my scraps cut at 4.25x4.25 and embossed using Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl.  The Giraffe is from page 48 cut at 4"...and the Hello is from the same page using the Phrase function button cut at 1.7" using the Imagine.  Both the Giraffe and the Hello phrase were flood filled with patterns from Imagine More.  They were attached to the card with pop dots. 

Supplies:
Kraft Cardstock, Bazzil Cardstock (White)
Cricut Cartridges: Create a Critter, Imagine More
Ribbon: Celebrate It (Brown)
Recollections foam adhesive squares

Thanks for stopping by!
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