Superman Invitation

Well my son's birthday is coming up and he LOVES all things superhero and he decided on a Superman party. He's only 2, turning 3 so it wasn't too hard coming up with a theme.  After thinking about what I wanted to do for the invites this is what I came up with.  They aren't as fancy as his Toy Story invite from last year but he just adores them, even carrying around his invite and showing everyone.

This was super simple to make.  I just got out my gypsy, took the Superman symbol card from the Superman cartridge welded it together with a rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook and cut it all out.  I then cut out the strip with my trimmer along with the red rectangle.  I found a poem online, printed it out on white and voila!  The Superman symbol is 3 inches and the rectangle is 5 1/4 x 4. (I wanted to be sure it fit in a regular size envelope).  The strip is 1 in by 4 and the yellow stip is 3/4 in by 4.
I blurred out the info on the party with photoshop:-)

Thanks for stopping by, have a SUPER day!!

Project Life

In December I heard about Project Life for the first time.  Since Scrapbooking is something I LOVE I'm surprised that was the first time I heard about it as it's not a new concept.  I have been looking for a new way to scrapbook as I typically feel overwhelmed by the amount of photos I have and the scrapbooking that I need to catch up on!  I did a great job keeping up last year on my albums (3 of them in all) but I knew I could do better and possibly make it more fun, enter Project Life.  My initial goal was to just scrapbook one page layouts and then fit the rest of the photos into slots.  I did not want to do a photo every day as that seemed like to much to keep up with up.  Then I read an article in Scrapbooks, etc about Project Life and how taking a photo a day gets you more of the everyday photos, photos you typically wouldn't take and I was sold.  I started this month and this is how my book looks from last week, since the project life pages have been sold out for a while I just used some I got at Hobby Lobby to fit into my book.  I'm not using the project life kit as I have tons of my own supplies and paper.

There is a photo of my daughter coloring, our Valentine Decorations, her treat we made, my kids doing a craft with Daddy, etc.  I LOVE this page.  These are things I normally wouldn't take photos of and document.  I am SO EXCITED to keep this going for the rest of the year. 

 Here's a layout I did for Valentine's Day that is the next page on my book.  I love that I didn't have to try to fit a million photos into it and I could just play with these two.

 I love this waffle paper from Stampin UP! All the other paper is Stampin UP! as well.

 I embossed the punched out hearts with my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and cut out the Valentine's Day with my Cricut Imagine using Plantin Schoolbook and Lyrical letters.

Thanks for stopping by!

30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop, Day 30

Welcome to the last day of the 30 Days of Gift Making Blog Hop! I cannot believe this hop is over, there have been so many fabulous projects and I have gotten lots of ideas on what to make friends and family for Christmas. Now I just need more time to do it!:-)

Anyway, on to my project. I have been wanting to make a board book on my cricut for quiet some time now. One morning I had an idea and starting designing this one on my gypsy. I thought "Noel" would be the perfect thing to cut out for a Christmas book. At first, I had a hard time cutting the chipboard I used. I chose to use a cereal box with my deep cut blade but after cutting it many times and not having much luck, I gave up. My machine was making noises and the blade wouldn't move unless I had it on a pressure of 1. I decided to go at it again with some thinner chipboard on a pizza box and not use my deep cut blade. After one cut it cut out perfectly! I am thrilled with how it came out!

Here is the book standing up

The "N", I just love my little face ornaments:-)

The book opened to the first page

The second page

The third page

The back of the book

The book laying flat

Supplies and Directions:

Cartridges: Plantin Schoolbook for the letters and the rectangle. I welded a rectangle onto each of the letters and just stretched the rectangle until I was satisfied with the look of the letters overlapping each other. I used Joys of the Season for the ornaments.

Paper: Stampin UP! Jolly Holiday DSP and Very Vanilla for the ornaments and saying

Stamps: Stampin UP! Teeny Tiny Wishes and PKS Everyday Face Assortment

Ink: Stampin UP! Basic Black, Old Olive, and Cherry Cobbler

Misc: Silver Stickles, various ribbon, 3 gypsies rings, and Stampin UP! Old Olive brads

Please email me if you have any questions on this project. Thank you to Jill, The Scrapoholic for hosting this fun Hop!

Monster Mash Blog Hop!

Hello everyone! I am soooo excited to be taking part in my first ever blog hop! If you have come to me from Janis' blog then you are in the right place! If not and you would like to start the blog from the beginning visit Jenny over Crazy about Cricut and she'll get you started. I have a special project I made just for the hop. I hope you all like it! It's a wall hanging, perfect for Halloween. I designed this all on my gypsy using Storybook for the scallop squares, Mini Monsters for the monsters and pumpkin and Plantin Schoolbook for the squares and letters, the ghost is from Everyday Paper Dolls. I also used my Big Shot to emboss a few of the squares and added some Stickles where I felt a little sparkle was needed, LOL!

Ingredients:

Cricut Cartridges: Storybook, Mini Monsters, Plantin Schoolbook, Everyday Paper Dolls

Paper: Stampin UP! Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Rich Razzlebery, Whisper White, and Old Olive

Stamps: PKS Everyday Faces and Pumpkin Face Parts

Email me if you have any questions.

Guess what? I also have some fun blog candy. I am giving away an i-rock from Imaginisce!

You can win by becoming a follower and leaving a comment on this post with your email address. I will announce the winner on Tuesday and you have until Monday at midnight pst to enter. Good Luck!!

Click here to go to the next stop on the hop:

Scrappin Sweets by Abby

Here's a list of the other blogs just in case you get lost along the way;-)

http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
http://thescrapbookingqueen.blogspot.com/
http://neverfullpricescrapbooking.blogspot.com/
http://almabrooksblog.blogspot.com/
http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/
http://www.scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/
http://dreamofcrafting.blogspot.com/
http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/ THAT'S ME !!!!
http://www.scrappingsweets.blogspot.com/

Minnie Mouse Halloween

Today I finished a layout I had been thinking about for a while and finally cut out. I designed this all on my gypsy and got the idea from this months Creating Keepsakes magazine. I love how it came out so I thought I would post. I cut the scalloped border from Plantin Schoolbook, the Minnie Mouse and the Minnie Mouse wording from Mickey and Friends and the Halloween and the Mickey frame from Mickey font. I also searched high and low for some ed and white polka dot paper, after finally giving up on finding some I created my own! (how creative of me right?LOL!) I have an old SU polka dot stamp that worked well to create the dots on my red paper.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Stampin UP! Polk Dot (retired)

Ink: Stampin UP! White Craft

Paper: Stampin UP! Basic Black, Whisper White, Green Galore (retired), Sahara Sand, the red, cream and the pink are out of my scraps