Imagine Monday

Today for my Imagine-ation project, I used the Yummy card to make a birthday card for my baby sister!

• I cut out the "Happy" "Birthday" banner pieces from the Yummy cartridge at 1 inch each. 
• Before attaching them to my card base, I cut down some patterned paper from my Celebrations stack by The paper studio to 5 3/8 x 4 7/8. 
• Before attaching the patterned paper, I strung some green and white twine around it 5 times. 
• I attached the patterned paper with ATG, and the banner pieces with some pop-dots. 
• The inside is stamped with a sentiment stamp from Pink by Design.

Imagine Monday!

Today my project for the design team is a card using the Imagine cartridge Better Together. To check out other projects using the Imagine, make sure to visit Erica's blog at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

• I used a A2 card base
• I cut the patterned paper to 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 so that it would be just slightly smaller than the front of the card base. 
• The lady carrying the presents is the cut from Better Together, and she is cut at 4 inches and attached to the card base using pop dots.
• Before attaching the patterned paper to the card base, I wrapped some twine around the paper, and then used ATG adhesive to attach the patterned paper to the card base. 
• I used Memento ink and a Happy Birthday sentiment stamp from the Scripted Year set from Pink by Design.

Pink by Design Anniversary challenge # 5!

The 5th challenge is to make a card or layout using the OMBRE technique. This is where you have colors that go from lightest to darkest. Here is my take on the challenge!

I started by cutting down my patterned paper to 5 3/8 x 3 7/ 8. I took my twine and laid it out from lightest to darkest and wrapped it around my paper. In the center I brought it together and attached it using a glue dot. I then made 3 circles using glue dots along the top of my card, and used 2 colors on each ones to make them look like lollypops. I used my pink twine to make the sticks for my lollypops. After securing all the twine to the back of the patterned paper, I attached it to my card base.

Next I stamped the banner and hand cut it from the same patterned paper that is used for the base. The banner comes from Everyday Banners, and the Have a Sweet Day stamp comes from Say it Sweet. When applying my ink for the have a sweet day, I used Memento inks Bahama Blue and Danube Blue to continue with the Ombre challenge.

For the inside of my card, I stamped it with a Happy Birthday stamp from the Birthday Birthday stamp set.

Stamps only card......and blog hop winners!

Hi everyone!! I am excited to share with you my first project for Queen of my Craftroom's design team!! This week Michelle's challenge is to make a stamped card without using a Cricut. I have made a birthday card for one of my 4 nieces who all have birthday's in February!

Items used:

• DCWV card base
• Small scalloped punch
• Peachy Keen stamps 
• Pink by design happy birthday stamp
• Memento ink
• pop-dots 
• white gel pen

How to:

• This card was so simple to make, and I just love how it turned out! I started by punching the 4 scalloped circles and adding the faces with my Peachy Keen stamps! 
• I then added the white stitching to the edges, then attached them to the card base with a pop-dot. 
• Last, I added a happy Birthday sentiment to the inside of the card. 

Now for the winners from the blog hop!! I used random.org to pick the winners!! Congratulations ladies! Please email me at samanthascricutcreations@live.com with Blog hop winner as the subject and include your full name and mailing address so I can get your goodies out to you!

1. K & Company - Josie0602 Comment # 85
2. K & Company - TeresaK Comment # 38
3. Cartridge  - Pixichick Comment #86
4. PBD stamp set - Dawn, RI Comment #2
5. Freeze Frame - Jenn Comment # 10

Imagine Monday!

Hi everyone! Welcome to Imagine Monday hosted by Erica at My Cricut Craft Room. If you would like to see other projects made using the Imagine, or an Imagine cartridge with the E2, please head over the Erica's blog and check out what the other design team members have made today!

My project to day is a birthday card for my Mother-in-law! She loves to sew, so I knew this card would be a hit!

Items used:

• Nifty Fifties and Imagine More cartridges 
• patterned paper from stash
• A7 paper studio craft paper card base 
• twine
• pop-dots
• "A stitch in time" frame cut from Imagine More at 4.5 inches
• sewing machine cut at 2 inches from Nifty Fifties
• ATG
• Sentiment stamp for inside (not pictured), and Memento ink

How To:

• I started by cutting my patterned paper down and adhering it to my card base using ATG
• I then attached the frame to the card base using pop-dots.
• Before adhering all layers of the sewing machine together, I added the twine to the spool of thread, and brought it down to the needle area to make it look like it was actually sewing something! I used some Zig glue to help keep the twine in place along the needle. 
• The sewing machine is also attached to the card base using pop-dots. 

Hope you enjoyed!

Card Creating Tuesday!

Hi Everyone! Today we had another sketch challenge to use for the design team, and this is my take on it! To see other projects by the design team, head over to My Cricut Craft room!

I used Imagine More Cards to cut the tag out at 3 inches. Before cutting out, I changed the striped layer from the default pink stripes to a more manly colors since this card is going to my brother. I used pop-dots to pop it up from the card base.

I have linked up this post to Pink by Design's linking party! Go check it out and link up your projects!

January 100 Cartridge Blog Hop - Day 1

Welcome to Erica's Craft Room

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop - Day 1

You should have come from Rosa, but if you just happened to stop by, please start at http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ to start at the beginning!

I have made 5 projects for you today...so here ya go!

My first project is a sympathy card for a friend who lost her grandmother. I used Imagine more to print the background paper, and to cut the tag. This tag usually has a strawberry and the words sweet printed on it, so I had to remove them before printing from the imagine. The tag is cut at 4 inches.

My second project is a birthday card using Sugar and Spice. I cut the owl out at 3 inches. The background paper is from DCWV Celebrations stack, and the trim paper is from DCWV The Ultimate Premium Stack. The owl is attached to the card base using a action wobble! The sentiment on the front is embossed on using white embossing powder and is from Pink by Design. The sentiment on the inside is also from PBD and is stamped with Memento Grape Jelly ink.

My third project for you is a really cute grasshopper valentine card! I used Stretch your Imagination and cut the grasshopper at 3 inches, he is attached to the card base with pop-dots. The card base is from Studio G (the cute $1 packs of cards from Michaels!) I added three 3D glitter hearts to the cutout, to add some bling. The inside is stamped with a sentiment from PBD, and stamped with Lady Bug Memento ink.

My fourth project is a cute any day card for a friend. I used Just because cards to cut the card base, owl, and saying out. The card base is cut at 8 inches, and the sentiment and owl are cut at 2.5. I actually used Cricut Craft Room to lay all my layers out on the mat, and then placed my colored paper on it to cut all at once! I used "Eucalyptus" stickles to add some glitter to one portion of the sentiment cut out. The sentiment stamp on the inside is from PBD.

(All my papers to cut the owl card layers)

My final project for you today is another birthday card! I used Cheerful Season to cut the sentiment "Celebrate" at 1 inch. The background paper is from Momenta "Family Outings" (from Hobby Lobby). It is already embossed with circles to give it some texture. I attached it to my card base with some ATG. Before attaching it, I strung the twine around it to give it some a pop of color. I used a glue pen to adhere the "Celebrate" to the card base. The inside has 2 PBD sentiment stamps.

Blog Candy time!

I am giving away a cute little Valentines sentiment stamp and ink. (Sorry I don't have a picture of it at the moment)

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Theme Day Thursday - Retro

Hi and welcome to Theme Day Thursday! If you would like to see more Retro projects, head over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other design team members have made!

Today's project is a birthday card for my mom! Her birthday is next week, and I figured this would be a perfect theme to make her a card with. :)

Items uesd:

• A7 card base
• patterned paper
• blue, black and white cardstock
• Nifty Fifty Cricut Cartridge
• pop-dots
• ATG adhesive
• Memento Ink
• PBD sentiment stamp

How to:

• I started by cutting the Route 66 tag from Nifty Fifty at 4 inches 
• I cut the patterned paper down to fit the front of the card base. Before attaching, I used a distressing tool to distress the edges of the patterned paper as well as the edges of the card base. 
• I attached the tag to the card using pop-dots 
• Last, I added the sentiment stamp to the inside of the card

My Imagination Monday!

Hi and welcome to Imagine-ation monday! If you would like to see other projects made with the imagine please head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to see what the other design team members have created for you today.

Today's card is a birthday card for one of my sister-in-laws.

Items used:

• Card base
• patterned paper
• twine
• Tag cut from Imagine Better Together cartridge
• Sentiment stamps from PBD
• Memento ink
• adhesive
• pop dots

How to:

•  I started by cutting the patterned paper to slightly smaller than the front of the card base
• Next I strung the twine around the patterned paper and attached both to the front of the card base
• I then used some pop-dots and attached the tag to the front of the card.
• For the inside of the card, I added 2 sentiment stamps from PBD.

Not old...Vintage!

Hi and Welcome to Imagine-ation Monday! If you would like to see other projects made with the Imagine head on over to My Cricut Craft Room to check out what the other design team members have created.

My project today is a birthday card for a good friend of mine who's birthday is later this week.

Items used:

• A2 Card base
• Yummy Imagine Cartridge 
• Patterned paper
• Brown Ink for distressing
• ATG adhesive 
• Pop Dots
• Pink By Design Sentiment stamps
• Memento Ink

How To:

• I first cut the "Not Old, Vintage" tag from Yummy at 3 inches 
• I then cut the pink scroll border also from Yummy at 1.5 inches 
• I attached the patterned paper and border cut using ATG adhesive 
• I attached the "Not Old, Vintage" tag using Pop Dots 
• The inside is stamped with 2 PBD sentiment stamps

My Imagination Monday!

Hi, and welcome to My Imagination Monday with My Cricut Craft Room! Today is all about making a project using the Cricut Imagine. If you would like to see other projects made with the Imagine, please check out the other design team members project that can be found on My Cricut Craft Room's blog!

My project for today is a birthday card that was part of a large batch of cards that I sent to Erica to take with her to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Items used:

• A2 card base 
• Patterned paper 
• Imagine More Cards Cricut Cartridge
• Pop dots
• Adhesive 
• Border punch
• Pink By Design stamp
• Memento ink

How To:

• I started by cutting down my card base from a standard A2 size to 4 x 4. I punched the edge of the front flap.
• I cut down the patterned paper to fit the front of the card, as well as a strip to attach to the inside of the card so it would show through the border punch on the front flap
• I cut out the birthday tag from Imagine More Cards cartridge at 2.5 inches and attached it to the front of the card base with a pop dot
• I finished off my card by stamping the inside with a Happy Birthday Sentiment stamp from PBD! 

Blog hop winner!
Congratulations to comment # 8! You are my lucky winner! Please email me at samanthascricutcreations@live.com with your mailing address!

Josie0602 said...

Fabulous cards!! I love them all. Tracy jtg0398(at)sbcglobal(dot)net

Manly birthday card

Hi everyone! Today is card creating Sunday for My Cricut Craft Room, so if you would like to see more design team members cards head on over and check them out!

Today's card is for my dad's upcoming birthday. I wanted to make something manly for him. I had just recently purchased the Country Carnival Imagine cartridge, and really liked some of the cuts that it offered.

Items used:

• Country Carnival Imagine Cartridge
• Twine
• Memento black ink
• Pink by design birthday stamp
• Tim Holtz distressing ink
• ATG adhesive
• 3D foam adhesive squares
• card base 

How To:

• I started by cutting the square frame from the Country Carnival cartridge at 4 inches.
• Once this was cut, I inked the edges with my Tim Holtz distressing ink to help roughen up the edges.
• I then stamped the birthday sentiment to the frame. 
• Before attaching the frame, I attached the twine. To do this, I ran a strip of ATG adhesive along my card and put the twine directly on it. I then wrapped the twine around the card  a few times and cut it and adhered the other end to the ATG adhesive as well.
• I then attached the frame to the front of the card using the 3D foam squares. 

Here is a little video I made to give you a visual of how this card was made. :) Hope you enjoy!

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Today is one of my best friends birthday! (Happy Birthday Chris!!) Chris and I used to work together, and could always be found together having lunch! I sure miss being able to go to lunch with her now that we live just over 3,000 miles away from each other :(. We have however kept in touch and talk and email all the time! For her birthday, I made her the following card!

Items used:

• Card base cut to 6 x 5 
• Paper Studio Celebrations paper 
• Paper Studio ribbon
• Twine
• Memento Ink in Lilac Posies and Grape Jelly
• Pink by Design Stamps from "Say it Sweet" set
• 3D foam adhesive squares
• ATG adhesive
• scalloped circle punch

The inspiration for this card came from my new stamp set from PBD. This is one of the sets that was just released on Friday night and I am in love with it! I knew at the time I was buying it that I would end up making Chris birthday card with a sentiment (or 2!) from this set! Once I have narrowed down the sentiments I started to find some paper that I felt matched. That is when I pulled out the Cupcake paper by Paper Studio!

Once the paper and stamps were picked out, I cut the card base down so that my cupcake paper would fit on the front. I attached it to the front of the card base with ATG adhesive. I also wanted to try something new with my ribbon, so I cut it to fit exactly across the front, but then rolled the edges towards the back, and attached 3D foam squares to make the ribbon "pop" out! This allowed me to attach the scalloped punch with sentiment stamp with some twine.

For the scalloped punch, I used a scrap piece of paper from the same stack as the background paper. Before attaching, I inked the edges with my Grape Jelly memento ink, and punched a hole to be able to run the twine through. I then stamped the sentiment with Lilac Posies memento ink.

For the inside of the card, I used the Lilac Posies ink to stamp another PBD sentiment also from the Say it Sweet" stamp set.

Happy Birthday Cupcake!

My youngest sisters birthday is coming up here in a few weeks, so it was time to sit down and make her a card. :) I wanted it to be something fun as she is turning 12, and figured she would love this one! Today is also Card Creating Tuesday over on My Cricut Craft Room, so to see more cards, head on over there!

Items used:

• Blue, green, white and yellow cardstock
• Wild Card Cricut Cartridge
• Peachy Keen face stamp from Everyday Character Face Assortment (PK-490)
• Adhesive
• Black gel pen
• PBD Sentiment stamps 
• Memento ink
• blush 
• Blue marker 

How to:

• Cut card at 8inches from Wild Card Cartridge 
• Cut layers all at 8 inches
• Cut the "flame" off of yellow candle and attached it to the green candle
• Attached layers to base starting with the bottom of the cupcake, then the candle and last the white top later.
• I then stamped the face and colored in the eyes as well as applied the blush to the cheeks.
• Next came the sentiment stamps, both on the front of the card, as well as inside the card. 
• I then dressed up the front by making some stitch marks with my black gel pen.  

Hope you enjoy! 

Happy Birthday Blog Hop!

Hi and welcome to my Birthday Blog hop! This is the start of the hop that includes 12 wonderful blogs on the hop (there are 2 that are only able to participate on Sunday - so make sure to come back if you are hoping on Saturday!). I hope you enjoy hopping along and enjoy all the projects that everyone has come up with!

The theme for today's hop is Birthday! I will be celebrating my 27th birthday on August 3rd and can't think of a better way to celebrate it with all of you! Everyone on the hop has made any project that makes them think "Birthday".


For my project, I have created some party decorations! I made a "Happy Birthday" banner, invitations and topped it all off with some matching cupcake toppers and a card! I hope you enjoy!

Items used for the banner:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge 
• Blast off Imagine cartridge
• Scalloped 2 inch circle punch
• 3D Foam adhesive squares 
• Twine
• Stickers from my stash
• Striped paper from DCWV Stack 7

I started by cutting out the banner triangles using both the Birthday Bash cartridge and the blast off cartridge to make them the orange background color. These were cut at 3.5 inches.

After cutting out all the banner triangles, I tied them together using 4.5 inch pieces of twine. Once all the banner pieces were attached together, I punched the scalloped circles and attached the letters (stickers) and then attached the scalloped circles to the banner with 3D foam squares.

Next up was the invitations:

Items used for Invitaion:

• Birthday Bash cricut cartridge
• Blast Off Imagine cartridge
• Memonto Ink
• Bo Bunny stamp set
• Twine

I started by cutting the triangles that matched the banner at 5 inches using the same cartridges as before. Once they were cut out, I lined up my stamps to fit the scalloped sides of the invitation and stamped them using Memonto ink. I then added the twine bow to give the invitation a little pop of color.

Then came the cupcake toppers:

 Items used for cupcake topper:

• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Memonto ink
• Happy Birthday stamp from PBD "Birthday Birthday" set
• toothpick
• adhesive
• DCWV striped paper from Stack 7 
• Left over paper from triangles 

I used left over striped paper and triangle paper to punch scalloped circles. Once they were punched out, I added the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. I then used some adhesive to attach a toothpick to the back of the punch.

Last is the card:

Items used for card:

• Birthday Bash cartridge 
• Scalloped 5 inch card base
• scalloped circle cut at 4.5 inches
• Scalloped 2 inch punch
• Extra banner triangle
• Sentiment stamps (both from PBD)
• 3D foam squares
• ATG adhesive
• Brads

For the card, I started by using a scalloped card base that I had in my stash. I then cut a scalloped circle at 4.5 inches from the Birthday Bash cartridge and attached it to the front of the card base using my ATG gun.  Next came attaching the banner triangle and scalloped punch with the "Happy Birthday" sentiment. The banner was attached using 2 brads through the striped paper (now that I am typing this out, I did this before attaching the scalloped circle to the card base.) I then used a 3D square to attache the 2 inch scalloped punch to the triangle. Before adding this, I stamped it with the sentiment using Memonto ink and inked the edges.

Once the front of the card was all done, I added the sentiment to the inside of the card!

Thank you all so much for checking out my project, and have a blast on the hop!!!

Blog Candy Time!!

I am so excited about the blog candy that is available today! Pink by Design is sponsoring the hop and had donated a $15 gift card! 

There are 3 ways to be eligible for this prize.

1. Become a follower and leave a comment (if you are already a follower, just leave me a comment!)
2. Like my facebook page, and come back here and leave a second comment telling me that you have done this. 
3. Like Pink by Design on facebook, and let them know I sent you!

I hope you have enjoyed what I created today. The next stop on the hop is Meighen. Below is a list of all the blogs in the hop if you get lost along the way. 

Blog List!
Samantha (Me) 
Meighen
Jenn
Ruthie
Gloria
Jen
Courtney
Momo
Kim
Shannin
Jenny (Sunday Only)
Michelle (Sunday Only)