May Flowers at Cricut Cardz!

Good morning! We are featuring blooming May flowers this week at Cricut Cardz! I created this card using my "Flower Shoppe" cartridge:

I made this square card using patterned paper scraps and my new Martha Stewart "Loops" punch around the page set. Love the dimension on this flower! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be sure to visit Cricut Cardz to see what the rest of the design team created and link up your own flower cards.

Playing catch up :)

As I create new pages, I'm going to be going back and filling in the holes of past photos in my albums. Starting today with Thanksgiving 2010 :) I used the sketch at Authentique:

I used the "Gathering" collection:

I used 2 manilla tags by Ranger to build my title. Alphas by Making Memories and Lily Bee. The "gather" flag is a diecut from the Authentique collection.

I punched the brown mat with the Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page set. 

I'm also sharing this layout with Scraptastic Club for using a border punch :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy New Years Eve ;)

Carving Pumpkins

My cousin has two little ones, 4 and almost 2. You've seen layouts of them before. I was so excited to have them over yesterday to carve pumpkins. I had everything set up in the sunroom.. a drop cloth, several cute pumpkins just their size, spoons, and other fun carving and scooping things for them to use. The camera batteries were charged. I was ready for some great photo ops and fun times.

Then, the screaming started.

OMG. They *hated* it. As soon as the ooey gooey pumpkin guts came out, the kids went running. My cousin and I made the best of it and carved a couple pumpkins by ourselves and eventually the kids came back in the room to LOOK at them. Disappointed, but oh well. I got a couple pictures.

I used one on the Artful Delight sketch:

This is a picture of dear little Lucy, tentatively peering over my cousin's shoulder. Isn't her pumpkin awesome? She's got skills!

I used my new-to-me Martha Stewart punch around the page spider punch. I cut my pumpkins from The Digi Bistro's "Pick Your Poison" set and stamped a Peachy Keen face on them.

I'm also entering this layout in Amanda's "Get Scrappy" challenge.

Hope you had a fabulous weekend! I did ;)

Recipe Challenge at TPV! :)

Good  morning! I love October and this time of year :) I'm so excited to carve pumpkins with my cousin and her two little ones this weekend. I hope to get some great pics for scrapbooking !!  This photo inspired this week's TPV {{recipe}} challenge:

Easy cheesy, right?!

We welcome back a FANTASTIC sponsor this week! :) We love returning friends.

You MUST got to THE PAPER VARIETY to see the fabulous layouts my team B designers created. I had to be different and make a treat bag :P

I used my Cosmo Cricket Matilda 6x6 pad... again. I can't help it! Love the colors and patterns!  I added a purple ribbon for contrast. I have my 3 buttons, 2 word sentiment..

.. and this adorable pumpkin!! She's cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge and has a Peachy Keen Face. I've been DYING to use this new set I just got.

I also punched the edge with my Martha Stewart spider punch. What is SWEETER... the topper or the candy corn?? AHH I can't decide! lol !!!

Hop over to THE PAPER VARIETY to enter your recipe projects!

Have a great day!

A Spider Card

I made a quick and cute (even if it DOES have a spider on it.. lol) Halloween card for the Cricut 360 blog hop.

I finally used my new Martha Stewart spider web border punch! Love it! This little spider is from the Halloween Town set at The Digi Bistro!

Have a great Saturday :)

Class of 2011

I made another layout tonight of my brother's graduation. You can see the layout I made last week, on this post. This time, I made a 2 page layout of candids of my family and friends posing with the graduate :)

I used the sketch at Basic Grey's new blog! Love that they are having challenges now.

I used the Oxford collection again:

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I really liked this sketch and the layout came together quickly. I inked all the layers in black, printing my journaling on the computer.

I used my Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page set for the border and photo mat. I will have a tutorial on how to get it lined up just right on the A Walk Down Memory Lane's blog on Thursday. :)

Supplies:

patterned paper: Basic Grey Oxford Collection - Frat House (dots), Ivy League (red background), Study Hall (books), Letterman's Jacket (black photo mat, torn paper border)

brads: Basic Grey Oxford "glazed brads"

3D sticker: Basic Grey Oxford "pops"

punches: Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page,  Fiskars 1" circle

inks: Colorbox Cats Eye black

die cut machine: Cricut expression, 12x12 replacement mats

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hope you had a fabulous weekend.

{{siblings}}

TGIF!! I was soo excited to spend one of my first days "off" scrappin'! Summer school ended yesterday and it was like a weight lifted. I couldn't wait to get back to scrappin' our Colorado trip. 

I had a special picture of my husband with this 3 wonderful sisters and was happy to find the latest sketch at The Scrappiest was perfect for it.

I bought lots of new goodies for this trip.. many new camping/nature collections, travel lines.. but I wanted something a little different. I went to my stash and found a piece of patterned paper I've probably "saved" for 5+ years. 

It's from My Mind's Eye's "Wild Asparagus" line, called "you are my sunshine".  It's a heavyweight paper and almost feels like a canvas texture. And it was perfect for this photo and the background mat for the sketch.

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I just {love} how it turned out! I had some trouble finding what would "go" with this one piece of paper, but I went through more of my stash and loved mixing and matching different companies and lines.

The beautiful olive "bean blossom" is from Jillibean Soup. I added a brad (with the prongs removed) from Basic Grey to the center of the button to tie my colors together. I framed my 5x7 photo (which is handstitched!) with a Storybook cut.

The sprig on the right is chipboard from Maya Road, that I inked in dark brown (as I did most of the layers). The other pieces are cut from the Storybook cricut cartridge.

I didn't want to overwhelm the layers with more patterns, but the cardstock seemed too plain. So I ran the kraft layer through  my Cuttlebug "leafy branch" folder and inked it in brown. The subtle embossing was just what it needed. More brads from Basic Grey :) I love those colors!

I brought in the same elements to the top right corner, cutting my title/shadow at one inch from the Storybook cartridge. I also used my Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page set on the entire layout.

Whew! Should I tell you this layout took all day? LOL! But I'm so pleased how it turned out. :)

In addition to The Scrappiest, I'm also linking my page to Craft Junkie Too's linky party and ScrapFit's flower challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful weekend :) 

Another bridal shower :)

This time my sister-in-laws in February :) I used the current sketch at Let's Scrap:

The pinkish patterned paper was punched with my Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page set :)

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I was inspired by the Spring challenge at Lasting Memories. So I used my floral My Minds Eye stack I picked up a few weeks ago from my local craft store.

These adorable flowers were made following this great tutorial from Helen! I am also entering this layout at ScrapFit :)

Now if only it would start feeling like spring around here ;)