Awesomely Quick Cricut Imagine Card!

Hello! I just got an Imagine machine delivered last week, which is an early bday present! My bday is the 12th, but I had to start playing with it as soon as it came! After working out a few kinks with updating it, everything was good to go and I've been messing around ever since.


There's a little challenge on My Pink Stamper to make something inspired by Spring (which is sure to come eventually!) or something that just makes you happy.
Well, playing with my Imagine sure makes me happy and the great colors on the Best Friends cartridge are definately Spring and happy! We have lots of girls bdays coming up so I made this super easy bday card.
I used the Best Friends cartridge, cutting the entire image as well as the clouds and red balloon seperately so I could pop them up. The stamps are PTI Bitty Birdy set as well as the Distressed Dots gold background paper and gingham ribbon.


This card probably took a total of 5 min. Mabey my quickest card ever! LOVE this! I, of course, love doing detailed, sweat and tears projects, but it sure is nice to be able to throw together a project in 5 min if you want some instant gratification! :)

While I'm here, I'll also share a giftbag I used the Imagine for the other day for my daughter's friend's bday present. I used the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge along with the Imagine More Imagine cartridge for the paper patterns. I only used white paper for this entire project, gotta love that!

Thanks for stopping! Check back soon, I'm sure i'll have lots more Imagine projects to share soon!

Hugs, Kelly

PTI November Blog Hop & Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This months PTI blog hop challenge was to make tags, which is funny because I had just made a bunch right before the challenge was announced! Here's some holiday tags using various PTI sets. Enjoy! Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Hugs-

Kelly

Coloring: Copics
Inks: PTI

Vote for a Great Cause!

I am loving this whole Pepsi project to give money to tons of great non-profits trying to get help! Check out this amazing little girl & vote for her project HERE. Also, get entered for a great giveaway at the same time.
Thanks!

Hugs- Kelly

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

This month's challenge is a brown bag challenge! Use a simple brown paper bag in your crafting project. I often use lunchbags for projects, so I was so excited about this and had so many ideas I couldn't keep them straight! Finally, today a new idea came to me & I had to do it.

I used my Cricut to cut a door hanger (black) I than cut another one smaller in Harvest Gold and just cut the top off to use as a layer. I stamped the Harvest Gold layer with the Alphabet background from School Time in Pure Poppy. I than attached the gold layer and stamped "lunch money" with Outlines Alphabet in Fresh Snow.

For my pocket, I cut the lunchbag to a single piece of 4x4 and scored 3 sides at 1/2 inch, folded and attached along the 3 edges to make a pocket.

I used the Fillable Frames #7 frame stamp and die and Simple Alphabet to stamp my daughter's name. The top circle and apple are from the School Time set as well, and I just stamped on Chartreause cardstock and used a circle punch to punch out. A little Harvest Gold ribbon is added on top.

Now, I can just put this on the door whenever my daughter needs to bring in lunch money for school or a special field trip! (By the way- she loves it!) :)

Thanks for stopping- I can't wait to see all the great projects for this fun challenge!

Hugs- Kelly

Challenge Me Monday #23: Lake Girls

I don't know if I forgot about the great challenges at the Fantabulous Cricut: Challenge Blog or if I just haven't visited in awhile, but I had to finish this weeks challenge when I saw someone post about it today.

This weeks challenge was: The Great Outdoors. I've been very un-scrappy this summer- or just uncreative period. It's been such a crazy summer getting ready for all 3 kids to head off to school for the first time.

My youngest, Lucas, is developmentally disabled and is headed to kindergarten this year. It's been a big challenge dealing with all the issues that come up sending a young, special needs kid to school. He'll be attending a different school than his brother did & his sister does. So, i'll have 2 elementary kids at different schools, plus my oldest at Jr.High.

Anyway, for obvious reasons I've been a little preoccupied this summer and haven't crafted nearly as much as usual or as needed for my sanity :)

So, here's my challenge project:

The coloring's a bit off due to a late-night photo shoot :), but the papers are Cosmo Cricket's Snorkel line, the main polka dot paper for the background is yellow.

I used my Gypsy to put together my layout before doing all the cutting, so I used a few different cartridges. Grafically Speaking was used for the notebook edge largest circle as well as the plain circles. Life is a Beach for the wave border. The Girls is from the Farm Life cartridge. After cutting everything, I inked all the edges of my cuts with the Papertrey Ink tea duo inks.

Thanks for stopping! Off to view everyone elses amazing projects for this challenge!

Hugs- Kelly

Cricut Expression Giveaway!!!

Hey everyone! In case you haven't already, head on over to the Everyday Cricut blog to enter their National Scrapbook Day contest to win a Cricut Expression! How awesome is that?! Just follow the link, leave a comment & subscribe... easy peasy! Contest ends tonight.

Hugs- Kelly

ScrapbookPal Design Team Entry

I just found this great site ScrapbookPal.com, they have fab prices on Cricut products and I was very excited to find a call for Design Team members! I have been using my Cricut like crazy lately doing some much needed catching up on my thousands of pictures needing to be scrapbooked! :) For today, I'm going to share this layout which is my favorite lately! (Sorry about the pic- it's really dark here today! I'll fix it tomarrow) and my entry for the DT.

Love this! I used the new Cricut Easter seasonal cartridge as well as Opposites Attract for the font. Cosmo Cricket papers for backgrounds and PTI cardstock & patterned paper for "hunt" and the bunny's bow.

I cut the two grass pieces on a curve and layered them with foam to add some dimention and hide the eggs behind!

Tomarrow I will be back and share some other recent layouts with some Cricut love! :)

Hugs- Kelly