Mermaid

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My daughter is in swim lessons. She doesn't like it very much. I thought I would create a reward "chart" for her. I used the paper doll cart. I let her pick out what she wanted, a girl in a bathing suit, a mermaid...after looking at all the options, she chose the mermaid. This worked out perfect, she had already told me she wanted a Little Mermaid doll like her friend Anna...so here is my plan...

Everyday she goes to swim lessons and participates without crying and without giving me a problem leaving her with the instructor, she gets to choose an item for her mermaid. At the end of swim lessons, if she has all the pieces, she gets to go to the store and buy the Little Mermaid doll. So far she has earned the fin, the bathing suit top and the doll's hair. I have an octopus and and a crab cut out too - just a few more things to cut. (Forgot to mention, I let her pick out the paper I used.)

This has worked soooo well. She has earned a cut-out each day. She looks forward to her swim lesson and coming home to get her reward. I placed this on the fridge so she can reach it and see it easily.

Hoot 'n' Holler

I finally decided to splurge on a new Cricut Lite cart.

I made this card for my dear friend Audra. Her birthday was last week and we are going to lunch to celebrate tomorrow.

Supplies:

Cricut Lite Cart - Hoot 'n' Holler

Flock

Copic Marker

Ribbon

Pattern Paper

1 3/4" circle punch

Zots

Adhesive (I use Xyron) and Glue Glider Pro

First I cut the owl (3") in ivory paper. Next, I cut the body in pattern paper. Then, I cut the inside of the body (where the flower is) in a solid shimmery paper. I used my 1 3/4" circle punch to cut some of the card background paper to fill in the area behind the flower. Finally, I cut the eyes and nose (not shown in the following pic).

At this point, I assembled the owl.

Next, I used my Glue Glider Pro to add adhesive to the wings and then I added flock (not the ideal way to add adhesive for flocking by the way). I used my Copic markers to color her legs, nose and the center of her eyes. I also used my Copic markers to shadow the edges of the owl.

I used Zots to make her eyes stand out and I also used them to make the owl 3-D on the card.

Inside the card, I used a clear stamp to say "Happy Birthday".

Forever Young Purses

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I cut these purses from the Forever Young Cart on a 12x12 mat using the fit to page option. Fit to page cut these purses at 5".

I used Amy Butler Sola double sided paper stack.

Inside each purse, I placed a beaded bookmark and a gift cert for BAM for my daughterh's preschool teachers. She recently advanced to the next class so this was a little "Thank you" from my daughter.

The teachers loved the bags and I even found out that her new teacher has a Cricut, Cricut Cake and Gypsy, which she has NEVER used! Anyway, everyone at school loved the purses and they drew a lot of attention. Maybe they will be inspired to scrap with me!!!

H2O Spray Bottle

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I saw this bottle at Hobby Lobby and it was screaming to be decorated!!! I used Wild Card for the font and for the circles. The circles were cut at 3/4", the "H" and "O" were cut at 2" and the 2 was cut at 1".

6 year old's Sunflower Painting

This is my son's first canvas painting. His inspiration was something he drew/colored in art class. We made the green paint color by mixing the yellow and blue. :-) Thank goodness for those Glad commercials when I was growing up! haha!!!

He wrote all kinds of information on the side of the canvas, like his name and that he painted it after school.

He has been wanting to paint on canvas since I painted the owl on canvas...he didn't know I had canvas hidden in the closet for him, I was just waiting for the perfect time to pull it out and today was the day. He had so much fun and was proud of himself...Mommy was proud too!

Croc Forever Young Purse

Here is another Forver Young purse. I feel it is missing something and I just can't put my finger on it...any suggestions? I plan to put a gift card inside for my son's teacher. She has animal print stuff in the classroom, so I know she likes animal prints, hence the reason for the handle. I'm hoping something hits me before Monday!!!

Fabric covered Forever Young Purse

Forever Young Purse

Glue purse to fabric

Get ready to flock

Sides are Flocked

Embellished

Side View

Forever Young Purse

Supplies:

Cricut
Cricut Forever Young Cart
Cricut Design Studio
Fabric
Flock
Adhesive (E6000)
Fibers
Ink
Embellishments

I made this using a purse on the Forever Young Cart. I used Design Studio to make it as big as possible. Once I cut out the purse, I used adhesive to glue it to fabric. Once the adhesive dried, I cut the purse and then started decorating it.

I used flock on the sides of the purse to add more texture to the purse.

Still need to figure out what to do with the purse handles...any suggestions are welcomed!!!!

Alien Among Us

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My son requested a robot layout for his scrapbook. This is a 2 page layout. I don't do very many layouts anymore. I like to order preprinted books from Shutterfly or Sams, but I couldn't resist his request. The robots were created a while back - I just now got around to finishing the layout.

He was excited when I finished the layout, I got 2 hugs and a kiss. He's such a sweetie...when I was scrapping at my desk earlier today, he suggested I open my Ott-lite...he had hidden a suncatcher inside for me. We bought a pack of suncatchers yesterday at HL and the kids painted them yesterday.

For a close up of the robotz, click here.

Supplies:
Tim Holtz Sprocket Gears
Cricut Robotz Cart
Stampin' Spots - Tempting Turquiose
Stampin' Spots - Green Galore
Recollections Patterned paper (4 Sheets listed below)

• Rockets 'n' Sprockets Gear Head
• Rockets 'n' Sprockets Blast Off
• Rockets 'n' Sprockets Switchback
• mom's diner Salt

The paper sprockets were cut using the "font" feature of Robot44 - they were cut at 10 3/4, 7" and 5" if I am not mistaken. The circle inside the biggest sprocket is the "font" feature of Robot30.

The font is from the Robotz cart; cut at 1 1/2".

***forgot to add, I used silver brads on the sprockets - inked them with Tim Holtz Copper Metallic Alcohol Ink.

Hello Followers

Thanks to EVERYONE following my blog! Just wanted to let you know, I am a weekend scrapper. I work during the week, for a great company I will not name. In order to pick up the kids, I leave work at 2:30 each day - rush to pre-school to pick up my daughter and then on to elementary school to get my son by 3:10. In order to pick the kids up when I do, I bring my work laptop home and make up the time from home during the evening.

It is exhausting, but I wouldn't trade the time with the kids for anything. My husband is very supportive - we work as a team to make it work.

Thanks for following my blog - I appreciate you all and look forward to your feedback!

Girlie Robot

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Here she is! My 4 year old and I played with the Robotz cart today. I chose the mouth, ears and antenna - she picked out the rest and showed me where to place it. We had so much fun!


We cut the robot 49 at 10". I used E6000 to glue most of it together. We also used a CB border embossing folder to create a border on the belly of this girlie robot.


I originally had green fabric covered brads for the eyes, one was plaid and the other was polka-dot, but she wanted pink and she wanted them to match. She had fun digging them out of the brad container. :-)


Oh I almost forgot to mention, we made the arms last and she asked me to make them so that they are up in the air - like she is saying "WAAAHOOO!"

She loves how it turned out...and I am thankful to have today off work to spend with her.

Scrap!

I am going to scrap today...as soon as I get 2 activity reports done for work.

I think my daughter and I will make another 3D robot, a pink one this time.

I was going to post a link to an awesome robot from the Cricut MB, but I think the board just went down...:-(

Birthday Tealight

How cute is this little Birthday cake tealight?

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Owl Canvas

I retook this pic outside since the orignal pic I took did not show the true colors. This is so hard to photograph. The outside pic is closer to the true colors of the canvas.

Below is the original pic I took - it was night so I had to use my light box.

Jin on the Cricut MB inspired me to get the canvas out and get to painting. I used freezer paper for my template (I don't have any contact paper.) The paint is acrylic (Daler Rowney and Amsterdam).

I am not a painter. I have taken 1 paint class and I am planning to take another one in June (wahhoooo!)

Basically, I painted the background (I used a bristle brush not foam), then I cut out the template, placed it on the canvas and held down the edges as I painted. It worked out better than I ever imagined it would. It is not perfect, this is only my 2nd canvas to paint, so I am hoping to get better and better at this.

The canvas is 11x14 and the owl was cut at 10". I still need to cut out and paint the tree branch for the owl to stand on but that is not happening tonight. For some reason, I was not able to get a good pic...I am off to see if I can do better with that.

There are things I would have done differently now that it is finished but I think this was a great experience. I love painting!!!

The kids loved watching me do this today (all afternoon actually!) At 7:30pm I realized I needed pink acrylic paint - so we made a run to Hobby Lobby just before they closed. I picked the kids up a canvas as a surprise - maybe I will pull them out tomorow when the storms roll through.

Purses

I found these little bags at HL. They had iron on embroidered monogram letters also. It was soooo easy and the iron on stuff really worked!!! I bought the matching key chains. My girl-friends loved these little birthday gifts.

Owl! CAC

Create A Critter Owl card...loving this lil owl. She was cut at 2 1/2" and I used a Fiskars punch for the edge. The square was freehanded to the size of the owl. I dry embossed the square with the CB and used my SU! craft ink to ink the dry embossing and the punched edge.

Another train pic...for Jack

What do you think if I add the robot on the end? Mom wanted a robot - but I don't know how else to incorporate into the whole scene unless I add him to the train.

Lamp is his last name...if you are wondering why "Lamp" is on the wagon train cart.

BTW...I used QuickKutz Metal sheets to add the metal to the robots body...kinda cool!


The robot was cut at 4" and the caboose cart was altered and cut using DS...so I have no idea how to compare that to a size.

Thanks for looking!

Create a Critter

Another vinyl project for Jack's cubby. I cracked open Create a Critter (CAC) for the first time :-)

The whale was cut at 4". He is baby blue - hard to tell in this pic. The plants were cut at various sizes from 2" to 4". All are from CAC. The water was cut at 3" and is also from CAC (page 44).

The white edges you see are just excess paper - I tore the cuts out from the vinyl sheets so I can give them to my friend.

I also used my Copic markers to color in some of the whale and to edge him. The blue background is just for the pic.

Jack Train

I used New Arrival to cut the giraffe, frog, baby, monkey and train. Used George to make the tires and Life's a Beach for the letters. The red stripes were hand cut. I am not happy with the giraffe...not sure what to do there. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! These are made of vinyl and will be placed on the inside of a little boy's cubby door. I hope his Mom is not looking at my blog! haha!

Tulip!

Couldn't resist posting this tulip pic I took today. I obviously photoshopped it (the orignal is sooo pretty). I like this version for some reason.

More Letterpress Ink and Cuttlebug

I am loving this technique.

This time I used the A and C plates. I added some of the A2 Letterpress paper to the C plate (to make it thicker). I used painters tape to hold down the the extra paper (padding) and to hold down the paper I was debossing on and on the embossing plate. I do not reccommend using the painter tape with the Letterpress paper, it will remove a layer when you pull the tape away. However, you can use the painter tape with regular cardstock.

You will have to play with your embossing plates and CB plates to see what thickness is going to work best for each embossing plate. I am finding out, they are not all the same.

Since I bought a brayer at HL yesterday, I didn't need to buy the Letterpress set however, I did need the base for the paint...I found out the Zutter acrylic binder cover works great!!!!!!!!!

The Letterpress wipes are wonderful and clean up everything without any stains. My daughter even got some of the paint on the table and it wiped up easily using the Letterpress wipe.

This is so much fun!!! I hope you guys will join me in playing with debossing!!!

Robotz

My son loves this cart and wants me to make a LO for his scrapbook. I am pretty much done doing LOs but since he asked I thought I would try to come up with something for him. Here are the robotz - that is as far as I have gotten as of right now.

The tummy opens to reveal some spare parts the robot swallowed (they are brads). Used Copic Markers to make his eyes and tummy a few shades darker than the aqua paper. The dino robot on the right has some Tim Holtz gears attached via brads.

Letterpress Ink and Cuttlebug

I bought some letterpress ink and tried it out with my CB embossing folders. I love this idea...it didn't work perfectly but I still love the possibility of it!!!

I used DS, Sweethearts cart and Cricut markers to make the flower flourish on the circle. I cut the circle using George at 2".

For the CB folder, I used the C plate (which I never use since I only emboss with my CB) and put a little ink on it...then I spread the ink with my brayer until it was evenly spread. Next, I inked up my CB folder with the inked brayer. Once evenly covered, I put the paper in the folder - then ran it in the CB machine. I used Letterpress paper which is very thick - so A, B, folder and B is the pattern. It's a tight fit but it works. I did trim the edges before I put the debossed paper on my card.

Supplies:

Cricut

Cuttlebug

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Brayer

Letterpress Ink

Ink plate

DS

Cricut Markers

Cricut George Cart

Sweethearts Cart

Adhesive

Ribbon

Cardstock

Robot 48

I just bought this cart today and had to try out one of the 3-D cuts.

It was easy to put together at first...I cut out the body, the base and then the head. All of that was SUPER easy. Next I cut the, well I don't know what I cut. It was Shift, Layer 1 - the pieces didn't fit where I thought they should so I had to improvise...using black cardstock behind the cut outs instead of on top of the cut outs. Last, I cut the gages. They cut fine and I used Copic marker to fill it in.

Now, all I need to do is ink the edges.

Oh, BTW this guy was cut at 10".

Billiards

Alcohol Ink and Vinyl for my husband's pool room. Not an alcohol ink fan and as you can see I have a spot I need to fix!

Letterpress Machine

Went to Hobby Lobby tonight to get a few Copic Markers and I saw the new Letterpress Machine accessories. I have not heard about this machine but it soooo looks like a lot of fun. The paper seemed a little expensive but it was really thick so I bet it is worth the money. I am going next week to check it out again.

Anyone know anything about this new machine?

Monkey Card

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I am not a stamper - however, I did find this cute little monkey at Michael's for $1.00. I used my Copic Markers to color him in. The charm attached to the ribbon is by Tim Holtz. They are clear acrylic. I used my Copic Markers to color one side "Duck Blue'" and the other side "Yellow Green". Too lazy to cut something out and put on the charm tonight. The paper is from a MS pad I found on clearance last summer. It is double-sided.

Cricut Message Board

Since the messageboard maintenance, I am unable to post anything to the Cricut Messageboard...:-(

ScrapCrazy Ribbon

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My wonderful loving thoughtful husband saw someone at work that had some ribbon and thought it would be perfect for my scrap projects...so he ordered it for me as a surprise...how nice was that????

A different take on Tink

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I made this just to see if I might be able to use Tink for a more grown up project. The hair is cut from the PaperDoll cart and the face is a Peechy Keen Stamp. I cut Tink out at 6". I used DS to get the correct size hair.



I embossed the black background paper and flocked the pink paper for some extra texture. I used my Copic brown marker to add layers to her hair.


Let me know if you have any questions.

Mushroom Card

Supplies:

Paisley Cart

Cardstock

Paper Studio Brad

Ribbon

Ink

Cuttlebug

Cuttlebug embossing folders

I cut this mushroom at 3 3/4, inked the edges, then embossed it. The patterned paper is Martha Stewart (double sided). The inspiration for this card was the little frog brad. I wanted to make a princess but I don't have the Once Upon a Princess cart yet.

Spare Parts - Fabric Covered Brads

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I found these fabric covered brads at Hobby Lobby today. They are made by The Paper Studio and cost $4.99. Right now, they are 50% off - so I bought 2 styles. I can hardly wait to use these...the colors are wonderful.

Now I NEED Once Upon A Princess cart! :-)

Sweet Blogger Award

I have been awarded the Sweet Blogger Award from Paperscissors...Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I have to list 10 things that make me happy.

1. ♥ My Hubby ♥
2. My kids
3. The Beach
4. Warm Weather - Sun or Rain
5. When things just come together
6. My BlackBerry
7. Working
8. Friday off
9. Pictures
10. Our Freedom

Trivia

1. The human head weighs ____ lbs
2. Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
3. Are all polar bears really left handed?
4. ScrapCrazyyy reads magazines back to front?
5. In Arizona, hunting camels is prohibited.

I'm passing this award on to 5 more sweet ladies!

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http://livingorganizedchaos.blogspot.com

http://www.stuckonglue.blogspot.com/

http://pinkpolkadotscrapper.blogspot.com/

http://esthrmend.blogspot.com/

I need 15 Beautiful Blogs!!!!

EAS Creations just awarded me with a Beautiful Blogger award - WOW - thanks!!!!!!!

I need 15 beautiful bloggers to give this award to soon!

I'm off to search for beautiful blogs!

Sock Icecream?

Soap Rose Bouquet

Found these soap roses at Michael's.

Supplies:

WIMG cart
dowell
paint
E6000 (glue)
vase
filler
ink

First, paint the dowells. I put a hole in the bottom of the rose, then pushed the rose onto the dowell. I cut out leaves from WIMG at 3/4" and 1"...using different styles of leaves. Under each rose, I put a dab of E6000 so the rose would not slide down the dowell.

I thought this would be cool for my Mom's birthday. The soap can be used to wash hands or in the bath. To wash hands, simply remove on petal and wash hands with the petal. To use in the bath, dissolve on rose in bath water.