Hello everybody, I made a cute card for my friend and co-worker.   It is made with Lori's Garden cartridge.  I really love that cartridge (I've probably said that before), but I thought this bird was not very pretty, but decided to use it anyway.

 

I found out I love it and have used a lot for cards.  I used a sizzix texture for the background, and added a blue gem for the eye and pearls for the center of the flowers. Thanks for stopping by.  God bless!  Stay safe those in Colorado Springs, they are fighting a big fire close to town.

Country Carnival-Hearts

Here's another card for my teenage grand(son) (daughter) I'm not too sure yet.  I used another card package from Studio G, also $1.00 at Walmart.  It has a hole in the card and I wasn't too sure how to use them till now.  The hearts are from the basic shapes in the Imagine, the butterfly and flowers from the Country Carnival cartridge, and the saying from Better Together cartridge.

I trimmed with gold stickles.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lori's Garden-Tweetheart Valentine

I made several valentines cards today.  Since my grandchildren are getting bigger (most are teenagers now) I wanted to make them a little more mature.  I made this card for my Granddaughter, though she's not a teen yet. It's pretty in pink and full of gems.  Something I think a little girl would like!

 There's more coming up!

Lori's Garden - Peace

I love these birds from Lori's Garden, in fact I thought they looked dove-like for Christmas, so I made a Christmas card out of one.  The Peace is from Winter Woodland. 

I blinged it up a little with a pink gem for it's eye, and some gold stickles along the wings and on the tail.  To give it dimension I lifted the head and bottom wing with clear pop dots.
Thanks for stopping by, hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!

Lori's Garden - Love You

I made this card with Lori's Garden....did I say I love it yet......I made the center strip with doily lace stamp and a ribbon going down the middle.  I added the Love You in center after blinging it up a bit with gold stickles in the center of the flowers.  The butterfly is 2 layers, the wings being lifted with glue dots, it also has some gold stickles to accent it's wings, and a blue gem for it's eye.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Lori's Garden - Thank You

Hello everybody.  I got a lacy edge trimmer (doily lace by Martha Stewart), and made a couple of cards using Lori's Garden cartridge for the Cricut Imagine--Love it!

I had a little trouble making the thank you tag to stick because part is on the ribbon.  I ended up using medium clear pop dots (Elmers craft bond) which gave it a really good lift, and it stays stuck!  The wings on the big butterfly are raised using the same pop dots on the bottom layer and thinner ones, also Elmers craft bond, on the top layer.  I used gold stickles to add bling to the butterflies!  Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day!

Enjoy the Seasons - Give Thanks

Happy Monday everybody.  I made a card using Enjoy the Seasons cartridge for Thanksgiving.   Sometimes I envision the way I want to make a card, and when I start putting it together it doesn't look so hot.  I wanted to use the fall tree for the background on this, but it was all too wild.  So here's what I ended up with:

I used stardust Stickles to outline the stems and lines of the squash and pumpkins, and a little red pearl for the hedgehog's eye!  Thanks for stopping by :)

Lori's Garden - Swinging Bird

Hello, I made a little card using Lori's Garden.  I used the little bird on a swing along with a branch and some flowers I had left over.  I used glue dots to raise the layers just a little (there are 3 or 4 layers) 

The background paper had glittery flowers,  I used some Bliss Mist on the bird for a little bling, clear gem for the birds eye and red pearl beads for the centers of the flowers.  It doesn't have a sentiment, yet.  Thanks, have a marvelous day!

Lori's Garden - Flowers and Bird

I guess we're going fishing tomorrow, so I have time to post another inspirational card I made using Lori's Garden.  I''m loving that cartridge!

I blinged it up with a clear gem for the birds eye, some glitter around the bird and the flowers along with pearls in the centers.  The flowers have 3 layers (they would have 5 or 6 if I used them all), I used glue dots to add a little dimension.  I also used glue dots and doubled them under the birds head and wing to make it look like it was flying.  Thanks for stopping by, and have a blessed day!

Lori's Garden - Butterfly and Rose

We're supposed to go fishing tomorrow, so I wanted to post my next card today.  It's made from Lori's Garden, a beautiful cart full of flowers, birds and butterflies.  You're probably going to see a lot more of it.  I also wanted to make some inspirational cards, so here is the first of hopefully many more:

It says " .. the earth is filled with the lovingkindness of the Lord Psalm 33:5.  I really wanted to bling it up, so I sprayed the flower and butterfly with Bliss Mist, added glitter to the butterfly, and put pearls in the center of the rose and the little flowers around it.  It is this time of the year I do feel the lovingkindness of our Lord.  He must really have an eye for beauty, just look at all the colors!  Have a great day!

Enjoy the Seasons - Fall Squirrel

Hello, and Happy Friday.  It seems like it's been forever since I've made anything, or blogged.  I've been working on cleaning all my card mess out of the dining room and putting them in my unused craft room.  I've cleaned out stuff I didn't think I would use, and found a small kitchen table (my sons) I could put in the room.  After all that, I don't like it.  It feels too isolated and the table is too small :(  .  Crafting sure takes a lot of room.  But I have my dining room back :)

I thought it would be nice to combine the fall leaves and the squirrel stump on the Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  However, after printing and cutting, the fall leaves looked kind of faded.  So I used these leaves I bought on sale some time ago.  I also added a googlie eye to the squirrel! Thanks for looking.

Better Together - Best Friends

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, I was out of state helping my parents move.....what a week!
I made a friendship card, simple, but I really liked the little girl with her dog.  I'm not really sure the dog hug would be taken, the receiver might think the giver thinks of them as a dog???, or a compliment, we are awful fond of our doggies!!!

The card is very dark brown, with a creamy layer, and a bow :) . I used the small glue dots again, lifting the girl's body two layers and her head three layers deep.  There is a little bit of glitter in the centers of the flowers too!
Thanks for stopping by

JT - Fly

I made a Fly card from the JT cartridge, because I really like the bird!  And I even got some ribbon on it!!!

Have a nice day

JT - Dragon

I didn't think I was real thrilled with the dragon in the JT cartridge, but I had made this background paper, mixing light brown and light pink distress inks.  Then I sprayed the whole thing with whipped honey butter Bliss Mist, giving the whole thing a gold shimmer and sparkles.  It works wonderfully with the dragon!  I added some Stickles along some of the edges of the dragon.

And alas, I couldn't work the ribbon in :(  Thanks for looking!

Better Together - You're My Cup of Tea

Here's a quick card I did with Better Together cartridge.  It's just the cup made at about 3 inches and the word art 1.5 inches, I put them on with glue dots, which raises them up a little, but not as much as a pop dot.

Have a great day and a Happy 4th of July, and thanks so much to all our service men who have given up so much for us.  May you truly be blessed!

Imagine More - Owls

I was having a little problem cutting owls, so there were a lot of them, and since we were camping and had a lot of time hand cut a lot of the parts...so here are some owl cards.

I made the second one after I got home, and it has ribbon!!!!  But I kind of like the first one, I like the little guy standing in the flowers.  Hummm, maybe I should add some glitter glue in the centers of the flowers.

Imagine More - Parrot

I made this parrot card while camping.  I think it turned out nice, but I really had it in my mind to put on green paper instead of cream (which doesn't show up very well),  I accidentally put something else on my green card and didn't have any more. 

So when I got back I made another one on green paper, and of course I had to work my ribbon and bow in.  I put brads in the flowers for the middle and mounted them with glue dots so the brads didn't have to go through the card.
I'll have more in a day or two!

Review Cricut Imagine

I've had a week or two to play with my new Cricut Imagine machine.  I really like being able to print and cut at the same time.  The layouts on the imagine cartridges are cute and can be split into different layers and re-sized which is very cool.  You can print and cut the layers and use pop dots between them to give some dimension to your layouts.

Being a scrap booker (both regular and digital), card maker, and photographer I thought it would be really cool to be able to print and cut a photo or a photo with a border around it, or make a card and type my own sentiment in it.  You can't do that.  It will print sentiments if you have them on one of your cartridges, either imagine or regular.  You can change the color or use a color/pattern from an imagine cartridge.  It seems like you should be able to print from your computer just like a regular printer and cut.

Another thing I find very aggravating is the way it cuts your layouts.  It doesn't let you move things around on the mat even with gypsy like you can with a personal cricut or cricut expression, so it tends to waste a lot of paper.  I spend a lot of time trying to put big things on one line all the way across and little things on the next line all the way across.

Also, the mats aren't sticky enough.  You can't use the mats on the imagine like you can the other cutters placing different colored pieces of papers in different spots.  It just isn't sticky enough. 

I hope Provo Craft fixes some of these things.  It seems like they cripple an expensive machine that could be very cool if it had the proper software and/or drivers.  It ought to be able to be used for so much more. 

That being said here are some things made with it using Imagine More cartridge.

For my dad for Father's Day-I didn't have a Happy Father's day stamp.

I used glitter glue for the center of the flowers and used pop dots to lift the bottom of the wing. . . It's a prettier than the picture shows

No sentiment yet, I raised the butterfly wings with pop dots and curled them under, I also raised the bird except I did glue the legs down.  I could see them bending and curling if I had just left them.  I also used glitter glue on the butterfly spots and birds eyes.

Does anyone else have any Imagine comments, or feel the same?

I made some book markers too, but I can't find where I saved them.  Will post as soon as I find them :{   Have a nice day and a happy Father's Day!