As Promised........................BUT a word from a previous project!

I know what you are thinking... where is the Imagine project she promised... I did finish it.. but I wanna show you just a few things first please?

I picked up this Teresa Collins kit when I was in Indy at the Circle Meetup... I made it up for Olivia's 2nd birthday.. I love how it turned out! I used numerous cutouts from the cricut and various cartridges...The pictures are on her ACTUAL birthday, she had a party before her birth date.... so without further adieu here is my first lil book.....

 The balloons were cut out and then topped with crystal lacquer..they wanted to curl up on me pretty bad though... I used two candles on the cake to represent her 2nd birthday. I tried to do that through out the book.

This is the first of several little pockets in the book. This one had tags on it with little things that I wish for Olivia for her life..

 I also went through my carts and cut out all sorts of twos... all different kinds.

 I used my peachy keen face stamps to make the faces on the center of my daises. I love those stamps! Look at all the little faces she comes up with! Oh my gosh she is a hot mess! I love her so much. Until you have a grandchild no one can tell you how much you will fall in love with them!

 This pocket holds tags with memories I have of her from this past year. So many little antidotes she said and did... Things I never want her to forget that they were special to me!

 This was way more fun than I would have ever imagined. I am not much for this type thing...

 This the last pocket holds all different kinds of twos. On them I wrote things like 2 cute, 2 funny, because she is all those things in my eyes.

 I love this page with the cupcakes and blue birds! I used my brand new copic markers to do these.

 Final page are pictures from her actual birthday party. She and I and one with her Mom ( my daughter) and Dad

For Olivia.... The love of my life........ I hope one day she looks through this and sees how much her Nana loves her!

Imagine Update!! OKAY

I have my first layout printed,,, cutout,,, and I just have to glue it down and take a picture,,, just wanted everyone to standby... when I get off work today it is my first priority!!! It WILL be done before American Idol comes on tonight... can you tell I am a fan???

Newest Addition to the Family! IMOGENE the Imagine!

OK, today I got home and there was a humongous box sitting in the middle of my living room!

 It was my new Cricut Imagine... I did not IMAGINE it would be so big... I mean I knew it was going to be larger than the other machines but I just did not IMAGINE it would be THIS BIG!! ..... Size aside..... I got it hooked up and positioned on my nice little roller thingies that a lady on the message board told me were awesome and they are! Shout out to her... All hooked up... ready to go.... paper in.... nice first cut .. a bit off kilter but that's ok I will re caliber... did... next cut was great!...

So then I eat dinner and watch American Idol...

(WHOA BIG UPSET)

back to my new BIG baby.... I decide I need to register it before I go any further... Where is the serial number on this big boy????? go ahead guess.... DEAD LEVEL BOTTOM!! So I pull it off my nice caddy thingies... turn it upside down and get the number... put it back on the caddies... of course it takes me about 20 mins to get it all perfectly set up again... I do some more cutting out and some more playing... now I would share some of my cuts but I am dog tired at this point!... I will revisit this tomorrow after work.. I promise to post some pictures of my playtime with Imogene this weekend.. Be sure and stop back by for that... I am terribly excited about my newest addition to the family!

IMOGENE the Cricut Imagine

Imagine What I Can DO!!!!

My husband surprized me with the purchase of the Cricut Imagine Machine! I am so thankful for his thoughtfulness. It is supposed to arrive tomorrow so I am getting my scrapbook room ready in preparation for playing all evening with it tomorrow... SOO excited! Can't wait!!! Any and all advise concerning the newest bug in my family is more than welcome!......

Cricut Couple: What would YUDU??? Giveaway!

Cricut Couple: What would YUDU??? Giveaway!

Happy Valentine's Day

I love this cartridge! The cards are super cute and so easy!!! Much easier than the Christmas cards one from last year.

I hope my granddaughter loves it as much as I do... check out the goole eyes with eyelashes TOO CUTE!!

More Cards

 These are from my rubber stamp root days.... I was a rubber stamper many years before the scrappin bug hit me

 This heart is a Magenta stamp... Magenta was my favorite stamp company at the time.

 Then I had the rose chapter in my life... every stamp I bought was a floral of some sort

 My son in law had a VW beetle so this was his birthday card that year

 and again with the floral chapter HA HA HA

ANY KIND of floral was my thing

 This was from my ............  eye period??? Have no clue where I got the  notion or the stamp to do this one or who I gave it to.

 This one reminds me of my daughter... I love it!

Cat Meow! WOW! How corny was that

This stamp was purchased solely for my daughter.. She loves Jackie Kennedy & Grace Kelly and this stamp reminded me of that.... I drove all the way to Cinncinati to find this stamp. When I got there they only had it in unmounted... SO this was the first stamp I purchased unmounted... until then I was certain there were no stamps unless they were WOOD MOUNT.. now I have alot of woodmount I just rarely use them. I hope you enjoy these cards.