Taping it up with Cari

There are a ton of ideas out there (on Pinterest, online galleries) that show you how to use Washi Tape. Today designer Cari Locken shares one of her ideas with this fabulous altered frame!


Altered Wooden Frame

Hi everyone!
This is a super easy (and cheap!) way to decorate any wooden frame.  All you need is some Washi Tape and patterned paper to make some flowers.

I used the Washi Tape from the Love You More collection and a variety of Roly Rosies along with the Hybrid Petal Roller.

Here's a look at what I created.  I actually printed off two 4"x 6" cards - that way I can change the saying after a while.  (these are designs created by Rebecca Cooper)

I began by collecting all of my supplies.

I started adhering the washi tape on an angle at the top left corner.  

When I came to the inside corner I just used my cute little pink Imaginisce scissors (from the i-tool Basics Kit) and made 2 small slits.

 I then simply folded the pieces back and adhered them to the frame creating a nice clean look (make sure to not cut the slits to close to the inside wooden edge though).

 Here's what the frame looked like when it was all covered with washi tape.

Then I began the process of creating a bunch of rolled flowers using the Roly Rosies and Hybrid Petal Roller.  These flowers come in a variety of colors, patterns and shapes so the variety made for a nice cluster at the bottom of my frame.

If you're not sure how to create these you can check out THIS VIDEO on YouTube. It's super easy.

Now it's my turn to roll, and roll ... and roll!!
Yes, it take a bit of time to do a few of them but the end result is so pretty.

Once the flower is rolled up I simply put a gluedot (I actually used 2 for extra "stickiness").

 Once the flower was adhered I used the petal roller to curl the petal edges back on each flower.

I finished off the project by adding a bow at the top of the frame.

Thanks for popping by the Imaginisce blog today!

Supplies:
Imaginisce - Love You More collection (Washi Tape); Roly Rosies (Neutrals & Pinks), Hybrid Petal Roller
Other - May Arts (Grey ribbon), Xyron High Tack Adhesive Dots, Quotes (Rebecca Cooper)

Product Spotlight - Roly Flowers

Welcome to a new segment that we're excited to share with everyone!

Product Spotlight is going to be a regular little feature that focuses on a particular item from the Imaginisce line-up complete with gorgeous creations from our design team.

Today we are going to spotlight the Roly Rosies and Roly Posies from the Gotta Buy Basics range.

Roly Rosies - Warm Colours

Fabric Roly Rosies - Denim

These flowers are magical! What begins as a flat spiral instantly becomes a textured, gorgeous, 3D flower. Simply by using the Imaginisce Petal Roller, start rolling the outside of the spiral and keep going! Ready to dress up your next project?

And speaking of dressed up projects, just look at the amazing cards our design team members have created using the Roly Flowers.

Courtney Lee

Imaginisce Products Used:

Roly Rosies - Warm Colours,

Roly Rosies - Cool Colours,

Roly Rosies - Neutrals

i-bond and mini clear sticks glue

Other Products Used:

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper 'Love-alicious'

Cartride: Wild Card

Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa

American Crafts: Kraft card

Random Tag from Courtney's stash

Courtney Lee

  Imaginisce Products Used:

Happy Camper 'Gone Fishing' Patterned Paper

Happy Harvest 'Dancing Leaves' Patterned Paper

Roly Rosies Warm Colours

Roly Rosies Cool Colours

i-rock and Hot Rock compact in pink, black and clear

d-stress tool

Other Products Used:

My Pink Stamper Fancy Phrases

American Crafts Kraft Card

Kris Swain Crinkled Ribbon in Dusty Rose

Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa

 Courtney Lee

Imaginisce Products Used:
Happy Harvest 'Dancing Leaves' Patterned Paper

Roly Rosies: Warm Colours

Roly Rosies: Cool Colours

Leaves: Fall Friends Icon Die Cuts

d-stress tool

i-bond tool

Other Products Used:

My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments

Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa
Ribbon from Courtney's friend June :)
American Crafts Kraft card
Paper Tray Ink Card stock

Erin Bassett

Imaginisce Products Used:
Happy Camper: Don't Feed the Bears Patterned Paper
Roly Rosies: Warm Colours,
Berrylicious Bee - Snag Em' Stamp


Other Products Used:
Stampin' Up Cardstock,
Unity: Text Stamp
Tim Holtz Sticker,
Stazon Ink,
Alvin Prisma Coloured Pencils
Zig Pen


Frances Sylvia

Imaginisce Products Used:
Santa's Little Helper 'Cinnamon Snowflake' Patterned Paper
Roly Rosies Cool Colours,
Cottage Christmas Crystal Snowflakes


Other Products Used:
Paper Studio and Bazzill Cardstock,
Doodle Bug Bling

GIVE-AWAY!

Well we can't have a product spotlight without giving one of our readers the opportunity to snag their very own bundle of Roly Flowers and a Petal Roller Tool.
Leave a comment on today's post telling us what you thought of our very first product spotlight and what you would like to see in the spotlight for future posts.

Winner will be announced at the end of the week.

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!

CHA Sneak Peek: Fabric & Paper Roly Rosies, i-bond and i-rock additions

Here's three new additions to our product line up from CHA. Be sure to come back tomorrow for more great product previews and a big announcement on the last day!

You've seen the i-bond tool already, but did you know we'll have glitter glue and colored glue sticks available for purchase as well. If you haven't seen this amazing cordless glue gun in action, be sure to check out this video!

Now the perfect companion product to the i-bond are the Roly Rosies and we have new styles, colors and even FABRIC ones for you this release. The patterns and colors are perfect. You will love the neutrals with dictionary prints and more, perfect for coloring to match your projects!

 

And you asked for more bling for your i-rocks and we listened!! We have them in all sorts of shapes and sizes. We've even added RED to our most popular compact and a fun tray to help put all those little stones back in the jars.

Win it Before you Buy it!! 

Okay are you jumping up and down with excitement yet?? Now would you like to win some of this yummy new product. REGISTER for our new 2011 E-Newsletter before February 1st and we'll pick a winner for one of each of the items we listed above!! If you're already registered, then leave a comment here letting us know which collection or product is your favorite!

Enchanted with Roly Rosies Flowers

The new Enchanted Collection is so versitle and we noticed that the design team liked putting our new Roly Rosies, Pop-up Posies with this collection. So we thought we'd focus on those products today and offer up a prize package that included all the products shown here!!

Check out how perfectly the Pink Roly Rosies coordinate with Enchanted on these first two project by Amy Mitchell.

Frame with Roly Rosies, Enchanted & i-rock Bling!

And everyone knows it's easier to put together a 3D flowers with a low temp glue gun, like our new i-bond glue gun tool. This new tool will start hitting stores by the end of the year. It's a battery operated low temp glue gun and perfect for all types of crafts.

Since the Roly Rosies, Pop-up Posies and i-bond glue gun tool inspired this post, I wanted to share more inspiration from our design team. Be sure to check out how they used the new Pop-Up Posies and Roly Rosies tool!

by Akiko Kuroki

by Cari Locken

Close-up of Cari's layout....love the butterflies!

by Cindy Stevens

by Renata Moni Bidin

by Erin Bassett

by Heather Carpenter

by Renata Moni Bidin

by Sarah de Guzman

close-up of Pop-up Posies

by Shemaine Smith

I just have to point out really quick that Tomomi's cute girls are wearing headbands that she created with the the new i-top Innovations!

by Tomomi Hiramaru

Win the following:

i-bond tool (yes, they haven't even started shipping yet...but I received a sample today)

Enchanted Collection

Pink Roly Rosies & Pop-up Posies

Petal Roller Tool

To win, simply post a comment about which of these Enchanted/Roly Rosie projects inspires you to pick up the products next time you see them at your local scrapbook store.