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2010-02-24T09:53:00.001-05:00

We've moved. Please find us at www.imag-designs.com/blog. Formal sign coming soon!

2009-12-24T09:00:00.000-05:00

My two favorite cards out of the bunch. You can see the second card had better lighting. I think I'm getting better. Don't you agree? =)

I'm beginning to love our camera. I've been using it for everything. As you can see, it has the potential to take really good shots. I just have to take my time with the pictures. Something I need to work on, patience. You would think with two kids I would have some. Negative. But I'm working on it =)

2009-12-23T09:00:00.000-05:00

Two more days! Two more days, I tell ya! What I love most about the holidays is being able to spend time with the family. This year has been so great. I've been able to take a two week vacation. Although the snow storm has left us homebound, it still feels great not having to worry about running around. Dropping off the baby to the sitter, dropping off Isaiah to the neighbor's house, getting to the train station on time, all that good stuff and that's all before 8am! I wonder sometimes how I stay sane!

Hope you enjoy today's cards.

2009-12-22T09:00:00.000-05:00

I've decided that next year I would like to participate in at least 1 or 2 craft fairs. That means starting now to stock up! I'm not sure how well one can sell at spring craft fairs so I'm shooting for fall craft fairs. I figure it'll be easier to sell the smaller things I have since people are looking for unique and fairly priced gifts for teachers and co-workers. At least I will feel alot more prepared if I start early in the year. I like to have everything lined up instead of jumping right in. I just hope I can keep my motivation. I am still having trouble trying to balance everything in my life right now but it is getting alot better.

I've got two simple cards to show you today. Nothing fancy.

2009-12-21T20:09:00.003-05:00

We have literally 4 days before Christmas! I think I'm more excited than my kids are. We have been snowed in our apartment for the last 3 days. I believe Woodbridge, VA received about 20-22 inches of snow. Hopefully our neighborhood will be clear by the time Friday comes. Knowing how VDOT is around here, we can only hope.

Anyway I've got two cards to show you today. I made this a while back but of course procrasination has gotten the best of me.

I will be posting two cards a day until Christmas. I hope you enjoy!

2009-11-15T16:40:00.002-05:00

Christmas has definitely snuck up on me this year. I'm sure everyone is already getting their Christmas projects in order. My apartment complex is having a little craft fair, so I've challenged myself to get involved. Hopefully I'll have enough items to be able to sell a few things. Here is Mojo112:

These layouts are great and the designers are awesome. I can't help but to get inspired.

2009-10-12T22:35:00.003-04:00

My brother in law asked me to make his girlfriend a birthday card. I was a little tired from the weekend so I was surprised I had energy left to make a beautiful card. Mojo Monday has become a favorite inspiration of mine. Mojo108 is as follows:

I couldn't seem to get the focus right on the camera but will try again with the next card. The card looks so much better in person. I will take my time with focusing the next time around.

Hope you all enjoy!

2009-08-09T11:21:00.003-04:00

We have two birthdays this week at my office, so I decided to organize my craft space and get to work. I started off with a sketch from Mojo Monday:

I also headed over to The Pink Elephant and realized they were having a recipe challenge! How perfect! The recipe was to use three brads, one flower, and designer paper. It was a little hard to implement the three brads with the design since I didn't have the coordinating color but it looks good to me!

Don't forget to enter yours in while there's still time!

2009-03-13T09:10:00.001-04:00

I couldn't help but to jump in on the bandwagon. This stationery set from Jackie Topa is awesome. Although her instructions were pretty clear, I opted for Dannie's video instructions instead. This was made for Ada's birthday, which was yesterday. I substituted the tags for embellishments for the cards. I thought it would be nice for her to be able to put what sentiment she wanted and where. I used 2 1/4" ovals from the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge and stamped a few sentiments on them. I adhered a piece of dimensional and left the backing on. I also included some flowers from Got flowers.
Here are the rest of the goodies inside. Yummm! I love the colors!
On to the card. I wanted something simple and something that coordinated with the stationery set. It was quick and easy, yet still elegant. She loved it!There you have it! Her fabulous stationery set! Have you made a stationery set? Leave your link in a comment and give me some inspiration! If you need more inspiration yourself check out the gallery at SCS. There are tons of great ideas. Enjoy!

2009-03-08T19:33:00.012-04:00

Update: This card has been entered in KWernerDesign's color inspiration challenge. The following is the swatch board:

My sister in law asked me to make a last minute wedding card Friday night. I decided I would use Kazan's sketch on 2sketches4you.

Unfortunately, I forgot to upload the card before their deadline entry. That's alright, it still came out beautifully!

I got the designer paper at Walmart. It was part of a scrapbook paper pad and had beautifully designed papers in silver, white and black. I love how simple and elegant it turned out to be!

I also made this monogram:

I love weddings! I hope to be able to plan mine soon (hint hint to the love of my life!). Pictures from the wedding will be featured at xoxoChelly as soon as I upload them. Hope you all had a great weekend!

2009-03-06T08:00:00.002-05:00

An update on the baby shower! This is probably long over due but I've finally been able to post the pictures. Here is what I came up with:

The last photo is of a cupcake topper, I didn't have any on hand so I figured I would just lay it down. I love these colors. Unfortunately, when I went to visit Michael's the other day, they didn't seem to have the cardstock I needed to make the rest of them =(. I will check back this weekend and will see if I need to order supplies online. Keeping my fingers crossed!

2009-03-05T14:33:00.005-05:00

Remember the wedding that I'm going to in just two days? Well Michael's had a sale on frames and I bought an awesome 10x20 frame for $10! I've been seeing these awesome name frames on Split Coast Stampers. My favorite was inspired by Julesiana. So here is what I came up with! Please excuse the glare, I was in a rush this morning and couldn't get the picture any better.

Here's a closer view of the tag on the bottom right corner.

If you didn't already know it matches the card I made =). The green is slightly off but it still came out great on the first try! I hope this inspires someone and if it did send me the link to your name frame in a comment! Enjoy!

2009-02-25T00:10:00.004-05:00

I needed to make a card for a wedding I'm going to next weekend. So I figured I would enter one of the challenges on The Pink Elephant. The sketch is as follows:

And here is my take on it =) My first acetate card and I feel proud!

This card took me a couple tries but this is exactly how I imagined it. Hope you all enjoy!

2009-02-23T23:11:00.003-05:00

I've been keeping pretty busy lately these past couple of weeks. Can you tell? All last week I was studying for two midterms and was plenty busy at work giving me no time to breathe. But now that I have a chance, I wanted to fill you in on some updates.

First, I've got a new personal blog which can be found at xoxoChelly. I want to blog more about my life but I also want to keep my paper crafts separate so I've decided to make two separate blogs.

I also plan to enter more challenges. I will browse around ever so often to find different challenges to get my creative juices flowing! Hopefully you can join me!

Last but not least, in case you still don't have a Cricut yet, please head over to your local Michael's store and see if they are on sale. My boyfriend and I went yesterday to window shop and to our surprise the Cricut was on sale for $299.99! Yes $299.99!! Well, like an addict that I am, we ended up buying it and a few other supplies. Boy, was I excited to open it up last night! So excited I decided to join the fun at Mojo Monday. Here is my take on Mojo 75:

I'm excited to be able to join in on these challenges. They're alot of fun and I'm happy to have more supplies! Hope you all enjoy!

2009-02-17T10:13:00.000-05:00

Connie, from the LovetheBug Yahoo group, sent over some stamps. I am so grateful to have found such great friends! I sent her this thank you card. The flower is the stamp she gave me and you probably can't tell but all the stamped images are all embossed =) I love the look! This card is also sort of a gatefold card..but you really can't tell in the picture. The instructions are found here.

Enjoy!

2009-02-12T09:27:00.001-05:00

Cuttlebug Challenge #18

Here is a birthday card I made for an unlce's birthday. He enjoys golfing so I thought this would be a perfect fit. There were plenty of other ideas that popped in my head but so little time to actually execute the ideas.

Please join Cuttlebug Challenge #18!

2009-02-11T09:00:00.000-05:00

Here are my valentine's cards that I am sending out to a few friends.

2009-02-10T09:04:00.001-05:00

Deloris sent the group another challenge in the mail. This one was a bit harder than last! But it definitely got my creative juices flowing! She sent the little blue circular things on the right. She actually sent a few in different colors, but I like the blue the best =) Those stamps are also the ones she sent me in the mail! I love them! Also, you probably can't tell in this picture but the stamped images are embossed! I bought a heat gun and some clear embossing powder a few weeks ago and fell in love with the look! Now I try to incorporate it into every project I do!

Enjoy!

2009-02-09T09:00:00.002-05:00

I wanted to take a stab at a pop up card so I read instructions from the Martha Stewart site and a few other sites which I can't remember which ones at the moment. This one is for my old boss. Hope she likes it!

2009-01-31T09:23:00.001-05:00

Since there are a few co-worker's birthdays coming up, I thought I would try out the cupcake card that I found on Linsey's blog. She did such an amazing job on her cupcakes, it inspired me to make some of my own. I don't have much cardstock or decorative paper on hand so I improvised a little. With the pink card, I used a white cardstock and I printed it brown and cut out only the base of the cupcake. I used another white piece of cardstock and printed it pink and cut out the top of the cupcake and assembled and embellished. With the blue card, I used a white cardstock and cut the base, the brown printed cardstock for the "baking cup", and last but not least a blue printed cardstock for the cupcake top. I stamped both with happy birthday in the inside and I plan to sit the cards on top of their desks instead of putting them in envelopes. This card was so easy and so much fun to make!

Enjoy!

2009-01-28T14:39:00.005-05:00

One of my closest friends is pregnant with her second =). We are getting together to plan her baby shower this weekend and it made me think of the diaper cakes I made a few years ago. My sister in law and co-worker both had Winnie the Pooh as their nursery theme so what better gift then a Winnie the Pooh diaper cake! Although they shared the same taste, one had a girl and one had a boy and these seemed to be perfect!

Last but not least here is the diaper cake I made for my own baby shower. You can't really see the name but it spells out "Aaliyah". The little business card looking thing is one of my favors which was a magnet that said "Thank you for coming to our baby shower", it had our names, the date and an awesome sonogram picture of our baby girl. The pink lillies were also a part of my favors, although not pictured here, I made flower pens with tags and threw a whole bunch in a dollar store vase with hershey kisses at the bottom and used it as my centerpieces. Oh the joy of baby showers!

I offered to make her invitations as well as provide the favors. As for the details of the shower, we are enlisting a few of her closest friends to chip in with ideas, games, decorations, etc. We want to make this shower very budget friendly and hopefully we can achieve that with the help of friends.

2009-01-26T21:06:00.002-05:00

I made this card for Deloris. She sent me some red rubber and rhinestones in the mail. She was so thoughtful I couldn't resist making her a card! Her yahoo group has really helped me get creative. Who would've thought!

I'm pretty busy at work and at school this week, hopefully I can get more blogging done. I'm in the process of getting all my Valentine's cards and treats done soon. I finally had a chance to sit down and think about what I wanted to do. So that should be posted soon!

Hope everyone likes!

2009-01-21T09:11:00.002-05:00

Christine at Creative Journey has reached 50k hits! It's awesome to see how many people come to her blog each day! I always enjoy seeing her beautiful creations. Today, she has some blog candy to share with a special winner. All you have to do is comment on her blog to enter. Don't miss out..the blog candy looks so delish!

2009-01-20T14:09:00.004-05:00

I made this birthday card for my boss. I definitely wish I had more stamps. I'm addicted! Hopefully I can buy some more soon. Right now I have two alpha sets, a swirl type stamp and some sentiment stamps.

Too bad they shut down Recollections, I really enjoyed going there and finding all types of scrapbooking ideas. The nearest scrapbook store is maybe 20 miles from me. Although, I could go to Michaels, Target or Walmart...I just wish there were stores specific to scrapbooking and cardmaking.

Enjoy the card!

2009-01-19T10:00:00.001-05:00

I thought I would make some chocolate filled boxes for my co-workers for Valentine's Day. This is what I have so far. I like the one on the left most. I'm thinking of making this for my team and a "pizza box" for the rest of my co-workers. The pizza box is pretty easy to make, I don't have a picture of the one I made on here since it wasn't sturdy enough.

Below is a picture of the card I made, still debating on whether I should make these too. My camera didn't really take good pictures. I really do need a new one!

2009-01-17T09:00:00.001-05:00

The beginning of this week, I decided the planner I bought from the campus bookstore was a bit plain. I decided to alter it a little. This is what I came up with. Simple but definitely not ordinary! I printed out the striped pattern from my computer, used a scrap green cardstock, stamped it and there you have it!

2009-01-15T23:47:00.009-05:00

Envelope Challenge with LovetheBug Yahoo Group

Deloris from the LovetheBug Yahoo Group, has challenged the group with an envelope challenge. She sent each of us an evelope of goodies to make a card with. Here is my take on the challenge. I am also testing various ways of taking pictures of my cards so please do feel free to leave suggestions! The first is on a white background.

The second is with the card laid down flat on the table.

Last but not least, this one is standing up on a black background.

Deloris definitely had my mind going last night! I spent about an hour trying to figure out what to do. I loved it! Hope you all like!

2009-01-15T16:48:00.004-05:00

I've been meaning to post but I have been so busy!The semester has started again and I am back at school this week. I have 2 online classes and 2 classes at the campus. I've been able to get a good head start on the online classes with the free time I have at work, this will later help me when I no longer have the free time!

I finally was able to get my Cuttlebug exchanged! The store manager and scrapbook lady (as the manager called her) at Michaels were so helpful! Now I have a working Cuttlebug. I was so excited, it was like opening it up all over again! The manager definitely made sure that it work, he tested it right in front of me..thank goodness!

I've recently signed up for a few craft forums and a few groups from Yahoo. I hope that these groups and forums can get my creativity rolling with ideas!

Can you tell that my mind just jumps from one thing to another? I sometimes can't keep up with myself! I'm hoping I'll have more time at work tomorrow to actually post something!

Until then =)

2009-01-11T17:56:00.017-05:00

I thought I would post a picture of the box of greeting cards I made for my old boss for Christmas. Here is the box, it is actually a pop tart box covered with decorative paper and tied with a ribbon. Below are the cards that I included. This was done very last minute, hence the lack of creativity. I hope to get better at creating this gift set as my supply grows! I will hopefully make more of these for close friends and family to get my work out there!

2009-01-06T12:24:00.002-05:00

This past weekend, Michael's, was having a sale on all Cuttlebug items..bringing the 79.99 item to 39.99. So I went and bought one along with a handful of embossing folders and a few dies and to my disappointment, the machine turns out to be defective. The dies don't cut all the way through and the embossing folders don't emboss. It seems as if the right side of the machine is the only part working. It'll cut through the paper only to leave the other half with nothing. I've tried everything to make my dies cut through but nothing seems to be helping. Good news is, I called Michael's today and they said they would be able to exchange for another one =). Wish me luck, I know all Cuttlebugs are different and I hope this one works better than the last one.

2009-01-06T10:19:00.002-05:00

One of my new years resolutions this year is to design more. Since I've always been interested in art, creating homemade things have always seemed to put a smile on my face, and since part of a creative journey is not only to express yourself in your work but also be able to share it with others... this is where blogger comes in. I will post my trials and tribulations through my creative journey of this year and hopefully for many years to come.