CWC #101 - my last post for CWC

Hey everyone today is challenge #101 over at CWC (What did you do this summer? vacation/summer scrapbook layout). It's also my very last post as a CWC design team member. It's been fun and I decided to step down from the team at the end of my term (which this is). I have a lot of stuff going on soon (Harmony's birthday, Adams b-day, halloween, then all the other holidays and of course Jayden's bday too).. I'll still be posting just won't have the time for 2 teams any more. I've had lots of fun on the CWC team and hopefully will be able to join again.

On to my project... a Disney layout of our trip to Disney World in late June. :D We had a blast and the girls loved them some Mickey mouse.. I can't say but I'm pretty sure they met him at least 5 times during our trip.

I used a sketch (which will be linked at the end) and I used the traditional mickey colors (red yellow, black & white). I used Mickey & friends and Home Accents carts for this project. Then I glimmer misted the outer edge of the paper.

I'm entering this into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Scrapping Everyday Miracles - August sketch

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thank you cook card

I used my Imagine and the Kate's kitchen cart to make this card. I put the cook book on pop dots and tada!

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CWC Taste of Summer Hop - Day 1

Hey everybody!!! Welcome to the CWC Taste of Summer Hop! You should have come here from Evelyn's Blog, if not please head over to Cooking With Cricut and start at the beginning! :)

Taste of summer theme means we were to pick a food that reminds us of summer time and I donno about you guys but when I think of Summer and food I think of watermelon! So my project is a large group of watermelon invites that I made for Harmony's dedication (which was entirely watermelon themed).

To make my invites I used Just Because Cards and my Gypsy. I welded the watermelon from the top to make a full circle and then cut in green. I folded that in half and made the watermelon. Then I cut the actual watermelon cut in pink stripe paper. I stamped the outside with a few different "you're invited" type stamps (different brands) in black ink.

The inside of the cards my husband made on the computer using Power Point and I picked the font. He shaped them with a very faint outline like watermelon shape and I cut them by hand. I used clear photo corners to put the pictures of Harmony in so that people could take them out and display them if they wished. I took the pics of her and made them 4x3.

Now hop on over to Court's blog and check out what amazing summer food themed project she's made for you!

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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.

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CWC Crops of Love Hop - Day 1

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 Larelyn 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.

Today I made this 2 page Mickey Mouse layout. I LOVE Mickey.. he's my absolute favorite and no trip to Disneyland/world is complete without a visit to the mouse that started it all!

I used yellow textured card stock for the background pages. I cut black textured card stock into 4.5x6.5 photo mats. The red tag and red rectangle are both for journaling.. the block is 2 x 4.5 inches and the tag is 2 x 2.5 inches and has yellow bakers twine attached to the opening. Mickey was cut on my gypsy so I'm not positive his exact measurements but I'm pretty sure he's 3 inches tall. The Mickey head boarders are all cut in the same red card stock as the journaling tags and is cut with the boarder setting on the Mickey & Friends cart using my gypsy. The shorts are done the same way. The large Mickey in the corner, the red Mickey head on the bottom corner of the first page, & the red Mickey head boarder on the 2nd page are all on pop dots.

The title says " ♥ THAT MOUSE" and is on Mickey & Friends cart also. This too was cut on my Gypsy. It was cut at 2 inches tall.

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 Natt's blog. Thanks so much for being a part of our hop.

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CWC #93 Happy Birthday USA

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!!!!!!!!!

This week our challenge over at CWC is Happy Birthday USA.. use Red, White & Blue!

4th of July is my absolute favorite Holiday.. it trumps every other holiday.. with Halloween following and then Christmas. I know weird right? How many people have the 4th of July as their fav holiday?! ME! Reason? Simple. I LOVE fireworks! I've been obsessed with fire since I can't even remember when. And in high school I fully intended on becoming a pyrotechnician... but of course... I didn't pay real good attention to my Chemistry class LOL! Anyway.. then I was gonna be a psychologist and finally a photographer.. (which I am).

ANYWAY..... on to my project.

I made this layout with a pic of Jayden.. shes 3 months old in this pic. And the hat shes wearing.. it was Adam's when he was a baby... (I LOVE that his mom saved so much stuff from his past.. I wish my mom hadn't lost all of my stuff in storage and moves oh well... both of my girls even slept in Adam's old bassinet.. I'm a sentimental fool lol!).

The dots around the pic in red white and blue are Scribbles 3d paint.

The anchors are cut from the Life's a Beach cart.

And both anchors have red bakers twine on them somewhere.

I hope you'll all head over to CWC and join us this week in our challenge!

I'm entering this into the following challenge:

My Craft Spot - #62

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CWC #92 - It's HOT Outside!

Today is challenge #92 over at CWC.. It's HOT Outside... (celebrate fun things to do in & around water). I made this Pool Baby layout using the Pack Your Bags cart.

I love this cart it's got all sorts of great cuts for summer time and vacations, beach trips, swimming, cruises, plane trips, car trips etc etc. Anyway.. I did both cuts from the same page and added some Stickles to give them a little shine!

I added stickles to the baby's swim suit in the title as well as dots around parts of "BABY". This is popped off the page with pop dots.

this cut as stickles on the eyes, in the water around the baby and in the water inside the inner tube.

I hope you like my layout and consider joining in the fun with us this week at CWC!

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CWC #91 First day of summer (LATE :( )

I CANNOT believe I didn't have this up. I just got back from vacation and things have been crazy and just now got a chance to check this. I could have swore I had it all schedueled to post and everything.. go figure my very first time missing a post I'm so ashamed of myself I cannot express it enough. I'm very sorry to everyone especially Melin and all the CWC DT! Very very very sorry! Ugh! I'm so mad at myself.

Ok onto my project ...

I made this tag using 3 birds on parade for the grill and plantin schoolbook for the tag. All of the paper is recollections. I added some twine for the sun and some stickles around the clouds.

Hope you like it sorry its late!! Also hope you'll join in the challenge with us at CWC.. first day of summer!

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CWC #89 Graduation/ End of School Year

This week the CWC challenge is Graduation/ end of school year. I made this graduation card using the Happy Graduation and Plantin Schoolbook carts.

I used both the star cuts from plantin schoolbook and the graduation cap from happy graduation as stencils and used silver ink to put both onto the black cardstock.

I cut out some red and light red polk-a-dot paper and put it on the side and then put the black card stock with the cap over it.

I added some red bakers twine over the red paper and then put some on where the tassel would go. I also added some to the tag I cut out by hand in both white and red card stock. I hand wrote congrats on the tag. I also inked around the edges of the black card stock.

Hope you'll come join in the fun with us over at CWC this week!

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

CARDZ TV - #109

DL.ART - Anything goes

Simply Crafts - Star Cut

Lily Pad - Star Challenge

Oldie But A Goodie - Anything goes

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CWC Cartridge Showcase - Gypsy Wanderings

Hey everyone! Today is my day for my Cartridge Showcase over at CWC. I am showcasing Gypsy Wanderings. I really like this cart! Now it's true the only way to get this cart is if you buy/have a gypsy, but I think it's worth it (well it is for me anyway).

This cart is jam packed full of all sorts of different cuts.. from shapes, to shadows, to tags, to phrases, and boarders. It has a large assortment of different things. Bunnies, flowers, hearts, cupcakes, owls, snow flakes, decorative flourishes... just lots of great cuts that can be used for ANYTHING! From everyday to holidays, wedding to baby, this cart has something for you!

I have made a few things with this cart... First up.. A wedding layout.

I used the music note boarder twice and placed it down the side of this layout in purple. It makes the page :)

I have also made....

This set of owl cards which can be seen HERE!

This flower card for Mother's Day which can be seen HERE!

This crown layout which can be viewed HERE!

And this Easter card which can be viewed HERE!

I hope you'll look at this cart and give it a chance if you haven't really taken the time to look it over before. It's got some great stuff on it!

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CWC Blogaversary Day 6 - You're A Star!

Hello Everybody!

Today CWC is celebrating it's Blogaversary with the theme You're A Star! That means, any project that uses a Cricut cut AND.. has a star and some sort of flashy element.

Now.. as none of you know (because I've never said anything like this on here before LOL), I am doing a movie them in my upper living room. I'm thinking a mix between games and movies.. and am definitely going with a black white and red theme for colors. I'm thinking classic film.. I have some film strip pic frames and I want to do a film strip boarder around the top of the walls. I'd like to paint the main wall red (but I don't think Adam is too excited lol).

Anyway with that background in mindthis is the perfect challenge to push me in the right direction of decorating my room (starting to anyway). So I made this...

Vinyl wall decor! I put this up in my living room :). I cut out the words using my Gypsy and Gypsy Font cart.. I welded each word together and then cut out of navy blue vinyl. Then I used Plantin Schoolbook and the Gypsy to make the stars. I cut out to very small ones in navy blue to make the dots for the I's. I also cut out 3 larger stars in yellow metallic flake vinyl and 9 smaller ones for dots in between each word. I couldn't think of a better phrase that fit more perfectly for the challenge or my room theme! :D

(to put my wall art to scale.. my lil super star Harmony next to it lol)

(this is how it looks with the flash it's really not so easy to capture in a pic.. oh well what matters is that it looks good in person.)

I think it looks pretty good.. hope you guys think so too! I hope you guys will all head over to CWC to check out the rest of the wonderful DT's projects.. They're amazing!

I'm entering this into the following challenge:

DL.ART - anything goes

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CWC Blogaversary Day 4 - Tiara/Crown

Welcome everybody to the week long blogaversary celebration for CWC!

Today we are celebrating with projects that include a tiara or crown.

I made this 2 page layout using my Gypsy (of course), and Cricut Expression. The carts I used are Birthday Cakes, Once Upon a Princess, Princess Party & Gypsy Wanderings.

Page 1:

I welded the "SPOLIED" from Once Upon a Princess with "Rotton"(which I just now realized I spelled wrong.. it should be Rotten.. oh well!! LOL) which I made using letters from Birthday Cakes. I put some crowns from Princess Party inside some of the letters on both words. I cut this out of pink patterned paper (when up close it looks kind of like alligator skin).

I made the boarder of crowns using a crown from Gypsy Wanderings and welding them together in a row. I cut them out of blue stripped paper. I sprayed some Ditto glimmer spray across the middle of the white card stock page and then put down some photo mats cut from the remaining paper from both the blue and pink. I topped off the crown boarder with some stickles ice in blue and pink.

Page 2:

I used the inverse of the crown boarder as a mask and put it on a white sheet of card stock and sprayed it with some turquoise Ditto glimmer spray on both sides. I took some more of the left over paper to make some photo mats down the middle of the page. And I used the crowns that were from the letters on Spoiled rotten as tiny embellishments that I adhered randomly around the page.

Hope you enjoyed my project today! I also hope you'll hop on over to CWC to check out everyone else's projects today and this whole week! :)

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Grad card

I made this awesome graduation card for my husband's cousin. He's graduating this year :).

I used Happy Graduation (a cart that I've never used before.. but I've owned it for about.. oh I donno.. since Thanksgiving time lol) to cut out the graduation cap. I took the actual cut out and ripped around the edges of the hats negative. I took a black scrap piece of card stock and ran it through my cuttlebug with the diamond plate embossing folder. Then I inked the black embossed card stock with silver ink. I thought this gave it a nice boyish feel. I used some scraps of red with light red polk-a-dot paper and cut one side with some edge scissors and adhered them to a white card base. After I put down all the other layers I added some foam glitter number stickers to say 2012 and I wrote "ConGRADuations" on the bottom red paper. I outlined grad in silver pen to match the rest of the card. His school colors are silver, black and red.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Exploring Cricut - Use a neglected Cricut Cartridge

Fantabulous Cricut - #112

My Craft Spot - #56

Creative Cutter Room - Graduation Challenge

Scrap It With A Song - Good Riddance/Time of Your Life (this song always reminds me of graduation)

Hope you liked my card today :). Come back tomorrow to check out my project for the CWC blogaversary celebration!

CWC #86 Card Outreach

I made this card using the Batman: the Brave and the Bold cartridge. I used a blue card base.. added the diamond plate embossed layer (using my cuttlebug to make this embossing and then inking the gray cardstock with black ink), and batman on top with some pop dots. I also cut the talk bubble from the Batman cart and the inside has some bats also cut from the Batman cart.. I hand wrote my sentiment on the front "You're my hero!"

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

Just keep on creating - #2

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Teacher card CWC

Hey everyone.. today I have a card I made for the CWC #84 - Teacher Appreciation Day challenge using my Gypsy & Give a Hoot cart. I used the apple on give a hoot and welded it on my gypsy then i also cut the front of the apple with red dotted paper and the leaf & stem with green polkadot paper.

I hope you'll all come over to Cooking With Cricut and join in the fun this week!!

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Baby Tommy Card

Made this cute little card with my gypsy and the 9 months cartridge. I also used cricut basics for the letters. I used some pop dots on a few of the oneise.. swiss dots embossing on one and used one onesie as the T in Tommy. Its for my best friend in the whole wide world.. she just Had a baby boy and named him Thomas.. (Tommy) he's gonna be a month old in a couple days. :)

I am entering this card into the following challenge:

More Than Favors - #69

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Diamonds are a girls best friend CWC #83

Hey everyone!

Today I have a layout I made for the current challenge we have going on at CWC... Diamonds are a girls best friend!

I started with a plain light pink background paper and stamped it with a large ring stamp and pink ink. I cut out mats in a hot pink 2.5x3.5 and 4.5x6.5.

Using my imagine and Cards inside & out I printed and cut out all of my images. I used different layers from the same card and then I added some stickles to make them all sparkle and some have glossy accents. I used pop dots on some to make them stand out.

I hope you'll consider taking some time to join in the fun with us this week at Cooking With Cricut.. all you have to do is make a project with a Cricut cut and bling!

I am entering this into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

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CWC Cartridge Showcase - 9 months

Hey everybody.. today I am doing the Cartridge Showcase over at Cooking With Cricut. I have chose to showcase Cricut Lite 9 Months. This cartridge is just adorable! I love this cartridge. Now this cartridge mainly has cuts for pregnancy and I probably wouldn't have gotten it if I didn't just recenly have 2 babies (one 2 years old and the other 6 months old).

But you can make lots of stuff with this cartridge.. scrapbook pages, cards, mini albums, all sorts of gifts for someone having a baby.. This cart does have a few cuts that are kind of general and don't even need to be used as baby related including a bird, a bee, different foods, soda, car, suit case, hello my name is tag, elephant, catapillar & more.

Now this is a lite cartridge so it only has 4 different features, but its still adorable! This cartridge is sold at Walmart, Cricut.com & ebay.

Here are some of the projects I've made witht his cartridge...

My Pregnancy scrapbook layout.. I made this with just the title cut, bakers twine and some photo mats very easy to make page that turned out super cute.

Ultrasounds 2 page scrapbook layout.. I cut the ultrasound title in white on both layers and then colored it with black chalk and rubbed it with my fingers to make it look kinda like an ultrasound. some thing witht he little ultrasound image cut. Added some patterned black and white paper for the photo mats. I wanted everything on this 2 page layout to be black, white and gray to match the ultrasounds.

Onesies layout.. I cut some onesies and used them as stencils and sprayed purple card stock with some wine berry glimmer mist. then I took the onesies that I used as stencils and used them as embellishments with pop dots to make them stand out a bit. I used patterned paper to make the mats.

Umbrella layout.. this is a layout for pics of my daughter in the rain with a yellow umbrella. For this I used some of the umbrella cuts and inked over them with yellow ink on the yellow paper making a background of umbrellas on the yellow page. Then I used pop dots and put down the umbrellas and added white stitching on them with a gel pen. The title and raindrops were madeI with white puff paint.

And of course we couldn't forget the most adorable thing I've made so far.. These shirts. First I cut out some plain brown cotton fabric and some Wonder Under. I ironed the Wonder Under to the fabric by following the directions on the Wonder Under. Then I put the fabric & Wonder Under on a fresh mat and used my Gypsy to make sure I had the cuts in the right spot.. And cut out the little bird thats part of the onesie. I cut 6 total.. 4 smaller and 2 larger. Then I peeled off the paper backing and ironed the fabric to 2 different plain pink onesies & I hand cut the letters.

I put these into my baby girls' Easter baskets :). These were really easy to make it took me maybe 20 mins total from start to finish (not counting cutting out the letters by hand).

I cannot wait to make more pages for my girls' scrapbooks with this cart it's really cute. And perfect for someone who wants to work on anything pregnancy related.

Thanks for checking out my showcase I hope you enjoyed my projects!

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