HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!  I hope that you all have had a wonderful 2010 and have an even better 2011.  This past year has breezed by faster than ever!  I started blogging for the first time this year, and have had no regrets.  There have been so many wonderful people that I have met along the way :)  I am so thankful for all of your kindness and encouragement, and love all of the inspiration that I get from you! 


Here are a few card that I have created with my imagine today. These 2 are made from Lori's Garden Cartridge and I made them to give as a gift set.  I also used pop dots and the i-rock.

This card is made from the Better Together and Mini Monograms Cartridge.  I have fallen in love with this cartridge :)  I am also submitting this for the Cricut Circle Challenge and Paper Playtime Challenge this week.  I also used stickles, pop dots, and the i-rock on top of his hat.



Have a wonderful New Year's Eve everyone!  Stay safe, have fun, and see you in 2011!

~Emily

CC Inspiration Challenge

Hope everyone is having a wonderful last few days of 2010.  I am a little down to the wire with this one, but the challenge for the cricut circle this week was to make something using this photo as inspiration. 

My eye was most drawn to the houses and the bolder colors.  I used my imagine to create this card which draws from that inspiration.  Enjoy the last day of 2010 tomorrow :)

~Emily

 

Ingredients

Imagine

Better Together Cartridge

Pop Dots

CC December Challenge

Hello everyone!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is ready for the New Year :)  Christmas was so fast and busy around here.  I still have a few smaller Christmas celebrations this week with friends and family that I did not see over the weekend, and then things should be back to normal! 

Here is a small gift I made for a friend this week.  I am going to fill it with White Chocolate Chex Mix...one of my favorites :)  I bought the tin at Hobby Lobby and then used the Cricut to decorate the top.  It already had an image on top so I used Mini Monograms to cut a circle out of vinyl and cover it up.  I am using this for my entry in this months Cricut Circle Challenge to make a gift.  Hope everyone has a great start to their week!

Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Beyond Birthdays Cartridge (phrase)

Mini Monograms Cartridge (Vinyl Circle)

Very Merry Tags (tag)

Christmas Cheer Cartridge (wreath)

Stickles

Ribbon

Cricut Vinyl

Flower Soft

Snowflakes Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Tin Bucket

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone!  I hope that no matter what you celebrate, you have a very happy, healthy, and blessed holiday season :)  I want to thank all of you followers for letting me share my love of crafting with you and hope that I can inspire all of you as much as you inspire me!

I also want to thank Kassidy over at Inking It Up and Emma over at My Creative Time.  I won Emma's Gypsy Magic DVD from Kassidy's blog a few weeks ago.  It was a great present to get in the mail today so thank you ladies!

Merry Christmas!

~Emily

Waiting for Santa!

Poodles of Love!- MPS Challenge Day 2 of Christmas

Happy Monday Everyone!  As promised, here is the other challenge card that I created for the My Pink Stamper Challenges.  This challenge was to make something using 2 shades of pink, 2 shades of blue, and black.  I created this card for my mom's birthday tomorrow :)  I fell in love with the little poodle when I was done!  I think it is so cute!!  I also just got a few of My Pink Stamper Stamps which go perfectly!!  These stamps are great quality and go with everything :)

Enjoy!

~Emily

  Ingredients

Create a Critter

My Pink Stamper More Punnylicious Stamps

Ribbon (from my box)

I-Rock

MPS Christmas Challege

Hello everyone!  I hope you are all ready for a new week!  One more week until Christmas :)  This weekend I made 2 cards for the My Pink Stamper Challenges.  I will post the first one tonight and get the other one up tomorrow!  This card was for the Day 6 Challenge to make a Christmas card or winter theme card.  I used the Celebrate with Flourish Cartridge to create this.  See you tomorrow with the next card! 

Enjoy!

~Emily

ELF

Well, it is officially Winter season around here!  We have gotten about 11" of snow.  Needless to say, I was forced to stay in and had a lot of crafting time on my hands!  I started out making a birthday card for my grandma, but I have fallen in love with this elf from the Jolly Holidays Cartridge.  I decided to make a bulk amount of him and decided that was going to be on my Christmas card for this year.  Here are my versions of my birthday card and Christmas card.  Stay warm and enjoy!

~Emily

 

Ingredients

Jolly Holidays Cartridge

I-Rock

Cricut Paper

DCWV cards (the green sparkle card)

**Entered into My Pink Stamper Challenge and Allsorts Challenge 

Snowman Trailmix

Happy Wednesday Everyone!  I hope you are all having a great week!  This week for the Cricut Circle challenge, you are to make something that pays respects to your favorite holiday recipe.  One of my favorite recipes is melting white chocolate and pouring it over pretzels, m&ms, cashews, chex mix, etc.  It makes a delicious little trail mix snack that is soooooooo addicting!!!! I made a little container to put some of the snowman mix in and share with others :)

Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cartridge

Snow Friends Seasonal Cartridge

When It's Cold Outside Cartridge

Glitter Glue :)

Glitter Ornaments :)

Hi Everyone!  I feel like I have been away from the blog for a long time with Thanksgiving and being busy with holiday time at school.  This weekend I wanted to make a few gifts.  I have been seeing these glitter ornaments all over the place and wanted to try some.  Here is one that I made.  They are super easy.  Just pour in a little Glitter-It from Beacon Crafts, swirl it around in the ornament, and pour the excess back into the bottle.  Next, pour in a little glitter, swirl that around, and pour out excess.  Let dry and repeat steps as many times as needed to cover any missed spots.  You can then personalize them with a little vinyl!  I used Mini-Monograms to cut out the letter for mine :)  I also added a little ribbon on top for an extra pop of red!  Hope you are all having a fantastic weekend and enjoy!

~Emily

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!  I hope you are all able to have a nice relaxing day with friends and family!  Here is a quick Thanksgiving card I wanted to share using the turkey from the Simply Charmed cartridge.  Enjoy your Thanksgiving and be safe for all those who go shopping on Friday :)

~Emily

Stylish Blog Award

Carri over at DoubleClick Connections- AKA ABusyBee and Courtney at Court's Crafts passed along this stylish Blog Award to me!  I was so excited to see that so thank you Carrie and Court!  You both inspire me :) 

Now here are the rules for the award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this

2. Share 8 things about yourself

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

Here are 8 things about me :)
1. I LOVE monkeys!!
2. I am a 4K teacher.
3. I don't like gum because it has a strange texture.
4. I have a dog and fish.
5. Ocean Blue is my favorite color!
6. I love checking out blogs everyday for inspiration!
7. I am from WI.
8. I love Resses!

8 Bloggers to Pass It On:

Cricut Couple

4 Crafty Angels

Chai Tea n' Me

Cricut in Kansas

CricutLove

FlowerDisco's Scrap Hut

I Luv My Bugs

Midwest Scrapping Mom

Congrats Everyone!  Keep up the great work on your blogs and inspiration :)

~Emily

CC November Challenge

Hello Everyone!  Here are the instructions for this months Cricut Cricle Challenge:

The theme for this month’s challenge is all about cozying up your home with Handmade Home Decor! Please create a home decor project. Project must be newly created for this challenge and should include the following elements to qualify:
•Use atleast one Cricut Cartridge Cut


•Use the Cuttlebug in some way (embossing folder, Cuttlebug die, Quilling kit, etc.)


•Use Felt in some way


•Use the color GREEN somewhere on your project

I decided to make a holiday wreath to hang up in our house.  I loved it so much that I am just finishing up my 4th one to give as a gift :)  This is the first time I have ever made a bow as well...thankfully that process got easier each one I made!  The little snowman in the middle is a gift tag, but you could leave it in the middle for extra decoration :) 

Hope you enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients For Wreath

Stretch your Imagination Cartridge

Winter Woodland Cartridge

Green Felt

Paper Company Paper

DCWV Green #1 Paper

Hot Glue Gun

8" Green Foam Circle

Holiday Ribbon

Ingredients for Tag

Mr. Frosty Cartridge

Very Merry Tags Cartridge

Snowflakes Cuttlebug Cartridge

Another weekend is here!  HOORAY!!!  My favorite time because I get to do an extra amount of crafting :)  Here is a Thanksgiving card I made with the new Cricut Thanksgiving cart!  I really like the images on this cart!  Thanksgiving is about simplicity to me, and I like how simple this card was!

I can't wait for Thanksgiving to go to my aunts house, have a great meal, and get to see lots of family!  What are you all up to for Thanksgiving? 

Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Thanksgiving Cartridge

D'vine Swirls Embossing Folder

Glitter Glue

How I Roll...

Can you believe it is the middle of November?  Time is flying by!!!!  I hope that you are all having a great month.  It is report card time around here which is why I have been a little MIA lately.  Hope they are done soon and I can get more crafting done!

Here is a fun card I made with the Imagine this weekend.  I used Imagine More and Best Friends!  I also added some little buttons and am going to add it to the Imagine Nation Monday Challenge.

Enjoy!

~Emily

CC Ornament

Here is an ornament I made for the Cricut Circle ornament challenge.  The challenge was to make an ornament with 4 cuts on the Cricut and another Provo Craft tool.  I choose to use the Cuttlebug for my other tool. 

I really wanted to make something 3D so here is what I came up with!  The snowflakes are all from the When It's Cold Outside cartridge.  I picked my favorite snowflake and cut the black out version twice and the overlay 4 times all at 4".  I then put the overlay on both sides of the blackout version and cut slits up the middle to be able to connect them together.  I used embossing powder to cover the paper and make it a shiny snowflake!!!  I then cut 3 smaller snowflakes from 3/4" to 1.5" and embossed them with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder.  They are hanging from the large snowflakes with fishing wire.  I really like the finished product and the look that the embossing I did gave the ornament!  I am officially in the Christmas mood :)

Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

When It's Cold Outside Cartridge

Swiss Dots Embossing Folder and Cuttlebug

Silver and Blue Embossing Power

Embossing Heat Tool

Fishing Wire

Last Halloween Cards for the Season...

Hope you are all having a fun and safe Halloween!  Since it is the last day to make Halloween cards for the year, I decided to make two more.  The first one was made with Everyday Paper Dolls and the second with Mini Monsters.  Happy Halloween...now I must put the Halloween cards away until next year :)

Enjoy!
~Emily

Made with Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge

**Entry for: Fantabulous Cricut, Paper Playtime, Crafty Catz

Made with Mini Monsters Cartridge

**Entry for: Alice in Wonderland

Birthdays :)

Happy Halloween!  I am trying to spend my time getting some cards done before trick or treating starts around here.  This is my Cricut Circle sketch challenge creation.  You had to turn into a birthday theme which was perfect because I need 2 birthday cards for friends this week.  Here is what I came up with using George cart and Once Upon a Princess cart.  I first made the one with no embossing and decided it need a little more texture so I made another using the cuttlebug! 

This is also my submission for The Crafty Calendar Challenge who is also having a birthday theme challenge :)

Enjoy!

~Emily



INGREDIENTS
George and Basic Shapes Cartridge
Once Upon a Princess Cartridge
Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
D'vine Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
Celebrate It Ribbon (Michael's)
Buttons
DCWV Papers
Cricut Papers



Winter Card

Well, now that November 1st is approaching my mind can start thinking about Christmas, lol!  Here is my first Christmas card of the season, and I LOVE how it turned out :)  I used white paper and baby blue to give a little pop.  This card is made with the Christmas cart.  If you have a gypsy and register it by the 31st, you will get this cart in the download! 

This card is also made for the Throwback Thursday challenge and the  No Time to Stamp challenge.  You were suppose to use Celebrations for the Throwback challenge, but my sister has borrowed several of my carts and I don't have that one right now so I had to improvise!  Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Christmas Cartridge

Paper Company Paper

Studio g Glitter Glue

Holiday Ribbon

Swiss Dots Embossing Cuttlebug

HAPPY MONDAY FRIENDS!  I haven't forgot about all of you...I had a very busy weekend and did not get much crafting done!  Luckily though there is no school around here on Thursday and Friday so I will be able to get lots of crafting done and catch up on lost time!  Here is a quick bag I made this weekend though to hold a present.  It is made from Mini Monsters at 11".  I LOVE how it turned out :)  Have a great day and I will be back with posts on Thursday!!

Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Mini Monsters Cartridge

DCWV Paper

Cricut 12x24 Paper

Have a Crabulous Birthday!

Here's to another weekend :)  I broke down and ordered a gypsy today...hopefully it will be worth the money I do not have, lol!  I had some time today to work on a birthday card for a good friend.  I made it using Create a Critter and the fish are patterned with the Best Friends cart.  I added texture to the sand and water background by crumpling up the papers.  I am really excited how the card turned out.  I made this card using the imagine because that was what was on my crafting table already, but everything can easily be cut with your regular bug and colored/patterned paper.

I am adding this to My Pink Stamper's "Something Cute" Challenge and Emma's Throwback Thursday "Animal" Challenge. 

I hope you can all find some time to craft and relax this weekend!  Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Imagine

Create a Critter Cartridge

Best Friends Cartridge

Google Eyes

MPS Halloween Challenge

My Pink Stamper is having many different challenges this week.  Yesterdays challenge was to make a fall or halloween card.  I decided to make this little candycorn trick-or-treater from Mini Monsters.  Since I love candycorn, this card is good enough for me to eat, lol!  Enjoy!

~Emily

Imagine DT Creation

My best friend was the one who pushed me to get the imagine so I decided that I had to make him a nice card with it to show him my appreciation.  I found this CUTE image on Nursery Tails that fit the occasion perfectly!  I am having so much fun using the imagine machine.  I love the quality of the images that it produces.  It is also so simple to use :) 

For this image, I printed the image flat and then printed the layers for the animals and the reeds.  I used used foam dots to give the card dimension.  One foam dot was used for the animals and two were stacked to add even more dimension to the reeds.  Enjoy!

Emily

 View of the dimension

Ingredients

Nursery Tails Cartridge

Imagine

DCWV Cards

Foam Squares

CC Monthly Challenge #1

As promised, here is the CC blog monthly challenge.  The challenge was to make a scrapbook layout or home decor item with the theme of "Celebrating Creativity."  You had to use the shadow feature (which I used on the font), embellishments, and patterned paper.  I decided to make a home decor item to give to a friend who enjoys putting out decorative books and photo albums on her coffee table.  I bought a cheap photo album and covered it in pink paper.  I then decorated it with my cut out images and embellishments :)

Enjoy!
~Emily

 

Ingredients

Cheap Photo Album

Best Friends Cartridge

Nursery Tails Cartridge

Opposites Attract Cartirgde

Gemstones

Ribbon

Buttons

CC Weekly Challenge

Well, it has been a day filled with the imagine around here!  I have made a few projects to share, and I can't wait :)  The first two projects are for the Cricut Circle blog weekly and monthly challenge.  I am going to put them in separate posts so they are not so long!  Let's hop right to it and start off with the weekly challenge, shall we...

This week's challenge was to make something using pink and two other features from a list which I choose jewels and scallops off of.  I used the Best Friends cart and the imagine to create this cute little card!  Foam squares were used to add dimension as well :) 

Enjoy and I will post the monthly challenge project in a few minutes!

~Emily

Ingredients

Best Friend Cartridge

Foam Dots

Martha Stewart Crafts Stickers (No specific name given on package)

DCWV Cards

Hip-Hippo-ray!!!

IT'S FRIDAY!!!  You know what that means....crafting time :)  WOOHOO!!!  I am so excited to play around with the imagine a little bit more and have fun making some other projects!  This afternoon I decided to start off with my Throwback Thursday Challenge for My Creative Time.  You had to make a shape card using Create-a-Critter and use orange. 

I have to make a confession that I have never used the Cricut to make a shape card.  I know...*gasp*!  I do not own a gypsy and the design studio and I have just never gotten along.  Today I decided that the expression and I had to try and make peace with the design studio and here was the result.  I am pleased and think that I will have to work on some more shape cards soon :)  Hip-hippo-ray!  The challenge was a success!!!!

Enjoy!

Emily

 

Ingredients

Create a Critter

Glitter Glue

Imagine :)

I hope everyone is having a great week!  My imagine arrived yesterday and I was so excited!!!!  I will still be posting regular cricut projects as well, but here is one of the first projects I created with the imagine :)  I used my favorite Create a Critter!  The scalloped imagine in the back is on the machine, and I filled it in with a pattern from Nursery Tails.  I have not had too much time to mess around with the imagine yet, as I have conferences this week, but I can't wait to explore some more.  I also added a little glitter glue on the flower stems and am going to add it to the My Pink Stamper "Bling it Up" Imagine challenge from last week.  Enjoy!

~Emily

CC Weekly Challenge

Happy Sunday!  I hope you are all ready for a new week :)  Here is a card that I created yesterday for the Cricut Circle Blog Weekly Challenge.  If you are not a Circle member, you can still check out this blog for another 8 days!!  There is some AMAZING inspiration on there.  This week's challenge was to make something with the French Manor Cart and use pearls of gems. Hope you enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

French Manor Cartridge

Gemstones

Ribbon (Not sure who this is by)

Glitter Glue

MPS Spooky Challenge

Happy Friday Everyone :)  I can't believe how fast another week has gone by and it is already October!  Wow!  Time flies.  Here is my entry for MPS Spooky Challenge.  I used 3 Birds on Parade again!  Since I had some scraps left, I made 2 different cards moving the border accent a little.

Enjoy and have a happy weekend of crafting!

~Emily

Ingredients

3 Birds on Parade Cartridge

 Cloud 9 Design Paper: Seasonal Stack

White Gel Pen

ZIG Markers

MPS 5Mil Challenge 2

Ok.  Here is my 2nd creations for the challenges over at My Pink Stamper this weekend.  This challenge was to do something with an envelope!?!  I am not going to lie,  envelopes are really not my thing.  Therefore, I think I am going to have to practice getting more creative with them!  I decided to make a Halloween card with a matching envelope.  Not sure I "love" either, but now I have a personal creative challenge for myself to work on...envelopes!  Enjoy!

Emily

Ingredients

3 Birds on Parade Cartridge

Cloud 9 Design Paper: Seasonal Stack

Best Occasions Glitter Stack

Pop Dots

MPS 5 Million Challenge

If you do not know Robyn is celebrating 5 million over at her My Pink Stamper site.  She is having challenges and giveaways all day long!  So head on over and join the fun!  The first challenge of the day is to make something with a bird!  I used my favorite Create a Critter cart to make this card and scraps!  Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Create a Critter Cartridge

Scraps

Glitter Glue

Google Eyes

DCWV Cards

 Stripes Ribbon

Gobble Gobble!

Yay!  I finally fit in a little crafting time today :)  I pulled out the animal kingdom cart to create a card for this weeks Throwback Thursday at My Creative Time.  You could choose to use any older cart for your project this week.  Hope you are all finding some crafting time this weekend!  Enjoy!

~Emily

Ingredients

Animal Kingdom Cartridge

DCWV Cards

Celebrate It Holiday Ribbon