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

Grease Lightning!

The One Hour Challenge this week at Club CK was to create a layout using a tv show or movie as the inspiration.  I knew exactly which photos I wanted to use!  As I was making this, I wondered what I ever did without my Cricut!  I would be lost with it now. 

Recipe

Cricut Cartridge: Nifty Fifties 

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Swiss Dots

Stickles: Yellow

Pen: Glaze Black (for the music notes)

Various cardstock, patterned paper, rub-ons

Linking this to: 
DL.ART's Thankful Thursday Challenge

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Memories of Grandma!

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about my Grandma McCoy.  I'm the first "scrapbooker" in our family and I find myself trying to write down the little things as I think of them so that I can tell the story later in my scrapbooks.  I did just that in the layout below.  I created this layout in September 2011 to incorporate multiple challenges over at Club CK. If you haven't checked out Club CK, you should! 

 The challenges were:

• Journal about your Grandma! (http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/blogs/for_members_only/archive/2011/09/01/journaling-challenge-journal-about-your-grandma.aspx)
• One-Hour Challenge - Use Word Strips On A Layout (http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/blogs/ck_community/archive/2011/09/06/one-hour-challenge-use-word-strips-on-a-layout.aspx)
• Issue Challenge #2 (Sept 2011) hosted by Erika H. - Create a layout, card or embellishment that has some form of clustering.  http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/forums/t/89011.aspx

I even used up some scraps  - the patterned paper and blue card stock were both from my scrap file.

I am in the process of getting photos out of <cringe> shoeboxes  and old  photo albums with yellow pages <cringe some more> and at least get them into photo safe storage containers.  As I find photos that spark memories, I have been jotting them down and placing them with the photo, hoping that they will spark yet other memories that I can capture when I start to scrapbook. 

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