#75 Camp Out - MPS NSD Challenge #2

Hi everyone! Things are not going according to plan for me today but I'm still having a lot of fun! Definitely wanted to be further along than Challenge 2 by now but surely I will get more done once the kiddos are in bed tonight!

My Pink Stamper Challenge # 2 - Make a card or scrapbook page using kraft cardstock.

I made a card for my Dad, probably for Father's Day, using the Camp Out cartridge for the binoculars (cut at 3"), Stamped for the title (cut at 1.25"), Storybook for the fancy square (size 4" - totally altered with my Gypsy).

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!

#53 Stretch Your Imagination - Thank You Tree

Hi everyone! Hope you had a great weekend! Here is a card I created for two challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut - Tree Time

Cricut Cartridge Chaos - Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge

The tree was cut from the Stretch Your Imagination at 4 1/4".

The fancy rectangle was cut from Storybook at 4 1/4"

Hope you like it!

Thanksgiving Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! Welcome to this Thanksgiving blog hop! Hope you are excited as I am to see what everyone has created for this 2- day blog hop! If you are arriving at my blog from My Fantabulous Life, then you are in the right place! If not, please start the blog hop at Amy's Digi-Scraps and come back here later!

For my first project, I chose to create this paper bag mini-album,which I am going to give to my sister-in-law for Christmas - I just LOVE how it turned out. The chipboard cover was covered in canvas which I had painted with acrylic paint and modpodged Cricut letters on.

The instructions I used for creating a paper bag album were from a video I found on Youtube by Laura from Following the Paper Trail - if you are not sure who she is, go find her! She absolutely a creative genius.

I used a ton of Cricut cartridges for this album, I wish I could go step by step in the detail or that I could have done a video to show all of the elements. There are just so many things that the picture doesn't show!

For your next stop on this blog hop, please go visit Time to Create and see what she has in store for you! And don't forget to come back tomorrow to see my next Thanksgiving themed project - it was something I had never tried before and it turned out great!

Before you leave, how about entering to win some blog candy?


To enter to win this prize all you have to do is become a follower (if you aren't already) and leave a comment on this post. Come back tomorrow and leave a comment on that post and you will earn another chance to win!

Also, if I reach 200 followers this weekend, I will post another giveaway on Monday! Have a great weekend everyone!

Bear Christmas Card

Hi everyone! I have one more card for you tonight. The image is a digital stamp from Pollycraft Designs - isn't he a cutie? The background frame was cut with the Storybook Cricut cartridge. The background patterned paper is by My Mind's Eye and the glitter around the edges is Sugar Coating by Doodlebug Designs. There are three challenges I am entering this card in:

Pollycraft Monday Challenges - Cute and Cuddly

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club - Christmas Furry Things

Paper Take Weekly - Animal Magic

And that's all! Hope you like it!

Princess Tinkerbell layout

Hi everyone! Today I have been working on a layout that I have been putting off for a while. The challenge at My Creative Time this week was to make a project with a princess theme using the Tinkerbell & Friends cartridge. I bought this cartridge when it first came out and have only used it once to make a test cut that didn't turn out very nice. These fairies are so detailed that it is difficult to piece them together so I have been putting off scrapbooking the layout of Jenae's Halloween costume last year. This challenge forced me to give the cartridge another try!

I decided I need to make Tinkerbell fairly large to save me from a headache today so I cut her out at 5". Her wings were white paper that I sprayed with Glacier Glimmer Mist before cutting out. You can't really tell by the photo but they are very shimmery! I love how she turned out! The font I used for the "Princess Tink" title was from Cindy Loo and the mat for the title was cut from Storybook. That mat was also white paper sprayed with the same glimmer mist. I used Icicle Stickles on the letters.

Hope you like my layout! I'm really glad I got it done! Thanks for the challenge Emma!

Fantabulous Cricut Crawl Challenge

For this challenge over at fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com each DT member added one element for the participants to incorporate into a project. The grand prize is to be awarded to the best project using the most chosen elements. There were 11 in total and in my layout I used all but the glass etching.
The elements I used were:
accordian flower
journalling spot - from Storybook
embossing on cricut cut - used cuttlebug folder on the J bookmark - from Locker Talk
using negative image - large apple as page frame
gypsy - used to arrange the flowers I drew with the cricut markers
use shadow feature - on journalling spot
cricut markers - created flowered paper for accordian flower and photo mat
inking on die cuts - bookmark
paper piecing - bookmark and 1st grade title and flower on top of accordian flower
food cut - the large apple framing the page
Hope you like my project, I would have added more projects for the individual prizes but I ran out of time!!!