Imaginisce 2012 Disney Layout

Hey everyone,

I have this cute Disney layout to share with you.

The pics are from our winter 2012 Disneyland trip. I cut the Mickey head and ears with my silhouette cameo. The papers are from the Imaginisce Scooters Vacation line. I added a red button to the bottom Mickey head and 2 red sequins on the sides of the title. "2012" title is Thickers. 

I am loving this layout. I find the simplicity and clean colors very appealing. 

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

Clique Kits - Aything Goes

DL.ART - Feb Linky

Simon Says - Inspired by a Song ( 2012 - Jay Sean) 

Scrap Much - Feb Colours (I used red, yellow, aqua, & black)

Imaginisce - Feb Sketch 

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Adorable Chicks Layout

Hey everyone!

Today I have a layout to share. This is Harmony and our two Ameraucana chicks, Cleo (gold), and Oreo (black/gray). These pics were taken this summer and they're already full grown and well.. Oreo isn't the precious hen I was hoping for... she turned into a lovely rooster lol. They're so adorable together though. Harmony LOVED to hold them any chance she could, and still does if they'll let her (but they won't lol). 

 

I cut the title and other die cuts (chicks hearts etc) with my silhouette cameo. I used pop dots for 2 of the chicks. The rest of the page is adhered with zig 2 way glue and ATG tape. My red and green and gray papers are all scraps. The red feather is stenciled on with a stencil i made with my cameo.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Picture This - November 1 Challenge (any pics + die cuts + scraps + buttons)
Clique Kits - Anything Goes
Scrap Our Stash - A-L-B-U-M-S (A=Adorable, L=layering, B= button, U=uni-ball pen around feather, M= Main gate october afternoon background paper, S=Stencil (red feather))
ScrapMuch - November color challenge

My Creative Sketches - October Sketch

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Patriotic Hair Bows

Hi everybody,

This is Jamie and today I want to share some easy to make hair bows with you all. These bows are perfect for 4th of July!

Here is a list of the things you will need to make these bows:
Alligator clips (one per bow)
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Scissors
5/8" red wired satin ribbon
11/2" navy blue mini stars wired ribbon

It took me less than 30 minutes to make these bows start to finish. I made a (hopefully) easy picture tutorial for you just in case.

Step 1.
Cut ribbons to size. I cut the navy star ribbon at aprox. 11 inches and the red approx. 3 inches.

Step 2.
Take your blue star ribbon and gate fold until the ends overlap (make sure to have them overlap enough for a line of glue to hold them together).

Step 3.
Hot glue a line across one of the edges and then press the two edges together to make a continuous piece of ribbon (it should look like a circle or bracelet shape once unflattened).

Step 4. 

Flatten the ribbon you just glued together and grab in the center of the ribbon and pinch together.

Step 5.
While still pinching the center of the ribbon, use your other hand to fold the top and bottom of the pinched area to the back (so that the center now makes a "W" shape). At this point you can hot glue to hold it together or use some twine/thread and tie it in this position if you like.

Step 6. 
While holding the center in a "W" shape (you won't have to hold it if you've tied the center in this position) take your red ribbon and wrap around the center to hide the fold. (The 3 inches is enough to wrap around 2x. If you only want to wrap around once cut off the excess now).

Step 7.
Now secure the red ribbon with hot glue (making sure your ribbon seam end is on the back side of your bow).

Step 8.

Now hot glue your alligator clip (or hair piece etc. of your choice) to the back side of the bow. Make sure you line it up in the middle so that you can't see the clip from the front.

See, I told you easy! I hope my tutorial was easy enough to follow.  Thanks for taking the time to view my project today!

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Cousins layout

I made this layout for Adam's Grandparents album I've been working on for awhile now.. It was fairly simple to make.. a little heart bling in each corner and different pattern papers behind the pic. The hardest part was the twine title and that wasn't even very hard!

I made this for the My Creative Sketches January Sketch

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MCCR Theme Day Thursday - Football Birthday

It's Theme Day Thursday over at My Cricut Craft Room and the theme today is birthday!

I made this card for my big brother.. he loves football and his fav color is red.

To make this card I used the Life is A Party cart. The card is a red card base.. with a red patterned paper on top & I inked the edges of the pattern paper with brown ink. I tied some red bakers twine around the bottom of the patterned paper.

The inside has a stamped present in brown and brown ink around the edges.

To check out the other DT projects today head over to My Cricut Craft Room.

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Imagine Help & 4th of July

So.. let me start with the most important part of this post. I got an Imagine for Mothers Day and will sometime this week finally get to open it (YAY im so excited!!). I just kind of jumped into my expression.. which worked.. but it took me forever to figure it out properly. So, I was wondering if any of you have any suggestions of blogs, or sites or anything like that where I could go to get all the info I need for starting to use the Imagine.. Im at square one.. I seriously have NO idea how to even begin to work the thing. I dont even know if I have to use a special type of paper for it lol. So any sites or blogs that have helped you out or any tips or info you can give me that helped or anything like that would be great!! thanks so much in advance for your help.

Now, onto my 4th of July. We spent it with my husbands family.. well we spent a lot of it getting ready to go lol. I for some odd reason ended up making a cake (with tons of help from my husband.. actually he did most of it lol). My pics aren't the best.. I took all of them with my iPhone since our Nikon was already packed and ready for the evening.

Adam got up at 6:30am (he couldn't sleep it wasnt like he had to or anything lol) and ended up having to go shopping to get a few things like.. oil and flour. We don't have a lot of stuff that we should have since we're still unpacking etc. He ended up baking all of the cakes and cutting them too.

How we made the flag cake:

We made 1 box of white cake (makes two 9inch circle cakes), 1 box of white cake that we dyed blue with gel food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes, and 1 box of strawberry cake and added some red food coloring (makes two 9in circle cakes.

We cut the red and white cakes in half (to make each 1 cake into 2 cakes that could be layered.. not in half like a pie), then we stacked them (from bottom to top) white, red, white, red. With the top red & white layers we took those off the cake and stacked one blue cake with them and traced with a knife the lid of a sour cream container... then we took the middle of the blue cake and put it to the side.. and the outter circles of the white and red cake to the side.

I made a filling from cool whip and mashed up strawberried and filled between each layer.. and in the circle of the blue layer. Then we frosted the cake with cream cheese frosting that I made from my better homes cook book.. its the best frosting ever! lol.

We actually made 2 of these cakes.. one said "Happy 4th" and had fireworks and the other was covered in strawberries and blue berries. I only got a pic of this one cake because the other one was gone already and of course I didnt have my Nikon so its not the best quality of a pic.

The cake pops I made with the left over cake and left over cream cheese frosting. I just kind of eyeballed it.. no recipe or anything just added what needed to be added. I had got some of the melting candy from Michaels the day before.. one bag of white and one of red. I dipped lollipop sticks in the melted candy and then shoved them into the middle of the cake balls. Then I put them into the freezer for about 10-15 mins.. my cake balls were so heavy that it was the only way I could keep them from falling off the sticks into the candy. Pretty simple, I must add this was my very first time doing cake pops and for a first time they turned out pretty good. :)

Hope you all had an amazing 4th of July weekend!! Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

Be Mine Card

This card was fairly simple to make (most of my projects tend to be.. I guess thats life with a one year old). I cut the red card stock down to 6.5x5 (a tad smaller than the card) and then I cut out the hears on my Cricut Expression using Doodle Charms, I used both the scalloped heart and the normal heart and cut them all at different sizes.. 3/4 of an inch, 1 inch, 13/4 inch & 3.5 inches. I then adhered the red paper to the front of the card and outlined the big one and wrote in words (I was going for sweethearts type of phrases but I couldn't remember them all I know I got them wrong lol) with a black glaze pen, it gives the appearence of being embossed. And I used some black Scribbles 3d paint to do 3 dots in each corner of the card.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Pear Tree Designs - #36

Card Creations & More By C - #3

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Turkey Card

Just finished up this cute little turkey card using Create A Critter. I am submitting this card into the following challenges:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - 1 Timothy 4:4

Pear Tree Designs - #21 Autumn

The Pink Stamper - Halloween or Fall

CCCB - #26 Take Flight

Cricut Cardz Challenge - #46 Anything Goes

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - #40 So long as it flies

Truly Scrumptious Challenges - #43 Sketch

Creative Belli Blog - #102 Pumpkin & Fall

Getting Cricky with K Andrew - Fall Blessings

I used solid colored paper from my stash and did the turkey cut at 2inches. I cut out the pumpkins also using Create A Critter at 1/2 inch. I colored the pumpkin faces on with some Scribbles 3D paint. I also used the Scribbles 3D paint to write the "Thank You!" and I used orange, red and yellow Scribbles 3D paint to color the edges of the card.. I just put it on my finger and rubbed it in. I also highlighted the turkey on his wings and hat with brown Scribbles 3D paint. I put an tiny orange ribbon around the turkey's hat and used foam double sided tape to put the pumpkins on. To make the turkeys wings different colors I cut out layer 2 three different times (once in yellow, once in bright orange and once in pumpkin orange) I then put them in the order I wanted them to show and cut out the middle on 4 middle feathers on the yellow, then the two middle feathers on the bright orange. Turned out pretty cute!

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Adam's Card

So my husband just felt like making another card because he was bored.. lol. Its simple but cute (i think its cute cuz it has a pic of the baby on it lol). It works with the following challenges:

priscillastyles - Midnight Madness

Paper Cutz Challenge - #62 Red, White & Black ONLY

I took the photo of Jayden in the studio on 10/11/2010 for her 9 month old photo shoot.

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Red, White & Blue Thank You!

I made this very simple red, white & blue thank you card for a few challenges.

The Pink Stamper - September 11th

Paper Cutz Challenge - #58 Tags

Get Sketchy Card Challenges - Sketch #55

ABC Challenge - D is for Distress

The large star is also a tag. I cut the stars out with both punches and Sure Cuts A Lot with my Cricut expression. I used blue & red ink to distress the main card background.. around the white 2nd layer and the stars. I used a red Zig marker to write "Thank You!"

Like I said a very simple card.. but I like it! :)

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