Hippo 5th Birthday Cricut

I love creating projects with my Cricut machine....it is fun to add such wonderful images to my projects with such ease.

Well, the Cricut turns 5 years old this year and Provo Craft is celebrating ! There is a new machine called the E2 that will debut on HSN on Tuesday, April 26th.  They are even giving away a few machines if you enter their contest with 12X12 layouts. I sent mine in already.  Check back on Friday, April 22nd to see what I created for the contest.

While I was packaging up my layouts to send to Provo Craft, I decided I should take the opportunity to send a " Happy Birthday" card to to all the Provo Craft employees involved with the Cricut all these years.

Here is my little Hippo 5th Birthday Card :

I used this adorable hippo card that is on the Birthday Bash cartridge.

It was too cute not to use!

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the inside of the card but I embossed the inside back page with the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday Embossing folder and added a note wishing the Cricut and Provo Craft employees a wonderful 5th Birthday. 

I hope they like the card...it was fun making it. Here is a little sneak peek of one of the 2 layouts

I sent in all wrapped up and ready to be boxed up to ship to Provo Craft.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED.

Hope we get to see many of the layouts on HSN E2 Launch Day, April 26th

Thank You...

A simple Thank You sometimes doesn't seem enough, does it? How about a card to go along with it.

This week the challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog was to make a thank you card using an unusal color combination of magenta, apricot, deep olive and golden yellow. These colors are lovely together but hard to photograph..even in my photo light box I had trouble.

I used my cuttlebug and swiss dot embossing folder to give additional texture to the coordinations yellow cardstock and then I sanded the dots to expose the slight white underneath.  The felt hearts were cut with my cuttlebug as well.  I had an adorable stick pin with just the right color of magenta bird that fit in perfectly.  The pretty font for "Thank You" came from the Thanksgiving Seasonal Cricut Cartridge.

So without further ado....thank you blog readers for following me.  I have a lot of projects I am finishing up for the holidays and will be posting those for inspiration soon. 

A MYSTERY TO SOLVE...

Some absolutely wonderful person on the Cricut Circle Message Board sent me a Mystery RAK yesterday...yes, I have no idea who sent this.  But who ever you are....know that I am deeply touched by your generosity! 

You can only imagine my surprise when DH brought in a box left at our door step yesterday.  He was a little curious as to what I had ordered since we are cutting back expenses right now and was doubtful when I said I had not ordered anything.  I immediately opened the box to find out what was inside....and was so shocked to see this

Not One but TWO of the Creative Memories new Cricut Cartridges!

I started crying and laughing at the same time.  DH was stunned as well.  He knows how much cartridges costs and was just as surprised and thankful someone did this for me. Whoever you are who did this I just can't say thank you enough!  I promise to pay it forward and spread good will to someone else soon too!

I couldn't wait to use these and last night created this card using the Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  My time is limited this week as I am finalizing the Houston Circle Meet Up this weekend but really wanted to use and show off this adorable cartridge. I was able to combine making something fun with also making an entry for the Circle Weekly Challenge.  We had to use Gray, Tan, Orange and Burgundy with losts of textures this week. 

Lots of layeing, dry embossing, inking, textured ribbon and punched border plus a few rhinestones went into making this tribute to Fall.