Owl Always Love You

HAPPY  VALENTINE'S  DAY!!!!

This is a 5.5" x 8.5" card I made for my daughter.  The base of the card is red card stock and I chose papers from K & Company Specialty Papers.  The "stamp" frame is cut from the Silhouette Studio and popped up for dimension.  The adorable little owl is a print and cut digital file from Digital Delights by Louby Loo.  She has such CUTE stuff!!!!!  I used white tulle with three different ribbons which I bought from Hobby Lobby to give the card some flare.

The sentiment is on the inside of the card which came from my Silhouette Studio.  I used pop dots to place it onto the "stamp" border to give it some dimension.  Below it, has a tag to add your personal touch.  I used a heart button on the corner of it to dress it up a little bit.  And of course, I had to do some doodling.  If I had to do it all over again, I'm not too sure I would doodle around the inside edge of the "stamp" border....

Challenges Entered:

Come and Get It:  Share Your Hearts

All Sorts: Valentines

Red Carpet Studio:  Where the Heart Is

2 Sisters Challenge:  Hearts

Pink and Tack:  Anything Goes

The Cutie Pie Challenge:  Valentine Cards Unlimited
Tuesday Throwdown:  Anything Goes
Love to Create:  Feelin the Love
Pumpkin Spice:  Valentine
Kaboodle Doodles:  Valentines
Paper Crafting Journey:  Love
Craft Your Passion Challenges:  My Valentine
A Pink Gem of a Challenge:  Hearts/Valentines
My Craft Spot:  For Your Sweetheart

This is a photograph of her little Valentines gift from Mommy and Daddy.  The  brown bear is a stuffed animal and believe it or not, she smells like CHOCOLATE.  Yes, that's right, C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E... I don't know how they did it but it smells soooo good.  She is just going to die.... she loves chocolate!!!! 

Thanks for visiting and Have a Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Let's Play

Here's another beach layout.  Boy, I guess I'm ready for summer!!!  We don't hear that often down here in the South.  Most of us dread the HOT summers!!!

This was a fun layout to put together.  I used blue open stock paper for the background and I used off white card stock for the sand.  I inked the sand to give it some dimension.  The sand is cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge on page 41.  The book has the cut displayed as water, but I cut it to use as my sand.  I think it turned out cute.

The sandcastle is cut from the same cartridge and can be found on page 77.  I cut it out twice for some added dimension since this is an accessory to the cartridge and it only cuts as a single layer.  I also inked the castle with Momento brown ink.  The cute little crab was cut from Create-A-Critter cartridge at 1.25".  I used my Gypsy to hide the face and used my Peach Keen Stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment.

The beach chair and umbrella were also cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge on page 41.  These were cut multiple times to give them some dimension.

The title was cut from Create-A-Critter cartridge on page 40 at 4.46".  I used Hobby Lobby yellow gingham ribbon and yellow poka dot ribbon as embellishments on the photographs.

Now, where is my swim suit????  I gotta go find it!!!!

Pizza!!

Hello and thanks for visiting!!!

This layout is made using two open stock pattern papers from Hobby Lobby.  The bottom layer of pattern paper is cut at 11.5" x 11.5" and mounted on 12 x 12 yellow card stock.  The second layer is mounted on 8.5" x 11" piece of yellow card stock and the pattern paper is cut at 8" x 10.5".   

I used the cuts on page 76 from the Simply Charmed cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to hide the faces and used my Peachy Keen stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment.  I decided not to put a face on the pizza as I liked the look of it when I was done putting it together.  I inked all the layers of the pizza to give them more dimension.  Of course, I just had to doodle them both up!!!!  

I used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter on the Recollections flower to give it some sparkle.  Then I placed a Gemstone in the center.  

The cute little tag was made using a rectangle shape from Cricut Craft Room Basics and then I cut numerous lengths of different ribbons and attached them to the back for added flare.

I think this layout turned out really cute and I just love the colors!!!!  The use of colors make your layouts "pop" and is very appealing to the eye.  

Let me know what you think!!!!

Beach Party

Don't you just love going to the beach!!!!  Well our family does, and for our daughter's 6th Birthday, we did just that.  This was a fun layout to create!!! 

I used blue open stock paper from JoAnne's and layered it on top of navy blue card stock.  The sand was cut on off white card stock at 11.80" from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge on page 78.   To give it the sandy color, I inked it with Momento brown ink and placed it on pop dots for added dimension.  The beach chair and umbrella were cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge and can be found on page 41.  I cut several layers to give them dimension/color as these are accessories to the cartridge and they only have one layer.  

The sand bucket was cut from Simply Charmed on page 51.  My cute little crab was cut from Create-A-Critter and cut at 2.41".  I used my Gypsy to hide her face and used my Peachy Keen stamps PK-754 Critter Faces-Medium. 

My title was cut from Cricut Craft Room Basics at 1.08" and the number "6" was cut at 2.15".  The embellishments are from Recollections.  

Man, writing this makes me want to go to the beach right now!!!!

I hope this give you some inspiration!!!! 

Got Milk & Cookies!

I am so excited!!!!  My wonderful husband got me a Silhouette Cameo for my birthday.  OH MY GOODNESS!!!!  The possibilities are unlimited!!!  You can do so many things with it and I love putting together all the little paper piecing files that you can download from different web cites.   The files are pretty reasonably priced.  The average prices I found ranged from .99 to $8.99 per file.  I will still keep my Cricut but am finding that the Silhouette cuts much better.  Anyway enough about that!!!

This layout is a paper piecing file that I bought from Treasure Box Designs.  She has some really cute stuff!!!!!!  I used several layers of open stock papers and the green scalloped border on the top and bottom of the page is from the Silhouette Studio. Before putting the Santa and cookies together, I inked around the edges with Colorbox Cat Eye Chalk Ink to give them some added dimension.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. 

Dry Bones

Ok, this is a pretty simple layout.  Really not much to it.  The only cuts I used in this layout was the Dry Bones Costume, the spider web and the title.  These cuts were all from the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge.  All other embellishments are from K & Company and Dress-it-Up Buttons.

The papers I used are from K & Company Specialty Papers and open stock papers.  The Dry Bones costume can be found on page 49 and was cut at 6.5".  I used my Peachy Keen Stamps PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment to stamp the eyes and nose.  The spider web can be found on the same page and was cut at 2.5".  The title is from Cricut Craft Room Basics and cut at 1.5".  I used my white gel pen to add detail to the costume.  All embellishments were placed on pop dots for dimension.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby.

Ghosts and Goblins

Another Halloween layout using the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut cartridge.  I just love making all these paper dolls!!!

This layout was made using open stock paper and K & Company Halloween Specialty Papers. The ghost costume was cut at 4.22" from page 49.  The large flying ghost is also cut from page 49 at 3.15".  The title was cut at .92" from Cricut Craft Room Basics.  The small ghosts flying out of the "O's" in the title are cut at .88" from page 49.  The photographs are embellished with ribbon from Hobby Lobby and Dress-Up Buttons.  The two other ghosts are from The Paper Studio.  All of the ghosts are placed onto the layout using pop dots for dimension.

Halloween 2010

Yes, I am behind on my Scrapbooking!!!  It seems that there is never enough time to sit down and design a layout, then figure out what papers to use and then cut everything out and put it all together.  However, I am working hard to try and "catch up".  Is that considered a real word in the scrapbooking world?  I'm not sure it is because we are always taking pictures and adding to the stash to scrapbook.

In this layout, I used the Paper Doll Dress Up and Simply Charmed Cricut cartridges.  I used two different open stock pattern papers mounted on a piece of 12 x 12 green cardstock.  The cute little Frankenstein was cut from Paper Doll Dress Up on page 52 and cut at 6.25" along with all his layers.  I used my Gypsy to hide the facial features and used my PK-450 Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment stamp.  The bats were cut from page 53 and cut at 3.44" and 3.08".  The little spider was cut from page 49 at 3.26".  I used my white gel pen to doodle up all of my embellishments.  The ghost was cut from Simply Charmed on page 58 and cut at 2.97".  I used my Gypsy to hide its face and used my PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment.  The title was cut at 1.37" from Cricut Craft Room Basics.  The Trick or Treat embellishment is from a sticker set from The Paper Studio.  The ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. I used pop dots on all embellishments for dimension.

Get Well, Chickie

I loved making this card.  I think it turned out really cute!!!

This is a 5.5" x 8.5" card made with craft card stock and two layers of papers each 1/2" smaller than another.  The top layer is open stock pattern paper, and I used the Martha Stewart Loops punch on the bottom of it.  Of course, I used the cute little chick from Create-A-Critter cartridge on page 53.  She is cut at 3.5" and I used my Gypsy to hide the face.  The face was created using the PK-754 Critter Faces-Medium.  I used pink chalk for the cheeks, colored in her beak and added some doodling. I used Glossy Accents for the boots to make them look wet.  The water puddle was cut from page 44 at 3".  The flower is from Recollections Flower Embellishments.  I used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter on the water and flower to give them some shimmer.  The "Get Well" stamp is from TPC Studio-Greetings.

The umbrella was cut from the Paisley cartridge at 3" on page 48.  I used The Paper Studio Gemstone for the very top of the umbrella and used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter as an accent.

The rain clouds were cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge on page 69.  They were cut at 1.75".  I used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter on them as well.    Wrapped around the top layer of pattern paper, I used white Tulle with pink satin ribbon combined with pink poka-dot ribbon from Hobby Lobby.

The inside of the card is doodled and I used the Martha Stewart corner Loops punch.

SPOOKY

I love using layers when I scrapbook.  I think it adds so much dimension to projects.  This layout was created using the Paper Doll Dress Up Cricut Cartridge.  I don't know about you, but I think this cartridge is so much fun.  I love creating all of the cute little dolls and all of their little clothes.

On this layout I used several papers including K & Company Halloween Specialty Papers and open stock papers.  I used the Martha Stewart "Droopy Goo" punch and some Dress it Up Buttons.   I created the haunted house using the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge on page 52 cut at 4.86".  I cut this twice using my Gypsy so that I could get a layered effect.  The yellow is cut first hiding all cuts so that just the outline of the house was cut.  After the black layer was cut, I inked the layer using Brillance Moonlight White to give it some depth.  For additional dimension I used pop dots to place it on top of the yellow piece.  The tree was also cut from page 52 at 4.48".  The moon was cut at 2.09" from page 53. The title was cut from Cricut Craft Room Basics at 1.18".  I used K & Company and Dress-It-Up buttons as embellishments. The Halloween ribbon is 3/8" Ribbon Boutique from Hobby Lobby.

Life's A Beach

Here is another 8.5 x 5.5 card made using Create-A-Critter and Simply Charmed cartridges.  The base is made from white cardstock and each layer is cut 1/2" less then the base.  I used two shades of blue cardstock with my Threading Water Fiskars punch that was used for the "waves".  I used a piece of craft card stock cut at 1" placed at the bottom edge as a base for the beach.  The sand, bucket and beach ball were cut from the Simply Charmed cartridge on page 51.  The sand was cut 3 times at 4" to create a "hilly" effect.  The bucket and sand in the front were cut at 3.25" and placed on pop dots for dimension. The beach ball was cut at 1.5".  The crab is cut from Create-A-Critter page 40 at 2.5" and I only used the base because I wanted to use my PK-754 Peachy Keen Stamps.  I ended up using the shadow feature because I felt that it made Mr. Crab "pop" a bit. The sun is cut from page 52 from the Create-A-Critter cartridge and I used my Gypsy to hide the facial features so that I could use my PK-754 Peachy Keen Stamps.  The title is cut at 1" and I used Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter and Recollections Gemstones and Flower Embellishments.  I used white Tulle wrapped around the blue card stock with a pink button and some hemp cord in the middle.  And last but not least, some doodling.  Yes, I'm a doodler!!!!

The inside of the card is blank with some doodling for writing or stamping a sentiment----