National Scrapbook Day (Extended Version)

Still celebrating National Scrapbook Day a day later.  Here's my second completed challenge for the challenges offered over at Pumpkin Spice.  Go check them out and join in on the fun. 


Challenge - 
Make a LAYOUT - any size, even a mini album layout with the following elements

• the color yellow
• something floral, wavey or scrolly
• at least 1 title

To celebrate Lou's birthday, Daulton and I took her out to Outback Steakhouse, she was craving steak and Daulton LOVES the Aussie fries (and steak).  We can really tell that he is indeed a growing boy....he ate his entire meal and an order of Aussie fries.  Pretty soon I will need to take out a loan (or put him to work) when we go out to eat.  :o)

I used the Celebrate with Flourish Cricut Cartridge and some cardstock from my scrap pile.  I'm feeling good about using up my scraps. 

Casey (THANKS Casey!) gave me some twine and I've been having fun trying to figure out what to do with it.  I know one thing is for sure...I can't tie a little bow for anything...if you have any tips for great little bows please let me know.

Here's a close up of the balloon.

May 5th was National Scrapbook Day!

To celebrate National Scrapbook Day I went to Archiver's with Lisa. We both had "projects" to work on and got a lot of them accomplished.  ***I think both of us have ink all over us.***

Since I worked on projects yesterday I didn't have a chance to compete in any of the challenges until today. Where I am home with the internet. 

First up......as part of PumpkinSpice's NSD celebration Diana over at DL Art had this amazing challenge inspiration on her blog.  (Which led me to PumpkinSpice. - Thanks Diana!)  Although this is amazing, it is not something that I am going to tackle today (but when I get my TBBM2 cartridge in, I will be trying a 3D project). I have layouts, layouts, layouts and some cards planned to accomplish today.  Here's wishing myself luck that I accomplish them!  

I hope you go check out the DLArt and PumpkinSpice blogs, they are full of inspiration and fun challenges!

Here's my first completed challenge for 2012.

PumpkinSpice

Make a Project - Anything Goes! 

• the color green
• something square
• at least 1 die cut

Not only did I have "operator errors" with Mister Linky, I also just realized this was supposed to be a PROJECT...not just a layout.) 

It feels so good to use up items from my stash and scrap pile. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you had a wonderful National Scrapbook Day. 

A special card for special people!

The inspiration @ Cooking with Cricut this week is 

 (BLING, BLING, BLING)

In my opinion, Administrative Professionals are definitely DIAMONDS!!

This card is for you! 

 On the inside...

Recipe:

Cricut Imagine Cartridge - Yummy

Recollections Cupcake Border Punch

and of course just a **little** a bling....

shimmer cardstock

bright white cardstock

glitter shapes 

rhinestone

iridescent thread

Stickles, Stickles, Stickles (6 different colors)

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "blingy" card.  

Come join in on the fun and link up your project with the

 Cooking with Cricut  - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend challenge.  

I'd love to see what you are creating!

"Third Time's a Charm"

Sometimes I wonder where these phrases came from....but in my case the THIRD time is a charm! 

I won't bore you with the details....but I just wanted to say that I am SO happy to have a working Imagine again!!  I was able to create and play this weekend without having to fussy cut around my images!!!  I'm a happy girl! 

Here's one of the cards I made using the Imagine More Cards cartridge. 

Love the colors!

Stckles: Yellow, Orange

 On the inside....blank (ready to go when I need it.)

Thanks for stopping by!

LOADS of Easter fun!

I don't know about anyone else....... but this year seems to be FLYING by!!!  Seems like I was just making Christmas cards and now an Easter card???  Well, at least the weather outside is perfect Spring weather to celebrate.  Hopefully you'll have LOADS of Easter fun, I know I will.  

Speaking of LOADS of fun, I had a great time making this card for the 

Cooking with Cricut Easter theme challenge.  

Wishing you LOADS of Easter fun! 

Cartridges: Boys will be Boys, Doodlecharms

Imagine Cartridges: 

Enjoy the Seasons, Hopscotch

I used Cricut Craftroom to layout the design and fill-in the patterns for the eggs (that's my kind of no mess Easter egg decorating!)

Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Swissdots 

Stickles: Yellow, Fruit Punch, Turquoise, Diamond, Orange

Cardstock: various from my scrap piles - 

 I'm trying to use up my enormous stash of scraps

Misc: corner rounder, foam tape

What are you making for Easter?  Come join in on the Easter fun and link up your project with the Cooking with Cricut Easter theme challenge.  I'd love to see what you are creating! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #79

Make me laugh....

Our creation was to be inspired by a funny quote, poem, pun or saying.

Have you ever had a nagging feeling that you forgot something???   The calendar doesn't pop-up with any reminders but you are almost certain that "today" is more than just a "Wednesday"?  A day when no one around you knows (or remembers) what you are talking about when you say "what is today?"  Well that recently happened to me and a couple of days later, I FINALLY figured it out!  I missed a birthday!

Cartridge: Life's A Party

Using the card feature, cut at 5".

I used the layer feature to create the inside circle. 

The font is Adventure.

And continuing on the pun journey....here's another card.

At work we collected items to send some "comforts from home" to soldiers currently serving overseas.  We gathered (and bought with donations) enough goodies to fill 5 large postal flat rate boxes (USPS offers a discounted rate if the parcels are going to APO and/or FPO addresses!).

Cartridge: Boys Will Be Boys

The tank was cut at 3.5" using all of the layers. 

It's a little hard to tell, but I used the Black Glaze pen to make the

 inside of the gears glossy black. 

The font is Adventure. 

The corners were "chomped" with the lime green handled
corner chompers using "Deco".  

Come on over to Cooking with Cricut and link up your creation using a funny quote, poem, pun or saying.   Can't wait to see what you create!

Some exciting news!

Some exciting news!  

I am so excited to announce that I am a new member of the  Cooking With Cricut Design Team!  I am honored to join these lovely creative ladies!

Our first project was to help celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday......Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!  Read Across America:  Share a project featuring your favorite Dr. Seuss book or a project that encourages reading.  

As soon as I read the challenge, I knew exactly what picture I wanted to use.  I absolutely LOVE this picture of my god-son "reading" to my son.  The picture was taken in 1997.

The stars were cut at various sizes using George & Basic Shapes.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 are digital files from Paper Crafting World.

 The journaling is hidden behind the photo.

The stars were cut out using George & Basic Shapes,

embossed with various Cuttlebug folders and embellished 

a little with Stickles.  Foam tape was used to add dimension

to a few of the stars.

 A close up of Trevor showing Daulton 

the pictures as he is "reading" it to him.

 Please be sure to check out the Cooking with Cricut site as well as all of 

the other creative design team members.  I'm sure you will be inspired.


Join in on the fun and link up your favorite Dr. Seuss inspired or reading themed project.  You could be CWC's next Top Chef!  Check out Cooking with Cricut for the guidelines and link location.

Thanks for stopping by and until next time....Hattie