Make Something You Love - Cricut in Phoenix!

I volunteered at a super cool Cricut event in Phoenix on Tuesday that was in two sessions (morning and afternoon) and it was about letting people come test out / use the new Cricut Maker machine, do some hands on crafts, complete simple tasks to earn pins and win some amazing giveaways!

Learning & Service

So for over a week I've been super stoked and excited to meet at the Cricut HQ Tues evening to learn more about the Cricut Mini machine and how to use it. We were going to have a mini class and do a craft. What started out as just a learning and craft night turned in to a service project which I feel so great to have been able to participate in.

My friend Cobi has a friend who is somehow related to one of the children involved in the school shooting in CT last week. Emilie Parker and her family moved to CT from Ogden, UT. The funeral is this weekend and Cobi's friend was asked to help with the decorations. Cobi knew that some of us were going to be at the Cricut HQ tonight and asked Nathan, who works at Cricut , if we could help with this project. Definitely yes!

Started out with lots of foam balls, shades of pink paper and pins and most importantly...

Cricut machines! 6 of them to be exact, ready to work

The Cricut machines cut hundreds of pink flowers. My job was to stick a pin through 2 of them then bend up the petals of the top flower and stick it in to the foam ball,

Like this!

Here's a close up. They turned out cute and I was able to get pretty fast at putting the flowers together

Here is everyone working, alongside fellow bloggers with our pizza , cookies and real Coke! lol. Linda S. in Woodland would be so proud I drank some Coke tonight. Possibly. Haha

 So pretty!

I feel so honored and blessed to be able to serve in some small way to this whole situation.

Interesting how life happens.

Blogger Night with Cricut at Provo Craft!

December 5th Aimee and I met up once again to go to a blogger night for some sweet fun and announcements with Cricut at the Provo Craft building. Once I finally found the building (GPS lead me astray a bit, oops!) I rode the elevator up to the 6th floor with some other bloggers and met up with Aimee who had saved me a spot in line. We got checked in and began such an awesome evening!

Aimee and I got our picture with the Cricut mascot!

Room was decorated with all kinds of decorations cut out by the Cricut machine. Such a neat set up!

Met in the breakroom - standing room only by the time we got in there! to hear Nathan speak to us for a bit about some exciting new things and then the CEO himself, Ashish , was there and spoke to us for a bit. Did a little Q&A/feedback and then it was pretty much over.

 While we listened to Nathan and Ashish we got some great treats to snack on. This picture is of the creamers for the hot chocolate! I picked York Peppermint Patty. Sooo yummy! Fancy :)

 Red velvet cake bites, delicious!

 Creamers, lots of marshmallows and other treats

 Here is the craft I made for the gift exchange. Everyone was invited to bring a homemade gift. I feel like my stuff is never something someone would want to receive as a gift, esp compared to some of the super crafty bloggers in Utah...but! I managed to make this shadowbox with bells inside. I used my Cricut to cut out the words "Jingle All the Way". Turned out decent, I hope the person who got it was happy with it.

 We all got an number when we checked in and it matched up to a present on the table. I got the lime green bag with pink wrapping paper. 

 Then I spent a few minutes taking pictures of more decorations all made from the Cricut machine. Amazing!

Loved this lampshade!

 The ornaments and Santa on the tree

This festive tree

Great wreath!

Loved the garland, neat idea!

Such an exciting evening and I cant wait to use my Cricut more. I downloaded the Cricut Craft Room software to my laptop and started a new blog that I will link you to soon that will have more craft related projects and adventures on it.