Jumping!

Good Morning!

This is Jen from 3 Cats and a Bug.  This week here at SSD's our theme is a one worded title.  For those who have been to my blog know, almost everything I scrap lately is about my Grandson.  Next to my kids, he is the most adorable baby, but of course I'm a tad bit biased.  :)

For my layout today I have a sketch from Sketch Savvy, two cute pictures of my Grandson in his Jumper having a great time and some paper I've been saving, from DCWV, Nana's Kids.

When I use sketches I like to figure out my sizes of everything, after picking out my pictures of course. 

Then I like to figure out my back ground paper.   I love the bright colors in this paper pack! 

Next I figure out all the rest of the pieces and cut them all out.

I cut my title out using the Cricut cartridge Carousal at 1.5.  I laid them out on my Gypsy so I could cut both layers at the same time.

All that, all that's left is putting everything together and adding the finishing touches.  I used stickles on the circle and on the arrows and a white gel pen on the blue and red shapes.  I have a box of left over pieces from past projects and from there I found the circles and the squiggly arrows.  I believe they are from Accent Essentials, but don't quote me on that one!  :)

Thanks for visiting SweetSassyDiva's; today!  Be sure to stop in again and see what the rest of our talented Design Team comes up with!

Sweet Baby!

Hi my crafting friends Brenda here, this week at Sweet Sassy Diva we were issued the challeng of anything goes with the Cricut.  Well I took it one step farther and went with anything goes with the Imagine as well. lol  So  I have two very simple cards for you today. Simple because I had a very busy week and weekend so I needed to keep it simple to be able to just get them done and because I was too tired to get very creative!  I'm sorry ahead of time about that.  lol  I don't have a tutorial for you today as these were very simple to do. I started with a white A2 base, added a black mat and then printed some pink poka dot paper from the Imagine cart "Baby Boutique" by Teresa Collins.  I'm sorry this picture looks so washed out, the card in real life doesn't.  Next I used the print and cut feature of the Imagine and printed and cut out the baby carriage with it's layers.  I popped each layer which was the carriage top and the wheels.  Stamped "sweet baby" on which is a set from My Pink Stamper. Added some bling and called this one done on the front.

For the inside of my card I used the same papers and then used a stamp set that came with Art Philosophy.  I cut out my shape from the Art Philosophy and then stamped it.  Colored in my block with a black marker and added the "precious baby girl".  That's it,so simple!

For my second card I started with a 5x7 card base.  I printed the pink and brown card stock from the Imagine cart Word of Mouth. I added a 6.25 x 4.25 mat from a DCWV mat stack for my last layer.  Then I print and cut the phrase from Word of Mouth and popped it up on my card.  I didn't cut any layers on this phrase, cut a base cut.  Added some bling and called it done.

I hope that you have gotten some inspiration from the DT at Sweet Sassy Diva this week.  If so get out those Cricut machines and go created something no matter how simple it might be.  It's so rewarding to create no matter how detailed or simple.  There are so many great Cricut carts to get you going.   Send someone a hand made card and make their day!!  Happy crafting!

Something to Remember

The new cricut circle memberships are out. You can choose the exclusive cartridge Something to Remember or any one of a choice of 5 cartridges.  In addition, you can choose to use your cricut reward points or to pay for the yearly membership. 

Something to Remember

It also has an upper case and lower case font:

The other choices are A Frightful Affair, A Quilted Christmas, Dr. Checkup or French Manor.  At $79.99 a year or 3000 cricut reward points, it makes it affordable for everyone. 

I will post the other choices to follow.  You can share this post below by clicking on the icons following this post. 

I am also looking for design team members.  If you are interested, please email me at Click here!

Dr. Checkup

Dr. Checkup Cricut Cartridge

Here is the pdf link for the handbook: Dr. Checkup Cricut Cartridge

A Frightful Affair

A Frightful Affair Cricut Cartridge

Here is the link for the handbook: A Frightful Affair

Carnival!

We are right in the heart of summer here in New Jersey and that means it is fair and carnival time. I couldn't come up with any other way to use this theme except a layout. That's right, here is my second one! My daughters are convinced they will turn me into a scrapbooker yet!

As I am writing this post, spell check tells me I have misspelled the title, so I will be going back and fixing that.... duh....

I started by laying out all my pieces on my Gypsy. I put them on three separate layers.

The tent is from Create a Critter and is cut at 2.75 inches. I put the layer on twice and then hide all the cuts but the door so I could have that a different color.

The lion is from Create a Critter and is cut at 1.75 inches  I also cut out the word Time on this layer and that is 1.20 inches from Art Philosophy.

 The banner is from Art Philosophy and is cut at 1.25 inches. I placed the letters in the triangles and sized each one separately. They are approximately .75 inches.

For the photo mats I used the ticket punch from Stampin Up and black gel pen stitching.
I inked the edges of all the pieces of the tent and stitched in white gel pen. The lion I left alone. For the border I used the Fiskars Scallop border punch and stitched in white gel pen.

I threaded some thin ribbon through the banner and attached with pop dots.

Please stop in everyday and check out all the creative ideas for our Carnival week!


Cartridges used - Create a Critter and Art Philosophy

_ Melinda

Gift Tag Box!

in July!! Yup, Christmas ideas are popping up all over blog land! All the design team gals are giving you some great Christmas stuff to start on now or store away for later.

My project comes from the late Katie Renz. She was on on the design team for Clearly iStamp. Sadly, Katie passed away in November of 2011. The original directions for the box I made can be found here. This is the 2nd time I have made this box, and I know I am going to making these for special gifts this year.

It goes together very easily... the hardest part of this project is picking out the papers and figuring how to decorate the tags ! So here we go... Using George and Basic Shapes....

After making the box, I laid out the tags on my Gypsy.

I cut 4 tags, 2 from each design at 4.25" on Shadow Blackout. These are for the outside ends.

The rest of the tags are cut at 3.75", layer and shadow.

I cut a strip using my Fiskars Border Punch and added a small piece of ribbon.

The stamps, ink and punches are all from Stampin UP.

The hardware and ribbons are from my stash as is the designer papers.

This really was a fun and simple project. I hope you will give it a try !