Quote challenge

This layout is based on quote by my son when he was a toddler. He described his relationship with a close family friend's child as, "We are family because we love each other." Need I say more? I had to scrap this somehow.

The challenge this week at Frosted Designs was to use a quote in your project.




For this layout, I opened my recently won package of Cutter Bee Bugs. (Thank you Becky!) I used these to simulate sewing stitches. I love the effect this gave. I ran the bugs over the paper and just free hand traced a line from hole to hole. I might try with a ruler next time...

Lake layout

This is a layout that I loosely based (very loosely) on a scrapbook page kit by Monique Griffith.

I am proud of my little tube that I created with the Gypsy and the George cartridge. It really looks like the actual tube! I used embroidery floss for the tow rope. The paper is Core'dinations, put through the Cuttlebug and sanded. It is ripped and pieced together so I could have 12 inches of "lake".

I took these pictures outside so please ignore the leaf that blew into the shot...





Monique has been recently diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. I made this card (of course, a shape card) to mail to her. If you are interested in mailing a card of support, you can get more info here.

Bridal Shower projects

I have been busy! I am helping out my MIL to decorate a family bridal shower. Thankfully, the Fantabulous Cricut blog issued a "For the Bride" challenge. I tried to keep these projects simple to do with few steps because this is a large shower. I needed to make 50 invitations, 50 favor bags and 8 centerpieces.

The words Bridal Shower are cut from Sweethearts and the butterfly is from the Pink Journey cartridge. I ended up using this butterfly and the colors navy blue and white as my theme.



The centerpieces were fun to make. The twigs are from my MIL's yard and the pots are from the dollar store. The butterflies are embellished with gems from the dollar store.





The banner was a last minute idea after seeing so many nice grad banners. The triangle and scallop edges are cut from Straight from the Nest.




The only cartridge I have with bags on it is Plantin Schoolbook so that's what I used for the favor bags. The Thank You stamp is from the Michael's dollar bin and the tag shape is cut from Just Because Cards. (There are many pretty shapes on this cartridge.)


I need to give credit where credit is due. My MIL helped a lot!

With a Cricut machine you can decorate a function with a stack of paper and some adhesive. In this case, the stack of paper was one of the ones Costco used to carry.

Thanks for looking.

My village

A neighbour asked if I could make cards for her to give real estate clients to celebrate their anniversary of a home purchase. I really wanted to make a card in the shape of a house and did design one with the Gypsy but when I searched "house card" one came up on the Wild Card cartridge. I racked my brain to remember if I knew anyone who had this cartridge and thankfully a friend lent it to me. I purposely made this card in the RE/MAX colors and ran the die cut through the printer with all the necessary contact info. This was a fun project and I hope the first of many.



My daughter walked by the cards and told me she liked my happy little village.

Summer layout

I wanted to enter a challenge for She's a Sassy Lady Her challenge was to create a summer project - showing something you enjoy in the summer. There are already many beautiful entries. I thought I would do a layout showing something I would like to do this summer - take a Family Road Trip!



This is my first "Gypsy layout"! So happy about that! It took some trial and error to get everything figured out but I'm happy with the results. All the cuts are from Going Places other than the letters GPS.

Visiting Tinker Bell

Visiting Tinker Bell in Disney World was one of my daughter's favorite things about our trip. This is the first page of our "fairy pictures".



I am entering this layout for the SOUS challenge this week. I cut out my title for this layout and accidentally scraped all the dots to my letter "i"s off my mat. Oops! In a pinch, I grabbed the purple buttons that were near me on my scrap table and tada - completed their challenge. I'm happy to have used 5 buttons from my pound of buttons bag. Only 995 left to use up!

This layout will also be entered in the Fantabulous Cricut hopping/crawling challenge this week. For their challenge I incorporated design elements from some of the blogs on the "tour".

Stop # 2 was to journal on your die cut. My journaling tag is a shape from the Just Because Cards cartridge. I typed up my journaling thoughts and ran the die cut through the computer printer.

I am so happy that I was able to complete the fifth design element which was to use a Gypsy. I have just purchased my Gypsy and am still figuring it all out. I haven't updated it yet or even linked my cartridges. I'm really looking forward to updating my computer so I can use the Gypsy to its full potential. I used Gypsy Font for the title and welded all the letters.

Stop # 10 is to include some paper piecing. I'm not sure if putting together Tinker Bell is considered paper piecing ( I even googled the words "paper piecing") but I can tell you she has a lot of tiny bits! So I definitely did some paper piecing.

I had a fantabulous time creating this layout!