Monday Madness... Imagine That!

It's time for a My Creative Time "Monday Madness... Imagine That" design team post!  For today's project, we are using our Imagines, but it's designer's choice!  I had fun making some 3 1/2" cards using Emma's Small Talk stamp set, paper printed with my Imagine, and felt embellishments, along with coordinating envelopes.  On each card, the dotted border and sentiment are from Small Talk.

 

For each card, I used a 3 1/2" x 7" piece of kraft cardstock, scored at 3 1/2".  The cardstock layer is a 3 1/4" square, and the patterned layer is a 3" square.  For my heart card, I used a pattern from the Imagine More Cards Cricut Imagine cartridge.  I also used Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz cardstock, felt, and ink.  My cute felt heart was cut with my Cuttlebug using My Creative Time's Stitched Heart Die, which is included in the 100% Sweetness Stamp Set.  I added some hand stitching using embroidery floss.

The patterned paper on this card is from the Best Friends Imagine cartridge, and I used Papertrey Ink Royal Velvet cardstock and felt, along with their Beautiful Blooms II #1 flower die.  For each card, I made a coordinating envelope by caching my patterns and using them for a 7.3" envelope from the All Wrapped Up Imagine cartridge.  I love to buy the thick stacks of DCWV or Recollections patterned paper from Joann's or Michaels to use for envelopes.  The paper is very thin, which is what you need.  For my envelopes today, I chose patterns that coordinated with my cards, and then printed the Imagine patterns on the other side, to get double sided envelopes.  I love how they turned out!

For this last card I used another pattern from Best Friends, along with PTI Orange Zest cardstock and felt.  Here's a pic of the complete Small Talk stamp set:

Be sure to stop by My Creative Time to see more fun Imagine projects Emma and the other designers have created for you!

Products used for these cards:

Cricut Imagine All Wrapped Up Cartridge	Cricut Imagine Best Friends	Cricut Imagine More Cards Cartridge	PTI Kraft Cardstock	Bazzill White Cardstock	PTI Raspberry Fizz Cardstock	PTI Royal Velvet Cardstock
PTI Orange Zest Cardstock	MCT 100% Sweetness Stamp Set & Die	PTI Beautiful Blooms II #1 Die Collection	PTI Raspberry Fizz Felt	PTI Royal Velvet Felt	PTI Orange Zest Felt	PTI Buttons Autumn Mix
PTI Blueberry Sky Buttons	MCT Small Talk	PTI Dark Chocolate Ink	PTI True Black Ink	PTI Raspberry Fizz Ink	Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink	DMC Floss #970
DMC Floss #725	DMC Floss #963

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Monday Madness... Imagine That!

Welcome to My Creative Time's "Monday Madness... Imagine That!"  Today we are using our Imagines (or patterned paper, for those who don't own Imagines) to create something using the colors red, teal, and chocolate brown.  I decided to make a birthday tag to go on my sister-in-law's present.

To make my tag, I started with this image on the Cricut Imagine All Wrapped Up cartridge.  It's really cute as it is, but it wasn't in the colors I needed for today.  So, I cached patterns from Vintage Papers and Imagine More Cards to use with this All Wrapped Up cut.  To see how to do this, you can watch the video below.

For my sentiment, I used MCT's Many Greetings for the "Happy Birthday."  I spelled out "BECKY" using letters from the Anyday Bingo & Crossword stamp set.  I love the font from this set.  It's great to use in the Bingo card or crosswords, but it's also handy to use to spell out words on cards, tags, and scrapbook pages.

I made my flower using the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and added a Papertrey Ink Button and Twine.

Here's a look at the tag on the present.  Sometimes just a fancy tag can dress up a plain gift bag!  The tag base is made from Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores cardstock, embossed with the Cuttlebug Seeing Spots embossing folder.

Be sure to stop by Emma's blog to see her project and others created by some of the design team!

Some products that I used for this project:

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Stamping on Printed Papers

I do love to pull out my Papertrey Ink stamps, but for my Creative Critterz Imaginations design team project today, I thought it would be fun to stamp on something other than plain paper. Instead, I printed a vintage map pattern on my Imagine, and stamped some wildflowers on top of it.

I began by going to my Vintage Papers cartridge and caching the map pattern and a dark brown marble pattern. Then I switched to the Imagine More Cards cartridge. I chose the card on the top of page 10, and set it to separate the layers. For the base layer, I chose it twice at 4.2", once not filled with any pattern or color, and once filled with the brown pattern. I cut these on Kraft cardstock.

Next I filled the oval pattern with the map pattern and cut it, also at 4.2". For my orange layer, I "cut only" the oval again at 4.8", using some orange cardstock. I ran this oval through my Cuttlebug.

Lastly, I stamped my wildflowers and sentiment, popped up my layers with foam adhesive squares, and stitched around the edges. The two parts of my card are connected with a brad, allowing the card to swivel open.

Be sure to stop by Creative Critterz Imaginations to see what the rest of the designers have been working on lately!

Recipe:

(all materials Papertrey Ink, unless otherwise specified)

Kraft, Stamper's Select White, and Orange Zest Cardstock

"Wildflower Garden" Stamp Set

Dark Chocolate, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, and Ripe Avocado Ink

Cuttlebug "Divine Swirls" Embossing Folder

sei Christmas Mint Brad

Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen