CWC Challenge National Card and Letter Writing Month

Welcome to another Cooking with Cricut challenge!  This week our challenge is to create a card for someone or feature a scrapbook page with a letter.  I decided to use a letter that I am putting at the end of my scrapbook that I just made for Mother and Father in-law.  We recently went on a trip to Disney World thanks to them and I thought the least I could do was make a small album filled with memories.

For my letter and envelope I used patterns from the Teresa Collins Imagine Black and White cartridge.  I started with Cricut Craft Room, created an envelope from the Sweethearts cartridge filled it with the polka dot pattern,  then took a rectangle from Mickey Font, re-sized it to what I needed and filled it with the note pattern.  I also cut a Mickey head from the Mickey Font to glue to the top.  

Here's a close up of my envelope and letter.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you are challenged to make a card or send a letter to someone this month!  If you are, be sure to link up over at CWC.
Stop back by tomorrow when I'll have more photos from my album!

Project Life Layout from March

As I mentioned yesterday I have been doing a lot up in my craft room trying to finish projects up so that I can work on my sons birthday party stuff.  Part of that has been catching up on the last few weeks of my Project Life album.  I printed out over 100 photos from the last two weeks and really wanted to get them scrapbooked and documented while it was all fresh. The day to day photos I am still documenting the Project Life way and when I have more photos, say for a big even like an Easter egg hunt or a birthday party I am doing 12x12 scrapbook layouts still. Here is an example of one of the Project Life layouts I did for March.  It came out cute and I love all the "little" things I am recording in my album this year!

This is a look at my album.  I love that each photo has a story!

This is one page of the week.  I printed out the journaling cards from Imagine using my Imagine More cartridge.  I used Cricut Craft Room to size them so they fit into the slots in my album and I changed some of the colors to go with my color scheme for that week. 

 My other page, I had a few large 4x6 squares that needed dressing up so I did a banner and some balloons in one.  I love how this came out!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

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.

CWC Challenge #80 Easter Themed

Hi all! It's time for another challenge over at Cooking with Cricut!  This time the challenge is all things Easter.  I love making Easter cards, I've even made little Easter baskets with my Cricut in the past (one of my first projects posted on my blog:-)).  I love the Easter 2010 Cricut cartridge for that.  I usually whip that out first thing while I'm brainstorming of something to make.  So many cute images on it!  I especially love the little bunny from the front.  It reminds of chocolate bunnies and who didn't love getting those as a child?  I remember looking in my basket for my chocolate bunny to see what kind I got this year.
Soooo, of course I had to include a little chocolate bunny on my card example for this challenge.  I found inspiration for this card over on Pinterest and just went with it.

The stamp is from a retired Stampin up set and the paper is also all Stampin UP!
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Thank you for stopping by, many blessings this Easter season!

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #79, Make Me Laugh

It's time for another challenge over at CWC!  This time the challenge is April Fool's Day, use a funny quote, saying, poem, or pun.  While trying to think of something fun to do for this challenge all I could think of were my cute little stamps from My Pink Stamper called Punny-licious.  They go so perfect with the critters from the Create a Critter cartridge so I pulled out my cartridge, picked a few, and began designing with my gypsy.  I love these cute little critters!  They are perfect for throwing together cards, especially cards for kids as they love them!

I decided to make a few of these while I was making them so that I could have them on hand.  My daughter seems to be invited to an endless stream of birthday parties in her kindergarten class and I am always needing cards.  This weekend alone she has 3 parties!  Anyway, here is what I came up with for one of the versions of the cards which goes perfectly with this challenge:

Like I said, I used Create a Critter for my cow and the little bubble above the cloud.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper Punny-licious and the Twine is from the Twinery.

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I also used the current Mojo Monday #234 sketch for this one.

Thanks for stopping by and have a moo-velous day!!