Join us at CK Scrap & Play in Boise, August 12 and 13th

We are so thrilled to be part of CK Scrap & Play-Boise. We are so thrilled to be able to visit the beautiful city of Boise and scrap with our peeps from the Idaho, Washington and even Oregon area. I just checked and they still have openings to attend. To learn how much you get for the small tuition and details about the venue, visit the CK Scrap & Play website.

We're lucky to have Lori Allred representing Imaginisce at this event. She'll be teaching with one of our most popular scrapbook lines. Here's information about her class that is included as a "core" class and all students will get to experience.

Imaginisce's Rockin' Tools & Techniques Class

Instructor: Lori Allred, allreddesign.net 
Featured Tools: i-rock, d-stress and Petal Roller
maginisce is excited to visit the Boise area this year and we'll be featuring some of our newest tools, the d-stress Tool,Petal Roller and i-bond Tool. And if you joined us this past June in Utah, you won't be disappointed because you'll get to try out great tools from Imaginisce. Lori will combine these two new tools with our popular i-rock Tool and teach you how to ROCK your paper crafting projects!

Learn how easy it is to make your own 3D, rolled flowers using the Petal Roller and new Roly Rosie pre-printed flower sets. Then we'll show you how easy it is to take the stress out of distressing your projects with the new dremel-like d-stress tool. In this class, you will create a double-page layout using our popular Garden Party. And you'll also receive bonus card project ideas, supplies and instructions to complete during the remainder of your time at CK Scrap & Play.

Supplies Needed: Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Foam Tape, Adhesive 

 

Click It With Cricut: May Flowers

April showers bring May flowers

So far this month, we've seen an abundance of flowers by way of our Roly Rosie release party.  But we aren't finished yet!  Today our talented design team duo Aphra and Heather have created two more fabulous flower projects using Imaginisce papers and the Cricut. 

Thanks Card

 by Aphra Bolyer

 

This stunning layered flower was cut with the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge.  Here are the supplies and cuts that you'll need.

Supplies:  Princess Posies paper, Mirror Mirror paper, Cherry Lemonade paper, Just Peachy paper, 4.5" x 4.5" white card base, small white tag, yellow mini alphas, yellow button, yellow twine, foam adhesive dots, and chalk.

Cuts:     2 - 2" < leaf 7 >; 3" < flower 3 >; 2.5" < flower 5 >; 2.25" < flower 1 >; 2" < flowr 25 >; 2" < flower 2 >.

Flower Window Box

by Heather Leopard

The amazing flowers in this planter box and the beautiful butterfly perched on the grass were cut using the Cricut Lite Live Simply cartridge.

Supplies:  Garden Party collection: Darling Dahlias, Blossoms of Blue, Brambleberry Blossoms, Wild Flowers, Rows of Posies; Pink Cardstock; Roly Rosies - Warm flowers and Petal Roller to roll the flowers AND the grass; i-top, small brad daddy; i-bond, i-rock and glam rocks; small box with foam insert; scissors to cut the grass; dowel to glue flowers to so they stand upright and don't flop over. 

Cuts:     2 - 4" < flower3 >; 1 - 4" < flower5 >; 1 - 4" < flower2 >; 2 - 3" < bttrfly6 >; Cut the same flowers and the butterfly again in coordinating colors so you can interchange the layers and stack them on top of each other.

Directions:

1. Cover the outside of the box with pattern paper that will be used sparingly in the rest of the project.
2. Cut strips of the Darling Dahlias green paper and then cut it in small fringe strips, leaving it intact at the bottom. Use your petal roller to roll the strips down. This will be your grass.  Adhere to the inside of the box.
3. Cover the foam with Darling Dahlias paper to resemble grass.
4. Lay your cut flowers out to determine placement of your flowers and color combos.
5. Roll some roly rosies or make some brads using your i-top to attach to the flowers as centers.
6. Adhere each flower together, seperately. Add the tiny dowel to the back of them with your i-bond glue gun, making sure to leave part of the dowel sticking out at the bottom. BTW, I didn't have a dowel so I used sticks from outside.  It's a flower planter afterall. ;)
7. Poke holes into the foam and insert the flowers on the dowels. Make them varying heights.
8. Roll 3 small roly rosies and set aside.
9. Cut 3 extra stems and attach to the roly rosies you set aside. Add a dowel and stick the little flowers into the foam.
10. Assmenble the butterfly with the solid pink and pattern paper. Add some i-rock bling to the antennae. Perch the butterfly on the grass.
11. Stand back and admire. :)

Thankyou Aphra and Heather for sharing your gorgeous projects!

GIVEAWAY

Well have we got a giveaway for you today!

We have not one, not two, not even three - would you believe we have a grand total of EIGHT 3-month trial memberships to the member only Cricut Circle. Who's excited?
Okay, you'd better get your running shoes on because we are going to make you work a little for your prize today seeing as we are being soooo generous!

1. Pop over to Aphra's blog HERE and tell her how much you loved her project, don't forget to become a follower.

2. Pop over to Heather's blog HERE and tell her how much you loved her project, don't forget to become a follower.

3. Finally, come back and leave a message telling us what collection we will be releasing next week... hint, you might need a bag of marshmallows.

Winners will be announced at the end of the week!

Click it with Cricut - Spotlight on Spring & Mother's Day!

A mother is a person who

seeing there are only four pieces of pie

for five people,

promptly announces she never did care for pie.

~ Tenneva Jordan

Mother's day is almost upon us and we are well under way with Spring athough someone should remind the weather man. Today we have design team members Sophia and Erin who will be focusing on both Mother's Day and Spring using the Imaginisce Garden Party collection and a variety of Cricut Cartridges to show just how versatile these two companies can be when combined on the one project.

Hi everyone, this is Sophia and I have the pleasure of showing you a little project I created for my Mom for Mother's Day. I wanted to keep it simple and easy, but yet effective and appealing to the eye. My project is an off-the-page decorated wooden tea-towel holder for her kitchen.

Steps to create off-the-page project:
Added background paper to fill in the gap in the wooden block as per image below.

• Then I cut a piece of cardstock slightly smaller than the background green paper and used my corner rounder on the edges. Then, cut my letters to spell Mom using (Cindy Loo) cartridge.
• M - as per page 64 < Bird > on size 4 inches.
• O - as per page 46 < Vine1 > on size 4 inches.
• Added some I-rocks to give more impact on the letters MOM, adhered that to the centre of the green pattern paper.

Then I added some Roly Rosies, tiny flowers and some leaves to finish it off. You can see some close ups below.

I also created a sweet and simple card with a matching envelope to go with it.

Steps to create card and envelope:

• Cut 1 x Card Shape as per page 39 < Lamp1 > on size 4 inches (Sentimentals)
• Cut 1 x Envelope as per page 39 < Lamp1 > on size 4 inches (Sentimentals)
• I inked around the edges of the card with brown liquid chalk
• Added a pop dot behind the heart cut form the envelope, to give a 3D effect on the card
• Cut 1 x Shadow swirl design as per page 47 < Vine2 > on size 2 inches (Cindy Loo)
• Cut 1 x Swirl design as per page 47 < Vine2-s > on size 2 inches (Cindy Loo)
• Glued the smaller swirl onto the shadow swirl and added some I-Rocks for dimension
• I stitched around the heart on the envelope, just to finish it off with a nice soft touch.
• Added some alphas on the card and envelope to spell out Mom

Supplies used:
Cricut Cartridge Shapes - Sentimentals
Cricut Cartridge - Cindy Loo
Imaginisce Garden Party Paper Ranges
I-Rock Bling & Tear shape
Embroidery Cotton
Roly Rosies
Cream Cardstock

Thanks for joining me and I hope you enjoyed my project...♥

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Hi everyone, it's me, Erin Bassett here now sharing with you how I used my Cricut, Gypsy, the "Paper Lace" cartridge, and some of our awesome Imaginisce products from the Garden Party collection to create this simple home decor piece for Spring.

• I picked up an inexpensive 5" x 7" frame and took my d-stress tool to the edges of it to distress it a bit and allow the natural wood to poke through.
• I then used my Gypsy, the "Paper Lace" Cricut cartridge, and the pink "Wildflowers" paper from our Garden Party collection to create the background. I cut < Mod1 > + Lace 2 at 7" x 5" and then placed it in the frame under the glass.
• Next I cut a piece of white Bazzill Swiss Dot cardstock to 5" x 7" and placed it in the frame and then replaced the easel on the back of the frame.

To create the butterfly:

• I took a piece of blue cardstock an cut < Flower6 > + Lace 2 Shadow at 5.01" x 3.05".
• Then on a piece of Blossoms of Blue I cut out < Flower6 >; + Lace 2 at 4.88" x 3.06".
• Then on a piece of Rows of Posies I cut out < Flower6 > + Lace 2 Shadow at 4.75" x 2.98" and stamped on it with the Flower Cluster stamp and my favorite chalk ink: Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalk Ink in "Tahiti".
• I inked the edges of the Blossoms of Blue die cut with the same ink and then glued the patterned paper die cut pieces together. I mounted it onto the cardstock die cut piece with foam adhesive.
• I then added a few silver Rhinestud Hot Rocks with my i-rock.
• Lastly I took the spring banner off of the Johnny Jump Ups sticker stackers sheet and popped it up with foam adhesive on top of the butterfly. And lastly, I mounted the butterfly/banner stack onto the top of the glass.

Happy Spring!

GIVEAWAY

Weren't today's projects just beautiful and so inspirational. Well we'd love it if you would leave a comment letting Erin and Sophia know just how much you enjoyed their creations and as a thankyou we will be giving one lucky follower:

A CRICUT CARTRIDGE

AND CO-ORDINATING IMAGINISCE COLLECTION

Winner announced at the end of the week!

Good Things Utah: Mini Easter Basket

Today we're being featured on a local television show, Good Things Utah. If you're looking for the instructions then you came to the right place.

Download the PDF instructions from today's segment here.

Spring Mix

No, we're not talking about a mix of some of these.

But, a mix of some of these.

That's right, we challenged a couple of our designers to create a layout that mixes at least two of our Spring releases. And you are going to LOVE the results.

My Unhappy Prince Charming by Michelle Unruh

Here's what Michelle said about her scrapbook page:

This was a fun challenge. I decided to try and use the Enchanted line with a photo of my baby boy when he was a bitty baby. The little frog on his shirt made me want to use the Enchanted line. I actually managed to use something from all four lines I have. The brown dot and green polka dot paper are from Berrylicious. The green strip I punched was from Animal Crackers, with the rest from Enchanted. I even snuck a little Garden Party in, using the small brown flower and brad under my title. I used a fashion flower to anchor my frog at the bottom as well as some hot rocks sprinkled around my page. Even bitty Prince Charming needs a little bling! :) With all that is going on at my house lately, I don't have much time or mojo. More like the mojo is missing!! So, I used a sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches that gave me the inspiration I needed. Side note - I wish I could shrink him back to this size again!!! He was so fun (still is, but sassier! LOL) and so darn cute! I miss that baby smell!!! Dreft laundry soap mixed with Nivea lotion on a freshly bathed baby!!! Heaven!!!

Feeding Giraffes by Aphra Bolyer

And here's what Aphra had to say about her layout:

I love the themes and patterns of Imaginisce's papers and embellishments, but I also love the wonderful "B" sides. There you will usually find smaller more neutral patterns that can fit just about any theme. I decided to really take advantage of the back sides on this layout about my kids feeding giraffes while on vacation last summer. I loved how well my photos popped off the green backside of the Just Peachy paper (from the Berrylicious collection) and how the Summer Stripe paper (also from Berrylicious) tied all my colors together. The solid blue backside of Rows of Posies (Garden Party collection) was perfect for my clouds while the yellow backside of Cherry Lemonade made for a great sun. For close-ups and details about the Cricut cuts I used, please visit my blog My Scrappy Life.

Wasn't that fun? Ok, now we want to see you mix it up and flip it over. You might just surprise yourself. And be sure to show off your creations at our Facebook page. We'd sure love to see!

Craft Critique: i-bond Glue Gun Review by Amy Anderson

I was so excited to find out that Amy Anderson wrote a review of our new i-bond cordless glue gun for the fantastic Craft Critique site. You may already know Amy from her super awesome blog, Mod Podge Rocks. And who better to evaluate an adhesive tool then the queen of Mod Podge.

Be sure to jump over to Amy's post and see how she created this darling frame with our Garden Party collection and the i-bond glue gun.

Be sure to leave Amy some good Imaginisce comment love about her great write up on the i-bond. We hope to invite her back to join us on the Imaginisce blog, so we want her to feel our love!

Click It With Cricut

Made for Each Other

Don't you just love how you can find a Cricut cartridge for any Imaginisce project you are working on? No matter what the project you can find the perfect cut to pair up and give it that special touch.

In the spirit of Spring which is quickly approaching, Keely and I (Pinky) decided to shake off the winter blues and spruce things up with some Garden Party and our Cricut Cartridges!

Keely created this very spring inspired dress form using the following Cricut cartridges:
Sentimentals, Storybook, and George & Basic Shapes
Doesn't it make you want to don that pretty spring dress and run through a field of flowers? Ok maybe it's just me, but I am completely in awe!

Cricut Altered Paper Mache Dress Form
by Keely Yowler

• Paint dress form using cream craft paint. Pat on paint with dry washcloth for aged look.
• Paint wooden candle holder with tan craft paint.
• Using Cricut cartridge Storybook, cut 1 <heart> at 1 1/2 inches. Ink edges with distress ink. Adhere to center of dress form chest.
• Using Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes, cut 60 <heart1> at ¾ inches. Ink edges with distress ink. Adhere to upper portion of dress form.
• Using Cricut cartridge George and Basic Shapes, cut 100 <circle> at 1 ½ inches. Ink edges with distress ink. Roll each circle in cones shape and glue edge. Adhere to dress form, working from bottom to top.
• Assemble flower layers, attach with brad, and adhere to waist of dress form.
• Form hat with crocheted doily, flowers, and brad. Adhere to top of dress form.
• Adhere strand of pearls to neck of dress form
• Cut 2 pieces of tulle at 7 inches each. Tie together in center. Adhere to back center of dress form. Adhere roly rose, punched leaf, and decorative berry to center of tulle.
• Cut 1 piece of tulle at 10 inches. Tie around wooden candlestick. Adhere jewel to center.

To create postcard:
• Using Cricut cartridge Sentimentals, cut 1 <postcard> at 3 ½ inches, 1 <postcard> layer at 3 ½ inches, 1 <scissor3> at 4 inches. • Using Cricut cartridge, George and Basic Shapes, cut 3 <heart1> at ¾ inches.
• Ink edges with distress ink.
• Assemble as shown, adding Imaginisce Garden Party diecut.
• Adhere to bottom of candlestick.

Cricut Sweet Surprise Gift Card

To create gift card:

• Using Cricut cartridge, Sentimentals, cut 1“ <label 1> at 6 inches, 1 <label1> layer at 6 inches, 1 <swallow> at 3 inches.
• Ink edges with distress ink.
• Assemble as shown, adding Imaginisce “Garden Party” diecuts.
• Write, “I love you”, with black pen.

Supplies:

- Imaginisce Garden Party collection

- Cricut Cartridges: Storybook, Sentimentals, George and Basic Shapes

- Cardstock

- Paper mache dress form wooden candlestick

- Ranger distress ink

- White tulle

- Leaf Punch

- Craft Pearl strand

- Craft crotchet doily

- Decorative jewel

- Black journal pen

- Cream or tan craft paint

You will find more pictures and great ideas on Keely's blog
Be sure to stop by and say hello!

Beautiful Spring

Pinky created this Spring Wall Hanging
using the Cricut Cartridge: Home Decor

Cricut Spring Wall Hanging
by Pinky Hobbs

• Using Cricut Home Decor Cartridge and Garden Party papers cut 1 Die Cut Shape of each in 5", 4" and 3.9", then layer using Glue Arts 3D glue.

• Using Cricut Home Decor Cartridge and Garden Party paper cut 1 dragonfly shape in 2.5", then in green cardstock cut 1 shadow for dragonfly in same 2.5".

• Using i-bond & Roly Posies and Pop Up Posies layer posies and add charm to center.

• Using i-bond adhere posies and dragonfly to Wall Hanging

• Brush on pink paint above and below title.

• Adhere ric rac and green bow.

• Adhere SPRING title and apply glitter glue. Allow to dry then adhere ric rac as hanger.

Supplies:

- Imaginisce “Garden Party” collection

- Cricut cartridges "Home Decor"

- Assorted Ribbons

- Imaginisce i-bond

- Glitter glue
- Imaginisce Roly Posies, and Pop Up Posies

- Chipboard Alphabets

- Green Cardstock

- Folk Art Pink Paint

- Glue Arts 3D Combo Pac

You can find more pictures and many more ideas on Pinky's blog right here.

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/ Be sure to stop by!

We hope you enjoyed our

Cricut projects today!

And to make it more exciting we are giving away a brand new Cricut cartridge!

The amazingly useful SIMPLY SWEET cartridge!~

We love to make our fans HAPPY!

Leave a comment right here, go hit up Keely & Pinky's blog

http://www.keelyy.blogspot.com/

&

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/

and you will be entered to win this amazing cartridge!!

If you already have it, it would make an awesome scrappy gift for a friend!!

Enter now and pass the word along!!!

Keely and I hope you enjoyed this post as much as we enjoyed making it!

Garden Party, Two-Pager and a Sketch

Aren't the new Imaginisce Garden Party papers beautiful?  The floral design and colors are such a pretty combination and perfect for the little girls in your life.  I thought these photos of my daughter playing golf in our backyard were a great match for the Garden Party collection.

Aren't these Florish Title Die Cuts 'adorable'?  All it needed was a little bit of ink, a ribbon accent, some chipboard to embellish and a few pop dots for dimension.  It's a wonderful embellishment to tie together the photos and break up the linear design.

The Daisy Chain Ribbons included with this collection are absolutely gorgeous.  I love the pattern on this one and what a great contrast it is with the many floral patterns in the paper and embellishments.  I also grabbed my Martha Stewart Pansy punch to create this complimentary border.  Don't you just love it when the stars align and your older tools match up with brand new products???  I would say this was a match made in heaven....

The Johnny Jump-Ups Sticker Stackers are a definite must for adding sentiments and dimension to a page.  I backed this one with a little brown cardstock to give it a bit more definition.  Then I used my trusty i-rock to add these teeny tiny Hot Rocks to the flower centers for a little extra special attention to detail. 

It wouldn't be the season of giving, if I didn't include a sketch to play with.  Please enjoy and hope to see some two-pagers out there using Imaginisce products.  Please drop me a line at my BLOG if you use the sketch so I can pop over and admire your work.

Thank you for stopping by - Liz

Tutorial Tuesday with Shemaine

Hello there, it' Shemaine bringing you a quick and super easy way to make your Rolly Rosies  shine on any project! Today I've posted a short video tutorial  for you using our newest collection, Garden Party.
Now we meant to post this during last week's Garden Party reveal so during the video you'll hear me mentioning to leave your comments all week to win prizes but no worries because today if you leave a comment on this post you're going to win a Garden Party collection as well as a Rolly Rosies kit and petal roller!





Here's a photo of the finished card

And a close-up of the glitter. Don't ya love that!

Thanks for watching my video today, I hope you give this a try!! I can't wait to hear what you think.

Garden Party Release Wrap-up & Winners

We had a few more projects we wanted to share with you to inspire you to "think spring" with the help of our new Garden Party Collection. These beautiful pieces were created by Pinky. Then be sure to scroll down to see if you were one of the winners from our Garden Party Collection giveaways from last week.

Hard to tell, but this is done an on acrylic backet page.

Release Party for Garden Party: Box of Tags Tutorial
Winner will receive the new Garden Party Collection

Garden Party Release: Beautiful Card Inspiration
Winner will receive the new Garden Party Collection

Garden Party Blossoms, Banners and Bows
Winner will receive the new Garden Party Collection, i-top Tool & the
new i-top Innovations (headband, ring, hair clips)

Garden Party Release Party: Bags, Boxes and (mini) Books
TWO Winners will receive the new Garden Party Collection and i-bond cordless Glue Gun

**AND**

If you were selected as a winner above, please email us by December 27th your shipping information. You must include in the subject line which blog post title or date you won. That will help use get your package to you sooner.  Congrats and Merry Christmas!

Garden Party Release Party: Bags, Boxes and (mini) Books

I have Christmas Elves helping me put these fun posts together. I hope you don't mind that we skipped Saturday's post...busy getting ready for Christmas! But it is the weekend and we figured you all would be fine with seeing a post sometime over the weekend. So let's give away TWO prizes today just to cover the weekend. Scroll down through these Garden Party lovely projects and see how you can win.

Cindy Stevens

Cindy's charming and practical gift bag with matching tag.

 Amy Mitchell
A gift within a gift - Amy's beautiful gift box trio and swing tag.

Janet Wilkins
 This delicately adorned jewellery box makes the perfect gift for someone who loves all things pretty.

Aphra Bolyer

A darling display box by Aphra for brightening any wall with welcome signs of Spring.

Heather Carpenter

Heather has adorned a 'Tim Holtz configuration box' with delicate accents and embellishments to create this dreamy shadow box, perfect for any little girls room.

Sarah de Guzman

A delightful mini-album filled with special Spring memories created by Sarah.

Since we skipped a day I thought I'd add an i-bond tool to each of the Garden Party Prize packages for our winners today. 

Here's how you can enter to win today's 2 prize packages: 

1. Go to Facebook and suggest the Imaginisce facebook page to your friends. Tell them they should "like" us. Come back and tell us how many friends you suggested the page to. 

2. Subscribe to our e-newsletter that will begin in 2011. We'll fill it with tons more inspiration and giveaways. If you're already subscribed, then let us know and you will still be entered to win! 

3. Add an Imaginisce Badge/button to your blog. You can find  a page with the image and code you need on our blog. 

Come back tomorrow for the last of our inspiration and we'll announce the winners from our previous posts!!