New Addition

It's been awhile since I've posted.  Things have been a little busy around here!  We got a new puppy!  Meet Phoebe:

She is a Cavachon.  We just love her!  She is a handful like most puppies are but she has fit in well with our crazy group!

Trick or Treat

Since you can't use scal with your cricut machine I bought a used Silhouette from a friend to cut my non-cricut stuff.  I love cricut but after looking at other machines I feel VERY limited with them.  I wish they would come out with software of their own that you could use other images from different sites.  Having scal and buying stuff I can't find at cricut has not slowed my cartridge buying.  What is hurting that is buying a machine just to use scal.  Here is a sketch contest I entered awhile back at ssd.  I won first place.  Title & tree is happy hauntings.  Not sure what cart the leaves and arrows are from.  The little kids came from myscrapchick.com. 

Breaking in the YUDU!

A friend of mine has a new baby so I thought it would be a perfect time to break in my new YUDU!  It had been sitting on the shelf collecting dust for quite awhile.  So we made a couple of onesies and a few shirts.  My other friend that helped (actually did most of the work and we just watched, thanks B) has a vinyl cutter and she cut the designs on the vinyl and then we taped it on the screen instead of burning the image on the screen.  I've never burned a screen but the vinyl was super easy to use and clean.  Not sure where she got the images.  I tried it later with cheap contact paper.  That's a NO-NO.  The cheap stuff doesn't stick good enough!

Kayla's pet shop play set

I made this to enter in the cricut magazine contest.  You had to use the new pop up neighborhood cart.  I used pop up neighborhood (pet shop, tree, fence, grass, sun and clouds), paper pups (dogs, food, house bowls, bone), cuttin' up font, april showers (cages), better together imagine for little girl and dog in window, paper print on the shop and dog house, best friends imagine for the cloud paper.  I used chipboard and duct tape to assemble the base.  I also glued magnet sheets to the board and cut all the play set items out in magnet.  I'm sure when my daughter plays with it she will ask for more items for the dogs to play with.  I hope she likes the idea that the dogs are in the cages in the pet shop and you can take them out to let them play in the yard.  I made the straps out of duct tape also so she could carry it like a purse.  I flocked both of the dogs so they would be fuzzy.

I made this piece to go inside to help it stand up.  I glued it on one side and put magnets on the other so you could pop it closed.

After recently losing our precious 14 yr old Cocker Spaniel, Ebby to lymphoma, I hope this set gives Kayla something to remember her by.  I hope she thinks of all the happy times we spent with her and not about her being sick.  Our home is not the same without our sweet girl.

Watermelon Book

I made this book for the Cricut Circle monthly contest.  I made this book from images on my gypsy and bound it with my cinch.  I used shiny paper (came from my stash, no clue where I got it) and glossy accents on the seeds and ants to make it blend with the paper.  The words on cover are sans serif.  The ants came from nate's abc's.  The seeds are from splish splash.  BBQ letters are from block party.  The pages and tags are from gypsy wanderings.  I welded a few tags from gypsy wanderings to the base page to create the front pocket on some of the pages.  As soon as I have time to tweak it and figure out how to post it, I will add the gypsy file for people to use :) 

Happy Woof Day!

Here is my entry for the Cricut Circle magazine challenge.  I made it out of a manila file folder and used Teresa Collins Posh and Timeless paper, chipboard stickers and Timeless trims.  I used vinyl for the letters so it would be a little shiny with the gypsy font.  The tags are from tags, bags boxes and more.  I used cuttlebug embossing folders: once upon a princess (butterflies) and script texture on the black and white tags.  Hopefully a doggy party qualifies as an "elegant celebration"!  I love this book because you can stand it up to display it.  I left journal spots in the middle on the back of the book so my Aunt can write whatever she'd like.  I also left the tags empty on the back so she could add pics or something else if she wanted. 

Downtown Bentonville Bike Parade

Every year Downtown Bentonville puts on a kid's bike parade for the 4th of July.  This year Kayla asked me to cricut some stuff to decorate her bike with.  Here are some of the pics at the parade.  I made the cuts small enough that she could then use them on a page with the pics.