Beauty Layout - MM Dilly Dally

A Beauty Layout of my Lauren

It is Challenge time at ScrapTiffany

and the Challenge is Beauty

and if you visit my Blog, you know that I have been creating

projects for Happy N Scrappin' on Tuesdays

In addition today, I am "killing 3 birds with one stone" by deciding to create this layout with the Cricut Circle Blog's Weekly Challenge which is Monochromatic Green with a touch of Gold. --is that perfect for me or what?? GREEN!! and MM Dilly Dally had the perfect PP!!

 I love these pictures of my grand baby!

I used vellum so that the letters wouldn't get lost on the background.

Look at those lips!

Cricut cuts:
"Beauty" - Cricut Princesses Dreams Come True both reg and shadow feature cut at 4" -I hand cut off the B and A of the phrase (it included the word beast).
Butterflies - Cricut Lacy Label layer feature at 5.47" and 6.91"
"in" - Gypsy Font welded.
"Bloom" - Gypsy Wanderings cut at 1.50" with its layer.

Other:
Machine stitching
DMC green floss
Gold flower sequins

Supplies I used that you can find at Happy N Scrappin":
MM Dilly Dally Collection
Provo Craft
Basic Grey
American Crafts
Tim Holtz

Stickers & Rub-ons	Brad Combo
Geometric	Skinny Stripe
Pattern Floral	Ribbon by the Yard
Provo Craft	BG Buttons
Kushgrip non-stick	Sage

Thanks for visiting and thanks in advance for your comments!!

LO of My Shadow

Over at CookingWithCricut there is a

Challenge going on--

The challenge is to create anything with a shadow

I created a One-Page LO

My Shar-pei Moto Cross or Moto as we call him

(DH use to ride motocross)

I heat embossed a round stamp around the journaling circle and added a mini brad from Basic Grey.
All Cardstock is American Crafts and all Pattern paper is from the DCWV Pet Stack.
I stitched around in several areas.
For my banner I cut the bones from the Heritage Cricut cartridge.  The newspapers are strips of my Sunday newspaper cut at 1" and hand rolled.
Can you tell I am a Lakers fun!?
I used Gypsy Font with it's shadow welded together at 1.5" each. Letters cut twice.

I used dimensional foam dots for all bones and to give the title dimension.
He does follow me everywhere and does spend most of his time with me.  He protects me
and scraps with me!! LOL   --here you can see him by my side/feet while I am in my
Studio -- I have to be careful or I'll trip over him.

Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment--
Go see what creative beautiful projects the rest of the CWC Design Team cooked up!!!

Two-Page Layout Cricut Circle Blog and ScrapTiffany

ScrapTiffany Yellow/Steel Grey 

and

Cricut Circle Blog Back to the Basics Challenges

This is the LO I came up with--  I used several new to me techniques.

Yellow it is not my color, but had fun with this PP from Cosmo Cricket Early Bird

The solid darker grey cardstock is from the PaperCo and the lighter grey is AC

I printed the pictures with a yellow tone-- the pictures on the left page were printed as a one picture on a 8 1/2 x 11" piece of photo paper. I hand cut around to leave a white frame.

Some of you are thinking that my letters/words do not show much, that perhaps I should have used the grey tone on top-- this is precisely the technique I wanted to use so I am OK with it... I cut the letters twice, once in grey and the other in the PP and layered myself.  Were I just could not help myself was on the camera and the smile design. I added a bit of an outline to both and vellum to the camera in addition to a bit of yellow Smooch paint.

The film strip is from a Sizzix die. I cut by hand to split and use on both sides of my picture sheet.

I used Cricut Don Juan for letters, camera and smile designs. Gypsy Font for word "many". And Accent Essentials for circles and scalloped edge.

I used a typing font and printed the journaling on my printer using MS Word.

Finished it with some buttons, Tim Holtz mini screw brads and stitching. And for the first time I used the MM notch maker to "hold" the picture on the side and added another of Tim Holtz mini screw brads.

Weekly Challenge #18: Back to the Basics Challenge!
For this challenge we want you to go “Back to the Basics” . . . by using ONLY the cartridge(s) that came with your machine or Gypsy! You must use THREE cuts on your project (the complete title or words counts as one cut).

Gypsy Font - word "many" welded
Don Juan - All other individual letters -- camera -- and smile design
Accent Essentials - Scalloped edge key 50 -- circles found on several layers
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BG POTM 2010

My daughter is home and got her to scrapbook with me!!!
We got to play with Basic Grey's POTM kits.
I pretty much created the layout as suggested by the instructions provided/included on the kit with the exception of substituting the name "Lauren" in place of two tiny pictures.  I cut the name using "Base Camp" with it's shadow welded using the Gypsy. I also cut the "2010" and used instead of journaling.

Below is the LO my daughter created

.  She got a bit more creative and added 3D to some of the bottom squares, added and chalked a bird, placed the pictures at a different angle, added two names cut using "Pooh Font" and a sentiment cut using Gypsy Font in place of journaling.  She also cut using punches a couple of hearts.

It was a fun mother-daughter scrapbook day!!!!

Scraplifted-- Bless This Nest from Jeannie

I Scrap lifted this card from Jeannie at "A Place For My Cards" .  I received her blessing. Thank you!

This is my take on her gypsy file/card.

I created this card using DCWV The Linen Closet to give to my niece Yessie (the same I have created an album full of two-page layouts for her pre-wedding events).  I added DCWV black card stock and a brown? for the branches.

Jeannie sent me her gypsy file. I did not have the Sweathearts cart for the "Bless This Nest" sentiment so I deleted her words/letters after I created mine using Gypsy Font (I had to delete!  first I tried the hide contour feature so I would not have to delete the words/letters for future use- when I get the Sweathearts cart!  Anyway, the Cricut would not cut until I deleted!

This is the inside of the card. I added the heart that I did not use on the front/cover.

Additionally, I do not own the MS brunch punch that Jeannie used, so I created my branches with the Potpourri Basket cart.  I inked everything with Ranger distress ink in walnut.

It is much better in person! It is 3D, heck, 4 dimensional!! and heavy with all the glue dots!

I like it so much I am going to be making two more!!

Don't forget to visit Jeannie's blog and to leave a comment here and there!

The Penultimate Two-Page Layout for Yessie

I have one more after this to finish a 9 Two-Page layout and two One-Page layouts Album to give to my niece/ahijada this Saturday at her Bridal Shower.
This layout again was created with DCWV Linen Closet and a PageMap layout. And I say again because I have created 7 two-page LO using DCWV Linen Closet stack with PageMap's inspiration. I have also created one two-page LO using BG Capella collection in addition to the two single LOs.
Thanks for visiting!

This is a fun LO using a lot of leftover pieces cut 1"x 1", 2" and 3". 
Used Fiskars punch and DCWV Linen Closet embellisments.
Inked with Distress Inks in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen.
The letters were cut at 1" using Gypsy Font.