YOU"RE Just my type~~~~

I have been fixated on using my imagine and trying to learn all it's capabilities in the Craft Room.  I am a slow learner but it is becoming easier and easier.  I have been lucky that it has done everything I have asked it with no glitches so far in the craft room. shhhhhhhhhh i shouldn't say that to loud or jinx myself!!!  I have seen other valentines with typewriters and dediced to change up the cuts on the Imagine More Cartridge for this card.  I really need to start writing down my sizes I use.  This is a A2 size card with some old gingham paper i have had for years.  I just put it on the mat and printed my sentiment which i moved around and added a text box with Ashlyn Alphabet cartridge.

I am all about texture so i used a few embossing folders on a few elements on the card and finished it up with some red stickles!!!!

Doesn't the Imagine print nice on the printed paper!!!!!  Sure helps when your stamping skills need brushed up on!!!!

I hope you stay and look around my blog at some of the other things I am learning to do with my Scrappin Goodies!!!

Mom's 82 Birthday Card

Its a special day at our house today!!!  Its my mom's 82 birthday!!!  My mom has been living with us since my dad passed away two years ago  and I haven't gotten to spend many of those birthdays with her

because she lived so far away from us, so today is special!!!  Of course with such a special day comes a special card.... 

I have been trying to perfect using my imagine with my cards lately and using the printer in it to get the right papers to go with my cards.  I can never just let a cut go with out either inking, embossing, and adding embellishments and like other crafters'  using punches and border punches to add to the designs of my cards!!

I am so pleased with how the imagine prints and that you can layer your cards to give them depth.  Of course inking the edges always help!!! 

I used the Imagine More Cards cartridge to do most of this card and of course a stamp for the sentiment!!

Lots and lots of mounting tape and glue dots to make sure things don't come off my card!!!

I have decided to enter this in two different challenges this week because this was a personal challenge for me!!! 

Challenges I entered are My Craft Spot

                                   Die Cuttin Divas

Both challenges are a ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to comment or ask any questions about what I do!!!

A Valentiny Valentine******

Fantabulous Cricut weekly Monday Challenge was really quite a challenge for me!!! I am not use to working quite this small and I wanted my tiny to have a romantic feel to it.  What is more romantic then cupid????  I went to an older cartridge "Sweethearts"  for my cuts.  I welded the hearts together to make my 3 inch card base and then cut and sewed some bakers twin in and out of the holes arond the heart.  Of course i used the cupid cut twice to fit , One on shadow and one at regular cut. (Ithink at 1.75 in)  the flowers I made my self and aded some bows and stamped sentiments on little banners.

I have been using my imagine to do my sentiments inside of my cards lately and I am loving how they turn out.  I printed out the word valentine as a shadow and went inside with a white gel pen to write the word valentine....

All In all I had a FABULOUS time working on these tiny valentines!!!  Hope you all  go take a visit to Fabulous Cricut and become a follower they have something new everyday and the site is full of inspriation!!!

Fabulous Cricut

Lori's Garden dusted off my shelf....

Well I finally dusted off the Lori's Garden Imagine cartridge and put it to some use.  I wanted to make a card for the Die Cuttin Diva's challenge this week which was Button Bows or Bling.  I have been working on valentines the last week and this is one that when I started laying it out and deciding which cuts to use started looking like an old fashion vicotorian card.  The colors, prints and cuts are simply beautiful on this cart and I had so much fun putting this one together.  I cut in layers and popdoted and put some pearls on for my bling.  The paper is from the paper choices on the cart.  REally helped the card go together!!!  I know I will be reaching for this cart when I want to do something delicate and light. 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!!! 

Go visit  Die Cuttin Divas And Check out everyones great work and be Inspired!!!!!

I am also entering this in Fantabulous Cricut. It falls under using a label, something other than a circle.  If you look thru your imagine cartridges it has many different labels and so hard to choose which ones to use.   http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-me-monday-95.html 

All About Boys....

My Craft Spot Challenge 42 is encouraging us this week to make a card for a boy!!!  I too have a harder time making cards for guys and boys, you know masculine cards.  As usual Kimberly's challenge encourage me to focus on a boy card!!!  I used My imagine with this card to do alot of the work but the background paper is from an older 8x8 paper pad Put out by Cinnamon Joe studio. A pack of paper that I picked up at our Ollies store here in Johnsotwn.  I chose some papers and colors from the Enjoy the Seasonscartridge for the imagine and the cuts were from Boys will Be Boys.  The think I did learn was how to put a text box in and use the fonts from the cartridge to put my sentiment on the card.  I used the craft room to place the fonts where I wanted them on my card front.  Made this so much easier and a clean font to boot!!!

Some inking and doodling and popdotting and twine and buttons to emblelish my cuts.  I loved the colors on this one and the imagine were a big help in making this card.  I encourage other to go to My Craft Spot and check out the wonderful projects that other are submitting as well to catch a glimpse  of Kimberly's wonderful talent and products

Smiles & Hugs

I dont very often make envelops but this card is a size that I don't have an envelop for.  I used one of my favorite cartridge to make the little skunk up with .  Isn't he stinkin cute!!!  LOL  The think I learned when I was making this cart was how you are able to size the envelops ( I got this one from Art Philosophy)  to the size you need.  The other thing was that you have to use your gypsy if you want to remove the slash marks for the score lines.  I was pretty pleased with the paper which i purchased from target for the envelop.  It is thin enought to make a great envelop and white on one side and printed on the other!!!    oh and I guess I will show you the card I scraplifted that contributed to this card.... 

I totally scraplifted this one from Two Peas Finally Friday.  You can watch the videio on how this is made at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYabYOVC5Vw

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my learning examples and please say hi if you stop and look and tell me what you think.  I love hearing from all of you!!!

A tag that turned into a card....

Well one of the things I have been trying to do is use some of my cartridges that have been collecting dust and the boxes are aging and showing signs of it but not from use.  On this card I used the Tags Bags Boxes &More.  I started this off with just making a tag.  I really didn't think I would be turning it into a card but that is what I ended up doing!!!  The tag and hearts came from cuts on my cricut .  Now of course i decided to try a little stamping and used craft paper as my base and some dye ink pads and stamps.  And I am sure there are others out there that buy things and then hoard them and never use them ....  well i actually broke into my Tim Holtz stash and use some on this card. 

Has anyone found that M's paper in 8x8 size... well I did and its not to bad and perfect for valentines day.

  I guess you could call this my junk card since i used so many different elements but I choose to think of it as my shabby chic valentine !!!!!

As always thanks for stopping by and taking a look , your comments are always so appreciated!!!

Sandi (daveshunny)