Happy Happy Birthday

Hello everyone and happy Sunday to ya!  Today I have a fun Layout to show you.  I needed something quick yet to the point. I was teaching a class on 12x12 scrapbooks and so it needed to not be to difficult. 

*The background paper is from DCWV.
*The cupcake is from Straight from the Nest, *Face is peachy Keen.
* Cherry is glittered with MS Garnet glitter
*The Happy Birthday I welded on my gypsy using Quarter Note. This is my most favorite font.
*The scallop circle was a preloaded shape on the E2.

Thanks for looking hope to see ya back again soon!

The Scrapoholic's Sketchy Saturday Challenge!

Welcome to another week of  Sketchy Saturday.  Every week there is a Layout and a sketch posted for you to try.  So head on over to The Scrapohlic to see every ones work and then give it a try yourself. Don' forget to Link your LO so we can all see it.

Here is this week's sketch......

Now I know Easter has come and gone and Beach is more appropriate for the season but I've done so many summer themed project all ready this year I really didn't have anymore photo's.  So I chose Easter. Since I needed to scrap them still and I could get the tittle to work like the sketches.

On this LO I used DCWV background Easter paper from one of the spring packs.

The Easter basket is cut at 3" from Doodle Charm.  I added in the Eggs. I covered each one with glitter from Martha Stewart.

The grass is from A Child's Year

The Tittle is cut from Martha Stewart's All Occasions Cake Art.

Well thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the other sketches and play along.

Hoot Hoot Hooray

This was such a fun Layout to do.  I've decided to make all my Cricut cuts larger for my Layouts and so far I really like how they are turning out.  This owl is from Hoot n Hollar. The Hoot Hoot Hurray is from Straight from the Nest.  I embossed the white using the swirl Cuttlebug folder.  The background paper is from DCWV.  I added Journaling later to the little blue square on the bottom right.

Thank you for dropping by and stay tuned for more Larger cuts on Layouts!

The Scrapoholic Sketchy Saturday Challenge!

Happy Independence Day to everyone out there celebrating today. I'm so thankful for this great country that I live in and for all the men and women who sacrifice so much to keep us free.  I try to teach my children patriotism and gratitude for those who fight to protect us and keep us free.  We took the kids this year to the annual Air Show out on the Marine Corp Air Station.  They got to go inside and see what they fly and what they wear and were even able to talk to a few of the Marines/ pilots about what they do.  It was a lot of fun. When I saw this weeks sketch and it being Independence day I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Here is the sketch.....

This is what I came up with.....

For the Stamp cut frame I used French Manor.

The stars in the corners were from Home Decor

The dog tags are from Stand and Salute

The 2011 is from Quarter Note

The Air Show font is from Sans Serif which was welded together on the Gypsy.

Thank you for looking now it's your turn to give this sketch a try and once you do head on over to The Scrapoholic and link in your version of this sketch for a chance to win blog candy!

Flower Power!

Hi everyone! I wanted to do a quick post to show you this flower bouquet that I made. I teach children ages 3-11 at church and we will call on them occasionally to participate.  Well there have been several instances where we've hurt a child's feelings because we didn't call on them.  It's not that we didn't want to call them it's just that there are too many children and we cannot call on everyone.  So I made this bouquet of flowers and on the back of each flower has a child's name. That way when it is time to call on a child we pick a flower.  That way it's the luck of the draw whether or not they get called.

The cartridge I used for all the flowers is the Forever Young. 

* I took shush kabob skewers and painted them green.

*Fill flower pot half way with green plant Styrofoam

*Added the little glass rocks on the top to hide the Styrofoam.

*Painted the pot Red and added a ribbon with a bow.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you come back again soon.

Happy Birthday lil' Sis!

Hope everyone is enjoying your weekend.  It's going to be a HOT one. Looking to be 117 today.

I made my little sister a card for her birthday.  She was a flower girl at my wedding almost 15 yrs ago and she'll always be my little sister. Her favorite color is green and she loves frogs so I was thinking create a Critter.  But then I realized she isn't the little girl anymore. She is turning 21.  So I wanted to make her a card fit for a young women.  What better cartridge than Forever Young. So this is what I came up with.

*The Card size is 5 1/2 x 6

*Covered card with black card stock

*Green paisley paper is from the Sweet mat stack

*Woman is from Forever Young Cut at 5"

*Dress cut from green scrap then ran through cuttlebug Polk a dot folder

*Sign is cut from Cricut American Alphabet at 2"

*Happy Birthday stamp

*The 21 is from Forever Young cut at 2"

*Then added some ribbon.

Thank you for looking. Hope you all have a fabulous Holiday weekend and stay cool.

It's A Girl!

Happy Friday everyone!  Today I have a baby card to show you.  My girlfriend just had a baby girl.  I know what your thinking, "Why is the card blue"?  Well she absolutely hates pink.  She's not a girly girl herself and she said she wouldn't put her baby girl in pink.  So I thought why would I do a pink card.  I love the Nursery Tails Imagine Cartridge and I've been trying to use my imagine more lately.   

The plaid background paper is from DCWV.

Card Size is 5 1/2x6 1/2

Giraffe is cut using the layer feature at size 5.25"

The It's A Girl sentiment was printed in blue from computer then punched with Fiscars Scallop Oval punch.

I then inked the edges with blue ink and

added a green ribbon with a bow.

I added a piece of light blue paper on the inside punched the corners and used another cut from Nursery Tails and stamped Congratulations.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit my Blog. I hope you enjoyed and that you come back again soon.