S.W.A.T - Drill #6

So I came across a fun and new challenge. This one is from S.W.A.T. -- (Scrapbook Warriors Advanced Training). The drill is to create a layout using the following sketch.

 

We all know I love great sketches and challenges.

 

I love to change things up on the sketch and this was no different.

 

The cream back ground paper is bazzill

The herringbone paper is from imaginisce paper - Hugs & Kisses.

The dark pink is from bazzill

The light pink/orange color is actually from SEI

 

I cut 4 scallop circles one at 8, 6,4,3 and inked the edges with chalk ink.

 

The button stripe is from Die - Namics dies - button set.

 

The tickets are from Fun Ticket stamp and coordinating die by Emma at http://my-creative-time.com/.

 

Hope you enjoy and if you would like to partisipate in the S.W.A.T drills/challenges go here: http://swatscrapwarriorsadvancedtraining.blogspot.com/.

 

Happy Scrappin'



Spectrum Noir Challenge

So December's Challenge at Spectrum Noir's blog is to use animals. So I stamped this cute little DeNami stamp onto some Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Cardstock. I then used several different Spectrum Noir markers to color in the cute little scene.

I'll be entering this into the Spectrum Noir Monthly Challenge. For more information you can go here: http://www.spectrumnoir.com/challenge/.

Love working with the Spectrum Noir markers and the Smooth Cardstock.

I then made a 4x8 card. I used SEI Holiday Cheer paper and some rasberry buttons. The ribbon on the side was white and because I wanted it to match the green door. I used my Spectrum Noir markers and colored it and it matches PERFECTLY.

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'

Enjoy the Moment...

OK I will admit this layout kicked my bumm.. Yes it really did. I normally have a vision and can translate it but this time was really hard. At first I didn't like the colors I laid out, then I didn't like the layout shape, and then I didn't have a journal box. Thankful I didn't glue it down because I kept changing it. After 3 weeks of looking at this layout I finally made it work.

I started with cutting a basic circle on my circut at 9". I then took my flower punch from EK success and punched out several strips. I then glued them to the back of the circle - to form a "petal" affect. 

I cut the title from Letter Envy - at 1.5"
I cut a basic square for the mats and journal box
I added a cut little flower from Forever young to accent the journal box.
The paper is SEI
I added a few little pieces of ribbon and a couple of buttons.

This is one of my FAVORITE photos of my daughter. A friend of ours who is a professional photographer took these photos. I try to have professional photos taken for her birthday.
Like my journalling suggest - it really has made me stop and enjoy the moments. She is growing way toooo fast and I really love this sweet little photo. It simple speaks child.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Preschool...

This layout is of my daughter for her Pre-School photo. I love looking at different sketches and seeing how I can make it mine. I found this great sketch from: http://www.sketchsavvy.blogspot.com/2011/03/januaryfebruary-sketch-for-memorable.html. and thought it was perfect. I wanted to keep this layout pretty simple. I wanted her to be the focus not all the "extras".

I used Letter Envy Cricut cartridge at 1" - for Preschool.

The ABC - 123 were all cut from Birthday Bash at 1" 

I also used the cricut basic and cut the mat.

The paper is SEI Happy Days line -

A few little cuts - and some ric rac and it was done.

I did journal on the page but after I took the photo as it has allot of personal information on it. I journaled around the long edge on the right side .

I hope you enjoy and

Happy Scrappin' 

Magazine Challenge

For this months Magazine Challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog was to make a project using the circle exclusive cartridge Letter Envy.
Can I just say that is one of my favorite font cartridges. I love the miss match letters and everything. I really love letters that have shadows, and fun layers.

A few months ago I a few of my friends on FB agreed to do a "pass it forward" crafting project. The rules were simple you agreed to make something crafty for someone if they passed it forward and made something for you.

So this was the project I made for my friend Anjie.

I used an 8x10 canvas - bought in a 3 pack from Joann's.

I sprayed it with Tattered Angels glimmer mist Dragonfly, and Jazz Blue

I used Letter Envy to cut the Letters using the function keys: Font Shadow, Font Layer, and Font.
I cut the letters at 4"
The paper is from SEI Corine paper line
The roses were cut from Arts Philosophy at 2 1/2", 3" -
The butterfly also cut from Arts Philosophy at 2".

I doodled a little with a black gel roll pen to make the butterfly look like it was flying.

I bought a few little hangers from the local home store to mount into the back.

Hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Throwback Thursday CRICUT-LESS CHALLENGE!!

Emma from www.creativetimeforme.com host a Throwback Thursday and from time to time she puts a little spin on the Throwback. This time it's to create a project w/o using anything electronic. That is correct. "This is a "CRICUTLESS" Challenge! Meaning, you are not allowed to use your cricuts, imagines, e2's or your cameo's or any "Electronic machine"! Basically, we are taking it back "Old School"! You are totally allowed to use punches &/or your cuttlebug!.

I love these challenges and find them really to be a challenge as I am addicted to my CRICUT. I love making stuff with it. This time I also learned a new trick to thanks to Nikki with http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/. She is actually Emma's Best friend and has some really AWESOME projects. She has started paper piecing and now I think I might be addicted to that as well. It actually seemed hard but then when I watched the video Nikki sent me to watch it was pretty easy. I also found it to be very realizing.

I used some SEI paper - Birds of a Feather - butterfly garden for the flowers, and stripes.
The brown dots is also from Birds of a Feather
I don't know the actual line of paper the pink and green is but it is also from SEI.

The cupcake stamps are from EK success
The sentiment is from Emma's Stamp - "Polka Dot Surprise".
The ribbon is from Michael's
I made a little easel card which I think is my new style of cards. I love the way these look.

I hope you enjoy and
Happy Scrappin'

Peachy Challenge #7 - Sketch

So this week for the PKS challenge was to use the follow sketch to create a project.

I figured I'd play along - I just love PKS stamps and the wonderful challenges. I had a cute idea to follow this sketch using shamrocks.

I will be honest I probably made this card in my mind and then went to make it and changed it about 10 times.

I wanted to make a "swival" easel card so here was my chance. I saw this great card idea from www.cardcreationsbylorraine.blogspot.com. She did a several tutorials making different type of cards.

The shamrocks are cut at 2 1/2" from Paper Doll Dress up.

Mr. Shamrocks hat is also cut from Paper Doll Dress up - at 3".

The little shamrocks are cut at 3/4" from Paper Doll Dress up.

The faces are PK -650 Just Baby Faces.

The green card stock is from Archievers.

I inked the edges of the shamrocks with SEI Olive

The background paper is also from SEI paper line is Jocelyn - Chocolate fix.

I added some stickles to the shamrocks, some Viva decor, and a cute little bow to the pretty little girl.

The inside stamp is from Emma's stamp set called, " I Believe in Leprechauns".

Hope you enjoy and

Happy Scrappin'

Cricut Monthly Challenge - A year in review

 Time for another Cricut Monthly Challenge - man where has January gone? Really?

This Month the theme for the Cricut challenge was to create a layout or a mini album focusing on the past year and reflect on what it has meant to me.
The past year was full of fun and adventure for my daughter. We did have a few ups/downs this past year but all in all it was allot of fun.
For my layout - I will admit - I HATE to journal - I normally just put a little blurb like the date of the photo and where it was. Well this year one of my scrap booking goals is to journal. As you can see in this photo I haven't done it yet. I do plan on doing it though. 
This past year my daughter had allot of 1st. She saw a real show - Sesame Street Live. She ate her 1st OREO while taking her first international trip. (Yes I know it was only to Canada, but still outside of the US). She started Pre-school and was showing off her 1st backpack. She wore her pretty little dirndl and apron a friend bought her to the German Festival. She also was able to go and see and touch her 1st Real Monster truck.  So what better way to focus on the previous year then to scrapbook it.

I cut the little pockets at 4.25" wide, and the tags at 2.9 from Tags/bags,boxes, and more.
The little banners were cut at .50/1.0" Party Pick Pennants
The letters cut at 1.2" from Kate's ABC
The paper is from SEI A Fair Day. I thought it would be perfect for this layout since there was tons of colors. The pockets are double sided paper.
I tried to keep this simple as there was allot of photos for this layout - and I wanted to really use the little journal boxes from Emma's Stamps. I think it turned out so cute. Now all I need to do is... Journal.

Happy Scrappin'

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog Challenge -- Pocket



With the tag removed from the pocket!!!!


 
 

This week at Peachy Keen Stamps they are hosting a challenge to create a project using a pocket.
I had a vision in my head when I saw this stamp and thought it would be fun for a Valentines card. Can I just say I was in tears with this challenge. I had made a card it was about 95% done and went to use my red pen to color and it leaked everywhere. There was nothing salvagable with that card. I had to START all over.
 That's ok because I like this card MUCH better.

I used SEI paper pack With all my heart
SEI A Fair day - mainly rasberry swirl
The main heart is cut from Art Philosophy at 4"
The tag is 3.5"
The little hearts range from .25 - 1.0" 

I used Emma's sentiment from 100% Sweetness stamps.
I popped up the heart and made a little pocket with paper.
I used some pretty little Valentine Twine -
The PKS faces are from PK 570 Paper Doll Faces, and the large face is from PKK 04 Open Eyes Simple Smile set. I think that little face is just darling (well actually I think all PKS faces are just darling).

I think this little card is so cute. I'm not sure yet who will get it but I think I may send to a special friend.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to come back Saturday for "Love is in the Air Blog hop".

Happy Scrappin'

Bee Mine

OK so I made this super simple card last night. I really just wanted more of a "manly" card but still wanted to make it pretty.

The bee and word is from Art Nouveau cricut cartridge. Can I just say that I bought this cartridge and didn't have a purpose for it. I really like the letters. I am not a huge fan of bugs or bee's but I really liked this cute little bee. I thought it would be perfect for Valentines day card that I made for my hubby.

I cut the Bee at 3.30" and the letters MINE at 1"  w/ the shadow on the font. Can I just say I'm a huge fan of shadow letters.
The paper is from SEI With all my hearts. I love that paper it's very pretty.
The purple and cream is from a mat stack by DCWV.
I attached a wobble to make the bee flutter and some pretty diamond stickles and it was done.

Yes I know it's simple but I still think it's perfect.

I'll be entering into Curt Jensen's monthly challenge. You can check it out here: http://typecastcreative.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year-new-challenge.html. 

Happy Scrappin'

Future Soccer Star

So I made the "Future Hockey Star" layout (you can see it here: http://scrappinwiththebug.blogspot.com/2012/01/december-cricut-craft-room-contest.html_ and I had 3 friends ask if I would make a layout for their child's photo that was similar to my little girls Hockey photo. I said sure. One wanted Soccer and not Hockey - no biggie I had everything saved on the CCR and the gypsy so I just changed a few things and here is the new layout.

I used SEI paper line "playmates" It actually has lots of animals on it, but I did find a stripe/small printed paper that I liked in this line. I wanted to use some red/blue - and this has both and a little green so I thought it would be perfect.

Since the photo will be of my friends little guy I didn't want to put that in there yet but he has a Chicago Fire Soccer jersey so it's perfect.

I used Kate's ABC for the font.

The soccer player was from Everyday Paper Doll -

The cute and I mean cute little baby face is from PKS Just Baby Face stamps. (OH sooooo adorable). Look this little guy has a small tooth. So sweet.

The soccer ball was cut using my imagine - as the only cartridge I had with a soccer ball on it was Best Friends.

I actually colored the black in and added a puff applique in white to really give it another demision.

I added some white to the eyes and some glossy accents.

I will be entering this in to the PKS Challenge blog, you can find out more about it here:

http://peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/

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'

It's a Wrap Blog Hop

Welcome to the It’s a Wrap Blog Hop hosted by Cool Beans By L.B. Do you like to receive gifts? How about give them? Well this hop is all about the outside…the wrapping; Gift bags, boxes, baskets and more. There are 22 wonderful stops on this hop and we hope you will take some time to stop in and see everything we have created for you.

You should have arrived here from, Maria from Stamp Cut Create http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com/.
If you are just finding our hop in the middle you can go to the beginning at Cool Beans By L.B.

I have seen these darling little boxes all over the blogs and thought for my project I would make one. They take just a little time to make (especially your 1st one), but they are for sure worth it. They are very easy to make and really get a WOW from the receiver. Well I just couldn't stop with the gift box (treat box). So also made a matching card. Isn't this just so cute.

I used Birthday Bash for the cuts on this gift box. Elephant 1.7" , Bee 3.3", Mouse 2.5", Bird w/ banner 2.25", Turtle 1.75", Balloons 2.3"

The cuts for the card also cut from Birthday Bash: Bird with banner 3.4"

The paper is mainly SEI

Line: A Fair day - dark pink'A fair day - waiting in line for the stripes

A fair day - sugar puffs

The brown/pink base is also from SEI

The light green is Chistmas Mint/winter mint collection.

The purple is from Recollections.

Stickles: Cotton Candy (pink), Lavender, Silver, Diamond

I had a few eyelets and used them for the holes at the top

I also used my Sakura Gelly Roll pens - White, Black, Clear Star and Red.

The sentiment stamp, " Sweet Birthday wishes is from Pink by design and is from the set called, "Take the Cake".

The turtle face is from Peachy Keen Stamps PK-753 Critter Faces small.

******** Since you made it through this post so far I figured I should throw in some fun blog candy on this hop. One lucky winner will receive a brand new Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge. (Can I just say this cartridge is AWESOME!!!).
I will use Random.org to pick a winner from all the comments received. I will draw a winner on July 19 2011. Please leave a way to contact you.

Thanks for stopping by on this fun hop. Your next stop is Lori Apgar from http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

**** In case you get lost here is the full line up. ************

Cool Beans By L.B. http://coolbeansbylb.blogspot.com/ (HOST)

Debbie from Deb’s Eclectic Thoughts http://www.debseclecticthoughts.blogspot.com/
Cindy from In Love With Paper http://www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/
Amy from Amy’s Digi-Scraps http://scrap-pix.blogspot.com/
Cindy from Scrap Obsessed http://www.scrap-obsessed.blogspot.com/
TX Scrapper Mom http://www.txscrappermom.blogspot.com/
Scrapalette from Around the Block with Scrapalette http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/
Suzelle from http://www.craftsandmorebysuzelle.blogspot.com/
Confessions of a Scrapoholic http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com/
Stephanie from onceuponapaper http://onceuponapaper.blogspot.com/
Brenda from Random Thoughts of a Scrapbooker http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/
Maria from Stamp Cut Create http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com/
Terri from http://scrappinwiththebug.blogspot.com/
Lori Apgar from http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
I Came, I saw, I Created http://icameisawicreated.blogspot.com/
Anabel aka cricutaddicted from http://scrappingformorefun.blogspot.com/
Michele from Green Girl Scraps http://www.michelegreen.com/
Alicat from http://scrappingwithalicat.blogspot.com/
Everything Digital Scrapbooking http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/
Robin, The Scrappin' Delta Diva http://scrappindeltadiva.blogspot.com/
Gamma's Creative Corner http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Paper Crafting Chic: http://www.papercraftingchic.com/



Well thanks for hoping and Happy Scrappin'