Cricut Imagine Spring Summer Hop

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Welcome to the Cricut Imagine Spring/Summer Blog Hop, You should have arrived here from Laura Davidson's blog, Custom Comforts and you can find all of the stops at the bottom of this post.  There is a grand prize for the hope donated by Erica's Craft Room, a gift certificate for $25.00!  I love her shop and the prices she has for Cricut cartridges!  And I'm offering a prize too:  a $10.00 gift certificate for either of my Etsy stores where you can get a dust cover for any of your Cricuts!  ?To enter the prize for Erica's shop, please comment on ALL the blogs on the hop!  To enter the prize drawing for my blog, please leave a comment below with a method to reach you, in a safe manner.  For example, ssmith at hotmail dot com will help prevent spam.  I will draw a winner on May 19, 2012.
I love my Cricut Imagine as much as I love my other Cricuts! Here are some of the reasons: 1) Always a professional result! My Cricut Machines have taken my paper crafting to professional looking level. 2) Always the right color at any time! I can print the color paper or embellishment I want in the middle of the night! 3) Great for multiple copies! I love having the ability to make invitations and thank yous in large numbers! 4) I can use it with all of my standard Cricut Cartridges, and 5)  Works with Cricut Craft Room. I never cut anything or print anything without first getting preview!
 So, for this project I made Thank You notes for my son's 1st Communion. I used Cricut Inspired Heart Lite Cartridge, and Sophisticated and the blue is from the Audrey Imagine cartridge. I just pulled the images of the kneeling boy, and "Thank You" into CCR and flood filled them with the blue from Audrey. I printed them on vellum and it worked beautifully! I love the professional look of printing on vellum and it dried just as quickly as it would on standard card stock! I grouped the two images, and copied and pasted them so that I could print 4 cards per one 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of vellum. I then cut them with my paper trimmer and used a slotted punch with a ribbon to adhere them on top of white card stock. I am not making my thank you cards before events so that they are ready for the children to write them immediately. Why didn't I think of this sooner?

And just for more ideas for those of you who are making 1st Communion invites, take a look at my previous post for my Imagine made cards HERE.  Your next stop on the hop is Chris's blog HERE.
Blog Hop Line Up

custom-comforts Robin F.M.  Jones
LauraLeesDream Laura Davidson -
Cricut Crafty Clare YOU ARE HERE
Scrappin Nanapuddin - Chris Zook
Janet's Creative World - Janet Royer -
LadyLuvBug - Janet M Smith
My Bug & Me Create - Doris Parker
ScrappinMyStressAway - Lori Apgar
Nana's Scrap Spot - Miranda Enclade
Scrappin' With Chriss and Lou -  Chriss Real