CWC Taste of Summer Hop

Welcome to the CWC Taste of Summer Hop!  If you have arrived here from Court at Courts Craft Corner then you are in the right place. If you'd like to hop all the way through and want to start at the beginning, you can go back to Melin at Cooking with Cricut.
For this hop we were challenged with creating a project using some sort of food or drink that is a favorite of ours during the summer.  Well, when I think of this summer I think of all sorts of food but most of all I think of watermelon!  My kids have been obsessed with it since the summer began and I thought I'd make a layout with water melon being the theme.
For the background yellow page and the page with the clouds, flowers, and frames I used the Imagine Enjoy the Seasons cartridge.  I printed the blue part out twice so that I could pop up the flowers and the clouds. I love this layout included with the cartridge, It made it so easy for me! I then printed out the watermelon using the Cricut Designers Calendar cartridge and paper from Enjoy the Seasons.  The tile was used using different fonts I have loaded on my gypsy from Printing Press, Storybook, Gypsy font, and Sweethearts.

 Here's where I popped out the cloud

 I also popped up the flowers

You're next stop is the lovely and talented Candace over at Stampin Pearls

April Calendar Page

I have been doing some mad crafting these last few days trying to finish up all my projects so I can prepare for my sons 3rd birthday party next week.  This includes catching up on Project life and putting together a few scrapbook pages.  My Imagine has been working overtime!  Here is one thing I did, my April Calendar page (finally, right?)  With spring break and Easter this kind of slipped away from me.  Better late than never!

I used my Imagine to print the background paper, using the Imagine More cartridge.  I then used the Designers Calendar to print the grids along with the "April" title.  April was filled in with a pattern from the Imagine More cartridge using Cricut Craft Room.  I also cut out the banner using the Close to my Heart Art Philosophy cartridge and filling it in with a patter from Imagine More as well.  I LOVE that I can do that and have all my paper to coordinate so well!

My April filled in with the Imagine More pattern.  The ribbon was from the last Stampin UP Salebration catalog.

 This is a CTMH stamp that came with my Art Philosophy kit.  We celebrate 2 birthdays (my husband and son) in April and of course, Easter so I wanted to mark that on my page.  The flower and button are also CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by, tomorrow I will post a recent Project Life page layout I did.

January 2012 (what?) Calendar Page

Hi all, Is it seriously January 2012?  I CANNOT believe it!  We had a great Christmas holiday with friends and family, now it's time for me to start living my New Years Resolutions!  Craft more, eat less, and enjoy the time with family!  Okay now onto that first resolution of crafting more.  I think I have become Teresa Collins obsessed!  Ever since I got her Baby Boutique cartridge for my Imagine I cannot stop playing with it.  I just love her style, especially the black and white together with pops of color thrown in.

Here is my Calendar Page for January.  I used the Baby Boutique calendar printout for the base, then I printed a whole sheet of the background paper from a pattern on the cartridge.  I printed out the header from Baby Boutique as well (removing the blessings title) and then used the Designer's Calendar cartridge for the word January which I printed in black.  I then punched out some snowflakes strung it with some silver string and added some silver dots with my pearl pen.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Calendar Blog Hop

Hi Everyone! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  My Thanksgivings are usually spent in Michigan hanging with my husbands family and of course, eating way too much!  I am so thankful for many things this year and am really thankful for all my crafty friends that I have made through the years.
Anyway, onto my post for today, hopefully you have arrived here from Elsa at Cricut Lvr, if not and you want to start at the beginning, please go back to Zeni at Scrappy Zeni.  Once I heard about this hop I knew I wanted to be a part of it!  I love making calendar pages for my scrapbook pages and thought this would be a great way to get my December one done early:-).  Here is my page for December.

I used the cricut cartridge Designer Calendar to cut the calendar grid and the December.  All the paper is Stampin UP!.  The presents and the snow globe are cut from the Christmas Cheer cartridge.  I stamped on the snow and the snowflakes from an old snowflake stamp set I have from Stampin UP!.  

 Love this cute little snow globe!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Don't forget to comment to enter in for your chance to win the adorable stamp set from Emma over at My Creative Time!

Your next stop is Sandra at 365 days of Cricut.

Here is the lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Zeni - http://www.scrappyzeni.com/

Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

Gloria - http://www.omascrafts.blogspot.com

Amanda- http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/

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

Christy - http://www.90days2agodchick.blogspot.com

Monica - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/

Liz - http://www.mywhichcraft.blogspot.com

Elsa-http://cricutlvr.blogspot.com

Jessica - http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/---- You are here

Sandra- http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/ ---Go here next

Kacee - http://youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com/

Erika - http://www.craftysprouts.com/

Twilight Calendar Page

Hi everyone!  Like I said yesterday I was so excited for the new movie, Breaking Dawn Part 1 to come out!  Now that I have seen the movie, I can't wait to see it again:-)!  Yes, I am twihard.  I love the saga!  Hopefully you have arrived here form Carla over at Racin Crafts, she is the first stop on our awesome hop!

My second Twilight project is in honor of the new movie coming out.  Each month I make a calendar page for that month and for this month I thought about doing a Thanksgiving theme like I normally do but then a light bulb went off, how about a Twilight themed page!  I bought these two adorable images from Karber digital.  I colored them in with my copics and based my page around them.  Aren't they so adorable?  You can find them here.  I again used my Immortal Love stack from DCWV and cut out the Twilight word using Make the Cut and a twilight font I found.  The calendar grid and the title for November were cut out using the Designer's Calendar Cricut Cartridge.

 Close up of my Edward and Bella:-)

Thank you again for visiting and don't forget about our grand prize from Karber.  To be eligible to win you must comment on everyone's blog for both days of the hop.

Your next stop is Berenice over at Karber Sweet Escape.

September "Back to School" Calendar page

Hi all! 

If you are looking for the Labor of Love blog hop, click here.

If you are looking for the Stampin Daisies Challenge post, click here.

Today I want to show my Calendar page I made for the month of September.  If you have been following my blog then you know that I post one of these each month on our fridge and use it in my scrapbook to keep track of everything that happened.  I really love how this one came out! When visiting CHA I stopped at the Taylored Expressions booth and bought some stamps, okay I bought a lot of stamps but who's counting?  I got this adorable school set from them and couldn't wait to create my September "back to school" Calendar page (not to mention the cards and scrapbook pages I can create later)!  Here is what I came up with:

 I used my Copics to color in all the stamps, who knew coloring could be so much fun!

 Love this owl!

Supplies Used:

Paper: DCWV Celebrations Paper stack, Stampin UP! Real Red, So Saffron and Whisper White (to stamp the images)  Blue Reflections paper and the apple paper is OLD, I got it from archivers years ago:-)

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Make the Grade

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Punches: Stampin UP Perfect Pennant

Various Copic markers to color

Green alphabet stickers for my "SCHOOL" title.

Cricut Designer Calendar cartridge for my calendar grid and September title

2011 July Calendar Page

Hi everyone!!  I know I haven't shared in a while but summer has just really gotten the best of me lately!  I have been having so much fun with the kids and just kind of taking a break from everything.  Anyway, I wanted to show off this cool calendar page I made for July.  If you have been following my blog then you know that I keep one of these on the fridge each month and decorate it according to whatever is going on.  I really love red, white, and blue and this stamp set from Stampin UP! I got last year called July Fourth.  It is perfect for all  my fourth of July layouts!  I even made my own firecracker out of ribbon.  I love how it came out!

Supplies Used: 

Stamps: Stampin UP! July Fourth

Paper: Stampin UP! Real Red, Not quite Navy, Whisper White, and Crumb Cake

Ink: Stampin UP! Real Red, Not Quite Navy and Versamark

Ribbon is just ribbon I had in my bins, along with a button I got from Joann

Cricut Cartridge Designer Calendar and the Star Punches from Stampin UP!

I've decided to enter this into the linking party over at You Had me At Craft:-)

October Calendar Page

This month I decided to make my October calendar page similar to what I did last month with the apple only substitute a pumpkin. I had many different variations and finally settled on this one. I designed most of it using my gypsy, however the Vampire font was from a cartridge that I borrowed and had to cut out the old fashioned way. I forgot how hard it is to cut out font without your gypsy, LOL! Trying to figure out where the correct key was on the keypad was hard! I made it through and ended up loving the title. I had a bunch of little pumpkins cut out with cute little faces but they just overcrowded the page so I left them out. Now I need to make something using them as they are just too cute!

Supplies Used:

Paper: Stampin UP! Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, and Crumb Cake. (the yellow was from my scrap basket

Ink: Stampin UP! Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate chip on the outside of the pumpkin and stem

Designer Calendar, Happy Hauntings, and Pumpkin Carving Cricut Cartridges