zoo

Happy Monday!  It's been a busy week for me....Son#2 got his wisdom teeth removed so I was nursing at home AND at work.  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a zoo theme.  I went WAAAAAY back and scrapped some pictures from a zoo trip when the kids were much younger, using the Animal Kingdom cartridge.  It's an oldie but goodie.  I also broke out my cricut markers, which I forget to use, and outlined the polar bear and title.  The Oh Snap and borders are from Artbooking.  The KC Zoo has a big polar bear exhibit, along with a giant polar bear statue that the kids loved to pose beside when they were smaller.  You can check out the design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a zoo project of your own this week.

Cricut:
Animal Kingdom-polar bear, title
Artbooking-borders, Oh Snap
Paper-Doodlebug bg paper

Wildlife layout

Happy Monday!  Did you have a good 4th of July weekend?  I think I'm going to need a day or two to recover from mine, lol!  Work was kinda crazy but the fireworks were awesome on the 4th!  On to BBTB2 business….the challenge this week is use a cricut tree, and there are so many to choose from that I had a hard time deciding which one to use.  I was scrapping some vacation pics from last year's trip to Rocky Mountain National Park and finally decided the tree from Doodlecharms was the one for my layout.  The tree and sun are from Doodlecharms and the border of moose is from Animal Kingdom, along with the title.  The camera is one of the badges from Camping Critters to finish it all off.  Hope you will join us with a tree project!

Cricut:
Doodlecharms-sun cut at 3 1/2 inches, trees cut at 5 1/2 and 6 inches
Animal Kingdom-moose border cut at 4 1/2 inches, Wildlife title cut at 1 1/2 inches
Camping Critters-camera on badge cut at 2 1/2 inches
Paper-Echo Park Happy Camper bg paper, CTMH solids

Seal of Approval layout

 What is summer without a trip to the zoo?  I've now got lots of zoo pictures to scrap!   I kept to a clean and simple design, for some pictures from the sky tram and from the sea lion show.  The title and seal die cut are from the Animal Kingdom cartridge (and yes, they did tell us at the show that sea lions and seals are NOT the same thing, but ....close enough for me!).  I put a sun from Life As A Beach on the other side, to make the design look balanced.   The paper and stickers are from the fabulous Echo Park collection All About a Boy.  And the stickers were absolutely perfect for my layout (you can read them better in the close-ups-you will LAUGH)!

Cricut:
Animal Kingdom-seal, title
Life As A Beach-sun
Paper/stickers-Echo Park It's All About A Boy collection, solids CTMH and CM
brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to the Little Scrap Pieces anything goes challenge this week.

Hakuna Matata-Disney layout

 The Lion King show at Disney is THE best show in all four parks, in my opinion.  I got seeds of the idea for this layout from something I saw awhile back, so the lion on the cliff is not original to me.  I can't remember if I saw that idea on the cricut message board or on a blog somewhere, so if it rings a bell with someone, let me know and I'll give credit to the originator!   I cut my lion from Animal Kindom and just started tearing paper to make my cliff and setting sun.  I left a big journal box, because there is a big story to be written about us getting caught in a torrential rain before the show. 

Cricut:
Animal Kingdom-lion, ROAR
Mickey font-titles
Graphically Speaking -tree
Paper-Sandylion (background), assorted cardstock scraps
orange chalk around the setting sun
Swiss dots embossing folder on lion mane

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous cricut challenge this week to use a lion, tiger, cat, etc. to celebrate March "coming in like a lion".

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".