BEYOND EXCITED!!!!

 

Happy Sunday!!! I hope your weekend was fun and relaxing.  I  am beyond thrilled to be selected as part of the 2013 Scrappy Chic design team. Scrappy Chic is a local scrapbooking store here in SE MI.

 

I will say this is a dream come true.  

 

I was selected as one of 4 design team members for the 2013 year.

 

To be selected as part of the design team we had to submit 3 different layouts with specific conditions, and if we wanted to an altered art project. 

 

 

Layout #1 –Titled: Social Butterfly – The objective here was to use only solid papers in an innovative way. I used bold colors coordinating with the photo, large cut shapes, and  a few Cricut cuts dressed up with some stickles.

 

Layout #2 – Titled:  You Are – The goal here was to use at least 5 different manufactures. I used Echo park paper, bazzill cardstock, cord’inations cardstock, twine, and hero arts.

 

Layout #3 – Titled: Happy Girl – This was to use mainly one manufacture but at least 4 different items from them. I used My Minds eye. I used the paper, a die cut, brads, rub on, and stickers.

 

Altered Project – Since I used my alter project for the DT try outs and also then used it to showcase a fun project on the Cricuts Fantastic blog I'll wait to post details regarding that later.

 

I am thankful and excited to be apart of a great team who loves and supports Scrappy Chic. I will say some of these projects were challenging yet they turned out to be some of my FAVORITE projects I've made.

 

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'



Sale Sign

One thing I love about the Cricut is making signs for yard sales. This was no different. I normally do a Mom to Mom sale every year and this is no different. I'll be selling a ton of my daugther's old clothes. Since the sale is all day long and about 300 people come through  I get a little hoarse so I made a sign.  I try to sell my clothes CHEAP -- because I don't want to carry them home with me. I made a quick and simple little sign.

Letter Envy - cut at 3"
Kates ABC - cut at 3"

Teacher cards

I made these little Thank you cards for my daugthers preschool teachers. When I looked at the crest on Letter Envy - w/ the layers It looked like a little chalk board.

Letter Envy - Crest cut at 3" w/ layers
Create A Critter - Apples 3" w/ layers
Kates ABC -Thank you 1".

I will be making something else for the teachers I'm sure but here's just a quick little card.

G door sign

What a quick and cute little way to make a sign for a room. My daughter(thanks allot to her preschool teachers) loves to point out letters. My daughter for most that know me goes by a nick name of G. So I thought since she loves to find "G"s I'd make this little sign for her.

I used Letter Envy - Crest layered it on Kraft card stock and cut it again out of the Brown  paper from Echo Park. This is cut at fit to page which came out to be 10 1/2".

Kate's ABC - "G" w/ shadow function at 6"
The green paper is from SEI but the diamond is from Echo Park 

Create a Critter - Lady but cut at 2 1/2".

I used my gel pen to stitch around the edge and added some little stickles.
Cropadile to make holes in the sign for the cute little flower eyelets

The colors match her room perfectly and so does the lady bug.
I will be attaching w/ a 3M removable wall hanger to her bedroom door. I was going to use vinyl but thought hubby might have not enjoy that.

Have a great day -
happy scrappin'

Three...

Where did the time go?? Really my little girl is now Three. These photos were taken by a friend who does professional photography for a living. She seems to always capture the BEST of any child - this day was no different. She got this great photo of my daugthers beautiful smile. She just shines.

I created this layout based on the sketch from http://stuckonusketches.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-30-get-to-know-me-blog-hop.html. I thought it was pretty cool but I changed it up a little. I didn't like the accent stripe at the top so I moved it to the bottom.

You will be surprized those that follow me.... THERE IS NO SEI on this page. It's all Echo Park. Oh my goodness this paper is adorable. I bought this paper soley for this layout. It really is very girly. I loved the diamond paper. Just so fun and pretty for a little 3 year old girls layout.

I used the dies from Emma at www.http://www.creativetimeforme.com/ kit called Build a Banner. I think these are adorable and worked perfectly for this.

Letter Envy - 2011 - cut at 1"
Kate's ABC - Three - cut at 1"
Kate's ABC - Butterflies cut at 3" and 2"

I added some pretty ribbon, a few rhinestones and some stickles.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Holland MI - Spring 2009

I have had a lot of time to play since my daughter is out of school for spring break. I'll sneak into my room and she'll come in about 10 minutes later wanting to make a project. Today was no different. I love that she wants to be crafty too.. She loves to glue, cut, and watch Cricut work.

Our local scrapbook store is hosting another Monthly challenge and the theme is Spring. I also wanted to make another project for the Cricut Circle Magazine challenge - we are able to enter as many times as we want for this contest this go round.

I am finally getting some OLDER photos scrapbooked. I did this cute little layout from our trip to Holland Michigan. This was back from 2009. My hubby told me when we moved to MI that we would go to see the tulips in Holland MI. I will say this is one beautiful place to go. I loved looking at all the different tulips and the different sites to go in Holland. IT truly is a place to see.

I used SEI paper and some DCWV paper mats.
Letter Envy for the words Holland MI  - cut at 2 1/2" - I love the mismatched font for some projects - but I wanted to keep most of the font the same. I wanted Holland to be all one and MI another. I love the "I" looks 3d.
Kate's ABC - cut Spring at 3/4", 2009 at 1", the watering can cut at 3" however I changed the flowers to all tulips.
The flowers on the edge are from the eyelet outlet - and are "quicklets" - they don't require a hammer/punch. They set really easy -w/ a pen and twirling it around.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

PKS Challenge

For this week at PKS they are having a challenge to use Faux Stitching. I wanted to make a cute but simple little card for a friend for Easter. I used the Rabbit from Kate's ABC's and used some pretty DCWV floral fabric paper. I've had it for a while but thought it was always soooo pretty I didn't want to cut it. Well I figured this was the time.

I cut the Rabbit at 4".
The green,brown and pink is all from Joann's Core'dinations paper.

The cute little dragon fly also part of the cut - and I added a little stitching to make it look like he was flying, and then stitched around the edges. I know I used black but I didn't think the white would show on the pink. It is very very soft.

The inside just says, Happy Easter
Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Jinger Adams DT try out - Hello Kitty Part 2 - Get Well

Hello Kitty Party 2:
I knew when I made the Hello Kitty Get Well Soon card that I posted previously that I also wanted to make a cute little box to go with it. I am submitting this to the FANTASTIC Jinger Adams for a chance to be on her design team. Yes, this is gonna be awesome. She is coming out with some new products. I meet Jinger a couple of years ago and she is just as sweet as can be. I loved to watch her on HSN.  She is starting a new chapter of her life coming out with some new shoes, too. Wow, she is one busy lady.

Here is some basic information regarding the DT.
Jinger Adam's and The Scrapbooking Queen are looking for talented, motivated, responsible designers who have time to commit to designing layouts, cards and projects each month with Jinger Adams products and promote Jinger Adam's products line. We haven't set a specific number of designers to add to our present team . At this time are only accepting designer who reside in the USA.

I put a lot of time and effort into this Gable box and really hope you enjoy.  I recently had a friend who had back surgery the other day and loves Hello Kitty so I made this box for her.
I wanted to make sure it was strong enough to hold a few little goodies so I made it a "double" box.

Recipe:
Cartridge: Tags, Bags, Boxes and more 2. 
To get a larger Gable box I cut 2 box sections at Fit to page - which shows 11"
I scored it first with the scoring tool (LOVE IT!!!), then cut.
Kraft card stock for the base.
I then cut Heather (purple) sections (with out scoring) and glued on top of the Kraft card stock. This makes it really stable and strong. 
The trick is not to assembly the box at this point. It is much easier to decorate flat.

Cartridge:
Hello Kitty Greetings:
Cut - HK2  3 1/2" (HK w/ flower)
Cut - HK 3 3 1/2' (HK w/bear)
Cut - HK 7 3 1/4" (HK in bed)
Cut - Flower 1 - various sizes (the flowers on the box at 1/2" and 1", and flowers on the card at 1",  1 1/2", and 2"
All are cut w/ the coordinating layers.

Cartridge:
Kate's ABC
Font and Font Shadow cut at 1"
I used brown, pink, green, yellow basic card stock from Joann's.
I added a few Bubble gum stickles to the bows.
Queen and Company Rhinestones
Wood pattern embossing folder for the bed post.
White Gel pen for stitching

The HK w/ the bear is attached using an Action Wobble (LOVE them).
The HK in bed is attached with foam adhesive

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Weekly Challenge #54: Decorative Letter Challenge! ****HK Part 1 Get Well Soon

PART 1: 

For the weekly challenge for the Cricut Circle was to make a project with a decorative letters.

I recently had a friend who just had back surgery and she is a huge Hello Kitty fan. So I thought instantly about her and this card.

Here is The Challenge: Create a scrapbook page, card, home decor item, or other project where you include a word of your choice. One or more of the letters in your chosen word must be replaced by a Cricut shape. For example, replace the letter “o” in the word LOVE with a heart.

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include at least 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing. One entry per person, please.
How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Thursday, March 29th, 2012.
Prize: We will select one winner to receive $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.
Winner: The winners will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, March 30th, 2012.
I used Hello Kitty Greetings cartridge, and Kate's ABC for the letters.
I used a Swiss dot embossing folder
Paper is from Joann's .

The Hello Kitty - in the bed is sized at 3 1/2 " - with layers.
The flowers are various sizes also cut from Hello Kitty.
The letters cut at 3/4 and 1" with the font 2 and font shadow. 
I kept the card simple - and made a 5x7 easel card.

Hope you like it and
Happy Scrappin'

December CRICUT CRAFT ROOM and Throwback Thursday's contest

For my 2nd challenge of the new year I wanted to do the Cricut Magazine challenge.

I will say I have grown to love the new Cricut Craft Room (CCR) - I bought my mini so I could use the craft room - (not that I couldn't use the CCR w/ other machines; however, I would have to lug them into the other room). I love the portablity of the mini.

Here is the contest rules:

Use the Cricut Craft Room™ design tool to create any project. Contest will open on December17th. Please upload a working link or picture of your project to the blogunder the Magazine Challenge tab. One entry per person. Entry deadlineis Friday, January 13th.

A few months ago we had my daughter's photo taken in her 1st Blackhawks Jersey. Yes she was bought a Blackhawks jersey when she was 1st born. My hubby is a HUGE Blackhawks fan so this only seemed fitting. Let me tell you the infant jersey's are so tiny but so ADORABLE!!!. We had several photos of her taken and now since she outgrew her jersey we had it mounted with a couple of photos. It is sooooo cute. My daugther and hubby love to watch the games. She now has a "Blackhawk" cheer so cute to watch a little 3 year old rooting for "her" team.

For this I used several different cartridges:

The squares sized at 5.25 x 7.25" and 5.5" x 7.5" - cut from George and basic shapes

The circle sized at 6"

The little hockey player is 5.5" and the gear was just layered accordingly from Everyday Paper Dolls

The hair was not the normal one for this person but it was also from Everyday Paper dolls.

The Stanley cup also cut from Everyday Paper Dolls at 6.5"

The letters are cut from Kate's ABC at 1.20 shaddow feature and then regular font feature.

I modified her hand from the side to across the front. (I did a little operation). I wanted her to hold the stick.

The stick was wrapped with brown/white twine (just like how they wrap the sticks in hockey).

All the paper is from SEI - "With all my heart" paper line. I didn't want just red and black and wanted to make it a little more girly so I chose this adorable little paper.

The cute little face is from Peachy Keen stamps

I stiched around the little uniform and Stanley cup. The 2010 on the Stanley cup is from when the Blackhawks took home the trophey.

I also will be entering this in the FABULOUS Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge which was to make something relating to sports. I was going to make a parenting layout - as that is a sport. (Teehee). You should visit Emma's wonderful blog and see her cool little sneak peak she is having - which means a new stamp set is coming soon.

Here is her website:

http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Happy Scrappin'