Having Fun With My Cricut Imagine

If you know me personally, you know I've just received my new Cricut Imagine. I've talked of nothing else in the last two weeks. Well it is here, it is big!!! and it is worth all the scrapbooking surface it is using!

I haven't been participating to very many challenges lately and I wanted to get right back at it. I also wanted to play with the Cricut Imagine so I did both with the Mojo Monday Challenge 201. I am really pleased and impressed with the result. This machine is going to be fun! 

Here is this weeks Sketch challenge with Mojo Monday. I decided to do the circle card. So using the Yummy Art Cartridge and the preloaded shapes on the Cricut I made this card.

First I selected the Scallop circle from the preloaded shapes and sized it to 4.5 inches, I copies it so that I would have two. I also selected the Popsicle on the layered setting at 2.5 inches. I added the border and changed the colour to a teal blue and sized it to 1.5 inches. I selected the Celebrate tag and left it on the assembled image and set it to 1 inch. I picked out of the pendant that had a circle  designed to it and set it to the layered image. I changed the colour of the circle to the chocolate with writing background. I then removed all the other pendant layers and sized the circle to Actual 4 inches. I also changed my setting so that there would not be a coloured border along the edges of my images. When it came to print and cut, it needed to be on two pages to accommodate the sizes I selected.

I trimmed the border to remove the top part and shorten it to fit my circle. And of course I inked my edges in chocolate ink.

I matched the scalloped circle and scored a little bit of the edge on the back piece to create my card.

And then I assembled the card. Using some pop dots on one of the  Popsicle and the tag. Here is the final result.

Thanks A Latte

So I've been blog hopping. I use that phrase a lot in my blog. I love blog hoping, my favorite list of blogs is crazy long.

Anyways as I was saying; I was blog hopping when I came across these super cute coffee mug cards. Now I apologize to the original crafter who made these. I save the picture of things that I liked and inspires me to a "to scraplift" folder. So by the time I use them I don't know where they came from.

I was making these lovely cards to showcase at my next team meeting, and to have for my next gathering when I realized.... Wait a minute!!! This meet the criteria for this weeks H2H Challenge. So Voila!

I'm placing my stamped scallop circle punch in the doily category cause frankly it really looks like one now. I'm also using ribbon and gems. BINGO!!!!

Here is the list of material used for this card.
Cardstock:
White, Kraft

Ink:
Cocoa
Spring Iris

Stamp Sets:
D1444 A Little Thanks
D1463 Backgrounds & Borders

Others:
Opaques Licorice Gems
White Crossgrain Ribbon
1 1/4" Circle Punch
2" Scallop Circle Punch

H2H58 A Heart2Heart Challenge

The challenge this week at Heart2Heart is a sketch. Yay!!! I have to admit I didn’t just come up with this idea. I bought a few new scrapbooking magazines and while flipping through my Scrapbook & Cards Today. I saw a card that worked perfectly for this sketch.

First on a piece of scrap cardstock I drew half of a butterfly. I glued it to a folded card with removable adhesive and cut out around then flipped it and cut out the other half. With a pencil I drew a horizontal and vertical line so I could see where the piece of paper would meet.

Using scraps from the Sweetheart Level 2 paper pack I glued a difference pattern on each corner and trimmed off the excess. I created the body out of black cardstock and sanded all the edges.

Finally I added the flowers to a punch out scalloped circle from Tulip cardstock and placed a large circle sparkle to the middle. I stamped my sentiment on the pink side of a B&T Duos and matted it to black cardstock. A few more blings and VOILA!!! My card!

Items used:

Sweetheart Level 2 Paper Kit

Sparkles

Miracle Stamp Set

White, Tulip, Black Cardstock

Flowers

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