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Celebrate Freedom

7/6/2014

Every year, since we moved to Denton, we have gone to the University of North Texas football stadium to watch their fireworks show. Dallas and I, both love the show (with the exception that it is crazy loud), and love that we get to spend time with some of the wonderful new friends we have made.

This scrapbook page is actually from 2013, but I am just now getting around to blogging about it. It features my son, Dallas and his best friend, and our neighbor, Hailey. I wanted to create a page that screamed Independence Day, which was harder than I thought. I have been scrapbooking for a long time now, and I wanted a page that was unique and different from the others I had made. I decided on some patriotic papers, then broke out my Independence Day Cricut Cartridge, and started looking through the images until I found one that I thought would be a good focal point. The rest of the page, just fell into place, and I absolute love how it turned out. Now on to come up with another great idea for this year's pictures :)

Materials Used:
Cricut: Independence Day, Phrases, Home Décor, and Plantin Schoolbook
Paper: DCWV Textured Cardstock, Recollections Cardstock, and The Paper Studio All Seasons II paper pack
Other: Ribbon from scraps stash, foam tape, black sharpie, and Tea Dye Distress Ink by Tim Holtz

Challenges Entered:
Lasting Memories
Die Cuttin Divas
Bitten by the Bug 2
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog

Blog Update: July 12, 2014
My Celebrate Freedom layout was featured on the Lasting Memories Challenge Blog :)

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Thankful - FCCB Monday Challenge

3/24/2014

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Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #203 Bye Bye Birdie

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Bye Bye Birdie

Create a project with a bird on it.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used.

Here is my project for the week:

I took these pictures of my son, Dallas, way back in November 2013, and I'm just getting around to scraping them. This was his 6 year photo shoot, and they were taken outside his elementary school. I love the fall look of the pictures, with all the trees and the fall colors, so I wanted a scrapbook page that would reflect that as well. I used a lot of different cartridges to make this layout, but it was worth the extra effort. I used Cindy Loo for the tree, Doodlecharms for the leaves, Home Decor for the bird, Opposites Attract for the "T" in Thankful, and Cursive 101 for the rest of the word. I didn't like the T, so found one that I liked better.

I used a Spectrum Noir marker to "edge" the leaves, Tim Hotz Tea Dye Distress Ink to ink the edges of the paper and the tree, colored in the bird using a red and orange Glaze pen, and then popped the bird up using some foam tape.

I really love this layout, and think it is the perfect way to remember my son, as he turned 6 years old. You can view the original pictures on my blog post from yesterday.

Materials Used:
Cricut: Cindy Loo, Doodlecharms, Cursive 101, Opposites Attract, and Home Décor
Paper: Recollections cardstock
Ink: Tim Holtz Tea Dye Distress Ink
Spectrum Noir: EB2
Other: Brown Gelly Roll pen (Journaling on base of the tree), Red & Orange Glaze Pen.

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Love With a Little Sparkle & Bling!

11/25/2013

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It's challenge time over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog! This week we are each challenged to create a project, using at least one Cricut cut, that has sparkle and bling. This challenge was really easy for me, as I love sparkle and bling, and think that any project benefits from a bit of shine.

I didn't want the patch to cover the whole shirt, just the corner, so I cut it to fill a 6 x 7in rectangle. I used the silver glitter iron on that I purchased from Provo Craft. This was actually a left over piece from another project that I did a while back. Which means this project didn't cost me anything.

I used a small square piece to iron on the back side of the sweater. I was afraid that if I didn't put something there that when I ironed on the patch that it was adhere to the back of the shirt. I must say that it worked beautifully and I think it actually adds to the design and style of the sweater.

I wore it to work the next week and had two co-workers ask where I bought it, which I think it great, because they thought that I bought it this way, and was impressed when I told them the story. Now I love my sweater again and can't wait to get another winter season of wears out of it.

Materials Used:
Cricut: Home Décor & Best of 2010
Vinyl: Silver Glitter Iron On from Provo Craft

Challenges Entered:
Paper Playtime
Frosted Designs

I had this wonderful sweater from American Eagle that I bought last winter and loved. I think I wore it too much last year, because when I pulled it out of the closet, I discovered that it had a finger size hole it in. I think it was a small hole and when I washed it, I made it bigger. So, knowing that I loved this sweater, I was super upset until I came up with the idea of using some of the iron on vinyl to make a patch for it. My thought was, if it doesn't work, no big deal, I couldn't wear it with a hole in it either way.

So, I started playing around in the Cricut Craft Room with a few different designs. I had seen a shirt, at a store, with this big heart and the word LOVE in block letters and I thought that I would try something similar. I decided on a heart from the Best of 2010 cartridge and the script "LOVE" is from the Home Décor cartridge. I just layered the text over the heart, in craft room, so when it was time to cut, I didn't have to make two cuts, and this way I didn't have to layer anything. It also allowed the color of the sweater to show through.

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