Card Challenge

Emma at creative time for me is having a card challenge using a font cricut cartridge. I decided to try it. It's funny that the card that I had in mind is nowhere near the card I ended up with. Before I chose a cartridge, I had in mind that I was going to make a fun, cheerful Halloween card. I even pulled out my Halloween sentiments and Emma's banner stamps(I was going to use the banner to spell the word "Boo")! Yet, when I went to cricut.com to figure out which cartridge I was going to use, I looked on the old west cartridge and saw this lantern then completelychanged my mind. Lanterns remind me of spiritual themes (my daddy's a minister, I guess that's why), so I came up with the idea to use that image as a spiritual/inspirational card (that's what I was aiming for anyway).

The little flame is from straight from the nest cartridge and I lucked out because I didn't even have to size it, it automatically came out the perfect size!

I ended up doing two cards because I couldn't figure out if a white mat (my original card) wouldbe better than a gray mat (that card I think of as my masculine card for some reason). But since I was using Emma's 3in card base, I had plenty of scraps left over to make two cards.

I LOVE these stamps! I used 5 different stamp/die sets from Emma and they all can be interchanged! (small talk, fancy frame and die set, build a banner kit, Race for a cure and XL label die)

This is the second card I made. I think I like the original (white mat) better.

I won! I won!

Look what came in the mail! I won these embellishments as blog candy from Laura at Laura's Crafts & More! What sweet blog candy!

Market street stamps Challenge

I made this card for the sketch challenge at Market Street Stamps. I really liked this little worm from April showers cartridge and wanted to do something other than make him a book worm or coming out of an apple. Then I remembered this challenge and this idea came to me. It was cuter in my mind than it is in real life, but I still like how it came out. The log stamp is from MSS and the sentiment I made on my computer says: sending you a "tree-mendous" Thank You. The die and stamp surrounding the sentiment is from Emma.

Impulse buying at HSN

I just did a bad, dumb thing! I have a cricut expression and a cricut imagine but I felt the need to order the new expression 2! I justified it saying to myself that it comes with 2 cartridges u can't get otherwise and that I'll sell my other expression on eBay. I hope I follow through with that because I do not need 3 machines! I know what made me do it, it was the fact that there was only 22 hours left to order it and the 5 flex payments! Man those people are smart! So I am feeling excitement and remorse! Anybody out there with me?

Great deal on Lori's Garden!

Maybe most of you already have this one, but I don't because I couldn't find it on sale. Cricutmachine.com has it on sale right now for $19.99! I just bought it finally! Just thought I would share that.

Challenge card

When I got the sesame street cartridge in the mail a few days ago I saw this little bug and thought how cute he was and wanted to do something with him. When I see the challenge on peachy keen stamps and I immediately thought of this bug. I was originally going to have him sitting on the beach but then I saw that leaf and thought that a tiny bug might see a leaf floating on the water as a raft. The sentiment from market street stamps (framed perfectly by Emma's die cut and stamp) was just made for that scene (I think so anyway)!

My first Youtube upload

I fiqured out a storage idea for some of my Imagine carts and I thought I might share them so I did a video and uploaded it on Youtube. It took FOREVER! I am now wondering if I don't know some kind of trick to get it to load faster. Anyway, I would love for you guys to check it out and let me know what you think of the idea. Esp. if you have better ideas!