Jinger Adams Design Team Call

I made this Easter layout for the Jinger Adams Design Team Call.  Jinger Adams is the former spokesperson for Provocraft and is now striking on her own.  If her taste in shoes are an indicator, I just know what she has in store is going to be great ;) 

I wanted to make something fresh and that said, "Spring is here!"  I can't wait to take a picture on Easter that I can add to layout.  I will update this post with the picture I select. 

I Used:

- Claudine Hellmuth Sticky-Back Canvas in White

- Word Collage Porject Cricut Cartridge - Easter image printed using autofill

- Elise Imagine Color & Patterns Cartridge - pattern 1, p. 3  for Word Collage Easter image 

  light blue color from palette for EASTER letters from Kate's ABCs
- Hannah Montana - butterfly image - bttrfly cut at 4 in
- Kate's ABCs Cricut Cartridge - All letters cut at .7 in using the Baby Girl Font 2 Shadow feature and shift
  Bird-s for the E
  Apple-s for the A
  Shoes2-s for the S
  Teacup-s for the T
  Bunny-s for the R
- Prima Flowers November Chrysanthemums
- Imaginisce orange & yellow rhinestones
- All paper from Bazille
- We R Memory Keepers Corner Chompers 3/8
- White Seam Binding
- Imagine Cricut Machine

Here's How:
First, I flooded the Easter image from the Word Collage cartridge with the pattern from Elise.   Then I used the autofill feature to make the Easter image as big as possible.  The colors and image looked so beautiful I was tempted to just leave it as it was.

Then, I flooded the E, A, S, T, E, R with the light blue color from the Elise color palette.  I glued it on top of one of the colorful Easter words to make it stand out and added the Prima flowers which needed some bling to jazz them up :)  The Imaginisce rhinestones did the job.

I cut the butterfly from the Hannah Montana cartridge.  I had wanted one that looked delicate with a lot of flourish and this fit right in.  Some orange rhinestones gave it a little sparkle.

I rounded the edges of photo mats to soften the look and added the seam binding.

I added a Prima flower on the photo mat at the last minute.  It makes it more spring-like. 

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. 

~S.D. Gordon

I Love You Ardently Card

The fog finally lifted for me.  I made a Valentine's Day card for my husband that I am happy with.  I had stumbled across a post in Cricut Circle by Sara Andrews.  She had made a giftbag using the Teresa Collins Balck and White cartridge and I remembered: Hey, I have a bunch of color and pattern cartridges I can use!  So I pulled out on of my favorites: Audrey.  I even love the name - it reminds me of Audrey Hepburn. 

I Used:
- Cricut Imagine for the frames (part of the shapes that come with the Imagine) and printing the red damask background on the frame
- Audrey Color and Pattern Cartridge - red damask paper
- Microglaze to protect the ink on the printed paper
- Papertrey Ink - Simply Jane sentiment and Linen Impression plate
- Ranger Ginger Alcohol Ink
- Seam Binding
- Tattered Angels - Marshmallow Mist
-  Heart charm from my stash

The MicroGlaze helps protect the paper printed using a jetink printer.  It doesn't smear and a little goes a long way.

You can't see and I don't know how to photograph it but there are little tiny sparkles from the Marshmallow Mist.  I like it because it is subtle.

I puntured a hole on the bottom of the red damask frame and added the heart charm.  You can also see the debossing impression of the Linen Impression Plate.

I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee?