Sprinkler Fun Under the Sun LO

I was thrilled to get the chance to make a layout for a few challenges today.  Cooking with Cricut is a color challenge in honor of National Gingersnap Day!  I chose to use the colors Tangerine, Yellow, Green, Kraft, White and a few others in between!  Throwback Thursday is also a color challenge this week.  The challenge is to use an old cart on any project of your choice and incorporate the colors Yellow and Green somewhere in the project!  Many of you asked for me to do more layouts so that is what I am sharing today!

Not as detailed as my Pool Party LO but I do love these colors together!  I used my Gypsy to weld the title together and tilt the letters in different directions!

I also managed to do some sewing on this one!

I added some buttons with Lemon Drop and Mandarin flavored (ok colored) baker's twine.

For my "Old" cartridges, I used Cuttin Up for the font and Everyday Paper Dolls for the sun.  I outlined the Cricut cuts with a black pen to make them stand out.  

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up!
• Tangerine Tango Cardstock
• Greenhouse Gala DSP (Sun)
• Crumb Cake Cardstock (Kraft)
• Whisper White 12x12
• Jumbo Buttons
• Retired Ribbon/Ric Rack
• Top Note Die
• Scalloped Border Punch
• Cricut E2
• Cuttin Up Cartridge
• Everyday Paper Dolls
• My Craft Spot (Click HERE to order)
• Mandarin Bakers Twine
• Lemon Drop Bakers Twine
• Martha Stewart Fancy Lace Border Punch
• Scrap Papers (top mint green one is Cosmo Cricket)
• Black Journaler Pen

Challenges:

Cooking with Cricut #32 Color Challenge

Throwback Thursday Color Challenge

Also, the My Craft Spot Monday Challenge this week is "Tie it On" (tie ribbon or twine somewhere on your project).  A randomly drawn winner will win their choice of any 3 colors of Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #8 - Congratulations

It's Monday and another fun challenge at My Craft Spot!  The Monday Challenge this week is to make a Congratulations project!  I already showed everyone the Graduation Congratulation cards I'm working on last week so I thought I would make a Congratulations card for a friend who is heading to the State Police Academy this summer. 

I used stamps from Inside & Out Set #1 for this card.  I had to make a slight adjustment to the wording but it really was the perfect stamp for this card!   

Here is a view of the inside stamp! 

I used a strip of Chocolate Chip Crinkle Ribbon as a little accent.  At first, I was not too thrilled with this card but my husband loved it.  He said the colors were very masculine and now it is starting to grow on me.  I guess if my husband likes it, then his friend will too! 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Cardstock
• Tim Holtz Paper
• Everyday Paper Dolls
• My Craft Spot Inside & Out Set #1 Stamp Set
• My Craft Spot Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon
• Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids Stamp Set

There's a wonderful prize for you this week, so link up your Congratulations projects to My Craft Spot for your chance to win!  Thanks for stopping by!

Moolah in Your Bank Card

I was just going through my pictures and realized I never posted this.  I also realized that I haven't posted some awards too (So Sorry).  I have another award to add so I promise I'll get to them this week. 
I guess it is appropriate to post this one today since taxes needed to be post marked today.  My kiddos just love this one!   I almost made a cow bank just because of the way they were saying "MOOOO-LAAAHH"!  It was really cute!

Don't you just love the Sweet Treat Cups from Stampin' Up!   We had a fun money lesson when filling it!  I had to handwrite this sentiment in honor of my girls new favorite word...Moo-lah! 

I do believe that after this card, I am about done with using my scraps!  I took on Sonia's challenge over at Scraps4Fun back in the beginning of March and the challenge was to grab your scraps and use them up before reaching for new paper.   After the end of the challenge you get rid of what is left of your scraps.  At first I thought there was no way I could discard a single piece of my beautiful paper however small it was, but now after looking at just my scraps for the past month and a half, I'm ready to get rid of them.  I am getting down to the knitty-gritty of my scraps and I want to play with my paper stacks again!  After this card, I will be giving the remainder of my beloved paper scraps to my girls to play with!  Thanks for the fun Sonia!  I hope everyone else was successful!

Products Used:

• American Crafts and other bits of scrap pile paper/CS
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Baby Blue Bakers Twine
• Buttons are from my stash
• Money from the US Treasury Dept (hehe)

Challenges:

Cooking with Cricut #25 Cash in Your Stash

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

I hope you still have some Moolah in your bank after this tax season!  If not, let me know and I'll send you this card..hehe!  Thanks for stopping by today!



Grilling Fever LO

Springtime in our house means the start of Grilling Season.  As soon as Daylight Savings Time hits, my husband feels the need to grill almost every night (even when it is still freezing outside)!  Next week is my hubby's Birthday and he is getting a new grill!  I thought it would be appropriate to make him a LO for it!  He even came up with the name for this page!  I think he did a pretty good job!  I can't wait to get some pics of him with his new grill!

I've been wanting to use the burger and dog since the Simply Charmed cart came out! 

I sponged both of them and popped them up with dimensionals!

This little chef looks a lot like my Hubby!  Happy Birthday Honey! 

I curved my Hot Diggity Dog Clear Stamp on my block and stamped around the circle for a cute little border!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Classic Ink Pad and Dimensionals
• Bo Bunny Double Dot Paper
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge (Hotdog and Hamburger)
• Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge (Circle)
• Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge (Title)
• Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge (Chef & Grill)
• Pink By Design Simply Everything Stamp Set
• Signo White Gel Pen

Challenges:

Scrappy Saturday's with the Bug Challenge #4 Spring with a Twist of Green

Throwback Thursday Use any Older Cartridge and Use the Color Green

Wacky Wednesday #31 Manly Challenge

The Paper Variety Tic Tac Toe Challenge ( LO, Spring Colors, Used a Stamp) 

Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge

Amber's Crafts and Stuff Challenge #2 Use Die Cuts

Thanks for stopping by today!  

It's A Zoo in Here LO

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Challenge is Zoo Theme!  I thought this would be a fun way to use up some scraps from my 3 year old's second birthday scrapbook.  She had a jungle party and I had made her an 8x8 book.  I couldn't find the 8x8 jungle pad when I made her book so I had to buy it in 12x12.  This left me with a lot of large scraps!  I saw this as a perfect opportunity to follow Sonia's Challenge to use my scraps up over the next 2 months.  Here is my new Zoo LO made with mostly all leftover treasures from the Jungle scrapbook!  Isn't recycling great!



Products Used:

• Scrap Pile Paper (everything but the blue background which is Bazzill)
• Leftover brads and stickers are most likely Sandylion
• Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge (Monkey)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart (Hippo)
• Create A Critter Cricut Cart (Alligator)
• Sugar and Spice Cricut Cart (Elephant)
• Paper Dolls for Everyday Cricut Cart (Zoo entrance and fence)
• Cuttin' Up Cricut Cart (Title)
• Stampin' Up! Ribbon
• White Signo Gel Pen

Challenges:

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Zoo Theme Challenge

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

St. Patty's Day Card

I hadn't intended on spending anytime in my craft area today.  I've got the flu but Mommy's do not get sick days.  I can only lay in bed or on the couch for so long before complete chaos takes over the house and I can only play "who can keep their eyes closed the longest" so many times before they lose interest in the competition.  Plus, I have a 1 year old, which means when she is not napping, I have to be somewhat cognitive.  Thank goodness she still loves to nap!!  I've found that I can keep the two older E's interest for quite some time by showing them all your fabulous projects out in bloggerland (and it is minimal energy exerted by me)!  They especially love the blogs with a Playlist.  They always break out in a dance!  The older girls begged all day to "scrap" so here I am with a post for today.  Since my creative powers are at a minimum, I had to combine one card for several challenges.

After making this, my oldest E kept joking around saying "Mommy, are you feeling lucky?  NOOOOO...You're feeling YUCKY...hehehe"  Thanks for the sympathy sweetie!

One of the things I love to do with my dimensionals is use different brands to get different depths.  I used the Stampin' Up! ones on the POT OF GOLD and ones from ACMoore on the sentiment.  I tried to get a good picture so you could see the difference but it didn't show as well as I would like.  I also love these BUTTON brads!  They are from ACMoore and I love to add them when I want a little button!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Dimensionals and Oval Punch
• K & Company Sleepy Tree Pad for the GREEN CLOVER and striped paper
• Recollections Gold Paper
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge
• My Creative Time I Believe in Leprechauns Stamp Set
• ACMoore for the Button Brads, Dimensionals and Ribbon (they are all from the stash...I don't remember the brands)
• Signo Gel Pen
• Gold Stickles

Challenges:
Throwback Thursday St. Patrick's Day Theme, Use any Older Cart
Cooking with Cricut Challenge-19 Double Take (Use at least 2 PP, 2 CS, 2 Embellishments)
Creative Cutter Room Lucky to Have You Challenge, Use the 4 Elements (You must go hop through the DT projects to find them)
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #5 Sketch Challenge
Paper Variety Color Challenge, Use 50% Green

Wow,  I can't believe I got that all into one post!  My bed is calling!  Thanks for stopping by today!  

Top Chef at Cooking with Cricut



Parade Creatures

For this past years Halloween Parade, the girl's Preschool Float theme was "God Loves all the Little Creatures of the World".  Of course I was excited to volunteer to make little Creatures for the float!  At first I was going to use Create a Critter but then I decided these little creatures needed to look like the kids, so I got to work cutting all these little guys out from Paper Dolls Dress Up.   I finally opened my 12x24 paper for this project.  It was hard to use it but it was starting to collect dust, so it was time!  The little kids were cut using white CS and I had the preschool kids color them with skin tones.  They had fun and it gave them a chance to participate in the decorations!

These two were cut using other cartridges and my Gypsy (my first project using my Gypsy).   They ended up being my favorite!   I just loved their google eyes!  You can see the twist ties we used to adhere them to the float sticking up from the tops of their heads.

Then since it was a Halloween Parade, and I knew there would be all kinds of costumes, I decided we needed to represent them too.  I used my girl's Laminated Paper Dolls for the school banners.  I think everyone really enjoyed all the "Little Creatures"!

Knoebels Scrapbook

Here is the scrapbook I am currently working on.  All of the pages are very simple because I have a lot of pictures to fit into this book.  We go to Knoebels Amusement Park several times every year.  These pics are from one of our trips in 2009 (I am a bit behind).

For this page, I actually visited the Amusement Park's website to get the details of this ride correct.

                                     

 I plan on working on this book this weekend.  If I ever finish this scrapbook, it will be huge!