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Happy Monday!  It's been REALLY REALLY hot here in KC, like much of the country this last few days, with heat indexes of 110.  Although it feels really good to be in the pool, I'm not a fan!  I'm grateful the weather is supposed to be more moderate today, as it's just been too hot to do anything.  That's a good excuse to be holed in up in my crafty space where it's air conditioned though!

Our BBTB2 challenge for the next two weeks is banners, either making a banner or using banners as an element on a project.  I scrapped some pictures of Son#2 in a parade and used banners as a decorative element on the page.  Since the parade pictures were pretty bright and colorful, I wanted a colorful accent.  You can see the design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a project too.



Cricut:
Birthday Bash-banners and font for "parade"
Learning Curve-homecoming font
Paper-CTMH prints and solids
raspberry twine

Fish Tales layout

Happy Tuesday!  I've got a layout I made for some of the underwater photos I took snorkeling this summer.  My friendly little fishy critters and sea life are all from the Create A Critter cartridge.  The polaroid style photo mats are from the Artbooking cartridge and the title font is from Learning Curve.  I cut my sand border on the bottom with an old template I had lying around.  I'm going to link this up to the animal challenge over at the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.

Cricut:
Artbooking-square photo mats
Learning Curve-title font
Create A Critter-all other cuts
brown chalk ink, square punch for photo corners, CM wavy cutter
Paper-CTMH solids, Echo Park Walking on Sunshine fish print paper

Lights, Motors, Action! layout (Disney)

We saw the coolest stunt car show at Disney's Hollywood Studios!  One of the stunt cars in the show was Lightning McQueen.  I had so much fun cutting the road sign for the title and the flames and lightning bolts from the Cars cartridge.  The font on the road sign is the block font on Boys Will Be Boys and the font for the "stunt show" is Learning Curve.

Cricut:
Cars-road sign, flames, lightning bolt
Boys Will Be Boys-block font
Learning Curve-font
Paper-Disney pack bought at Archievers, plus solid CM card stock

7th Grade Honor's Night layout

All the back to school shopping got me back working on a few layouts left over from the end of school in May that I never finished!  The only cricut on this one is the font, which is one of my favorites-Learning Curve.  The rest is all stickers from the Echo Park mini-theme kit School Days, plus some quick work with my square punch set from CM.  Before I got my cricut, that square punch set was my go to tool!

Cricut-
Learning Curve-font
Paper-Echo Park School Days kit, plus some solid CM card stock
CM Square punches

I love Summer wall hanging

I had a blast making a fun decoration for my foyer and used a bunch of cartridges!   I saw something somewhere(?) with the six rectangles with little summer scenes that I really liked, so I scraplifted the idea for this.   Each rectangle features some of the fun things we as a family love about summertime.  My kids loved coming up with the ideas for the rectangles!  In fact, I might have to make a companion one, because they had more ideas than I had rectangles!

Cricut:
Doodlecharms-sun, popsicles, ice cream cone
Eveyyday Paperdolls-boat, bike, beach bag
CM Traveler-lawnchair, beach umbrella and ball, flip-flops, sunglasses, and drink
Carousel-ticket and cotton candy
Learning Curve-title
Plaintain Schoolbook-heart
Paper-Echo Park's Walk in the Park collection

I'm linking this to the SOUS challenge I love Summertime that inspired my project.  I'm also going to link it to The Paper Variety challenge to make "anything BUT a card or layout".

Mini-Monster cards

I made some Halloween surprises for the guys to get with their candy stash:  a monster, cool cat, and gravestone (for my teen, who is too cool for cute now) that I made with the card feature on the Mini Monsters cart.  I had not tried the card feature, but it's easy to use and layer.  A few word additions and some pen work and I think they are a winner, at least I hope the boys think so!   (We always have a special candy stash to give the kids on Halloween, as one of my kids has nut allergies, so we trade out most of the unsafe candy received while trick or treating for nut-safe candy.  All the trick or treat candy goes straight into a bag for Dad's workplace to enjoy.)

Cricut:
Mini-Monsters-creatures and gravestone
Learning Curve-font for BOO and cool cat
Happy Hauntings-font for Zombie
Embossing with some of my Sizzix and Cuttlebug folders

I'm going to link the cat to the BBTB2, which was featuring a Halloween theme with Hello Kitty.  I don't have that cart, but this Halloween cat turned out pretty cute (I reversed his mouth so he would look happy).  I'm also going to link to Fantabulous Cricut, where the project is Purple People Eater, using purple and a monster or bug.  Forget the bug, I'm sticking with monsters!

Catnap

This layout is of our cat, who of course has the great life (lots of naps!!!).   I think I want to trade places with him and nap in the sun.  My boys have been telling me lately he needs his own layout in the family scrapbook.   I've never done a pet layout before, but just got the Meow cart on sale!

Cricut:
Meow-for the catnap and Purrr (So many cute things on this and had to use it right away!!!)
Learning Curve-his name
lots of brown chalk ink for the edges of everything
button and twine from my stash
Paper/tags are from the super cute Friends Furever collection from We R MemoryKeepers.

So I'm new to this blogging thing....

I get inspired from looking at other scrapbooker's blogs.  I'm going to put a few of my layouts out here.  This is from a summer canoe trip-my kid's first time!  Amazingly, we didn't even tip over!

Cricut:
scallop borders, circle, square-Plaintain Schoolbook
top note shape-Accent Essentials
letters-Learning Curve
paper:  Imaginscence Happy Camper.  Such fun paper and die cuts!!!!
brown chalk ink
burlap from a sheet I bought at Archievers