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Photos of The First Cricut Circle Event at CHA – Summer 2010


2010
07.30

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Hi Everyone!  This morning was the first Cricut Circle event before the CHA Consumer Show!   It was so much fun to meet several of the gals & guys (yes, we had a few man crafters there which was so cool!).  I got to meet my sweet blogging buddy, Audrey Felix from Cute and Some.  She is just a doll and brought her friend Char with her who was also a real sweetheart!  It was fun meeting everyone and I hope we’ll have plenty more opportunities to get to know each other in real life! I WILL be contacting all of you who shared a calling card with me just to say hi and to check out your blogs if you have one!    I’ve got to keep after Audrey because she said she’d help me master design studio and the gypsy -she knows her stuff when it comes to that DS!  Everyone keeps telling me I NEED it but I’m just not feeling the love.  Maybe with a dose of Audrey mixed in (have you ever seen the amazing things she creates with Design Studio? ) I’ll finally see the light and have my own ephimamy moment. :-)  

Here’s a few photos from the Cricut Circle meet this morning.  Please ignore the double chin, I’m working on making it disappear – ugh!  That darn  Jinger from Provo Craft just had to make my double chin looked more pronounced standing next to me – isn’t she just gorgeous?  And to top it all off,  such a nice person! :-)   I always look forward to seeing the Provo Craft team – they’re such a great group of people to know and do business with!

A Yudu demo…

Here’s a few photos of the Cricut mascot working the audience…

We had to bring a calling card for a drawing and my card was drawn for one of the prizes! I actually won  the Rock Princess cartridge!  I was so excited because I never win anything – in fact, I don’t ever recall winning anything – why is that?

I hope you had a great week and have an even awesomer (like that word?!) weekend!

xKim

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Paper Leaf Wreath Made From “Stretch Your Imagination” Cricut Cartridge


2010
07.30

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This is a paper wreath for a class I taught several times last year.  Very fun to make – a bit time consuming but really worth it once it’s done!  (The glass block is also from another class I taught that one of my students made.)  Let me know if you want the instructions for the wreath and I will add them to this post! :-)

 I hope you like it!  It looks really pretty with a bow to compliment whatever holiday you’re celebrating.  You can even add floral picks to the wreath to give it a little more sass! :-)

Olive crafts, don’t you?!

xKim

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The MAIN OLIVES Interview, A Partial One!


2010
07.30

Posted in Master Olive Guest Designer, Olive Juice Studio, Random Posts | 1 Comment »

My full name:  Kimberly Sue Du Chene

Where do I live:  I live in Naperville, IL. a suburb approximately 45 minutes west of Chicago.

Am I married:  Yeppers, to my crazy and loving hubby, Bill.  It will be  our lucky 13 years on December 20th!

Do I have children?  Oh yeah!  I am mom to two adorable, loving, giving, adorably funny boys, Zachary who is 10 and Spencer who will be eight (EIGHT!!) on August 16th.  I cannot believe my boys are as old as they are.  We always planned on having four or five children but God works in mysterious ways.  He blessed us with our second child who screamed 24/7 for 2 1/2 years.  He had chronic ear infections, chronic constipation and of course a dash of colic to top it off.  And, he only slept for 30 minutes at a time before waking up screaming.  :-(   We are now blessed with two boys who are the love of my life and are the sweetest and funniest kids a mom could ever wish for.  They tell us they got their sense of humor from their parents – I have no idea where they ever got that idea.

Do I have any pets?  Well, it depends on the day, the year, the month – all of those things HAVE to be taken into account.  Right now, our LIVING pets include a Convict Cichlid (just one!), and about 50 tadpoles my seven year old rescued from the ditch in our backyard.  I expected the fish and the tadpoles to have died weeks/months ago but no, they are thriving and doing well.  A year ago, we had three Fire-Bellied Toads, a dwarf bunny named Maxie and a dwarf hamster named Vinny, three Convict Cichlids, a Plecotamus (did I spell that right?), and Three Koi.  Does that tell you something?  And my kids NOW want a dog….yeah, about that.

My favorite color(s):  Easy peasy without missing any sleep – it’s RED.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE red and cannot have enough red in my life!  My kitchen and part of my living room is painted tomato red.  I also LOVE warm colors – oranges, reds, turquoise and teal, buttery and sunny yellows, granny smith apple green, warm pinks, along with other vibrant hues.  Of course, black and silver top it off.  Funny….now that I’m thinking of it,  those are the very colors of my house!  Now it makes perfect sense why I chose those colors!  I think this is when I’m supposed to say, “WOW!  I coulda had a V-8!”  

What is my style for my home decor/interior decorating?  100% eclectic, which includes pieces that are vintage, funky, artsy, folksy, countryish, modern, etc, yet they all work together.  I’ve been this way ever since I was younger and have tried to grow up into a more sophisticated style but it’s just not me!  I love playfulness, a home of comfort and happiness and LOTS and LOTS of color!

Here’s a photo of the open area.  There’s lots going on!

 

Sheesh!  I never realized how much of my artwork  is scattered throughout our house until really looking at these photos!  We’re a bit messy in this photo but this is our humble little love shack.  Its a small house but definitely a happy one! 

I think this is all I’m going to post about me today.  It’s late, I’m tired and I have to get up early in the morning to head back to CHA.  Tomorrow morning I’ll be attending the Cricut Circle event – I hope to meet you there or at the Consumer Show later on in the day!

Olive a great week, don’t you?

xKim

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More CHA Photos -Prima, Pink Paisley and Craftwell!


2010
07.29

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Hey Friends!  I’m just checking in to post more photos from CHA!  I’ve got more photos from the Prima booth - I think I took pictures of every single project they had on display in their booth – just gorgeous stuff! :-)   I’ve also got some more ”good stuff” -  product and projects from the lovely Pink Paisley.  There’s many more photos to come!  I hope you’re having fun looking through the pictures I’ve been posting and that you’re able to get some great inspiration from all of the beautiful projects on display at CHA this week!   I know I sure did and I cannot wait to start digging in!  I have to say CHA is the perfect antidote for curing the creative funk we slip into on occasion. – I know I’ve certainly had my moments over the past few months but feel refreshed and ready to rock ‘n roll so look out because here I come!!!  WoOoT!!!  WooOt!!!

Here’s some photos of a gorgeous mini album at the Prima booth.  Isn’t it just beautiful?

Some product and projects from Pink Paisley…

Craftwell, home of the new eCraft Digital Die Cut Machine.  I got to play with it and it is a pretty neat machine.  I especially like the no mat feature.  It cuts up to a 12″ width and can be as long as you can possibly imagine.  It cuts through fabric like it’s butter – even the cheap fuzzy felt – the thicker stuff cuts like a charm. I thought for sure I had taken photos of the dresses made with this thing but I’m not finding them anywhere in the photos I have in my file from CHA.   I’ll keep looking and will post if I find them.  To find out more about the machine visit their website at http://www.craftwellusa.com/pages/home

I hope you liked the photos!  I’l post more tomorrow!

xKim

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“Oh Happy Day…” Another “Just Because” Card!


2010
07.29

Posted in Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge, Cricut Card, Wild Card, Wild Card Cricut Cartridge | 1 Comment »

Here’s a recent card that I made about a month ago.  It goes with the cow and deer circle card set…

The recipe for this card is available below!

Ingredients

Cricut Machine

Wild Card or any cartridge that has a circle shaped card OR use your Gypsy/Design Studio to weld two circles together to form a card.

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge

D’vine Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder AND Cuttlebug

Off white cardstock

Blue metallic/shimmery cardstock

Patterned paper in same colors as solids

Scraps of light green with white polka dots

brown cardstock

Embellies:

Sunflower button

Coordinating yellow button

An old piece of a flexible measuring tape

 Directions

  1. Using your Cricut and the Wild Card cartridge cut the card from page 48 in the handbook at 4 ¼” on the patterned paper of your choice.
  2. Next, cut the circle card in blackout mode found on page 48  of your handbook at 4” from the off-white cardstock.  Cut the circles in half along the fold line.
  3. With the blue shimmer paper, cut the “oh happy day” circular phrase found on page 48 of your handbook at 4 1/4″.
  4. Using the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge cut the bird found on page 45 of the Create a Critter handbook.  At 1 ¾”.  Cut in the shadow mode with brown paper and then the base cut using the light green polka dot paper.  Cut the wing with a scrap of coordinating blue paper.
  5. Cut the sun from the Create a Critter handbook found on ;page 52 at 1” from yellow paper.
  6. Emboss the off-white circle with the D’vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder and Cuttlebug.  Attach to the center of the inside of the circle card.
  7. Glue “oh happy day” circular phrase to the front of the card following the smaller circle cut in the center of the card.  Glue the bird together and attach to the inside of the card so that it fits inside of the circle window frame.
  8. Glue the yellow button to the center of the yellow sun cutout.  Attach a bow made from an old flexible plastic measuring tape to the top of the button.
  9. Lightly ink the card edges with  brown ink.

 

Here’s the other two cards in this card set…

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“ROCK…On!” A Birthday Card for the Rock’n Roll Diva in Your Life!


2010
07.29

Posted in Indie Art Cricut Cartridge, Olive Juice Studio, Olive Juice Studio Inspirations(Gallery), Project Tutorials/Instructions, Random Posts | No Comments »

“And another one does, and another one does…and another one bites the dust!”  (Then the drums kick it up…da-da-dum-dum-dum.dum..dum and another one bites the dust!”  LOL!  Everytime I look at this card that song pops in my head!  This card was made using good ol’ faithful - the Cricut, along with Cuttin’ Up for the font and Indie Art for the skull.  The skull consists of two layers with the bottom layer being silver and the top layer some striped paper I had in my scrap bin.  The mouth and nose were made by gluing a piece of the silver paper right to the back of the skull over the openings for the nose and mouth.  I then used my black pen to outline the teeth and filled in the nose with silver Stickles.  The skull layers are attached with lots of pop dots between the layers and to attach to the card front.  The hearts are felt with rhinestones and Stickles for the glittery dots.  Silver Stickles were used to accent the skull.  A large button with silver Stickles and dental floss makes one eye and the other eye is just a large clear rhinestone.  A red flower by Prima with a piece of red and pink ribbon was tied in a loose knot and attached to the center of the flower and then attached to the skull using a glue dot.  The word “Rock” was cut at 1 1/4″ and red Stickles were added for a little bling.

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Photos from Wednesday, July 28th at CHA – Ranger, Prima and Aleene’s Glue…


2010
07.28

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Howdy Ho Everyone!  It’s Wednesday evening and I’m just getting around to downloading the photos from my camera.  Today I am posting some of the photos of the Ranger booth  -known for their awesome inks, sprays, Tim Holtz and Claudine Hellmuth.  I’m also sharing photos of some really cute scrapbook page layouts from  Prima who is known for their awesome flowers and bling-bling.

And some layouts and neat-o stuff from the Prima Booth…

Aleene’s Glue Booth…

I have more that I will share over the next few days…

Unfortunately, the photos of the Imagine machine are really blurry so I won’t be posting them.  So sorry. :-(

And now a few things projects that I made and will share *wink*

Hope you’re all staying cool in this wicked heat!

x Kim

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“Dream” a Just Because Card using Home Accents


2010
07.28

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This is another card from my stash that is a year old – Isn’t this butterfly from Home Accents (Solutions)?  I believe it is – please correct me if I’m wrong! :-)

I will  post instructions/tutorial over the weekend/next week for all cards posted this week.  Sorry for the wait but look at it as inspiration! :-)

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Hello Kitty Christmas Card!


2010
07.28

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It’s a Hello Kitty pajama-maama party or it could work as a sassy little Christmas card too!  This card was actually made a year ago and I have boatloads of other cards I will be posting from the past year.  Time to purge and pass these lovelies onto someone else so I can make room for all of the  new projects  I will be starting soon ! 

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Photos of Inspiration from CHA…


2010
07.28

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(The lighting was really funky at the show today- I’ll make sure to grab my extra flash for clearer light for tomorrow)

(Photos of new Halloween line from Graphic 45- love it! Wait until you see the new Steam Punk line – I’ll get photos tomorrow!)

More display stuff from American Crafts…

(“Dear Lizzy” line from American Craft – isn’ t it cute and whimsical?)

(Thin and pliable gelatin – REALLY COOL.  I have a sample I will try out once CHA is over to share with you.  We’re testing it with the Cricut tomorrow…this could be a VERY big deal if it cuts without chipping!)  Check out the flowers below – everything is made from gelatin!

(Stamps from American Craft- adorable!)

(Photos from Graphic 45 – LOVE THEIR PAPER!)

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