My New Cricut Imagine

Hi all!  It's a cold, dreary day here in Illinois so I took some much needed down time to play with a new toy I got last week during the Black Friday sale, my Cricut Imagine.  I have been wanting one of these since the day they came out!  I was so intrigued by the fact that you could print out a pattern onto your cut and just use a white sheet of paper every time!  You can also use your old cartridges with the machine and fill in those cuts with color.  Oh the possibilities!!  Anyway after I got my machine set up, (so easy) I decided to play.  The imagine is loaded with a few items you can cut so I found a Christmas tree and filled it with a pattern from the Elise cartridge that I got with my imagine at Walmart.  The cut came out so clean!  I added some pearls with my pearl pen and I had a tree!

(All the images were taken on my ipad using instagram)

So after all that fun I decided to make a background for my tree.  I again used one of the images loaded and filled it with a pattern from Elise.  I added some ink around the edges to give it some dimension.

I love this.  It's going on our "weekly schedule" board for some decoration for the month.

Here is how my mat looked after I was done, you can see how clean the cuts are.  I flipped the mat around to do the second cut and got it to fit perfectly on the paper.  I couldn't figure out how to move the image on the screen, if anyone knows how to do this, let me know:-)

Thanks so much for stopping by, now I need to get to work on my Christmas cards!