My Life Monday - Project Life Week 17

My week in a nutshell. First things first, I flew home from Georgia and then took a long nap. LOL.

Christopher came in the house covered in grease because he was helping a neighbor friend work on his car.  Khloë showing off her big sister shirt. Cricut plushie and a penguin from the Cheesecake Factory.

Khloë loves her penguin. She also liked the little Cricut vinyl I brought her. She introduced the two of them to each other and then they played. Khloë and I also played outside on her swing set and then we found some ladybugs.

Coco had her last puppy shots and also rode in the car for the first time without being in her crate. She did pretty well and enjoyed looking out the window.

Rounding out the week was a yummy Sunday morning breakfast of fresh fruit and French Vanilla coffee.

Cricut Cuts:
Cat silhouettes cut from Kate's ABC's at 3"
Little girl cut from Baby Steps at 3"
Fun Day Out cut from Baby Steps at 1.75"
Slide cut from Locker Talk at 3.5"
Dog cut from Nate's ABC's at 2"

Project Life - week 13

A second posting of Project Life in one week, woohoo! I told you I'm gonna get caught up (-:

This was a busy week with a new puppy, Easter and my youngest sister getting engaged.

The dogs are getting along well, thank goodness. I gave Coco her first bath (that we know of) and she did very well. I added a bow to her hair because she is a girl after all. LOL. She wasn't so happy with it though and shook it right out.

To make my title card for this week I used Art Philosophy for the font. I also used a new stamp I got at the Scrapbook Expo. It's the chicken wire in the background. I really like it and think I will find a lot of uses for it. The dog on the journaling card was cut from the Cricut Cartridge Boys Will Be Boys at 2.75".

My niece and nephew came to stay at our house from Thursday until Easter Sunday so on Friday after work I stopped at Krispy Kreme to get some donuts for everyone. Yummy.

The cute little rabbit and dragon fly were cut from the Kate's ABC's Cricut cartridge at 3". This is one of my favorite cartridges. I also have to mention the picture of Khloë on the left side. She had a mouth full of pop rocks. This was the first time she's ever had them and she thought it was pretty funny. She said, "more please". Such a cutie.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I totally forgot to make my post yesterday. Dealing with realtors, lenders, money and waiting for news on a house can be really stressful. Crazy thing is, it's not even for me! My son and daughter in law are trying to buy a house. They were outbid on two, waited for months on a short sale and now they have found another house they like better. The problem is that it is also a short sale and could be a long drawn out process. The only good thing about it is that they will be able to save more money while they're waiting. I just hope everything works out and that they DO get it. I have't seen the house in person, but I've seen pictures and it is absolutely beautiful. It will be perfect for them.

So as I said, I forgot to make my post yesterday. I wanted to make this post yesterday so that today I could post my Valentine tree. Well, my Valentine tree didn't get finished either )-:
I will try to get it finished when I get home from work and get it posted tonight but no guarantees.

What I did get done is this wall art for Khloë's room made with vinyl. I used pink and green because eventually (when I have time to do some more decorating) those will be the colors. For now the walls are pink and this vinyl is the only thing on them.

For the large K in green I used Kate's ABC's. For the K and the C in pink I used the Tie The Knot cartridge. The rest of the letters were cut using Quarter Note and welded together using my Gypsy. The dragon flies were cut from the Close To My Heart cartridge, Art Philosophy. The green one is actually the layer that would normally go over the pink layer, but I liked them by themselves.

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Car Decals and Kate's ABCs

Happy Friday everyone. I finally got another couple of layouts done. I'm really enjoying making a boy version and a girl version with the same sketch.
Todays sketch is from page 112 of PageMaps 2.

I started out with my blue papers and the Cricut Car Decals cartridge. Can you believe I've had this cartridge for months and this is the first time I've used it? It's so stinkin' cute. There are a ton of things I want to cut out, but I couldn't decide what to cut first. I guess I got over that with this layout. The two little boys are adorable. Oh, and the Cricut cuts are too. LOL. The pictures are from 19 years ago when my older son was 3 and my younger son was almost 3 months old.

I would never put this quote on my vehicle, but I thought it was cute for this layout of my boys and their grandparents.

The kids on the cartridge are adorable. There are so many uses for this cartridge.

The brackets were cut from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge.

For my pink version I used the Cricut Kate's ABCs cartridge. I love the cuts on this cartridge too. They are so adorable. I also like that there are specific cuts for each letter of the alphabet.

The scallop cut on the top is from the Straight From The Nest cartridge. I think this layout came out so cute. I just realized in the top "boy" layout my son was almost 3 months and in this "girl" version my grand-daughter is just over 3 months. Wow, a lot has changed in 19 years.
I've had a few people ask me about the paper I've been using so I wanted to add a picture of it. It's a great stack because it has pinks, blues and greens.

Have a great weekend.
Cindy

Blue and Pink version

As promised I have a layout to share using Pagemaps. A couple of months ago I picked up a DCWV paper pack called Blossom. I love the papers. It has pinks, greens and blues all in one pack.
I used the Pagemaps sketch from page 24.

I started out with the pink papers and made this layout.

The flower in the upper left hand corner, the butterfly on the right side and the small flower on the bottom left page are all from Kate's ABCs. The title was cut at 3" from the Straight From the Nest cartridge.

I really like the pink papers and the layout will be perfect for pictures of my grand-daughter. But, I am also working on my younger son's baby album, so I thought as a twist I would do the same layout in blue. Here is that layout.

 
Isn't it cute? The title was cut from Straight From the Nest, as well as the flower, flower pot, owl and the photo corners. I have pictures to put on this layout, but I need to scan them and re-size them before I add them. I couldn't wait to for the resized pictures though so I temporarily adhered them and took a quick picture. What do you think?

I will make the photos 4x6 and the photo on the far right with the photo corners will be a 5x7. Wow, these pictures are about 18 years old! My baby is all grown up now. Hope you enjoyed the layouts. I like this idea of making a blue AND a pink version. Have a wonderful week friends.

Bloom and Grow Layout

Monday again. I hope everyone enjoyed the Blog Hop on Saturday. I had a lot of fun hopping along with everyone. I wanna say Thank You to LB for hosting. I will be posting the winner to the blog candy later.
For now I'd like to share another layout I started at the Rocklin Circle Crop back in June. The girls are from A Child's Year. The words Grow and Bloom are from Kate's ABCs. Once I got that done I felt like it still needed something so I added the flowers from my stash and then put a dot of Viva Decor Pearl Pen in the middle of each.

Yesterday was spent in the yard cleaning, trimming bushes and trees, and making plans for future projects. We had a dog run in the far corner of the yard that wasn't being used anymore, so I took part of that down. Already the yard looks a lot bigger and cleaner. I guess this layout just made me want to get out and do some yard work. I really like to do yard work, but not when it's too hot or too cold. LOL. Yesterday was perfect and I got a lot done. Of course now my whole body hurts! It might take me  a couple of days to feel up to scrapbooking again. Heehee. Thanks for stopping by. Cindy

Calling Cards

Well, I finally made friends with my Imagine. I've had it for awhile now and have only used it a couple of times. I always go back to my trusty ol' Expression. The Imagine just seemed so overwhelming. Not that it was too hard to use. The first time I used it actually went pretty well. I just couldn't seem to have any "imagination" when I thought about using it. I like the images on the cartridges I have. I just couldn't decide what to do with them. So finally I found an image and a use for it. I had to make at least 55 calling cards and the Imagine made it super easy. I didn't have to worry about piecing images together or finding the perfect papers. I just printed and cut the quantity of the image I wanted and added it to my card base. Easy as pie. The best part is that I actually really like how my calling cards turned out. I like the image, the background papers and the sentiment.

I printed and cut the image at 2" from the Better Together Imagine cartridge. I then layered it on top of a scalloped square from Kate's ABCs that was cut at 2.71".  The background paper was cut at 3x3" on my paper trimmer. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the image is pop dotted to make it stand out a little more. The stamps used for the top two words are from Stampin' Ups Fabulous Phrases. The "Inspire Me!" is from the Paper Trey Ink Sentiments stamp set. On the back of the cards I have added my personal information to give out to my Circle Friends. Thank you for stopping by to visit me today. Cindy

All Sports - Fore!

I'm back with another All Sports layout. I chose golf this time around because my sweet hubby likes to golf. (I don't really understand hitting a little white ball just so you can chase after it. LOL) I don't mind him golfing because that means craft time for me. So this past weekend while he was golfing I was making a layout about golf.

I was really proud of myself with this one because all of the papers were scraps and leftovers except the blue 12x12 backgrounds. The cream scallop paper is the negative cut from a previous layout using Kates ABCs. The title was cut at 4", the golf cart was cut at 6", the golf bag at 4" and the golfer at 6".  This layout came together very easily and I like the outcome. See you next time. 

Got Sand?

I did this layout for the Mypinkstamper.com National Scrapbook Day contest #2.  The Rule for this one was to use Craft Cardstock on a scrapbook page or card. These were pictures from Easter this year. We went to Sand Mountain in Nevada. It was mine and my husbands first time there so we followed my son in his truck. He was pulling a trailer and as soon as we got there he got stuck. It was not the best way to start our vacation. Luckily everyone was really nice and helped him get out. I used Kate's ABCs for the large scallop square background, Blackletter for the title, Boys will be Boys for the truck and Campin' Critters for the trailer.