Banner for Bentley

A new baby on his way and a new banner for mommy's shower. This one just popped in my head today and I felt compelled to make it. I hope she likes it.

I used the Close to My Heart Artiste cartridge for the mustaches and ties. The ties were cut at 11" and the mustaches were cut at 1.75" on my Expression machine. the letters and shadows were cut from the Nate's ABC's cartridge at 1.75". I used fishing line to hang them from the red ribbon.

It's Magic layout

The pictures on this layout aren't the best quality. In fact some of them are just down right blurry, but I love the expression on Khloë's face, especially in the last picture.

 

 

When my son and his family moved into their first home Khloë was just a year and half old. She had fun checking out all the cabinets and finding which one's she could hide in. The one in the kitchen corner was her favorite.

The first time I saw her go in the cabinet I asked her what she was doing. She just looked at me with that little smile, like to say, "Watch me. I'm going to disappear now".

Of course I played along and said, "Where's Khloë? Where's Khloë?"  She popped the door back open and jumped out laughing. She was laughing so much it was hard to get a good picture.

The last picture is the blurriest, but it's also my absolute favorite. Even with it being such a bad picture you can see how much she was laughing. That is pure joy.

Summertime Layout

Summertime. Doesn't that have a nice ring to it? I think I might make this my new process. I'll scrapbook summer pictures in the winter and winter pictures in the summer when it's 100 degrees.

These pictures were taken when my son and his family moved into their new house. It had been empty for a few months and the lemon tree was loaded with ripe lemons. Khloë thought it was fun to peel them open and pull out the pieces. She was even brave enough to try one out. As you can see she wasn't so sure about the sour taste. The funniest part was that she kept trying it and making these funny faces.

The title on this layout was cut using the Suburbia font at 2" on the Cricut Expression.

The lemon is from the Preserves Cricut cartridge. I think I've had this cartridge for two years and I just now took it out of the plastic. I knew it would come in handy at some point.

Somewhere Sunny Layout

Can you believe I have a two page layout to share today? It's been so long since I've actually scrapbooked anything. I really missed it and even though my scraproom is still a mess I had to get a layout done.
I also took the opportunity to try out the Cricut Craftroom because I needed to link my cartridges. I am a die hard Gypsy user so I've never used the Craftroom to cut anything. Linking my cartridges from the Gypsy went exceptionally well and only took a minute. I was surprised at how easy it was, which was one of the reasons I decided to go forward with my experimenting.

 

Everything was going just fine and dandy until I needed to resize my letters. From what I could tell there are maybe three different places you can size things on the Craftroom. 1.) at the top of the screen. 2.) on the bottom where the default size is located and 3.) on the left hand side either under text or image. This is where I lost all hope. I somehow figured out how to resize my first word. It seemed to work fine. Then I needed to resize the second word to match. I went to the top and tried it. When I put 2" in the box it changed the size, but it was not the same as the first word. I went to the side and tried it. I couldn't do anything under the text tab, so tried the image tab. Again I put in 2" and my two words were different sizes.  I knew the bottom default wouldn't work for existing text. At this point I deleted the words, selected 2" for the default size and retyped my text. That seemed to work. I was even able to figure out how to squeeze the letters closer together and weld them.

I'm sure it's just me and the fact that I don't know what I'm doing with this program, but I have to say I still LOVE my GYPSY! I really hope the new Design Space works more like a Gypsy than the Craftroom.

And here is the finished project (a few gray hairs later).

We had rain all weekend so I really wanted to work on pictures with a warmer feeling. These pictures did the trick because they were taken on a day that the temperature was over 100 degrees and we were wishing it was somewhere around 75 degrees.

I added the little dog to the bottom right corner because we were at a petapalooza that day and saw a lot of different breeds of dogs. The dog is from the Create a Critter cartridge. The font for the title was cut using Quarter Note and welded together.

 

 



I've been a Bad Blogger!

I just realized I haven't posted anything since January 5th. I have been trying to finish my 2013 Project Life and keep up with 2014 so there's not much to show. Since I'm just trying to get it done at this point there's nothing fancy or exciting about it.
I have a few layouts planned, but while cleaning my room I got a little carried away and decided to re-organize yet again. Hubby agreed that I should just bite the bullet and make the dream room that I want. New cabinets and all, but I just can't seem to commit. I tend to rearrange things every few months so the thought of built in cabinets seems so permanent. What to do, what to do...

So this is my excuse for not getting any pages done.

At least the floor is mostly clean, but I have no work space right now. This was at the end of the day when I had put most things back in my room (from the living room, kitchen and the family room). I need to get some more "nice" looking storage boxes to put things in. If you look at the bottom jetmax cubes you can see most of the open shelves have papers and stuff on them. Two of them have nice black boxes that are organized and labeled with their contents. I would much rather see the boxes than the loose papers so I need to pick up about 10 more boxes. I also need to clean out some of the drawers and make better use of them. I'll keep you posted.

Project Life cards from Scraps

With a new year comes new resolutions. One of mine is to use what I have. It's so easy to buy all the new pretty supplies, but I have a room that is overflowing with supplies. I don't need to buy anymore.

So today I spent most of my time trying to use up some of my scraps. I am doing my own version of Project Life and find myself taking up a lot of time finding the right filler cards. I have a few of the Becky Higgins kits and a couple Simple Stories kits, but I get bored using the same products over and over. All of this led me to using scraps and making my own cards.

I started by pulling out some scraps of patterned paper and some old paper stacks. After I had a few patterned papers that went together I looked through my solid cardstock scraps and pulled out the colors that matched the patterns.

I cut the papers in various sizes and started gluing them together.

Once I finished with my first papers I pulled out another set of patterned papers and solid cardstock scraps. I did the same process of cutting them to various sizes and gluing them together. I made 4x6 cards and 3x4 cards.

I now have two different sets of Project Life cards that I can use in my books. I had a good time putting these together and putting my scraps to good use so I will definitely be making more of these.

December Daily - Ta Done!

Finally I was able to take some pictures of the last pages in my December Daily. It gets dark so early these days that it's hard to take pictures under lights and not get a glare from the page protectors.

December 21st I stayed with the girls while mommy and daddy went to Christmas parties. I'm not sure if you can read the journaling under Khloë's picture. While we were crafting my foot had fallen asleep because I was sitting on it. I asked Khloë if her foot ever fell asleep and she said, "yeah, I just take it to bed with me." I am still laughing about it. I mean it makes perfect sense, right?

December 22nd is when I got most of the presents wrapped.
December 23rd I still had a couple of presents left to buy and while shopping I came across this Disney doll and horse for Khloë.

This is an insert I made for the 24th. Starlet looks like she is so angry, but she really is a sweetheart. Maybe she was just upset that the dogs got a bone for Christmas and she didn't.

Poor Scooter. I gave him and Coco rawhide bones and he was so busy burying and unburying his that he rubbed the skin off his muzzle. Ouch! And yes, that's dirt on his nose.

 

The 24th was spent with just us and our little family. It was very nice and relaxing. Also a lot of fun watching Khloë open her presents. The top left section lifts up to reveal two more pictures.

And this is what you see when you lift the tab.

The 25th was a crazy day at my moms with the whole family. All three of my sisters and their families were there along with my Aunt and Cousin. It was loud and a lot of fun.

Just a few more pictures from the 25th.

On the 26th I was very happy to figure out how to get on the Cricut message board with my Kindle. On the 27th my dear husband was sick and miserable. He made a stop at the store and came home with every cold medicine he could find.

On the 28th I took the ornaments off the tree and hauled it out to the front yard. The rest is up to husband to deal with. LOL.

On the 29th I spent the day cleaning and playing in my scraproom.

 

  On the 30th I had to get gas. For my morning coffee I used the mug I got a couple Christmas's ago from Khloë.

On the 31st we went out to dinner with our younger son and his girlfriend and then we went to the movies.

We were home by 9:30 and everyone was in bed early except me. I stayed up and took pictures. Nobody was happy about that.

 

 

And that sums up my December. Now I need to get started on Project Life. Anyone else doing Project Life this year?

Be Merry-December Daily-Day 19 and 20

This page makes me giggle. My dear husband was riding passenger while I drove. I got a text message on my phone and he decided to answer it since I couldn't. Of course my daughter in law (who he was answering) knew it wasn't me right away and asked if it was him. Instead of texting back he took this "selfie" and sent it to her. He surprises me sometimes with the things he does. He's not one to take pictures of himself so I had to document it.

Us girls, on the other hand, love to take our picture. Kylee is still learning, but we're teaching her while she's still young. Khloë knows what it's all about. Lol. The bottom picture was taken while I was watching the girls. Their mommy and daddy had a Christmas party to attend and I was lucky enough to spend the evening playing and posing for pictures with the girls.

December Daily-Day 17 and 18

I think this is one of my favorite pages in my album. It's very simple, but looks a little more decorated.

The strip on the left is just a piece of paper cut to fit from the Simple Stories December kit. The Christmas sticker on December 18th was a freebie I got when I placed an order for supplies. That's two more days that are done!

More Tumblers to Decorate-December Daily-Day 16

I really love these tumblers and I guess I'm not alone. My older nieces (ages 16-19 years) asked if I would make them some for Christmas. I of course went to the store and bought a whole bunch of them. I only need to make about 6, but I think I bought 20 just in case.

In the past I've only gotten the clear ones, but I'm excited to see how these colored ones turn out. The hard part will be deciding which color for which niece. I'll post an update later on how they turned out.