At the Ball Park

What is a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon? It could be cheering on a baseball team. Even better with tickets won by my daughter and her colouring skills. We had a wonderful time with concession goodies included in her prize package.



I think this is the first time I have scrapped anything baseball. I had to even pick up this baseball paper, knowing that I had this pictures.
Have a wonderful day!!

Not tropical enough

... says DH for the Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week. What do you think?



The card is cut from the card feature on Life is a Beach. The water skier is from Going Places with some embroidery floss as the rope. The awesome sun is from H20 (my favorite cartridge this week). The sun and skier are pop-dotted.

My son needed this card right away for a birthday party so I can't change it to make it more tropical. (His friend loves all water sports.)

Disney Challenge

I found a Disney challenge last week that I couldn't pass up. The challenge was to create a project with some type of Disney aspect. To read about it, click here. I have been busy putting all of my Disney World layouts into albums. When I put together my 2006 album, I realized that I was missing an intro page to Magic Kingdom. So I sat down with my Gypsy and designed this...




I really intended an making an intro page but I just got too carried away with welding Mickey heads onto everything. My kids truly love searching high and low for hidden Mickeys and would often spot ones that I hadn't even noticed.

Super quick card for Dad

This card is for my Dad. (My DH's card was posted in May.) I am entering this card at Fantabulous Cricut. The challenge this week is a project for Dad.



I designed this shape card with my Gypsy and welded the letters "fore you". I de-embossed the card hoping to make it look like a golf ball.

Cricutters Anonymous picnic challenge

I wanted to get this layout in before the deadline - in a few hours. The challenge has been issued by Cricutters Anonymous I don't even have the picture yet as it is waiting for me at the photo lab. The picture is of a of my children and their friends sitting on a picnic blanket at a nearby park and they are all almost looking at the camera. This was a potluck picnic to celebrate the end of summer 2008 and the beginning of school the next day!



I learnt something while making this layout. I wanted to make the letters funky by using lower case letters with the real dial size on not really thinking that this would affect the shadow feature. The end result is wonky letters but I left them that way (now they are really funky).

The slide and monkey bars are from the Locker Talk cartridge. I cut them with DCWV Metallic paper. The sun and clouds are from Hello Kitty. The letters are Cuttin Up and the grass is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.

Cricutters Anonymous Spring Challenge

This is my spring-themed project. You can read more info about the challenge here at their website.




This layout is basically based on a joke between my husband and I when our daughter got Easter Peeps (marshmallow chicks) for the first time. It was her suggestion that I scrapbook it.

Aren't the Create a Critter chicks cute?

First Challenge Attempt

One of the reasons I started this blog was to play along with all the wonderful online challenges. This is my first attempt. It is based on this SOUS sketch. www.stuckonusketches.blogspot.com



Another feature of the challenge is to use four different printed papers that you wouldn't ordinarily use. I decided to do a layout of my daughter and to use printed papers chosen by her. These are almost all open stock paper from Michaels that she wanted me to buy for my scrapbooking.

The flower and sunglasses are cut from the Paisley cartridge. The gems, pearls and lace are all from the dollar store.

I think this layout captures my daughters "fancy" side!

Playing with the Cuttlebug

I love the Cuttlebug embossing folders! I just need to practice my sanding techniques on the color core paper. Preferably without ripping the paper...

This is a new baby card cut with the Doodlecharms cartridge. The font is Cuttin' Up. The embossing folder is Swiss Dots and the ribbon is from the dollar store. The color core paper is DoubleMates.