#162 Carousel - 60th Birthday Layout

Hi everyone!  Hope you are having a great weekend!

The challenge for the month of May on the Cricut Circle Blog was to create a layout about a milestone in somebody's life.  We needed to use 2 Cricut image cuts and 2 Cricut font cuts.

The cartridges / cuts I used are:
Carousel - "60" cut at 2"
Birthday Cakes - "Happy Birthday" phrase cut at 2.25", "DAD" cut at 1.15" and welded to the phrase.
Boys will be Boys - Tractor and layers cut at 2.5"
Scalloped border - Ribbons and Rosettes cut at 1"
Background shape (behind title) - Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art cut at 3.5" and 3.75"

By the way, this layout is of my father's 60th birthday when I made him a birthday cake using my Cricut Cake machine - such a fun tool!  The cake had a barn and tractor on top and different animals around the edge.

The patterned paper I chose for this layout is from the Basic Grey Obscure collection - which I've had for a loooooong time!

Hope you like it!

#157 Ribbons and Rosettes - Wise Guy Layout

Hi everyone!   I created a layout for a National Scrapbooking Day challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog.  The challenge was a "recipe" challenge where we had to create a project using:
At least 3 Cricut image cuts
3 patterned papers
A butterfly, bird or bug
Machine, pen or hand-stitching
The colour yellow

Here is my entry:

The cartridges / cuts I used are:
Boys will be Boys - "Wise Guy" (cut at 2.5")
Hoot N Holler - Owl on branch (cut at 4"), Branch (cut at 2.5")
Ribbons and Rosettes - Notebook border (cut at 1")
Paper Trimmings - Sun (cut at 3.75")

The patterned paper is by Crate Paper.
I added some pen stitching zig zags along the orange cardstock.

Hope you like it!

#78 Boys Will Be Boys - MPS NSD Challenge #7

Hi everyone! This is my next project for the National Scrapbook Day challenges at My Pink Stamper!

Challenge #7 - Make a scrapbook page.

For my project, I created a layout of my boys.

The "Just the Guys" cut is from the Boys will be Boys cartridge.

The patterned paper and tag sticker are from a Little Yellow Bicycle collection that I have had for a while. I just love the patterns and colours that come in this collection!

Hope you like it!

#71 Hello Kitty Font - Go Fly A Kite

Hi everyone! Here is a layout I created for the Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge. In honour of Earth Day, which was last week, the challenge was to create a project while repurposing at least 3 items found in the household.

In my mind, I went through a bunch of different ideas. Should I create a mini album with cereal boxes? A pencil jar from a tin can? A receipt holder from junk mail envelopes? I finally decided that I needed to use my time to work on more scrapbook pages so here is what I came up with.

This is a layout of my daughter flying a kite for the first time on her grandparents' farm.
For my repurposed items I chose:
A cereal box to use as chipboard to cut the base for Hello Kitty and her kite.

String from my kitchen junk drawer for the kite.

Easter basket grass for the bows on the kite string.

Cricut cartridge packaging for the flower accents. I used glossy accents to adhere the plastic to patterned paper cut with the identical shape.


The cricut cartridges/cuts I used are:

Hello Kitty Font - "Go Fly a Kite" (cut at 1.5"), Hello Kitty (cut at 3"), flowers (cut at 1.75")

Boys Will Be Boys - Kite (cut at 3.5")

Storybook - Journalling frame (cut at 4")

George and Basic Shapes - Journalling spot (sized on my Gypsy at 2.75" high and 2.5" wide)

Hope you like it!