Happy 5th Birthday

I have been thinking about this layout for almost 2 years now, and just didn't get it done.  Of course it helps that I finally got the Boys will be Boys Cricut Cartridge recently.  The papers are from The Paper Studio Boys and their Toys stack.  Great prints, but I did find the paper to be very thin, so  I  mounted the entire layout on white cardstock.   

Here is a close up of the left side

The big tire that I used for the title is from Boys will be boys, and the font is from base camp.  I used my gypsy and welded the letters to the tire and then used the negative space for the lettering. The trucks are also from Boys will be boys.   There is a cake brad in the bed of the blue truck and 3balloon brads in the bed of the green truck.

Here is a close up of the right side

This green truck has button presents falling out of it and a party hat brad in the bed too.  The pocket I made on my gypsy with a square and a triangle.  I keep all the invitations and cards from birthday parties, and I figured this would be a great place to keep them all. 

So there it is, a layout and  blog update! Go me! LOL Thanks for looking!

Tubin on the Hooch

This layout is of a trip we took boating and tubing on the Chattahoochee river.  The kids were little, but they loved it...well most of them did.

Sorry the picture isn't the greatest. I used my imagine cartridge JT for the arrows and the font is from Lyrical Letters.  Here is the left side up close

It is hard to see but the picture on the bottom is of my neice and she was scared to death!

The papers are from Sandy Lion (I hope that is right) The arrow on this side I stamped with the word "adventure"

Here is a close up of the right side.

  This arrow says good times and I just flipped it using my imagine before I printed it.

Thanks for looking!

We're Going to the Zoo

I made this layout for the weekly challenge on the Cricut Circle Blog.  This weeks challenge was to use animals to inspire your project.  I thought it would be a perfect time to scrap a trip to the Ohio Zoo.  This was a great way to get me going again! I have been playing ever since I did the LO.

I used my imagine and cut the title letters and animals from Zooballo with the patterns from JT and Imagine More.  Here is a close up of the lef side.  I love the picture of the kids with the ape in the middle of them,  how fitting for my kids!  And the tiger sleeping up against the glass was adorable, (as long as the glass was there!)  The elephant cut is from Animal Kingdom.  

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment! Have a great day!

Romance Card

I just got an Imagine, so I have been playing trying to figure it out.  This is the first project I made with it.  I used Wall decor and More for the Heart and the word.  The patterns are from the Imagine More cartridge.  I also used a cuttlebug border embossing folder at the bottom.  I threw this together at the last minute for my hubby on Valentines Day.  Not too bad for a first attempt, I am still trying to figure everything that this awesome new machine does, but so far, I am in love with it!

One Love mini book

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of my wonderful marriage to a equally wonderful man.  I wanted to do something to show him that I love him more now then the day we got married, so I made him a mini book.  I am still not sure that I feel that it is finished, but I have given it to him and he loved it, and some of the things I thought of adding were more "femine" touches, so they may not have been fitting anyway.   Before I start to share the pictures, let me say, I would love to share all my cricut info with all of you, but unfortunately my gypsy with all my cut files broke again and is once again on its way back to provo craft.

Here is the front of the book. I decided on a gate fold book.  This is the first time I have attempted on of these.  The red heart fits behind the purple heart to keep the book closed.  Closed it measures 5 1/2 inches by 11 inches.

When you open up the book this is what you see.

These are all pictures of us before we were married.  This is a full size page that open to the left. It also has a pocket and inside I tucked some of the letters that we wrote back and forth while he was in basic training.

When this page is opened this is the next page, which opens to the right.  It is another pocket page which has our wedding invitation and a couple more letters.

When that page is opened, it revels the wedding pages.  The center is a half page so both sides open.

Sorry for the glare in the pictures, this book is very long and it was hard to get good pictures of it.  Next the middle two pages  are open  and there is more of the wedding and reception.

Now it goes back to a left opening page from here and behind it is our married life, with another pocket, this one has letters from hubby's numerous deployments. The love page is also in a pocket and hass some journaling on it.

This center page opens to the right to reveal a large page with family photos on it, through  all the years of our marriage.

Once again, the middle page is split and opens to reveal the last page.  The journaling on this page reads, "A true love story never ends."

That's it, now we just have to figure out ho to close it back up until the next time! :)
Thanks for looking and have a great day! - oh and if I can magically find my cut files when my gypsy is returned (very very doubtful!) I will more than happily share them with you all!  One more thing, most of the papers in the album are from DCWV elegant stack and old world stack.

Ok, really I am done now!  Bye!

Still in the Christmas spirit

I decided that I needed to get caught up on some Christmas pages before I printed 2010's pictures.  Well, I had 2 years to do for my daughter alone, so I worked on them today.  The first layout I did is from 2009.  I used my Gingerbread cartridge MS Seasonal Cake Art for the font. (I love my cricut).  The little gingerbread house is opens up to hide journaling.  The paper and stickers are Heidi Grace.

The second layout I made is from 2008.  The only cricut cut is the title and it is from Winter Frolic.  The paper is from paper studio. 

Thanks for looking!

Cartridge Challenge

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!  I did! My family and I spent the Holiday's at home enjoying each other. 

For the New Year I have decided that I would challenge myself to use all my cricut cartridges at least once.  There are so many that I just never seem to use.  This topic was brought up on the Cricut Circle Forum and  jumped on board.  Someone (sorry, I'm terrible with names!) said she was going to put the names of her cartridges in a jar and draw 2 a week, what a wonderful idea!  SO, I started my jar.  I found out I have 131 cartridges and 3 more on the way...WOW!  I didn't know my addiction had gotten that bad! I am not sure if I am going to draw 2 a week or not.  I thought that I may just use it when I am stuck and need a little motivation to get going again. 

But I am starting off on the right foot, for this week I drew my 2 cartridges...and they were Mother's Day 2010 and French Manor...holy cow....that was a hard one for me, and they were both cartridges I have never used.  As I looked through their cuts I decided that I would use these to dress up my jar! 

This is what I came up with.  The pink border is from French Manor, the blue tag thing is from Mother's Day and the word "Inspire" is from Gypsy Wanderings.

Thanks for looking!

For my followers, I hope to post more often now that the Holiday's are over, but no promises about how often!