Father's Day

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a Father's Day theme.  I made a card for my Dad for Father's Day, using the Celebrate With A Flourish cartridge.  I haven't dug that one out in a long time and I forgot how much I like all the layered titles!  I was going for a fairly clean and simple look with this card and I think my Dad will like it!  Check out the design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a project this week!

Cricut:
Celebrate with Flourish-#1 Dad
Paper-CTMH solids
brown chalk ink for edges, Stampin Up Lucky Limade sentiment
Stamp-Hero Arts
Sizzix embossing folder

Father's day card (for Exploring Cricut)

Father's Day is coming up this month and our Exploring Cricut challenge is to make a project for dad.  I  made my dad a Father's Day card, using the Celebrate with a Flourish cartridge.  The snazzy striped paper from My Mind's Eye inspired the colors and hopeful feels masculine with the navy mat.

Cricut:
Celebrate with a Flourish-#1 Dad cut at 3 1/2 inches
Paper-My Mind's Eye Moments 6x6 pad for the print paper, CTMH solids
Versamagic jumbo java and night sky chalk ink

You can join the challenge with any cricut or SVG cut, so get that card made early and check out the design team projects!

Giving Thanks layout (for BBTB2 and Exploring Cricut)

Thanksgiving is coming right up and it's a Thanksgiving turkey challenge at BBTB2 and a Count Your Blessings Thanksgiving challenge at Exploring Cricut this week!  I combined both challenges,  making a layout for my Thanksgiving pictures with the Celebrate with a Flourish cartridge.  I embossed Mr. Turkey and the cornucopia with the Swiss Dots folder on my Cuttlebug for some extra texture, although it didn't show up very well in the pictures, unfortunately.  The beautiful paper is from an old Bo Bunny collection left over from last year (I've kind of been paper-hoarding these last bits of it....probably need a twelve step program or something, lol!).

Cricut:
Celebrate with a Flourish-all cuts
Paper-Bo Bunny Cider prints, CTMH solids
Swiss Dots embossing folder
brown chalk ink

Whipping up a turkey for our challenges will be a lot easier than whipping up a turkey for Thanksgiving, so I hope you will join in with a Thanksgiving project!  I will be working at the hospital on Thanksgiving day, so someone else will have to do the turkey cooking at our house this year-fingers crossed that they will save me some leftovers, lol!  

Mother's Day layout and blog hop (for Exploring Cricut)

We are having a Mother's Day blog hop at Exploring Cricut today, so welcome!  I have the entire blog hop list at the bottom in case you get lost.  I made a layout for the pics I plan to take of me and my boys (hopefully while they are taking me out to lunch!  They usually make me breakfast in bed, but I draw the line at taking photos then!).  I used the Celebrate with a Flourish cartridge for all my cricut cuts-I think every mom deserves some chocolate, strawberries, and flowers!  The print papers and journal box are from the Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection.

Cricut:
Celebrate With a Flourish-all cuts
Paper/Stickers-Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
foam tape

I have some blog candy for you- a 6x6 paper pad called Hip Hip Hooray by American Crafts!  It is super duper cute (you can see a bit of it in my other post today about the Mother's Day card)!  To be included in the random drawing for my blog candy, follow on bloglovin or Google Friend Connect and leave me a comment about a layout theme you would like to see in the future! (or just say hi :)

Blog Hop Schedule

Starting at Exploring Cricut

Diana http://craftypeepdb.blogspot.com

Sharon http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com

Donna  http://wwwkindredkreations.blogspot.com

Georgiana  http://carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com

Rae Ann   http://joyinart.blogspot.com

Emily  http://emilyqueenofallthingscrafty.blogspot.com

Annette  http://mymindsdustbunnies.blogspot.com

Michelle P  http://mumoftwoblog.blogspot.com

Kathy  http://kathy213-kathyscorner.blogspot.com

Michelle S  http://cricutcrazyscrapper.blogspot.com  (you are here)

Liz  http://unikbyyes.blogspot.com  (go here next)

Diane  http://happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com

I'm going to link this to the Cut It Up Mother's Day challenge, the Cardz TV "There's no other like my Mother" and the Fantabulous Cricut Mother's Day challenge.

Hoppy Easter layout

I'm so looking forward to this weekend:  a wonderful church service coming up, Easter egg dyeing, and our family Easter egg hunt!  This layout is for pictures of some of the fun, using Celebrate with a Flourish and several embossing folders with my Big Kick.  I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge this week "Egg-ceptional Easter".

Cricut:
Celebrate With A Flourish-title, rabbit, basket, chick
Kate's ABCs-butterfly
Paper-The Paper Studio All Occasions 1 pack

Luck of the Irish

Son#1 and Son#2 are performing in a concert on St. Patrick's Day for a local nursing home.   It was a good excuse to break out the Luck of the Irish cut and some shamrocks from Celebrate with a Flourish, right?   The awesome shamrock background paper is from the All Seasons 1 pack by The Paper Studio.   I know I'll take LOTS of pictures, so I managed to get 7 photo mats on there!  I'm going to link this to the My Pink Stamper blog hop this weekend, with the St. Patrick's Day think green theme.  The stamps are from the My Pink Stamper set called Music Speaks. 

Cricut:
Celebrate with a Flourish-all cuts
Paper-All Seasons 1 pack by The Paper Studio, solid cardstock is CM
embossing folders
Stamps-My Pink Stamper set Music Speaks
Ink-Stampin Up garden green
punches-Stampin Up

Merry Christmas

I realized my Christmas pics from LAST year are still sitting on my table underneath  everything!  So, a Christmas layout (even though I hate it when the stores put out Christmas stuff before Halloween), using Celebrate with a Flourish.  I'm linking it with the Creative Cutter Room Holiday Tradition challenge, to do a project, using glitter, buttons, and embossing.  I'm embossing everything whether it needs it or not, just because I can, since I got a Big Kick for my birthday!

Cricut:
Celebrate with a Flourish-all cuts
buttons, red and yellow Stickle, embossing folders

Giving Thanks

I am very thankful for all the many blessings we have been given.  God has been amazingly wonderful to my family.  I made this layout using Celebrate with a Flourish and SYI, about last Thanksgiving.  I'm linking it to the Give Thanks challenge at Creative Cutter Room.  (I must say looking at the pictures with all the pies has made me feel like I need some pie right now!)

Cricut:
Celebrate With A Flourish-all cuts except leaves
Stretch Your Imagination-leaves
Plaintain Schoolbook-circles
Paper-DCVW fall stack (old)
lots of jumbo java ink on the edges