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. 

Favorite Things

This month, the Cutters Creek Design Team is showcasing our favorite products.   I LOVE stamps and copic markers.  Coloring a great stamped image can be very relaxing and I don’t think anything makes a stamped image look as good as copic markers do.  For this card, I used one of my favorite stamp companies- House Mouse. 

House Mouse has so many adorable stamps it’s hard to pick a favorite, but I think this one called You Snooze You Lose is really sweet.  The image is of course colored with copic markers.   I chose the background paper I used because it reminds me of ice cream. 

Patterned paper is another one of my favorite things.  I can’t get enough of it.  I especially love this Echo Park paper.  The pack is called Dots and Stripes and it is the Candy Shoppe collection.  This pack is awesome!  It is full of different colors of stripes and polka dots and to make it even better- it’s double sided!  I used the front and back sides of these papers to showcase the stripes and the dots. 

Another one of my favorite things is Nestabilities.  I just can’t get enough of them.  I love how easy it is to mat your image and make it look great.  This image was actually a little large and if I matted it, it would take up almost the entire card front.  I cut the image, embossed it, and then went over the embossing with some pink chalk.  This not only highlights the embossing, but it kind of makes the image look matted.

My final favorite thing is embellishments and one of my favorite types of embellishment is flowers.  I love flowers and there are so many different types available.  The new Cutter Creek Flowers are my current favorite.  They come in several different types, sizes, and colors.  I never have a problem finding the perfect one.  For this card I used one of the gardenias up in the left corner and two of the lillies down on the bottom.  I love how these flowers are not flat and add decoration and dimension to your projects.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about the design team’s favorite things as much as we have enjoyed sharing them with you. 

Happy Birthday Matey

It's time for another digital stamp challenge on Papercrafting World. This time our theme is to create a masculine card. This is not my forte. I make a lot of girl cards. I love frilly, but that doesn't work for masculine cards. I chose this cute little pirate bear stamp and colored him with my copic markers.

I would love to say I spent hours coloring the background image with my copics too, but I didn't. I printed the image on my cricut Imagine. It is from the Buccaneer cartridge. The sentiment Happy Birthday Matey is also from Buccaneer. I pop dotted the sentiment and the bear up off the background. Since the background paper had so much detail I decided to leave the card alone and not add any embellishments. I think it's pretty masculine looking. What do you think?

BBQ Time

I hope everyone had a fantastic Memorial Day. I know I did, except for the mild sunburn. It's time for another Paper Crafting World Challenge. This time the theme is Memorial Day of course.

I used the BBQ Time cut file for my layout. This file is adorable and it is one of my favorites.I love the little chicken on the tray. I cut the piggy out of pink cardstock and inked around all the edges with some brown chalk ink. I cut the apron and chef's hat out of some patterned paper from Die Cuts With a View. To finish off my layout, I cut the title (also included in the cut file) with some red and blue cardstock and added some ribs and a chicken leg. I have to say it took me a while to buy Make the Cut, but I am so glad I did. I love these adorable cut files from Paper Crafting World. I can't believe I waited so long to start playing with them.