MCT 12 Days of Christmas - Day 12

It's our last day of the My Creative Time 12 Days of Christmas!  I hope you have been as inspired by all of the projects from Emma and the rest of the design team as I have been!  For my final project, I used a super cute 3D Bookplate Box file by Lori Whitlock, which I purchased in the Silhouette Studio Store.  My patterned paper was created by printing the music note pattern from the Cricut Imagine Vintage Papers cartridge on kraft cardstock.  I love the soft effect this gives.

I embellished the box with some pretty grosgrain ribbon from Stampin' Up.  The little tag was made with My Creative Time's Curly Label Die and Stitched Curly Label Die, stamped with a sentiment from All Around Christmas.  I tied it to the ribbon with a wood veneer snowflake and some thick kraft hemp from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique.

One of the things I love about this box is the little bookplate!  I personalized this for my sister, using letters from MCT's Just Simply Live.  After the holidays, she can keep this little box on her desk to hold knickknacks.  It's a pretty good size - 4 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 2 1/2"!

For now, the box is filled with Christmas tags.  Every year, my sister holds a Christmas tea for all of the ladies in my family, and we usually exchange little gifts.  I'll be giving everybody one of these boxes of tags.  I have 45 tags made; now I just have to make 4 more boxes!  If you need any tag ideas, I'll be posting lots more in the next week or so!

HUGE GIVEAWAY

Okay, since it's Christmas time, Emma decided to give away TWELVE of her FAVORITE things to ONE LUCKY person!  She will announce one of the prizes each day in her video!  So by the 12th day, you will have seen ALL 12 items that ONE lucky person will be receiving!  All you have to do is leave your comment each day!  It's that simple!  ALSO, (very important) please leave your contact information so we can contact you if you are the lucky winner!

Now, be sure to click on the link below to see what Emma and the MCT Design Team have created for you today!

Products used on this tag:

Silhouette Cameo Cricut Imagine Cricut Imagine Vintage Papers Cartridge MCT Curly Label Die MCT Stitched Curly Label Die MCT Just Simply Live PTI True Black Ink Wood Veneer Snowflakes Thick Hemp Twine

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Pocket Full of Birthday Wishes

I'm still having fun with My Creative Time's Fun Pockets!!!  For today's card, I started with a 4 1/4" x 11" piece of cardstock, scored at 5 1/4".  I then used my Cricut Imagine and the Vintage Papers cartridge to print my 4 1/4" x 5 1/4" blue patterned paper and my 4 1/4" x 5" ledger paper.  I actually printed the ledger paper on kraft cardstock, which gave it a much warmer look.

The sentiments on Fun Pockets are so fun!  I used a black gel pen to add the "..." after "Sending you a pocket full of."

My flowers are from another My Creative Time stamp set, Bloom Where You are Planted, and I colored them with Copics before cutting them out.

The sweet stitched pocket was cut with one of the two pocket dies that comes with Fun Pocket.  My favorite part is the little tag I made on the side of the pocket.  Did you know that you can stamp on the seam binding ribbon from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique?  I stamped the "XOXO" from Papertrey Ink's Tiny Tags set with StazOn ink, made a little loop and used scotch tape to stick it to the back of the pocket before adhering the pocket to the card.

Products used on this card:

Cricut Imagine Vintage Papers Cartridge PTI Summer Sunrise Cardstock Bazzill White Cardstock PTI Kraft Cardstock PTI Stamper's Select White Cardstock MCT Fun Pockets Stamp Set PTI Tiny Tags Stamp Set MCT Bloom Where You are Planted Seam Binding Ribbon Copic Markers Memento Tuxedo Black Ink StazOn Jet Black Ink

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Monday Madness... Imagine That!

It's another My Creative Time "Monday Madness... Imagine That" design team post!  Today Emma has asked us to make a shaped card using our Imagines.  I decided to cache a music pattern from the Vintage Papers cartridge to use with the heart shaped card, cut at 4.2", from All Wrapped Up.  I used The Paper Company's kraft cardstock to give it a different look.  For the little bands, I printed and cut them in red, again using the kraft cardstock.  If you have All Wrapped Up, you'll see that I only used the main layer and the little bands.  I didn't need the other layers for this project.  Click here to see the video I made on how to cache a pattern with your Imagine.

For the flower, I wanted to use the text pattern from Vintage Papers, but I didn't want it to be the teeny size the Imagine would make it to scale with the flowers.  Instead, I cut a 7" square with the text, and then I used that to cut my flower parts at 2.5".  The larger petals are the Heart2 cut on page 14 of the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge.  For the center of the flower, I printed a 4" square on kraft cardstock, using the same red as before.  I then used this to cut Heart1 from page 14, again at 2.5".

Emma asked me to showcase her Classy & Fabulous stamp set today, and I was thrilled to see that the "Cheers!" sentiment fits perfectly into her Teeny Tag Greetings dies.  I cut the layers out of scraps from my previous cuts, to make them match the rest of the card.  Then I just used a little brad to attach it directly to the card.

I just had to show you that even the back of this card looks cute!  Be sure to stop by My Creative Time to see more fun Imagine projects by Emma and the design team!

Products I used for this card:

Cricut Imagine All Wrapped Up Cartridge	Cricut Imagine Vintage Papers Cartridge	Cricut Flower Shoppe	Bazzill White Cardstock	MCT Classy & Fabulous	MCT Teeny Tag Greetings Stamp & Die Set	PTI True Black Ink
Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink

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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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