Country Life

My family lives on a "farm."  They have horses and a barn, but it's not a farm where they make money off of it.  I am INCREDIBLY allergic to horses so I have to be super careful when I go over and how much time I spend there.  But a lot of my closest friends I met through my parents and my brother.  Audrey was my maid of honor in my wedding and she got me a GREAT present!  (A scrapbook carrying case!  She knows me so well!)  So I made her a card that depicts her and her horse Missy.  
Audrey's favorite color is green so I used some green and the barn is used with barn red cardstock.  The dots for the eyes are apoxy bubbles.  The clouds and the thank you are made from daisy white ink and a Q-tip.  The cuts are from Cricut Create a Friend and Create a Critter.  I decided it would work great in the Heart 2 Heart Challenge for country.  I really hope she likes it.

Thanks for Flowers

The BBTB2 challenge is flowers this week.  Usually I am not one to work with flowers, but I needed to do a thank you card for a distant relative.  I liked this cut because the watering can makes it a little less girly.  In case you haven't quite figured it out, *whispers* I'm not really a girly girl.  They yellow is supposed to kinda represent the sunshine.  

This cut is from Kate's ABCs.  The majority of the paper is from CTMH Dream Pop. I used daisy white ink and a q-tip to create the clouds.

The grass turned out a lot better than I thought it would.  Honestly I just cut random places and then cut cross ways.  

Where's Spring

Here in the Midwest it is still SUPER COLD!  My birthday was last week and it has been a long time since it has been this cold on my birthday.  I feel like I haven't seen or heard any birds yet.  I made this card and thought of my Grandpa.  He used to bird watch and tell us about which birds were out at his feeder.  Now he is in a nursing home and doesn't get out much.  Maybe this card will help brighten his day and bring a little spring to his room!

I cut the bird from Nate's ABCs cartridge for my Cricut.  I thought this card would be perfect for the Bye Bye Birdie challenge at Fantabulous Cricut Challenges.  I used paper from Close to My Heart's Dram Pop and Later Sk8er.  The birdie and I want to know the same thing...WHERE IS SPRING and WHEN IS IT GETTING HERE!?!?!

Learning to Weave

My mom, grandma, and I took my step-daughter, Lucy, to the Art Museum.  Not always a great idea with a 5 year old, but at least now she knows that some people think that chairs and everyday things are artsy.  On the plus side, the museum has some areas for younger children where they can touch and try out things.  On this trip, Lucy learned that Native Americans made a lot of their clothing and blankets from weaving.  

I used Close to My Heart Dream Pop paper and two different Cricut cartridges.  The font is from Nate's ABCs and the little girl is from Nursery Rhymes.  I created this layout for the Exploring Cricut challenge.  I only used one cardstock and one pattern paper.  The paper in the corner is Lucy's weaving practice!

Irish Celebration

Top of the Mornin to ya!  I spent some of my time creating a card for my husband.  I used the Cricut cartridge: Create a Critter 2 and a card from CTMH.  I am enjoying playing with my Cricut and trying new things.  This is my first card I have attempted.  I thought this would be a great entry for BBTB2 with their St. Patrick's Day themed contest.

I used a pattered light green for the turtle's under layer and a deep green for the shell and hat.  I don't have many inks yet and I didn't want to use gray.  So I used a sharpie to write out my sentiment.  Unfortunately, my handwriting isn't the best, but I tried. 

I am very lucky to have found my husband.  He's away at drill right now, but will be home for St. Patrick's day!  I am excited to have him home and to give him his card!

Create a Critter Fun!

This is my most recent page.  These pictures were sent to me and I decided to make a page using my new Cricut cartridge: Create a Critter.  This happens to be my favorite cartridge!  So it fits the challenge over at BBTB2.  The paper used on this page is all from the CTMH paper pack of Lolly Doodle.  I loved the bright colors.  The kitty and yarn were cut with my Cricut.  The little pink sparkle dot is also from CTMH.  

This page is a very simple layout using 2 pictures and cut outs.  I chose the color scheme and then picked the words I wanted to use.  

Lucy is now 5 almost 6, these have to be 3 or 4 years old.  This just shows you that you can do layouts any time.  

Honeymoon Fun

My husband and I got married almost a year ago and I finally finished our honeymoon book.  There are many different types of paper and techniques used throughout these pictures/pages.

 Pictures can be a focal point of a page or you can use an embellishment as the main portion of the page.  Here I used the Cinderella carriage to be a main point of the page and used the car pictures to show what the carriage represented.

This is not one of my best pages.  I enjoyed this page because I liked the stickers I found to use. The plane ticket is backed in a very bright color to make up for the bland coloring of the actual ticket.  The photo should have had a fun backing to it, but like I said, I'm not super proud of this page.

This a great page to show the potential of oddly shaped things.  Not everything you use on cards or in your layouts is going to be a square or rectangle.  Shown by our resort, you could use some very differently shaped things.  I used a backing to make the pic pop and then used the pictures to show what the center pic was about.

I love this page!  The pictures are the focal point with the schedule just being a large embellishment.  All the colors made choosing stickers and backing colors easy.  As you can see with the sun glasses, you can back as many times as you want with as many colors as you want.  The purple letters are being made to play double duty in two words to make them last a little longer (because we all know that once we start with letters, there are never enough to make the words we want).  Using stamps is a great way to make sure you don't run out of lettering.


These are just a few of the pages from my book.  I have a few more I will share at a later time.  But these were a good starting point to show some good things and bad things.