A Child's Year Teapot Card

I was in need of a simple "thinking of you" card.  I used the rectangle from George and welded the teapot from ACY and then hand cut some of the layers you see to create the teapot.  The stamp was from Stampin' Up.

Kate's Kitchen #4

Here is my fourth card from Kate's Kitchen........time to take a break and pick another cart already!!  The background paper and all images were cut from this cart as well as the two smaller strips of matching "blue cardstock."  Again, I just love this feature of having the perfect match at your fingertips at all times.  I first went through my stash of SU cardstock but all the blues were just slightly off so I resorted to printing two strips of my own.  I inked around the edges with Tim Holtz's distress ink in "tea dye" -  a necessity for me - and then pop-dotted all the images.  Again, it is so hard to tell from these pics but every layer was pop-dotted and in person, the card is really much more dimensional then it appears here.

Snow Angel

I love this cartridge!! The images and papers are just so cute!  The only problem is....with the limited time I actually have to create anything, by the time I am able to come up with a few cards I approve of, it will be spring and this cart will no longer be of any use to me.  Snow Angel was used for all papers and shapes except the rectangular scalloped shape which came from Winter Woodland and was flood-filled with a Snow Angel pattern. 

Just Because Cards and Kate's Kitchen

This card was made using Kate's Kitchen  for the patterned paper and Just Because Cards for the sentiment, oval, and coffee pot.  I absolutely love that you can use the Imagine to print out coordinating color cardstock to match any of the background papers included on the cartridges.  I cannot tell you how many times I have sat down to make a card and realized that I had no solid-colored cardstock to match the background paper I had chosen for a particular card.  This is going to make my card-making so much easier!  I flood-filled the images from Just Because cards with the coordinating colors from Kate's Kitchen to get that perfect match I was talking about and then ran the blue portion of the coffee pot through my cuttlebug to add texture.

Kate's Kitchen #3

This is one of the smiling images I was talking about in my previous post.  I find it a bit unnerving to have a tea pot smiling at me but oh well.....I guess it is a little cute!  I do really like the vivid colors that were included in this cartridge - it makes the cards so cheerful.  I used Kate's Kitchen for all the paper and patterns and then ran the yellow cardstock underneath the tea pot through my cuttlebug and added some "skittles" for embellishments.  There is also a lot of pop-dotting done on the images but my camera did not seem to pick that up in the photo. 

Kate's Kitchen #2

I was a little worried when I first opened up this cart and saw all the smiling coffee pots and other kitchen gadgets with faces.  I thought the patterned paper was really cute but didn't know if I would like the images.  Last night I sat down and printed out three 12 x 12 pages of various images and paper samples and decided to just see if I could come up with something.  I had a lot of fun and I have to admit.....I actually really like this cart now!

Kate's Kitchen

My husband bought me an Imagine for Christmas and I was so excited but I hadn't had time to make anything with it yet.  Last night after I tucked my children in bed, I decided it was time to finally put it to good use!