I have two posts today….

Happy Monday!  It's happy for me because I'm on VACATION!!!!  When you read this, I am going to be on a jeep tour of Rocky Mountain National Park with the fam!  We are supposed to go up to 12,000feet-I'm planning to take lots of pictures of the view!  We are going white water rafting tomorrow, so IF I live to tell the tale, you'll see some pictures of that eventually.  But on to crafty pursuits…I have two posts today.  Just below is my Splash Zone layout for Exploring Cricut for some pool pictures.  Scroll down one post for my Totally Crazy layout for the BBTB2 dog challenge, using the Paisley cartridge.  Hope you have a great week!  

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.

Totally Crazy layout (for BBTB2)

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a dog on a project.  I made a fun layout for some crazy pictures of Son#2 and his friends goofing around before the school talent show, using the Paisley cartridge.  The dog with the hula hoop and the monkey doing a handstand sort of gave me that crazy and fun talent show vibe where anything goes and I added some stars since they all want to be a star like on American Idol!!  The "totally crazy" title is also from Paisley.  The pictures are super colorful, so I wanted kind of neutral photo mats-the layout looks much snazzier with the pics on it, but since some of the pics have children who are not mine in them, I didn't want to post the photo with the pics included.

Cricut:
Paisley-all cuts
Paper/Stickers-Echo Park It's a Boy collection bg papers, CTMH solids
brown and navy chalk ink

The DT has a whole pack of dog projects to get your ideas flowing, so check them out at BBTB2 and link up!

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

Rocky Mountain High road trip layout (for BBTB2 travel challenge)

It's a vacation travel challenge at BBTB2!  We are leaving next week to go to Estes Park Colorado to see Rocky Mountain National Park and do some hiking and white water rafting, so this was very timely!  I cannot wait to be on the road!  I'm sure I'll be taking a bazillion pictures of the mountain views (in fact, I've scheduled us for a jeep photography tour!), so I've made a layout using Pack Your Bags and Zooballoo.  I cut the mountains from Zooballoo at fit to page, which turned out to be 4 1/2 inches.  The car, camera, and compass are all from Pack Your Bags.

Edited to add:  My kids informed me that this title could be misconstrued with the Colorado legislation legalizing certain substances (which did not even occur to me)….so just to clarify, we are going high as in ELEVATION,  lol!

Cricut:

Pack Your Bags-car cut at 4 inches, compass cut at 3 inches, camera cut at 3 inches

Mickey Font-title cut at 1 inch

Paper/Stickers-Echo Park Summer Bliss collection prints, CTMH solids

Happy Trails layout

I made (another) layout for hiking pictures I plan to take on our upcoming vacation to Rocky Mountain National Park, using the Campin' Critters cartridge.  It is scrap lifted from a layout I saw on Pinterest, which I love to browse for inspiration (I will post a link to it, if I can find it again!).  I used a different outdoor scene and the sign to better fit my hiking in the mountains theme and changed the sizing around to work with 4x6 pics, which is mainly what I scrap in my albums because it is super easy to print 4x6 on my home printer.

Cricut:
Campin' Critters-all cuts
Paper-Bo Bunny prints from an old line that's been in my stash awhile, solids are CTMH
brown chalk ink

I'm linking this to the Fantabulous Cricut anything goes challenge this week.

Celebrate Freedom layout (for Exploring Cricut)

Happy 4th of July!  I get to share the daily project at Exploring Cricut today, and I have a layout for the 4th of July.   I used the Artbooking cartridge for all the cuts, including the rocket and stars.  The papers are from Hobby Lobby.  I am looking forward to seeing the fireworks tonight and plan to take some pictures for this layout!  I hope you all get to do something fun to celebrate the USA today!

Cricut:
Artbooking-all cuts
Paper-Hobby Lobby The Paper Studio prints, CTMH solids