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Ok, I posted some photos of the not yet released Cricut Cartridge Robotz on my Facebook page! I have to have this cart!! Well, I guess I feel that way about most of them, huh? Yeah, well…anyway…you can go look at them on Facebook. Just friend me on Facebook. I’m “Joy Joyslife”.
I wish my photo looked as good as the card does in person!
I am SO GLAD I bought the Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge!! If you’re looking for it, you’ll find it only at HSN. I just had to try it out today, so I made this card. Let me tell you about it:
Well, whaddaya think? I like it! 
You know what else I like? Those super fat (Jumbo tip) Zig 2 Way Glue pens. I just got one and I LURVE it!! I used it more than my ATG gun on this card…and that’s sayin’ somethin’.
Hey, don’t forget that the 14th is SuperJoy Loves Superfriends Day!!
First and foremost, thank you to everyone for participating. 
If you’re not the winner don’t give up!! I do a Give-A-Way every month on the 14th AND when I reach 500 Google Friends I’m giving away a Full/Regular Cricut Cartridge released in 2010. You just never know what SuperJoy might do…You should probably just come back every day and check, huh? Well, I appreciate you all so much. I hope you come back every day!!
Winners of all Give-a-Ways are chosen randomly using Random.org.
Congratulations! I hope you’ll come back and tell us what you think of your new cartridge!
Stay Tuned for More Fun Give-A-Ways!! And some crafting too, of course, LOL!!!
Here’s a quick little tabbed card made using the Paisley Cricut cartridge.
DS#1 had a b’day party to go to. Mom to the rescue. I made a T-shirt, which I’ll show you another day and this “cute” little card. IDK, is it “cute” if it has skulls all over it? The jury is still out on that.
The paper is from Stampin’ Up and is retired (sorry about that). Everything cut is from the Paisley cart. I used the card from page 65 and the musical notes from page 62. I cut the card at 4-1/4″. You’ll need to score the card using a scorer or bone folder, but once you’ve got those lines folding neatly the little tab holds the card closed very nicely. I ran the musical notes through my Xyron with the top side down so it would get all sticky. Then I poured some black glitter by Doodlebug Design all over it. It turned out looking all “jazz hands”. LOL (I mean fancy.) I popped up the musical notes with some really thick and large pop dots.
Now I’m off to package all this up so it looks cute, but still boy like. I’m happy I could find a boyish theme and still use the Paisley cart…’cause it’s sorta girly, I think.
UPDATE: WOO HOO IT STARTS TODAY (March 7)!!
In the email that I received yesterday from Michael’s they did not specify exactly when this sale was starting. My bet is Sunday.
Here’s all the stuff that came with it! You have to put the handle on yourself.
Ok, I wanted to make a quick post to try and help people decide what color they think this new HSN exclusive Cuttlebug is. They call it pink…but I don’t think so. I think it’s a raspberry color, but for short…I’ll call it RED. What do you think?
Red Cricut Expression + (I Say) Red Cuttlebug
Is that pretty or what? Yeah. Pretty red.
Love this!! This is how it comes. I didn’t add that.
As you can see, it’s really a true pink. I don’t own this one.
Well, those are the basic questions I get. I hope this helps! BTW, HSN says they won’t be getting any more of these “red” Cuttlebugs after they sell out. So, if you want one, you should probably go order one soon.
That’s the box my Cuttlebug came in.
I’m not sure if that means they only had 5,000 or if that was just one run of them.
Hey everybody!! Many of you who are on Facebook with us already know one of our Facebook Friends, Irene, and have learned about her son Christopher. Irene has shared about Christopher on our Facebook page and you can go there to read more about him. He and Irene (his Mom) like to print out pictures of the cards that I make and then they make them together. When I found that out, I wanted to do something special for Christopher. I asked Irene what he really likes and it turns out that it’s Christmas! So, let’s all do something really nice for Christopher and make he and Irene cards they can work on together. You make it, then you just link it below. Ok? This would really mean a lot to Christopher.
The only requirement is that the card be related to Christmas.
Ok?! Alright!! Let’s get started!!
All you have to do is use Mr. Linky below and link to your card. If you don’t have a blog, that’s ok. Don’t worry! You can upload your image to a free photo hosting site like Photobucket. Then you just come back here and enter your name and the photo url below. Also, if you haven’t joined us on Facebook I hope you will. Just friend me! I’m “Joy Joyslife”. We have a good time on there!
I’ll leave this post open for a week. I hope you’ll be a part of this!! 
Here’s My Card for Christopher:
This reindeer is from Paper Doll Dress Up. I welded 2 of the same deer together using my Gypsy. It’s 7″ tall. That puffy stuff around the edges is Liquid Applique in white by Marvy. The little toes are tiny snowball embellishments. I glued a piece of fuzzy ribbon at the neck using Fabri-Tac permanent adhesive. That’s a snowflake brad on the ribbon and a blue gem brad for the eye. The paper I used had some glitter effect to it and that’s what ended up where the antlers are. The paper is “Fall in Love” by My Minds Eye.
Cute little teacher doll…and a mistake stamping! 
Yes, it is still Teacher Appreciation week. I’m thinking of starting a new National program, or maybe even an International one called Mother Appreciation Week. What do you think? I mean, why do we just get a day? Maybe because we don’t have a whole classroom of kids! I heart teachers and it’s true that I am just coming off my “birthday month”, but I’m still pretty sure this Mother’s Week plan is a good idea.
Love the little book! Plus…here’s a close up of my mistake!
I used the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge for this card. If you look on page 67 you’ll find this little “Career” (that’s what they call her) woman. Under Accessories 1 (+ Shift) , you’ll find the book. The polka dot paper & the blue paper that matches it is from Paper Trey Ink.com and the rest of the paper is just from my scrap stash. The scalloped circle is from my stash using Mini Monograms. Here’s more info on that. The stamps on the circle are from the Stampin’ Up “Think Happy Thoughts” stamp set. The ink pad is Glorious Green from Stampin’ Up. (I LOVE their ink!!) I used Peachy Keen stamps to make the face. I used one of my new birthday presents to write “Science” on the side of the book. The pens are Souffle 3-d Opaque Ink pens
In my hurry to finish this card in time for DS#2 to get to school with it, I made a mistake. I began stamping the flower but moved the stamp before finishing and made a mess. Oh no!! 
Don’t worry though, I was able to fix it…and so could you. Check this out!
I used this little circle punch by Marvy to cut a circle out of the same paper I’d made the mistake on. Then, I just restamped that with the flower again. It’s not what I’d wanted initially, but it was a decent fix. Try not to get so caught up on things being just right. Sometimes, it just has to get done, you know what I mean?
I know it’s 2010, I promise!
This morning one of my Facebook Friends, Wilma, asked me if there was a cartridge that has graduation themes. (I list some at the bottom of this post.) I remembered this graduation cap that I made about a year ago. You know what’s crazy? I thought I’d posted it already. I spent a bunch of time this morning looking for the post to share with her, but I didn’t find it. If you find it on my site, just let me know I’ve double posted. If not…then I’m just going crazy. (Most likely, LOL.)
Excuse the blobbled out area. I apparently had a fear of showing my signature, LOL.
I can’t remember specific sizes about this card since I made it so long ago and it was sent off to DH’s cousin’s son, Cody…who is such a doll. Anyway, my very favorite part of this card is that I had a moment of genius (or craftiness, depending on what compliment I feel the need to give myself, LOL) and I decided to use a bookmark tassel as the tassel for the grad cap!! Yes, I was and still am so proud of myself. (Even I am making “tsk” noises after reading that.) Really, I think I was just patting myself on the back because I’d bought this little set of “decorate your own bookmarks and add tassels” and never used them. At least the tassel has made itself useful.
(aka – let’s get down to business/to the point/specifics )
This card was created using the Cricut Wild Card cartridge. Page 73 has the grad hat and “class of” phrase. Page 59 has the “Congratulations” sentiment. I actually cut that Congrats senstiment in a few places so I could lay it out as one long word. The cut actually has “Congratu-” then under that part has “lations”. I needed it to be all one word, so I just clipped it with a pair of scissors in a few places. Duh! I see I didn’t cut the little dash off of the “u”. How weird. Oh well. I used a black brad to attach the tassel too!
I hope this gives you a few ideas for upcoming Graduations!
Locker Talk – has the word “Graduation” in a banner image, grad cap, graduate certificate image
A Child’s Year – Graduation cap, diploma rolled, diploma rolled tag
Wild Card – things I showed above, diploma rolled, tassel, “For the Graduate” sentiment. Also has a Ribbon (pg 69) which might be helpful.
Everyday Paper Dolls – Graduation Gown, Diploma, you can make a little graduate!
I’m sure there are tons of other images that could be listed here, but hopefully that will get you started!
What did one strawberry say to the other? “Look at the jam you’ve gotten us into!”
Hee…hee…hee…I’m still laughing over that joke. You know what I think is great? There’s a business a few miles from my house and every time I drive by there they have a new joke on their sign. I hope I never have an accident while I drive by reading their jokes. They’re always really cute ones too. I try to remember them so I can tell my joke loving sons.
Well, you were all so sweet to wish me a Happy Birthday! So, thank you all again! These strawberry cards were thank you’s that I made for some of my extended family. My niece made me the NICEST thing EVER!! She painted a picture for me!! I’ll take a picture of it soon and post it for you to see. It was really sweet. I got other nice things too, but that was a real treasure.
Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge – Strawberry pg. 32
(card, berry bottom & top)
Walk in My Garden Cricut Cartridge – Envelope pg. 129
Paper – Green paper for top is New Leaf by PaperTreyInk.com; Red Strawberry paper is (Oh, no…I don’t know. It came from my scrap stash, sorry!); black cardstock from Stampin’ Up; All Envelope Paper is from K & Co. Urban Designer Paper.
Stickles – Lime Green (on the strawberry stem). (Click here to learn about Stickles.)
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders – Swiss Dots (strawberry base), D’vine Swirl (stem)
Souffle Opaque Puffy Ink Pens
Basics – ATG gun, Zig 2 Way Glue Pen, Scorer (I used one by Provo Craft), Sizzix Big Shot
I say use double sided paper to make some cutie pie envelopes! Also, it’s a great way to use up paper that you’re tired of or don’t have a use for.
This paper was 12×12 and I used the “Fit to Page” button on my Cricut Expression. The envelope printed at 4.9″ x 4.9″. So, I made the little strawberry card a bit smaller. It’s true, I used Souffle 3D opaque pens to write inside the card. It turned out pretty well, but I’d really suggest a gel pen instead. I had a few problems writing a note with them. Maybe it’s because I hold my pen funny? For real. If you ever see me sign anything…you’ll know what I mean. It could be that these pens aren’t meant for note writing and are instead for smaller, more concentrated things…like little drawings and coloring in.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this post. I wanted to use some older cartridges because although they are older (like me on my b’day) they’re still kickin’!!
