The Magic of Winter layout

It has been VERY cold here-which kept me in the mood to scrap some snowy New's Year's Day pics of the kids.  I used the Winter Woodland cartridge for all the cuts and the BBTB2 challenge this week, bird on a branch, inspired the bird.  I had wanted something with a pop of red and that was just the thing!  The beautiful background paper is from the Echo Park Winter Wishes collection.

Cricut:
Winter Woodland-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park Winter Wishes print, solids CTMH and CM
pop dots

I'm linking this to the Exploring Cricut challenge this week-Baby It's Cold Outside and the BBTB2 challenge- bird on a branch.

Sports Stadium layout

 Son#2 got to go on a field trip with his school to the major league football stadium this fall.  We got a tour, including the locker room where the team goes on game day!  We also got to go out on the field!  Boy does the stadium look big from the field!  It was all pretty cool, even though our team has been so bad this year that it was painful to watch a game and the coach and GM just got fired.  There is always next year, but I was ashamed to wear any fan gear in public!

Sports Mania was the game-winning cartridge for my layout!   (Couldn't help myself-had to get a sports pun in there!) The football helmet and football border on the journal box turned out really fun, I thought.  The scalloped square is from Accent Essentials.  The title font is Birthday Bash.

Cricut:

Sport's Mania-football helmet and border of footballs

Accent Essential-scalloped square

Birhtday Bash-title font
Paper-CM and CTMH

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week "It's a Man's World".

Winter Fun layout

This is a winter layout for some very old ski pictures!  I used the Teen Scene Paper Doll for the skier and Winter Woodland for the title.  The pretty layered snowflakes are from the CM Cheerful Seasons cart (had to slow down the cutting speed to cut these-tricky to get a clean cut, but so pretty when put together!).  The background paper is from the Bo Bunny Powder Mountain collection.  Sorry about the glare-no sunshine here for the last few days, so it was hard to get decent photos.

Cricut:
Paper Doll Teen Scene-skier guy
Winter Woodlands-title and snowflakes
CM Cheerful Seasons-snowflakes
Paper-Bo Bunny Powder Mountain collection, solids CTMH
Stamp/Ink-My Pink Stamper Winter set, Stampin Up Close to Cocoa ink
Stickers-Echo Park


I going to link this to the BBTB2 challenge this week to use a snowflake.  I'm also going to add this to the Little Scrap Pieces Winter blues challenge.

B is for Boy baby card

I made a quick baby card for the stash while playing around with the B is for Boy cartridge.  The cute little train seemed perfect for a baby boy card!  The stamps are from one of the My Pink Stamper sets.   The shaped mats are from the Elegant Edges cart, which has proven it's versatility.  I find myself constantly going to it for mats for cards and journal boxes.   The banner is from Winter Frolic and I popped up both the train and the banner for some dimension.

Cricut:
B is for Boy-train
Elegant Edges-mats
Winter Frolic-banner
Stamp-My Pink Stamper set
Ink/Ribbon-Stampin Up Close to Cocoa ink, Stampin Up Bashful Blue ribbon
Paper-DCWV Nana's Kids stack

I'm going to link this to the Cardz TV challenge to make a baby themed card or project.

Let's Hang Out layout

It's 2013 and while cleaning off my craft table (well, sort of), I realized I have a lot of unfinished projects from 2012!  Lying around in partial stages of completion!  Mocking me!  While I'm not much for New Year's resolutions, I think my crafty resolution is going to be:  finish up all the unfinished projects.  Maybe not all once....there's a lot!

So, here's one of my unfinished projects, now completed.  Son#2 had a sock monkey themed bday party in 2011.  There were a lot of pictures and after doing a few great monkey layouts, I was burned out.  I put the rest of it aside to get my monkey mojo back.  The awesome background paper is from The Paper Studio and the adorable sock monkey stickers I found at Hobby Lobby last year.  The monkey word paper is from the most awesome monkey stack ever-Cheekee Monkey-which I also found at Hobby Lobby last year.  The title is from Create A Critter.  The journal box tag is from Mickey and Friends and is my favorite tag from all the cartridges I have.

Edited to add:  Fantabulous Cricut is going to feature this on Scrapping Saturday, so if you came over from there, thanks for checking out my blog :)

Cricut:
Create A Critter-title
Mickey and Friends-tag
Paper-background print and green paper from The Paper Studio, word print is Cheekee Monkey stack
ribbon-Stampin Up
brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week-"Tag Your It".
  

Have an "ice day" card

I made this winter thank you card for the Die Cutting' Divas sketch challenge this week, with more of the Bo Bunny Powder Mountain paper.  Lovin' this paper pack!  The penguin and igloo are from Create A Critter and the stamp is from the My Pink Stamper Winter Punnies set.  We watched the movie Mr. Popper's Penguins over the holiday, so the kids will get a kick out of having a penguin thank you card.  (They would be more enthused with real live penguins like Mr. Popper....but this will have to do, lol!)

Sorry my lighting is bad for the inside of the card picture!

Cricut:
Create A Critter-penguin and igloo
Paper-Bo Bunny Powder Mountain prints, CM solid cardstock
Stamp-My Pink Stamper Winter Punnies set
pearls-Theresa Collins
brown chalk ink for the edges, Stampin Up Close to Cocoa for the stamping
Sizzix snowflake embossing folder

Thanks Snow Much card

We've got some snow, so a snowman themed thank you card seemed perfect for some of those after-Christmas thank yous we need to get in the mail!  I have been waiting to use this stamp "Thanks Snow Much"!    The paper is from the Bo Bunny Powder Mountain collection and my snowman is one of the adorable snowmen on the Winter Frolic cartridge.   The good news is that the kids LOVED this card and are actually eager to write some thank you goodness on it!

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-snowman cut at 3 1/2 in.
Paper-Bo Bunny Powder Mountain collection
Ribbon/Ink-Stampin Up Bashful Blue ribbon, Stampin Up Night of Navy ink
Stamps-My Pink Stamper Winter Punnies set
Punches-Stampin Up

I'm going to add this to the fun winter challenge at Little Scrap Pieces!