If you are expecting a Mother's Day card from me don't read this post

This card is to enter at Fantabulous Cricut. Their challenge this week is to use at least three flowers on a project.



This card is not original for sure. I have seen a few variations of flowers in a vase this week. The watering can is from the Freshly Picked Cricut cartridge and the sentiment is from Holiday Cakes. The flowers are from Plantin Schoolbook but many, many cartridges have similar flowers you could use.. The flowers have been embossed with the Polka Dots folder and I used glue dots to adhere the buttons. The stems are rick rack ribbon.

I will warn you though that this type of card requires 3 times the postage because of the pop dots and buttons!

Shape card - Fantabulous Cricut

Of course I had to enter the shape card challenge at Fantabulous Cricut. I love making shape cards! I am very busy these days with DS's hockey playoffs.



Yesterday, I made a banner for their dressing room, then I made a sign to cheer the team on and then today, I used the team's logo to make a shape card for the coaches.

For this card, I used my Gypsy to design the team logo using 8 triangles, 1 square and 1 rectangle. (Geometry at work!) I welded the shapes together and then made a shadow of the logo and welded it with another to create a shape card.

My cheering projects must have worked because they won their game and now advance to the next round.

Run, jump, repeat layout

This is a simple layout with a photo I love!



I barely used my Cricut for this layout. Just the title with the Plantin Schoolbook font is cut using my machine. Most of the cutting is tearing. Have I mentioned how much I love tearing?

The "dock" is strips of Core'dinations paper. I embossed and sanded it to look like wood. The "lake" is paper with a white core to look like waves hitting the shore.

Pink Stamper's Halloween challenge

These are the "lootbags" for my son's 10th birthday party. I figured with the party being in October that I could use creepy as a theme.



I love this skeleton from the October 31st cartridge. Everything on the tags is inked (I regret not distressing more) and then covered in "spiderwebs".

The stainless steel water bottles are from Old Navy and they are filled with eyeball gumballs.

Bookmarks all around

For my bookclub ladies...



I love my laminator...



I am all about encouraging literacy...



For children in French school...



I think I have bookmarks out of my system now and I can make other things..

Back to school 2010

How did summer go by so quickly? Here is a layout just waiting for the first day of school picture. My kids will be going to 2 different schools this fall as my son enters middle school.



This layout is a submission for The Canadian Paper Trail. I'm thrilled to be part of these site.

Most cuts are from the Locker Talk cart. I had to cut out the schools many times to doctor them up to look kinda, sorta like the actual schools. I also played with the flags on the gypsy to switch out the stars and stripes for maples leaves. (love the hide contour feature)

The beautiful apple paper is from DCWV. The stack is called Grade School. I love it so much that I try and use it sparingly. I cut a square from George to make the border and that way I could save the middle for another project.


I doodled a bit and inked a bit and printed the bus stop sign on the printer as the one from Locker Talk is fussy to cut.

Graduation centerpieces

Well, Grade 4 graduation that is. My son starts Middle School in the fall and today was his grad lunch. I made 10 centerpieces and a banner to decorate the gym. I tried to use images that represented their schooling. These were fun to make. Another Mom even came over to help me glue them together.




The pots I bought for 50 cents each and the only other thing I bought was florist foam also from the dollar store.

My children go to French Immersion school. The pots say, "Good bye Graduate".

Bridal Shower projects

I have been busy! I am helping out my MIL to decorate a family bridal shower. Thankfully, the Fantabulous Cricut blog issued a "For the Bride" challenge. I tried to keep these projects simple to do with few steps because this is a large shower. I needed to make 50 invitations, 50 favor bags and 8 centerpieces.

The words Bridal Shower are cut from Sweethearts and the butterfly is from the Pink Journey cartridge. I ended up using this butterfly and the colors navy blue and white as my theme.



The centerpieces were fun to make. The twigs are from my MIL's yard and the pots are from the dollar store. The butterflies are embellished with gems from the dollar store.





The banner was a last minute idea after seeing so many nice grad banners. The triangle and scallop edges are cut from Straight from the Nest.




The only cartridge I have with bags on it is Plantin Schoolbook so that's what I used for the favor bags. The Thank You stamp is from the Michael's dollar bin and the tag shape is cut from Just Because Cards. (There are many pretty shapes on this cartridge.)


I need to give credit where credit is due. My MIL helped a lot!

With a Cricut machine you can decorate a function with a stack of paper and some adhesive. In this case, the stack of paper was one of the ones Costco used to carry.

Thanks for looking.

MPS challenge #7 - Hey Dad

Shhh.. This card is for my husband. He loves hockey ( I am a hockey playoff widow right now) so Sports Mania was the cartridge to pull out.



You can find more info about this challenge here.

I used DCWV Metallic and Shimmer papers to glitz this card up.

First Challenge for NSD-Mother's Day Card

I have seen so many beautiful Mother's Day projects posted online. Most have flowers or butterflies or flourishes. Well, my Mother loves dogs (really loves dogs). Therefore, I pulled out my trusty Create a Critter to make a card especially for her.




I am entering this card for My Pink Stamper #1 challenge to create a Mother's Day project.

I am also entering this card in the Fantabulous Cricut Mom's Day challenge.

I Cuttlebugged the grass, therefore this card also works for the Cuttlebug blog Mom's month challenge. (I like the idea of a month celebrating Moms.)

Lastly, I have discovered a new website with challenges called The Scrap Beach. I am entering their 6th challenge posted yesterday.