Splish Splash - CCR DT Project

Happy Thursday and welcome to another challenge over at Creative Cutter Room.  This week's challenge is to create a project that includes water.

For my project, I created a get "whale" card for my cousin who is in the ICU. The final card measures 4.25" x 5.5".  The whale is cut from the Gypsy Wanderings Cricut cart while the sentiment was printed on the computer and cut out using a paper punch.  Pop dots and my white gel pen helped to add the finishing touches to this card.

Now, let's see your projects.  Hop on over to the Creative Cutter Room enjoy the inspiration from my lovely DT sisters and join in the fun WITH us. This week's prize is a new Freshly Picked Cricut Cartridge. You have until September 7th to link up your project.

Well...go on now.  Don't be scared.  See you there! 

I love you and there ain't nothing you can do about it.  Scrappy hugs!

Guest Designer - Her Craftiness

Happy Wednesday!  I'm happy to share that I am a guest designer for Lynne of Her Craftiness.  This month's theme is the Dog Days of Summer.  I'd love to share this very simple layout that I created. I used the Life's a Beach Cricut cartridge to cut out the castle, shoes, and title.  The octopus was obtained in a Create a Critter swap that I participated in. The mats fit 3x5 pictures.  I used my black and white gel pens to draw the fact of the sun and create interest by outline the words and mats.  The photo mats were created using by cutting the paper with a paper cutter and rounding two of the corners.  I finished off the mats with two complimentary ribbons tied around the mat.  I really hope you enjoy it.  Swing on over to her blog and show her some love.

For those of you who care to miss me, I am ok.  I've been extremely busy.  We were told that we are now moving to Ohio.  In fact, my DH is already there.  We still have to find a place to live.  If any of you are in the area and are willing to help us with becoming acclimated to the area, please send me a message or leave a comment.  We could use all the help we can get.  I promise I'll be back into the swing of things soon.  Be sure to check out the August swap details.  I'd love you have you participate this month.

I Have a Dream Blog Hop - Post 2 of 3

Happy Sunday!  Welcome to my second day of projects all centered around having dreams.  So, as I stated yesterday, my projects are focused on helping my children obtain their career dreams.  Today, I'm featuring projects that I completed for my two youngest children.  Caleb is my "Dino Expert" and Danita is my artist. 
Caleb had started creating this book and asked me to bind the pages into his "Dino Expert" field guide.  So...I don't have a Cinch or a Bind It All so I used my big Momma of a binding machine to bind his book.  I used the Birthday Cake cartridge that I got at Michael's for $9.99 to make the dinosaurs and the tracks that are on the book.  His name and the titles were cut from the Life's a Beach cartridge.  He drew the pictures and wrote the names while we were at my Mom's for Christmas.

Now Danita's project is an altered sketch book. Danita battles autism and the one thing she likes to do a lot of is draw.  She's actually a great artist and I can't wait to see where she goes with her ability.  I took a sketch book that I had and covered it with a piece of paper from the Untamed Safari collection in her favorite color.  I then simply adhered ribbon to the top and top a bow.  Then, using the Birthday Cake cartridge, I cut out a princess.  She loves princesses.  I embossed the dress using the divine swirls Cuttlebug folder and added silver Stickles.  I cut out her name using the same cartridge and added Stickles to embellish her name.  While looking for something else, I found a princess Cuttlebug die cut that I hadn't used.  It was perfect for this project so I cut and emboss a princess and added her to the cover.  I know Danita is going to love this when I give it to her.

Well, that's all.  Happy scrappin'!