Creative Teacher Gift!

Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway with my project for the challenge ~ 3 or more cartridges.

I wanted to make something special for Tanner's kindergarten teacher.  Mrs. Stock is an awesome teacher! I wanted to personalize something for her and kept coming back to a tile.

I started with gold vinyl, but the gold seemed thin and I had some issues with it bubbling and tearing.  I was ready to scrap the whole project and started removing the gold words and decided to leave the apple.  I kept thinking that a golden apple is kind of like an academy award for teachers.....so I kept going.

Here is my screen shot.  I used several words and icons from 15 cartridges:  Cheerful Seasons, Cindy Loo, George, Graphically Speaking, Gypsy Wandering, Hannah Montana, Home Accents, Home Decor, Locker Talk, Lovely Floral, Lyrical Letters, Makin' the Grade, Elegant Cake Art, Nursery Rhyme and Plantin' Schoolbook.

I opened a 12x24 mat and put all of the words and icons on my mat.  I started with Mrs. Stock (used a heart instead of a period) in the center.  I like subway art and wanted to make this look like some.  The words I chose are: discover, create, patience, inspire, transform, direction, explore, #1 Teacher, guide, adventure, learn details energy and 2011-2012.

It took some time to move words around and size them to get my final piece.

I erased the apple from my screen and cut out the rest in black vinyl.  

When you cut vinyl, set your Cricut to 3-3-3 (speed, pressure and blade depth) for a kiss cut.  I use my Cricut pokey tool (dental tool) to weed out the extra vinyl pieces.

I usually use clear contact paper with vinyl, but I was having trouble with the amount of stick and my pieces were tearing and not clinging to the tile.  I was getting frustrated not knowing if it was the gold vinyl or the contact paper or a combination of both.  I bought the ProvoCraft transfer tape and had much better luck!

I use my scraper to burnish the vinyl to the transfer tape.

I used my E2 and set it to cut on Vinyl.  You can see here that the blade did cut through the paper backing in a couple of places.  I honestly have better luck with my E cutting vinyl, but it is a pain to dig it out for one project!!

I bought my 12x12 tile at Home Depot.

  Here is my tile with the gold apple still on it.  I set the transfer tape right over it, burnished the vinyl into the tile and peeled the tape off.

Here is my tile all finished up!  I just need to get an easel so she can display it in her room.

Thanks for having me over today Bobbi Jo!!

Papa and Grammy!

Hi everyone this is Suzanne from Cricutcraftingrammyblogspot.

The challenge this week for the Design Team at Sweet Sassy Diva was to design

 a project for Grandparent's day.  I was excited to do this one.

 Just nineteen months ago my life took a big change when I became a

grandparent for the first time to sweet Katie bug.   Since then we have had

two more precious little girls added to our family.  There is nothing

better in the world than being a grandparent.  I am so lucky because two of

them live only 1 1/2 hours away and the other 10 minutes away.  

Well on to my project.  I used paper from Reminisce that I got at the local

LSS.  I loved all the different words on the paper for grandpas and

grandmas.  I used Cricut decals for the grandpa and grandma cut at 4 inches

with the shadow.  The kids were cut at 3 inches.  I then cut out the

letters from Nursery Rhymes at 2 1/2 inches and 1 1/2 inches for the word and.

Isn't this a great font? 

 The mats were embossed and then I added googly eyes.  

Sweet and simple 

Hope you enjoyed this layout and please come back all week to see what the rest

of the Design Team has created for Grandparents Day.  Have gun

craftin!

Be sure to enter the SweetSassyDiva Design Team Call!

Vacation Inspiration....Smash book!

Hi there, Lori from ScrappinMyStressAway here with my Summer Vacation project.  I created a smash book!  We take the same vacation every summer to the Ozarks in Missouri.  My two brothers and their families go too.  We went to this same resort when we were kids. 

We take down food, towels, ping pong balls, tennis raquets, pool toys and a bunch of other things.  I am a list maker, so this book helped with the planning of our trip.  I also used it to sketch and write down all of my scrappy ideas while we were there, as well as journal what we did each day.

I started with a $1 journal from Michaels and some of my favorite supplies.  Most of these are scraps! 

I cut out a title for my Smash Book from Nursery Rhyme at 1 inch out of purple cardstock.  I used my Gypsy to line up my letters so they were right side justified.

I saved the negative piece and used it as a template for my letters.  I used my 1" Xyron to adhere the letters to my cover.  Note to self ~ next time use Mod Podge over the letters to prevent them from sliding around!

I also added some twine and (later) a butterfly charm.  The cover was pretty so I did not want to alter it anymore.

I printed out this tag from my Imagine along with a few other pieces.  I adhered it to this tag and then adhered the pocket to the inside cover.

For the first inside page, I cut this 8x8 decorative page in half and adhered each half to the outer edge of the page.

I had some of these Tim Holtz dies cut out already and finally found a purpose for one of them!  I also added a flower I cut out from a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die.  Sometimes at a crop, I will cut out things for future use even if I have no idea what I will use them for!

Here was another piece of 8x8 paper that I liked, so I cut it down for 3 pages.

On the left page, I wrote down my grocery list.  In this envelope pocket I put my coupons that I would use.  I have been having fun trying to be an extreme couponer lately!!

On this page, I use a couple cuts from Straight From the Nest.

Here is where I sketched an idea for an upcoming Disney Hop.

Below are some of my highlights from our vacation:

We took a helicoptor tour over the lake.

I rode a segway for the first time ever!!!  Here is a link to the post about my Segway Layout if you are interested.

Tubing with my niece!  All three things I would not have done before losing 77 lbs!  I had a blast on vacation this year!!!  I hope you had a great summer vacation too!

Here is one last shot of my Smash Book!  This was a fun and inexpensive project as I used mostly scraps and extra pieces!!

Be sure to check back all week for some great projects for this challenge!

Gift Card and Gift Bag!

The request for this week was to use a kite in our design. Since I had to make a birthday card for a sweet little girl I figured I would be able to use it there.

This was the first mat for cutting. I loved the colors for everything. All of my cardstock is DCWV from different stacks. I love being able to use odds and ends from previous cuts.

I started the layering process after all cutting was done. The grass is actually a coordinations paper that I tore, and then inked the edges to make the horizon stand out. I cut out the little boy and girl bugs from Nursery Rhymes in white and then colored their shoes and clothing with markers. The kite is from Sugar and Spice with a dmc embordiery floss for it's string. The sun is from Doodlecharms. I also cut out a Happy Birthday for the inside of the card using Gypsy wanderings. To finish the card off I added some self stick flower stickers on the grass, and then decorated a gift bag to go along with it.

*recipe*
Coordinations and DCWV cardstock...misc. patterns and colors
Cricut cartridges, Doodlecharms, Gypsy wanderings, Nursery Rhymes, Sugar and Spice
DMC Embordiery Floss
Pop Up Dots
self stick flower shaped gems
green
ink pad, markers
(for the gift bag I used doodlecharms for the ladybugs and flowers, plantin school book for the grass, green ribbon, buttons with self stick gems in the center or the flowers...a plain blue bag turned into a cute little flower garden)

Celebrate May!

I haven't been doing much with my scrapbooking lately so I was really excited when this layout came to mind.

I used the coordinations paper and distressed it with sandpaper (lightly) to give it more depth. I also inked the edges of the "sky". The sidewalk was inked as well. My lamposts are my "Maypoles" decorated with flowers and ribbons. I didn't have the right flowers so mine were made using flower brads with self stick gems.

The children cuts all come from the nursery rhymes cartridge, the lamp posts from Christmas, lettering and sidewalk all came from Plantin. I'm ready for a trip to the park now so that all I have to do is add pictures of my kiddo's to it and it will be completed.

*recipe*
coordination paper green/blue
dcwv cardstock misc. colors
ribbon
pop dots
brads/self stick gems
ink/markers
cricut cartridges: plantin schoolbook, nursery rhymes, christmas

May All Your Wishes Come True!

 
Click Here! to view the first entry. for the Cricut Expression 2 E2 Anniversary Edition contest. 

I inked all the cuts with a brown ink and added i-rock jewels to the title.  This cut is layered with an orange, red, blue, green and rainbow.  I used Sweet Treats cicut cartridge for the title.

These photo mats were cut using Nursery Rhymes cricut cartridge.  And the photo mat was cut using george and basic shapes.  I added a green ribbon to both mats and this mat has a sun charm.

Here I added a bushel apple button which coordinates with the apple in the tree on the following picture.

The children dancing around the tree is cut from the cricut cartridge Nursery Rhymes.

I used the irock on the i in birthday and stickled it to give it some bling.  Also, I added some white pen dots to the 'happy'.  These were cut from Sweet Treats and I hand cut them apart.

I used cosmo Cricket paper to make this along with solid cardstock.  I also cut the orange using the Cricut Imagine with RGB codes to get the correct color.

I hope you enjoyed my entry.  I look forward to my E2 arriving so, that I can play and do some projects and videos to post.

Click Here! to view the first entry.