FUN FRAME WEEK - Day 1

Good morning Ladies and Gents!! Kel and I decided we would play around with frames this week on our carts. I first had to share a picture of my Dad learning how to use his new Cricut!! As many of our followers know my Dad is card maker/scrapbooker, doll house builder. He is a crafty guy. This is my kitchen table and my cricut and his cricut on the table. I was teaching him how to use the Cricut. He did well!

So on to the frames, the two frames I printed out were from Happy Hauntings. I cut this one at 10" and it is on Page 40. I am going to use this on a Halloween page for this year. I do love it and has a cut bat on the top and bottom.

















This one is super cute and I cut it at 4" and it is on page 33, and the layered pumpkins I cut in orange.

I am not a huge fan of Halloween, but after playing around with the cartridge I want to go out and take some Halloween pictures so I can use it!

Make it a great day!!

SOME HALLOWEEN TITLE IDEAS

The Boo Crew
The Cutest Pumpkin In The Patch
Eat, Drink and Be Scary
Coffin Break
A Haunting We Will Go
Make No Bones About It
To Cute To Spook
What Characters!
Spooktacular Kids
Trick or Treat, be real sweet, give us tasty treats to eat.
It's a Monster Mash
Chills and Thrills
Which Witch is Which?
Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun!
Spooktacular!
Bewitched

Scrappin it forward for Janet!

She wants to share a pic of her first Eva mini album! Check it out here LadyLuvBug SORRY I JUST REDID IT I think I fixed the prob.

EXPLORING CRICUT CARTRIDGES - DAY 5

Ok as promised here is the layout I did. I used three different cartridges on this page. So the number 5 is from A Childs's Year, page 5 cut at 3" and I hit the Monogram button. The paper is from a StampinUP! designer pack, I don't remember which one, but I do love it.

The "5" border on the bottom of this page is cut from Graphically Speaking cut at 6" and I had the "Fit to page" button on. I wanted it make it a border. I have to say, I scraplifted the border idea from Dawn, she did it on a page for her son's birthday. I love it.


This super cute backpack is cut @ 2" from Doodle Charms, page 119. I finally purchased some Peachy Keen stamps and have been dying to use them. So I gave the backback a face. So cute, brings the backpack to life, (LOL, scrap nerd as Kel would say).


The two people reading is cut from Graphically Speaking, page 51, cut @ 2", I used the Icon Black out and cut the regular cut as well. I used some paper that looked like newspaper. I think it came out soo cute.

FIRST OFFICAL BIZ THEN FUN

Good morning Ladies!!!

It is Friday (thank goodness, that in my mind means scrapping is so very close!!). We wanted to take care of some business then we will post something a little later on.

First up - A BIG welcome goes out to our two new followers, first we have Pjritsema and secondly we have wandwandco. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We didn't see that you had a blog, if you do please let us know and we will be sure to direct the folks over to you. Thanks so very much for stopping by. We hope we like what you see!! We love to "scrap it forward" here, so anything you want to share, please let us know.

Secondly as you know the swap is just about winding down. I have received two swaps already, and let me tell you, they are AMAZING!!!! I am not surprised as we have really talented people, but I think these two gals have out done themselves!! If you don't have my address to send the swap to, please email me at lbaires@comcast.net. We can't wait to see them. Deadline is October 17th. Don't forget to enclose your self addressed stamped envelope so you can get your swaps back!!

Tune in later for a fun layout I did using a few different cartridges. Make it a great day!

Laurie

We just received a great award from Jean's Crafty Corner Thanks SOOO very much.. Me and Laurie love it ! Oh ya.. total scrap nerds..we had to text each other immediately.. LOL.. You made our day Jean! LOL We have our 5 below that we would like to pass along too!

Crafts-n-Cards Cricut Corner Justine!

bumblebee creations -Rhonda!

C.C.'s Cards and Crafts Celeste B!

DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee Carrie!

Thelazymac.blogspot.com - Miss Jen

EXPLORING CRICUT CARTRIDGES, Day 4

Here is a fun layout I did and think I overdid it.. LOL I was like a mad scientist "evil laugh included" when I was doing this page. LOL. I just couldn't stop adding things! Muahhahhahhahaaa!. I used just about everything.. Lemme see if I can break it down. The lettering is from the new CM cartridge, If ya can swing it,, GET THIS.. it's a goodie!! I think the butterflies are from grafically speaking??. The clock is from Heidi Swapp, the papers are from my stash. the lil blue stamped flowers in the corner are SU! I used two punches on this , a corner punch from SU! and the border scallop"ish" punch is Fiskars. I keep my flowers all in a box together so I don't even want to guess where they all came from. Everything I inked was SU! inks spots, brights I believe. I need to start making notes when I scrap.. So, I just made a note, to get a note pad to use specifically to take notes when I scrap.. LOL

EXPLORING CRICUT CARTRIDGES, Day 3

Just luvin' this lil one..heheh. Laurie and I found this cute little panda on the Create a Critter cartridge along with the bamboo shoots and bowl of noodles inside card. The lil face on the noodles was done with a peachy keen stamp. We grabbed smile over at Graphically speaking. The graft paper used for the mat and her lil hat is from a Tim Holtz stack, the gray cardstock is from DCWV. We inked the edges of the mat, bamboo and noodle bowl with SU! carmel ink. Me and Lau did right down specific pages and paper stacks and sizes, but when I ripped off the piece of paper I wrote everything on, I tore right through these directions without realizing so I'm doing it by memory and "winging it" as they say . Laurie should be up soon to correct me in any areas that need correcting, lol. Sorry ladies! Oh ya, I think lil miss Panda and her adorable noodles are cut at 2.5"

EXPLORING CRICUT CARTRIDGES, Day 1

Here is a cute xmas card, using traditional colors that was simp to put together. We used ACCENT ESSENTIALS, pg 70 at 2.5" for the frame and GRAFICALLY SPEAKING, pg. 31 at 3" for the lightpost. The black paper is coordinatons and we sandpapered it. The other papers, ribbon & lil wreath sticker came from Lauries stash and the stamp is from INKADINKADO, Play Holiday set. On the inside we used a Fiskars lace punch.

Exploring Cricut Cartidges - Day One

Good morning. I hope everyone had a great weekend, per usual it went by too fast!!

Kel and I were talking about how we have those "go to" cartridges that we use all the time. We decided to challenge ourselves to using two different cartridges on a card or layout. On my layout I used Graphically Speaking for the title and the cute little banner on the bottom and then for the word wonderful I used Paisley. This is a picture of my hubby (in the middle) and our two nephews.

I also wanted to pass along a helpful hint that Kel found on the internet. We found a way to make the book for the cartidge more user friendly.

Step 1: Take out the pages you don't need. So at the beginning of the book, there are a ton of pages we don't need, all the pages in a different language, take them out (I will tell you what do with them in a minute).

Step 2: On the first pages of images, start numbering the pages in the right hand corner, 1, 2, 3 until they are all numbered. When you have the overlay on the Cricut and you see a flower you want to cut, on your number 6 page, you count over six images on the overlay and that will be your flower (let me know if you have any questions, I can post pictures). This truly is a time saver.

Step 3: Don't recycle those torn out pages yet. The pages are perforated on the top and/or bottom. I cut up from the perforated part, about a 1/4 of an inch (so I have somewhere to put the adhesive) and you can use on a page, like I did with this page, underneath the picture you can see the perforated paper (I see these on pages everywhere now).

Stay tuned for some really cute cards that Kel and I made last night, so much fun exploring our cartridges!!

WELCOME

VALERIE.. so glad that you took a swing by to check us out. We hope to see you around again soon. Let us know if you want us to scrap anything forward for you!

HALLOWEEN WEEK

Here is a great card sent over to us from Janet. LadyLuvBug. Here's what she had to say. Hi, thought I'd send my halloween card along to you. This week has been very busy. My newest grandson arrived this past Wednesday, cute as a button. This is the first chance I've had to post anything no time to create:0(. Hope ypu like it. Janet. CONGRATS to you Janet on your new arrival and thanks for sending over this too cute halloween card. I'm totally loving the stitching and the web border!

HALLOWEEN WEEK, Day 6

Here is a cool project sent in by Tara. Awesome!! She says,

Here is a Haunted House from my class last night..made with the Decor Accent Build a House from Stampin Up Holiday Mini Catalog.
Tara M. Travis, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator~Manager
http://stampingoodtime.stampinup.net/

HALLOWEEN WEEK, Day 5

AAAARG! Here is an adorable page and a cute tag sent in from Dawn.

HALLOWEEN WEEK, Day 4

This was sent in by the very talented Tara at A Stamping Good Time She says: This was for a 3D swap I did this past weekend. It is an individual microwave popcorn package, wrapped in cardstock (6 1/2 by 11), then Wicked Fun Designer Series Paper (6x11), punched with the Crop A Dile and then the Black Striped Ribbon runs through it so it holds in the popcorn. The pumpkin is made with 3 Wide Ovals, sponged with Pumpkin Pie; and the Boho Blossoms Punch is what makes the stem. I wrapped the greeting with the Raven 1/2" lace ribbon

HALLOWEEN WEEK, Day 3

Here's two Halloween cards sent in by dawn. I'm loving the cuttlebug design on the pumpkin card along with that great stitched grin! And, the bat is perfectly creepy flying past the night moon :) Awwwooooooooooooooh! Thanks for sending them in Dawn!

CREEPY WEEK, Day 2

A fun card I did at crop I went to this past Saturday. I had done a similar card a while ago, but felt it needed a bit of an improvement, so I tweeked a bit. I used my lil 1.00 witch stamp,that I colored in with some glitter pens. Its hard to see. pop dotted the lil spider, goopy MS punch on the inside and hit it with some glossy accent. I will add my name on the inside of the card with cricut letters when I sent out. I grabbed that paper in a pack I got for 1.00 at Target. Its thin paper, but great for the price for accent paper.

CREEPY HALLOWEEN WEEK - Day 1

Good Morning!!!

A big congrats to Janet for winning the challenge and a big thanks for all that participated! Everyone did a great job!!

So this week Kel and I thought we would celebrate Halloween a bit early and share some halloween cards and layouts.

This layout I just finished a few weeks back (the pictures is from 2005, Dawn took this awesome picture of my son and her daughter). I had some left over halloween patterned paper in my stash, so I thought I better use it. It was a bit thin so I cut around the edges of it adhered it to a piece of cardstock paper. The title was cut from the Silhoutte (Dawn's silhoutte, I don't have one). The orange goo is of course the Martha Stewart Punch that is getting so many uses!!




Here is a close up of the Silhoutte title











This little guy I had in a stash and I have been dying to use him. I was so happy to be able to.

Stay tuned for tomorrow, I believe Kel has a Halloween card. If you want to send some halloween layouts or cards our way we are always happy to post and scrap it foward, we love to see them!!

AND THE WINNER IS...........

JANET!! Woo hoo Janet.. Great job. My son (who is a honest boy scout by the way..lol> Pulled your name out of the hat. Send me ur addy and I'll get your Tim Holtz prize package off to you.. Thanks for all the entries..This was fun!!

MORE CHALLENGERS !! woo hoo..good luck!

Here is a challenge sent in by Kate at Smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com. Gorgeous! I love purple and purple flowers even more! nice..nice work!

Here is another sent in by Janet. This is of her sisters grandaughters 1st bday.. Love it. Loving the title..very girly! ladyluvbug.blogspot.com

COLOR CHALLENG PRIZE WINNER TONIGHT

Gorgeous work ladies! There are a few more hours to enter. The name will be chosen tonight. The old fashion way, names in a hat.. LOL. At 9p.m. EST. I'd like to have any last entries by 8:30 EST. Thanks!! Kel at Achildinmind@aol.com Good luck!

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK 2, Day 6

This was sent in by C.C.'s Cards and Crafts This is what she had to say: "It's not anything fancy, but I am trying to push myself to do scrapbook pages and this helps me to do it!!! I didn't use anything fancy; no Cricut, Gypsy, Cuttlebug or anything. I went with 'less is more' but I'm not sure if it worked. "

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK 2 - Day 5

Good Friday morning! I am so glad the weekend is finally here. It has been a long week. This is my attempt at the color challenge. The blue 12x12 is of course StampinUP! Then I cut the square blocks to roughly 4.5 x4.5. Then with the remaining strips, I just cut them at about an inch. I added some rub ons (well actually lots of rub ons, down the side of two sheets of the patterned paper and acrosse the bottom of the layout and on the picture itself). I used Bazill chip board, then covered with patterned paper (left over from my squares) and the top each one off with a brad. I have to say I was hestitant about the colors, but I


do like the way it came out. I love to be challenged and think outside the box.

I also have to add this picture is circa 1992!! It is me, my sister and sister-in-law.

Have a fantastic weekend!!

I've JUST GOT TO SHOW THESE OFF....WOW

I received my package from a tag swap I was in from Paper Phenomenon Ok, these ladies have some SERIOUS talent, I'm going to list their blogs so we can all check em out. Earthyscrap.blogspot.com is Splash, Balloon is Cardsbychristy.blogspot.com, Icecream is sniptuck.blogspot.com and Florida is psychomoms.com, mine sad a** one is the lobster one.. LOL

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK 2, Day 4

Here is a beautiful card from Tara at: . A Stamping Good Time She says "The colors are: Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, and Certainly Celery...all part of the new Subtles Collection of SU colors. The stamp set is Artistic Etchings and Teeny Tiny Wishes. The technique is what I call the tye-dye method, that I am going to feature this week in Baltimore at the Stampin Up! Regional Training!"

WELCOME CHIFFON

Welcome, nice to have you. As an american, I too would like to say that I am proud of your Navy daughters as well and of others who serve our country. Honor, Courage, Committment! We thank them for their service. We hope to see you back around soon :)

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 3

Here is a lovely layout sent in by Dawn. This is beautiful Dawn, I love how soft the colors are. The lil seahorse is the cutest! Of course, I'm jealous of the pic as of my favorite places to be is right there on a beach in Maine!

Swap is officially closed

Good afternoon fellow swappers (is that even a word??),

We wanted to let you know that we have 10 participants in the Christmas swap.

The swap will consist of:

1 standard Christmas card 4.25 x 5.0
1 3-4 inch Christmas tag

We are making 1 card and 1 tag per participant. So you should be mailing 10 cards and 10 tags. They can match, but don't feel they have to. Feel free to use your creativity.

Here are some basic rules:

1) You must include a self address stamped envelope if you don't, we can't mail the swap back to you.

2) Please mail the swap to Laurie by 10.17. Please email Laurie @ lbaires@comcast.net to get her address.

3) Have great, great fun.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Kel and Laurie

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 2, Post 1

Here is a great layout by studio j "I did this with one of the gorgeous sky photos from AZ. Azure means "purplish blue" and that fits that sky!A Closeup shows the Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Old Olive Cardstock, some patterned paper that had just the right shades of blue and purple to go with the photo (pp from my stash). I used some Old Olive retired ribbon and Old Olive ink. The outlines are done in a pale blue stickles and I added some pale blue rhinestones from my stash:)

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 2, Post 2

Here is a great layout sent in by Jean's Crafty Corner: Serenity Scrappers Color Challenge She says: "While I was thinking about what to do, I was thinking about how I mainly make layouts for pictures, but you can also make them without pictures and also wall hangings, etc. I love to make layouts and frame them as gifts, so thinking about that, I decided to make a layout with a bible verse on it to frame and hang up. I used a blue background sheet,a purple flower and button and then for the green, I cut the stem from Serenade, the leaves from Gypsy Wanderings and the frame is from Storybook. I printed the sentiment onto the cut in purple. The butterflies are stickers by Jolee. I like how this turned out and think it will make a really nice framed layout."

TOOOO SWEEEET!

Here is a thank you card for me and Laurie from Diane over at ?scraps by ownhomedog? It is the cutest! She was our 35th follower and she won a prize!! We are glad you enjoyed your candy! Ladies if you want some card inspiration, go on over and check out Diane's talent. Everytime I pass by her blog I scroll down to her card with the ooey gooey carmel apple cut on it..yummmm :)

COLOR CHALLENGE - WEEK TWO

Good morning,

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I just wished they didn't go by so fast!

Here is a card I made, I thought I would join in the fun. I also decided to go old school and not use anything from the Cricut. That wasn't easy, but I did it. I used my Cuttle bug to emboss the small strip going across the card. I used the small border folder. The flowers I used are from my stash, sorry I have them all together I am not sure which ones. The purple cardstock is of course StampinUP! as well as the Thanks stamp.

On another note we will post tonight how many people we will have for the swap, so be sure to let us know if you want in. Have a fantabulous Monday!!

OOOPSIE I HAVE COLOR CHALLENGE DATE WRONG

OOOPS, Color challenge was for two weeks, last week and this upcoming. It will end OCTOBER 3RD not 10th...YIKES, that would be toooo long.. lol SO SORRY LADIES.

WELCOME!

Welcome critterbug to our blog!! So glad u stopped by. We'll be sure to check u out at 365 Days of Cricut Ladies, she's part of a blog hop starting oct. 3. There will be 11 participants!

CARRIE'S CHALLENGE ENTRY

Great layout!! I love going to the zoo! The printed paper it awfully cute! Thanks for submitting for the challenge!! Ladies, be sure to head on over to DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee To check out the rest of Carrie's Incredible papercrafting talents!!

DONT FORGET

CHECK OUT THE UPCOMMING SWAP DETAILS TO THE RIGHT AND CHECK UNDER 9/20 POST TO CHECK OUT OUR COLOR PRIZE CHALLENGE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. CHECK EM OUT.. HAVE FUN!

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 5

Wow is this a busy page, I'm laughin'.. LOL. I didn't realize how crazy it was. I did this about a year and a half ago I think. I was still a bit new at scrapping. I remember I was having such a hard time with photo matting. I believe I was going retro or something and attempting to think out of the traditional "mat"box and thought triangle's would work for some reason.. LOL. It does have green, purple and blue on it, so I thought I'd toss it up here. It does bring back fun memories of one of my kids favorite things to do on vacation!

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 4

Here is a 12x12 I did using the challenge colors. I used my Silhouette for the three big flowers. I used the print and cut. It's pretty cool. One of my bff's Dawn inspired me to try and it's a pretty cool feature. Thanks Dawn. It's like the Cricut Imagine, just WAAAY cheaper version. I think I got my Silhouette for $100. Anyway. I used some the arrows are chipboard from American craft. The paper is all DCWV. I wanted to add a "kidlike" element to this so I took white pre embossed paper and wet and crinkled it, straightened it out and took a q-tip to my SU inkspots and just did it willy nilly. I though it kind of looked like what a toddler might color. The stickers came from my stash. I outlined the flowers in one of my other FAVORITY FAVE tools, which is a gelly roll clear sparkly pen. The bling are stickers.

FIRST TRI-COLOR CHALLENGE ENTRY

LOVE THIS.. from bumblebee creations: Want some Blog Candy? She's has some pretty blog candy over there,c heck her out!

I love this.. How darn cute to have the bird houses as photo mats..very creative, very fun!

Oh ya, and She used Create A Critte Cartridge for the bird and birdhouses