Grateful thank you card

One son requested I make his thank you card for his Christmas gifts from 3 Birds on Parade (his favorite cart-he's the one who talked me into buying it).  He was very happy with the result!

Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-all cuts
Paper-My Mind's Eye

A Cup of Cheer

One of our family traditions at Christmas is to go to an area in our city that has lots of Christmas lights and sit in the Starbucks there drinking hot choclate looking out at the lights.  Then we go drive around to look at more lights around town and in our neighborhood.  The challenge this week at Fantabulous Cricut was "warm up with cocoa", perfect for my pages!  I used Winter Frolic for the cup of cheer title and Graphically Speaking for the cup and Mmmmm.  I cannot for the life of me remember what the snowflake is from, as it was leftover from another project, but found a home here!  It uses my super cute new paper pack from Echo Park called Winter Park.

Edit: the snowflake is from Joys of the Season!

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-title
Graphically Speaking-cup, Mmmmm
Joys of the Season-snowflake
Paper-Echo Park's Winter Park collection
pop dots, Stampin Up ribbon in cherry cobbler

Baby It's Cold Outside

I made this layout with 3 Birds on Parade (although I used a couple of other carts too) for the Exploring Cricut challenge to make a winter scene.  I plan to put some pics of the kids playing in the snow and sledding on it.   I love 3 Birds on Parade-the birds are so funny!  Great titles too.   The background paper is from The Paper Studio.  I am also going to link this to the SOUS challenge to use a diecut snowflake on a project.

I used Everyday Paperdolls for the skis and Winter Frolic for the sled (it's actually in one of the borders), plus some stickle at the edge of the snow.  The snowflakes are from the CM Cheerful Seasons cart.

Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-Snow Day cut at 3 inches, Baby It's Cold Outside cut at 2 1/2 inches, birds cut at 5 inches
Everyday Paperdolls-skis cut at 3 inches on real dial size
Winter Frolic-sled cut at 1 1/2 inches
CM Cheerful Seasons-snowflakes, one at 3 inches and one at 3 1/2 inches
Paper-The Paper Studio, plus assorted cardstock from my stash
stickle in Frosted Lace and brown chalk ink in Jumbo Java for edges

Blog Award

Annette from My Mind's Dust Bunnies just gave me an award for an up and coming blogger!  I now get to pass it on to some other new bloggers, which will be very fun!  This will take a few day to ponder, however, so you will be seeing my list maybe next week.   I just want to thank Annette, who was one of my very first followers and who is now on the Design Team at Exploring Cricut! 

Skating card

I've got a few more thank you cards for Christmas gifts to make and this one was inspired by the BBTB2 challenge this week to use the skate from Winter Woodland on a project.  I had to go with the skate from CM Cheerful Seasons, however, as my sons felt the Winter Woodland skate (which has the laces tied in a bow) looked too "girly" for their thank yous.  Whatever!  Since I still used some pink, I'm not sure they will be entirely happy with the finished product anyway, but I liked it! 

Edited to add:  the verdict was mixed from the boys this morning, who announced the card was very pretty, but had too much pink.  I think they had more of a black and gray hockey skate look in mind!  It was comical!

Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-skates
Plaintain Schoolbook-tags
Stamps from JoAnns, twine, and brown chalk ink
Paper-My Mind's Eye striped paper, blue Coredinations, assorted scraps from the stash

Winter Fun

This layout was scraplifted from a Youtube video by ScrappinJen31 that I found while searching for ideas using my new Echo Park Winter Park paper.  I was completely inspired by her page!    I copied her supercute page and added my own second page to make the two page spread that I prefer.  I also changed the picture sizes to be 4x6, as I generally don't print odd sizes or crop my pics too much, to save time.  Can't wait for some snow to get some pics!  (It has been much warmer than usual this December here in my part of the Mid-West, as we haven't had any snow yet.)

The mitten border here on Winter Frolic is SO cute-I hadn't really ventured into trying any of the borders on this cart before.  Each border is cut at 21/4 in.   The little snowflake is from Accent Essentials, and was really hard to cut this small.  A little snowflake punch would have been better, but I don't have one small enough.

Cricut:
Winter Frolic-titles, mitten border
Accent Essentials-snowflakes on mittens
Paper/stickers- Echo Park's Winter Park collection, plus assorted solid CM cardstock from my stash

Warm Winter Wishes

This layout was inspired by the paper, which I found at Hobby Lobby.  The reindeer made me think of the reindeer on Winter Woodlands and it sort of went from there.  The pics are from a choir concert last year and I plan to journal on the tag.

Cricut:
Winter Woodlands-title, tag, reindeer
A Child's Year-scalloped photo mats
Paper-reindeer paper Hobby Lobby, plus assorted CM cardstock
brown chalk ink