Family Fun Reveal - Imaginisce newest collection.

Hello blogging friends! How many of you are planning a road trip around Thanksgiving or Christmas? Do you need ideas for keeping your little ones entertained?  Maybe hear, "Are we there yet?"  a little less. Well I've got a great idea for you. I have a fun busy box to share with you that I created with the new Imaginisce Family Fun collection. I decorated my box with paper and die cuts from the collection. It's about a 9"x9" tin. 

 My Xyron 9" Creative Station came in handy to adhere the papers to the tin.

Then I decorated the cover with some die cuts and thickers.

This box can hold plenty of snacks, games, crayons... I decided to make some magnetic dolls to put inside mine with the Family Fun die cuts. Since my box is actually a tin I am upcycling, the magnets will stick right to it!. To create the magnets, I ran the dolls and accessories I chose through my 9" Creative Station with a Laminate Magnet cartridge inside. I chose accessories that were not too small so their little fingers would not get too frustrated, lol. 

The Creative Station has a trimmer in the back to cut the magnetic sheet apart. Such an awesome idea to put the trimmer right there on the machine!

Then I cut the pieces out. (insert Hand Cramp here!)

Since the Safari hat had a slit cut in it for the doll head, I used my Clicut to cut through the laminate and magnetic sheets. The Clicut is one of the newer tools for Imaginisce. It's a retractable pen knife. Make sure to use it with a self healing mat so as not to cut into your table top. 

I organized my box with the girl doll and accessories on the inside of the lid and the boy doll and his accessories on the bottom of my tin. 

They can be moved around easily and dressed and undressed. 

I may need to add some of those adorable zoo animal die cuts to my busy box. To add to the creativity, I got a small dry erase board. The magnets will stick to this board too! and Did you know you can get dry erase crayons? No tops to get lost! No mess if they happen to fall out of little hands! Where were these when my kids were little! They work great and can be stowed away inside the busy box!  

Supplies:

Imaginisce : Pattern Papers, Die Cuts (Family Fun),Clicut, Self Healing Mat

American Crafts - Thickers

Xryon 9" Creative Station with adhesive cartridge and a laminate magnetic cartridge.

Xyron Mega Tape Runner

Crayola Dry Erase Board and Crayons

Thanks for stopping by.
~Marcia

A Card Pair - Imaginisce and Kiwi Lane

Imaginisce teamed up with Kiwi Lane and I was able to try out a couple of their templates. I received Aspen Court and Shapes. Right away when I saw the Aspen Court templates I thought hills, so I created a window card with dirt hills for this fun ATV die cut from the Outdoor Adventure collection. I ran the yellow pattern paper through my computer to create the sentiment, then used the Kiwi Lane Shapes circle to cut out a sun. The Clicut worked great to create the window in my card.

On my second card I used the two hexagon shapes from the Kiwi Lane Shapes set. Hexagons are very trendy and I thought they would make a great background for my card. I cut out several from different pattern papers in the Love You More collection and adhered them to a Black Ice piece of paper. I covered enough of the paper with hexagons that I could then trim it down to card size. The templates work great for cropping your photos too. You can see through them. I marked my photo and then used my Clicut to cut it out. The blade will cut through the templates so use an acrylic guide.

 

I love how this last one turned out :)

Supplies:
Imaginisce Pattern Paper: Outdoor Adventure, Black Ice and Love You More; Die Cut: Outdoor Adventure; Stickers: Love You More; Clicut; i-Mat 8x8; i-Rock; Lighted Tweezers; heart gems; Foam Adhesive;
Quick Quotes Chalk ink in Mocha Mama, Midnight Confessions, and Baja Blue;
Cheery Lynn Designs French Pastry die cut
Kiwi Lane Aspen Court Mini set and Shapes set

Hang in there, It's almost Friday
~Marcia