Fantabulous Cricut Yummy Treat Challenge

The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut is to make a project with a yummy treat and optional shape card. I used one of the fuzzy socks that I had used to make cupcakes to make this. The cute icecream containor came from the dollar area at Michaels. I used Doodlecharms to make a tag for the cone and to make a shape card. The inside of the card says "Happy Birthday to a sweet friend!" I used MS glitter markers on the cone and a colored pencil for shading.

Be sure to check out the FC site for great projects and to see all of the entries or join their weekly challenges. http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/

OTWC Challenge

The Off the Wall Craftiness challenge this week is to use the colors: Teal, Tangerine and your choice of white, cream or black also. I made this layout of Kaylee from her beach trip earlier this year. I thought some white seashells would look cute on it, so I actually used some seashells that I had picked up on the beach when I was there last week. The tangerine colored background paper was used and then I cut the umbrella from the A Child's Year cart. It was actually part of a cut with more on it, but I fit it to the page and then cut the part I wanted to use off. I used a tangerine and cream colored page for it and cut another one in black and layed it under my original cut to form a shadow. I then added some stickles to the stars in the umbrella. The picture has a teal and cream background. (I don't think the colors showed up really good in the picture I took) I then went around it with my opaque marker to add some faux stitching lines to it.

Be sure to check out OTWC to see all of the entries this week and to enter your own project. http://offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/

Blog Award

I just received this blog award from Rhonda over at http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/. If you haven't checked her blog out before, be sure to stop by and see all of her great creations and her wonderful mini books. Thanks Rhonda.

I am supposed to list 7 things that I like with this award, so here goes:

1) I love to scrapbook and craft.

2) I love spending time with my niece Kaylee who is 6.

3) I enjoy going to the movies.

4) I like to cook and bake goodies, yum.

5) I love the Pittsburgh Steelers football team.

6) I collect owls.

7) I enjoy shopping and when it comes to craft supplies, I probably enjoy this a little too much, lol.

I am going to pass this on to a few blogs that I visit frequently. Be sure to check them out for great projects and ideas.
http://offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/
http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com/
http://christinacreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Happy Mailboxes. I thought I would share a pic of my wordbook I received from Rhonda and my box of items I received from my secret sister on the cricut messageboard.

I am home from the beach. Had a great trip for the couple of days we spent down there. Also wanted to say thank you to Rhonda at http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/. When I got home, my mini book that I won from her blog was here and I love it. Be sure to check out her blog each week and submit your ideas for minibooks for a chance to win one from her. I will be working on some crafts after I get settled back in and get everything put up. I should have some on here by the beginning of next week. Hope everybody has a good weekend!!

Going to the Beach

Hey. Just wanted to let everybody know that I won't be posting for the next few days and won't be doing any challenges this week, since I haven't worked on them yet. Just got a call from my grandparents who are going down to Florida for the rest of the week and asked if I wanted to go, so I just couldn't pass them up on the offer. My hubby has to work and can't go, but he said he didn't mind, so I am leaving in a few hours after I get packed up to go to their house in Tennessee and then I won't be back until this weekend. I have a good bit of projects in the works right now, so I will finish them as soon as I get back. See you all later! :)

4th of July

Hope everybody had a fun and safe 4th of July. Spent the day out at my mom's house and did fireworks out there as well. She lives in the county and we live in the city, so it is illegal to shoot them off where we live, so we always head out to their house. I had to use my cricut a little bit for the fourth, so I made some toppers for some mini cheesecakes I made with the Stand and Salute Cart. I also made mini apple pies and crockpot macaroni. We had tons of good food and lots of fun. Hope everybody else had a great 4th as well.

Sunburned Bad!!

Just thought I would see if anybody could relate. I got sunburned really bad yesterday. Took Kaylee to the pool and lathered her down with sunscreen, but thought I didn't need any. We stayed about three hours and I am now paying for it. I am trying to work on toppers for some 4th of July stuff and it is so hard to craft with this!! I am burnt the worse on my shoulders and it makes me feel like I can't move. The worst part was listening to the 6 year old explain to me that it is my own fault because I should have known better than to go out without the sunscreen, lol.

Mom's Birthday Cake

Here is the cake.

Kaylee made this for my mom.

Here is the banner, the 50 Kaylee made and the hippo. He has a really cut bow on the side, but I think Kaylee is covering it up in the pic.

My mom with her cake.

Here is my mom's cake. The hippo is from Create a Critter and the 50 is from Don Juan and I ran it through the Cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder. I also added a few pics from yesterday and a pic of the hippo that inspired the hippo decorations. The 50 that is decorated was made by Kaylee. I let her make and decorate it however she wanted.

50th Birthday "Mint" Bucket

I wanted to do something different for my mom other than 50 sucks like I made for my dad last year. I originally was going to put 50 is cool with the york peppermint patties, but my husband came up with the saying that I used. I wanted to have 50 items, but did not have enough room for 50 patties, so I used 20 patties and 30 peppermints. The patties are on scalloped circles that I punched with a 1 7/8 inch punch and I printed out the shape and sentiment on the computer. It says: "You are still in "Mint" Condition, Even if you are half a century Old. Happy 50th Birthday!" We wanted it to be a funny saying, so this worked. I did not use the hippo on this one, even though he has been my theme, but I did try to use the same colors that I have been using on the hippo items.

Birthday Banner For Mom's 50th

Last night I decided I better work on a banner for Mom's birthday. We are not having a huge blowout like we did last year for my dad's 50th, because we have so much going on right now with my one grandmother moving in with them and my other grandfather just finishing up his chemo treatments, but I still wanted to make some decorations and things for when we get together tomorrow night.

I used the Tie the Knot cart for the main banner shapes, Don Juan for the letters and the Create a Critter for my hippos and their party hats. I attached the banners together with eyelets using the crop a dile. (This was not easy getting them all to stay lined up to punch the holes and set the eyelets. Very frustrating with only two hands, lol.)

Hippo Birthday Card

I found this giant hippo that goes in your flower bed area for my mom for her birthday. She likes lawn ornaments to put around their deck and stuff, so I thought I would make a hippo card to match it. I am planning on making her a hippo theme cake to match as well. I used the Create a Critter cart for the card and the words on the inside.

Cute and Some Showcase #12 Award

Thanks to Audrey and all of the team fairies for the Showcase #12 Award for my home decor box. I have so enjoyed all of the showcase challenges I have entered in and I will miss them.

Baby Washcloth Gift

My sister wanted me to make something to go with a giftcard that she was getting for a lady at her work that is having a little boy. I first saw these little washcloths made to look like candy in a bag on Lori from FCCB's blog. I wanted to do something similar to that. I have these jars from some truffles that my grandmother buys at Christmas time and I always have her keep me the containers so I can use them to put ribbon, etc. in. I thought it would work great since it is a candy jar. I rolled the little washcloths up to look like a piece of candy and pinned them at the end. I then used the stamping cart to make swirls for the top of them and wrapped them in cellophane. I added a little bit of shredded, white paper at the bottom of the jar. The tag was cut from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart and then I printed the white square with "For a Little Sweetie" on the computer. I love how this turned out and I hope the new mom will too!

30 Sucks

One of the things I was busy with today, was going to my best friend from high school's 30th Birthday Party. I made him this bouquet using George and Don Juan cart for the circles and words and the card was made using the above two cards and the Wild Card Cart. I went with the red and black colors, because I had a few of these containers in red, so I thought it would hold the 30 suckers well. These suckers were a great find, because I have only made 50 and 70 sucks in the past, so I new it wouldn't take up as much space if I only used the small suckers. (In case you are going to make one of these and need some, these larger suckers came from the Family Dollar and were only $1 for a pack of 36, so they were a great deal.) I guess you have figured out by now that I love bargains, lol. :)

A couple of birthday layouts

I made two more birthday layouts for Kaylee's book. Her main cake was Twilight (of course). She is crazy about it like her aunt, lol. On this page, I had found some nice background pages that really worked for the Twilight theme and I just added some red flower gems. This is the actual piece that was laying on the cake. We had it laminated before putting it on the cake, that way I could wash it off and use it in the scrapbook. The second layout is pretty basic. The only cricut I used on this one was the Graphically Speaking cart for the six border down the side of the page.

Valentine's Day Layout

I finally worked on a layout with some pictures from Valentine's day this weekend. These little Robots came from a K and Company set of shapes and I thought they were just so adorable I had to use them. I found the little sticker at the top at Michaels on the clearance rack for 49cents. On the side, I took some paper and made a little pocket to hold the cards that Kaylee got for Valentine's Day. This way, they would be all together and wouldn't get lost, but she would be able to pull them out and look at them when she wanted.

Cupcake Toppers in use

First off, let me say sorry for not posting or visiting any blogs the past two days. I have been very busy and I am just on here for a second now. Tomorrow I will be back on here and will hopefully have time to visit some blogs and things, but I just wanted to get on for a few minutes tonight and post a few pictures.

If you remember I posted some cupcake toppers a few days ago, I was going to take a picture of them to show you how they looked with the cupcakes. So this is how they turned out. I thought they looked really good.

Making Monsters

My hubby brought me a surprise in on Tuesday afternoon, the Mini Monsters cartridge. I made a couple of monsters to see how they looked and I think they are super cute.

New Things for the scraproom

I organized one size of the scraproom today. I got some new additions, a spice rack to use for embellishments and a foot stool that I put all of my overflow 12x12 paper in (which is a lot). I also moved my cuttlebug and folders and got a box for them. I now have a pegboard my grandpa made me and I put my Gypsy on a stand. I still need to work on the other side, but it and the closet are pretty organized right now. (Only took pics of the new stuff.)


I got a little stand to put my Gypsy on beside my Cricut.
I put my new spice rack on my shelf above the stamps and reoraganized some of the other embellishments that I use alot in the basket beside it.

Here is a side view where you can see what is in the jars. I painted over the words for the spices, but I need to make some labels for the front.

This is my new area for my cuttlebug and folders. The folders and cuts are in the brown box and the plates and cutting board are in the owl basket. (I like owls, there is another one on the page that says Jean above it, but you can't see it in the pic.)

I have run out of space for cricut carts. They are in this all the way to the back of both shelves and the solution carts are in the purple container hanging on the inside.

This is the foot stool with storage space I found today. I got this at Ross for $19.99 and thought it would work perfect. I did have paper in old scrapbook boxes all around the room. I have a main stand up folders for solids, papers I use a lot and paper stacks and then 8x8 and 8 1/2 by 11 on a shelf under the desk, but the other extra paper was getting ridiculous. (My husband said he thinks I just like to collect scrapbook paper)

This is the inside. What you see on top is actually a box lid with the layout that I am working on right now. The paper stacked up a lot higher than I was thinking it would.

My grandpa made me a peg board, because I have stickers everywhere in the closet in containers and I was complaining that I will buy some and then can't find what I am looking for when I am ready for it. I went through all of my stickers and stuff today and pulled out the ones I will mainly used and put on here. I am going to get some more pegs for the back of it. (I didn't really have anywhere to put it in here, so I put it over by my husband's closet and his Halo stuff.)

Cathedral Caverns Layout (OTWC Challenge #12)

The challenge at Off the Wall Craftiness this week is to use the colors mint green, white, black, and a little bit of red. I made this layout of my niece at Cathedral Caverns. She went last weekend and really enjoyed it. I used Don Juan for the letters on this one and welded them together in the Gypsy.

For the Colors:

Mint Green - background pages

White - letters and did stitch lines around the photos

Black - photo matts and outlined the words

Red - stitch lines around the photos

Be sure to check out the OTWC blog for great projects and weekly challenges. http://offthewallcraftiness.blogspot.com/2010/06/otwc-challenge-12.html

Beach Layout (FCCB Summer Theme)

The theme at Fantabulous Cricut this week is to make a summer project with something you would find at the beach. I made a layout with my niece sitting on the beach. I thought this picture was so pretty and I couldn't figure out a title to use with it. Then, I was at Walmart and I walked by the toddler clothes and saw a shirt that said "Cute as can be by the sea". Well, I thought if I add sitting to that it would work for my layout. Isn't it funny how you can find inspiration for your layout pages just about anywhere. I used the Create a Critter Cartridge for the starfish and the clouds that I put behind the picture (these were stretched to look like foam). The letters are stickers.

Be sure to check out FCCB for great projects and tips. http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/.

Good Morning Sunshine!

This is a very simple layout I made. I found this paper from the Mom's Diner Collection at Michaels and I loved it. I had this cute picture of Kaylee swinging from when we went to the park a few weeks ago and I thought this would be perfect for it. I just matted the photo on yellow cardstock and added some blue stitching lines around the outside of the matt. I didn't need to do anything else, because the paper is so adorable!!