Wedding/Anniversary

Happy Monday!  School is starting for the kids this Wednesday, but we are going to try to squeeze in some last minute fun before the grind begins.  We are going to the zoo today to both see the animals and collect pokemon-apparently there is a Pokestop at nearly every exhibit (I am somewhat baffled by this Pokemon Go phenomenon, but my teens have forced me to learn!).  Then it's off to the high school and middle school for Meet the Teacher night.

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a wedding/anniversary theme and I have a non-traditional kind of anniversary layout to share, using the Groovy Times cartridge.  My hubby and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary this year and I wanted something fun, bright, and happy for some of those sweet and silly pics taken over the years.  It's very groovy, yes?  But it will suit the pictures perfectly!  The rest of the BBTB2 team have some great projects to share and you can link up yours too to share with us.  Hope you all have a great week!

Cricut:
Groovy Times-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Bluegrass Jam Night layout (for PDE challenges)

Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges has a new challenge:  use foam tape on a project!  Since I am a huge fan of foam tape and pop dots for some dimension in my projects, I was excited to do this one.  In fact, it's rare I don't have something popped up on a layout or card!  But on to my project:

my guitar and microphone are popped up on foam tape:

my dashing gentleman musician is also popped up on foam tape:

Son#1 was invited to perform on the main stage at the local Bluegrass Jam Night (of course I took lots of pictures!).   I found the coolest paper for my musical layout from Cosmo Cricket's Honky Tonk collection-the background paper is retro looking and covered with guitars and the photo mats are this really cool woodgrain paper (and I just love the name Honky Tonk...).  Everything is from the Suburbia cartridge except  I did add a few music notes from Groovy Times.  My stamp on the journal box is from a My Pink Stamper set (I thought it fit so perfectly!).

Cricut:
Suburbia-all cuts except music notes
Groovy Times-music notes
Paper-Cosmo Cricket Honky Tonk collection for the prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
stamp-My Pink Stamper Music Speaks set

Here are the challenge details:

Pause Dream Enjoy (PDE) Ch# 11 Use Foam Tape

Begins: Monday, May 27

Ends: Sunday, Jun 9

Sponsor: Mary of Cardz TV Stamps http://www.cardztvstamps.blogspot.com/

Prize: 1 stamp set

(must have USA address)

Be Happy, Cool Dude layout (for Exploring Cricut)

It's my day for the daily project at Exploring Cricut!  Spring is here and so are fun days playing at the park.  My boys are thrilled to be outside more!  I made a layout for some colorful action packed park pictures using Groovy Times.  "Groovy Times?" you say, having never seen me use this cartridge before.  Well, it had been sadly neglected, but no more!  This layout is full of happy fun colors and cuts, all from Groovy Times-guaranteed to put you in a good mood!

Cricut:
Groovy Times-all cuts
Paper-The Paper Studio prints and CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Don't forget to stop by and check out the great daily projects every day at Exploring Cricut!  (Don't you just want a smiley t-shirt now?)

"Sweet" layout

I miss all the ice cream we ate on vacation (although my waistline is paying the price), so I did a layout of my pictures was of us eating ice cream!  I scrap lifted the base paper choices from a layout I saw that used the Miss Caroline Dilly Dally paper from My Mind's Eye, but then I had to change up the rest to suit my pictures and die cuts.  The title is cut from the Groovy Times cartridge (I used My Cut Search to find all the cartridges that had "sweet" on them-there are a LOT of choices) and the journaling spot is from Elegant Edges.  My yummilicious ice cream cone is the stretched version of of the cone on Stretch Your imagination, although none of the real cones we ate had quite that many scoops :)

Cricut:
Groovy Times-title
Elegant Edges-scalloped square
Stretch Your Imagination-ice cream cone
Paper-My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline Dilly Dally
twine/brown chalk ink
Stamp-Fiskars It's a Sweet Life set
Ink-Stampin Up island indigo

I'm going to link this to the Cricut Chirp Challege "too sweet to eat".