Some Scrapbook Layouts for NSD and Basic Grey

Hi there! I'm here to post a few scrapbook layouts for the National Scrapbook Day Challenges over at Basic Grey - fortunately they were still open for the week, since I was finishing my last day in Hawaii, then traveling home on NSD - so I missed out on a lot of the fun. Not that I would give up our incredible vacation for anything! Haha! 

Anyway, this first one is for the Mixed Title Font Challenge. Pretty self explanatory!

The next one is for the Shape Challenge - to use a shape other than a rectangle or square:

The I have one for two of the challenges - The Hero Arts + Basic Grey Challenge, and the Basic Grey + Coordinations Challenge.

Next up is for the Layers Challenge - a layout with Multiple layers:

And finally, the Vintage Basic Grey Challenge - I used papers from what I think was my first ever stack of Basic Grey Paper - Urban Prairie:

Well - we'll see if I get any more of the challenges done - but at least for now I have these posted before the deadline! Have a beautiful evening!!!

Quick and Easy Christmas tags - and my first tutorial!

Well, if there is anyone else that has procrastinated until the last minute (like me!) - I have a really easy idea to share with you to whip out some quick and adorable gift tags! I made 27 of them, in probably under an hour! Pretty easy! Here they are:

Cute, right?

I have been loving kraft paper - and blue and white together for Christmas colors!

So, here is what I started with - this tag off of Winter Woodland, cut at 2.96 inches on my Gypsy (so approximately 3 inches if you are just using your Cricut). 

Then I pulled out my Unity Stamps Kit of the Month from November, and used the snowflake background and some white ink to stamp a background. 

Here is what it looks like now: 

Then I used my Very Merry Tags Cartridge to cut out a bunch of little snowflakes - used my Gypsy to hide the hole that makes it a tag, and cut them at 1.42 inches (so approximately 1.5 inches). 

Each snowflake then got a little visit with my hole punch in the center of them: 

Grabbed some Twinery Twine in Marchino Cherry: 

Wrapped it around a couple of times, crossing in the center: 

Then threaded it through the hole in the snowflake: 

And tied a cute little bow, trimming the ends if necessary. 

Finally, pulled out my Unity Stamps Blossom Stacker set, and the "to" and "from" stamps.  

And stamped them on each tag! 

And that's all there is too it! Here is the pile of a bunch of the finished ones: 

Entering this in several Challenges:

Cricut Circle December Monthly Challenge: Gift Wrapping Challenge

Unity Stamp Co: Friends with Flair

Unity Stamp Co: Gift Wrapping Challenge

CAS-ual Fridays: Clean and Simple project using Kraft and Twine 

Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think...I have been pondering doing a few more tutorials, but not sure if anyone would be interested in them? Videos would be difficult, because we have slower than average internet, so I fear I would take a whole day to upload anything! Anyway - your thoughts are appreciated! Thanks!



Snow much fun - Circle Challenge Card

So...I wasn't really in love with this card, but once it was finished, it wasn't too bad. I was trying to meet the requirements of the challenge on the Cricut Circle blog for the weekly challenge - to use metal, white paint, and a snowflake cut. There had to be a minimum of 2 cricut cuts to qualify.

So the metal is the four brads on the corners to loop the ribbon through. For the white paint I used perfect pearls (it's white, and it's paint!) and sponged it over the background that I had run through my Cuttlebug. For the snowflake and Cricut cuts, I used Winter Woodland and cut out 3 different snowflakes, several times and in a couple different sizes. I stacked them up with pop-dots in the middle, stamped a sentiment from my Pink by Design stamps in the center of one of them, and then sprayed them with Glimmer mist before I attached them to the card. Now if we could just get some snow here where we live...



Catching up on a few cards...

We were without internet the last couple of days, so I was unable to post these as I finished them! Also had an eventful couple of days! My 7 year old daughter fell on a trampoline and broke her two front teeth, and of course, her adult teeth had already come in! So we spent a day at the dentist getting those repaired. Then I spent the day at the doctor and specialist yesterday with another ear infection, fortunately a LOT less severe than the previous one I had a few months ago. Life feels a little back to normal this morning, so I thought I would post these 3 cards I got made over the last couple of days, mostly before the craziness set in!

This first one used my Peachy Keen Stamps, one of the cute snowmen from Snow Friends seasonal cartridge (which was the first time I had ever used it!), a background cut from Lacey Labels (my first Lite cartridge - and first time using it!), Cuttlebug on the background, lots of inking, some doodling, a little ribbon, and a sentiment from the Pink by Design Winter Fun set. The snowman and the sentiment are also pop-dotted from the card for dimension.

This second one was kind of a struggle to finish for some reason. I'm still not sure I'm entirely happy with it, but I don't know what else to do with it! It is for a sketch challenge on the Cricut Circle blog. Anyway, used Lacey Labels for the scallop circle and threaded some ribbon through it with a button at the top. Did a little cuttlebug on an oval to fit in the center, and cut out the ice skater from Winter Woodland cartridge. Put ribbon along the side, added a sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Winter Fun set, LOTS of inking, Glossy Accents on the ice skater and the little corner pieces, and pop-dotted the skater and the sentiment.

The last one kind of came about a little different than I planned! I had originally cut the tree and added the Peachy Keen Stamp to go on the last card, but it just didn't seem to fit - so I added Stickles and Glossy Accents, and made another card for it! The tree was cut from Joys of the Season - and this card also has a little ribbon, lots of inking, and of course, a My Pink Stamper sentiment.

Thanks for looking - and hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season so far!