St. Patrick's Day Layout March 2012

I made this St. Patrick's Day layout to go into our 2012 family scrapbook for the month of March. I do at least one layout for each month of the year. I started this tradition last year. I am just loving the end results and I really LOVE the way the cork looks on a layout. I will definitely be buying some more and adding it to other pages. The "Lucky" is a sticker I had in my stash from last year that I never ended up using. For the black and cream rose print paper I used my Imagine machine to print a sheet of paper from the Imagine Black and White Cartridge. I used Cricut Paper Doll Dress up for the shamrocks. I love the way it looks with this SPD them, I was going to use a black and cream gingham pattern paper, but opted for something more girly and out of the SPD box. I got my inspiration from MPS Designer, Court, of Courts Crafts. Thanks, Court!

I will enter this into the following challenges:
1. My Pink Stamper- Use green challenge
2. Little Scrap Pieces- Luck of the Irish challenge- http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/
3. Bitten By the Bug 2- http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/2012/03/shamrock.html
4. Scrappy Moms Stamps- http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/
Have a blessed day. Have fun and shake your shamrock. lol

Challenge- Themes Native American, Thanksgiving, Turkey...

Here is a card I made for some challenges.

Over at Cooking with Cricut the theme is Thanksgiving.
http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/2011/11/challenge-60-lets-talk-turkey.html

At Die Cuttin Divas the theme is Native American, which is in honor of Navtive American Heritage Day on November 26th.

Also, I am entering this card in a challenge at My Sheri Crafts Challenge.

I made the frame on the card from Elegant Edges and the brown border as well. I cut the tag from Art Philosophy and stamped it with the phrase "Indian Summer" and hand wrote Thankful. My turkey is from Animal kingdom cut at 2.5 inches and jazzed up with some markers. I cut the Indian girl from Paper Doll Dress Up at 4 inches. I stamped her face with some PKS. I have to say this card is a little bit out of my style. I wanted to try something new by cutting a background mat from the Cricut into a shape or something other than your standard rectangles and squares. I also usually punch my borders with a punch, this time I cut one from a cartridge. Its taking its slow time to grow on me...perhaps we'll get there lol.

Challenge- Owl Card - Purple, Black, Orange and Green Card- Twine Card- Embossing- RRR33

I am entering this card into five challenges:
The first is over at http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2011/09/cardz-tv-cricut-cardz-challenge-92.html. The challenge is to use an owl from any cartridge.

The second challenge is at http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/2011/10/wacky-wednesday-54-color-challenge.html. The challenge is to use the colors purple, green, black and orange.

The third challenge is at http://trendytwine.blogspot.com/. You are required to use a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern and some twine.

The fourth challenge is at http://www.lovetocrop.com/2011/10/its-challenge-time-embossable-you.html. You are asked to show what you love about Fall and Halloween ans use some embossing.

The fifth challenge is at http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2011/10/challenge-33-halloween-theme.html. RRR33. The challenge requires that you use ribbon, lace or trim on your project.

Tada, here is my card. I LOVE it. I should have made more. I embossed the tree branch with the Cuttlebug herringbone folder and it looked awesome as faux wood. I added some brown and white twine on the tree branch, not too much though, it would have been over kill.

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Challenge- Pirate Theme

I made this pirate theme layout for some picture of my daughter at a pirate theme birthday party. Still looking for the pictures...they seem to have disappeared. Weird.