Cooking With Cricut #17 and winner announcements

Wow!  We had a great weekend with the Cooking With Cricut Sweet Shop Blog Hop and you all left such nice comments.  It's time to post the names of the winners of my blog candy and for this week's challenge. 

First let's start off with the winners of the Spring Beauty cut or digi file.  I used random generator to decide and picked two winners.  One from Saturday's comments and one from Sundays, soooooo........drumroll please...dddddddddddddddddddddd:

The winner for Saturdays comment is:
mommahobbit and she said   Cool idea! ty so much for sharing :)


The winner for Sundays comment is:
GrannyCharlotte who left this comment:  The hot air balloon is precious. It is such a neat idea. Thanks for sharing.


I will get an email out to you so you can collect your prize.  I'll need to know if you want a cut file or digi image.  I want to thank everyone who played along!  Y'all were awesome!

Now onto today's project.  Today's challenge was to emboss on your project.  I pulled out the designer paper and my graphically Speaking cart and away I went to make this scrapbook page. 

I used quite a few images from Graphically Speaking.  The titles, tropy, #1 and the play hard.

I embossed the turquoise panel of the "play hard" using my dots folder.

The papers are lime green, red and several different designer papers from American Crafts Celebration. I hand cut the stars from a sheet of AC dp and glued them along the top.

Now it's your turn.  We would love for you to join us  at Cooking With Cricut for this week's challenge.  Can't wait to see your creations!!! 

Until next time, thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  TTFN

Hugs, Becky

Cooking With Cricut # 11 Snow Fun

Hello and welcome to today's Cooking With Cricut challenge. We have a snowy challenge for you today. Make anything that has to do with winter time outdoor activity. Snowmen, sledding, snowball fights, etc. It's your choice! I chose to do a scrapbook layout using two cute images from scrapbookeden.com. Check out that sledding snowman and polar bear! Too cute for words!

I printed them on white card stock and colored them using copics and also reinkers and a watercolor brush. I then pulled out my Graphically Speaking cart and cut out the BRRR and cold sentiment on white card stock and gray card stock. I also cut out snowflakes using the same cart. Instead of tossing the left over card stock, I chose to use it to add a little bit of layering along the side. To make the hill of snow for the sledding snowman, I tore pieces of white card stock, inked the torn edges and layered them up. The paper used on this project are designer paper from K& I, white, gray and eggplant card stock.

I hope you like that pages. It's been a while since I've scrapbooked and I'm a little rusty but I sure had fun and plan on doing more scrapbooking this year.

Be sure to pop on over to the Cooking With Cricut blog to see what the rest of the team has cooked up for you today. Have a fabulous day and thanks for stopping by! TTFN

Hugs, Becky

Can you believe.....a scrapbook page

Yes, you heard me right! I scrapbooked. Don't faint or anything. I didn't mean to scare you and I assure that all is right in the universe. You see, it started just like this.

I walked into my stamp room today and there were these two big flowers sitting on my desk. Their original destination was a shaped card, but after I had cut them out, I decided they just didn't look right for a card. The nice thing though is they are the perfect size for a 12 x 12 page. So that's how it happened. I started with them and the rest just came together. Here is the final product.

That cutie petutie is my oldest daughter who is nineteen now. She was just three months old when this picture was taken. Does that tell you how far behind I am on my scrapping? Maybe you'll be seeing more in the future. I mean this is a blog about stamping and scrapping for goodness sake. So far the stamping has been hogging all the limelight. *giggle*

The flowers were cut using my Cricut and George Cart and then embossed with my cuttlebug and swiss dots folder. The circles were also cut with the same cart. The letters and designer papers are from my Colorbok punch out pack. It's pretty simple but still pretty cute.

Paper: Various DP's (Colorbok) Yellow Textured. Extras: Punch out letters, Cricut, George Cart, Cuttlebug, Swiss dots folder, Primas, buttons, Cording.

Have a great day and as always, thanks for stopping by! TTFN

Finally.....a scrapbook page

Can you believe it? I finally made a scrapbook page. This is the first time I've made a page using this style of scrapbooking and was surprised at how quickly this came together. I really like how it turned out. I drew my inspiration from my SBS2 sister, Savitri. She is wickedly talented and does some awesome work. She also has great tutorials on digi scrapping. You should check out her site.
I don't have photo shop, so this page is done the old fashioned way.

Recipe: Stamps-Hearts and Stars (Rhonna Farrer). Paper-Wild Asparagus (My Minds Eye) Kraft, Cranberry Crisp(SU). Inks-Black Pigment Ink. Accessories-Black EP, Primas, Buttons, Ribbon. The print was made using Blackadder at 36 in Word.

So, what do you think? My daughter loves it!

Don't forget, in just a little over three hours, I'll be drawing the winner of the tiggerific treats. Don't forget to leave a comment here.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! TTFN

Scrapbook page as promised

I didn't get the chance to do a scrapbook page Saturday, but I did promise one, so I am posting one that I had done in the past. This is made using a kit that I bought from a dear friend who was starting out as a demo for CTMH. I'm not sure what it was called and I'm pretty sure that it's not available anymore, but you could substitute your own graphics. I made the pinwheel using two-sided DP. The lettering was made by printing the name using a font from my computer, enlarging before printing. I then glued it to my DP and flipped it over and cut it out. I made the wire works word myself and attached it to the page using a needle and thread in various places. Here is is!

Finally....... a scrapbook page!

Hello all! I hope everyone that reads this is having a great weekend.
My dad is still in the hospital. He has the doctors scratching their heads. They took him off of all his BP meds, but his BP still drops an incredible amount when he is upright. They are going to keep him long enough to figure it out this time.
No stamping for me today. Instead, I scrapbooked as promised. It's been a long time since I have scrapbooked and I have to tell you, I had a hard time getting started. It took me all day to put just one page together. In the end, I think it was worth the wait. I am very pleased with the results.
I'm not sure who designed the DP. I got it at Michaels a while back. It's one of there big stacks. I chose pinks because I thought they went well with the Sepia toned pictures. I altered the picture by coloring the lips and eyes with my markers. After gluing all my layers together it needed something else so I added stitching. I thought it was finished until I showed it to my DD. She said it needed lips, so she put on her lipstick, pursed her lips and kissed a piece of CS. I cut them out and embossed over them so they wouldn't smudge. She was right after all. It was exactly what it needed.




Paper: Big stack from Michaels
Inks: Versamark
Accessories: Lattice Corner Punch, Ribbon, Corner Punch, Hole Punch, Dimentionals, Clear EP