Raccoon Valentine's Day card

This is a simple Valentine's card. I cut the raccoon from Create A Critter. The papers were all in my scraps and the sentiment was a Studio G stamp. The heart and raccoon are both on pop dots. 

I'm entering this into the following challenge:

My Craft Spot - #123

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1 St Patty's Day layout

Here I have a cute little St Patty's Day layout I made for Tommy's book. I used a few different carts... Simply Charmed for the pot of gold and leprechaun, Noah's ABC Animals for the rainbow, Create A Critter for the clouds, the "1st" is from Cricut Craft Room Basics, "St Patty's day" is from Letter Envy & and welded together with my gypsy and cut with my cricut expression 2. I used green card stock for the background, gold gel pen to make the gold pieces gold.. all other paper is just from my stash.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
Scrappy moms Terrific Tuesday - Luck of the Irish
Exploring Cricut - The Luck of the Irish
Fantabulous Cricut - #152
Die Cuttin' Diva's - #106
My Creative Time - Spring + Die Cut
Wacky Wednesday - #82
Craftin Desert Diva's - linky party anything goes
DL.ART - anything goes

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1st Thanksgiving layout

I made this layout for Tommy's baby book too. I used Create A Critter for the turkey and Wild Card for the "Thanksgiving". I cut them all on my gypsy and the "thanksgiving" I used as a mask and inked over it with red ink. The papers are from Joanns. "1st" is red Thickers and I followed a sketch from Paper Secrets.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Paper secrets - Mar 1 sketch + Thickers
Crafting Diva's - Linky Party anything goes
DL.ART - anything goes

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1st Smile Layout

Pretty simple layout I followed a sketch, used some peachy keen stamps for different smiles on the circle background paper, pleated a strip of blue card stock, added some buttons and put some yellow bakers twine on one in a bow. The title is cut from Create A Critter & Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art. I outlined "Smile" with black zig marker. The journaling box is a stamp... easy :)

I'm entering this layout into the following challenges:
My Creative Time - 1, 2, 3 
One Day at a Time - Birthday hop sketch
Fantabulous Cricut - #147
Simon Says - Have A Heart

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MCCR WYEGW Create a Critter pg 25 - Harmony's bday card

My Cricut Craft Room Would You Ever Guess Wednesday.. today we're to make a project using page 25 of Create A Critter.. thats the page with the owl and apple.

I made this super cute birthday Card for my now 1 year old Harmony.. she had a forest theme party. I cut the owl base in black, and the top in pink. I inked the wings and tummy of the owl white (so it looks more like gray) and left the ears black. I added large google eyes. I have a white base, with a brown layer, then i purple gingham layer that has a "1" cut out (using Cindy Loo). Inside the "1" I stamped "happy brithday" over and over in light pink ink and then outlined the "1" with a pink glaze pen. Then I stamped "happy birthday" again with a different stamp in dark brown"

The owl is on pop dots. and I added some green bakers twine to the bottom and a little bow.

The inside has the same purple gingham and then a pink layer with a pink owl stamped in the bottom corner.

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MCCR Scrapbook Friday - 4 pics - fresh and clean lo

Today at MCCR we were to make a scrapbook layout with 4 pictures.

I used Wild Card and my gypsy to weld the letters together to make the title. I added white gel pen dots around the title.

I cut the whale from Create A Critter. I added some pink stickles to the water coming out of her spout. I also added stickles around the page on random bubbles. I cut some strips of pink paper for journaling on with white pen. And I added a photo mat to 2 of the pics in different shades of pink.

Hard to believe this lil thing is gonna be 3 years old in January :(!

To see all the DT's amazing projects please go to MCCR to check em out!

I'm entering this into the following challenge:
DL ART thankful thursday -anything goes

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butterfly card

I made this cute shaped butterfly card using my Gypsy and Create A Critter. I welded the butterfly and cut the different layers. I added tons of glitter.. cuz everyone knows butterflies glitter!!! lol. I used a PK face stamp for the face (its a halloween set). I also followed a color challenge going on at PKS this week.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Bitten By The Bug 2 - All Shaped Up

Peachy Keen Stamps - #34
DL ART thankful thrusday - anything goes

Also, tomorrow is my newphews 7th birthday party and I made some pretty cool looking pirate cookies.. hopefully I'll get around to sharing those soon.. but not TOO soon since I have Harmony's 1st birthday party next Sat.. where did the time go? Her first year just flew by!!! I'm hoping to have a full update post on her progress soon.. or at least some of my fav pics of her first year :).

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Dumbo layout

a layout of some pics from my first Disneyland trip when I was a kid.

I used Country Carnival Imagine cart for the letters.. and I filled them with the same patterns from the same cart. I cut the little elephant from Create A Critter and then used the cut as a mask and sprayed over it with green glimmer mist.

I'm entering this layout into the following challenge:

Scraping Everyday Miracles - #19

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

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MCCR Card Creating Tuesday - Dino card

Today Is Card Creating Tuesday at MCCR and the theme? Any kind of card! YES! lol.

I made this super cute dino card. I used Create a Critter.

I started with a white base card and added purple card stock over the top (inking the edges with pink). Then I put some purple bakers twine on and on top of that with pop dots I did the Sentiment in a green bubble. I cut the dino in the same green, a hot pink, and dark purple. I embossed the pink layer using Tiny bubbles folder.

The inside was cut in the same purple from the same cart and embossed with the same folder and inked with light blue chalk ink. I put it on yellow card stock which has punches in the bottom from my BIA.

To see all the other great cards today go to MCCR and check em out!

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

Craft Your Passion - #125

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Popsicle card

Today I made this SUPER CUTE card! Isn't it cute?! I cut the popsicles out with my Imagine and the Yummy cart and cut one to make it look melted. The sun I also cut on my Imagine with the Create a Critter cart (I put yellow paper in and just used the cut setting.. no printing on the sun).

I used some Peachy Keen Stamps for the face on the popsicle and colored in the cheeks with a pink glaze pen and smeared it with my finger.. I also filled in the mouth with the same pen. The tongue is a different colored pen (a tad bit darker). I filled in the eyes with a white gel pen and put some dots on the cheeks. I also used the gel pen to stitch around the popsicle. I adhered him (or her I guess lol) to the card with pop dots.

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The papers were just in my stash of scraps and I cant really remember where I got the blue striped one.. the cloud one is Recollections though. I inked the edges of the cloud paper with a blue shade chalk ink. I used some pink ribbon that I had from packaging of a box that baby socks came in. And the sentiment I hand wrote with a pen.

Hope you like it.. its definitely cute (at least I think so lol).

am entering this card into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps - #17 (sketch)

Simply Crafts - May 2012 (sun from Create a Critter)

Hot Shot Craft - #8 (die cuts)

Just keep on creating - #2 (anything goes)

Scrappy Moms Stamps - Terrific Tuesday (summer theme)

Simon Says Stamp & Show - anything goes

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Happy Bird-day Card

Made this card for my niece's 4th birthday.

I used create a critter and my gypsy. I ran the house threw the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder and inked the top with a darker shade of purple ink to make the dots pop out more. I put patterned paper on the roof and cover the roof and hold in stickles. For the bird I put stickles on the wing and popped the wing up with pop dots. The whole bird is on pop dots also.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

My Craft Spot - #52

Paper Playtime - #72

Cardz TV - #106

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I'm on the Cooking With Cricut Design Team!!!

This is a super exciting post for me because... It is my first post as a member of the Cooking With Cricut Design Team!!!! How exciting is that?!?!! I'm so happy to have been picked to be on the team! I love CWC and PCW. I've been following and playing along in their challenges for a long time so I was thrilled when I was told I made it!

Now.. onto the challenge! Our first challenge was to make a project for Dr. Seuss (in honor of his birthday). I choose to do a 2 page layout for some pictures I have of Adam reading "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" to Harmony & Jayden a few days after we brought Harmony home from the hospital.. this was the very first book he read to Harmony, so it was perfect.

I used the book cover for my main inspiration followed by my favorite quote in the book "And will you succeed? YES! You will indeed! (98 and 1/3 percent garenteed). KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!" I think its such an encouraging quote from the book and I think that it's the main point that Dr. Seuss was trying to get across.

So I started out by picking colors that matched the front of the book. Then I cut out the title using Pooh font on the marker setting at 1.5 inches in blue & then again on marker shadow at the same size in gold. I cut the mountains out using Paper Dolls Dress Up. I cut them as large as I could (4inches) and then lined them up and adhered them down with my ATG gun. I cut the photo mats in different colors that matched the cover for a 4x6 and a 2x3 pic the mats are 4.5x6.5 & 2.5x3.5.

Then the other thing I find very noticeable is the air balloons so I made those to put the quotes on using Create A Critter. Each balloon is a different size the smallest cut at 3inches and the biggest cut at 8 inches.

I cut the "baskets for the balloons by hand. I adhered bakers twine (in orange, blue & purple) from the baskets to the balloons. And I put the large balloon on pop dots. I wrote the quotes by hand with a white gel pen and inked around each balloon in ink (purple balloons in purple ink, gold balloons in white ink, & green in green ink). I went over the cut lines in the mountains in light blue gel pen.

Hope you like it, I think it's pretty cute and as soon as I get the pics for this page printed it'll be perfect! :)

Don't for get to come over and join in our fun challenge at Cooking With Cricut!

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Mine is Bigger frame

LOL! Doesn't this picture frame just make you laugh?! See.. there's a story to go with this..

My father-in-law celebrated his 50th birthday recently (sept.) and for his present my husband took him to Alaska for a fishing trip just the 2 of them. Adam goes to Alaska all the time for work (usually 1-2 trips a month)... so he has Alaska air miles .. a LOT! (enough to take me to Hawaii for our anniversary this year... *hint hint* just in case you read this babe lol!!). So anyway he took his dad when he went on one of his trips and it ended up costing him around $500-$600 to take him. Well they had fun and that's whats important. Anyway on their fishing trip Adam's dad caught the larger fish and bought Adam a shirt as a joke that said "Mine is Bigger" lol.

I made the frame based off of the shirt and Adam edited 2 pics from their trip and got them printed for the frame.

The guy in the Orange shirt is Adam (he always wears orange it's his fav color) & the guy in the black shirt is his dad (he always wears black it's his fav color shirt lol)... if you knew them you'd think this was hilarious.. people always joke that Adam's dad's closet it just like Ernest's closet the same pair of jeans and black t-shirt over and over and over lol. I cut the guys from Paper Dolls Dress Up cart & the fish from Create A Critter.

I am entering this frame into the following challenges:

LESSology - #8 (the upcycled item are the fishes they are made from an envelope my husband got in the mail from some credit card company and tried to throw away lol... I don't think so!)

Fantabulous Cricut - #92

Paper Playtime - #64

Quick Quotes - #11

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Baby Shower Decore #2

Here is the baby shower banner I made!!! Super cute! I was so happy with how this turned out I cant even begin to tell you all lol.

Used the paper ribbon stuff to string it up. The base of the banner the flower shapes are cut first in chipboard (I used cereal boxes etc) at 4 inches from the Accent Essentials cart. I then cut the shape again on light pink and bright pink card stock. I cut the letters out using Pooh Font cart in shadow first using a tan paper (the same paper I used for the deer on the napkins) and then in light pink & bright pink at 3 3/4 inches. I adhered the pink letters to the tan shadows.

I used some flower stamps and dark pink ink to make my own background on the bright pink paper. I embossed the light pink flower shapes with my Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots folder. I then inked it with a light pink ink to help the dots stand out. I put the letters on (alternating colors so they were opposite their background) using pop dots to help them stand out!

I cut 2 deer from the Create A Critter cart at 6 inches using the same shades of pink and a black shadow. The owl is also using the same shades of pinks and black shadow.. he too is cut at 6 inches and from the Create A Critter cart. I strung up the banner putting the owl between the words and a deer on each side. I used my Big Bite 2 to put some eyelets on all of the pieces so that I could string them easier and faster and they wouldnt ruin the cuts. I have eyelets in the shadow of the deer and owl and strung the ribbon behind the front of the cut so you cant see the holes on them :). Hope you enjoy!!

I am entering this banner into the following challenges:

Decorate To Celebrate - #8

Really Reasonable Ribbon - #31

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