Pixie Hallow "BEAUTIFUL"

Layout for the "Strut Your Cuts" Challenge over at Scrappy-Go Lucky week 6. This layout is using Tinkerbell and Friends. This picture of my Great-Niece Cadence was taken last year at Epcot's Flower Festival. I've been meaning to get it scrapped BUT I "hate" piecing those little fairies!!! So again this challenge was a good kick in the butt to get a much needed layout done. I LOVE how it came out.

Supplies Used:
Plain Cardstock: Core-dinations
Pattern Paper: The paper with the fairy on it and the pink flower paper is from DCWV "Once Upon A Time" stack the purple swirl is Cloud9 "Pixie Hallow"
Cricut: Disney's Tinkerbell and Friends Cartridge ...Iridessa2 page 60 cut at 3.5"....Silvermist1 page 64 cut at 4"...Beautiful page 56 filigree feature cut at 10" (lenght setting)
Prima Flowers
Buttons
Signo Gel Pen

Ruffled Baby Dress

A few weeks ago my Mom prints off this crochet pattern and hands it to me. She said why don't you make one like this. I quickly read the pattern and thought that looks a bit hard, I put it aside. Last week we made a Hobby Lobby run, I thought let me get some yarn and try that dress. I think this is now my new favorite crochet pattern! It worked up really easy. This one is for my Best Friends Daughter (my fake Niece Sam's baby girl Sophia.) For those that don't know my "real" Niece Becky is expecting a girl in April and my "fake" Niece Sam  is expecting a girl in March ( actually I've already called it she is going to be born on my birthday). I've already made them each a blanket, a dress, and a few diaper covers. This is where I got the pattern ... Ruffled Baby Dress.

P.S. This is my "fake" baby....

XOXO

HUGS and KISSES for Cadence

Another layout for the challenge over at "Scrappy-Go-Lucky" Strut Your Cuts where they give you a list of 5 cartridges every week and you have to use only those cartridges for your layout. I've done one every week and it has really been fun. Sometimes VERY challenging because the cartridge I had from the list had no font on them to use for a title but it really made me look at the layout in a different light. It has gotten me to do layouts that have been needing to get done and MOST of all it is getting me to use my cartridges!!!

This week the only one I had from the 5 was Paisley. I've had this cartridge for about a year now and have not made a single cut from it. Whenever I think about that cartridge the image of the nesting dolls come to mind. BUT when I took a look at it this week I was surprised at how many CUTE images there were on it. Two layouts came to mind to do BUT as life happens for me this has not been a good week. My vertigo has been off the charts and no crafting happened. All day yesterday I kept thinking I NEED to get at least one done but I had a migraine that I could not shake. I went to bed early hoping that this morning I could get it done...since the time difference between Florida and Australia I had a little less than 3 hours to get it done then blogged....tick tick tick....

Here it the layout....I still need to journal on it but I wanted to make sure I got it before the deadline...tick tick....

SUPPLIES USED:
Plain Cardstock : Core-dinations and some shiny cardstock that I've had
Pattern Paper: K & Company "Jubilee Pink and Teal Collage" and "Jubilee Pink and Blue Collage"
"LaceBorder" is some that a good friend sent me...it is from DIY Craft it is self adhesive tape
Cricut Paisley Cartridge....Lipstick cut at 3.5" and OXOX cut at 2" both are shadowed....

Layout Sketch is from Sketch Inspirations Sketch # 305
tick...tick I need to stop now and post.... I have 13 minutes to post it...tick.... tick....

Valentines for Cadence

For all who don't know, Cadence is my 4 year old Great-Niece. Her Grandmother is my younger sister and her father is my Nephew. My sister is 8 years younger than I am, I have 1 older brother and 2 younger brothers  by the time she came along I wanted a sister so bad.  I even told my Mom that if it was another boy I was going to run away from home. *smile don't know where I would have gone but I guess in my 8 year old brain anyplace was better than home with 4 brothers*  My Nephew is 6 months younger than my middle son Jon and they were joined at the hip growing up, so much so that one year I teased my sister that I was going to claim my Nephew on my taxes that year. I said all that to explain that she belongs to two very important people in my life and I see both of them in her. In fact the first time I changed her I looked at her and said "I used to change your Grandma's diapers and it sure didn't seem like 40 years ago".  Her father is in the Army deployed to Afghanistan at the time. To help her mom out Cadence spend a lot of time with my Mom and I, even more reason that I'm extremely close to her.  *as you can probably tell scrolling through my blog of all the scrapbook pages I do of her*

So back to the Valentine's....I saw this idea in magazine in my doctor's office then again on Pinterest.

SUPPLIES USED:
Plain Cardstock is Paper Company Linen Textured Cardstock.
Pattern Paper is a mix of Paper from a DCWV Spring Stack and Valentine Paper from Hobby Lobby.
Sentiment is Computer Generated using Friday Freebie Font From Creating Keepsakes Limerick Font.

I used my We R Memory Keepers Big Bite to make the holes by her hands

The picture is a bit distorted because of the lolly pop :)

Ironman Layouts

Last year in  May my middle son Jon did the Rohto Ironman 70.3 out at Ft.Wilderness Disney World. This was his first Ironman 70.3. I am just now getting around to scrapping this event for him. I got the kick in the butt that I needed from the "Strut Your Cuts Challenge" over at Scrappy-Go-Lucky. This is week four in the challenge. It has really helped me get some layouts done. So far I have done 25 for the year.

SUPPLIES USED:
Plain Cardstock: Core-dinations
Pattern Paper: Bike Paper is by Paper Loft "Red Bicycle". Runner Paper is by Karen Foster "Runner Blocks". Born to Run Paper is by Karen Foster "Persistence Pays Off". The Ironman 70.3 and the First 70.3 paper is the Custom Triathlon Paper from Scrap Your Trip. I got both of the Karen Foster paper from SYT also. Small piece of notebook paper is from Creative Memories.
Cricut: Sports Mania Cartridge... Swimmer pg. 68 cut at 3.5"x2 ( I sized on my gypsy to fit area)...runner page 46 frame feature cut at 2.5"...Clipboard page 72 shift cut at 2.75" I cut it twice out of two different paper then cut out the "clip" part. I then cut the "notebook paper" to fit the space to write his stats on it.
MISC: Stopwatch Charm Karen Foster

Swim Page

Bike Page

Run Page

Finish Page

Congrats/Cheer Team Page

Bib Numbers Layout

I was excited to see the cartridge "Sports Mania" listed as one of the 5 cartridges on the challenge over at Scrappy-Go-Lucky Strut Your Cuts...where you are challenged to use your cartridges. I have been needing a BIG KICK IN THE BUTT to work on some layouts for my son Jon. He runs in marathons and did an Ironman last year that I have not scrapped yet. First Layout is a page for his BIB NUMBERS and then a POCKET PAGE for his bib numbers. I did the Bib Numbers page so he could write his stats on the journal spaces.

Supplies Used:
Plain Cardstock:  Coredinations
Pattern Paper: Bib Numbers Paper, Karen Foster "Marathon Numbers"...Blue Stripe Paper is paper from a DCWV Winter Stack from several years ago....Strip of Blocks is left over from a layout I did the other day from Kay and Company "Hopscotch Boy".
Cricut: Sports Mania Cartridge....Boy Runners Border Feature (page 46) I manipulated on my Gypsy to fit my space it was cut at 9"wide by 4.75"high. .

Bib Number Page:

Bib Number Pocket Page:



OWIE!!!

I made this layout for a challenge over at Scrappy-Go-Lucky Blog,  Called strut your cuts where you are challenged to use your cartridges. The only one I had on the list was "B is for Boy".  It was not until this afternoon that a layout came to mind so I missed the deadline in playing along but I went ahead and made my layout anyway as that is what this challenge is about to me....GETTING LAYOUTS MADE :).

This is for my middle son Jon's album. Jon's album was the first one I did when I started scrapping. He was graduating from high school that spring and I made it for his graduation party. Because it was my first and BEFORE my Cricut his pages are not my best, something he reminds me when he looks at it. I have decided that over time I will redo the pages but also keep the original ones to remind me how far I have come in my scrapping.

The story behind the pictures is: On Christmas Eve 2001 as we were getting ready to sit down for family Christmas eve dinner Jon and his Cousin Josh were out in the street jumping ramps with their bikes. Jon wiped-out and this was the result. The pictures were taken the next day, Christmas morning. The next day he left to go march in the Peach Bowl Parade in Atlanta, GA with his High School band.  The day of the parade his face was so swollen that his eyes were about shut BUT he still marched! Things memories are made of!

Supplies used:

Plain Cardstock: Coredinations

Pattern Paper: K & Company "Hopscotch Boy"

Cricut: B is for Boy Band-aids cut at 2.5" and 3" because it didn't have a shadow feature I hand cut one myself. Owie is cut at 2.75" and then at 3" for a shadow.

Signo Uni-ball White gel pen for accents on letters and band-aids.