Imagine- Friend card

It's been awhile since I've posted anything done from my Imagine (wow, it's been a while since I've done a lot of things!LOL) but I recently reconnected with my childhood best friend and I wanted to send her a quick card to let her know I'm thinking about her. I was able to get the Imagine More Cards cartridge from Amazon for $5.21 and was SO excited when it showed up at my door today! YES, you read right. $5.21. It ended up being a typo and a lot of people got their orders cancelled but I was one of the lucky few who got my cart! Woohoo! I have wanted this one for a while but I wasn't ready to pay upwards of $40 for an Art cart that I didn't really need. LOL. So when I was looking through the booklet, I thought this cut and art was perfect for my little card and all I did was added pop dots to the word Friend and to the butterfly, added some jewels and faux stitching and that was it! Super easy which is why I LOVE LOVE LOVE my I! =) Hope you enjoy!

**Oh and looks like it is almost time for yet ANOTHER +100 followers giveaway...stay tuned for that once I get closer to 400!**

30 Days of Giving- Day 29!

Hey! :) Today is day 29 of this awesome daily blog hop hosted by Jill over at The Scrapoholic and it's my turn again! :D I thought for my project today, I would make a homemade 8x8 planner! (I'm also including a link to my previous project which was earlier this month!) Day 5

I don't know about you, but every New Year's my top 2 resolutions are always 1) lose weight (duh!) and 2) get organized! I've done good with my first one, losing 70lbs this past year, but I can never seem to get organized. So this upcoming year is MY year! LOL. And while I love all the cute and girly planners out there, I figured I might as well put my Cinch and Imagine to good use and make myself one but these would also make GREAT gifts to give out to anybody! :)



Tools needed for this planner:
Cinch
2 8x8 chipboard covers
Imagine
Paperbag for pockets
Jewels
patterned paper for decoration

What I did for the title was I cut out a decorative square from my Imagine at 5" and 4.5" for the brown one. I then cut out 2011 from Don Juan at 2" and I embossed the numbers in light pink. I then adhered jewels all around the edges using my iRock and added some ribbon to the wire. Yes, there is no black in my cover but I chose black ribbon to go along with my pink because that is my favorite color combo! (:D)



The inside calendar pages were used using my Imagine and Designer Calendar cartridge. I cut the pages out to 8x8 and printed my calendar grid (did not cut!) on both sides. I also printed out the months at the top so that I didn't have to do any cutting. :)



And lastly, I cut up a paper bag to 6" and used it as a "pocket" to hold notes and adhered Terrifically Tacky Tape to some post it notes so that I could use those in my planner and also, I could use that pocket to leave emergency info or contact information should I ever hire a babysitter :)



And that's it! I hope you all are having a great Holiday season! Feel free to comment below and let me know any homemade items you've made, I'm always looking for inspiration! :D

ChooChoo layout

My son is obsessed with Thomas the Train so for the past 2 years, he has dressed up as him for Halloween. I hadn't gotten a chance to scrap his pics from LAST year (i'm lazy like that) so last night I got to it. I was feeling reeeeally unproductive so that train (which was cut with B is for Boy) was cut on my Imagine and I just plugged the colors in. See, I didn't want to cut and arrange all kinds of papers on my mat! LOL The letters were cut using black paper and the Blast Off Imagine cart font and the sentiment in between the pictures is actually from Thomas the Train cardstock. :D

Birthday Fun Layout

This weekend was full of birthday parties for 2 of my nephews and 1 niece. Crazy! :) But we had such a great time so I wanted to scrap a few pictures today because I took the cutest pics of my son and his cousins. I used the background paper from my scraps and the cake and balloons were cut from Stretch Your Imagination using Post It Craft Paper! :D The letters were cut out using Blast Off Imagine cart. But of course, the kiddos are the cutest thing to the page!

Better Together Imagine Card

We've had a pretty hectic day with birthday parties and all, but I wanted to unwind and finally play with my new Better Together cartridge for my Imagine. Seriously, this card took me a whole 5 minutes to complete. (And most of the time came from the printing and cutting! LOL). I made this for my sister who is scheduled to be deployed next week. The card base is 4 1/2x4 1/2 :)

Daddy's Girls Imagine Layout

After pretty much being an emotional wreck this past week and not getting much done, I've decided that enough is enough and to get back to just living. I finally made it back into my craft space for a bit to just relax while my daughter napped and create a page that meant something special to me. (Not that they all don't!) This layout is a before/after pics of my dad, me and my little sister. We have always been close since we were little and we are such daddy's girls that when my sister surprised him with a visit last week, I knew I just had to document it. DUH! =) My father means more to me and my sis than anyone will ever know, and so this layout is going on a 12x12 shadowbox on my wall. :)


I made the background using the Best Friends Imagine cart, as well as the 10x10 sheet. I cut the flowers from Walk in my Garden and colored them in with colors from Best Friends. (Don't you just love how easy it is to use the Imagine to color coordinate?!) Those were cut using my Post It craft paper, and I used glossy accents for the flower leaves and Crackle Accents for the middle. Nothing fancy, but I wanted the pictures to do most of the talking.

My Creative Time Imagine Nation Monday Challenge :)

I bought this stamp at HL a while back on sale and thought it was perfect for my coffee addiction! =) I finally got to use it today as my challenge entry for Emma's Monday challenge on the Imagine machine. Yay! =) All the cuts are from Imagine More.

Circle Friday Challenge Entry

I usually don't enter challenges, A) because I am horrible at even keeping track of all the blogs with them and B)i'm so far behind on my actual pages that sometimes I just don't have the opportunity. Well, I'm trying to get more involved and I decided to enter the Cricut Circle Friday Challenge because it's MY kind of challenge. Pink, scallops and jewels! (Well, jewel in my case!). I made an 8x8 layout for what will contain pics of my daughter's bday pics and let me tell you, i'm falling in LOVE with the smaller pages! Easier to make and not so much paper wasted! I think i'm gonna make the kids some of the scrapbooks soon! =)




Cartridges used: Best Friends and Scallop from the Imagine machine.
DCWV paper stack: All Dressed Up

Imagine Cupcake Card

I am starting to feel better so today while my kiddos where playing, I decided it was time to really try to get a feel for my Imagine. I love cupcakes so I decided to combine a cupcake from Sweet Treats (my favorite cart!) and Nursery Tails for the patterns. My favorite thing about the Imagine carts is that you don't have to worry about the patterns not matching which saves me a lot of time! I cut the scallop background from the images on the machine itself, using a darker pink and the inside scallop is actually from the DCWV paper stack, All Dressed Up, which is very girly and VERY adorable! The cupcake itself was cut with a pattern from Nursery Tails as where all the layers. A simple black ribbon to finish it off and you have what come become a birthday card! :)

**Also- check back tomorrow as I get to be PinkCricut's guest designer! Super excited since it's my first time designing for anyone else!**

First Imagine Layout! :)

So my Imagine came on Monday (woohoo!!) but of course, this cold that I have has been progressively getting worse so I haven't really been able to really "play" with it much. I couldn't take it anymore so finally played with it and let me tell ya, SO MUCH FUN, but intimidating! Not gonna lie! My husband is really impressed at what it can do already, imagine (hehe;) what it'll be able to do once the Gypsy update is available! :) So I have noticed that my scrapbooking has gotten further and further behind, so in my attempt to start it back up, I came up with this layout. SO SIMPLE and SO FAST to do on the Imagine! Omg. LOL. But I am still absolutely in love with my Expressions machine so I plan on going back and forth between them. :) Hope you enjoy!