Greetings From CHA!!!

I am SO excited to be here in LA and sharing my experiences with all of you! I have already started a video that I'll have to post after there is more on it! :)

I arrived yesterday afternoon came straight to the condo, and am hanging out with some fabulous ladies! Tammy Skinner (Creative Critters Cricut Club and Creative Critters Imaginations) , Myrel, and Angela are all wonderful ladies and we had a wonderful time at the Brazillian steakhouse! Now, if you want a horribly tragic, but drama-filled review of yesterday's um... craziness, then pop on over to Tammy's blog and give her some virtual hugs!  - A new post will be up in a few minutes! :) (Give some virtual hugs to Myrel too even though she doesn't have a blog.) - Robyn and Karlee arrive this morning so we'll have to take a new "group picture" later! :) 

This morning I am on my way to the Cricut Circle meet-up and I am thrilled! I volunteered to help with the make and take - I don't even know what it is - but I am excited to meet a bunch of Circlets! 

There will be no cameras allowed, but I am going to try to take some pictures with ladies there outside of the room so you can see how Cricut-crazy we all are. And if you're coming, I'll be in my Imaginisce apron and will be happy to share any tips or information I have with you about their products! 

Okay, so here's a little project for you that didn't photograph very well. In the Circle we have to make 3x3 old fashioned calling cards to bring to share our information. Of course I designed a shaped 3x3 card! 

 Recipe:

Cartridge: Tie the Knot™ (present shape)

Paper: Echo Park Paper: Walk in the Park™ and Be Mine™

Imaginisce: i-rock™

Imaginisce: Hot Rock Crystal Compact: Pink, Black, Clear™

 I blemished out (not a word, but I'm making it up!) my Circle number for privacy reasons. 

If you're at CHA, stop by booths 1770 and 1767. The Imaginisce DT girls will be there to show you all of the new tools including the Pogo and the I-top 2.0! You can also see the new lines called Berrylicious, Happy Camper, and Little Cutie. And Imaginisce did not want to leave anyone out of CHA who couldn't go, so all of those new products are up on the Imaginisce website already! Just click on the names of the products and I have provided you with the links. Feel free to stay and look around as there are new fabric roly rosies, glittered glue sticks, lots of new i-rock colors and much more too! 

Okay, if there is anything you are dying to see, let me know and based on if they allow me take pictures/video it, I will be glad to do that for you! :) 

Be Mine

Hello to you all! It is the day after Robyn's birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN!!!

Today at My Pink Stamper's website the Design Team has been showing you projects made with either Love-alicious or Happiest Moments AND the color pink! I LOVE the Love-alicious stamp set! I think it's fabulous. For this project, I decided to use the "Be Mine" for a card and treat box. I hope you like it! 

 Recipe:

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™

Cartridge: Cake Basics™, Tie the Knot™

Embossing folders: D'vine Swirl™ and Swiss Dots™

Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™

Paper: Echo Park: Be Mine™

3D flowers: Roly Rosies by Imaginsice™ (LOVE these)

Twine: The Twinery

Ribbon: stash

Black bling: Want2Scrap

i-rock by Imaginisce™

Hot Rocks Crystal Compact by Imaginisce™

white and black embossing powders by A la Mode™

Heat Embossing Gun by EK Success™

Buttons: Paper Trey Ink™
The flowers were put together and adhered to the box using the i-bond™ (LOVE it!)
My d-stress™ was used on the edges of the flowers as well as smoothing out the Cricut cut of the heart.

Crop-a-dile and eyelet™

 I really love this treat box. It just makes me happy on the inside! :)

*****EDIT*****
I have been getting a lot of questions on how I made the treat box and I am SO excited that it inspired a few of you!!! So here are the instructions! :)

The box was cut from Tie the Knot on "fit to page" on a 12x12 mat using Echo Park Paper. 

Next I used my petal roller by Imaginisce to make some roly rosies. I also used the D-stress to smooth and distress the edges.

I adhered those using my glue gun to the side (flatten it out of all of the next parts - but keep putting it together to make sure you are getting things where you want them on the box - and then flatten it again) 

Then I used my i-rock and the template for swirls that comes with the green and pink flowers i-rock kit. But I used the i-rocks from the crystal compact (all links to these things are above under "recipe" except for the green and pink stencil kit which is found here: http://www.imaginisce.com/ProductDetail.aspx?id=1243). 

Lastly, I cut out a heart from the Tie the Knot cartridge (it was the "blackout feature" of the heart that says "thank you") at 1.75 inches. 

I heat embossed that with white embossing powder and of course MPS Love-alicious stamps. I used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole and add a silver eyelet and then put some pink twine through it and tied it around a roly rosie. Clip the end, and you're done! :) 

Let me know if you have any more questions! I am happy to help! :) 

I made the card to match because the Cricut Circle is doing the month long contest where you have to "case" one of the projects on the blog along with using two cuts from the Cricut and two sponsors. My two sponsor were Echo Park Paper and Imaginisce! Here is the card I cased which was by Michele Kovack:

My card ended up a lot "busier" than hers, but all of the elements are still in there! :) 

Thank you SO much for stopping by today and make sure you pop on over to the My Pink Stamper blog to see what the rest of the DT has created! 

Sweet

There is only one more January Kit left! So hurry and get it if you want it! Wait until you see February's! We are so excited about what is coming up!

I was trying to create something clean and simple and I just HAD to use these little cotton and felt cupcakes! I love them!

Everything is from the January Kit by Artful Delight except for the tiny type letters which are from the Echo Park Be Mine collection.

I hope you think it is "sweet" too. :)

Don't forget to participate in the sketch challenge here for your chance to win the February Kit and a guest DT spot! Also, you can double your chances of winning the kit by playing along in the Sketchy Thursdays challenge.

Lastly, our first My Pink Design Team Blog Hop is coming up on Friday and I am SO excited! :) 

Wrap It Up Christmas Cottage Shape Card

I haven't done a shape card in a while and I was missing it! 

There is a shape card feature already built into this cartridge, but I wanted to do mine slightly differently as I wanted all of the layers. So I did do this on my Gypsy, but you could get virtually the same effect by cutting the layers multiple times out of different papers.

Anyway, here it is! 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Wrap it Up™
Paper: Pink and White stripes: Echo Park Paper: Be Mine™, (Teal) Core'dinations Nostalgia™, Brown: Echo Park Paper: Merry Christmas™, (White) Paper Trey Ink™
Embossing: D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
Pearls: Hero Arts self adhesive pearls™
Sickles: Waterfall™ from Artful Delight's November Kit
Glossy Accents
White Embossing Powder: A la Mode (I did not heat emboss it though - just attached it to the Glossy Accents

I made this for multiple challenges:

My Pink Stamper: Use two pinks, two blues, and black (I used a dark brown instead, but technically there is black ink inside for the sentiment!)

My Pink Stamper: Christmas Card

EAD Designs color challenge: White, teal, hot pink, and chocolate brown

I had a great time making this and I hope you have enjoyed it too! :) 

Be Mine

*Scroll down to see my last Be Inspired Wednesday post for Passionately Artistic*

My first card using the new Be Mine collection from Echo Park Paper! I am so excited! I LOVE this paper pack!

I broke open the pack for Off the Wall Craftiness' challenge this week to use two pinks and a white. I added black because I just couldn't help myself!

This is the inspiration photo:

Recipe:
Paper: Echo Park Be Mine™
Sentiment and heart sticker: Echo Park Be Mine™
Ribbon from my stash
Pink Sorbet twine from the Twinery™
Adhesive: Glue Arts™