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Did you ever just not feel creative? I desire to make cards. I have all kinds of supplies. But I lack the creativity. I struggle with paper layouts, patterns, papers that work well together. I'm a good copy cat. But I wish I could come up with an idea in my head and just make it happen. But that doesn't happen.
I'm a Stampin' Up demonstrator. I joined to get a discount on supplies for myself. But, in fact, I would LOVE to be a successful demonstrator to people. I would love to have card making classes in my home but don't think the people I know would want to come. It would be cool to be successful through online orders. Hmmmm.

Vinyl Wall Decal

So a friend of my daughter wanted this put on her daughters bedroom wall. She gave me a pic of the poem and picked dark gray for the vinyl color. I also had her choose a font. And this is what I came up with. She was really happy with it. I love my Cricut!

70th Birthday Card

Hello,
So my husband and I were invited to a friends 70th surprise birthday party. Everyone was asked to wear black and white because the birthday girl loves those colors. So I just had to come up with a card using those colors.

My daughter is getting married!!!!

Yep! She got engaged on December 22nd. Her boyfriend took her to Chicago and got down on one knee in front of a Christmas tree on display at Millennium Park. She said yes of course! She has a fall wedding date planned. It's going to be amazing. We found her wedding dress, although she does want to try on a few other styles before she says "yes to the dress"...lol. We are most likely going to have the wedding here at our home. Outside of course! It's so exciting to plan her wedding! Her and I have such similar taste. I'm going to be a mess on the day of her wedding. It's going to be so hard to let her go. She has been such an amazing gift from God. Enough of that :-( .... below are cards (post card style) I made using my Cricut. I used the print then cut feature for everything except the ring. The ring is a die cuts made with my Cricut as well.  These are for her to give to her bridesmaids and flower girls (I'm pretty sure that is self explanatory haha). NOT MY DESIGN.

Baby shower invites

So this is an invitation I made for my daughters friend. I used all Cricut Access images and text. I used the flatten feature so that I could use the print then cut feature. Turned out really cute. Love it!

Sad news...

The following cartridges are retiring from Close to my Heart: Art Philosophy, Artiste and Artfully Sent. Art Philosophy and Artiste are two of my favorite cartridges!! If I was going to recommend two cartridges to someone, that's the two I would recommend. Get them before they retire on July 31st.

Cricut WISHES.....

• In My Projects...I wish there were options to save jobs in folders, alphabetically
• Curve text option
• More Writing Style font options
• Insert Image Tab...I with in the filter tab (the funnel) that the checked boxes would stay checked!!! while searching through different images/cartridges
• When wanting to change the font, I wish when you hover over the different fonts that you would be able to see what the text would like like in that font instead of having to actually clicking on the font and having to do that for each font you try. Ugh!

So, anyone else have wishes to add to this? I'm sure you do. Design Space can be frustrating at times. Add your wishes in the comments. Thanks