Princess Catie Layout

I had these really cute pictures of my 7-year-old daughter and I wanted to share them with all of you. I made them black and white. There is something about the way black and white pictures look. I just love them. In certain pictures, they just make the picture so much better in my opinion. This layout came straight out of my imagination. I love the splash of color too.









Ingredients:
Cricut Expression
Plantin School Book cart
Swirly stamp with Ink It Up! black ink
ATG gun
K&Company stickers
Brads
Craft Lite Cutter (mini zigzag cutting tool)
Provocraft pointed tool (to make holes for brads)
Xyron sticker maker
Xyron adhesive runner
Lace embellishments
DCWV Cardstock paper.

I also wanted to try out my newly re-adhesived (is that a word?) Cricut mat. I bought some Goo-Gone yesterday and I used it to clean off my mat, then I scrubbed it with soap and water. I taped it off and sprayed repositionable spray adhesive from Krylon on it. It seemed to work okay today; however, what I noticed is that although it makes the mat sticky, it seems to stay sticky on your hands if you touch it. I'm not sure this is the right kind of adhesive I should be using. I'll have to experiment a little more. Anybody have any suggestions as to what kind of spray adhesive I should use?

Much love and creativity,

11th Wedding Anniversary!

Today is my 11th wedding anniversary. I met my husband on March 23, 1997. We had our first date on March 25th. We got married 3 years later (almost to the day). Now, here we are, 11 years and 4 kids later and I love him more today than I did the day I married him! It's been a wonderful, amazing journey that I hope lasts until the end of time!

I made my husband 2 cards for our anniversary. I think they turned out pretty good. :)

I'll keep the sentiment to myself on this one but that's a police officer and a librarian. :P

I used my Cricut Expression for both of these cards.
I used Stretch Your Imagination and My Community cartridges.

These are the flowers my husband gave me! I love him! :)


Thanks for looking!

Much love and creativity,

Man Weekend IV

When we lived in Arizona, my husband and all the guys he worked with went on an annual "Man Weekend" which consisted of about 12 guys and their big 4-wheel drive trucks going out into the woods for 5 days or so (Thursday to Monday). They spent most of the time rock crawling and had a blast seeing who could roll their trucks on its side first! (Yeah, this wife didn't want any details!). It was a time when my husband and his friends could get together and just be stupid guys! He loved doing the annual "Man Weekend."

I always have a hard time doing layouts that are masculine but this one didn't turn out too bad. I think I did an okay job!

I used my Expression and the Summer Vacation cartridge to cut and layer the grey truck. I used pop-dots to give it some dimension. Hope you all like it!

Much love and creativity,

A couple simple layouts!

It's been a couple days since I last blogged. I've been trying to come up with some really cute things to post. I did do a couple of cute simple layouts but neither are finished yet.

Last week, I posted that my oldest daughter went to Frosty, which is the winter formal dance at her high school. I got the pictures developed and did a page on her and her friends. I'm not sure I love the way it turned out but hopefully she will appreciate it when she goes through her scrapbook when she's older. What do you all think?

This first one is the background. I used grey cardstock and then used some red/pink print paper and cut them in various sizes, then used my ATG gun to tape them down.

I took the pictures and cut them in various different ways to make a collage effect. That part I like but somehow the layout just didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. :( I used chipboard for the lettering. This is one that I'm not done with yet, I still need to do my journaling to describe this night. I also need to put the names of all the kids on here so my daughter doesn't forget who they are in the future. (You all know what I mean, don't ya?)

Last weekend, my youngest daughter, Catelynn, had a friend stay the night. These girls are in the first grade. They went outside to play in the snow on our back patio deck where earlier that weekend, my kiddos built a snow fort. These two girls played out there for quite a while and I snapped some pics of them playing. It was fun to see my daughter in her element with one of her school friends. Kids are so fun to watch when they don't know you are watching!

This one is the hole to get into the snow fort, it goes all the way under the porch. LOL, kids are so funny!

Anyway, lastly, here is another incomplete layout that I did of my family. Every year, our town hosts a Corn Field Maze. This picture was taken of our family at the 2009 maze. Here is an aerial view of what the maze looked like in 2009.

Isn't that cool? It's called "Man on a tractor." We also went to the 2010 corn maze and it was in the shape of the state of Minnesota.

Anyway, the layout I did was from the picture taken at the 2009 maze. Here's what it looks like.

This is another one that I'm not completely done with. I'm not sure I love the way this one turned out either but I think with some embellishments and some journaling, it will look okay. I used my Cricut Expression to cut out the word Family and then I shadowed it with another cut of the word just 1/4 inch smaller (size cut was 3-1/2 inches and 3-1/4 inches). I used the Sampler cartridge. I really like the colors, it's perfect for a corn field, don't ya think? It gives that "John Deere" look and feel to it.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday. If you have any ideas or suggestions for these two pages, please feel free to let me know. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks for looking!

Much love and creativity,

Daddy's Love and other stuff!

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Hey everyone!!!

I finally got into my craft room tonight. My daughter and I spent some time together hanging out listening to music and talking about random stuff. It's so much fun to hang out with her. She's 15 and so I feel very fortunate that she still wants to spend time with me and we are able to talk about everything. It's been a really nice weekend!

My beautiful daughter, Alissa, ready for her school dance.

I've been trying to get some actual scrapbooking done. I've been doing a lot of playing around with cards and stuff but my real passion are the scrap pages themselves. I found this really cute scrapbook paper from K&Company. I used it to do a layout with my husband and our youngest daughter.

New scrapbook paper, cool huh?

Lately, I've been into pink and green. Not sure why, but I really like the way the colors look together. (As you can tell by my font colors on my blog. :P)

For this layout, I used my Cricut Expression and I used the Plantin SchoolBook cartridge for the word "daddy's". I used the Sampler cartridge for the rattle, onesie and the words on the bottom of the page. I also used some brad embellishments along with a flower and some pop dots to give the page some dimension. I love this one.

At first, I'd done the page with pink striped lettering at the top and it just looked too feminine so I reprinted the letters in a more blue/green print pattern. I made them 1/4 inch smaller so they would be shadowed by the pink.

I'm calling this one "Daddy's Love"

This is Catelynn now. She's 7 and in the 1st grade.

Thank you all for looking and I hope you have a wonderful week!!

Much love and creativity,