Celebrate!!!!!

When I saw the cricut lite cartridge Crocs Rule, I knew I had to have it! I love gators and the ones on this cartridge are just too cute!!

I used my cricut Imagine to print the paper patterns I used on this card. I love the bright colors on this cartridge. I inked around the edges of my die cuts and added some faux stitching around the ship. I wasn't sure what to do about adding a sentiment for this card. There didn't seem to be room for it anywhere, but cards need a sentiment. I found this little celebrate sentiment and stamped it directly on the ship in some brown ink. This cute little card will serve as my entry in the Pink Stamper's Design Team Call. Robyn challenged the contestants to make a card using green, orange, turquoise, and brown. Wish me luck! Robyn has some adorable sentiment stamps that are perfect for cricut projects.

A Precious Baby Girl Card

I wanted to make a precious little baby girl card to show you how I like to use my Irock. Here are a picture of the Imaginesce supplies I used on this card.

In this picture you can see my Irock tool, a compact full of rhinestones, a couple of lip gloss like containers full of gems, and my little tray which lets me keep track of all my gems. In the tray you will see one of the applicators that comes in the lip gloss tubes. When you wet the end of the applicator, it can be used to pick up the gems and place them where you want them to go. This is a lot easier than trying to pick them up, especially if you have long nails.

Here is a picture of the card I made using the Irock gems and my Teresa Collins Baby Boutique Imagine cartridge.

I like to look for obvious places in the die cuts themselves or the pattern that look like a rhinestone would fit. In this case, the middle of the wheels was perfect for a rhinestone, as well as the point of the sentiment, and I also mixed a few into the polka dot pattern on the stroller randomly. To finish the card off, I added a couple of Cutters Creek branded gardenias. The flowers come with stamens in the middle of them. I didn’t think it really went with my bling theme, so I carefully cut them out of the flowers and added an Irock rhinestone to the center of each flower.

Using the Irock is extremely simple. First, you need to place your gems where you want them using the applicator I told you about earlier. Then you place you Irock tool on top of the gem. Here is a link to a video showing you how to use the Irock. You can feel the gem move just a little bit when the glue has melted, that’s the best way for me to know it’s done. It will go a little quicker after the tool is completely warmed up. Your first few may take a little longer. If you are looking for an easy way to bling up your projects, then the Irock is the tool for you.

Cutters Creek Shopping List

Irock Tool

Irock gems

Irock tray

Teresa Collins Baby Boutique (available for special order)

Cutters Creek Branded Flowers

A Christmas in July Snow Day

I would love to have a little bit of cold weather right now. It’s been over 100 degrees so many days that nothing sounds as good as a little bit of Christmas in July. I decided to make a 2 page layout for my Christmas in July project. It was really simple and quick to do with my cricut Imagine. I used the Snow Angel cartridge to print both pages of my background paper. Snow Angel has some of the sweetest looking images on it I have ever seen. I love printing the patterns on textured cardstock, I think it gives a great look.

After I printed my background pages, I printed and cut a few elements to add to it. I popdotted the mom figure in the coat, but I glued the snow angel child directly to the paper. I love the dimension of the pop dots, but if you were making a snow angel, you would be flat in the snow, so I applied that one directly to the paper. The title is from Winter Woodland and filled with patterns from Snow Angel. I used the same technique on the companion page. I stuck the dear directly to the paper, but pop dotted the adorable little snowman up, so I could tuck the picture underneath it a little bit. All I needed to make this layout was my cricut Imagine, 2 cartridges, and a few sheets of white cardstock, you can’t get much easier than that!utters

Cutter’s Creek Shopping List

Cricut Imagine Snow Angel

Gnome Sweet Gnome

I love garden gnomes and when I saw the gnomes on the Freshly Picked cartridge, I just knew I had to have it.  I decided to use Freshly Picked to make this picture to hang up in the entry way of my house.  This is also my entry into the Scrappy Frogs Summer Flowers challenge.

 

The gnomes and the flower box are from Freshly Picked.  The words gnome sweet gnome are from Kate’s ABC’s.  All the patterns and paper are from the Hopscotch Imagine cartridge.  I love the soft muted colors on this cartridge and I think they look great on the gnomes.  For the face on the larger gnome, I used Peachy Keen face stamps (Mrs. Claus)

 

I think it gives him such a sweet looking little face.  I chalked around the edges of the die cuts and added some faux stitching.