Dress up - Cricut Fair... Photo heavy!!!

 
 
 
 
 
 

So this has to be one of my favorite Cricut Circle magazine challenge thus far. While I love a good challenge this was no different. This challenge was to "dress up " and/or make a scene for  your little cricut vinyl guy/gals. Growing up I loved going to the local county fair. I was even lucky enough to join 4H for a season and won for my snicker doodle cookies.  

I thought it would be so fun creating this and once I started I couldn't stop. I probably put in over 20+ hours (shhhh don't tell my hubby). I had tons of ideas and even had to start writing everything down.  To me a fair isn't complete without: Animals, Exhibits, Food, and the "Midway".

I will say dressing up a 3" cricut vinyl w/ a 1 x1 body was a CHALLENGE. I had to give up on making some of the paper outfits and went to vinyl to make it easier. 

I won't bore you w/ all the details of each cut but I will say the cuts range from 1/4" to over 6" (w/ the barns, building, food trailer, Ferris wheel, tea cup ride, and fun house being 5 - 6").

I made a tractor complete with a moving "sled" to do a Cricut tractor pull.

I think the little farm animals from County Fair are so adorable. I loved making them. They all won 1st place for their animal class and some even took home a Best in show ribbon.

I remember at the county fair having a Ferris wheel, a tea cup style ride, a cool fun house, and the best bumper cars. These cars actually move on this display.

My cricut dress up includes:
A Cowboy (blue) - w/ chaps, and a cow boy hat, a hat ornament, and a Cricut buckle... (teehee)
A Cowgirl (red) with a  flowing skirt, and cowgirl hat
A Judge (White)   - A top hat, a ribbon, glasses, mustache, and tie  *** He's my favorite****
Fair goers - Green - eating a hot dog, and cotton candy
Fair goer - Purple - drinking a lemon aide shake up and eating a corn dog.
And lets not forget the Fair Queen - Pink - w/ a sash and eating pop corn.

I used some of the cuttle bug  and bug heads cuts from Cricut Everyday.

I used several different cartridges.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

PKS Color challenge

So this weeks Challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps was to use this color combination. I must say this was a HUGE challenge for me as I normally don't use these colors, however, my daughter had this dress on today that helped. This cute little pillow case dress was made by a Cricut Circle friend Linda made an adorable dress for my daugther a few weeks ago. I just now put it on her and thought this was a perfect chance to photo and use a layout in the color challenge. 

*** This fabric was super hard to find so if your looking  good luck**** It took us 6 stores in 3 states to find it.  :)

I used some Cord'nations paper that I bought at the scrapbook show a few weeks ago. It had the purple, a green (the green is actually a dark green but for some reason it keeps photoing like a "lime" color), and gray in the package. I found some teal/aqua from my stash - and the darker blue is from SEI.

Since my daughter loves to "flutter" around the house like a butterfly/bird and never really stays put I thought it would be fun to make these cute butterfly birds. I also loved the saying.

Cartridge - 3 Birds on parade - birds cut at 2 1/2, and 2 both w/ layer/shadow
Arts Philosophy - Square 8 - cut at 10" (which is the dotted blue layer).
Arts Philosophy - banners cut at 1"
PKS stamps for the birds eyes/smiles Critter faces.
PKS stamp for "You're a doll" from the Vivienne and friends

I hope you enjoyed and this was really a challenge but I always love the PKS challenges.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

PKS challenge -

This weeks challenge at PKS was to make anything you wanted as long as you used PKS stamps.
I know they are known for their great faces but I like the simple sayings too. This saying is from PK 277 - Vivienne and Friends. I thought it was simple yet perfect.

I used SEI Winnie's Wall paper and cut the blower basket from the Bloom cartridge at 4" w/ the layers. I also cut out the little tag from Bloom at 1 1/2"

Stickles added to the green flower and a few rhinestones.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Happy 40th

Emma with www.creativetimeforme.com is hosting another Throwback Thursday. I've missed a few recently but I really wanted to play along with this one. I have a friend who is celebrating his 40th Birthday this weekend. So I figured this would be perfect for the challenge and him.

The challenge was to  This is a BIRTHDAY THEME challenge!

~Must use a Cartridge that has balloons, bday hats, bday cake

~ Deadline for this challenge is May 23rd

 

 

Wrap It Up - Tombstone cut at 4" w/ layers
Something To Celebrate - "40" cut at 3" w/ shadow layers.

Both of these cartridges have balloons, a bday hat and bday cake so I figured it would be perfect fit for this challenge.

I used Imagainicse paper  - Happy Camper both the dots and the stripes.

The stamp is "Polk a Dot surprise" from Emma's stamps. (This is my go to birthday stamp set).
I thought it would be fitting for this type  of card.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Milestone and memories Cricut challenge

The monhtly chllenge on the Cricut Circle blog was to create a layout capturing a recent milestone. Well, I didn't have anything major like a tooth or a new house. I realized that a milestone could be in any form not something major. Recently I took my daughter to the Legoland in Schaumburg IL while my husband was working in the area. We tagged along for the week and had a blast in our adventures.

My daughter achieved a few little milestones while having fun.

I actually journaled on this page -- I know SHOCK!!! It says she achieved several milestones, 1) Rode a roller coaster (it was the dragon coaster but still a new milestone).

2) She was able to go to the Master Builder's workshop and make a cute little bee

3) She rode a technicycle - it was a fun little ride at Legoland

4) She watched her 1st 3d movie

5) She saw some life sized sculptures made of legos. She really loved the pumpkin, the monkey and the tiger.

While they were small milestones they were such a fun memory. She kept saying, "I'm having fun at legoland".

Arts Philosophy - Square 8 function (for the light purple base) cut at 10"

Arts Philosophy - Scallop circle  6"

Arts Philosophy - top note  4"

Create a Critter - bee 2 1/2"

Playtime - title "having fun" cut at 3" w/ layers

Nate's ABC - @ sign at 2" and Legoland cut at 1" (I wanted a nice sqared off font)

I printed the photos as wallets and attached to the green card stock - that is attached to a piece of Echo park paper.

I know the typical colors are primary colors but I wanted this to be a little more girly. 

The paper is from a HUGE paper pack by cordinations - I bought it recently for only 7.00  - it has 150 sheets of cordinations paper - what a great deal on that.

Hope you enjoy and

Happy Scrappin'

Happy Graduation Card

This weeks challenge at PKS was to make something following the sketch. I love sketches as it helps with an idea but I always love to change it up too. I made this little easel Graduation card. I have a friend who's daughter is graduation this year and thought it would be fun. The school colors are purple and black so I thought this would be great chance to use some new product I got this past week.

Here in MI we have a scrapbook show and I have attended the past 3 years - it's HUGE. One of the new products was this Queen and Company trendy tape. I have never used this tape or the Washi tape but I am now in love with this product.

Everyday Paper doll - Body and graduation gown/cap cut at 4" - I don't change the sizing dial - as it will cut them out proportioned to each other. I used the Black out function so I could add PKS face to her.
The tassel wasn't what I wanted on the cut so I made my own.
Added some gold stickles to her shoes.

I did a little surgery on her hand to make it wrap around the dipolma.

The Happy Graduation and class of 2012 - were from Emma's Stamp set Follow your Dreams set.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Echo Park Easter layout

Throwback Thursday

Well it's been a while since I played in a Throwback Thursday Challenge so here is my card. I have a friend who's birthday is coming up so I wanted to make a card to match the sucker bouquet that I make too.
This challenge was to use an older cartridge and make a frame. I thought this was pretty fun. My friend isn't too girly and loves stripes and polka dots.

Old West -  shadow and frame layer cut at 4 1/2"

It is suppose to go up and down but I thought this would work out better for the sentiment I was going to use.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Emma's stamps - called Polka Dot surprise. I have used that set 2 times this week already. It is one of my favorites.

Paper is from imaginisce  - Happy Camper line.
I added a few rhinestones and some stitching on the rope.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

3D Object using a soup can

So for this weeks challenge at PKS was to use a soup can and make a 3d object. I have near and dear friend having a birthday in a few weeks so I figured I'd made something for her.
I used a soup can that was cleaned and made this cute little sucker bouquet. 

Create a Critter - cats - cut at 3" w/ all layers (except I hide the face so I can put PKS faces on them).
Create a Critter - pinwheels- cut at 4" - w/ shadow and layer - I attached those to the suckers to make a cute little bouquet.
Create a Critter - circle (from the pin wheel) - at 3" and used the real dial size for the lid.

The dot/stripe is from imaginisce.

PKS face - Happy Lashes and Critter faces.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Tea Party

So this week at Preschool they are having a Tea Party. I thought it would be pretty fun to make a cute little banner for my daughters preschool room. I used some basic card stock - since these are 3,4, and 5 year olds I didn't think they needed anything fancy.

I used a paper pack from Michael's - it has greens, pinks, yellow and brown. So I thought it would be girly w/o being over girly. After all there are about 10 boys in her class.

Arts Philosophy - Banner cut w/ layer at 7"  -decorative function key

Kate's ABC - Letters cut at 2" w/ shadow layer

Birthday Cakes - Tea pot 3"  w/ layers

Birthday Cakes - Tea cup 2 1/2 w/ layers

I had some basic raffia so I just used that for the string.

I added some pop dots for the tea pot and the tea cup.

Hope you enjoy  and

Happy Scrappin'