Beech Hill Farm Layout

I made this one for the Cricut Circle monthly contest and I had so much fun!  I got carried away with the inking and cuttlebug embossing.  The theme of the challenge was to make a background.  Now, I want to make more backgrounds (I am thinking of a Halloween scene....)

Anyway, here it is:

The hills with trees were cut from Pop Up Neighborhood.  I tweaked them a little with my gypsy so they'd stretch across the whole page.  The hill is SU Mellow Moss.  The dry grass along the bottom I hand cut from DCWV Safari stack paper. 

 These trees are SU Old Olive paper. I ran them though the Divine Swirls CB Folder than used the matching ink to highlight them.

These trees are SU Always Artichoke run through the Herringbone folder and adhered with pop dots for dimension.

The sun and moon combo came from Pop Up Neighborhood, as well.  I swirled a little SU Summer Sun ink over the sun and a little SU Bashful Blue over the cloud, after the cloud was put through the CB with the Divine Swirls folder.

I cut the rocks from Old West and used DCWV photo real paper. I used a lot of foam tape and layered the rocks, then added grass cut from Zooballoo in between the rock layers. The colors were Old Olive and Always Artichoke again.

The barn and gate were cut from Old West.  For the gate I used the fiskars wood grain embossing plate.  I inked it with SU Basic Brown and the paper is CM brown.  The barn was "weathered" with ink and even my husband noticed.  The sheep came from My World and he was covered with flock so he is good and woolly!
I cut open the barn doors and added a picture.  After I taped it all down, my daughter said I should have cut the window in the barn and put a chicken.  She's got some good ideas!

Thanks for looking!

Contemporary Resort

This week's Circle challenge is to scrap some vacations photos and I am sitting on over a thousand photos from Disney.  I had such high hopes of getting lots of scrapping done this summer but I've been so busy (and so distracted by the cricut messageboard!) that I haven't gotten much accomplished at all.  The challenges really help me buckle down and get some crafting done.

So here are the photos I took around our hotel.  We were lucky enough to get a free upgrade to a deluxe level.  It was really a beautiful hotel.

I had a bunch of pictures, none really good enough to carry the page, and I didn't want more than one double-page spread of hotel photos.  But I still needed room for journaling, so I hid it behind my photos!

The background paper is from Stampin Up's retired Candy Lane paper pack.  It's Riding Hood Red with a tone-on-tone print that doesn't compete with the photos for attention.  I opted not to mount them in order to conserve space.  I made the title from Recollections silver metallic paper because of all the silver and chrome of the Contemporary itself.  The letters are from Plantin Schoolbook and I partially welded them with the gypsy.  Not every letter connects but I didn't want them to seem squished, I just wanted them to be easy to glue!  I added Mickey hats off the Mickey and Friends Cart, cut at 1.5 inches.  I cut four more for my journaling tabs and glued them on either side of the journaling box.  Had I thought of it earlier, I could have welded them with my gypsy. I added Mickey hat borders, also cut at 1.5 inches from M&F.  Mickey's head actually came from the Mickey Font cart, cut at 3 inches.  I cut two of the black base layer because I always pop dot the nose, so I just cut it off the base layer.  I printed "welcome home," the Contemporary catch phrase, in waltograph from my computer then cut a conversation bubble from the Batman cart around it.  With the E2, you can see exactly where your cut will be on the mat and so it is super easy to place the words where you want them!  I also could have used center point but I am not sure how to do that on the E2 and I was too lazy to look it up.

Also, for anyone who has seen some of my previous posts, I have finally convinced my husband we don't need a guest rom and I will be converting it to my scrap space this weekend!