OK! Back to some scrapbooking! - Hayride & apples!

I've been working a little here and there in between cards on catching up on scrapbooks for the in-laws. Here's a couple LOs to a day we spent apple picking. These pictures are from the Fall of 08, that's how far behind I am! And these are just for Scott's mom and husband, I still have to make some LOs of this event for his dad and wife.

The ticket with the apple bucket is from one of the BBTB's challenge I did when I was on the team, you can see it here.

Even after all the pies I made I was still able to lose all the extra weight I had on me when these pictures were taken :)





Another bucket full of apples:


Haystack time!






Apple Pie fixings:
-CS: MM Smooth Cranberry, Bazzill Basics “Black”, “Tangelo” and “Ruby Slipper”,
TPC “Espresso”, “Caramel” and “Gold”, DCWV Brown #2 and Green #1
-PPs: DCWV The Fall Stack 2008 & Glitter Stack 2008
-Stickers: EK Success Sticko Label Lingo "Autumn" and
Colorbok Alphabet Stickers 5/8" Slim
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan,
Amber Clay, Bisque, Moss Green, Merlot and Cocoa
-Computer Fonts: scrapNfonts CK Kolette at 32 pts and LDJ Fantastical at 24 & 36 pts
-Cricut Cartridges: Doodlecharms for the basket cut at 2 1/2", apples cut at 1" with
shadows and Mickey Font for the ticket cut at 2 5/8"
-Misc: MM 1/8" Brown eyelets, Sakura Gelly Roll Black Pen, Adhesive

TFL and please feel free to leave a comment, always love to read them!

Puppy Dog Tails...BBTB Challenge & BUG BLOG HOP

Some very fun and exciting news going on over at the Bitten By The Bug site...we are having our first BUG BLOG HOP in which some of the design team members are giving away some yummy Blog Candy, like myself this week. This is our 1st hop and there will be more to come!

So 1st I will show you what I did for challenge, which was to use ANY cut from the Doodlecharms cartridge BUT using the border feature. You should go over to the BBTB site and see all the wonderful things that the other DT members did.

I decided to use the cute puppy face and make a card for my nephew for his Baptism that was held this past Sunday.


I kind of made it into a shaped card with the 1st puppy face and welded the words to it.


I used the Cuttin' Up cartridge for the words:


Isn't he a cutie (although not anywhere near as cute as my nephew):


I just love these frogs I cut out from some PP from Cloud9:


With the envie:


And I just had to add a good amount of that so cute PP for the flap of the envie:


BUT here's the real cutie! At 10 weeks old and only getting cuter!


Now for the really cool thing...the BUG BLOG HOP...here is the candy that I'm giving away:

-Self-adhering stamps by Inque Boutique see d's, it's a set of 7 stamps and comes with a stamping mat
-Colorbox's Chianti (Red) Pigment Ink
-Stampendous Embossing Powder - Clear Transparent
-Best Occasions Vellum Quote Romance Pack
-Sweet Treat Ribbon

I'll be using random.org to pick the winner...all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post and help me out with a problem I can't figure out...I use Herma Dotto's Dispenser using their removable adhesive which I love how easy it is to apply BUT my problem is it's such a pain to clean the edges of the cut image from having little "frays" of the adhesive. So my question to you is what adhesive or more importantly what method do you use to adhere letters/images from one card stock to another card stock without having all the little "frays" show up around the edges?

Once you've done that, I will enter you in the drawing and then you continue on with the hop by going over to Penny Shuberg's blog and see her so very cute project done for the BBTB challenge and also see what she has for Blog Candy to give away!

Please leave your comment to this post by midnight EST Saturday, May 2nd and I'll will announce the winner on Sunday. Thanks!

OH, and if you have the same adhesive problem I have just leave me a comment that you came and visited my site so I can enter you in the drawing. :)

Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Iced Cocoa", "Cinnamon Stick", "Safari" & "Mocha Divine" and
The Paper Company "Pastel Pink Texture" & "Navy Blue"
-PP: Cloud9 Design "Sparkle Baby Boy Frogs"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Rose Coral", "Creamy Brown" and "Chestnut Roan"
-Cricut Carts: Doodlecharms cut at 3" using the border feature and Cuttin' Up cut at 1" using the shadow and cartoon features (welded in CDS).

TFL!!!

Finally get to reveal!

Back in mid-September I posted that I was getting published for the 1st time in a magazine...it was the Oct/Nov issue of READY, SET, CREATE! and it's been 30 days since the issue was release so now I get to reveal what was picked to be included among many many talented other card makers! I'm in Set #1 on page 43. And my fellow Bitten By The Bug design team member Carole Lowe Beath has some many amazing cards in the this issue as well...she can be found also in Set #1 on pages 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 and 48.

Here's mine:


Just the front was in the magazine, but here's what was on the back:


We had a blast by the way, lots and lots of apples! We discovered an apple that we all really liked, called Honeycrisp which I made several yummy pies with. :)

Apple Pie Ingredients:
-CS: MM Smooth Cranberry, Bazzill Basics Black and Tangelo, TPC Espresso, Caramel and Gold, DCWV Brown and Green #1
-Stickers: Sticko Label Lingo "Autumn" and Colorbok Alphabet Stickrs 5/8" Slim
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Amber Clay, Bisque, Moss Green, Merlot and Cocoa
-Computer Fonts: scrapNfonts CK Kolette at 32 pts
-Cricut Cartridges: Doodlecharms for the basket cut at 2 1/2", apples cut at 1" with shadows and Mickey Font for the ticket cut at 2 5/8"
-Misc: MM 1/8" Brown eyelets, Sakura Gelly Roll Black Pen, Adhesive

TFL!!!

Baby Announcements!

Hi there! This past week's challenge over at Bitten By the Bug was the flower frame from the Pooh & Friends cartridge. Unfortunately I do not have this one, which I should be sooo ashamed since I'm a huge Disney fan! I do have Pooh Fonts & Mickey Fonts but none of the other Disney carts, can't believe that! Anyway, so I asked my wonderful sweet friend (and fellow BBTB designer), Sharon to cut me one pink and one blue at 4" and she sent me all these wonderful options...shadow, white, etc. I was originally going to use self-adhesive pearls for the center of the flowers, but because Sharon being the sweetheart she is, the white flower frame went so beautifully over the blue one and then the shadow, so I left as is! So here's my take on the challenge this week. I'm going to show my SIL and see if she wants me to make her a bunch when she has my nephew (yes it's a boy!...we didn't know until Thurs, that is why I asked Sharon for one in pink and one in blue, didn't know what color theme I was going to go with). She's due in early February and we'll have fun going paper shopping as I would like her to pick them. :)

Also, please go over to the Bitten By the Bug site and see all the beautiful creations the rest of the designers did. Not to single anyone out but Sharon's is a beauty!

The baby bottle is from Doodlecharms which I cut at 8 1/8".







Baby Formula:
-DPS: Kaiser Scrapbook Cocco Series "Mocha" (both the striped side and the brown side) and Anna Griffin (don't know the name of the pattern)
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Cocoa" and "Dune"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts CK Bella (22 & 40 pts)
-Stickers: Deja Views Wonderful Words "Phrases*Expressions"
-Cricut Carts: Pooh & Friends "flower frame" cut at 4" by the lovely Sharon (also using the shadow and blackout features)
Doodlecharms for the baby bottle cut at 8 1/8" (don't ask me why I did that extra 1/8")

TFL!!

Sweet Baby of Mine

It's another week over at 2 Sketches 4 You and this week it's Kazan's sketch, which is her 3rd sketch (and what a sketch it is!).

And there is also a new contest over at Bitten By The Bug that gave me the opportunity to combine two challenges into one. The contest over at BBTB is something for a baby using brown as the primary color, have a heart somewhere on the project and use any cut from any of the Cricut cartridges!

A colleague of mine is having a baby in August and there is going to be a baby shower for her soon and due to a very busy schedule I had to combine both challenges into one.

Here is Kazan's sketch:



And here is my take:















Baby Formula for this creation:
-CS: The Paper Company - Sable, Neutral Tan, Neutral Tan Texture, Parchment Ivory, Cool Metallic Cover Amber, Cool Metallic Cover Lime, Blonde Columns and Burgundy Corduroy
-DPs: Paper Pizzazz "Brown Diamonds" and "Tan Scrollwork Stripes"
-Ribbon: Offray Lime Juice White Dots
-Stickles: LIme Green and Copper
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox Creamy Brown
-Diecuts: K&Company Smitten Hearts
-Cricut Carts: Doodlecharms for the bottles cut at 2"
Opposites Attracts for words "Joy" (using the base feature cut at 1 3/8"), "to" (welded using the upright feature cut at 2 1/2"), "your" (welded using the Opposite feature cut at 1 1/2"), "trish" (welded using the upright feature) and "baby" (welded using the base feature)
George for the ampersand
Cuttin Up for the word baby cut at 2 1/2"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts - Sweet using LD Punch Out, Baby using LD Remington Portable, Of using CK Bella, Mine using LD Warm Heart and Frame using DB Frilly Frames (r character)
-Misc items: Chipboard, Sewing machine, lime thread

TFL!!!

17th B-day Card and Laura & Kazan's brand new site 2 Sketches 4 You

Here's a card I made my boyfriend's son who just turned 17 and I used Kazan's sketch from her brand new site 2 Sketches 4 You with Laura. I'm very excited about this new blog, it has been created be two very very talented ladies, Laura Davis and Kazan Clark.

Unfortunately I only had time to do a card with Kazan's sketch. I love Laura's but I wasn't able to get it done in time, but still plain on using it and letting her know when I do.

So, anyway, here's A.J.'s 17th b-day card:

















Recipe for this creations:
-CS: The Paper Company Dark Blue, Classic Red, Gingersnap and White
-DPs: Provo Craft "Stars" and Unknown "Baseballs"
-Stamps: Inkadinkado's "Handmade With Love" and Catslife Press "Don't Even Think About...
-Fluid Chalks by Colorbox: Dune, Cocoa & Merlot
-Cuttlebug: Happy Birthday Embossing Folder
-Stickers: Jolee's Boutique "Red Sox" and Paperbilities Accent's mini 3D Embellishment Stars
-Stickles: Burgundy, Yellow & Turquoise
-Cricut Carts: Doodletype, Celebrations, Doodlecharms, TBBM and Cuttin' Up
-Misc rhinestones and fonts and clip art

TFL!!!

Altered Over the Hill? card for the Cricut "Show us your Best" contest

As some of you must already know Cricut had a "Show us your Best" contest in which the winner gets 3 carts of their choice and their project will be featured in the next Cricut infomercial. So...I took the design of the card that I had the most fun making and coincidently the most carts used! In the original design I used 5 carts but I decided to make some changes to this version which I ended up adding another cart to the recipe! I used the CDS and there was one cut that I made that I had to change the cart 5 times!

Here's the recipe for this version:
Cricut carts: AE, Celebrations, Cuttin' Up, Doodlecharms, Doodletype and Opposites Attract (strangely enough I didn't use anything from Beyond B-days).
Stickles: Xmas Red
Blossoms: Making Memories Jumbo Daisy Spotlight
Various rhinestones and self-adhesive gems
Cuttlebug: D'Vine Embossing Folder
Ribbon: Offray Stripe Red-Bk and red ric-rac
CS: White, Black, Red, Brown, Metallic Papaya, Neutral Tan
DPs: DCWV The Glitter Stack











For the rest of the pictures that I did exactly the same for this project and also of the different inside of the card design, click here.

TFL!

New Birthday card for my brother

I made a post a couple days ago that had a b-day card for Taylor's cupcake card challenge, originally the card was going to be for my brother, who's b-day is at the end of May. But I thought the inside was too plain so I had to foof it up, forgetting it was supposed to be a b-day card for a guy, so I decided that card is going to be for someone else and made this new one (stay tuned for the finishing touches of the other card)...TFL!



















Recipe to this creation:
-DPs for card: Paper Pizzazz "yellow w/circles", Cool Metallic Cover Mango, DCWV "Green #3", "Pistachio" and papers from the Glitter Stack
-DPs for Envie: Around the Block "Sunrise Stripe", DCWV Glitter Stack and various stash
-Stamp: Stamps Happen "Row of Cupcakes" colored with Prismacolor pencils and stickles
-Stickles: Diamond, Burgundy, Copper, Lavender & Lime Green
Ribbon: Offray
-Cricut Cartridges: Mickey Font for all lettering for both card and envie (silhouette feature for the card cover), TBBM for the Tag holder for the Gift Card (using the mirror window feature), Doodlecharms and Christmas Cheer for the presents on the backside of the envie.
-Cuttlebug: Happy Birthday Embossing Folder
-Stickers: EK Success by Jean Card Dimensional Stickers "Tools"
-Gems/Rhinestones: various

I think that maybe it?