Happy Spring Card

Here is my latest card I made using only my Cricut Imagine machine and white cardstock. I was inspired by another blogger who I can't remember. I am sorry!

I originally made the card by folding an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock in half but I couldn't quite get the 5:7 rectangle on the Imagine to cut that exact size so I had to trim the card base down to match the size of the rectangle after it was printed and cut out. It was only about half an inch I had to cut off though.


The entire card, images and papers came from the Better Together Imagine cartridge. It is so cute! The rectangles were cut using the 5:7 rectangle built into the Imagine library, the large yellow vut at 5.5" and the red rectangle at 5.0". The little sentiment tag came from the Better Together cartridge. It had many layers, so I chose the layer option and then deleted all parts but this one so I could stamp or write on any sentiment I want when I get ready to send the card to someone.



I cut the flower and butterfly together at 6.0" and used pop dots to pop them up from the background. The scalloped ovals also came from the Imagine library the large cut at 6.7" and the small oval cut at 6.5". I hope you are inspired! I have really grown to love making cards and the instant gratification it give you!

Blessings! jana

Cricut is starting an official blog!

I am so excited about the new blog by Provocraft, just for Cricut lovers. It begins tomorrow and will have great information, ideas, tutorials, etc. All straight from the Cricuts mouth. Just click here to check it out. They are also giving away $150 to a lucky winner, if you become a follower you will have a chance to win. I am not working for PC, wish I were, I just love everything PC!

I will be adding their blinkie as soon as I figure out how :)

Here is the link to the official Cricut blog!

Scraplifting Part II

Ok, so today I finally got around to making the other card I just loved from Everyday Cricut blog. Those girls are so talented and since my brain is not really working for itself lately, so I have scraplifted again! I made this for my friend Cindy who just had surgery. I hope she likes it, and you too!

I have decided to make my cards BIG! More room to put things on it. So I am making them by folding 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock in half. You can get the envelopes for them at Walmart so I don't have to worry about making the envelopes to fit. I made this card 100% with my Cricut Imagine using the Florals Embellished card for the bird and filling it and the papers with the beautiful Lori's Garden Imagine cartridge. I just love both of the cartridges.

This ribbon flower was made with ribbon that is prestitched and I just grabbed the string on one side and pulled. I cut about 5 or 6 inches of ribbon. I pulled the string on the same side but the other end and when I had it completely gathered I tied the ends of the strings together to secure the flower. I used a glue dot to stick the edges together then sewed it on with the button and floss.

This is yet another stamp that I have no idea where I got it. I used an olive stamp pad from stampendous that I have had for years and I also used the olive and inked heavily around the edges of the white cardstock base.

Here is the recipe for the card created with my Imagine:

• bird and all its layers cut at 4.2"
• Striped rectangel is the 5:7 cut at 5.0"
• Floral square from imagine library cut at 4.5" and it's mat at 4.7"
• Green swirly print is the 5:7 rectangle cut at 4.0" and it's mat at 4.2"
• The bird is from Florals Embellished
• The papers are cut and flood filled with Lori's Garden
• Self sticking bling came from Michael's
• Three tiny flower brads came from Oriental Trading Co.

I hope you are inspired to go out and make your friend a card!

Scraplifting Part I

Don't you just love scraplifting? I don't do it too often but I got a picture of this card in my email box because I subscribed to the Everyday Cricut blog (Thanks Joy for the inspiration!)and I just fell in love with it so I saved it to my iPhone until I had time to make it. It was meant to be a Mother's Day card but my sweet mom was out of town so since her birthday is this month I decided to make it for her birthday.

I cut the flower at 3 3/4" from Florals Embellished and filled each piece with the patterns and colors from the Imagine cartridge Blast Off! This is a 5 x 7 card and I used the 5:7 rectangle that is programmed in the Imagine. I cut the yellow check at 4.7, the green at 4.2 and the pink flower rectangle at 3.9.

I pretty much copied it exactly as Joy had made hers with the exception of the patterned paper and the tag on hers was for Mother's Day. I used a stamp I have had in my stash forever so I have no idea who designed it and the scalloped square was a rectangle cut from the Imagine built in library then cut in half and overlapped to make a square.

The real nice thing about scraplifting is that the design work is done for you and it only took me about 30 minutes form start to finish to make it.

The real nice thing about the Imagine is that this project took me 3 pieces of white cardstock to make, 2 for the printed pieces and part of one for the card cut at 7 x 10 inches and folded in half.

Now, go out and scraplift!

Jana

Snow Day Creations

These are layouts that I made during my last trip to the Covered Bridge Inn. That is one of my favorite places. It is a bed and breakfast just for scrapbookers! Scrapbooking heaven on earth. Good food, comfy beds, great friends and a very inspiring atmosphere. Hope you like what you see.

This was created with my new Imagine Cricut machine that my wonderful husband got for me for Christmas. The retreat in February was the first time I got to use it. Everything you see in these layouts was printed and cut with my Imagine.

Oh, and did I mention, I also fell in love with Stickles this weekend. It was the icing on these layouts since they were snow pictures. But I have since decided that there is no need for snow to use Stickles. Bling! Bling!

Kyrah was being so silly that day. She had no idea I would be scrapbooking these pics. Silly girl! Doesn't she know I scrapbook everything! :)
I really love this snow angel. She turned out really cute. I used the Snow Angel Imagine cartridge. It is by far one of my favorites!

Ok, so today was so much fun. I went on a very LONG but inspiring blog hop today. It was Bonnie's 39 and Glamorous Blog Hop. Happy Birthday Bonnie! You can check out her blog here. There are so many creative people participating. After you did all the hopping then you had to complete a challenge that included 13 key items in it. Some of them were vintage, grunge, glamorous, bling, pink, white, black, purple, skull, bow, key but I can't remeber them all. So here is what I came up with. I hope you like it, it was a fun challenge!

I printed the background paper on my Imagine from the Audrey cartridge and then all of the die cuts were also cut on the imagine using my Rock Princess cartridge. Love that cartridge! Let me know what you think by leaving a comment. I am so new at this blogging thing everything I do is a new thing to learn. BUT...I have 2 whole followers :) Yay! me! Thanks for stopping by!

Well, I suppose two years since my last post is long enough. Oh did I mention that was also my first blog post?? Lately I have spent a lot of time reading other peoples blogs and have been very impressed with the time and effort put into them. My question...why??? Why beg people to visit your blog? Why give away blog candy? Is it about sponsorship money or just an ego thing? Is it because we are truly crafting mavens desperate for someone to share our ideas with and to get confirmation that we have done well?? I really don't know. I also don't know that this might be my last blog for another two years but I thought I would post a few pictures of the fun things I made at my weekend scrapbooking retreat I went to. Let me know what you think...if there is anyone out there reading this....hhhhmmmm...???