Something to Crow About layout

Happy Monday!  Hope you are getting to enjoy some fall!  My husband and I spent last weekend hiking and enjoying a pumpkin festival, with the most gorgeous fall weather.  I snapped some pics that were perfect for our BBTB2 challenge for the next two weeks....Something to Crow About (use a scarecrow, crow, or bird on your project).  I found the perfect image collection called Simply Scarecrows on Cricut Access and got my layout done in a snap.  You can see all the design team projects over at the BBTB2 site and link up your own project to share.

Cricut:

CM Be Young-Be Free font

Simply Scarecrows-scarecrow, tree, crows, pumpkins

Paper-Carta Bella Fall Festival prints, CTMH solids

Tree layouts in honor of Arbor Day

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is trees, in honor of Arbor Day.  All the flowering trees have started blooming here and it feels like spring.  I have two tree projects to share, with the one below using lots of cartridges (although the trees are from Camp Out) from our trip to Rocky Mountain National Park last summer.  The bottom project is a Christmas layout, where the cute little house and trees on the Flower Market cartridge were giving me Christmas cottage vibes.  Hope you will check out the design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a project!

Project #1

Cricut:
Paper Doll Dress Up-mountain ranges
Outdoor Man-wildlife
Camp Out-trees
A Child's Year-bird in flight
Be Young-font

Project #2

Cricut:
Flower Market-trees, cottage
Artistry-font

Cute animal

Happy President's Day Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge theme this week is cute animals, which inevitably leads me to create with two of my all-time favorite cricut cartridges- Create A Critter and Create A Critter 2.  I have several pieces of Create A Critter goodness to share!  As always, the designers over at BBTB2 have some wonderful projects to see and you can link up a project as well.

Project #1
This birthday layout will feature pics of my teens and their cousins, partying it up with birthday cake and ice cream!

 Cricut:
Create A Critter 2-party pig and party chick
CM Be Young-font
Paper-Echo Park

Project #2
This little card cutie was inspired by the sentiment.Isn't he cute?

Cricut:
Create A Critter-whale
Wild Card-card base
Plaintain Schoolbook-circle
scallop edge for the waves
Stamp-CTMH Animal Greetings
Ink-Tsueinko Memento Black
liquid glass on whale's spout

Project #3

 I made this layout of hiking pictures from last summer with some of the adorable critters.

Cricut:

Create A Critter-animals, stump and log

CM Be Young-font

Paper-Doodlebug

It's a summer beach and pool layout bonanza!!!

Happy Monday!  Coming back to the real world after vacation is requiring much diet Coke to the rescue today!!!  We had a great trip to Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, CO and I took tons of amazing pictures.  While I make no claims to being anything special as a photographer, the pictures practically take themselves when you are someplace so beautiful with a nice camera and I can't wait to scrapbook all of our adventures!  So before I get to the crafty stuff, I'll share a little Rocky Mountain goodness…

My fellas

Having lunch about 4 miles into a hike, by Mills Lake in RMNP

Atlantic or Pacific?  It's the Continental Divide!

from Trail Ridge Road in RMNP

Hiking RMNP

Horseback riding in RMNP

and most importantly, the view from the hot tub at our condo!

So, the BBTB2 challenge this week is Fun in the Sun, celebrating the pool or beach.  I have lots of beachy goodness to share, as I've been scrapping pictures from our vacation last year.  So feel that ocean breeze while you browse my 8 summer themed beach/pool layouts here and go over to BBTB2, where the team has lots of fun projects to see.  (I have more beach/cruise layouts here on this post and more yet under the summer tab on the sidebar, if you are looking for ideas for a summer layouts.)

Layout #1

Cricut:
Life Is A Beach-bucket and shovel
Be Young-Be Free font
Paper/stickers-Echo Park prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
square punch for photo corners

Layout #2

Cricut:
CM Traveler-title, flip flops
Paper-Echo Park print, CTMH solids
Doodlebug skittles
brown chalk ink

Layout #3

Cricut:
Pack Your Bags-all cuts
Paper-Carta Bella prints, CTMH solids
square punch for photo corners
brown chalk ink

Layout #4

No cricut on this one.
Paper-Carta Bella print/stickers, CTMH solids
square punch for photo corners
brown and navy chalk ink

Layout #5

Cricut:
A Child's Year-boy and beach cuts, title font
Plaintaitn Schoolbook-circle
Paper/Stickers-Echo Park, CTMH solids
square punch for photo corners
brown chalk ink

Layout #6

No cricut on this one
Paper-Echo Park prints/stickers, CTMH solids
Echo Park skittles
brown chalk ink
black pen

Layout #7

Cricut:
Pack Your Bags-flip flops/sunglasses, beach ball
Stork's Delivery-Frogs and Snails font
Paper-Echo Park prints/stickers, CTMH solids
square punch
brown chalk ink

Layout #8

Cricut:
Pack Your Bags-all cuts
Paper-Bo Bunny prints/stickers, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

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Camera layouts

Happy Monday!  I hope the moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day!  After a very grueling work week, my husband cooked for all of us and my parents for lunch and smoked some amazing BBQ and made his fantastic home-made potato salad!  We finished it off with strawberry shortcake with the first spring strawberries from my sister's farm.  Getting to hang out with my mom and my boys made for a great day!!!!  There might have been a nap involved as well….LOL!

So our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a cricut camera on a project.  I have two projects, both using the camera from the Be Young cartridge.  I had some fun camera paper in the stash that was perfect for my Life in pictures layout below, for Son #2 and some of his friends.  For my OMG layout on the bottom, I went with bright happy paper, as it will have pics of my teens and their cousins goofing around.  There are so many fun cricut cameras to play around with, so have some fun and use the linky at BBTB2 to share your project with us!

Cricut:
Be Young-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park Jack and Jill collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Cricut:
Be Young-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park Little Boy Collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Friends layout

Happy Monday!  Hope it's a beautiful day in your neck of the woods!  I got a little much needed crafty downtime here and there this weekend, which was super fun.  We also went to see the Kansas City Airshow to watch the Navy Blue Angels perform, which was amazing!  Those jet pilots are something else!  You will be amused to know we also came home with a complete set of Blue Angel toy airplanes that the boys and their father just HAD to have, lol!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is all about celebrating friends.  My layout uses the CTMH This and That cartridge for the Friends title and journaling spot.  The fun little swirly accent and stars are from the CM Be Young cartridge.  I wanted bright happy colors and paper to go with my happy pictures!  Our design team at BBTB2 has some projects to inspire you with whatever you create.

Cricut:
CM This and That-title, journal box
CM Be Young-swirly star, extra stars
Paper/Sticker-Doodlebug Hip Hip Hooray prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Be You, Be Happy layout (for Exploring Cricut)

I get to share the daily project for Exploring Cricut today!   Are you happy it's almost the weekend?  I have a Be Happy layout for you, perfect for some fun weekend pictures.  I used the CM Be Young cartridge for all the cuts.  My paper didn't photograph very well, but it's actually a really cute polka dot print and plaid from Fancy Pants.  The colors are MUCH better in real life, but my limited photography skills just aren't showing it.  I popped up the banners in the corners so I can slide pics under them.  And the adorable smiling snail just makes ME happy, lol!  (Now I have that Happy song by Pharrell Williams stuck in my head too!)

Cricut:
CM Be Young cartridge-all cuts
Paper/stickers-Fancy Pants Happy Go Lucky collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Check out all our fun projects at Exploring Cricut-there is something new every day to inspire you!  I have to work all weekend but I hope you all get to have some fun and relaxation in yours!

The Brick music club layout (for Exploring Cricut)

We have a fun Cricut choice challenge for you this week at Exploring Cricut!  Use one patterned paper, 2 cricut cuts, and 3 colors.  I made a music layout, for pictures from a music club.  (Son#1 was playing  a local club called The Brick with his bluegrass band.)  I used the CM Be Young cartridge for my guitar, music notes, and fancy frame.  The title font is the Roly Poly font from Plaintain Schoolbook.  You could use any musical instrument and frame (Elegant Edges has great frames) to make this work for any kind of musical performance.  The print papers, which I fell in love with, are from the Simple Stories Smarty Pants collection.  I really like the fun guitar on this cartridge-feels kind of rock and roll!

Cricut:
Plaintain Schoolbook-Roly Poly font
CM Be Young-guitar, music notes, frame
Paper-Simple Stories Smarty Pants prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

I hope you will join in on our challenge and go look at all the great projects from the design team at Exploring Cricut!

I'm going to add this to the Fantabulous Cricut anything goes challenge!

listen to your heart card (for BBTB2)

My lovely DT sister Brenda has chosen "health awareness" for the challenge theme at BBTB2 this week.  As an ICU nurse, heart disease is a huge problem I see affecting lives every day (I work many of my shifts in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit).  Women especially tend to underplay or ignore symptoms of heart attacks or heart disease because we are busy taking care of everyone else but not ourselves.  I encourage all of you to pay attention to your own health and know your numbers:  blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.  If any of these are out of the normal range, make the time to do those lifestyle changes and improve them!  And take your medications, if you have prescriptions!  (I am regularly astounded at people who do not take their meds or have no idea what their meds are for.)

Alright, so enough healthy talk and on to the actual card I made.  I used the CM Be Young cartridge for the saying on the front "listen to your heart", which I thought was perfect for heart health awareness.  The fun frame was part of the image!  The inside, which I neglected to take a picture of, has more hearts (I have already given this card away, so I can't go back and get a pic).

Cricut:
CM Be Young-title art
Paper-solid CTMH, print
brown chalk ink

Show us what health cause is dear to your heart with a project and link it up back at BBTB2!

Please keep Brenda and her family in your prayers, as they are suddenly dealing with some very serious health issues at this time.