Layout using my $4.99 cart!

This layout is for the April 1st sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches. I bought several cricut cartridges on clearance a couple months ago for $4.99 and $9.99. One of the carts for 4.99 was Elegant Cakes. I used it to cut the bottom scalloped border in cream cardstock and the swirly vines in cream cardstock then glimmer misted the swirly vines in green. There are so many great cuts on this cart not to mention a beautiful font! I water misted the plum background paper and smooshed the edges while it was still damp, let it dry then inked.

Supplies:

cricut carts: Elegant cakes for the scallop border @ 1" that was welded together and I think the

swirly vine was cut at 3-1/4" then cut apart; George and basic shapes circle @ 8" and 7-1/4" cut out of that.

paper: patterned is K&Co best of Brenda Walton; cream and brown cardstock is recollections

plum flowers are from the dollar store floral dept. that I pulled apart.

white flowers are prima

flat back pearls

sizzix tropical paisley embossing folder on bottom brown strip of paper

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Tim Holtz antique linen and vintage photo inks

Studio G green ink

close up of the embossing folder detail and elegant cakes border detail

Another wordbook

I made this wordbook for my daughter's friend. I just love the new K&Co flora and fauna paper pack--gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!

I wanted to put more interactive pages in this but only had two days and this is what I was able to complete. Have you ever had a project that you really hated parting with--this fell into that category for me!

Supplies:

Cricut hello kitty font; walk in my garden; george and basic shapes

cuttlebug swiss dot folder on top letters

K&Co flora and fauna paper; classic k charlotte pack; and best of brenda walton

fussy cut two of the butterflies from the paper

metal embellishments are misc from stash

flat back pearls

Martha Stewart butterfly punch; swirling lace punch around the page

Fiskars lace border punch

generic small leaf punch; scallop punch

prima flowers

ribbon from michaels

stardust stickles

diamond dust

Tim Holtz vintage photo ink

The butterfly on the "J" was stickled then dipped in diamond dust. I scraped some of it back off because it covered up to much of the detail in the butterfly.

fussy cut leaves from best of brenda walton paper
I cut out this bird from flora and fauna paper and it pulls out for either journaling on the back or a photo
The white flower was fussy cut from the flora and fauna paper and then I went over all the petals with a micron pen to bring out the detail. This lifts up for two photo and I also slipped a tag behind it for more photos and/or journaling. Cricut walk in my garden for butterfly


The lace on these next two pages is from a generic pack I bought at the dollar store and it is so delicate and girly--love it!
Here I left a couple of blank boxes for journaling.
This is just a close-up of one of the metal flowers.

What's the line-up?

This layout is for the March 18th sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com.

I used a sunflower on this layout to represent the many many many sunflower seeds we have consumed over my daughter's thirteen years of playing softball. She wasn't actually going to play this year and realized in her heart she wasn't done playing.

I used a softball score sheet behind the photo and a player line-up sheet that I cut in strips;

Sizzix embossing folder

Cricut wimg for sunflowers cut @ 2-3/4" and 5-3/4" from page 100 and the leaves @ 1" and 3/4" from page 109;

Tim holtz vintage photo distress ink

black micron and white gel pen for doodling

Smile--show us those pearly whites!

This layout is based on the March sketch over at http://lizqualman.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-sketch-challenge-at-lyb.html. Although I did not use lyb papers, I loved the sketch and love how this came out. It will be home to dgd's first teeth pictures.

Polka paper is Martha Stewart and solid paper is dcwv bright stack and recollections

Martha Stewart butterfly punch for small butterflies

Cricut walk in my garden cart for "smile" cut @ 1-1/2" and large butterflies cut @ 2" and 1-1/2"

medium retro flower punch

white puffy paint

fruit punch stickles

computer generated words

This is one of my all time favorite whimsical butterflies from walk in my garden cart.
I love the dimension that the puffy paint added to this flower!

Several posts

I received a wooden frame like they sell at Michaels in an order I received and finally got around to altering it. I used K&Co paper, an old piece of lace that I have had for probably twenty plus years, flat back pearls, embroidery thread, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, recollection fabric flower and the leafy vine is from what a beautiful mess blog.

This was a super quick and fun card to make. The image is from the cutting cafe. I printed it and then colored with pencils and odorless mineral spirits. I added waterfall stickles to the icing, used Martha Stewart swirling lace punch around the page border punches, paper from stash and ribbon from Michaels.

This layout is for the March 4th sketch challenge at stuckonusketches. Unfortunately the lighting in my kitchen is horrible. I somehow missed the cutoff for the link--I must try to finish sooner!

The picture in the layout isn't the best quality but I enlarged a 1x1" thumbnail print. This is my grandmother and mother and I just adore the sweetness of this photo. My grandmother made the darling little hat my mother was wearing. I don't have many photo's of my grandmother or my mother as a young child but grateful for the ones I do have.

Paper is K&Co and Crafty Secrets.

Fabric flowers and Recollections; paper ones are prima and retro flower punch.

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Karen Foster metal "heritage" charm.

flat back pearls and recollections swirl sticker.

green, tea dye, vintage photo and antique linen inks

textile embossing folder.

For Me?

This layout is for the Feb. 18th sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches.blogspot.com

My son was extremely surprised when his grandma brought him a present on his sisters birthday! He was such a huge fan of the Duke's of Hazzard show and was so thrilled with his towel.

I doubled up on sous this week by doing the sketch challenge and after seeing the sous tutorial on chipboard letters, decided to make my title out of some chipboard. The font is called "jokerman" cut in scal.

I also cut chipboard and pattered paper for the circles and attached them to the scalloped circles with colored staples.

The border on the polka dot mat was cut in scal with a file I made to resemble the Martha Stewart optic dot punch around the page. The journaling was computer generated and printed on patterned paper then cut in strips.

close up of some of the detail on the layout. Some items were popped up with dimensional dots.
Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

More Valentine Easel Card Candy Boxes

More of the valentine easel card candy boxes. The card is attached to a box that has a drawer for the valentine goodies (hershey kisses and dove chocolates). Cricut lacy labels for the box base cut in cardboard and cardstock. flatback pearls and ribbon from Michaels.

This image is from Free Pretty Things For You. I love the old vintage style valentines!

The next four images are from Magic Moonlight Free Images--too cute!
This shows the easel cards in the standing position and the drawers underneath hold hershey kisses and dove chocolate.




Happy Valentines Day to all!