My First Imagine Project ; An Easy Gift Idea

I covered a fireplace match Box with paper printed with my Imagine. The striped paper is Imaginesce. The phrase, tag and trees are from Winter Frolic colored with the Imagine cart Frosty. I used a border punch from EK Sucess for the lace look edge. Red stickles for the glitter accents. And a pretty red bow to finish it off. This is my entry for the Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge.

My first Blog Awards!! I'm so excited!!

I was awarded two of these awards a couple days ago I have only had time to post them now!!



To accept this award, I must do the following:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded me this award
2. Share 8 things about yourself
3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards

I received them from my wonderfully crafty friends:
Scraperdee
http://scrapperdee-rambling.blogspot.com/
and
Shannon
http://pansiespaperpetals.blogspot.com/
Please click on the two awards on my sidebar to see their pages. Thank you much to both of you!!

Sharing eight things about myself:
1. I am married to my best friend.
2. I have seven wonderful children from the ages of 30 down to 13. The first six are boys, the last one is a girl. I also have three very cute grandchildren, all boys!!
3. I have industrial first aid training level 3.
4. I hybidize Daylilies and have over 100 named varieties and near 1000 hybrids. I hope someday to register(name)a few of my own daylilies.
5. In my early fourties I worked at a copper mine as sample bucker and a Primary Crusher operater, I crushed over 20,000 tonnes of rock in a 12 hr shift!!
6. I have a real love for nature and animals.
7. I would like to get better at photography.
8. I am a certified dog groomer and did that for over 20 years when my children were younger.
Here are eight Blogs I have discovered that I would love you to visit!!
1. http://aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/
2. http://a-scrapaddict.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.ropchallenge.blogspot.com/
4. http://thegreencricut.blogspot.com/
5. http://amychomas.blogspot.com/
6. http://randisanewcreation.blogspot.com
7. http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com/
8. http://brittneyunwritten.blogspot.com/

Sorry but I tried to link back to these blogs (grrr) but was not successful. Please copy and paste into your browser to veiw.

Hope you all have time to visit these wonderful Blogs!! There is so much talent out there!! Have a great day, I'm off to let these wonderful crafty souls that I've nominated them for this award!

Two Turtle Doves

This is my entry for the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge. I so hijacked PC with this one. I made my own "snowflake flowers" designing the quilling flowers on my gypsy, cutting them on the Cricut and using the PC Quilling tool to wind them . I used spray adhesive and glittered them. The turtle-doves were fun to make and dress -up!! The challenge was to make a gift box or bag with one of the templates on the cartridges. There must be at least 4 cricut cuts used. My papers are from Wintertime by Echo Park Paper Company.