Mickey's Garden

I am done with school for the summer and trying to get caught up on all the scrapping I want to finish. My family album from 2006 is almost done-just Nov and Dec left. So I am only five years behind!  I want to do an album of my daughter's dance pictures and, of course, the two Disney albums from our two trips.  I got my Gypsy from Cricut Rewards on Friday and I love, love, love it.  It is so easy to use.  I saw a card someone made where she welded circles to a pumpkin for a Disney Halloween card and since I saw that, I have been planning this page.  Creating it with the Gypsy was simple.

 The title words are welded with the gypsy.  I accidently threw away the dot above the 'i' so I substituted a tomato.

 I put the tomatoes from Block Party on the cornstalk from Paper Doll Dress Up.  I used the gypsy to mount circles from George and Basic Shapes to the tomatoes and also to make the cornstalk taller without making it wider.  I cut two cornstalks and double-layered the leaves for depth and definition.

 The fence came from Mickey and friends.  I can't find the cuttlebug woodgrain folder anywhere, not even ebay, but it's on my list to get.  Instead I used one of the Fiskars texture plates to get the wood look on the fence.  I mounted it with foam tape.

  The pumpkin is from Create a Critter-I just skipped the smiley face.  I love how easy it is to search through all the pumpkin images on the gypsy so I could find just the right one.  I free-hand embossed the lines.  The leaves are from the Thanksgiving seasonal cart and I just cut off and rearranged most of the vining.  The walkway came in part from the Mickey and Friends cart but I ended up just using the stones and arranging them free hand, then cutting out the wavy strips.

Onesies

   So there was a break in the rain today and I went outside to get my camera.  And the Fedex guy pulled in with my gypsy from Cricut Rewards!  Looks a litle intimidating, but I know I can get plenty of help and advice on the cricut messageboard and new blog.
   So here are the onesies I made for a baby shower last weekend.  My sister's best friend is having her first baby.  Here are two generic onesies I made, suitable for anyone.  I cut "Diva" from Rock Princess.  The Got Milk? came from two carts, From my Kitchen and Graphically Speaking.  I love, love, love iron-on vinyl!!!  I didn't have any white to accent the milk bottle but I'm ordering some.  I used my new E2 to make the cuts and I tweaked the settings a bit because the preset kiss-cut was cutting through my plastic backing.  If you have an iron-on sheet like the teflon ones that some places sell with the vinyl or the ones from Joann's (silicone, 7.99, and I used a 40% off coupon) then you can iron them on even without the plastic but the plastic backing is great for transferring whole words. 

 It's hard to see in the picture, but I used iron-on rhinestones to accent the crown.

 Next I did a copy of the soccer princess t shirt I had made for my daughter, since the dad-to-be is an avid soccer player.  I already had the design saved in Design Studio, I just made it smaller to fit the little onesie.  The letters in princess were tiny but cut easily and the design transferred beautifully stuck to the plastic backing.

 This last one is my favorite.  The mom-to-be is a hair dresser and I wanted to highlight that.  I used the brush off Slumber Party and the hair dryer from Paisley-both carts I bought specifically for this project!  I have over a hundred and forty carts but I still find must-have images on lots of carts I don't have.  There are a lot of layers in this design and it would have been impossible (for me, anyway) to do with freezer paper.  The heat transfer vinyl went together so easily!!!  I am addicted.

This last onesie was a huge hit at the shower.  I love that my cricut allows me to personalize so completely-I'm not limited by the designs I can find in stores, I can make my own. 

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I made some onesies for a baby shower and I wanted to post tonight, but my camera is in the car and it is pouring rain so in the morning, I'll show them off.

My Craft Area

I scrap on the kitchen table and it is a huge pain to put everything away every night so I often leave it on the table, which means we end up eating on my daughter's tiny table!  I have been trying to talk my husband into giving me the guest room, since we rarely have guests.  After I made him take this picture for the circle challenge, he said, "You have too much stuff.  Your crapbooking is taking over the house."  And no, that's not a typo!  So I reminded him I am waiting for the guest room and he said, "might as well."  So I am pretty hopeful.  It would be great to have more than a corner of the dining area.

You can't see my new E2 because it was on the kitchen table-with my daughter!

Gatorland

The cricut circle challenge this week was either to use a rainbow pallette of colors or a monochromatic green scheme, with just a touch of gold.  I chose to scrap these pictures from our Gatorland trip in 2009.

The background paper is from DCWV safari stack and the solid cardstock all comes from the CM Shades of Green pack (I don't think they sell them anymore).  I cut the letters from Zoo Day (bought it on Black Fri, finally used it today!).  The frame around the pictures came from Base Camp and the alligator is from Animal Kingdom.

I even used green ink for the journaling.  I had some green google eyes-a little big, but I think they give the gator a humorous look.  I ran the dark green through the cuttlebug using the snake print from the Animal Prints cuttlebug folder.  I added gold brads to fulfill all the requirements.
Here's a close up of the texture on the gator:

Another Circle Entry

This week's theme is animals.  I don't own any pets (it cuts down on vaccuuming when there is no pet hair!) but I thought of these pictures of a bird's nest from 2009.  I am actually still working on my 2006 albums (almost done!) and of course my Disney albums.
Anyway, here is this week's entry:

The branch was cut at 2.5 from SFTN and I used flip so it would go on the left-hand page.  The bird came from AK and was cut at 3, also on flip.  The title was cut at 4in from SFTN and the nest was at 3.5, also from SFTN.  There are stickles in the middle of the flowers.  I layered the bird with a black body on black-out, so his eye would be black, then a yellow whole bird so I'd get the beak and feet, then a brown body.  The red belly I did with chalk and I highlighted along the cut lines with a pen.  I also used a Fiskars texture plate in my big shot to give the bird some feathers.  I didn't have a cuttlebug folder that gave me the right texture (guess I need to buy some more!).  I secured the bird with foam tape so he'd be raised above the branch.  the eggs in the nest are also adhered with foam tape.  The nest is a shadow, then two layers off-centered so both shades of brown would show.  the background paper is from K & Company's Berry Sweet. One brown  and the speckled brown are from CM, all other solid colors from SU, as well as the pens and chalk.

Halloween Pages

So I tend to scrap mostly chronologically, though I do jump around a bit.  I have special albums for special occasions and then I have a yearly family album.  The family album I keep chronologic but I am way, way behind.  I am finishing up 2006!  The three snow days we had this week helped.  We stayed home-no school, no dance or gymnastics-and played the Wii and scrapped.  I finished some Halloween pages.

Love these pages!  The cuts are from Happy Hauntings, Oct 31st and the crescent moon on the hat came from George and Basic Shapes.  I did not record the sizes I used.  The paper is all DCWV.  I love, love, love the fonts on HH and the frames.  I freehand cut my picture to go in the frame and messed it up so you could see a little of the yellow under it, so I traced around the edge with gunmetal Stickles and it covered up my mistake.

The other pages use K and Company paper.  The cuts came from Wild Cards and Create a Critter.  I used the suede/velvet paper for the dark brown on the monkey.

The pumpkin frame was cut from Wild Cards and I stamped the sentiment in white ink.

I made the banana my journaling box.  I raised the peel up with foam tape and the banana easily slides in and out so I had plenty of room.

Thanks for looking!