PumpkinCarving

Happy Wednesday everyone! I'm so excited because this weeks Cooking With Cricut challenge is being sponsored by The Cutting Cafe. The theme is non-Spooky Halloween! Be sure to stop by and participate in the challenge.

I decided to change things up a bit and do a scrapbook page. All of the images are from The Cutting Cafe and the paper is from Graphic 45. One the left hand side are two mats for two 4 x 6 photos and on the right hand side is a spot for journaling. After printing the images and then cutting them out I simply used markers to color them in. On the pumpkin I let the orange dry and then used a thin-point brown marker to draw on faces! I did use pop-dots for the pumpkins, leaves and the arrow.

I loved how easy it was to put together this page based on one file from The Cutting Cafe. If you haven't used their files before, they have plenty of instructions on their website. If you are using the files with your Cricut you will need Make The Cut or Sure Cuts A Lot and a free program called Inkscape. Next week I will have another project that features images from The Cutting Cafe and here are a few links of past projects: Halloween Candy Box, Spooky Hanging, School Cards.

Scrapbook Challenges

The First Challenge: Create a scrapbook page based on their layout sketch. This weeks was a double

The First Challenger: Sketchy Thursday

The Second Challenge: Out of the list of 10 recipe items, use at least 5 in your project.

The Second Challenger: Frosted Designs

I ceated this page using 5 pictures of my wedding day. We had so much fun riding in the limo with our wedding party that day. It was one of the most memorable parts of the day! To qualify for the Frosted Designs challenge I used: ribbon, blue & purple, flowers, banners and glitter.

Supplies Used:

Base Paper - DCWV Luxury Stack

Purple Patterned Paper - Martha Stewart

Other Paper - Scraps

Glitter - Silver Stickles

Cricut Cartridge - Birthday Cakes

Baby Shower Projects

My friends baby shower was this weekend and I was in charge of the games. We played the rice game, remember the items in the basket and we drew a name out of the envelopes that will be used for the Thank You cards.

I had already made the Invites (see previous posts), but I wasn't going to stop there! Here are the other projects I made!

The easiest thing I made was this decoration for the rice game. I cut the safety pin from a standard image in SCAL using plain paper. I then give it a shimmer using Stampin' Up's Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz. The spritz is SO cool! I added a few safety pins to the ribbon which went around the vase that held the rice.

In the rice there were 10 actual safety pins. The premise of the game is to see how many safety pins you can dig out of the rice in one minute; surprisingly challenging!

My thank you cards were inspired by a RAQ challenge on the Cricut Card message board. The cute little onesie is from the New Arivals cartridge. I used the Stampin' Up Soft Suede Marker to edge the onesie and add the three little dots on the bottom of the onesie and next to the lower-right hand corner of the plaid paper. It was also the color used for the little birdie on the front :) which is from the Bouquet Bunch stamp set. The flower brads and paper came from Paper Studio.

This is the card that I made for the mom-to-be. I cut the various levels of the buggy from the New Arrivals cartridge with a few snips from my scissors. I created the baby blocks in SCAL and this card was all made with scraps!

Clothes dividers for the babies closet. I will be posting a video about this project shortly.

This framed scrapbook page has to be my favorite project! I did everything from creating the page to painting the frame. I got to start as soon as I found out what the colors of the babies room would be, purple and green.

I can't recall where I got all of the supplies for this project from. But I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Like I mentioned, I've been working on some of these projects for some time...which answers the question of Where do I find the time? Thank you for stopping by, I had a blast with these projects!

Sketchy Challenge

The Challenge: Create pages based on the double-page layout.
The Challenger: Sketchy Thursdays

I have given myself quite a few personal goals lately. One of them is to complete the scrapbooking of my wedding before I complete the first two years of marriage. I don't have much time left...but at the same time I don't have much more that I want to scrapbook.I used the sketch from this weeks Sketchy Thursdays challenge as inspiration for my layout. I think you can still tell where my inspiration came from, even though my pages are very simple. Thank you for stopping by!

Pink Stamper NSD - Eight

The Challenger: Karlee, a friend of My Pink Stamper

The Challenge: Make something using monochromatic (which means only 1 color with a neutral color) and add a flower!

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day and My Pink Stamper celebrated with a 12 hour event. Every hour a new challenge was posted. Here is what I came up with for challenge #8.


I got a little lazy with this challenge.  But I can't be blamed: 8 projects in 2 days is a new record!  I chose paper that was monochromatic and added little fake flowers at the top.  The white section will contain the title and the attendants names for journaling.

Pink Stamper NSD - Four

The Challenger: Pam, a designer at My Pink Stamper
The Challenge: Make a project using your least favorite or least used cartridge.

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day and My Pink Stamper celebrated with a 12 hour event. Every hour a new challenge was posted. Here is what I came up with for challenge #4.

I have three cartridges, two came with my Cricut.  The third one, Home Decor, has some really cool things.  But I have a hard time incorporating them into my projects.  Mostly because a lot of them have intricate details that don't cut well in small sizes.  On this page I added the black flourishes off of that cartridge.

Pink Stamper NSD - Three

The Challenger: Rowena, designer at My Pink Stamper
The Challenge: Think Outside the Box. Do something on your scrapbook page, card, or other item that you wouldn't normally do. Add something fun or crazy!!

Saturday was National Scrapbook Day and My Pink Stamper celebrated with a 12 hour event. Every hour a new challenge was posted. Here is what I came up with for challenge #3.

For my crazy page, I cut out words from a magazine.  Remember all of the arts and crafts we used to do as kids?  It was a total flashback.  The page ended up a little more busy than I prefer.  However, I think that was part of the challenge...to move outside our comfort zone!

Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

I know what you are thinking...What is a scrapbook page doing on this blog?  This blog is about cards!  Well, I thought I'd spice it up a little bit.  Here are the details!

The Challenge: Create your own version of the sketch (remember you can rotate it and interpret it as you wish as long as we can still recognize it as inspiration from the original).

The Challenger: Scrap{a}Tale

The page I created is from a trip we took to Chicago for our first anniversary last summer.  When I saw the sketch for this challenge, I knew which picture I wanted to be the focal point.  My husband took the picture of the swings while we were on the ferris wheel.  Here is my entry!

I love these pictures!  The small pictures of the ferris wheel are pictures that we took.  I placed them on top of the tickets we got for riding the ferris wheel.  The pictures look like they could be the tickets!

The background paper and button is from Paper Stuido.  The paper around the pictures is left-over scraps.  The ribbon is from the dollar bin at Michaels.

Thanks for looking!