#136 Speaking of Fall - Nature Lovers

Hi everyone! Here is a layout I created for the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog. The challenge was to create a project featuring our favorite thing about fall. I decided to go with leaves! I love the colours of fall leaves and crunching sound they make under your feet.

We also had to add some texture to our projects. First, I stamped on ivory cardstock with versamark using the Tim Holtz leaves stamps in a random pattern all over the cardstock. I then heat embossed the stamped images with clear embossing powder. Next, I used Tim Holtz Distress inks and foam applicator tools to apply several different colours to the background. I had a lot of fun with this process!

The Cricut cartridges / cuts I used on my layout are:

Give a Hoot - Tree (cut at 4.25"), "Nature Lovers" cut at 3.75", Squirrel (cut at 2.25")

Cindy Loo - Blessings (Cut at 1.75")

Speaking of Fall - Leaves (cut at 1.81")

Don Juan - 2010 (cut at 1.13")

I stamped over the squirrel with Perfect Medium using a background stamp by Stampin' Up. I then added gold Perfect Pearls and set it by misting with water.

Other supplies:

Patterned Paper - Close to My Heart

Cardstock - Close to My Heart, Bazzill

#81 Handyman - Cricut Circle Gift Card Challenge

Hi everyone! The lastest weekly challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog was to create a gift card using the Cricut. My brother's birthday is coming up soon and I usually get him gift cards because he is so hard to buy for. I thought a Canadian Tire card would be a good choice this year so decided to use my Handyman Lite cartridge for the first time on this project!

The cartridges / cuts used are:

Gift Card - Cindy Loo (cut at 8")

Tool Box - Handy Man (cut at 2.25")

"Brother" - Base Camp (cut at 1")

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

#19 Cindy Loo - Gift Card Holder

Hi everyone! Here is a gift card holder I created for the Wacky Wednesday challenge at More than Favors, which is over in 20 minutes. I finished in time though!

The cartridges I used for this card are:

Cindy Loo - gift card (cut at 8"), deer couple (cut at 2 3/4"), heart border (cut at 3/4")

George & Basic Shapes - pink hearts (cut at 3/4")

Patterned paper - K & Company

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, CTMH

"You're a Deer" stamp - My Pink Stamper

Ink - Stampin' Up (Rose Red), CTMH (Chocolate)

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

We Are Blessed

Hi everyone! I made this layout this evening for the challenge at Fantabulous Cricut this week - and it is really last minute so I am glad I got it finished on time!

The challenge was to create a project with a Thankful theme. I am the most thankful for my wonderful husband and three beautiful children! My husband and I are truly blessed!

I used the Cindy Loo cartridge to cut out the tree. I have used this tree cut a few times, it is probably one of my favorites! The piece with the leaves was cut out in white , then the leaves were coloured with my Stampin' Up markers.

The title was cut from the Robotz cartridge! Even though I have two boys, I mainly bought this cartridge for the font. I have yet to cut an actual robot from it!

Hope you like my layout! And by the way, I am also thankful for our Yorkie, Parker, who is also in the photo with my kids, although he is probably the naughtiest of them all :-)

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!

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Fall Thank You Card

Hi everyone! Today I made this Thank You card for a challenge on the Cricut Circle messageboard. The theme was "All for Fall". I used the Cindy Loo cartridge for the tree. Hop 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!

It's Your Bird-Day card!

Hi! Here is a card put together this evening using the Cindy Loo cartridge. I just love this doily cut and thought it would look really cute put together as a card. I used my Gypsy to create the card shape. I cut out an extra bird and used a pop dot to stick it on top of the other one. The hearts are from Gypsy Font and I can not remember which cartridge the flowers are from and I have deleted the file from my G! I used my new I-Rock tool and gems for the bling. What a cool tool!!!! Or should I say HOT tool? Either way, I love it! It "It's your bird-day" sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's "Punnylicious" stamp set.

I am entering it in this week's Cricut Cardz challenge where the task was to create any card.

Hope you like it!

So Dear Card

Hi everyone! My daughter has been out of school two days now and already it has been a busy summer! Yesterday we took in the Canada Day festivities in our town and Jenae got to be in the parade! She was so thrilled! She was on foot the whole way and didn't even mind!

Anyway, I created this card last night and am just getting the chance to post it now. I created it for the My Pink Stamper http://www.mypinkstamper.com/ challenge going on this weekend. The challenge was to create a project using the colours pink, green, brown and orange. I loved this challenge and think the colours look great together!

I used my brand spanking new cartridge Cindy Loo to create the mushroom frame (I welded a few more mushrooms in with my gypsy) I also used Create a Critter for the words "so dear".

Hope you like it!