My Christmas Card

Hi everyone!  Well I promised a post today on my Christmas card that I sent out this year so here it is:-).  I used the banner photo I showed yesterday of my family and kind of centered the design around the photo using mostly black, white, and silver.  Here is what I came up with.

Here is the first version.  I used an embossing folder from Crafts Too for the ornaments on the white cardstock.  The gray is embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder.  The ornament is punched out with a Stampin UP punch on Stampin UP silver slitter paper.  I used my Cricut Imagine to cut out the scalloped square using my Storybook Cartridge.  Lastly, the pearls were put on using my Silver Pearl Pen.

 This is a second version.  I just stamped the back of the gray using a Stampin UP Baroque stamp.

 Here is the inside with the photo of my family and the Merry Christmas banner.

I sent out 60 of these so far and need to make about 30 more!  I guess I need to get busy! Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Christmas Banner

Hi all! I wanted to post a project I actually made almost 2 months ago.  We were having family photos done at the end of October and I wanted something special for our Christmas photo.  I really wanted a banner that we could hold in the picture that said "Merry Christmas".  Well, as the week before our photos went on  I still hadn't gotten the banner done.  I hemed and hawed over making this banner Friday night and then into Saturday morning (our pictures were Saturday afternoon).  After finally deciding that I NEEDED this banner (LOL) I made it in literally 30 min.  I put it all together on my gypsy and cut it out.  I made it very simple so that it wasn't too distracting from our photos.  After we were done with our photos I decided that I would keep it and hang it up for Christmas:-)  Here it is.

I think it looks great hanging by the fireplace! I still can't believe it only took me 30 minutes to cut out!

After we got the photos back I was sooo happy I took the time to cut it out.  Here is our photo that went into our Christmas card:

Thanks so much for stopping by today, tomorrow I'll post pics of my Christmas card

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!

Calendar Blog Hop

Hi Everyone! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  My Thanksgivings are usually spent in Michigan hanging with my husbands family and of course, eating way too much!  I am so thankful for many things this year and am really thankful for all my crafty friends that I have made through the years.
Anyway, onto my post for today, hopefully you have arrived here from Elsa at Cricut Lvr, if not and you want to start at the beginning, please go back to Zeni at Scrappy Zeni.  Once I heard about this hop I knew I wanted to be a part of it!  I love making calendar pages for my scrapbook pages and thought this would be a great way to get my December one done early:-).  Here is my page for December.

I used the cricut cartridge Designer Calendar to cut the calendar grid and the December.  All the paper is Stampin UP!.  The presents and the snow globe are cut from the Christmas Cheer cartridge.  I stamped on the snow and the snowflakes from an old snowflake stamp set I have from Stampin UP!.  

 Love this cute little snow globe!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Don't forget to comment to enter in for your chance to win the adorable stamp set from Emma over at My Creative Time!

Your next stop is Sandra at 365 days of Cricut.

Here is the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.com/

Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

Gloria - http://www.omascrafts.blogspot.com

Amanda- http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/

Roberta - http://www.txscrappermom.blogspot.com

Christy - http://www.90days2agodchick.blogspot.com

Monica - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/

Liz - http://www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com

Elsa-http://cricutlvr.blogspot.com

Jessica - http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/---- You are here

Sandra- http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/ ---Go here next

Kacee - http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com/

Erika - http://www.craftysprouts.com/

Disney Blog Hop, Day 2

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Disney Blog Hop!  I am so excited to be a part of this hop again!  I love Disney and since we just got back from a trip to Disney in August I figure it's about time I started to scrapbook some of these 300 photos I took!  I hope you have arrived here today from Jenny at Jenny's Place, if not and you want to start at the beginning, please go back to Shawn at Crafty Chics.
Okay, onto my project.  This is a scrapbook page I made of our first photo with Mickey at Disneyland in California.  If you have never been to Disneyland and only been to Disneyworld I HIGHLY recommend going and checking it out!  It is smaller than Disneyworld and much easier to get around.  We spent 2 days at Disney and 2 days at California Adventure and we pretty much saw it all.  It was so fun and my 5 and 2 year old had a BLAST!  We are going to Disneyworld in a few months and they are so excited!  It was a nice warm up for them to go here first.

 For my page I used my Mickey font and Disney Mickey and Friends Cricut cartridges for Mickey, the word Disney and the 2011.   The paper is all Stampin UP! and the banner stamps and my journaling box are all from Taylored Expressions.

Here's a close up of my Mickey:-)

Don't forget we have a GRAND PRIZE for this Blog Hop donated by ContainYa Crafts!  You can have YOUR CHOICE of a Scrap'n Tote or a Scrap'n Easel!  Each blog in this two day hop has a special letter, and when all of the letters are put together they spell out a secret phrase.

My letter is . . . .l

Once you have stopped at each blog in the hop and collected all of the letters, simply email the phrase they create to bloghopcontests at gmail dot com.  All entries must be in by Midnight on Monday, November 21st.  The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 22nd at http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks so much for stopping by, your next stop is Jenny over at Crazy about Cricut!

Here is the lineup in case you get lost along the way.

Shawn http://craftychicsblog.blogspot.com/

Melissa  http://www.disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/

Megan http://www.aboverubiesstudio.com/

Kim http://uscrap2.blogspot.com/

Bobbi Jo http://sweetsassydiva-gspot.blogspot.com/

Jenny http://jennyplace26.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/

Jenny http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/

Susan http://www.cricutforbeginners.com/

Tami http://www.scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com/

Kathy http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/