MPS NSD #9 - Take Shape

Emma's challenge (My Pink Stamper) was to make something shaped.  I recently won the Old West cartridge  (Thanks Melanie and Joy from Everyday Cricut) and I saw this cute pocket cut. 

RECIPE:

Papers are from My Minds Eye &  Debbie Mumm Noahs Ark

Prima Flowers and Leaves from Lil' Lambs Boutique

Pocket & Bandana cut at 5.5 inches Howdy cut at 1 inch from Old West

Brads

MPS NSD #8 Love my Color

My favorite color is green so this was a no brainer when Agnes challenged us to do something monochromatic and add a flower.  Although the fleur de lis is stylized, it actually represents the lily.  Sothere you go!

RECIPE:

A2 card with corners rounded - All papers from Bazzill

Layer 2 is cut at 3.75 x 5 and run through the cuttlebug in the Fleur De Lis embossing folder

Fleur de lis is cut at 2.5 inches from Gypsy Wanderings

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

MPS NSD # 7 Hey Dad!

Karlee, over at My Pink Stamper Challenged us to make domething for Dad.  Thanks for that Challenge Karlee 'cause I got my dads and FIL cards done early.  Woo Hoo!  On the inside, I wrote " you're a classic".

Recipe:

Base 5.75 x 5.75 SU! Very Vanilla

Patterned Paper is Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman (from Lil Lamb's Boutique)

Font is from Old West cut at 1 inch

Ribbon is from my LSS

MPS NSD Challenge #6 ~ Child

Make something for or with a child is the challenge that Tracey, guest designer at My Pink Stamper put to us.  These pictures came right to mind!  The scuba dude on the Everyday Paper Dolls is adorable and the perfect fit for thes pics.  He is cut at 4 inches.  the title is cut at 3.5 inches from the Create a Critter cartridge.

 

MPS NSD #5 ~ Teacher Appreciation

Challenge #5 is from Karla over at My Pink Stamper.  This one was super easy for me as I have been on the TAW committee at  my son's  school for many years.  And I don't know too many teachers that wouldn't appreciate a coffee gift card.  ANd that's exactly what his teacher is getting this year.  Now I have a card to put it in!

RECIPE

Card ~ A2 cut from Bo Bunny Double Dot Chiffon Dot

Coffee Cup ~ Gypsy Wanderings (welded with heart) – red SU! Rockabilly, Bazzill White criss cross

Ribbon ~ Joanns

Sentiment ~ SU! What’s Brewin’ (ret) & The Paper Company ~ Coffee Cafe

MPS NSD #4 ~ I Like You Least

Wow this was a hard one -pick your least favorite Cricut Cartridge!  I actually picked 2 that I never reach for.  The base is cut from Fabulous Finds and the bird is from Home Decor.

RECIPE

Card ~ 5.25 Fabulous Finds Trifold Album Blackout – (cut one panel off) DCWV Nanas Kitchen

Bird ~ 3.5 Home Décor

Ribbon & Button ~ Joanns

Sentiment ~ Papertrey Ink Out of the Box Sentiments stamped on MS Sticker

MPS NSD #3 ~ Thinking Outside the Box

Rowena, guest designer over at "My Pink Stamper" challenged us to do something we normally would not do.  Here I really went all out using the polka dot theme (even down to title).  There are dots everywhere on this page!  Now I normally wouldn't go this over board with a theme but I'm kina liking the way this turned out an am thinking about doing a double layout for this one!

MPS NSD Challenge #2 ~ Getting Scrappy

On this Challenge on "My Pink Stamper"  guest designer Julie challenged us to use our scraps.  I sort my stamps by color and have them in hanging files, in removable folders right at my desk.  This enables me to just pull the color I need and rifle through it to find the piece I need.  I then put all the "scraps" of scraps in a pile, trim them up and refile leftovers right after each scrap session.  I find myself using my scraps now that it is so easy to find them!  Any way, here is my "Getting Scrappy" offering:

RECIPE:

A2 card cut at 11 x 4.25

Orange - 3.5"  Preserves

Sentiment- Clear Dollar Stamps Fruity Fun

MPS NSD #1 Mother Dear I love you so Challenge!

Happy Nathional Scrapbook Day Everyone!  I am going to try to make something for every one of Robyns Challenges over at "My Pink Stamper"  today.  For her first challenge I wnet literal and chose a cute little deer from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.

RECIPE:

Base - 5.5 x5.5 - DCWV Green Stack

Deer - 3.5"  Flowers - 1.5" &  title 1" - Create a Critter from SU Scraps

Mother - 1" welded from Gypsy Font

Grass Bo Bunny

Ribbon & Brad Hobby Lobby

An American Classic

My husband recently bought a Harley Davidson (after 5 years of me encouraging him) and he is over the moon.  A friend of his picked up some parts for him and also gave him a Guardian Bell (a tradition among bikers to keep the "highway gremlins" away from your bike).  I made the following card for my hubs to send as a thank you.

RECIPE:

Base is SU! Only Orange cut at 8.5 x 5.5 folded

Layer 1 SU! Basic Black cut at 5.25 x 4

Layer 2 Walmart Metalic Silver cut at 5 x 3.75 and embossed with the Cuttlebug Diamond Plate Folder

Harley Davidson Logo printed at 3.5 inches on white cardstock and pop dotted for dimension 

Preserves ~ so yummy!

This cartridge is so much fun ~ perfect to go with the Clear Dollar Fruity Fun  stamp set sentiments.  I was able to do a couple of cards with this cartridge today.

Recipe:

Base cut from Bo Bunny Double dot at 9 x 6 & folded

Layer is cut at 4 x 5.5 from SU!  Rockabilly (retired)

Tag is cut at 3.5 inches

White lace is from a Martha Stewart punch

Cherries (and layers) cut at 2.5 inches from scraps

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

Sentiment from Clear Dollar stamps Fruity Fun

Recipe:

Base Cut at 8.5 x 5.5 folded and inked with SU! Eggplant Envy

Layer Cut at 4.5 x 4 inches from SU! Rockabilly (retired)

Ribbon from Walmart

Grapes cut at 3.5 inches from scraps

Sentiments stamped from Clear Dollar stamps Fruity Fun

Create a Critter ~ my new fave cartridge!

Bravo Provo Craft!  Create a Critter is the cutest cartridge evah!  I almost can't even reach for another cartridge when I am in my scrap space!!!  Here are a few of my newest creations.

Recipe:

BoBunny Double Dot - 11 x 4.25 - folded

Crab  cut at 3.5 inches from SU! Real Red

Buttons and sand paper from Joanns

Sentiment from Rubber Soul Animal Love

Recipe:

Bazzill CrissCrossWhite cut at 8.5 x 5.5 floded & inked with Ranger Distress Walnut

Cosmo Cricket  "Wanted" cut at 5.25 x 4

Horse  & Phrase cut at 3.5" from SU! Scraps

a bit of braided twine

Recipe:

Base cut at 8.5 x 5.5 from SU! white folded

Pink layer is bo Bunny double dot ar 4 x 4.5 & punched with Fiskars Threading Water

Lamb is cut at 3.5 from scraps from SU

Ribbon from Walmart

Sentiment is from Rubber Soul A Day at the Zoo

Miso Grateful!

Okay - I just got the new "Create a Critter" Cartridge and I am pretty sure it is my favorite cartridge to date.  It has the cutest animals on it and the accessories are to die for!  When I saw the "noodles" cut I knew exactly what I wanted to make first!  This card makes me giggle! Here's the front:

And here's the inside:

Funny, Right?

Been Busy Scrappin'!

Although I haven't posted too much lately, I have been busy!  Here are a few layouts I have completed.  The first two were made using Cosmo Cricket Carden Variety 6x6 pad and the Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety Ready, Set, Chip Stickers from Lil' Lamb's Boutique.

The last layout was made using Websters Pages, Lullibuy Lane Line also from Lil' Lamb's Boutique. 

I made the flowers on this layout.  I cut flowers shapes (3 at 1.5 inches and 2 at 1 inch for each flower) from the bazzill bling cardstock. After punching a hole in the center of each flower, I sprayed each one with Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist until completely saturated and crumpled them up, tightly. I un-crumpled and layered five flowers (2 smaller on top) and secured with a brad. Then I foofed them till I liked the way they looked. I used a heat gun to "set" each flower and attached a Prima Grape leaf that I had misted with glimmer mist. Although they sound like a lot of work they are really super simply and add so much dimension to your page. Go ahead and give them a try.

My Pink Stamper Challenge

Robyn at My Pink Stamper challenged us to make something using the colors pink, green and black.  I made a layout using the Paisley cartridge and had extra cut cuts of these super cute sneakers, so I figured I'd make a card.  They were perfect to go with the Papertrey ink sentiment.

Recipe:

Paisley Sneakers cut twice at 3 inches

Plantin School Book circle cut at 4inches

Bo Bunny Double Dot (wasabi, tutu, & licorice)

Papertrey Ink Green Thumb Stamp Set

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

I Don't Garden...

I admit, I hate to get my hands dirty, but I love, love, love any thing with fruits and veggies on it!  Botanical prints, dishes, teapots, aprons, you name it ~ I have it!  So when I got this 6x6 Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety Pad and Ready Set Chip Sticker Sheet from Lil Lamb's Boutique I couldn't wait to dig in!  First, I made this super simple card.  The base of this card is Bo Bunny Double Dot, but the rest is Cosmo Cricut.

I also created this cute, simple layout! So may times we think we have to go over the top with super fancy layouts, but with this adorable paper you dont need to. 

A 12 x 12 piece of Bazzill Swiss Dot embossed cardstock and a red band of Bo Bunny Double Dot is the only other paper I used in this layout.  The strawberry is cut at 6 inches from the Cricut Paisley Cartridge.  The title is from the Pooh Font Cartridge.  The Chipboard stickers are so adorable and you get so many on this sheet. I think they are the perfect finishing touch to set off the sweet picutes of my daughter in her first bikini.  Well gotta run and get busy in my "paper" garden!

Webster's Pages ~ Beautiful!

When I saw this paper in the Webster's Pages~ Lullaby Lane~ Deluxe Scrapbook Kit available at Lil Lamb's Boutique, I just fell in love. I adore fairies especially vintage fairies like the one on this page.

Tammy at Little Lamb's puts together the most amazing kits.  This one had the most gorgeous Prima Flowers in it!  I accented the vine printed on the paper with some Satin Vine Ribbon (from PaperTrey Ink) and those beautiful Primas. 

 I cut the fairy out ot the 12 x 12 page, used some Tim Holtz Clear Distress Crackle and Rangers Distress Stickles to make it pop!  The crackle warped the paper a little after it dried,  so I ran it through my CuttleBug to flatten it out. I mounted it on a scalloped egg shape cut from the Cricut Easter 2010 cartridge.

I dont know about you, but I hate to waste!  I always use the "negative" pieces of my pop dots to mount large pieces on my layouts!  This cutout was fairly large and I find this method holds larger pieces so much more securely.

Here you can see how cool the crackle looks on this piece!

I love Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist.  It comes in so many beautiful colors and adds just enough shimmer without  looking gaudy.  I used it on the Prima Leaves and Flowers.  The colors, flowers, images and shimmer all come together perfectly on this layout and make it a one of a kind keepsake!

Adhesive tip ~ hope this helps someone.

Over and over again, I  read on blogs that people don't use their Xyron sticker makers because of all the stringy, sticky bits that are always hanging on.  Well, personally I couldn't live without mine.  I love to use with all the smaller cuts from my Cricut, especially titles. Here's what I do before I pull the top plastic off.

Flip the entire thing ove and run something flat over it several times.  I use my Cricut spatula (it works devine).  Then I take my embossing tool (I have used a pencil also) and outline all around each cut, including all the insides and holes. 

I really dislike messing with the Zig glue on little tiny pieces, I always end up getting glue every where.  So this technique really helps keep my projects clean. I know this is an extra step, but it really works! 

Bazzill Basics Embossed Cardstock ~ Amazing!

I've had this cardstock for a few months just waiting for the right photo to come along and I am so glad I waited!  This picture of my darling daughter sporting her new haircut was perfect!

I cut the opening on the beautiful embossed red paper with my Cricut George & Basic Shapes.  I pop dotted the entire sheet on a piece of black Bazzill Swiss Dots (which is embossed also) and floated the photo in the middle. The title is cut from the Pooh  Font cartridgeand shaddowed in white to make it pop off the page! I cut a 1.5" strip from the black Swiss dot paper, stiched it in white heavy duty thread and added a big black button to mimic the sleeve detail on her favorite black pea-coat!  She loves this layout and so do I!

Finally Scrapping Again!

Hey Everyone, It has been a while since my last post but I have been busy scrapping.  I am on the design team at Lil' Lambs Boutique an this past month I recieved a Prima Marketing ~Watercolor Rainbow ~Deluxe Scrapbook Kit to play with and it was absolutely heavenly!  I was able to make 3 beautiful layouts and 2 cards from this kit!

And finally the two cards

To see these pages in greater detail and  my fellow designers amazing work visit Lil' Lambs Boutique blog!If you haven't yet tried one of these fabulous kits that Tammy puts together, do yourself a favor and order a few.  All the hard work is already done and you are free to create!