Java Jen Creations

Hello everyone! Welcome to Terrific Tuesday here and over at EXPLORING CRICUT and MORE ! Today I am sharing one of my first projects made with my new Cricut Explore machine! I am so loving it and can see so many fun possibilities ahead!! For those of you who may not know, the Cricut Explore is a new machine from Provo Craft designed to work with the online design software called Cricut Design Space.  The calendar project that I am featuring here, is one of many free projects available there! The simplicity of just hooking your machine to your computer and clicking go is truly a reality! I will do my best to explain what I mean and I apologize, in advance, if my pictures just don't do it justice! :-)  Here are a few pics of what I made and then I have a few pics I took during the process and even a video of this amazing machine writing out the calendar numbers! (Actually, I couldn't get the video to post so I'll have to add that to this post when I get that figured out!) ...

Welcome to Terrific Tuesday here and over at  EXPLORING CRICUT ! I am excited to share a 30th anniversary banner and other decorations that I made for some close friends for their surprise party that their children gave them! I used Lyrical Letters for the font, Elegant Edges for the signs and Gyspy Wanderings for the fleur de lis. I embossed each circle with a rose embossing folder. I love the extra dimension that the embossing gives this project! This was the sign that was tied to the basket where cards were placed. This was hung in the middle of the banner. Close-up to show detail. The banner was so long I had to lay it on my floor to take a pic. My daughter took pics at the party so she has the one of it hanging on the wall. More detail close-ups. Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out  EXPLORING CRICUT  everyday for lots of creative inspiration and to play along with our current challenge! 

Welcome to Terrific Tuesday here and over at  EXPLORING CRICUT ! It's my turn to share there so I made some photo props for my daughter to use to take some sweet Valentine's pictures! I used Create A Critter and mounted these heart balloons on cookie sticks. I used sticker letters and embellished with my trusty white gel pen! :-) Here is how my daughter used these props in a Valentine photo shoot that she did! Isn't this little girl just so adorable??  Thanks for stopping by today!

Hi everyone and welcome to TERRIFIC TUESDAY over at  EXPLORING CRICUT ! This is my first project as a member of the design team here and I am honored to have this opportunity! My sister-in-law asked me if I could make a snowman face for her daughter and friends to assemble on a mug for a birthday party craft so this is what I came up with! I used the Snow Friends cartridge and cut only the face in vinyl - not the shape of the snowman. Here is the finished mug: After weeding the vinyl, I left the pieces on the backing for each girl to have to assemble on their own mug. I didn't have any orange vinyl so I used pink for the nose! :-) Thanks so much for stopping by today and be sure to check out  EXPLORING CRICUT  everyday to see all the "Cricuty" goodness going on over there!!