CWC Crops of Luv Hop - Day 2

Welcome to the CookingWithCricut.com, Crops of Luv Blog Hop. This month our designers chose to create layouts for the Crops of Luv Organization. If you came here from Natt then you are in the right place, if you need to start from the beginning, then just head over to CWC.

Crops of Luv works hand-in-hand with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and creates scrapbooks for families who have children facing life-threatening illnesses. Our hop will focus on creating 12 x 12 Scrapbook double page LOs using these themes: Princesses, Pirates, Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Summer Fun (e.g. swimming), Christmas (yes, they have Christmas every Thursday at "Give Kids the World"), or general Disney themes.

Crops of Luv has some specific guidelines for the layouts. They need to include a journaling block or tag and mats for 3 4 x 6 pictures on each page. They also do not want the photo mats permanently adhered to the page. That way they can flip them whichever way they need to.

We hope you will enjoy our creations! We would love for you to participate. You can make a two-page layout following the parameters outlined above and mail it directly to Crops of Luv c/o Roberta Baker, 11424 S. Pawnee Circle, Phoenix, AZ 85044. Since this blog hop is also a challenge, be sure to link your project to CWC/PCW.

If you would like more information about this organization, or would like to make a monetary or supply donation, please visit their web site, www.cropsofluv.com.

Here's my layout today:

A princess layout.

I cut the title out on the Imagine using the Princess title from the Once Upon A Princess cart and filling it with a pattern from the Best Friends Imagine cart. The heart at the end was made with purple bakers twine.. I drew the heart the way I wanted it with a Zig glue pen and then put the twine over that.

The crown is cut from the Birthday Cakes cart out of yellow shimmer card stock and put on a pop dot.

The 2 pink mats are for journaling and were cut with some scalloped scissors. The loopy twine boarders were made the same way as the heart at the end of the title.

This princess is cut from the Best Friends Imagine cart and I cut out some of the extra layers (the crown & dress) and put pop dots under them to make her stand out a bit more.

If you get lost along the way, please be sure to head back to CWC and start from there. Be sure to head over to CWC and leave a comment for a chance to win some blog candy and to link your own Crops of Luv creation. Now you can head over to Larelyn. Thanks so much for being a part of our hop.

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!

CWC #80 Easter

My super cute hoppy Easter card for the Cooking With Cricut Challenge this week #80 Easter.

I used a few different carts for this card including: best friends imagine art cartridge, Imagine More Cards imagine art cartridge, Gypsy Wanderings, Sugar & Spice Lite, & Give A Hoot.. thats quite a list lol.

for the banner it was simple.. i just hand cut the pennants by folding them in half then cutting and then I put atg tape on the inside and closed them over bakers twine. The bunny grass is from Gypsy Wanderings and i popped it off with pop dots.

the inside of the card has pop dots under the pink bunnies and i used the devine swirls embossing folder on the purple and then inked it with a slightly darker purple ink.

Hope you enjoyed my card and also hope you'll come on over to CWC and enter in our challenge this week.. its always lots of fun! :D and who doesn't have something Eastery to make lol (poor English I know).

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Simon says - Anything goes!

Creative Card Crew - #7 Spring

Throwback Thursday - #366

My Craft Spot - #50 Easter

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!!

Best Friends Layout

I made this layout using the August Stack-a-holic Sketch at DCWV. These are pics of Jayden in the hospital with Nelly.. her very first best friend :D. She LOVED to look at Nelly. She probably would still be sleeping with her every night if we could find her.. but you know how it is when you move lol. I was happy to make this layout I think it turned out cute and I have recently made myself a new goal.. My goal is to get at least 1 page of Jayden done each day before I have Harmony.. that way I can at least pretend I put a dent into her 1st year scrapbook lol. Hopefully that will be enough to get all of her hospital pics taken care of.. thats 7 pages a week .. hoping for more.. we'll see!

I used the Nana's Nursery Baby Girl stack. I cut the title "BEST FRIENDS" out using the Once Upon a Princess cart and I cut the flower out of the middle to make the words fit on the page the way I wanted them to. I inked the edges of most of the background papers to help them stand out. The Seahorse I cut using the Create A Critter cart (as well as the hearts). It happened to work out perfectly that I used very similar colored papers to how Nelly actually looks in real life! I thought that was a great touch. I inked the edges of the pink part of the seahorse with white chalk in to make it pop from the background a bit. And topped the seahorse off with pop dots.. I did 2 pop dots so that it would fit above the ruffle ribbon that its sitting on top of. The ribbon is from some candy I won a little while ago and I believe that person said they got it from Really Reasonable Ribbon.. and it just so happens to match the yellow/orangeish plaid paper that I used.. so cute! I wrote the journaling with a pink glaze pen.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges:

DCWV - August Stack-a-holic Sketch

City Crafter Challenge - week 71 Best of Friends

Really Reasonable Ribbon - #30

Thanks for stoppin' by and have a great day!