In Loving Memory of Abuela

As we laid my Grandma to rest today, I wanted to post this in loving memory of her.  My sisters and I spent yesterday going through tons of family albums, gathering pictures of my grandma's life, in order to create a beautiful collage to place at her funeral which was today.  Although it is sad and difficult to have someone so close pass away, I feel incredibly lucky to have had her around so long and glad that my children at least got to meet their great-grandmother.  She lived to be 102 years old - an incredible feat and almost unheard of, most would say.  She was always vibrant, full of life and energy, with a wonderful heart and she touched so many lives.   Although she's gone from this earth, I know she will always be with us in spirit.  Abuelita, the quiero mucho!

She will be missed.

One more Keys Layout

Just a quick post today.  These are the last of the pics from our Keys Vacation last year that I wanted to scrap before we leave again for this year's trip.  I was able to put 19 pictures in this layout!  Gotta love those collages!  Here is the layout...

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!!

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The Keys Layouts

Hello everyone.  Had some new paper from Best Creations that were inspiring so I browsed my thousands of pictures for vacations that I hadn't scrapped yet and found pics from our Keys trip last year that would work with the papers.  Now the same thing happened to me for both layouts that I'm sharing today.  There was this one really great paper that was easy to work with, just add pics, a title and it was good.  Problem is, I wanted to make them 2 page layouts and then I had to come up with the side page from scratch to coordinate, which is really time consuming.  So they took me a while (much longer than I wanted, but that's how it goes), but I love the end result.  And that's another thing I love about scrapbooking, once you've completed a layout, you have this sense of accomplishment, a memory saved.  I don't know about you all, but I find myself staring at my layouts again and again with a smile on my face.

So let me talk a little about each layout.  First of all, if you know me or follow my blog, you'll know that I like putting a lot of pictures on my layouts (because I take a ton of pictures and like to have them on my pages, but don't necessarily want to create a ton of layouts for the same topic).  So you'll see lots of pictures on each layout.

I like using punches and I especially like the new EK punches (the ones that pack up tight and don't take up a lot of space), which I used to create the top border on the right page of the Keys layout.  Now for the bottom, I had cut a semicircle from the patterned paper, but wanted to add a border to it, so I did using a circle punch and tucking the circles behind the patterned paper to create the scallop paper.  I also ended up adding brads to add more interest, as well.  Now, I try to always journal because telling the story is super important to me, but on this layout, I didn't have much space, so I created the little journal tags and tucked them in.

This second layout was first inspired by the great paper on the left.  I had a focal point photo and tons of others, so I decided to print them small and then I loved the look of this photo block on this paper.  Problem was, I had more photos to add about us on the boat and it took me forever to figure out what to do with the right page.  Of course, now that it's done, its my favorite page, lol!  

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I had a scrap of this dot blue paper on my table and it work, but I wasn't sure what I was going to put it on.  I decided to use different shades of blues.  I again went to my punches and created the scallop border for the top and bottom.  The left page has words all over it, so I need words on this page to balance it out.  I decided to create a mixed font title (which I love to do because I love that look). 

 I used a variety of fonts and moved them all of the mat on my gypsy so I could cut out the different colors all at once.  I used Baby Steps (such a cute font, have I mentioned how much I'm loving this cartridge), Mickey Font, Lyrical Letters and Wall Decor & More.   Of course, it's all stickled and "Boat" is popped!

At this point, it was coming together, but I needed something at the top.  So I took a cue from the postcard signage and writing on the patterned paper on the left and decided to create it myself on this page.  I punched circles in a bunch of sizes and dusted off these circle stamps I own that I haven't used in forever.  I created the postcard/mail processed lines with my flexi ruler, a pen and stickles.  

Wow, that was a long post, whew!  Sorry, just decided to let you in on my process (and like I said, with these layouts, it was a long one!).  I hope you've enjoyed the layouts.  As always, Thanks for stopping by!

Ice Skating Layouts

Hello everyone!  I was able to work on some layouts this past weekend with some good friends.  The first one I had sketched out on my gypsy a while ago and I had forgotten about it.   I remembered about it and decided to actually create the layout.  I like the way it turned out.  I used a bunch of different cartridges - A Child's Year for the mom and boy, Winter Woodland for the title, Winter Frolic for the Brrrr, Home Decor for the swirl, and Accent Essentials for the snowflakes.  All the white cuts are from glitter paper to give it that snow sparkle.  I had a lot of photos so I made a collage for the left page.  

Here is the original sketch (which I modified some)

All my white cuts...

In using this DCWV winter stack that I love, I came across this great paper with the adorable penguin skating.  I decided to do another ice skating layout with some pictures from last year of my son ice skating for the first time...

And finally, I made a sign to take to the Walk for Autism which my family and some students participated this weekend.  The puzzle piece with the heart is from the Don Juan cartridge.  The rest is just my handwriting.  Still, i wanted to share. 

I'm going to enter the first layout in the Cooking With Cricut swirl/twirl challenge this week.

I'm glad you stopped by and hope you return soon :)

Have a great week!

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!

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Snow Much Fun

A winter layout to share today from our recent trip to North Carolina.  This was the first time that my kids and most nephews have ever seen or played with snow and we really had a blast.  So this title, from Winter Frolic, was just perfect.  I cut it out of glitter paper for a "snowy" effect.  I added snowflakes (Accent Essentials) by the title and smaller ones by the snowmen on the right page to which I added light blue bling for sparkle.  I wanted to add lots of pictures of our snowball fight and this page allowed me to do so - I love collages!!  Take a look...

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"Oh Boy, What Joy!" Layout

Here is a Christmas Layout of my son opening his presents on Christmas morning.  I love his expressions and I wanted to capture that emotion on the page and the title.  I love using collages and it was perfect for displaying lots of pictures (of which I had tons!).  On the left, is my favorite photo of him from that Christmas.  The title is layered and cut from Cuttin' Up and popped, of course!  Take a look...

I've created quite a few gifts and I will have more projects to share with you all maybe as early as later on today, but for sure tomorrow.  Now I'm off to finish Christmas shopping with my family.  Hope you're having a great Saturday...

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Merry Christmas Wall Hanging - FCCB "Deck the Halls" Crawl

Welcome to ScrapSticklePop and the third Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...Fantabulous Cricut's version of a blog hop!  If you're a frequent visitor, thanks for stopping by again today!  If you're new here - WELCOME! I hope you like what you see, feel free to browse my other posts, and if you'd like to keep coming back, I hope you become a follower! 

In honor of the approaching Christmas holiday, we're having a "Deck The Halls" Crawl...each Design Team member will be featuring an original Christmas/Holiday-themed project that could be used to decorate and spruce up their homes for the Holiday Season!

If you've come from visiting  Leigh at My Scrappy Journey, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start HERE.

Make sure to check out each DT member's blog for some awesome inspiration! There will be PRIZES along the way at our DT members' blogs, AND there will be a Grand Prize up for grabs at FCCB for one participant that submits a "Deck The Halls" project at FCCB!

I hope you join us for all the fun!

Now for my project...

I wanted to be unique and different, but I was lacking inspiration (I'm in definite need of some scrapping time with my friends!) and I kept looking around my craft basket trying to find something to create with no luck.  I knew I wanted to create something for my wall and I wanted to include pictures because I'm all about scrapping, all the time! LOL!  Then I came across this piece of foam that I had kept (its from the packaging of some furniture I had bought) after my sister had advised me that I could use it with some decorative paper and hang it on my wall.  So that became the springboard for my project...

I had some beautiful paper in a My Mind's Eye Christmas paper stack I had recently bought at Michael's so I arranged it like this...

In order to be sure the paper really stayed on, I used tacky tape...

I decided to scrap pictures of Christmas past in collage form that I could update/replace/add to every year if I wanted to.  I wanted a "Christmas"-y title and I went to one of my new cartridges (which I am in love with!), Winter Frolic, that had a great phrase and an adorable snowman (my favorite!).  To attach it to the wall, I made a bow out of polka dot ribbon and hot glued it to the back of the foam.  I brought two frames I had hanging in my front room down, hung up my new Christmas Wall Hanging and voila!

Here is a close up of the title.  It is stickled and the snowman is popped (of course, hence the title of my blog!).  I also added a little white flocking to the top of the letters "Christmas" to replicate fallen snow, but you can't really see it in the photo...

A close up of the top collage which I added "Christmas 2008" text to...

The bottom collage is from Christmas 2009...

And here is another angle of my project on my wall...

In honor of my first Fantabulous Cricut Crawl/blog hop and reaching over 100 followers (which I forgot to mention a couple weeks ago, oops!) I'm going to have my first giveaway!  It includes some pretty Basic Grey papers, matching flowers, buttons, ribbon, two holiday sticker embellishments and my cute little kissing reindeer from my previous post.  Take a look...

To win, please leave a comment below and become a follower.  Throughout the week I will be posting more "Deck the Halls" posts and if you leave comments on those as well, you will have more chances to win!  I've got some more great projects to share throughout the week so I hope you will come by and check them out!   Good luck everyone!!

In case you missed this earlier post, I created personalized ornaments for my family this year, which is also "Deck the Halls" themed...

You can check out the full post by click HERE

Now it's your turn! Let's see your Christmas/Holiday-Themed Decor projects!  Make sure to include a Cricut cut somewhere on your project!

Next stop on our Deck the Halls Crawl... fantabulous Lori at Organized Chaos.  She always has great projects so go see what she has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest!

Happy Crawling!

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