Showing posts with label Imaginisce: Animal Crackers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imaginisce: Animal Crackers. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Blue Bird Santa

Hello and welcome to the product swap with Glue Arts and Imaginisce!!! We were super blessed to receive some product from them and I used everything they sent me in this project! THANK YOU GLUE ARTS!



I was surprised how much I liked the "Raisen's". Since they were clear they really disappeared and gave just a slight amount of dimension. I really liked it! 


 Hmm... This one didn't show up as ell as I wanted it to. It's the Glue Glider Pro on the white, but I guess that's a good thing! It's invisible! :) 


Well, you all know how much I love Extreme Adhesive Squares so I was jumping up and down when these were attached to the back of a Glue Glider refill! I loved them!!!


 I just wrapped the extra back onto the clothespins and they were AWESOME at sticking to my paper! Very impressive for something so small! 


Finished product. I just love this little fat blue bird! He's SOOOO cute!


The U-Cut-It foam is really tall. Which is awesome because I LOVE the dimension it brings. It made his fake beard really look like he had just added it to his face! FUN! 



Recipe:


Be sure to hop on over to Imaginisce and then to Glue Arts to see what we have all made for your inspiration! I hope you enjoy! There are prizes up at BOTH locations! :)

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Beach Day Layout

For the Cricut Circle Crop there was a Crops of Love donation. We were asked to make two page layouts in a variety of different themes. They are given to the families and children who are going through terrible things and are granted a wish - like a beach day. So then they take scrapbooking donations and put in the pictures and give them to the families. What a wonderful thing to cherish as times get harder for them. I chose the beach theme!


The elements on the right page don't look straight, but trust me, I measured them from all angles and they are as straight as can be! 

I will have to add links to the recipe for this tomorrow because I am exhausted and need to go to sleep. But here are the highlights:

Recipe:
  • Patterned Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers
  • Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls, Cake Basics, and Designer's Calendar
  • Stickers from My Little Shoebox
  • Cardstock: Coredinations Paper and Paper Trey Ink
  • Embossing: Swiss Dots Emboss Folder
  • pom-pom ribbon: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy
  • Splatter paint is Smooch in Carrot Cake
  • Crop-a-dile and eyelets
  • i-rock by Imaginisce
  • Hot Rock Compact in Jewel 

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Monday, April 25, 2011

If Friends Were Flowers, I'd Pick You **Giveaway Alert***

Hello! Welcome to day 2 of my blog-aversary week giveaways!!! 

Today at the Imaginisce Blog we are showing you even more inspiration on what to do with the new i-rock accessories! Today I am showing you what you can do with the teardrop shape! :) 

 Close up of the new bling!




Recipe:
Imaginisce: i-rock™
Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink and Cricut™
Ink: Colorbox in black

Remember, Imaginisce is giving away a WHOLE lot of i-rock bling on their blog and I am giving away a grab bag of Imaginisce goodies donated by Imaginisce (THANKS LORI!!!) HERE on my blog today as the prize! So leave me a comment to be entered! Come back again tomorrow for more inspiration and another giveaway chance! I'll post all of the winners when the week is up! 

Just a side note, I would be tickled pink if you decide to put my blinkie on your blog. This is NOT required to win, just if you enjoy my work it would be so nice! 

Now,  I am usually not one for making this blog so personal as I don't think you all should have to "deal with me". And I want you to come here and feel inspired and like it's a place of creativity and refuge. But, I usually try to get back to all of your comments and visit you and I'm afraid I can't do that this week. My grandfather is very ill and has been for a while and this looks like we're near the end. So I've only come home for a couple days to re-group and do some laundry and then I will be back down in Monterey supporting my family. So I won't have time to write back to you. But please know that I love every one of your comments and appreciate you taking the time to leave them. And if you're a new follower, welcome and I am so tickled pink that you like my work! I hope everyone is healthy and happy. My hugs to you all!  

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Love Birds, giveaway alert, and a video

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Hello all! Today I am showing you a card that I made with my Gypsy. I made this card for the Imaginisce paper piecing challenge. Play along this month and you could win $75 worth of Imaginisce products!!! Simply make a project using 75% of Imaginisce product and incorporate paper piecing somewhere. Link it up to the challenge post and you never know! :)  

The inspiration for this card actually came from My Pink Stamper's Love-alicious stamp called "Love Birds". I then knew I wanted to make a shape card with the bird house found on Cheerful Seasons. Next, I looked through all of my cartridges with birds and still liked the ones on Cheerful Seasons. So I choose those and went to work on my Gypsy! 

Recipe:
Creative Memories: Cheerful Seasons Cartridge™
Paper: Imaginisce: Enchanted "Happy Ever After"(light blue birds), Imaginisce: Animal Crackers: "Hot Buttered Popcorn" (blue) and "Come one! Come all!" (red)
Cardstock: Core'dinations (brown), Paper Trey Ink (marigold), and Colorbox (white base and wingtips)
twine from Jillibean Soup


Here is a video of me putting the card together. :)


If you would like the Gypsy file and have the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons Cartridge, then just email me at CourtsCraftsBlog@gmail.com and I will happily send it over! :) Don't forget that you need the cartridge in order to cut the file from the Gypsy. 

Hop on over to the Imaginisce Blog to see what everyone else has come up with for your inspirational pleasure! Leave a comment there today where you could win an i-rock goodie package!!!

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

St. Patty's Day Fun with Imaginisce ***Giveaway alert***

Welcome to my blog version of "Click it with Cricut" with Imaginisce! If you haven't come from there, make sure you pop over to the Imaginisce Blog to see what Cari Locken has created as well! She is fabulously talented and classy to boot. I LOVE her work and am so honored to be her partner for this post!

As a redhead and someone who is more Irish than not, I LOVE St. Patrick's Day! On top of the fact that redheads can wear green like nobody's business (don't try to put us in most reds, hot pinks, or oranges... ever!), green is my favorite color and so I LOVE that for one day it is EVERYwhere! 

I wanted to throw some surprising things into the mix with these cards and this is one of them. I used the Halloween seasonal October 31st cartridge for this card. It's not just for Halloween! :) I simply cut off the stick that was coming out of the cauldron to make a pot at the end of the rainbow!
Happy St. Paddy's Day using OCTOBER 31st cartridge.

Recipe:
Cartridge used: October 31st™
Imaginisce: i-rock™
Solid cardstock from Paper Trey Ink and glitter blue layer from DCWV™
Sentiment from K& Co. 
Ribbon from Paper Trey Ink: Pure Poppy in Saddle-stitch™
White gel pen

Instructions:
Fold one A2 sized card (5.5"x4.5").
Cut the sparkle blue layer at 5 3/8"x 4 1/8".
Cut the Enchanted paper at 5 1/4" x 4".
Cut a piece of ribbon and adhere behind layers.
Cut the cauldron at 4.5" because you are cutting off the stick that is coming out of the top.
Doddle around edges with pen
Use the cauldron to choose the place of your rainbow and adhere Berrylicious canvas rainbow sticker to the card.
Use pop dots to adhere cauldron to the card and fill with Glam Rocks in Metallic Pearl.
Use your i-rock to adhere.
Add blue jewels to the corners and add your sentiment!



On this next one, I was trying to show you how versatile the lines are. All the brown paper is from the Cottage Christmas collection and the shamrock is made from the Animal Crackers line. Don't forget about using the paper collections to their full potential! Also, remember you can use all of the Cricut Cake cartridges in your Expression machine like I did here.  
Believe using DESIGNER'S CALENDAR and CAKE BASICS

Recipe: 
Cartridge used: Designer's Calendar™and Cake Basics™
Cuttlebug folder: Swiss Dots™
Imaginisce: i-rock™
White cardstock from Paper Trey Ink™
Ribbon from my stash
Ink: Momento in Rich Cocoa
Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™ and Glue Glider Pro with perma-tac™


Fold one A2 sized card (5.5"x4.5").
Cut the brown layer at 5 3/8"x 4 1/8".
Cut the Berrylicious paper at 5 1/4" x 4".
Cut a piece of ribbon and adhere behind layers.
Tie a bow and adhere using Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares.
Cut brown circle at 3" (mine was actually cut at 2.83" because I did it on my Gypsy)
Cut yellow polka dotted circle at 2.75"
Cut white layer at 2.75"
Cut clover at 2.75"
Run clover through your Cuttlebug™ using the Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
Adhere together using foam dots to separate the yellow layer and the white layer to give it dimension.
Add your rhinestones using your  i-rock! 
Voila! You're done! 


Lastly, I didn't want to have a post without another shaped card. You do need a Gypsy so create this exact look, but using an eyelet setter and punching eyelets in the top to connect the front and back half will work just as well and will give you two cute bows at the top after you connect them with ribbon or twine! 
Make a Wish! using DESIGNER'S CALENDAR

Recipe:
Cartridge Used: Designer's Calendar on my Gypsy™
Imaginisce: i-rock™
Imaginisce: Compact in Crystal™
Imaginisce: i-rock Swirls Stencil™
Cardstock from Paper Trey Ink™
Gold Embossing Powder: Paper Trey Ink™
Twine
Charm from K & Co.
Ink: Versamark

On your Gypsy, weld two 4.25" shadows of the shamrocks at the top. Make sure they are aligned.
Cut base card out of white cardstock.
Cut another 4.25" shadow shamrock out of white cardstock and adhere to front.
Cut regular 4.25" shamrock out of the Berrylicious Collection: "Just Peachy"™ paper.
Remember that the real dial size is off so that even though they are both cut at "4.25" they layer properly.
Place the i-rock Swirls Stencil over the project and rotate it until you like where the swirls are.
Use your i-rock to set the clear gems.
Add tiny black gems from the compact in pink, black, and clear to places that you would like to highlight.
Heat emboss your sentiment.
Tie twine around the stem of the shamrock and add your "lucky" charm!

Thank you SO much for joining me today for the Click it with Cricut post. Remember to head over to the Imaginisce Blog to see the fabulous cards that Cari came up with and remember to leave a comment over there to win the Give a Hoot cartridge! 

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Imaginisce Animal Crackers Release Party and Cartridge Winner!

I am so excited to finally be able to help release the Animal Crackers line from Imaginisce! I think this line is SO much fun and so very versatile! The Design Team has been working hard to show you all how great this line is and I think your jaw will drop on some of the projects they made! 

Recipe:
Cardstock embellishment (balloons): Animal Crackers: Animal Tricks: Die Cuts™
Cartridge: Create a Critter™
Gypsy to weld the tent together
red ink: ColorBox™
Glam Rocks: Mirror™
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For this next one I wanted to show some diversity in the colors so I made a baby card!
Recipe:
Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers™
Cartridge: Straight from the Nest™
Emboss Folder: D'vine Swirl™
Ribbon: Animal Crackers Loop de Loop Ribbon™
Sentiment: Hero Arts™

White Embossing Powder by A la Mode™
Heat Embossing Tool by EK Success™
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For this last one I just wanted clean and simple lines.

Recipe:
Embossing Folder: Seeing Spots™
White embossing powder: A la Mode™
Heat Embossing Tool: Coloriser by EK Success™



I hope you have enjoyed my cards! Head on over to the Imaginisce blog and leave a comment there to be entered to win the Animal Crackers line as well as the tool used most that day! Be sure to stop back and comment all week as there will be prizes every day! AND don't forget to keep leaving comments on the 10 things posts as there will br prizes there too... that's a lot of prize opportunities!

Speaking of winners....
The winner from the My Pink Stamper Design Team Hop is:
Jamie said...

Love the card! What a great start to the hop!


Jamie, please contact me at CourtsCraftsBlog@gmail.com so I can get your cartridge out to you! I will give you a week and then I will have to draw again!

I want to take a moment and thank those that have stopped by, left comments, and become followers. What a thrill that you think my work is good enough that you want to see more of it! I really appreciate it and I emailed those back whose reply was an email address opposed to a "no-reply at blogger dot com". So I hope you all received it! 

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