August Monthly Challenge - Create A Scene & Fall Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Fall Blog Hop from the talented Circle Sisters!

You should have just come from Brenda's fabulous blog and project!

If you stumbled upon my page and want to start at the beginning, head on over to Kristen's page. Have a great hop!

For this month's challenge, we are creating a scene! I LOVE my Halloween carts and colors so I decided to kill 2 birds with one stone and get another layout in my son's 2nd year book done AND do a fun Halloween scene for this challenge! I had a lot of fun with it and spent WAY too much time on it and used my Happy Hauntings and Oct. 31st carts. Enjoy!

Fall is such an amazing time for photographs and creates some wonderful scrapbook opportunities! I hope you are already planning ahead for what is coming!

Next stop on your list is the amazing Nancy!

Here's a showcase of all the amazing Circle Women that are a part of this hop!

Kristen http://fantabulouslypink.blogspot.com/

Michele http://www.michelegreen.com/

Roberta http://www.txscrappermom.blogspot.com/

Mary http://www.marebearscraps.blogspot.com/

Renee http://icameisawicreated.blogspot.com/

Carolyn http://cccscraproom.blogspot.com/

Gamma http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Colleen http://www.scrappycol.blogspot.com/

DoodleDiva http://www.doodledivadesigns.com/

Kimberli http://kimberliscreations.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://addictedtothecricut.blogspot.com/

Gonecampn http://www.scrapcavecreations.com/

Momto2cuties http://www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com/

Scrapalette http://scrapalette.blogspot.com/

Dana http://papermemories4u.blogspot.com/

Darcy http://dlmbscrapping-time2create.blogspot.com/

Lavendergal http://ibecircled.blogspot.com/

Brenda http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/

Madylyn http://inspiredbycolor.blogspot.com/ You Are Here

Nancy http://lanancyworkshop.blogspot.com/ Your Next Stop

Debbie http://bugginattheseams.blogspot.com/

Tracy http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/

Sharon http://designsbysharon.blogspot.com/

Magazine Challenge - Pop Up Neighborhood

This magazine challenge asks us to use Pop Up Neighborhood to create a project. Well, this was SO much fun. First off, I LOVE this cart. It's probably my favorite Circle cart yet. I wanted to create some artwork for my kids' play room and this is what I drew up. I used a fabric background and fabric for the forefront hill and everything else is paper. My husband even helped me convert a frame into a shadowbox!

The size is 12x18 because I wanted to get a lot of little detail in it. I think I succeeded! It turned out just how I hoped it would and I hope you enjoy! Since there are SO many cuts, it's impossible for me to get into the sizes of each one but it took me about a week working on it some each day. I hope you can take the time to appreciate all the shading I did and all the shimmers to capture the sunlight. I am an artist at heart so I got to use lots of skills in this creation!

Companion to S'mores layout

I finished it yesterday - the companion to my S'mores LO! This was was a little more simple and dangit if it I didn't have a hard time lining up my blue border! I redid it several times and I LOVE my ATG but that tape STICKS - good and bad thing! I should have used glue, but live and learn! I used Stand and Salute for most of it, and Cupcake for the font! I did a close up of my fireworks and font to try and show off my beautiful glimmer mist and my stickles but it's a little tough to see!

Luke's 2nd Year - Post 2

I skipped around a little on this one, but here are some more pages from his book!

February layout - I used Boys Will Be Boys, Indie Art, Rock Princess, and Robotz for the numbers. I had SO much fun with this one!

Easter layout - using Nate's ABCs and Holiday Cakes.

A July layout of putting together his tricycle, using Nate's ABCs, Boys Will Be Boys, and Going Places.

Another July layout, including his first haircut. On this one I used 3 Birds On Parade, Pop Up Neighborhood, and Cricut Everyday for the scissors.

Stay tuned for more! Still working on them!

July Monthly Challenge - Let's Eat!

I am SO excited about this challenge! Not only did it get me to do another page for my scrapbook of my cute kiddos, but I finally got to use the super cute s'mores bird from 3 Birds on Parade!!! I have been looking forward to using that! This is just one half of a 2 page layout, but I'm still working on the other half. This was all I needed for this challenge though!

I was contemplating using various shades of blue to make the background look like a sunset until I came across this navy starred paper in my collection and scrapped the other idea! I got to use my wood grain embossing and some of my absolute favorite "toys" - glimmer mist on the fire and stickles on the fire and various other places. Enjoy!

Luke's 2nd Year - Post 1

It's very overdue, but I am finally working on my son's 2nd year scrapbook. I feel bad because I did his first year pretty much right away but that was before the Cricut. I was really proud of it but comparing that to my daughter's first year book - no comparison. I feel like he kinda got shafted! lol SO, I am putting a lot of work into his 2nd year book. I'm determined to try and finish it this summer and I got a lot done the first couple weeks I started working on it. I stopped to do a birthday scrapbook for my mom but am getting back into it now and about halfway through. I am doing quick posts of the pages to share. There are lots, so I will do it in parts over a couple weeks and as I finish up!

The November spread using Doodlecharms and Live Simply:

Christmas spread using Boys Will Be Boys and Jolly Holidays:

December/Jan spread using Birthday Cakes and Four Legged Friends:

Jan/Feb spread using a combo of carts for the title and Holiday Cakes:

...stay tuned, more to come!

More teacher gifts

While I'm on the topic, here are some cards and fun things I made for my son't teachers for teacher appreciation week. The cards are for his music, preschool, and Spanish teacher, respectively. The lunchbox I decorated and filled with goodies and cut out the fabric bird for a little bag as well. I had SO much fun doing these!

Used Live Simply and Cindy Loo on the lunchbox

I used Nifty Fifties for this bird design I just LOVE!