"Pawsitively Sweet" challenge at Lasting Memories

This week the challenge at Lasting Memories is "Pawsitively Sweet"- show off your pictures of your pets, zoo, or animals.   I do have pets and we go to the zoo once or twice a month but I decided to do a layout with bears.  A few weeks ago I joined the Cooking With Cricut Design Team.  Melin the founder of CWC makes the most wonderful cutting files as well as cutting files, digital stamps and paper piecing. You can find her adorable files at  Paper Crafting World

For this layout I used Kelly and Keegan the Irish bears cut with SCAL.  (They are also available in digital stamp form).  The title is cut from Birthday Cakes and the shamrock border from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I also used an EK Success punch to decorate the corners.  On the bears I added bling and Smooch Ink as well as Gel Pen.  I was hoping to have some cute pics of granddaughter at the St. Patty's Parade today but the parade was cancelled due to rain.  Oh well there is always next year. 

Closeup of Keegan 

Closeup of Kelly

For the challenge this week you do not have to use the sketch below but if you would like to you can.  

The prize this week is donated from Kim and is the Cricut Cart Home Accents.   

I hope you will "Pawsitively" join us this week for the challenge.  I look forward to seeing your projects each week.  Remember you have through Saturday to link up at Lasting Memories.  

I am also entering this layout 

at Die Cuttin Divas- use green, yellow, white and black 

Paper Lovin Gals - Kiss me I'm Irish picture challenge 

My DCWV March Stack-holic Template entry

Well its raining in California so I got some great scrappin time in today.  This is my entry for the DCWV March Stack-holic Template Challenge.  I used paper from the DCWV stacks Collage Musing and Heirloom.  I also used a MS punch, Lacey Labels for the scalloped 5 " circle, Tim Holtz chipboard letters colored with Candy Apple Glimmer Mist, and twine. For the journaling area I cut out words from a page in the Collage Musing stack. 

Here is the template sketch.

Here is the other side of the layout.  I added a chipboard key and lock, and some more cut out words from the Collage stack.  

Thanks for looking

Simple Sweet Baby Layout

If you are one of my followers you know I do a lot of layouts.  I have been blessed with three granddaughters in 18 months so always have a stack of pictures to scrap.  Plus I do pages for both daughters.   This last week I got another huge box of  new pics so I decided to do some quick pages of some of pics I still had.  This was a quick and easy layout of my youngest granddaughter a few days ago.  The paper is from DCWV.  I added a MS border punch, a title from Gypsy Wanderings , ribbon and flowers.  

15-- Sweet Sassy Diva Spring Blooms

This week at Sweet Sassy Diva the Design Team was asked to create a project for 

"Spring Blooms"

Hopefully the signs of Spring are starting to show  where you live.  Here in California we had very little winter weather even for us.   The flowers and strawberries are coming out way early around where I live.  

I decided to make a card using a cart I haven't used yet.  This is one of my goals is to make sure I have used every cart at least once and posted it on my blog.  

I made a 5 1/2 inch twisted easel one of my favorite cards to make.  

The base is cut at 5 1/2 x 11 and folded in  1/2.  

The square for the card front is 5 1/2  x 5 1/2.  

Here is the picture of the front when it is folded closed.

Here is the card in open standing position

This is my paper on my mat. I later decided to add yellow flowers due to the background paper I selected.

This is what it looked like on my Gypsy

This is flowers and  background mat cut out.  Then you have to poke out pieces.

These are pieces which I layout on mat.  I then chalk edges with matching chalk to keep from having the white show.  

For each flower I used double flower cuts.  The bottom one was kept flat and the top one I pinched inward to give dimension.

To finish off the card I added bling flowers for centers and regular gems in matching colors.  I also took some of the leftover cuts to frame the bottom.  I then added my stamp on a piece of cardstock, layered it and pop dotted it so the card would stand up.  I think I will add some of the extra flowers in for confetti.

So please join us each day at Sweet Sassy Diva to see the other creations the DT makes.  Hopefully they will get you in a cheery spring mood.  Happy craftin!  

14-Cooking with Cricut St. Patrick's Challenge

I am really excited to share my project with you today for the Cooking With Cricut St. Patrick's Challenge.  I am also excited to see what all the other designers created.  

For my card I made a 

Twisted Easel Card (Directions  ( used can be found here.)

This card is made with a 5 x 10 base folded in 1/2.  

 I used Cricut Everyday for the Cricut head cut at 3.5 inches

The rest of the cuts are from Paper Doll Dressup 

The large shamrock at 4.5 is cut out two times for thickness

The beard is cut at 6.0,  the hat at 5.0 and the small shamrock on the bottom at 2.0. 

The tie is a shoelace from Joann's $1 section and I used gold trim on the hat.  

The shamrock on the bottom is pop dotted to hold the easel card in place.  

On the back are typed directions.  They explain to remove the shoe lace and shamrock Cricut head piece.  The lace goes through a piece of paper on the back of the shamrock to wear as a necklace.  It can then be put back on the card.  

I hope you will join us this week and create a project for the challenge at Cooking With Cricut.  I would love to see your creations and Happy Craftin.  

I am also entering this in the Cricut Circle wear something green challenge , the Bitten by the Bug 2 Shamrock challenge, and the Getting Cricky with K Andrew green, white and one other color challenge, She's a Sassy Lady -anything challenge, Cricut Cardz Challenge- Wearing of the green, More than Favors- St. Patrick's Day

Love My Sister Layout for Challenges

Over the weekend I did some scrap booking. and decided to enter a couple challenges.  These are pictures of two of my granddaughters Katie and Brittany.  They are 18 months apart.  

This is the first page of my double page layout I am entering.  

I used Kraft paper and K and Company Life is a Journey paper.

The flowers were various cuts from the Cricut cart Flower Shoppe and an EK Success punch

Letters for title from my stash 

Doily was Glimmermisted with Tattered Angels 

Added a paper lace, pearls and punched out MS leaves.

Here is the sketch for the 

Blog Quick Quotes Sketch Challenge  

Also entering in the 

Frosted Design Use Kraft Paper Challenge 

I love using Kraft paper

Here is the double page layout completed.

Closeup of flowers

Another closeup

Love the way this all cam together and love the colors.  

Card I made for PaperLovinGals challenge

I made this card for a fun challenge at    Paperlovingals.blogspot.com this past week.  I have been so busy with Blog Hops and Design Team posts I was afraid I would miss the deadline but it is today so I made it. 

For this challenge we were given the picture below to get our creativity flowing.  

I decided to use the texture idea and the strips.  

I started with this beautiful background paper that I had a scrap of and selected 4 scraps of matching cardstock.  The card is 5 x 7 and the strips are 1 1/2  x 4 1/2 .I then selected 4 different embossing folders, embossed and inked the edges.  Next I selected matching colored flowers and buttons and used Memory thread to tie.  I still felt like it needed something so wanted to add a butterfly.  Found this beautiful one in a K and Company embellishment bag I bought a while back.  It's printed on plastic and I think it looks really cool.  

The Bloom title also came from the same bag and is glued to a popdotted and ink tag.  For now I am leaving the inside empty so I  can decide later what occasion to use it for.   

Here is the inspirations picture 

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