Cooking With Cricut Challenge #73

Good Morning my Crafty friends. This weeks challenge over at Cooking with Cricut is a Sketch challenge plus pick 3.

This is a picture of the sketch we were asked to follow.

I decided to make two Easter cards for the challenge with matching envelopes.

My pick 3 for this card were border punch, ribbon, ink and my cricut cut was the rabbit from Easter 2010.

The second card I used a different border punch, ink, chalk and both Easter 2010 and Twinkle Toes Cricut Cartridges for the cuts.

I am trying to use all of my cartridge at least once this year, so I have a long ways to go. I have a silly habit of buying them and then using the same ones over and over again, so this year I am keeping a record and my challenge to myself is to use all 148 at least once, so please wish me luck, I have a heck of a long ways to go!

As always thanks for stopping bye, have a great week and I hope you have time to join in the fun at Cooking with Cricut.

Cooking With Cricuts Love is in The Air Blog Hop

Welcome to Paper Crafting World and Cooking With Cricut "Love is in the Air" blog Hop. If you arrived from Nita's  at Nita's Notes you are on the right track. If your joining us mid-hop and would like to start at the beginning please click Here  to go to Paper Crafting Worlds Cooking with Cricut Blog and check out what Melin has made!

Today's hop is all about Love ( your favorite love song and valentine themed)

Although Elvis Presley has been gone for well over thirty years, it feels as if he never left. His music and image continue to be a vital part of the world’s popular culture. "Burning Love" is a song written by Dennis Linde and made famous by Elvis Presley in 1972.

The songs lyrics go like this:

Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature rising!
(and boy oh boy it sure was for these pictures!)

My layout today is for all Elvis fans and any one that likes to have a bit of fun!

This may not be my favorite Love song but it sure does match today's layout.

(don't we look happy?)

This picture was taken  just inside of the Excalibur Casino in Las Vegas in 2010. My daughter Christy and I decided to go away for a couple days rest and some well needed bonding time. We were on our way to a dinner show when these two hunks came along and talked us into getting our pictures taken with them. We had so much fun, I never laughed so hard, that my belly hurt, I must have turned a thousand shades of red, but it is a memory I will remember for a very long long time to come.

For this 12X12 layout I followed a old sketch from StuckOnU
The chocolates were cut from Cricuts  Everyday Pop up Cards at 2.5 inches. I used  Say it with a Smirk 12X12 glitter and foil effect designer pack, along with Bo-Bunnys card stock. I just love all the little sayings and thought it would go perfect with the picture, chocolates and cute looking guys. What more could a girl want?
We hope you’ll join us and link up your favorite love song inspired project at CookingWithCricut. One lucky entry will be chosen by random.org to win a $10.00 gift certificate provided by PaperCraftingWorld.com! And make sure you leave a comment, too! One lucky commenter will also receive a $10.00 PaperCraftingWorld.com gift certificate!
I also will be giving my own Blog Candy to one of my lucky followers. Just leave a comment and I will pick a winner on Wednesday.

I hope you have enjoyed today's project and as always thanks for hopping with us.

Now it is time to send you off to the amazing talented Jill's blog to see what she has created for you today.

Cooking With Cricut "Go Canada" Cartridge Showcase

Hello my crafty followers. Today I am going to showcase this amazing cartridge called " Go Canada"  I was so excited when I saw that Cricut was coming out with this cartridge. As soon as it was released back in Oct, the hunt was on....this was a must have!

Yes......I am Canadian Eh!

Here our a few projects I came up with:

For my first project today I have a Diagonal Double Pocket card which you can find the instruction for at Splitcoaststampers.

As soon as I saw the coffee and donut cut it reminded me of our famous Tim Horton's Coffee Shop which you can find all over Canada serving the best coffee and donuts and delicious little timbits, so I added a gift card to my project since everyone love Timmys!!!

My second project I decided on a gift box which I added maple cookies to. Again instruction can be found at Splitcoaststampers for the box, I used both the maple tree and syrup cuts from this cartridge.

Canada is well know for it maple syrup....... Once you taste the real Canadian Maple Syrup, you will be hooked for life.

Next I have a 12X12 layout using a few more of the great cuts from this cartridge. I have used the Canadian flag to make it into a hidden journal tag with my Gypsy. This is my nephews son waving the Canadian flag in front of Canada House in Banff Alberta on Canada Day 2007. Canada is known for its vast forests and mountain ranges and the animals that reside within them, such as moose, beaver, grizzly, geese and the common Loon.

Last is another 12X12 layout, this time showing the province where I live, which is Alberta along with our Canadian Beaver which is our National Animal Symbol, toques and again my nephews son enjoying some real fine Canadian Bacon.

Provo craft did a wonderful job when designing this cartridges....I just love it and think everyone should run out and get it.

Canadian or not!
I am going to enter the layouts into this weeks challenge over at Getting Scrappy: this weeks challenge  is for the love of chocolate, scrap about chocolate or use chocolate supplies (twine, ribbon, paper etc.)

Thank you for stopping by my blog and checking out my showcase!

S.W.A.T. Valentine Card & Gift Boxes

Once again my hubby had to go out of town for the weekend, so I had my sister Debby and my Daughter Christy over to do a bit of scrapping. My sister stayed over night but Christy had to go home. We actually got a lot accomplished . I wanted to share a few picture of the girls and then a couple of the projects we made. I cannot show to much of want I did but you will be able to see them later on this week. I am showcasing the "Go Canada" Cricut cartridge at Cooking with Cricut on Thursday so make sure you pop back in to see them, they  turned out super cute and I just love this cartridge! I also would like to remind you that I will be in a Blog Hop this weekend over at Cooking with Cricut and I will be giving away some blog candy so make sure you stop in Sunday to check out my project  and leave me a comment for a chance to win.

 This is the valentines card I made with a freebie SVG file that was offered over at Designs on Cloud9.

My sister Debby made this great Valentines treat boxes. Didn't she do a excellent job! Pattern for the box can be found at Splitcoaststampers.

 The monkey and frog were cut from Cricuts Sweetheart Cartridge.

These are the challenges I am going to enter my card in.

Designs on Cloud 9: Facebook challenge: Make a Valentine Card using one of their SVG files.

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday: Love is in the air: Include a heart.

My Craft Spot: Make a Valentine Card or gift box.

More Than Favors: Love is in the Air

My Creative Time: Valentine
Terrific Tuesday Challenge: Heart themed
The Cuttlebug Spot: Sweetheart Challenge

Jurassic Park River Adventure! Exploring Cricut Guest Designer!

Today I am very excited and honored to be a guest designer for Exploring Cricut I was tickled pink when asked if I would do a guest spot for this weeks challenge at Exploring Cricut and boy oh boy it is a good one!!!

This week challenge is a 1,2,3 challenge.

1 Ribbon

2 Cricut cuts

3 Jewels, brads or buttons.

The challenge starts today and runs till February 4th so make sure you head over to Exploring Cricut and join in the fun!

I decided on a two page layout for this challenge.

 This is the first page of my layouts, using 3 Palm Tree Brads, 1 ribbon just below the mountains and 2.5 Cricut cuts from Dinosaur Track Cricut Cartridge.

 I used Imaginisce Dinosaur Roar Collection with a beautiful varnish accent.

 Can you see the look of terror on my face?

Rawr! A big T Rex

The top border is from a Martha Stewart punch, it has to be one of my favorite punches.

 This is a shot of my hubby, the pictures were taken at Universal Studios  May 13th, 2009. I don't know if you noticed, but along the top of the first page I used my computer to try and match page two dinosaurs border and if I say so myself, I did a pretty good job of it! LOL!

 

Thanks for stopping bye and don't forget to pop over and join in the fun at Exploring Cricut.

Winter Fun!

This weeks challenge over at StuckOnUSketches is a Die cut challenge...How fun is that!

For Christmas this year we decided to buy our three granddaughters their first pair of skates. 

The weather has been fairly nice  this winter so I decided to take the girls out for the day, to try out their new skated, we had a blast!

The two younger girls were really scared and of course they were crying and really acting up for there mom so grandma took each one aside and just talked to them and told them they could do it, well before you knew it they were off and having a ball. Jan my oldest granddaughter has never been on ice skates before but she had learned to roller blade last summer so she  had no problem at all. I had brought along two thermoses of hot chocolate and of course my camera. After skating we went to MacDonald's for lunch and called it a day! Today layout is all about our day of ice skating.

I used Camping Critters to cut the trees and pond at 8 inches, there were mountains in the back ground but I just cut they off.

My little ice skater is a SVG file called Bella and Baxtor sledding and skating which I purchased over at My Scrap Chick 

I inked the all the edges added some stickles, flock, bling and some True Snow and embossed  for the finale touches.  I am also going to enter this layout in another couple of my favorite  challenges.First is  Getting Cricky: This weeks Simply Sunday Challenge: Let it Snow!
Next we have Die Cutting Diva: A recipe challenge: Buttons, Bling or Bows, and of course we can't forget Getting Scrappy Challenge: this weeks layout challenge is Flurries of Fun! Hope you enjoyed today's post. 

Bee My Hunny

It seems like forever since I have gotten around to doing a challenge for Fantabulous Cricut. So I decided this morning no matter what, I was going down to my scraproom and not coming out until it was done! This weeks, Challenge me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut is called Label it!

I used my gypsy to weld to Honey pot together from Pooh and Friend cutting it at 4.35 to form a shape card.

For my label I used Tags Bags and more also using my gypsy to fit it to the card front.

I then used a sentiment from Sweet Cheeks Stamps called Heartfelt Thoughts.

Finale touches to the card, are embossing, brads, bling, pop up dots for dimension and chalking the edges with Tim Holtz distressing ink.
Thanks for stopping bye and leaving me a bit of love!