Believe

Good Morning, Friday?  LOL, yes it is, hope everyone has a great weekend.  It is a brisk 36 degrees in N CA this morning, brrrrr!  But beautiful crystal clear skies as we begin to get light, I love the twinklies in the morning sky they look like they are waving good bye. 
This is a standard A-2 card, I love the ability with the Imagine to print directly to my card stock, it gives the illusion that there is more depth than there really is when you can print on your cs.  I used triple photo corners QK and EKSuccess and some of my favorite "Bee" ribbon.  Stay warm, stay happy, Hugs

creating envelope seals for your Christmas envelopes/Imagine

I love the way envelope seals look, especially during the holidays, so I pulled out my linen bookbinding tape to see if it would take the Imagine Ink, oh boy, did it ever.  You can see a strip of the tape at the top of the envelope printed out.  I then punched this snowflake out with the Martha Stewart Seal punch, then you just moisten the back like you would any regular envelope and apply.  I used the Imagine "Snow Angel" cart for the seals and "Imagine More" for the envelope - fill to page for a standard A-2 envelope.

 And here is a matching card - oh my goodness with almost no embellishment, I printed the snowflakes out with the Imagine "Snow Angel" and the Merry Christmas was "WordArt" computer generated, I did add a ribbon, ROFL.  Hugs,  Happy Thursday, Hugs

Good For One-"Oh Alice" Challenge

I have to admit I have been a little off the last couple of months, just down in the dumps some and totally frustrated, things breaking, not working, late,  grrrrrrrrrrr!  Yesterday I woke up and said to myself, the Imagine and Gypsy are going to get synced and work together or else.  So I spent the day with them both and OH MY GOODNESS, I did it! They are communicating and what a difference it has made, I really like it when stuff works and when it exceeds my expectations - well - I just love it.  I can truly say that the "Imagine" has exceeded my expectations, not only is the precision of the cuts right on but it cut my .22mm chipboard like butter without the deep cut blade.  To have everything right there - no flipping carts - it is just pure pleasure.  I have not participated in "Oh Alice" in a while, just have not had the time and oh how I love that Challenge, but I did it for this week.  So I will roll the credits:
My patterned papers are BasicGrey, my corners are actually the 4 of hearts playing card cut with a heart punch and then distressed.  My cake ad and the Cheshire are from Graphic45. The frame was cut from "Black Letter" cart.  The cake and "Piece of Cake" are from the Imagine "Imagine More" cart.  My ticket is from an Ellison die and was computer generated, then sprayed with my airbrush and Copics. Misc. ribbon and crystals.  I hope everyone is having a greate week. Happy Wednesday, Hugs

BBTB2 Challenge-Create a Critter

Monday and time for a BBTB2 challenge, again I do not have "Create a Critter" cart, oh my.  I loaded my 12X12 mat and went to keyword and typed in "dog" and just started putting dogs on my mat, when I saw the dog from "Pooh n Friends" I did not remember ever seeing him and my first thought was he was the ugliest dog I had ever seen, I had about 8 dogs on my mat and I kept going back to this one, he began to grow on me.  This twist (a little pun intended) on an advent calendar has been on my mind since the first of the year.  One of the top negative feedback I get back on my yearly advent calendar is that "I've lost a piece, why don't you make one without pieces?" This has been going on for several years and each January I always say okay I am going to design an advent calendar without pieces.  The design idea came to me while watching "Alice" and I wrote it down but did not do anything with the idea til last week.
I cut the clock face and hands from the "French Manor" cart at 5.5", the font for the numbers is 1/2" and is a spellbinder's font. The small hand is permanently affixed and the large hand is raised up so that it rotates around and over the dog and his wreath. The hands are secured to the cardstock with a Tim Holtz large brad.  The holly under the hands is a Sizzix die. The pups wreath is QK and embellished with the MS branch punch.  Photo corners are QK.  The card sits on one of "Fleur d Lis" card displays, "ticking down the days" is a spellbinder's font.  Coloring was done with Copic markers and background paper for the clock was printed with the Imagine.

I even did a little ditty for the inside earlier this year.  If you have any questions please ask away. Have a great week. Hugs

Distressed Embossing-Simple Joys

I am still playing with the embossing element. This card was embossed on the light side of a "Core Color" card stock, I embossed it 3 times with the Cricut Expression and "Straight From the Nest" cart.  It has a geometric shappy chic feel to it. I then sanded it and embellished with polka dots punched from an EK Success punch (I love this punch as it gives about 4 or 5 different sizes of polka dots), Spellbinder's Nesties and the little word blocks were printed and cut with the Imagine (I used RGB codes to match the color perfectly to the red cardstock).  Photo corners are also by EK Success.  The color inspiration came from a card Donna M. did a week or so ago, these colors have such a wonderful punch. I have some navy blue I am thinking of doing a snowflake. Happy Sunday, Hugs. Sandi

Tweets

Happy Saturday, we are dry here in N CA for now but it is moving in, I can feel it in my bones, lol.  I received two new toys this week, one is the wonderful embossing element from Amy Chomas and the other is the Imagine "Bloom" cart.  The background paper for this card was printed using the "Bloom" cart, I then embossed on a piece of velum and layered it on top of the background paper, it gives this fantastic paper a little bit of a misty feel.  I then took a 3"x3" square cut it on the diagonal and positioned it in the upper right hand corners.  On the left side I used a 1"X6" panel.  I punch butterflies from the MS butterfly punch and then added rose gold metal photo corners.  I really like the contrast of the misty velum and the card stock on top. I punched the word block with a StampinUp punch and "Tweets" was computer generated.
I am submitting this for the Cricut Circle Blog Challenge this week, "All about Feathers".  Hope everyone has a great weekend. Hugs

Card Display-Sweethearts cart

Happy Thursday, oh how the days are flying.  I display a lot of my cards and am always looking for a new card display, so I put my noggin to it and came up with this - this is my prototype so it is not fussied up, but I will have one soon as I am working on a very special Christmas card.  This is the Fleur D Lis cut at 11.649wide and 10.989high or you can just fill a 12"X12" mat. I do a lot of 6"X6" cards, if you do basically an A-2 card which is 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" you could make it smaller.  I cut it twice once with my deep blade from chipboard and once with my regular blade from white card stock.  Adhered the two together.  I then scored at the base and folded it up, scored the 2 of the 3 flowers both flaps fold up.  The two arms fold behind and then up to create the stand in the back.  I will try to do a step by step soon.

Here it is holding the card.  Have a great day as we again head into another wet weekend here in Northern CA. Hugs

Nothing quite like an Old Bat

I haven't dressed up for Halloween in a lot of years but this year I received a wonderful pair of bat socks from my friend Carole, I found a T-shirt at Wal-Mart with bats all over it so I decided to dress up all day as an "Old Bat" it did need a little clarification so I did this pin for the T-shirt, LOL.  The bat was cut 4 times form "Oct31st" and the word block is from a MS punch, it says "There is no Bat quite Like an Old Bat". I then used different findings and o-rings and put a closure pin on the back of the bat.  Happy Wednesday. Hugs

Blessings Gobble Gobble

Happy Tuesday All - yesterday Lori at "Elvie Studio" posted a great tutorial on how to do this card, the smaller top section opens out and then you lift up the under section for the inside and message, it is soooo easy to do, I just love them, so thought I would share.  The card over all measures out as an A-2 card.  I used scraps for my backgrounds, some imaginesce, bazzill and I think crate paper and not sure about the inside.  The turkey was cut with Cricut cart  "Stretch Your Imagination", I first fill colored in with a the lighter yellow on "Best Friends" and then cut, I then shadowed and colored with the Copic markers.  "Blessings is a "Spellbinder's" font, misc. ribbon, that does it for the front.

This is the inside portion, there is a white panel you cannot see on the left which is the outside yellow cover, you will understand more if you watch the video.  "to you and yours" was computer generated and "gobble gobble" was cut with "Animal Kingdom"  The backside head of the turkey was also colored with Copic markers.  Have a great week, hugs

BBTB2 Challenge - Flourished Christmas Tree

Monday and the BBTB2 Challenge this week was to use the Flourish from the "Cindy Lou" cart, I did not have that cart (geeze how can one not have that cart? LOL) so I used the flourish from Cricut cart "Calligraphy Collection".  And where is my flourish?  It is wrapped around the Christmas tree as its garland.  I used brown textured card stock by Bazzill and the panel on the left is from scraps.  The tree was cut with the Imagine from pp on "Snow Angel" and the little bird is also from Snow Angel, I just gave him a little bigger beak and eye. The bazillion stars were punched from a MS punch, the snow flakes were a Marvey punch and an MS punch.  The infamous branch punch by MS was also used. "Merry Christmas" is a StampinUp stamp.
We won't even go into the time it took to triple layer those snowflakes or put stars on the flourish (LOL) but it was all worth it in the end.  Hope every one is coming off their sugar high from yesterday, well maybe it is a little soon, have a great week and Happy Monday. Hugs