DH Birthday card using New Imagine and the Buccaneer Cartridge

First my DGD birthday, then Valentine's Day, then our wedding anniversary and then DH birthday. WHEW! I was lucky enough to score one of the Imagines from WalMart on Black Friday. I've only recently begun to use it and man is it fun! There was a learning curve for me but I think this is my new best friend.

This is the card I made for DH using the Imagine and Buccaneer cartridge. I made the chest at fit to page and it was a bit big for his gift. Next time I will ink the cut edges to give it a more finished look. I could not for the life of me figure out how to do the keyhole piece so I looked on the internet and found an option...I just folded it in half and set it aside. I printed out a flag at 1" and also did a fliped image. Glued the flags together with a toothpick, put tape runner on the key or lock or whatever that other piece was (a handle?) and folded it and with the toothpick in the middle of it, it keeps the chest closed (altho next time I might do the layers option and make that one piece a little bigger than the chest). The front needs a ribbon or something but figured a bow might be TOO much? The inside was the scroll or parchment pattern paper (last paper in the booklet) but I couldn't figure out how to make it print the size I wanted. It's a square image and I wanted it as a rectange to fit the inside of a 4.25 wide by 5.50 card so I just printed it at 5.25 inches, trimmed the longer sides with my scissors (and tried to make it "tattered" looking). I then found a light brown and pumpkin colored ink spot from SU and inked the edges...it ended up matching REALLY well. Used a lot of pop dots, too

Daughter's Valentine's Banner Using the Imagine and Teresa Collins' Baby Boutique

I really like anything by Teresa Collins so I was very happy to get a good buy on Ebay for Baby Boutique. I did the frames/alphabets on the Imagine in one layer and she put them on squares of red cardstock she already had and then she put their four kids pictures in the frames in the middle. I know she didn't want to put holes in the mantle when she hung this so she used tape. I think I'm going to make some bows in a corresponding pink ribbon to put on the ends

Here's a close up to show how fabulous these frames/letters are. I used the color wheel and the RGB code for Stampin Up's Real Red. It didn't show up a bright, bright red but it worked great and went very well with paper she already had. I still need to work with calibration just a smidgen but daughter was happy with the frames so I was too

Card of Encouragement for Female Marine Recruit

My name is Scootingranny and I am a scraplifter. Big time. I liked a card so much that I almost totally scraplifted it from this site: http://cardcreationsbyc.blogspot.com/2010/09/you-are-my-sunshine.html . When I first saw it a few days ago, it just made me smile so I'm hoping my copy of that wonderful card will do the same for Cassy ( https://www.cricut.com/forum/cricut-community_postst112671_OT---I-had-a-very-sad-moment-today.aspx ). It was all done with scraps. I used CAC for the sun and clouds (embossed with swiss dots), Happy Hauntings for the grass (put 3 together in design studio and shrunk them, used two colors), Just Because Cards for the tree with the swing and New Arrival for the airplane and banner (connected it with a scrap piece of red twine) and the little red flowers are a Martha Stewart punch with dabs of yellow stickles in the center. The sentiment is from a stamping set called "Poppy" from My Favorite Things. I am going to enclose a small card with a scripture of encouragement

Reindeer treats for Granboy's Pre-K class

I used the Pearson's round mints and covered them with scalloped circles cut with the Cricut, flourishes (two different dies) from My Favorite Things (cricut cut could also easily be used) with google eyes, little red noses from Michael's and a hand-drawn smile. Their antlers kept getting tangled so I had to put them in individual little baggies. My sister and I had FITs getting the 45 of them separated when the box they were in got tipped over. She's an Aggie, I am not and I told her if I were an Aggie, that scenario would have been good for at least a joke or two. "How many Aggies does it take to untangle reindeer antlers....?" (ok, maybe that would be funny only in Texas). Sorry for the blurry photo but it was taken with my phone

My Simple Christmas Card

Well, although I call this a simple card, it was made up of elements that took a little time with embossing and pop dotting and coloring but I ended up liking the final results. I put off making cards until this past weekend and without the help of my sister, I never would have been able to complete these. So thank you, my Dear Sister!! I used Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots as the background embossing folder and the Cuttlebug cut and emboss Fanciful Labels for the tag. The poinsettias are a sunflower stamp and die from Paper Trey Ink, the leaves are from the ever-popular Martha Stewart pine branch punch and were glittered with a Sakura clearstar pen (which doesn't show up well in the photo. The sentiment is also Paper Trey Ink. The red cardstock, red ink and red pen (on the inside which I didn't photo) are all Stampin Up's Real Red and flower centers and sentiment are embossed with Stampin Up's

gold embossing powder

Cranberry Hootycreeks

This is a project I did last year and posted on Splitcoast Stampers and on the Cricut message board:

I was so happy with how this small project turned out. The tags are a Stampendous stamp that I first saw on SusieBs blog (thank you, SusieB!) at http://www.heartprints.net/item.php?ItemId=4336 . Image is heat embossed (to help me stay in the lines..lol) and colored with prismacolor pencils. I remembered a tip from SusieB that when using red, the regular old fine tip Bic marker made a prettier red than the pencils, so that's what I used on her shirt. Then I stamped an extra image, cut out the gingerbread men for the pan and used Glossy Accents to make them shine, then pop dotted. I used a Signo Gel Pel--thank you Tara at Personal Scrapbook for recommending this (best white gel pen I have ever used) for the little white icing on the gingerbread men. The gingerbread apron was paperpieced using a free online gingerbread paper and shrunk on WORD so that it would look right on the apron. The mixing and baking directions on the flip side of the tag are computer generated. Paper used was SU Cherry Cobbler and Kraft and tag is from TBBM.

Additional Info on Inspired Heart cocoa box

On the image from Inspired Hearts, I wanted the main image to have a shadow around it so that some gold trimmed it instead of just being in the background. The background for this image is exactly the same size as the image so I used Design Studio to slightly enlarge the background in order to get that gold trim

Another Cocoa Box

Here's another cocoa box done with the Cricut Inspired Heart cartridge, a stamp from HL done with gold embossing powder, a star and snowflakes using Cuttlebug's Snowflake #2 die. The candy cane poem is something I found on the internet and printed with my printer. The candy cane is from the Christmas Cheer cartridge.

Easy, inexpensive Christmas Idea

I did these cocoa boxes from a file from this blog http://www.paperscissorsinc.com/2008/11/hot-cocoa-challenge.html .  Shirley, the cut file creator generously relinked the cut file for everyone to download and the 3 x 6 box is perfect for the cocoa. I cut the box with my cricut and used My Favorite Things "Who's that Girl Gets Cozy with Cocoa" for the image (paper pieced) and sentiment. The paper is from a Martha Stewart Christmas pack that I got a few years ago. I had to fold back the sides of the cocoa packet where it was seamed but it fit and looked great. I used Prismacolor pencils for the mug and cocoa and a "snow writer" from Michael's for the marshmallows. It puffed up just like liquid applique!

Because the MS paper folded a bit wonky where the underside image had glitter, I did one using Stampin Up Real Red (cut and shaped like a dream) and striped paper from my stash for the mats, used the same image but a sentiment from House Mouse stamps (embossed with white embossing powder). Considering the cost of the paper, cocoa (94cents at WalMart), the candy cane, the peppermint squares and paper, I figured these cost less than $2.00

Fun Christmas Card

Creative Belli's had a challenge to use 1-2-3-4 items you already have http://bellichallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/belli-129-1-2-3-4-challenge.html and this card fits that to a "T". I loved this card http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2083856?&limit=last1 but didn't have any of the same product so I used what I have! One Designer Paper, Two Trees, Three rows of snow, Four Snowflakes

 

Card Sentiment

Products:
DP from Crafter's Companion November 2010
Two Trees cut from Cricut "Bloom"
Three rows of snow cut from Cricut "Holiday Cakes"
Four snowflakes cut using Cuttlebug and Snowflake #2 die
My Favorite Things Pure Innocence "Sending you a Little Christmas" Stamp set
Glistening Snow Writer smeared on rows of snow
Little Pearls in middle of Snowflakes
Prisma Color Pencils
Liquid Pearls Ruby Red for ornaments on tree
Scraps for paperpiecing
Liquid Applique for boots and hat