Creations With Christina

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Archives for April 2011

Disney Pixar Blog Hop

Happy Saturday everyone,
I’m so excited to be apart of this weekends Disney Pixar Blog hop. So if you are just stopping by from Lori’s blog, then welcome…but if you just stopped by to check out the latest head over to Shawn’s blog to start the hop.

Here is my project for the hop. I needed to start working on an album from our Disney vacation we took two summers ago and I thought this would be a good way to get me started. I don’t have the pictures developed yet (well I do, just didn’t have time to go pick them up). I used the Mickey & Friends and Mickey Fonts Cricut Cartridges for my layout…

I wanted to keep it really simple as this will be the first page in my album and I have a great black & white picture of the three of us that I thought would be a perfect beginning.

So now for a little giveaway…Leave a comment below to enter to win a $25 gift certificate to Custom Crops…Remember only one comment per person and I’ll announce the winner on Monday. 

Now click HERE to head on over to Cindy’s blog to see what awesome project she worked on…Good luck on finding the hidden Mickey’s…

Have a great weekend…
Hugs and happy crafting,

Country Life Episode #4

Happy Friday everyone,
Well, I’m headed to the circus today with Ethan’s class. It’s gonna be a good time.

Today is the final episode in the Country Life series. At first I didn’t know what I wanted to do with the banner and then I had a hard time picking out paper…but I do like the final result…

I usually film all my videos on the weekends, but this one was last night. You can tell it was dark out, especially when you see the part with the Cricut. I’m used to not worrying about lighting that I forgot to move lighting over…Sorry it’s still good, but you can tell…

I’ll be posting all the videos for the series in a separate post so I can have them linked to one spot and then you’ll be able to find them under the Series tab above.
Tomorrow stop by for a super fun Disney Blog hop, click here for more information on the hop….
I will be playing with my CE2 this weekend 🙂 Have a great weekend 🙂 
Hugs and happy crafting,

Country Life Cartridge Series #3

Hi All,
Today is number three in the series. I always do a video with the Gypsy…so here’s your card for today…

This one was so much fun to make. I’m thinking this will be going to Ethan’s teacher for the end of the school year (can’t believe that’s coming up soon).

So, do you think it will come today? The Cricut 2? I don’t know, it shipped last night and said delivery is by 3pm today. I’m not convinced it’s coming today since at 5:30 this morning it had just departed Kentucky and it needs to come all the way here to Pa. It still says its coming today, but I don’t think so…

My plan was to film video #4 tonight. I want to use the banner cut, but I’m not sure what I want to do with it yet. If Cricut 2 comes though I might be distracted. So I may or may not have a video for tomorrow…

Have a great Wednesday.

Country Life Cartridge Series #2

Happy Tuesday,
I have to warn you before you even start reading…I was up until after 1:30 this morning and I had to get up for work this morning at 5:30. I get up early to get myself in gear, my post ready for the day and before you know it, its time to get Ethan up and get him going for the day…I just hope what I write below makes sense 🙂 I will be a walking zombie today…OK now on to the next video in the series….

Today I thought I would show you how to make a shaped card. We’re not using our Gypsy’s or Design Studio to make this card….

Lots of you asked about the sticky tool I used yesterday to pick up the small pieces. That is my scrapping best friend when it comes to those small Cricut pieces. It’s called a QuicStik by QuicKutz. Besides ordering right from QuicKutz, I know you can buy it at Hobby Lobby and you can also find it on Amazon. If you google search it you’ll find a few other online stores that carry it as well.

Oh and did I mention…I ordered my Cricut Expression 2 last night. It’s a great deal with easy pay and free shipping. I can’t wait…Some of you asked if I was keeping my regular Expression and yes I am…I want to keep it for doing the series videos…I will however be adding a video segment to the series using the Cricut 2…Maybe that will be video #5 this week since it should be here tomorrow (oh yes I paid the extra shipping…lol)

Well have a great day…I will be the girl at the library with the toothpicks holding her eyes open today 🙂
Have a great Tuesday and enjoy the day

Country Life Cricut Cartridge Series

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend 🙂

Let’s get started with the Country Life Cartridge Series. I have planned four videos for this series, but if I have time during the week to make a 5th video I will.

Today we are going over the manual and then we’ll  hop right into making our first card….

So here we go…

See you back here tomorrow for Episode # 2
Hopefully I’ll be able to get up on time for work tomorrow, since I’ll be staying up till’ midnight to order my Cricut Expression 2. I am so excited about the CE2. I knew right off the bat that I had to have it..Can’t wait. I even already cleared a spot next to my Expression for my new machine…

Happy Easter

Hi Everyone,

Happy Easter
I  hope you enjoy the day and
have a great day with family and friends 🙂

WOW! I wish my Easter Eggs would come out looking like this

Tomorrow starts the Country Life Series. I’ve filmed three of the four (maybe five) videos already. Looks like I’ll have a video for you almost everyday this week.

Don’t forget to stay up late tomorrow night for the launch of the Cricut Expression 2 on HSN….
I can’t wait 🙂



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