Weekly Challenge 22 - Once Upon A Time

The challenge of this is to use fairytale or folklore in the project. No challenge to me! I LOVE using my fairytale stuff! I want an all fairytale cartridge - hear that, Provocraft!?! With some good dragons and castles and unicorns and stuff.

So, here is my layout. This was a no-brainer. The kids were SO cute dressed up as knights that I loved the photos I got of them! And, here is what I created! I used Dress Up Paper Dolls and my love of details to create the knights. I embossed with silver, red, and black embossing powder on the armor, lances, helm, cape, and shield to look just like their outfit. I also used stickles for the first time on the lance, shield, and in between the photos. I cut the banner and the welded font together from Blackletter and used chalks to shadow up the banner. I had a BLAST doing this and was just hit with the concept today! Nothing like the last minute!

Weekly Challenge 21 - Animal Magnetism!

I'm so excited to be doing a challenge this week! I had to miss out on the last couple because I didn't have the supplies or machines needed to do them, but I am back now! This one is all about animals! I knew which photos I would love to use. Nothing cuter than a little boy and a Buster dog! I even got to break out my new cart, Nate's ABCs! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

My Sweet Valentine - Magazine Challenge

This theme was to create a Valentine's treat with something edible on or inside of it! I decided to make a little box and fill it with Hershey's Kisses. I think it turned out cute and it was my first time making a box! The prize for this contest is a Cricut Cake Mini and I would LOVE to win one! Here's hoping for a chance!

Weekly Challenge 18 - Back to the Basics

This week's challenge asked us to go back to the basics and use carts that came with our machines. My choices were Cricut Classic Font & Playtime that came with my Expression and Gyspy Font & Wanderings that came with my Gypsy. I love these carts so this was not too hard for me! Just made a simple card this time!

Easy Sunday Project

While it was quiet time at my house yesterday, I decided to take the time to turn what used to be a play food bucket (rendered unnecessary by the awesome produce/food stand we built) and turn it into a Nerf small blaster and ammo bucket. Cut out the pieces, Mod Podged them one, done. Took about 15 minutes. Here's the before and after!

January Monthly Challenge!

This month's project was to scraplift from another project in the Cricut Circle Blog. Would you know it, I got this done a while ago, went back and reread the directions and had totally forgotten to use items from at least 2 sponsors! So, I went back in a redid some of it using Bazzil paper and Imaginescence gems with the I-Rock. My son's 2nd birthday was a Cards theme (obviously) and when I saw the Birthday Bash page that had been done on the blog, I LOVED it, so that's what I scraplifted! And here it is, in all its glory!

And this is the project I scraplifted:

Weekly Challenge 17 - B.A.B.Y. Challenge!

Here are the rules of the BABY Challenge - it is NOT about babies!

• (B) = Brads
• (A) = Aqua
• (B) = Butterfly
• (Y) = You as the Subject

This was coming at a perfect time because I was just about to start a scrapbook of my husband and I from the time we met until the time we had the kids - a way to tell them our story. So, I started with a page about me when I first met my husband. This was 13 years ago so these are old pics, but I love them! I spent the whole week on this as I had sick family here, but was really proud of this, and totally forgot to take and post my photos last night. I woke up this morning VERY upset remembering it! BUT, I will post them now!