My Favorite Cricut Carrying Bag

I found this woman from Ebay and she designed a Cricut carrying bag for me to use when going to crops.  I was able to pick out the fabric myself and everything.  And I only paid $30 for it!!!!!!!  Of course I'm sure at this point she's charging a bit more, because frankly----her work is worth it!  But I wanted to share her contact info in case anyone is looking for a custom made bag for toting your Cricut machine around.  Just give Ashley a call and she'll whip up the PERFECT bag!

www.cre8tiveinstincts.com

http://www.cre-8-tiveinstincts.blogspot.com/

Close Up of Buckles



Front View





Back View Showing Second Pocket

She also created this cute dust cover.



Merry Christmas to All!!!!

Considering I have such a passion for scrapbooking and cardmaking, I find it funny (the sad kind of funny) that I am so horrible at sending Christmas cards each year.  I've made a promise to myself to send out at least 25 this year---and I'm finally on my way to accomplishing that.  My mom and I went to a crop this weekend and I was able to get 8 cards done so far.  I have only done two styles, but I figure it will be easier to get them done on time if I limit how many designs I do.

The first card is completey my style.  It has some intricate cuts made with the Cricut as well as Tattered Angels sparkly spray, stickles, and irock gems.


Recipe:

Outside frame is from the new Ornamental Iron cartridge.  I absolutely LOVE how detailed these cuts are.
The center square was printed on the Imagine using the Mr. Frosty cartridge.
The bottom layer of the snowflake was cut on the cricut using the Winter Lace cartridge.
And finally the top layer of the snowflake is a spellbinders die.

This second card went together in about a third of the time of the first design.  And I can hardly believe I'm typing this, but I didn't even use the Cricut!!!!  The bottom layer of green was embossed with a folder that is not Cuttlebug.  I don't believe it is marked as Sizzix either, so my guess is it's Quickutz.  Then the top is just a sheet of paper from a Christmas paper pack that I bought at Michael's.  I cut out a couple of trees from a scrap of the paper and popped them up with pop dots.

So now the goal will be to actually send them out in the mail by the 18th.  Wish me luck!!!

Fall Fun

Here is another project I did for the Cricut blog contest.  This week the challenge was to use these colors:

I decided I wanted to do a simple scrapbook page.  I don't have a picture in mind yet, but I'm going to see how it goes creating a page first.  Knowing me, I'll end up taking pictures one day specifically to fill this page.

Think Pink

Here is my entry for the Think Pink Challenge on the Cricut blog.  I wasn't planning to enter this contest, but decided to at 10pm this evening.  This also happens to be my first project using my new Imagine.  After having a baby not too terribly long ago, I learned how important it is to let them sleep as MUCH as possible!  And since I have a bit of a shopping addiction, the mail carrier and/or UPS/Fed Ex delivery persons would always knock on the door and wake the baby up.  I have created this sign to hang on the front door and will plan to give it to a friend that is expecting her first daughter.

The challenge required use of at least three of the following:  pink, ruffles, scallops, flourishes, glitter, and jewels.
I used scalloped ribbon and scalloped boxes around the word baby, everything is done in pink, there is glimmer mist and glitter stickles on the butterflies and the flourishes are blinged out with the irock.  So I guess the only thing I missed were the ruffles!

SHHH - Hello Kitty Font

Baby - New Arrival

Sleeping - Cursive 101

Butterflies & Flourish Borders - Picturesque (which I just won at the Utah Swarm!)

2010 Utah Swarm - Homewood Suites Door Decorating Contest

Everyone did SUCH a great job with decorating their doors!  Here are the entries that I took pics of:
Winner:

In the end, I chose this door b/c it really represented what the Circle is all about-----spreading the love!  They had little charms for everyone that visited to take and put on their Circle charm bracelet.  Great job ladies!  As their prize, they each got a Gypsy cover and Cuttlebug folder.

Door #2 (Cassandra Cauble)

Door #3

Door #4

Door #5

Door #6

Door #7

Door #8

Our Door (Denise made a magnet board for each of the six of us in the room.  We hung all of them from our room number sign)

2010 Utah Swarm - Swag Bag Pics

Forgetting my camera charger was the biggest oopsie of my trip to Utah.  But here are the pics I took there as well as some pics of the loot I got!

Utah Swarm - Friday Night Dinner

As of 10/06 at 3pm, here's the list of all that plan to attend.
Those in maroon have paid Rina
Those in pink have paid Crystal
Those in orange have not paid

	Screen Name	Real Name	State	Paid	Comments
1	Rina	Rina Salazar	Alaska	PD
7	PrincessKovach	Crystal Kovach	Minnesota	PD
8	Mis986	Missy	Minnesota	PD
9	MyTimeToCraft	Diane Miller	California	PD
10	DeniseKenna	Denise Kenna	Alaska
11	Tupperstamper	Lisa Sim	Utah	PD
12	scrapperbecka	Rebecca Maddux	Nevada	Pd
13	Ctimz3	Cassandra Cauble	Arizona		Paying at door
14	CricutCritter		California
15	CraftingonHat	Carla Blake	Washington	PD
16	ScrappinKittyRN	Kathryn Matter	California	PD
17	HeresToLife	Sherri	Arizona
18	HeresToLife-guest	Becky	Arizona		new circle member
19	AmyW	Amy	Colorado	PD
20	JaniceA	Janice Aeschliman	Illinois	PD
21	vwbug	Tina Gray	Illinois	PD
22	LeslieHankley	Leslie Hankley	Illinois	PD
23	JenniferKozar	Jennifer Kozar	Illinois
24	CreativeCutter		Utah
25	KarenDKrafter	Karen	Utah	PD
26	KarenDKrafter-guest	Jeff	Utah	PD	hubby
27	goCricutgo	Donna Cloud	Montana	PD
28	wklibearty		California
29	Melissa Todd	Melissa Todd	Illinois	PD
30	runswithscissors		Utah
31	DianeD	Diane DiFani	Washington	PD
32	DianeD-guest	Mike DiFani	Washington	PD	hubby
33	JanetSchmeckpeper	Janet Schmeckpeper	Illinois	PD
34	KrisS	Kris	Illinois
35	Luvmybugs	Terry Ptaszynski		PD
36	Luvmybugs-guest	Joe		PD	hubby
37	Makeupgirl217	Elizabeth Currie-Matsko	Kansas	PD
38	Bearylish		Utah		not going to swarm
39	Mignonne		Minnesota
40	PinkCricut	Sarah	Iowa
41	crickee
42	Phlenin	Jenn Weight		PD
43	Phlenin-guest	Jason		PD	hubby
44	Tracy-ScrappinMom	Tracy Richball	Washington	PD
45	Tracy-ScrappinMom-guest		Washington	PD	sister
46	kashicaat	Stephanie Caballero	California	PD
47	brandybowman	Brandy Bowman	Montana	PD
48	brandybowman-guest		Montana	PD
49	brandybowman-guest		Montana	PD
50	brandybowman-guest		Montana	PD
51	TheBugBytes	Padmaja Ramesh (Pam)	Texas	PD	vegetarian
52	LilMsPaperdoll	Judy Esparza	New Mexico
53	The Daily Scrapper	Misty LittleJohn	New Mexico
54	LilMsPaperdoll-guest	Jean Buhl	New Mexico		not a circle member yet
55	cricutgirl21	TJ Roberts	Utah		not going to swarm
56	JeannieLynn	Jeannie	Illinois		pending arrival time
57	Stipple45	Sally Helmig	Oregon	PD	pending arrival time
58	ElizabethWest1	Elizabeth West	Texas		pending arrival time
59	ElizabethWest1-guest	Betty Fletcher	Texas		pending arrival time
60	MsBEEhaven	Garaleen	Utah
61	MsBEEhaven-guest		Utah		hubby
62	Heather Johannessen	Heather Johannessen	Minnesota	PD
63	Heather Johannessen-guest		Minnesota	PD	hubby
64		Thea White		PD
65	Scrappin'Calamity	Janie		PD
66	LizaHenderson	Liza Henderson
67		Joli Pichot		PD
68	piglover	Rachel Garrison	Indiana
69	piglover-guest	Rachelle Garrison	Indiana		15 y/o daughter
70	cre8nCam	Cammie	Utah	PD
71	The Monogram Mom	Jill Cooper	Utah	PD
72	The Monogram Mom-guest	Melissa McKee	Utah
73	Brynn
74	SandyL	Sandy Lambardi		PD	w/Wendy Dickerson
75	purplescrapper	Sandra Tribbell	California	PD
76	Kristidriscoll	Kristi Driscoll		PD
77	Kristidriscoll-guest	Betty Brett		PD
78	LindaHarris5	Linda Harris		PD
79	Liz Lumsden	Elizabeth Lumsden		PD
80	dianadglss	Diana Vaughn	Kansas	PD
81	dianadglss-guest		Kansas	PD	Hubby
82	RachelYoung	Rachel Young	Kansas	PD
83		Cherie Clement	Utah	PD
84		Tonya Lowe		PD
85	hotbunnage	Candace Bunnage		PD
86	SleeplessScrapper	Shirley	Texas
87	SabrinaLacroix	Sabrina Lacroix	Colorado
88	Josy	Josy	California