Circleville NSD Celebration! Ease On Down The Road

Another project for the Cricut Circle NDS challenges.  I'm quickly running out of time to submit any more projects, but I've definitely been having fun getting some accomplished and stepping outside of my crafting comfort zone.

This one is an Easel Card.  I still have the sentiment to add to the bottom, but will be waiting until I decide the lucky recipient of the card.

CIRCLEVILLE NSD 2013~It's All About Perspective

I've wanted to use this cute from Nate's ABC's Cricut Cartridge for the longest time.  Today it dawned on me that this cut would be perfect for the Cricut Circle NSD - It's All About Perspective Challenge.


I cut the base layer 4 times and trimmed the boots out of it 3 times. On the boot furthest away, I just layered the cardstock boots to add some extra dimension letting it pop a slight bit away from the cattails and on the closest boot I trimmed the boots apart and used pop dots to bring it closer to the front. For the umbrella, I inked the edges and used pop dots in the middle but glued down the bottom and the edges to give it a curved appearance. I completed the cut by covering the boots with diamond glaze to give them a shiny rubber look.

Even more layouts...

Paper is from my stash - it's some old paper that I've had from year's from Paper Pizazz.  Cuts are from Baby Steps.

Paper is from my stash.  The zebra stripes were printed from the Teresa Collins Black and White Imagine Cartridge.  Font is from Nate's ABCs and the cute zebra is from the B is for Boy cartridge.

Starting 2013 with Scrapbook Layouts

Hi Everyone!

Happy New Years!  We spent New Year's eve at our friends' house - dinner, wine and great conversation.  I was honored when my friends asked if I would want to put together a scrapbook of their family photos.  They offered to pay me, but since it's something I love to do I am not going to charge them for my time but just for the materials.  Since most of their professional photos are of their son (their daughter was just born in October), and I have a girl, I realized that I don't have much in the way of boy appropriate papers.  So, a trip to the store was in order.

For those that follow my blog, you know that I love the value of the DCWV stacks.  True not every pattern is great, but I love that they coordinate and you can't beat an $8.99 on sale price for 48 sheets per stack at J's.  Okay, so I admit, I may have overdone it on the papers, but better have too many than not enough , right?!?! :)

I've decided to keep the layouts on the simple side and since most of the Cricut cuts are "cutesy," I haven't added too many at this point...especially with professional photos.

Here's the first ones I've done...

All papers are from DCWV stack unless listed otherwise...

The paper for the next layout was printed with the Cricut Imagine Vintage Papers Cartridge and the font was cut from Nate's ABCs.

 

The phrase was cut from Teresa Collins Sophisticated Cricut Cartridge and the football cut is from Sports Mania.

Cricut Circle - Scraps Challenge

For this challenge, I decided to use a layout I saw on the CTMH website as my inspiration.  The group of circle silhouettes was created on the gypsy and all of the circles, the photo frame, letters and the banner were cut from the cricut.

"LOVE" was cut out 4 times and glued together to give dimension.  It was also run through the cuttlebug "spots" folder.

All of the paper, except for the one full sheet of grayish blue background, was from my scraps.

Close up picture of the cuttlebug embossing on "LOVE"

Cappuccino, Cappuccino!

Hi,

I have some more layouts from our Mexico trip from 2 years ago to share with you.  I need to either scrap faster or take less pictures; I still have the two trips after this one to scrapbook and we have yet another trip to Mexico coming up in a few weeks.

Anyway, a little bit about this layout:

With dessert every night, I would have a decaf cappuccino to drink.  I don't drink coffee normally and I never drink caffeinated beverages, but I can't pass up a good cappuccino ever since I was in Italy for my honeymoon.  I thought the cappuccinos we got at the restaurants in Mexico looked pretty, so I had to take a picture.  My daughter loves the foam and always asks to all of mine after I put the raw sugar on top.

Paper is DCWV and is based on a layout from their website.  Font is from Nate's ABCs and the cappuccino is the Love You a Latte Cricut Lite Cartridge with the edges inked with Ranger Distressed Ink.