Father's Day BBQ pop-up box card

Happy Monday!  I am hosting the BBTB2 challenge this week and it's all about the dads, since Father's Day is this coming weekend.  We have a man theme going-anything masculine with a cricut cut for Father's Day will fit the bill.  I saw a cute idea on Pinterest that sparked my project-a cooking themed pop-up box card.  Both my husband and my dad are kings of the smoker and grill, so this seemed like a perfect fit.  (Here in Kansas City, we are all about the BBQ.  There's an amateur pit master on every practically every corner!)

I followed this tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers to make my basic box card, and then used cricut cuts from Everyday Paperdolls for my cooking items, catsup, and mustard and Artbooking for my conversation bubble, which I stamped with the Love You and hearts.  We'd love to see your Father's Day projects over at BBTB2 and you can take a peek and see the rest of the design team projects for inspiration!

Cricut:
Everyday Paperdolls-cooking items, chef's hat
Artbooking-conversation bubble
Plaintain Schoolbook-circles for knobs
Paper-CTMH solids
Stamps-CTMH Hello, Life-Cardmaking and Hello, Life-Pocket Scrapbooking sets
Ink-Stampin Up poppy parade, Memento Tuxedo black
corner rounder
white and black pens for doodling

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You're RAD layout

Happy Monday!  Hope you have had a fun weekend of summer!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a garden theme.  Makes you just want some of that summery goodness, doesn't it?  Well, the farmer's market is about as close as I get to actual gardening, but I love cooking with garden fresh produce.  So my layout is for celebrating the delicious fresh goodness we will be having at an upcoming family BBQ.  I used the Just Because Cards cartridge for my radish and punny title.  Check out the awesomeness from the design team at BBTB2 and garden up something of your own!

Cricut:
Just Because Cards-title, radish
Paper-Jillibean Soup

Graduation

Happy Monday!  I hope you are having a relaxing Memorial Day holiday!  It's that graduation season and our BBTB2 challenge this week is to make either a graduation or thank you card.  While I don't have any graduates this year, next year Son#1 will be a senior and I expect to need lots of cards as we will know many graduating seniors.  So this card is going in the stash!  I used Locker Talk for the graduation cap and Elegant Edges for the background mat.  The font is from Artistry.  My Swiss Dots embossing folder on the mat did not show up well in the photo, but gives some texture to the white mat in real life!  Hope you will check out all the fabulous cards at BBTB2 and use the linky for a project to share of your own.

Cricut:
Locker Talk-graduation cap
Artistry-font
Elegant Edges-shaped mat behind cap
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Paper-CTMH solids

towel challenge

Happy Monday!  School is out and the kids and I are planning to chill!  Because summer school PE starts next week….yikes!  But summer PE won't have things like Calculus homework, English essays,  and conjugating verbs in French and Spanish, so I think the stress level around here should be MUCH lower.  I must say I am greatly looking forward to summer, as it has been a difficult stressful year for the teens.

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is towels.  As I didn't seem to have much in the way of cricut towels to choose from among my cartridges, my project is a fun wedding shower card with matching his and her towels from the Sweethearts cartridge.  I jazzed it up with two different embossing folders for some texture and contrast.  We've got some cute projects to get you started over at BBTB2, so take a look!

Cricut:
Sweethearts-towel cut
Paper-CTMH solids
Stamps-Paper Smooches set

Forest Hiking layout (tree challenge)

Happy Monday!  One more week of school….I am SO ready for the finals stress to be over for the teenagers!  They've been a little cranky and stressed out!  (Studying for pre-calc, french, and spanish finals will do that to a kid…)  We are all going to be celebrating Thursday night when school's out!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a cricut tree on a project.  There is such a multitude of trees to choose from on many different cartridges that I was stuck on which tree to use.  I was making this layout for some hiking pictures, so I finally decided to use some of the cute animal cuts on the Give A Hoot cartridge and guess what?  It had trees too.  Problem solved!  Since Give A Hoot doesn't have a font, I went with one of the fonts on the Stork's Delivery cartridge for the title.  Hope you enjoy this hiking layout and take a look at the design team projects over at BBTB2!  The linky at BBTB2 will be open for you to show off a project too.

Cricut:
CM Stork's Delivery-Frogs and Snails font
Give a Hoot-all other cuts
Paper-Bella Blvd Campout collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Camera layouts

Happy Monday!  I hope the moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day!  After a very grueling work week, my husband cooked for all of us and my parents for lunch and smoked some amazing BBQ and made his fantastic home-made potato salad!  We finished it off with strawberry shortcake with the first spring strawberries from my sister's farm.  Getting to hang out with my mom and my boys made for a great day!!!!  There might have been a nap involved as well….LOL!

So our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a cricut camera on a project.  I have two projects, both using the camera from the Be Young cartridge.  I had some fun camera paper in the stash that was perfect for my Life in pictures layout below, for Son #2 and some of his friends.  For my OMG layout on the bottom, I went with bright happy paper, as it will have pics of my teens and their cousins goofing around.  There are so many fun cricut cameras to play around with, so have some fun and use the linky at BBTB2 to share your project with us!

Cricut:
Be Young-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park Jack and Jill collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Cricut:
Be Young-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park Little Boy Collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Mother's Day card bouquet of flowers

Happy Monday!  I hope the sun is shining and your spirits are bright today as we start this new week.  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a flower bouquet or flowers in a vase for Mother's Day.  So stop reading right NOW, Mom!  I used the Artistry cartridge to make this cut of flowers in a Mason jar. I cut the word Mom very tiny and also added some pink skittles as blooms and some twine for texture to my cricut cut.  It all goes over this beautiful background paper I found in the stash.  You know all moms love something homemade for Mother's Day, so here's your opportunity to create something special and share it with all of us over at BBTB2 with the linky!  The design team has some fabulous projects to inspire you, so go check them out.

Cricut:
Artistry-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
decorative skittles-Doodlebug
twine and foam tape