Vanilla Cupcake Recipe Layout

Here is a recipe layout that I made for an A-Z Dessert Recipe Swap being hosted on the Cricut message board.  I used the Cricut Imagine 'Yummy' cartridge for the 'cupcake' title and the cupcake cut.  I used some stamps to make the 'vanilla' part of the title.  I added a little bling with some stickles for the cherry.

Canadian Cricut Circle Calling Card Swap

I am participating in a fun swap with fellow Canadians on the Cricut Circle Board.  We are each making 20 calling cards to swap with one another.  This was my first time making calling cards and it was a lot of fun making these!  Each calling card is 3"x3".  I used the Kate's Kitchen Imagine cartridge for these little cupcakes.  I inked around the edges with my new favourite ink, Creative Memories chalking ink (brown).  This ink goes on so smoothly and I really like how it looks.  I layered these images with Stampin' Dimensionals from Stampin' Up.  I used a little stickles on the icing of each cupcake too.  On the reverse side, I have my message board name (Cropaholic), my real name, e-mail address and blog address.  I can't wait to see everyone else's creations!

Royal Wedding Treats & Blog Announcement

So... who got up super early to watch the Royal Wedding?  I was up at 5:20 this morning (I had to leave early to drive my dad to the airport before heading to work) so I enjoyed watching Kate arrive at Westminster Abbey and watched about half of the ceremony.  It was a beautiful wedding and Kate and William look like such a cute, happy couple! 

To celebrate the wedding at work, my supervisor thought it would be fun to have 'high tea'.  She made these delicious brownies with chocolate drizzled strawberries on top and I made the little crown decorations.  I used my Cricut Imagine and the Best Friends cartridge for the little crowns.  I added some stickles to give the crowns a little bling! 

If the wedding weren't exciting enough, I am excited to announce that I am having a total blog overhaul!  Madeline from The Shabby Vanity is designing me a new blog!!  I have just started working with her and I will be very excited to share my new blog with you all once it's complete! 

Cricut Circle Blog Monthly Challenge: Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle!

This is my first Monthly Challenge through the Cricut Circle Blog!  In this challenge, you must recycle, reuse or repurpose 3 items on your project.  I decided to enter my party decorations that I made for my daughter's birthday (today is her 5th birthday).  My daughter LOVES Spongebob Squarepants so we went with the Spongebob theme and made these decorations.  For each of these characters, I used the Spongebob Squarepants cartridge and printed and cut the layers with my Cricut Imagine.  I repurposed a few things around the house to create these decorations:  the flower pots, BBQ skewers, and the shredded paper in the pots is reused from Easter baskets!  They were a lot of fun to make and a hit at the family party we had this evening, but I think they will be even more of a hit when we have the kid's party this weekend!

Spongebob Squarepants Character Cuts with Cricut Imagine

Tonight, my mom came over to help me assemble these Spongebob Squarepants characters!  I cut each of them with my Imagine and used RGB codes to get the exact colours of each character.  I love how much easier this is than searching through all my scrap papers to find similar colours!  I love the way these turned out!  I will be using them for decorations for my daughter's birthday party.  They will likely all go into a birthday centrepiece, so I will post again with the completed project once finished.

My New Cricut Imagine Cartridges

Today, I made a trip to Michael's to check out the sale items.  Right now, cartridges are on for $44.99 and if you buy two, you get a mail in rebate for a third cartridge.  I still think it's a bit pricey for cartridges, compared to most I buy in the states, but I thought I would go for it since I can mail away for a freebie.  When I went to Michael's, I was happy to find that the Imagine cartridges were included in the sale!  I picked up two that I really wanted - Nursery Tails and Best Friends.  Aren't the images just too cute?!  I can't wait to try them out!!

Nursery Tails

Best Friends

Good Times - Cricut Imagine Layout

I was hoping to get this layout done in time to enter into the weekly Circle challenge, but that did not happen!  I had a bit of trouble cutting with my Imagine tonight, so I spent a bit more time scrapbooking than I had planned.  This was the first time I tried to print my own paper and that went really well.  I don't think I will do this too often, just because I don't want to use that much ink, but I really liked this background paper so I thought I'd try it.  The background paper, title, flag banner and tag were all from the Imagine More cartridge.  The brad on the tag is from Stampin' Up.

Cricut Imagine - Yummy cuts

Have I mentioned yet how much I love my Imagine?!  I've been experimenting more with the Imagine today and I tried setting RGB codes to get specific colours.  I'm going to try this for the Spongebob Squarepants characters that I'll be cutting for my daughter's birthday party decorations.  It is actually a lot easier to do than I thought!  

I also made some cuts from the Yummy cartridge today.  The images on here are so 'sweet'!  The cartridge is full of cupcakes, cakes, ice cream, lollipops and other sweet treats along with some titles.  I'm part of the Canadian Cricut Train, where we basically swap Cricut cuts, so that's what I'll be doing with these ones.  

'Owl Grown Up' - first Cricut Imagine layout

I finally received my replacement Cricut Imagine today, so I had to try it out right away!  I did a couple practice cuts, then I created this layout using the Imagine More cartridge.  The title, owl and border were all made with the Imagine and the background patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye.