Farm Fun layout, and a little tip

My assignment for CX was to use the Create a Critter cartridge. I was so excited to use this cartridge because it is FILLED with the most adorable critters of all types. I had these pictures of my son at the Old Farmer's Days festival, so they were just perfect for this assignment. I started my layout by cutting the animal print paper into a scalloped circle using the Accent Essentials cartridge set at 11.25". I cut the striped paper and adhered it to the right hand page, then adhered the scalloped circle on the left side. I placed my photos over that, then created my title using the Old West cartridge set at 2.5". Then came the fun part, the critters! Both the sheep and the chick were cut at 3". These were arranged over the silk flowers for contrast. The journaling tag and chunky brads were the finishing touches.


Many of your great Cricut cuts can be "lost" on your page if you are mounting them over patterned paper, or even a similar colored cardstock. A great way to make your cuts stand out is to mount them over a silk flower before mounting them to your page. It gives it great contrast and allows the eye to focus better on the cut.

Cowboy Up! (and a tutorial)

I had the cutest picture of my youngest son dressed up as a cowboy for Halloween, so the Old West cartridge was the perfect thing for this page. This cartridge is absolutely filled with great western cuts. I started my layout by using the cartridge set at 1” to cut a stencil to be used with the glimmer mist along the bottom of the page. Then I layered my pieces of patterned paper and adhered my photo and ribbon. I cut the rope at 2 ¾”, the title at 3”, the hat at 1 ¾”, and the badge at 2”. Then I gave them a spray with the glimmer mist to give them a more aged appearance. I finished dressing my page with the epoxy brads.

We all know what great embellishments you can cut with your cricut, but you can also use that negative space to create stencils for glimmer mist, paint, chalk, etc.

I used the star cut from the Old West cartridge and cut a row of stars on my cardstock. Then I placed this stencil over my background paper, covered the rest of my background paper with another piece of cardstock, then sprayed my glimmer mist over the stencil.

What you end up with, is a perfect line of glimmer mist stars on your page.

A new layout, and a couple of "Oops!"

Oops moment number one: I totally forgot to do my blog post last week. No clue how I forgot that!
Oops moment number two: I also forgot to draw a winner from my blog hop post over a month ago! So sorry about that! Sooo, without any FURTHER ado, the winner I drew was Jamie. Jamie, please send me your address and I will get your BG paper pack right out to you!

Now, on with current events :-)
Lori chose the Mother's Day 2010 cartridge for the challenge at BBTB2 this week. This cartridge has so many elegant cuts on it, but since I recently had the opportunity to get a picture with my mom, I chose the "mom" cut. Come join us for the challenge this week, we love to see everybody's creations!

PP - BG Lemonade

Birds of a Feather - And a Blog Hop!

Carole chose the bird cage from "Straight from the Nest" for the challenge at BBTB2 this week. I just love this cut and the design for this page just fell into place with it. The picture is me and my neice. She reminds me so much of myself when I was her age.

Come join us for the challenge this week and you could win the blinkie for your blog.

pp - BG Sultry

Title and birdcage - Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge
Bling swirl - Prima

I'm doing a give away this week for the blog hop, so if you leave me a comment on this post AND become a follower of my blog, you're name will go in the drawing. What's the prize? A full collection pack of Basic Grey Curio!

If you're following the BBTB2 blog hop, it's time for you to hop on over to Maria's blog for her fabulous take on this challenge!

What a Catch

Shelly chose the fishing boy from the "A Child's Year" cartridge as the challenge at BBTB2 this week. This cartridge is filled with tons of great silhouettes, which seem to be the "thing" right now. This cut went perfectly with this picture of the catch of the day. Poor little fish couldn't even fit the entire cricket in his mouth.

PP - BG Lime Rickey, and BG Origins
Title - Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge

Come join us this week for the challenge. If you don't have this cartridge, you can use any fish from any cartridge.

A "Lovely" challenge

Susan chose the challenge at BBTB2 this week, and she chose to use a lacy heart and a heart border. I cut my lacy heart and used it as a mask with my glimmer mist. I have several bottles of the stuff and almost never use it, so I decided to give it another try. I've found the more I use it, the better I like it.
I dug deep into my stash to create this page. The number tiles, playing cards, brads, butterfly, and love letters are at least 9 years old. And lookie there, that is mulberry paper! I need to stop being such a scrapbooking hoarder and actually use up my huge stash of goodies. I challenge you to do the same!

Layout share

One of the things I dread about Christmas is decorating the tree, but I just love how it looks after I'm done. I had these pictures of our tree from last year, and decided I need to scrapbook them so I can look back later and see how our tree looked.

Die Cuts - Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge
Patterned paper - Kaiser Countdown
Embossing folders - Cuttlebug

Imaginisce Sketch Challenge

They posted a great new sketch over at the Imaginisce blog today:


I thought their Shore Thing line would work great for this sketch and my pictures:

Imaginisce Shore Thing
Swim trunks - Cricut Life's a Beach
Splash - Cricut Create a Critter

CreativeXpress DT work

These projects made it to the CreativeXpress blog, so I can post them here now.

Assignment was to use the Tie the Knot cartridge.

You can see my tutorial for making the roses HERE.

Assignment was to use the Superman cartridge.

Assignment: Mother's Day cartridge

Two new layouts

I haven't had the opportunity to do a lot of scrapping for myself, with no DT stipulations, so it felt good to just do whatever I wanted on these layouts. :-)

Strawberries are actually the apple from the Locker Talk cartridge that I modified to look more like a strawberry.

Papers and stickers are BG Eerie.

The spider on the lower left is cut from the Lyrical Letters cartridge.

Three more new projects (and more Halloween, as promised!)

I decided to use up some scraps and break out my circle punch that has been collecting dust, and this is what I came up with:

And, in my last post, I said there would be more Halloween projects coming soon, so here they are! The first is a layout using pictures from last Halloween (yes, I'm that far behind and then some!). The second is a great little card that I think would be perfect as an invitation for a Halloween party. I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, and that magnificent chandelier is from the Cricut Home Decor cartridge.

Another layout

I've been tinkering around in my scraproom again!

I made this page for a challenge at the Page Maps blog. (they always have the BEST sketches!)