Cricut Cruise 2012

Hi everyone! As some of you know, I was one of the very lucky winners of the Cricut 5th Anniversary promotion. In just two days, my sister and I will be flying to Texas to board the Mariner of the Seas to cruise the Caribbean with Cricut!
We decided we needed some tshirts to distinguish us as the Canadian cricuteers. Leila designed the shirt in Cricut Craftroom and emailed me the file to work with.
I used the Imagine to fill all of the pieces with colours, then layered thrum all by clicking "do not weld" on each piece (otherwise when you put the layer on it will change to the colour of the layer behind it. However, it is important to only print the project, NOT cut because it will cut all of the layers out since we had clicked "do not weld".
I printed the design onto inkjet transfer that I purchased from Walmart in the office supply section.
The cartridges we used are:
Go Canada - maple leaf
Cricut Everyday - cricut bug
Robotz - font
Imagine All Wrapped Up - colours
This process took me quite a long time because the Craftroom program still does not get along very well with my imagine, it takes a lot of restarting the I and switching cartridges for it to realize that I do actually have them! It sure took a lot of patience, but I was so excited about what I was creating that it was worth the minor frustration! I love that I was able to layer images and print them as one! Awesome! Hopefully Gypsy linking will be an available update soon so I can avoid the technical difficulties with switching out the cartridges!
Hope you like it!

#64 Feeling Groovy - I'd Rather Be Creating

Hi everyone! Hope you've been having a great week! Not so good on the weather side of things here - it's blizzarding outside! YUCK!!! I thought I woke up in December this morning instead of April. Hopefully, it doesn't stay long! Looking out the windows was pretty depressing so I locked myself downstairs in my craft room and created this layout for the Cricut Circle Blog weekly challenge. The challenge this week was to create a layout about something that "bugs" us and to include some bug cuts on our project. The thing that bugs me most is how fast my house gets messy and pretty much any cleaning but I didn't want to show you pictures of my messy house LOL. I thought I would limit it to one task and since there was a huge pile of laundry to do, I snapped a photo of that. The cartridges I used are: Feeling Groovy - "Laundry really bugs me" Chore Chart - Laundry basket Doodlecharms - Bugs Wall Decor and More - Clothesline Cricut Everyday - "I'd Rather Be Creating" and bug head The cardstock and patterned paper are by American Crafts. Hope you like it!

#52 Cricut Everyday - Cricut Circle Placecard

Hi everyone! I received the latest Cricut Circle exclusive cartridge a couple weeks ago and this is my first project with it! The Cricut Circle magazine challenge this month was to use Cricut Everyday to "create something that you would use to define yourself at Meet-Ups, Crops, the Stampede or any other circle event! Your project can be your calling card, tags, table decor or something to swap."

It took me a while to decide what to make but finally I decided on a place card to put at my cropping spot. I'm not sure if and when they will be having a Circle meet-up here in Canada but I love how it turned out so I might just have to use it at the crop I am going to in a couple weeks! I tried to customize the placecard to represent myself by adding the colour purple ( my very favorite!) and my three favorite things - Cricut, lace and bling!

The cuts I used are:

Placecard/Circle logo - cut at 11 1/4"

Cricut logo - cut at 3 1/4"

"Scrapaholic" - phrase feature with shadow cut at 3/4"

"Jen" - font 2 with shadow cut at 1 1/4" (shadow is welded with Gypsy)

Cardstock - DCWV

Bling - Kaiser

Lace - Doodlebug Designs

Marker - Stampin' Up!

Hope you like it!