Imagine not cutting with CCR work around

Hi for those of you who don't know what a Cricut Imagine is it is a print and cut machine. There have been some issues with using this machine with the on line digital program that works with the other cricut machines and the machine has now been discontinued. Now my Imagine has been working fine except if I try to print and cut from Cricut Craft Room it will print but it looks as if it is going to cut then doesn't. Well today I decided to just cut from CCR and No that didn't work so I put the mat that had printed in the Imagine into the E2 and told CCR to cut it on the E2. The picture above is the negative and the cut that I did. As you can see when the Imagine prints it has a bleed area and when the mat cut in the E2 it stayed withing this bleed are to cut. Now I do realise not everyone is a cricut-a-holic like me but for those of you who have both machines this is fabulous as I can now colour my images that are CCR specific and print them then cut them on my E2

Beagle from CCR

When I was wandering round www.cricut.com a few nights ago I was looking at the projects on the site. I came across a project designed by Colleen that was called Christmas Beagle. I thought he was soo cute just had to make him. You can view Colleen's original post here. 

and the project on www.cricut.com here

I decided I needed a saying to go with him so decided on this one. I inked a 12x12 stretched canvas with distress inks then spritzed it and sponged the inks. I stamped the fern from the StampinUp stamp set Growing Green in the top corner and coloured it with Stampinup markers. I cut the lights from create a critter button 50 (shift) and the grass and flowers were left over negatives from my sweet tooth boxes  store. The words are cut from CCR basics from shiny embossed paper and from sticky paper.