Stork’s Delivery Cricut Cartridge–ON SALE!

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Apparently there is a glitch in the system - if you order downloadable digital items from my CM website, please keep those in a separate order. You will be charged shipping on them if they're combined with non-downloadable products. You are not supposed to pay S&H for these - CM is aware of it but this is a work around until they fix it. :)

Don’t miss out!  CM has a few great sales going on!  There is a Spring Fling Sale – all digital downloads available at 30% off!

There is also a Spring Cleaning Sale going on & things are selling out quickly!    Included in the sale is the Stork’s Delivery Cricut Cartridge.

Yes, it’s baby themed but there are so many shapes you can use for other things, too!

Here are a few things made with the Stork’s Delivery Cricut Cartridge

Don’t forget to pick up some of the Shimmer Cardstock – it cuts like a dream in the Cricut!  As of now the only Shimmers left on sale are Indigo & Green Apple.  You can also purchase Pink, White, Platinum & Midnight at regular prices.  Those are listed with the regular cardstock.

New Tiny Treasures Cricut Cartridge & a Digital option!!

 

I just received my new products for March and am having fun playing with them.  The embossed papers are beautiful!! 

Here's a fun twist on one new product - the CM exclusive Tiny Treasures Cricut cartridge - available for traditional Cricut users and now available digitally for SBC+ users! You're now able to use the same shapes, fonts & edges in your digital projects! The shapes even come with guides to help you with the placement of the layers (see the image next to the giraffe for an example.) I used papers from the Candy Shop Power Palette - both will be available March 1st! More examples coming soon!

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Fabulous Fall!

Finally – it’s Fall!    Time for sweater weather, pumpkin flavored everything & fun fall inspired projects! 

At the Patch 12x12 layout

Rustic Fence Border Maker Cartridge
Hocus Pocus 6x6 Stack Pack
Cardstock:  Brown, Green Apple & Carrot
Cheerful Seasons Cricut Cartridge
Foam Squares

How to Create:
Use a sheet of Green Apple Cardstock as your layout base.

Add two sheets of beige argyle patterned paper from the Hocus Pocus 6x6 Stack Pack to the layout as shown.

Add some accents punched out from the stack pack as shown.

Punch a border from Brown Cardstock using the border maker system and the Limited Edition Rustic Fence Border Maker Cartridge and add it to the bottom of the layout.

Using a Cricut machine and the Cheerful Seasons Cartridge cut a pumpkin accent and title letters from brown, orange, green, and beige paper. Add them to the bottom right side of the layout layering some of the letters on the Hocus Pocus banner punch outs.

Back to School 12x12 layout

Ingredients:
Autumn Addition
White Cardstock
Circle Maker

How to Create:
Place orange and red Autumn Addition mats on background paper as shown, staggering the red mat so it is about 3/4” lower than the orange mats.

Crop photos to 3-1/4 x 3-3/4”. Place the right and left photos so they are even with the top of the red mat and touching the edges of the red mat. Center the middle photo.

Cut a strip of White Cardstock that is 1/2” wide. Trim 2” off and place under the left photo. Repeat for the right side. Cut a 2 ½” long piece and place vertically above the middle photo.

Punch a large circle with the Circle Maker and place a leaf sticker on it. Repeat with a second leaf sticker. Center the circles under the left and right photos.

Print the journaling on White Cardstock using brown ink. Trim the journaling block to 2x2”. Adhere the journaling to the brown leaf mat and randomly cut around it. Adhere under the middle photo. Place the apple sticker on the bottom right corner.

Place the Autumn Additions title sticker on White Cardstock. Trim and place above the middle photo.

Football Wall Print Poster

Ingredients:

• StoryBook Creator 4.0 Software
• Football Digital Additions

  How to Create:

  1. Create a new 16x24 Wall Print Poster project.
  2. Add Football Paper 3 to the top of the poster.
  3. Add Football Paper 4 to the bottom of the poster.
  4. Add a large photo across the center of the poster.
  5. Add the Super Star embellishment.  Under the Format tab, add the Cord surface.
  6. Add the MVP embellishment.
  7. Add the name, filling with Football Paper 1.  Add a light shadow.
  8. Add the Gold Star and Player 1 embellishments.  Add the Cord Surface to each.
  9. Add the Touchdown title.
  10. Add the school and mascot as desired.
  11. Order on the Creative Memories Digital Center.   Please use my  Consultant Id #96470395 when ordering from the digital center.

 

New Cricut Cartridge–Holiday Frames & Tags

Another CM exclusive Cricut Cartridge coming in November!

50 layered tags, 30 layered frames, 20 layered labels and 10 layered borders, 3 fonts. Plus 3D  rosettes & boxes and envelopes.

A cute make & take from Showcase.

This & That CM Cartridge saves the day!

I am “Queen of the Last Minute Projects”.   I have accepted this and now embrace it!  Vinyl projects are so very quick and easy…perfect for procrastinators and planners alike!

Catholic School’s Week was a bit ago – resulting in lots of fun activities for my boys – penny wars (will put us in the poor house!!) crazy hat & tie day, no homework day (yahoo!) and the 4th graders had a day where they could dress like they were from the future.  Despite Richie’s pleas for a robot costume we decided to do something easier (for both of us – how would he sit?  He didn’t care!)

I suggested this shirt – it had a robot on it and mentioned the future (plus I found it on clearance!)  - what more could you want? 

Of course, that wasn’t going to work for him so we brainstormed and came up with this:

A future (space) Olympian!!

I used the This & That Creative Memories Cricut cartridge and cut the images and letters out of self adhesive vinyl. 

Good enough for one day’s wear – everything stayed stuck on throughout the school day and even at night for the spaghetti dinner!

He did wear the robot jersey under the hoodie for his music teacher

This & That – new CM Cricut Cartridge

2 fonts, monograms & lots of icons perfect for celebrations, holidays, kids, sports & more!

This & That in a minute

Paper featured in the video is from the Reflections Power Palette.

 

The cartridge has a huge variety of images including sports (basketball, soccer, football, baseball) tags, tools (hammer, screwdriver)  food (fruit slices, cherries) lots of phrases, stars, flowers, books, suitcase, ladybug, rocket ship, dinosaur, crown  more!!   This cartridge is a CM exclusive and will be available to order on my CM website beginning January 2nd!

CM Cricut Carts Sale! Only $46–shipped for ‘Tis the Season, Stork’s Delivery, Cheerful Seasons or Reminisce during Jingle Deals Sale!!

Be sure to take advantage of this special during the Jingle Deals sale (Nov 25 – 28) and you’ll get a rebate of $10 for each CM Cricut cartridge you order through my CM website!!  Full details in this previous blog post.  No limit but if anything seems goofy I reserve the right to rescind this offer.  No scammers, please!

Click below to visit my CM website….Happy Shopping!

UPDATED Wed, Nov. 23rd:

Ring up the savings: Jingle Deals just got richer!
When you place a single order of $225 or more on my CM website you'll receive this spectacular Jingle Deals bundle – a value of $94!
It makes one spectacular gift, or several great stocking stuffers!
• 12x12 PicFolio Photo Album – Blue
• Nancy O’Dell Hummingbird Tape Runner
• Expressions of Faith Vellum Accents
• Expressions of Christmas Vellum Accents
• Black Dual-Tip Pen
• Rugged Everyday Recordable Paper Album Kit
*Please note: depending on demand, an alternative PicFolio Photo Album (Ice Blue) may be substituted.
Happy Shopping!!

Made to go together–‘Tis the Season & Holidazzle and Noel Collections!

One of the things that attracted me to Creative Memories is how many of their products are timesavers.  I love it when they take the time to coordinate items so I don’t have to. 

The new ‘Tis the Season CM Cricut cartridge is filled with wonderful, fun images that are great on their own but did you know they coordinate with the Holidazzle and Noel product lines? 

“Believe” cut using ‘Tis the Season CM Cricut Cartridge using Green Apple, Silver Shimmer & Black CM Cardstock.

The background paper has this detail printed on it – complete with foil accents.  The 12x12 papers that are in the Holidazzle & Noel collections are double sided and each sheet has one side with foil accents and one side without.  Hoidazzle has silver accents & Noel has gold.  I added a strip of the polka dot paper, grey photo mat and striped paper ribbon from the Holidazzle collection as well as a strip of Green Apple CM Cardstock. 

This page uses items from the Noel collection.  The ornament on the background paper has gold foil accents.  The colors are a bit off  - they are a rich looking deep green and red.

Cut using the CM ‘Tis the Season Cricut cartridge placed on a diecut atop paper ribbon from the Noel collection.

Epoxy sticker in the Noel collection

Ideas?  Can’t get enough of them!  Nancy O’Dell’s new Creative Memories book – Secret Ingredients is filled with great ideas!

The book is filled with step-by step “recipes” for creating meaningful gifts that can easily be adapted to use in your album making or other projects.  It’s more than just ideas for layouts or other projects. Fun, heartfelt ideas to help you create something really special.  Love that!

Fun projects like this one for the Everyday Display are throughout the book.  This one is a different way to countdown to Christmas.  You make a “To Do” pocket and fill it with tags that list fun holiday activities and then move these to a “Done” pocket when there completed!  The book has some great suggestions for activities but of course you could include any traditions your family already does or wants to try.

Lots of sketches in the book, too – to help you get a jump start on your layouts.

Lots of page ideas and other project ideas, like this cute little album meant to be given with a sapling.  Each year the recipient only needs to take a picture by the tree and place it in the pre-decorated album!  A wonderful way to measure a child’s growth!

I’d love to see your projects using CM products – you can email them to me and I’ll post them on my blog or upload them to my Facebook group!

A few projects using ‘Tis the Season CM Cricut Cartridge

These are some very quick items I made up to have on my Gift Buffet at my Open House using the ‘Tis the Season CM Cricut cartridge.  I use my Open House to reward my customers and to thank them for their business.  I have about 15 - 20 baskets on my Gift Buffet that have different events/tasks associated with them.  Things like visiting my blog,  joining my Facebook group, turning in a Wish List, ordering from my CM website, etc.  I have mostly photo & scrapbook related products but like to have some other fun things, too.  Like these:

Hand sanitizer with “Fa La La” cut out of adhesive backed vinyl.

Elf Bottoms – can you tell what image I used to make the shoes?  Here’s a hint…it’s folded in 1/2 and cut in 2.  Sixlet candies are used for the legs. 

Here’s the shape used to make the shoes: 

“Joy” cut from gold vinyl. 

I didn’t use my Cricut on the one below but thought they were cute & I’d share.  I created the bag topper in SBC+

Used Junior Mints and a Red Hot for the noses.

Happy Holidays & be sure to check out my calendar on my CM website if you’re in the SE Michigan area and would like to attend one of my events!