Baby Girl Card - Tutorial w/ Gypsy & Embossing Tip

Hello everyone!  There is a baby card challenge over at Cricut 360 this week that inspired me to create a card, since I have an upcoming baby shower for a friend.  In doing so, I decided to photograph the process and make this a little tutorial, too!  First off, here is the card I created:

 I love my gypsy, for so many reasons (maybe a future post?!), but it really makes things quicker and simpler.  Here, I'll show you...

For my card, I knew that I wanted to use my Baby Steps cartridge (because I LOVE it!).  But the image I wanted to use required at least 6 different colors to make it look the way I wanted.  Someone seeing that, might just abandon that cut right then and there, especially if they're looking to make a quick card.  But here's the quick way around this if you have a gypsy - when you pick your image, also pick ALL the layers which are all using the same button, just click the feature buttons to choose them (don't forget to shift for other layers that go with that image, too!).  Then when you go back to your mat, select the size of your image and all of the corresponding layers will automatically (if they are grouped) adjust.  Then separate the images to different parts of your mat.

Now arrange your different color papers to match where you want to cut those colors, like this...

So with one push of a button, I cut all of my layers for my image at the same time.  

Now some of these pieces are really little so my favorite thing to use to put it all together in a snap is my little Xyron, making all the little pieces stickers is just the way to go!

Now, I also embossed my card with my Cuttlebug.  I love this embossing folder (just don't ask me the name, because I have no clue - I throw away the packaging!), but you can see it below...

But I didn't want to leave it plain white, I wanted to give it some color, but subtly, so I chalked it with Pebbles shimmery chalks.  This is a great technique because if you mess up, you can simply use an eraser to fix any mistake.  

Finally, I stamped the doll face with one of my Peachy Keen Basic Faces stamp and added the hair and cheek color myself with markers.  I stamped the sentiment (a $1 Michael's stamp I've had in my stash forever), popped the baby girl in carriage embellishment and voila!

I find buying cards so expensive, I'd rather make them. But I'm not really a card maker.  I especially have trouble giving them away after I make them.  I get very selective, like "will the person I'm giving this to really appreciate the work and effort that I put into this card", so a lot of times I end up not using my cards unless I know for a fact a person is going to treasure it (and not just toss it like just another card). Anyone else out there feel the same?

But I know my friend will love it, so this one definitely has a specific purpose for me! 

I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial tonight!  Let me know in the comments below.  Maybe I will do more of these if I see there's an interest!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Cabin Layout

Hello everyone!  Sorry I've been m.i.a. this week, but my life got a little crazy and I hadn't had a chance to scrap or do anything scrap related with all the things I had going on.  However, tonight I was able to make a layout that had been on my scrap to do list for a while, of our cabin from our winter family vacation.  I also got to use my Jolly Holidays cartridge that I hadn't used yet.  As soon as I saw the cartridge, I knew I wanted to use the houses for this page and I must say that one thing I really love about the lite cartridges is that they layer so easily!  For my cabin replica, I embossed the cabin to match the siding on the actual cabin.  I also used MS tinsel glitter for the "snow covered roof" and overhangs.  I wanted to capture the memories of our cozy cabin, so I created a collage to showcase a variety of photos to remember it by.  Take a look at the layout...

Finally, I am way overdue on my Blog Hop Winner, my apologies!  So without further ado, the winner is.................

Jennifer aka Scrappin' Aggie 

who said...

Fantabulous layout!! So perfect and cute - I love it!!! Its hard to choose my 3 favs - but my go to's are usually Create A Critter, Lyrical Letters, and Quarter Note.

Please email your address to Lcoya27@gmail.com so I can mail out your goodies!

Thanks to all who came by my blog and left such sweet comments!!!

Almost forgot to mention that I'm entering this layout into Cooking With Cricut's Embossing challenge.  


I hope to create more this week, hope you will come by and visit!  

Have a great week everyone!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Different Kind of Scrapping...

Wow, have things gotten busy around here!  So I haven't had a moment to scrap - in the traditional sense - but I have been busy creating all sorts of things.  Mostly school related and a lot of preparing for my son's 5th birthday - busy, busy, busy!  So I wanted to do a quick post (and yes, I am very aware of the time - it's when I do my best work, lol!) to show you all what I've been up to the last couple days.  I can't show you the invitations of my son's birthday yet because they are going to be mailed tomorrow and I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I can't wait to post them next week!  I will, however, show you some of the school projects...

Last week I was chaperoning a trip to Disney.  Now my group of kids is really special and I wanted us all to look the same, so I bought t-shirts and my nephew helped me design and iron them on.  I loved the way they turned out and the kids loved them too! (We were the only ones that had matching shirts)

I couldn't get the picture below to rotate, so you will have to turn your heads to see the design close up.  For years now I've had a name for my groups along with a symbol and chant.  It's all really fun, but the two C's you see is the symbol.  

This is the back of my shirt...

Next is a vinyl project (my love for vinyl continues!).  At my school, we have a themed Gallery opening every 2 months where we feature paintings and artwork as well as student work.  Tonight we had a gallery opening called...

Now, the frames are not from the Cricut, our Media Specialist had those.  But everything else is Cricut, of course!  The title is a play on words (instead of Past Tense, Past Tens, since its all about the decades). I created it with my gypsy. I used Plantin Schoolbook, Cherry Limeade and Gypsy Font - all welded, of course!

Finally, tonight my sister needed to create a poster to hang in her classroom tomorrow, so again it was time to create.  I used my go to font for school - Mickey Font - and welded it on my gypsy.  For this I added a lot of texture.  You will see below...

So although I haven't actually scrapped, I've done quite a bit of creating!  

I hope you've enjoyed seeing what I've been up to.  I hope to have a layout to share by this weekend since I will be cropping with my friends.  

Thanks for stopping by and come back soon!

Merry Kissmas

A super quick post tonight to get you all in the Christmas spirit.  I wanted to share a Christmas card I created in the past.  This was one of my first welded projects.  I wanted to use the super cute reindeer on the Christmas Cheer cartridge.  I came up with this saying that matched the reindeer kissing and the season and decided to stamp it on the card.  I also embossed the matching envelopes.  

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PreK Layout and Birthday Card

Hello everyone.  It's been a rough week - I hate being sick!  Late last night I finished a layout and a birthday card, but my internet was acting up, so I'm posting it now.  The layout was inspired by a page from CK magazine a couple months back and I used my son's school picture.  The birthday card is from a bunch of scraps I had lying around my scrapbook table that I decided to make into a card, instead of putting the scraps away. Here they are...

The background is embossed with one of my favorite folders, divine swirls

Hope everyone's having a great day.
Thanks for stopping by!

We Shore Had Fun & Awards

Cherry On Top Award

Thank you so much Sarah from Simply Sarah for this surprise and honor! 

The rules for this award are:

1. Thank the person who gave it to you. 

2. Copy the award to your blog. 

3. List 3 things you like about yourself.

4. Post a picture that you love.

5. Tag 5 people you would like to give this award to.

Three things I like about myself are that I am truly committed in everything I take on, very energetic and I'm all about my family, which I adore.

I absolutely LOVE everything about this photo!  

Tagging 5 people is also hard (so much inspiration out there) but in no particular order, here goes...

1. Stacy from Simply Us

2. Joanna at Scrap-Making

3. Dorcas from 4 Crafty Angels

4. Charlotte from Vanilla Bean Creations

5. Kristy from Craftin on my Door

I also won a challenge at My Sheri Crafts this week for my Family Vacation layout and I received this...

Finally, I wanted to post a quick layout that I hadn't posted yet.  I hope to print out the photos from 4th of July at Naples to put on this layout this week (although, it's a busy week ahead with all the preparations for my daughter's 2nd birthday next weekend, so it may be a little longer).  It has a lot of embossing and the sun is made from ribbon.  I particularly love the title, which I found online (can't remember where)...

Road Trip

I hadn't seen this week's challenge on Fantabulous Cricut till last night.  When I did, I was so excited because I had actually sketched a layout of my road trip while on my road trip!  It was saved in my Gypsy (I so love my Gypsy!!), see...

So last night, when I got to my scrapbooking room, I started looking for the papers to make this layout happen.  I found the perfect paper of a road map in an old K&Co stack that I had used for my cruise album 2 years ago.  I started printing pics as my cricut was making the cuts (gotta love those layers on the gypsy!).  I love that I can use a variety of cartridges and have them cut all together.  On this layout I used a bunch of cartridges, particularly Summer Vacation (lots of great stuff on there!), Going Places, and Everyday Paper Dolls.

Here is the final product:

Left page close up...

Right page close up...

I'm really into embossing lately, so all my titles were cuttlebugged!

I wrote in the price of gas that we paid to keep record of it because gas prices have changed so dramatically through the years, I want it documented in my scrapbook!

This cut started out as just an embellishment.  Then it took on a life of its own as I put dots for our stops and then decided to include all the journaling on there, too.  Luckily for me, I can make my handwriting fit in pretty much any space (some of my friends hate me for it, LOL!) and so I did.  I really love to journal and in my own handwriting because I think its important.

I had fun making this layout and I hope you like it too!  Be sure to leave a comment - I love those! Thanks for stopping by!

Forever Young - Birthday Card & Layout

I've had a great week full of nice surprises.  First I once again got picked at the Fantabulous Cricut Blog, this time in their "Top 5" for my Seashore layout (you can see my new blinky on the the right!).  I also entered my baby frame project at another challenge at a new blog I found, My Sheri Crafts, and I was chosen as a runner-up/honorable mention.  Wow!  I'm so honored and excited!  And this week, I've surpassed 50 followers - woohoo!  I've only been blogging since July so I'm blown away by all this :)

So since I'm on a roll, I'll probably post twice this weekend.  I'm finishing up a layout now (finally got around to sitting in my scrapbooking room after a very busy day) but I made a card last night for a very dear friend of mine's birthday and wanted to share.  I'm also going to enter this in another new blog I found, the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog, whose challenge this week is to use primarily pink and have a stamped sentiment in front and of course, to use your cuttlebug.  Now, I'm not a card maker, I'm a scrapbooker, and I get stuck getting ideas for cards, so this is really not my forte, but I am happy with the way it turned out...

I was going for a stylish girl and I love the Forever Young cartridge, which she's from.

Since I'm talking about Forever Young, let me also share this layout that I made for a class a couple months back but I never posted it anywhere, so what better place than here on my blog.  The cuts on this cartridge are just great and the girls and their outfits remind me of me (and my sisters)!

Here's the left page close-up...

and the right page...

Thanks for stopping by and be on the lookout for another post soon!