Music Speaks layout

Happy Monday!  Have you gotten into the Halloween candy yet?  I will confess that I planned to take "just one" during a chocolate emergency (am I the only one that has those?) and one turned into.....well, let's not put an exact number on it!  All the candy in my house needs to be gone on Tuesday!!!!!  I'm sure the kids will be glad to get right on that, lol!

I am hosting the challenge over at BBTB2 this week and I chose a very general challenge theme-use any of the many cricut words on your project.  This leaves your project choices wide open!  The design team has some amazing projects to get you inspired below.  I was scrapping pictures of the kids from a musical event and used a phrase from the Quarter Note cartridge.

Cricut:
Quarter Note-title
Paper-CTMH solids, The Paper Company music print

ghouls and monsters card

Happy Monday!  It's been a busy week of work, band competitions, high school football games, and concerts!  And guess what's coming up soon?  Halloween!  And that's our BBTB2 challenge theme this week as well.  I have already taken some Halloween themed pictures, as the high school band performed their halftime show in Halloween costumes this weekend instead of their uniforms.  They had a competition going among the band for groups with the best costume theme.  My son and his friends decided to be characters from the Wii game Super Mario Kart.  Seeing him conduct the band dressed as Mario, complete with mustache, and using our Wii controller as his conducting stick was pretty hilarious, as you can see!

However, for my project this week, I made cards to send to the college kids (my son and niece), which will go in a care package with some treats.  I used the adorable monster from the Artistry cartridge with some paper from the stash.  I think it'll be a hit...card and candy!  You can play along and link up a project over at BBTB2 and see the fun design team creations.

Cricut:
Artistry-monster, backing shapes
Paper-DCVW All Seasons 2 stack prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

travel road trip Adventure Awaits layout

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is a road trip theme.  We bought Son#1 a used little pick-up truck in August to drive on the ultimate road trip.....away to college!  I'm sure he will be having many adventures in this truck over the next few years-there is nothing like the freedom of your first set of wheels (that isn't the family mini-van, lol!).   I used the CM Traveler cartridge along with some road sign paper from the stash for this layout.  Hope you will join us over at BBTB2 with a project and see the fun creations from the design team!

Cricut:
CM Traveler-all cuts, including font
Paper-Paper Pizzazz print, CTMH solids
Stamp-CTMH The Long Way Home set
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black

Pizza Night layout

Happy Monday!  It's been a beautiful fall weekend in KC and I have been busy watching my all my boys perform at fall festivals, football games, and band marching competitions!  Needless to say, I took lots of pictures!  All those fall layouts are going to be filled up with photos for sure.

This week's BBTB2 challenge is Beer and Pizza.  We are a family who appreciates their pizza, so I had the perfect photos to scrap from a vacation trip to Chicago where we sampled Chicago style deep dish pizza.  Very different from pizza here in KC, but soooooo delicious!  I found a great set of cricut cuts for pizza on the Family Album cartridge for my layout and this checked paper from Doodlebug reminded me of a tablecloth.  You can see yummy design team projects over at BBTB2 and link up a project this week there.

Cricut:
Family Album-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

pumpkin Fall Festival layout

Happy Monday!  The weather actually feels a bit more like fall here in KC, with slightly cooler temps and we are just starting to see the first color in the leaves!  There are many fall festivals going on-I was at my suburb's festival and parade this weekend to watch Son#2 lead the high school marching band and I think I'm still in a sugar coma from too many funnel cakes!  Can't resist that yummy festival food!!!

In keeping with fall, our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a pumpkin cut on a project.  I just got the You Are Here CTMH cricut cartridge for my birthday last month and used the pumpkin cut on it for my layout for pics from the fall festival.  I'm having so much scrappy fun playing with it!  The design team over at BBTB2 has lots of pumpkin-y goodness for you to see and you can link up a project too.

Cricut:
You Are Here-pumpkin and leaves
Paper-CTMH

Fabulous Fall layout

Happy Monday!  Has it felt like fall in your neck of the woods?  It still feels like hot, sticky late summer here in Kansas City.  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is fall....but my current events are full of shorts, t-shirts, and swimming pools.  With a little high school football mixed in.  However, I had pictures from last year of two of my sons playing fiddle at a local fall festival, so I whipped up this fabulous fall layout using the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge.  I love this cartridge and I think I've used almost every single cut on it at one time or another.  Hope you will join us over at BBTB2 and submit a project!  You can see the design team projects for inspiration there as well.  We also now have a Facebook group you can join.

Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug prints, CTMH solids

Love you to the core apple card

Happy Monday!  It was a week of illness at my house but I'm happy to report that ice cream does, in fact, make everything better.  Sick people AND mom's mood, lol!  If they could only make a no calorie ice cream, I think a lot of the world's problems could be solved....ice cream for all!  If only it were that easy, right?

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use an apple.  My oldest son and one of my nieces went off to college this fall and they've let me know college students like getting mail from home!  So I'm planning to send both of them some fun little cards and packages every few weeks and I made this one with an apple for my niece.  I used my favorite cricut apple from Doodlecharms and paired it with this "love you to the core" stamp.  It's going to be fun making some cute cards to make them smile!  Take a look at the harvest-full of apple projects over at BBTB2 and make something cute yourself to link up!

Cricut:
Doodlecharms-apple
Paper-My Mind's Eye 6x6 collection prints, CTMH solids
Stamp-so old I'm not even sure, lol
Punches-scalloped oval and oval from Stampin' Up