My Imagitivity: Simply Charmed

Monday, June 18, 2012

My Cricut Craftroom's - Card Creating Tuesday

Hi Crafters,

I hope everyone had a great day with their Father's this past weekend.

Today I am posting for My Cricut Craftroom and it is the Design Team's favorite day to post...Card Creating Tuesday. Today my card is based off of a sketch that Erica provided us.

Here is the sketch:

My creation based off of the above sketch:

I really love this card...the striped paper was from my scraps.

I designed the card on my Gypsy and cut it on my Imagine. I loaded my paper the wrong way and cut my scraps to where the middle circle was not a complete circle. Of course I didn't have enough scraps to make another full circle. So, to fix this "mistake" I cut another half circle and added the Divine Twine to cover the seam. I actually was really happy to make that

"mistake", because I really like how my solution to fix it turned out.

Cricut Cuts:

Art Philosophy: Card Feature - Button 21 on the overlay, cut at 5.5

Basic/Icon Layer Feature - Button 1 on the overlay, cut at 3.75

Simply Charmed: Button 47 on the overlay, cut at 2.5

To complete this cut I also used Feature buttons: Layer 2, Layer 3, and Layer 4.

I didn't use Layer 1 as I didn't care for the smiley face.

To complete my card I stamped my sentiment which is from Pink By Design's Take the Cake.

I also Stickled the flames and used Liquid Pearls on my embossed frosting

(I used Swiss Dots embossing folder).

Of course I finished it off with some doodling.

To see what my Design Team sisters created for today please go to

My Cricut Craft Room.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny R

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Friday, March 2, 2012

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

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

You should have started at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ if not please start at the beginning

Be sure to visit Erica's Blog http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com tomorrow for over 50 NEW projects that you did not see today....

Also make sure to follow Erica's blog so you will know when she has contests, prizes, challenges, swaps & special online coupons.

Currently she is running a Scrapbook & Card challenge over on her challenge blog and you can win a gift certificate to her webstore! http://ericascraftroomchallenges.blogspot.com/

This Friday she will announce February's Scrapbook swap.... She has a swap each week and you have two weeks to make your project each month. There will be a card, scrapbook, tag, die cut and embellishment swap each month! http://ericascraftroomswaps.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to comment along the way on all of the blogs today and tomorrow to be entered to win the Cricut cartridge that Erica is giving away today.

Winners will be announced on her blog on Tuesday!

Thank you so much for joining us today,

for this month I made two A2 (5.5 x 4.25) sized cards using three cartridges:

Simply Charmed, Phrases, and Imagine More Cards

My first card is using Simply Charmed and Phrases.

The background that has the sentiment on it can be found on Phrases using the Tag Feature.

It is button 2 on the overlay, cut at 3"

The Sentiment is also on Phrases, button 26, cut at 2.9 using my Gypsy (this has four cuts)

the main image, <Shift> the same image, Layer/Shadow Feature, <Shift> Layer Shadow Feature.

The cute little mushrooms can be found on Simply Charmed.

<Shift> Button 10 + layers 1 - 4 and the shadow feature.

I love how bright and cheerful this card turned out. :)

For my next card I used two pieces of 8.5 x 11 pieces of White paper and my Cricut Imagine.

I love that I can take two pieces of whit paper and end up with this sweet card!

The cartridge used was Imagine More Cards.

First I went to the stock images that come with the Imagine and selected the 3:5 rectangle cut at 6.0 and flood filled that image with a pattern on page 41.

This actually cuts at 6.5 x 10.5, but I cut it down to the 8.5 x 5.5

and fold it in half to create my 4.25 x 5.5 card base.

I added the border to the base of the card. This can be found on page 30 and cut at 1.3

The You Take the Cake Images can be found on page 9 and is cut at 2.8 rel.

I layerd this so I could use some pop dots to add some dimension.

I also cut the Happy Birhday border that can also be found on page 30, cut at 1.6.

This border went on the inside of the card as shown below.

I love how everything coordinates so easily.