Cricut Good Old Days Easy Birthday Bags

Here are some quick and easy party bags made with the Cricut Imagine Good Old Days cartridge and the Imagine machine.  All I did was lay out two images (the Happy Birthday and the cake) and print them onto bags that I ran through the Imagine. Sadly, I didn't center them as well as I could have (whoops!).

Take a look at this fun Good Old Days cartridge:

It would be fun to put your birthday treat bag candies and what not into these bags.  FYI, the bags came from Michaels and they are lunch bag sized.


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New Cricut Easter Digital Cartridges - Including Teresa Collins!

New digital Cricut cartridges available in the Cricut Craft Room (under the Cricut Craft Room exclusives tab).  Each is $9.99 and you can also purchase them at cricut.com HERE (scroll to see these once at link).

Below is one that has images I know people have been wanting - a more religiously based set of Easter images.

Super cute traditional images below - love that word art!

The next two are from the fabulous Teresa Collins!

I am away at a blogger conference so it will be next week before you see some Easter cards with these images.  More about the conference later...

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Creative University and 3-D Tree Project

Welcome to some of the projects I made this past weekend at Creative University, a four day event put on by Tresa Black in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho area.  Here are four of the five of us with the tree.  I am standing next to Pam. Our fifth roommate, Mystique, worked on her projects in two locations, upstairs and downstairs, for which we teased her unmercifully. I hogged her space when she wasn't around.  She was off at the time this photo was taken.

Below are two of my roomies, Lisa and Heather (left - right).  Heather came up with this super cute idea of making a 3-D tree to give to Tresa as a hostess gift.  We decided it would be a fun thing for all of us roomies to make together.

 Above are the animal tags Lisa and I put together.  Tag #1, 3, 4, 8 and 9 are from Straight from the Nest, tag #2 is from Give A Hoot, Tags #5, 6, and 7 are from Noah's ABCs Cricut cartridge.  All were cut at 1-1/2" or 2".

Lisa rocked the Stickles and mounted all the animals on these cute backgrounds.  I can't believe what a difference those Stickles (glitter glue) makes.  She is quite handy at it.  I usually smear it and get it everywhere. I may start using it more, after some practice.

The owl had a lazy eye - who knew?

The tree from various angles!

Below is a picture of Tresa holding the tree.  Isn't she gorgeous?

All the roommates together!  (l->r: Mystique, Pam, Lisa, Joy and Heather).

Above, Lisa and I are showing off the bracelets we/she made in the jewelry class.

Below is Kim, who pretty much put my bracelet together.  Jewelry making is a skill I need to work on!  Kim was so sweet, even when I dropped the clasp and lost it and was generally inept.

Hard at work at 4:30 am (my time) - I couldn't get used to the time change so it seemed a good time to craft!

While we were there, it snowed twice!  Gorgeous!

Lake Coeur d'Alene (above and below)

Above are two sweet ladies (Robin and Molly) with Tresa.  I met them on the plane; they were sitting in the row in front of me on my last leg and were really nice.

This wall hanging was in the dining hall and Molly and Robin thought it would be fun to take a photo with it.  Great idea!

I loved everything about this event - the classes, food, friends, location!  I will be posting more about the classes as they were outstanding.

I took none of these photos - the beautiful scenery photos were by Molly and Robin, who obviously have outstanding photography skills.  The roommate photos and tree/project photos were taken by Lisa.

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St Patrick's Day Card

 I made this Elmo St. Patrick's Day card using the new Cricut Sesame Street Elmo and Friends Holiday cartridge.  One of my favorite things about this cartridge is the word art on it for all the holidays/seasons.

The word art on this cartridge would make great scrapbook titles or card phrases and includes the following (layered with a shadow): Be Mine, IHeartYou, Happy Valentine's Day, Hugs and Kisses, Best Friends, Cutie Pie, Sweetie, Happy Easter, Easter Bunny, Dyeing Eggs, Easter Egg Hunt, Easter Basket, Surprise!, Spring!, Happy St. Patrick's Day, Happy 4th of July, Independence Day, Fireworks, Uncle Sam, Trick or Treat, Happy Halloween, All Dressed Up, Happy Haunting, Goblins and Ghouls, Jack O Lantern, Pumpkin Carving, Boo!, Be Thankful, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Holidays, Joy, Merry Christmas, Season's Greetings, Bah Humbug, Peace on Earth, Ho Ho Ho, Christmas List, Peace, For You, Happy Christmas, Celebrate, Decorate, Family, Best Wishes, Thanks, He He He, Love, Holiday, It's Your Day.

 This was a relatively easy layered Elmo to cut out.  Not too many detailed parts (those of you who have cut the Disney characters know what I'm talking about...) and easy to figure out.

Paper is by DCWV Lemon Flower stack.  Ribbon by Papertrey Ink.  You can see the Cricut Sesame Street Elmo and Friends Holiday cartridge handbook HERE.

You can find the files to this project below:
Click HERE for the Gypsy file.
Click HERE for the Cricut Craft Room file.

I just got back from the Idaho Creative University scrapbook event and I'll be putting up some photos of the event and the projects in the coming days.  I had an amazing time - the best roommates and fantastic classes.  Everyone was GREAT!

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February Cricut Cartridge Releases!

Wait until you see this month's Cricut cartridges!  It is a smaller release but all three of the cartridges are outstanding.

1) Cricut Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2

There are more boxes on the cartridge than shown above.

This long awaited follow up to the very popular Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut cartridge comes with a new feature.  It has the ability to score your project before you even cut it out!  How cool is that!  A scoring blade is being sold that will work with this cartridge and more in the future.  Very convenient for scoring that milk carton, which is a bear without this.

So, how will this work?  Take a look at the handbook page below:

The base cut is for the milk carton in one piece.  The shift to the base is actually the scoring that goes with the base cut.  So to cut the base milk carton, you would first use the SHIFT-Base milk carton key to score with the scoring blade.  Then hit "Load Mat".  Replace scoring blade with cutting blade. Then cut the Base Milk Carton.  The "Load Mat" returns the blade back to the original starting point, which is essential for this to work.

Above, you can see the next two feature keys (Box Section 1 and Box Section 2).  Those work the same way and are so you can make a much larger milk carton and then piece it together.

Now, this cartridge also has some really fun tags, cards, envelopes, word art and skinny word art to use with the new gel pens Provo Craft is coming out with - so fun!  You can see the web handbook HERE.  Also, there are assembly instructions HERE.

This cartridge is already shipping and people are making gorgeous things with it on the Cricut message board.  I plan on using it frequently!

2) Cricut Garden Soup

This cartridge has some fun, funky word art and garden type images!  It has some great bees and bee sayings, for the bee lovers out there.  I made a fun bag using the bee images that you'll see next week.

3) Cricut Creative Memories Divine Wedding Cartridge

Another winner!  Some really, really great word art and monograms on this cartridge.  In fact, those two things really sell this cartridge.  Loving it!  This will need to purchased through a Creative Memories consultant.

And now, a giveaway!

How about Noah's ABC Animals!?  Lots of cute animals that could be used for all kinds of things besides church/Hebrew school.

How can you win?

1) Leave a comment below telling what cartridge you like best of the release!

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Winner will be announced Friday, February 24, 2012.

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