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

Wearing of the Green-St Pats Parade layout

Happy Monday!  We have a St. Patrick's Day theme at BBTB2 this week.  And guess what? It so happens that Son#2 and I are leaving for New York City tomorrow and will be marching with his high school band in the St. Patrick's Day Parade!  Seeing the sights in the Big Apple should blow our minds.  Toto, we're not in Kansas City anymore, to paraphrase Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz!  (For the record, most of Kansas City is actually in Missouri, not Kansas, so I can't quote Dorothy exactly.)

My layout for the parade pictures uses the adorable leprechauns from Simply Charmed and the clover border found on the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.  My title font is from CM Stork's Delivery and I did a little doodling on the letters.  This paper is from a super-old DCWV pad in the stash, but was perfect for St. Patrick's Day!  Go see what kind of magic the design team over at BBTB2 have put together and I hope you have some fun, wear some green, and have a very lucky week!

Cricut:
Simply Charmed-leprechauns, cut at 3 inches
Paper Doll Dress Up-clover border, cut at 1 inch
CM Stork's Delivery-Frogs and Snails Font, cut at 2 inches
Paper-DCWV All Seasons paper pack for prints, CTMH solids
black gel pen
Versamark Jumbo Java chalk ink for edges

Bra-vo card

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is for breast cancer awareness-use a woman or a bra and the color pink.  Breast cancer awareness is especially meaningful to me this year, as someone in my extended family is in the diagnosis process right now.   My card is inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest for breast cancer awareness that used the "bra-vo" phrase.  I used the bra from the island girl on the Paperdoll Dress Up cartridge and the font is from the Artistry cartridge.  I hope you will check in over at BBTB2 to see what else the design team has created and link up a project of your own to support the survivors in your life.

Cricut:
Artistry-font
Paperdoll Dress Up-bra (from the island girl) cut at 3 1/2 in.
Paper-Bo Bunny Head Over Heels 6x6 collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Dinosaur Roar layout (for Exploring Cricut)

Hey, it's my day for the daily project at Exploring Cricut!  Do you have kiddos who like dinosaurs? Even though my boys are big, they STILL like dinos, so when we had the opportunity to see the most complete T-rex skeleton ever found at The Field Museum in Chicago, they were pumped!  I got lots of fun pictures, so you'll probably see another dinosaur layout at some point, but here's the first one.

I used the Dinosaur Tracks cartridge for my T-rex (and the letter square font is also from Dinosaur Tracks).  But never fear if you don't have that cart, as several other carts have dinosaurs (Create A Critter, Boys Will Be Boys, and Paper Doll Dress Up, just to name a few!).  In fact, my volcano and greenery are from the PDDU cart.  The print and background papers are from an old Basic Grey line called Archaic.   I added some embossing to my t-rex to give him some texture to complement his fierce looks, lol!

Cricut:
Dinosaur Tracks-t-rex and font
Paper Doll Dress Up-greenery and volcano
Paper-Basic Grey Archaic for prints and bg, solids for cricut cuts are CTMH
brown chalk ink

Hope you enjoyed this and check out all our daily projects at Exploring Cricut or on the Facebook page!

Santa's Workshop layout

The elves have just finished loading up the sleigh for Santa and he's got a full load of toys to put under the trees!  Rudolph and the reindeer are ready and waiting....It's Christmas Eve!!!!!  I jazzed up Santa and his chief elf with some liquid pearl and stickles.  They are festive for Christmas!  And Rudolph's nose HAD to have a dot of red stickle, lol!

The fun Santa background papers are from Canvas Corp and I picked them up at Archievers.  The snow is American Crafts glitter paper that I hand cut.  I used the Winter Frolic cart for the title and North Pole sign.   The rest is mostly from Paper Doll Dress Up except for the teddy bear (who is from Everyday Paper Dolls) and the wreath and gift on the sleigh (from Create A Critter 2).

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-title, sign
Paper Doll Dress Up-trees, sleigh, Santa, elf, reindeer
Everyday Paper Dolls-teddy bear
Create A Critter 2-wreath, gift
Paper-Canvas Corp, American crafts glitter paper, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink, pop dots, twine

I'm going to link this to the BBTB2 challenge this week-Santa and me.  

Wahoo! layout

The paper doll cartridges (Paperdoll Dress Up and Paperdoll Teen Scene) helped me make this layout for the last pics from our trip to the 1800s themed fall festival.  I cut the Teen Scene boy cowboy and Indian, imagining them getting together to listen to music or trade in the 1800s town square.  (Son#1 was performing in the square on his fiddle.)  The teepee is from Paperdoll Dress Up and the guitar and title are from Old West.  The stamps on the journal box are from a set I won at PauseDreamEnjoy Challenges!  It is called Buffalo Spring, by Mark's Finest Papers.  I was so excited when I opened the package-thanks Janis!-because I had a project for them right away :)

Cricut:
Old West-title, guitar, barrel
PDDU-teepee
PD Teen Scene-cowboy and Indian
Paper-Reminisce leaf print background, CTMH solid card stock
Stamps-Buffalo Spring by Mark's Finest Paper

I'm going to link this to the Paper Playtime Anything Goes challenge this week!

Sending love card

I made this card for my parents, who are being snowbirds by spending the winter in warm weather.  They went to the beach yesterday!  I kept thinking I needed to do something with my new 3 Birds on Parade cart with the birds at the beach.  So, I turned that idea into a Valentine for them-which I think they will find pretty funny!  I used three carts:  3 Birds on Parade, Paperdoll Dressup, and Everyday Paperdolls

Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-birds
Paperdoll Dressup-island with palm trees (did several cuts in different colors as it didn't have layers)
Everyday Paperdolls-lawnchairs, sun, sunglasses, waves
Paper-scraps from the stash
stamp from JoAnns, circle punches

I'm going to link this to the CardzTV challenge to make a card with a June in January summer theme.

treats (Halloween)

This is the last Halloween post for this year, I promise!  I had too many trick or treat pics and had to make one more layout.   The candy all has to be sorted so anything with nuts will go away to Dad's work.  Of course, some sampling of candy just seems to happen during the sorting process, so the treats title from Happy Haunting was perfect.

The BBTB2 challenge this week was to use the ghost from Paper Doll DressUp, so a spooky ghost worked its way onto the layout.  Who could resist this cute ghost begging for candy?  And then I saw the cat and vulture in the handbook, and it all came together!  I love it when that happens.

Cricut:
Happy Hauntings-treats
Paper Doll Dress Up-ghost, cat, vulture
Paper-Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium
ribbon-Stampin Up

October Calendar page

This my October calendar, which is hanging up in my foyer as decoration.  I'm going to add it to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge to use a pumpkin on the project.

Cricut:
Designer's Calendar-calendar, title, trick or treat on bag
Doodlecharms-basket with leaves, pumpkin, treat bag
Paperdoll Dress Up-witch's hat
jumbo java chalk ink