I Heart You Valentine card

Happy Monday!  Do you have any special people in your life to make Valentines for?  There's a few days left to create something crafty to let them know how much they mean to you!  All you really need is hearts, which is our challenge theme this week at BBTB2.  I cut out some hearts to make this I Heart You card, using the Accent Essentials cartridge.  It was inspired by this card I saw on Pinterest, I just added a few more hearts for pizazz.  And it was super quick to make!  I hope you  all have a Valentine's Day complete with hugs and lots of chocolate.  

Cricut:
Accent Essentials-hearts
Paper-Happy Hooray 6x6 prints
Enamel Dots-Doodlebug and Echo Park
Stamps-Paper Smooches forever, Impression Obsession I Heart You

Merry Christmas!

Happy Thursday!  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!  We had a wonderful day celebrating with family on Christmas Eve and flew out to San Francisco on Christmas Day for a family vacation.  We are sightseeing and enjoying the city very much!

This week at BBTB2, we are shared some of the Christmas cards we made for friends and family, so I have a included a few I made below.  I didn't get this post up in time for Christmas Day-just a little too much festive fun going on!  These are all scrap lifted from cards I saw on Pinterest.  I will go back and link these up to the originals on Pinterest when I get back from vacay next week.

 Jolly Holiday wreath, Stampin Up die for the background shape

 Accent Essentials snowflake, Jolly Holidays for "Joy"

 Accent Essentials snowflakes, Flower Market bow

Doodlecharms trees

New Years layout

Happy Monday and Happy 2017!  I hope you had a merry Christmas and happy New Year!  My Christmas was full of family and very merry, although I rang in the new year at work in the ICU.  I spent some time last week looking through the scrapbook of 2016-it was full of happy memories and moments.  I can't wait to see what this year's pictures will look like!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is NEW: use a cut that symbolizes the new year or use a new tool or technique-pretty wide open.  Since I am a chronological scrapper and scrap my pictures through the year, I made a cover page for my 2017 scrapbook, using cuts from Doodlecharms and Accent Essentials to symbolize the seasons and Artistry for the large numbers of 2017.  The welcome is a CTMH stamp.  I hope your 2017 is amazing and full of happy memories too.

Cricut:
Doodlecharms-leaf, flower, sun
Accent Essentials-snowflake
Artistry-numerals
Stamp-CTMH
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black

Dude, Chill card (for Exploring Cricut)

Hi guys!  Today is my day for the daily project at Exploring Cricut and I have a wintery card that one of the kids is using for holiday thank yous.  He wanted something "funny", so this was the result.  This is my favorite snowman on the Winter Frolic cartridge and he looked pretty chill and cool!  I've been dying to use this stamp ever since I got this set.  I cut the speech bubble from the Accent Essentials cartridge.  The background snowflake paper is from the Bo Bunny Powder Mountain collection from last year.

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-snowman
Accent Essentials-speech bubble
Paper-Bo Bunny Powder Mountain prints, CTMH solids
ink-Stampin Up Night of Navy
Stamps-Paper Smooches Frosty Fellas

Check out all the fun daily projects at Exploring Cricut every day-you will see great stuff from Diane and all my DT sisters!

Winter Wonderland ski layout (for Exploring Cricut)

Is it cold and snowy where you live?  We've definitely had both (kinda frozen with the whole "polar vortex" -30 degree wind chill thing last week!).  Our challenge at Exploring Cricut this week is winter wonderland, featuring a winter or snow theme!  I have a fun winter layout with Everyday Paperdolls and CM Cheerful Seasons to show you this week.  (I'm using this for some old pictures of us skiing at Vail, but I think it would work for any cute wintertime fun photos.)

Cutting out the winter gear for my two little paper doll people was so much fun and they are staying toasty warm with their boots, gloves, and scarves!  The title is from the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge, but you could cut it with any font.  The snowflakes are from Accent Essentials.  The print paper is from the Echo Park Winter Wishes collection from last year.

Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-title, cut at 1 1/2 inches
Everyday Paperdolls-people/accessories cut at 5 inches
Accent Essentials-snowflakes, cut at 1 1/2 inches
Paper-Echo Park Winter Wishes collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink, white gel pen
My Mind's Eye twine

Go check out all the cool (get it??? lol!) projects from the Exploring Cricut design team!  We hope you'll make something and link it up to join us this week!

Music Show layout

Last summer while on vacation, we went to see a country music show in Branson with the grandparents and an aunt and uncle.  Although we are not really country music fans, the show was fantastic and the kids loved it-this was the first big live music show they've seen!  The guitar and ticket cuts are from the County Fair cartridge.  I LOVE the ticket!  The tag tucked behind a picture for journaling is from Plaintain Schoolbook (and I also tucked in one of our admission tickets).  The background shapes are from Accent Essentials.  The title font is from Birthday Bash.

Cricut:
Birthday Bash-font
Accent Essentials-background shapes
County Fair-guitar and ticket
Plaintain Schoolbook-tag
Paper-My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline collection

I'm linking this to the BBTB2 "fontastic" challenge this week, to use any cricut font on a project.  

Sports Stadium layout

 Son#2 got to go on a field trip with his school to the major league football stadium this fall.  We got a tour, including the locker room where the team goes on game day!  We also got to go out on the field!  Boy does the stadium look big from the field!  It was all pretty cool, even though our team has been so bad this year that it was painful to watch a game and the coach and GM just got fired.  There is always next year, but I was ashamed to wear any fan gear in public!

Sports Mania was the game-winning cartridge for my layout!   (Couldn't help myself-had to get a sports pun in there!) The football helmet and football border on the journal box turned out really fun, I thought.  The scalloped square is from Accent Essentials.  The title font is Birthday Bash.

Cricut:

Sport's Mania-football helmet and border of footballs

Accent Essential-scalloped square

Birhtday Bash-title font
Paper-CM and CTMH

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week "It's a Man's World".

It's time to start the Christmas cards!!!

I made 27 Christmas cards this weekend!  My mom, nieces, BFF, and I got together Friday night and Saturday to make Christmas cards and projects-I think we made over 100 cards between us!  So you will be seeing some more of them over the next few weeks.  Today's card was made with the bird from Winter Woodland and holly from the CM Cheerful Seasons cart.  I saw a similar card on pinterest and changed it just a bit up to work with my supplies.  The background is embossed with a snowflake folder.

Cricut:
Winter Woodland-bird
CM Cheerful Seasons-holly
Accent Essentials-scallop circle, circles
Sizzix snowflake embossing folder
Paper- CTMH gray and brown card stock, Theresa Collins Christmas Cottage prints
twine, pop dots, button
scallop border-Stampin Up punch

Sending love your way card

This card is for a long-time friend who recently moved to another state that I won't get to see for awhile.  I used Accent Essentials for the top note cut and stamped my balloon image on it.  The paper and stamps are from Stampin Up.  I'm linking this to The Paper Variety challenge this week to make a card and matching envelope.  I like to decorate my envelope to match my cards, so I used a different stamp from the set on the envelope and added a little something to the envelope flap for extra pretty sweetness

Here's the inside:

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Cricut:
Accent Essentials-top note cut
Paper-Stampin Up Everyday Enchanted printed papers, calypso coral cardstock base
Ink/Ribbon-Stampin Up calypso coral
Stamps-Stampin Up

Club Cool-Disney layout

Don't drink the Beverly-that's all the advice I have for anyone going to Club Cool in Epcot!  If you haven't been there, it is a drink station with Coke products from different countries around the world.  Some were tasty.  Others........well, not so much!  The Beverly (from Italy) was absolutely awful!  We had a hilarious time daring each other to try them all.  The cola cup is cut from Carousel, a lite cartridge.  The title is the Mickey font again (love that Mickey font!).

Be sure check out the 50 followers post and comment on your favorite cart or product!  I'm drawing on Saturday for the blog candy winner-a My Pink Stamper set called More Punny-licious, which is super cute!

Cricut:
Carousel-cola cup
Mickey Font-title
Accent Essentials-large top note background shape
Plaintain Schoolbook-background circle
Paper-My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline line

Monkey Business

This layout almost finishes up Son#2's birthday pics, from the infamous sock monkey party!  There was much goofing around with all the sock monkeys, some of which I got pictures of.  So what else could I title this page but "Monkey Business"?   The super fun paper is more of the Cheekee Monkey stack I got at Hobby Lobby.  (refer back to the "I'm bananas 4 you" post to see pics of the party guests using the bananas as cell phones for the sock monkeys while eating cake and ice cream!).

Cricut:

Animal Kingdom-title, monkey, banana

Zooballoo-vines

Life is a Beach-leaves

Accent Essentials-top note shape under title and hidden journaling tag

brown chalk ink in jumbo java

orange ribbon-Stampin Up

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week "Fun with Puns".

SKI VAIL layout

I dug around for some old ski pictures of us with friends (from like 20 years ago!) because I had the perfect paper for a ski layout left over from my Echo Park Winter Park collection.  They were in a big box of pictures I plan to get to "someday".  My husband and I had a good chuckle when looking through the whole roll of pics-we were so much younger and thinner!!!!  The kids barely recognized us, lol!  I used Accent Essentials for the snowflake, circle, and large accent shape under pictures.  I used the Mickey Font for the title and Winter Woodland for the skis.  The rest is stickers from the paper collection. 

Cricut:
Accent Essentials-big shapes, snowflake (cut with image, blackout, and shadow at 2 1/2 in.)
Mickey Font-title
Winter Woodland-skis
Paper-Echo Park Winter Park collection
brown chalk ink in jumbo java
ribbon-Stampin Up cherry cobbler

I'm going to add this to the Exploring Cricut 123 challenge this week:  to use at least 1 ribbon, 2 cricut cuts, and 3 buttons or jewels.  I've got my cherry cobbler ribbon folded in half under the ski pass, my snowflake and skis (wasn't sure if the title counted), and my 3 buttons at the top for an accent.

Girl Time mini album

I've had the idea for this mini in my head ever since I saw some of this Crate Paper left on clearance!  (It is much too pink and girly for me to use in our family scrapbooks, which feature all boys, so I had to find another way to use it.)  This mini uses Paisley, which is one of my favorite cartridges.  I absolutely love the word art on this cart.  I gave it to my niece for her birthday recently, along with the Paisley cartridge.  I love the shoes (especially the basketball shoes-she plays on a team) and the purse!

Cricut:
Accent Essentials-shapes on cover
Paisley-all other cuts
Paper-Crate Paper Paper Dolls

The album pages are 5x7.  I pop dotted the embellishments so photos can be slipped under the edges to accomodate 4x6 pictures.

I am linking this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week to use a label shape or scallop (other than a plain circle) on a project.