3 Travel Layouts with CTMH Wanderful and Artbooking

Happy Saturday!  I'm sightseeing and taking photos in the picturesque Eureka Springs, Arkansas today!  Son#1 is here at strings camp and the big concert is tonight but I have the whole day to poke around before going to hear some great music tonight!

So I've been playing with the CTMH Wanderful paper pack (since I'm all about the travel this summer, lol) and am finally getting the three layouts I made with it up on the blog.  All three layouts use a little bit of the Artbooking cartridge and Layout #1 also uses the Destinations and Robotz cartridges.  And that used up about every scrap and sticker of Wanderful.

Layout #1

photos taken from the Skydeck in Willis Tower in Chicago

Destinations for the Chicago tower cut, Robotz for the title font

Layout #2

the arrows are all from Artbooking and did a little stamping

this will be for some cruise photos

Layout #3

adventure, arrows, and polaroid frames are from Artbooking

some shore excursion photos will go on here

Music layouts

So we have a music challenge this week at BBTB2.  Since all my kids are very musical, I make a lot of music projects.  I have several musical themed layouts I've done over the last year that I haven't shared on the blog, so this is like a whole concert of layouts, lol!  I have kids in both band and orchestra and I have to say that the Quarter Note cartridge is the one to have if you have musical kiddos!  I use it ALL the time.

Project #1

However, this layout is NOT about the kids!  As a birthday gift last year, my husband got tickets for us to see my favorite band (Maroon 5) in concert when they came to the Sprint Center in Kansas City.  It was so much fun going to see the concert and of course I took some pictures...  My guitar and font are from the CM This and That cartridge-love the funky guitar (it feels rock and roll…).  The music notes are also from the cartridge.

Cricut:
CM This and That-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids, bg paper unknown

Project #2

As Son#2 is in the marching band, pep band, AND jazz band at his high school, I have taken a lot of band pics this year.  My son plays trombone in the band, but this design could be changed up to include any instrument.  The frames are pop dotted so I can slide a picture underneath.  The high school band and orchestra students "fondly" refer to each other as band geeks and orch dorks, hence the band geeks title.  Guess I need to make an orch dork layout too for Sons#1 and #3!

Cricut:
Quarter Note-trombone, band hat
Artbooking-frames, notes, arrow
Zoo Day-title font
Paper-band bg paper unknown, Echo Park blue paper, CTMH other solids
brown chalk ink

Project #3

Another music layout for band and orchestra pictures from the pops concert last year for pics of all 3 kiddos playing…I wanted bright colorful paper for this fun end of the year concert of pop music.

Cricut:
Quarter Note-clef, notes
Robotz-font
Paper-Echo Park bg paper, CTMH solids

Project #4

Son#2 won the instrumental prize at the school talent show last year on piano (yes, he plays trombone AND piano and sings too), so I made this layout for the pics.  I had to trim some of the flourishes off the piano (from Quarter Note) to make it fit.  

Cricut:
Quarter Note-piano, microphone, keyboards, clef and notes
Nifty Fifties-guitar
Mickey Font-title
Paper-Echo Park prints, CTMH solids

Project #5

This layout is for an orchestra event where Son #1 is wearing a tux, so I wanted a more formal look for the layout with black, white, and cream.  Loved the music paper and the Quarter Note cartridge!

Cricut:

Elegant Edges-journal box

Quarter Note-all other cuts

Paper-bg print is Echo Park, music paper The Paper Studio, CTMH solids

Friday Night Lights layout (for BBTB2)

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is football-I had to mentally change gears!  We've been obsessed with baseball here in Kansas City this October, watching our Royals in the World Series last week, so I had to get back in the football groove.  Friday nights in the fall means high school football in our neck of the woods, so I have a football layout for pics of Son#2 and the marching band at our high school football game.

I used the Artbooking cartridge for the football, banner, and the word football.  The narrow font is Boys Will Be Boys and the wide chunky font is from the Robotz cartridge.  I used a green background to get the football field look, along with the school colors of purple and gold for the accents.  The funny thing is  that my high school colors were also purple and gold, just like the high school my sons attend.  It's very nostalgic being at the games surrounded by a sea of purple and gold!  Hope you will join us with a football themed project this week over at BBTB2!

Cricut:
Artbooking-football, the word football, banner
Robotz-big chunky font
Boys Will Be Boys-narrow font
Paper-CM yellow solid, Hobby Lobby purple solid, CTMH green solid
Versamark Jumbo Java brown chalk ink, Stampin Up Early Espresso ink
Stamps-My Pink Stamper

Happy Birthday layout (for Exploring Cricut)

We've got a birthday challenge (with glitter) over at Exploring Cricut this week.  As we are entering into what I jokingly call "the birthday season" at our house (we all have birthdays in the next four months), I am pleased to have a layout ready to go!  I used the Robotz cartridge for the big chunky font, Sweet Treats for the rocket (which has a little stickle on the tail), and Wild Card for the streamers and stars.  I'll add the name and age onto the bottom strip using the Robotz font when I add the pictures.

Cricut:
Robotz-font, cut at 2 inches
Sweet Treats-rocket
Wild Card-streamers, stars
Paper-Bo Bunny Surprise collection prints/sticker, CTMH solids

What's the buzz? layout (for BBTB2)

We have a bee challenge at BBTB2 this week…there are so many cricut bees to choose from that it took me a while to narrow it down which one to use!  Kind of like the owls last week-so hard to pick just one.  I settled on the bees and hive from the Pooh and Friends cartridge for my layout, which will have pictures of my teenagers with various school friends goofing around.  There is always an astounding amount of "buzz"with teens-high school appears to be a hotbed of gossip and drama!  Guess not much has changed in that regard since I was in high school.  My title font is from the Robotz cartridge and the Simple Stories print papers reminded me of a honeycomb.

Cricut:
Pooh and Friends-beehive, bee
Robotz-font
Paper-Simple Stories 24/7 collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

So link up YOUR project at BBTB2 with us and check out all the DT bee-u-ti-ful projects!

Splash Zone layout (for Exploring Cricut)

It's a wide-open challenge at Exploring Cricut this week-all you have to do is use 2 cricut cuts on your project, so it can be any theme or occasion you want!  I'm sticking to summertime fun since I have lots of pool pictures to get in the scrapbook!  I used the H2O cartridge for the water toys and goggles.  The water droplets are from the CM Traveler cartridge.  And the big chunky font is from the Robotz cartridge.  (I don't cut the robots very often, but I love the font!!!!)  I wanted this layout to be bright and fun, so I used lots of color.  The print papers are from Echo Park.

Cricut:
H2O-floatie, goggles, beach ball
CM Traveler-water droplets
Robotz-font
Paper-Echo Park Hello Summer collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
square maker-cut in half for photo corners

I hope you will play along and link up your project with our challenge!  The design team has some great ideas to get you started at Exploring Cricut.

Don't flip out layout

I had this adorable flip flop paper in my stash from the Echo Park Paradise Beach collection and couldn't resist making a punny summer project!  The title actually says DON'T flip out (the don't is in small sticker letters from the collection, which you can see better if you click on the photo).  I cut my flip flops, sunglasses, and sunscreen from the Pack Your Bags cartridge.  The other accents are stickers from the paper pack.    I'm going to link this to the Craftin' Desert Divas summer themed linky party.

Cricut:
Pack Your Bags-sunscreen, flip flops, sunglasses
Plaintain Schoolbook-circles
Robotz-font
Paper/stickers-Echo Park Paradise Beach collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Cool in the Pool layout (for BBTB2)

It's a Summertime Fun challenge at BBTB2 this week!  We've been enjoying some summer fun time in the pool, so I have a "Cool in the Pool" layout.  I used the H2O cartridge for the sun, beach ball, and sunscreen and the CM Traveler cartridge for the flip flops and sunglasses.  The font is from the Robotz cartridge-I wanted a big fun chunky font for this layout.  The supercool print papers are from the Echo Park Paradise Beach collection from last year-I thought the background paper resembled swirling water perfectly.

Cricut:
H2O-sun, beach ball, and sunscreen all cut at 3 inches
Robotz-font, cut at 1 1/2 inches
CM Traveler-sunglasses cut at 2 inches, flip flops cut at 3 inches
Paper-Echo Park Paradise Beach collection prints/stickers, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

I hope you will check out the DT projects at BBTB2 and link up a project with us!

U R 2 Cool Dude! layout (for Exploring Cricut)

Today is my day for the daily project at Exploring Cricut!  I took some great pictures of my guys gaming with some of their friends, which inspired my U R 2 Cool Dude layout.  They have been having so much fun this summer playing!  (We are kind of addicted to Lego Rock Band and the Wii Sports!)  I used the Robotz font for the title and the game controller is from Boys Will Be Boys (it kind of looked like the Wii game controller...).  The paper and stickers are some leftovers from the awesome My Mind's Eye Boy Crazy collection.

Cricut:
Robotz-font
Boys Will Be Boys-game controller
Paper-My Mind's Eye Boy Crazy collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Hope you check out all the great stuff at Exploring Cricut every day and get inspired to create!  Diane has also created an Exploring Cricut Facebook page, so you can see the daily projects there as well.

Programmed to Play layout (for Exploring Cricut)

I have the fun of showing the daily project at Exploring Cricut today!  So, tell me I'm not the only one who gets sucked into buying scrapbooking paper when they didn't plan to.  I went to Archiever's ONLY to buy some adhesive (as scrapbooking had come to a grinding halt without adhesive), but I walked out with the entire My Mind's Eye Boy Crazy collection of paper!!!!!   There was this fantastic robot paper-it was so cute-and the robots talked to me and said I had to buy the paper to make cool boy scrapbook pages.  That's my story for hubby anyway and I'm sticking to it.  Here's what the robots talked me into:

For my layout, I used the robot paper for the background and cut out a robot from the Robotz cart, pairing it with the collection's robot sticker.  I used the funky Robotz font for the title.

(I have pictures of the kids playing this computer game called Minecraft that will go on my layout.  This game has taken over the boy pre-teen/teen part of the population!  My sons and their friends were discussing how to open portals to the next dimension, over dinner.  Really.  You can't make this stuff up!)

Cricut:
Robotz-all cuts
Paper/Sticker-My Mind's Eye Boy Crazy collection
brown chalk ink/foam tape

new iPod layout

I finished another catch-up layout that has been buried under the pile:  from Son#1's birthday last year, where he got an iPod touch.  I used a bunch of carts on this one to show all the party fun, as he and his cousins played games and also had jam session playing their instruments and dancing.  The iPod cut is from Paisley, as well as the words crazy and jammin'. The font is from Robotz, the deck of cards from Old West, and the violin from A Child's Year.  The wonderful background paper is an older line from Basic Grey called Life of the Party.

Cricut:
Paisley-ipod, words
A Child's Year-violin
Old West-deck of cards
Robotz-title font
Paper-Basic Grey Life is a Party collection
pop dots, brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to the fun Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week "Sound of Music".

robot valentine card

 This valentine is for Son#3, who loves robots!  I used the Robotz cartridge and paper from The Paper Studio All Seasons pack, and put a heart on the robot's chest.  I am going to link it to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week to use a heart on a project and I'm also going to link it to the Cooking with Cricut challenge to make a kid valentine using red, white, and pink.

Cricut:
Robotz-robot cut at 4 in., font inside cut at 1 in.
Paper-The Paper Studio All Seasons
Stamp-Stampendous
ribbon-from the stash
punch-CM heart punches

Lego Fun

Legos are EVERYWHERE in my house, after a LEGO Star Wars themed birthday party for son#3.  A houseful of 9 year old boys is a very loud messy affair.  Especially after making the mistake of providing them with foam lightsabers (which they promptly began beating each other with).   However, I believe much fun was had and immediate construction of the lego gifts began.   I decided that cuts from Boys Will Be Boys had the most resemblance to acutal legos, so here is my layout.  If there is a lego on a cartridge, someone let me know which one it is!

Cricut:
Boys Will Be Boys-spaceship, alien, 100% Boys, firetruck
Robotz-title Lego Fun
Paper-red background paper Cloud 9 designs, assorted cardstock
brown chalk ink

I'm linking this to the BBTB2 challenge to make a masculine or boy themed layout.

Livin' the good life layouts

Sorry these pics got out of order-I don't know how to fix that yet.  I used these layouts for some summer boating pictures, but they would have worked for pool or beach pics too.  I used Bo Bunny's Barefoot and Bliss paper pack.  (Fantastic paper-I've used almost every scrap!   I actually bought some more to do a mini as a gift later this year, for Christmas.) 

Cricut:
Robotz-title (first layout)
Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons-water droplet first layout, flower on second layout
Paper-Bo Bunny Barefoot and Blissful

mini-album 100% Boy (pic heavy)

My sons had each requested their own mini album, so this is what I came up with for son#1.  The album pages are chipboard I saved from packages of my scrapbook pages and page protectors.  I cut each 12 by 12 chipboard into four 6x6 pieces for the pages.  Free is the best, right?

Cricut:

Robotz-title

Plaintain Schoolbook-circles

Paisley-words chillin, jammin, wonderful, huh?, seriously,music notes

Everyday Paperdolls-kitten, pumpkins

Give a Hoot-tree, squirrel

Doodlecharms-sun

lots of brown chalk ink for the edges of everything

acorns from my stash

The transparency page with the fall scene is actually a cricut mat cover that I cut down to 6x6 and punched holes in for the rings to go through.  I adhered my "scene" to one side of it.    My son wanted places to write, so I included several places he can journal.  The small pages with tags are business envelopes cut in half and covered with paper, which made nice tag spots.  The rest of the decorations are stickers that came with the paper pack.