Beach Day

Okay, I'm not really into the winter and snow right now as you can tell, so I've been working on all my summer pictures from 2010.  Each year we take a trip to Lake Geneva and one of our favorite things to do is play on the beach.  Since its a yearly page I do, I try to do somethings that you wouldn't normally do for a beach day. 

I picked up the Fine & Dandy True Blue Chipboard by Mind's Eye which I fell in love with.  I had other plans for some of these pieces, but thought that they were a cute addition to the beach layout. 

I also used alittle Bling on the side, which I have to admit has been a hard thing for me to do in my boys books.  And of course I had to use my cricut to cut out all the letters and bottom page.  And after looking at this page, I have to say that I love it!

Zoo Pay Layout

This past year we had a membership to the zoo which meant that we were there quite often with many friends, seeing the animals and having fun.  Each time we went, I took MANY pictures since the camera never leaves my side.  It took me awhile to decide this, but rather than making a page in chronological order like I usually do, I would do a collage of all the pictures on one layout.  I love it!

I recently got the Create A Critter cartridge for my Cricut which I also love and was able to use for this page.  I think its a fun way to summarize the fun we had all summer long!

Teacher Gifts

So I know that its past that time of year, but I still thought that I would share the teacher gifts I made for my son's preschool teachers.  It was a fun gift to make and put together and the teachers loved getting them.

I picked up clear paint cans from Michael's along with some paper and ribbon. With the help of my cricut, I made this cute little "bag" in just a few minutes! 

Inside were some chocolate covered pretzels, a gift card and I also made this snowman out of oreos and white chocolate.  They were delicious too!

Tractor Birthday Party

Well, when I first made this blog, I said to myself that I was going to do a great job of keeping it updated, adding new things to hopefully give inspiration and such, but I haven't done that great of a job!  But I am going to try from here on out!  Here's a continuation of that tractor party that I was showing a few months back.

It was a lot of fun to come up with ideas for this party, searching for things that I could use and putting it all together.  But the party went by in a flash and I didn't get as many pictures as I had hoped.  So the yard full of hay and such isn't pictured, but here are a few of the decorations that I used my cricut to make!

The tractor invite...there were pink ones for the girls too

The finished goodie bags. 

Inside of the baby feed there was a little treat for the little ones.

The older ones were able to have a tractor chocolate sucker I made

And some fall trees (chocolate covered oreos)

I love cupcakes, especially for little ones.  This was easy to put together and went along with the theme.  Plus it wasn't very expensive at all!

I made these cupcake toppers and wrappers.  They didn't take all that long and the cost was next to nothing!

The snack table

I fell in love with this barn (also the animals and corn stalkks pictured) from SVGcuts Grandpa's Organic Farm  set.  I modified it a bit so that it was a 3D version that was able to stand up on its own.  I love this collection though and it went great with my theme!  Plus I was able to use other images from this collection too!

The banner was another quick and easy decoration that I was able to put together quickly!

And what is a farm without animals hanging around?  I had several of these little guys around the yard.

Really Cool Site

I was reading through this month's Creating Keepsakes magazine and saw this cool site in there (you need to scroll down to find the link to the color generator).  It allows you to upload a picture and from that it will give you a color pallette that will work with it. 

I tried it out and thought it was really cool.  It gives three different "options" of five colors that go well together and go well with the picture too.  I think that I'm going to need to try this site out for my next layout.

A bit of the party

Here's a little peek of what I did for the party.  As I mentioned it was farm/tractor themed.  I'll be sharing bits over the next few days with links, files or directions of what I did for you!

Since I'm tired, I'll just share the invite I made.  I actually found this file already online at Create Cricut Designs

It was the perfect file, so the only thing I did to "modify" it was not include the driver.  I wrote the info on the back of the invite and off they went!  I also made pink ones for the girls.

A Sneak Peek

I've been working like crazy for the past two weeks on my son's birthday party!  It's this coming week so soon I'll have more to share with you, but here's a little sneak peek of what's to come.  He chose tractors as his theme and I expanded it a bit to a farm theme.  These are what I did for the treat bags and though that they turned out cute!  And they were easy and cheap to do!

I hope you enjoyed...and there's much more to come!  I'll be sharing soon!

Decorating and Signs!

Lately it seems that all I've been doing is making things for my son's upcoming birthday party and honestly I became bored with doing the same thing over and over.  So I took a step back and decided to finally finish decorating his room!  He chose awhile back a truck/car theme, so we went out right away, bought him the sheets for the bed and then started looking for some accents.  Well, I personally found it hard to find exactly what I had envisioned, so that went on the back burner.

I had picked up these cute truck decorations for the wall, but since they have hooks on them, I wasn't sure what to do.  Since he's not quite three yet, I didn't want to hang things on them. But then I got the idea to put signs on there.  Instead of spending endless hours search the good ole internet trying to find my vision, I decided to stop wasting time and make these on the cricut. And I have to admit, I'm pretty happy with the way they've turned out!

I started out by searching the internet briefly to chose the signs I wanted and then got right to making the svg files.  They weren't too difficult to make and were done that night.  He was so excited to see them hanging in his room the next day when he got home from preschool.

I thought that I would share the files for these with you!  I hope you enjoy!

The Caution Sign

Construction Sign

Stop Sign

Going Back to School!

My oldest is going back to preschool tomorrow so I thought I would make him a little note to put into his lunch box.  Of course it couldn't just be written on a plain piece of paper, so I pulled out my cricut and found a SVG image that I liked. 

I forget where I found this image, but it was a free one online (that or I made it from a coloring page...sorry, I forget!)  But I thought that this would be perfect little "note" for him.  His favorite color is green and he loves to color so it fits him perfectly.

On the back I figured I would just put a simple statement since the little guy is only 3!  Something that he could understand, so again I used the cricut to make this simple, I love you!

The font is Wish I Were Taller from Kevin and Amanda 

I love this site for a lot of free fonts that are great for using on the cricut of digital scrapping!

Note to the Teacher

With school starting up again, I wanted to send a little note to my son's preschool teacher on the first day of school. Nothing's more perfect than an apple for the teacher! I recently purchased the Grandpa's Organic Farm SVG Collection from SVG Cuts for another project that I'm working on and thought that this apple in the set would be perfect.

In order to make it into a card, I copied the base layer in MTC and then transformed it into the mirror image.  Then I chose to weld them along the leaf and the side of the apple and I had the base of my card!  Just a few cuts later of the leaf (BOBUNNY- Clover Dot), the stem (My Mind's Eye- Dark Brown Polka Dots) and the Apple (red texture) and my apple was complete!

FYI- The cutting file does not make the leaf and stem separately like I have here.  All I did was to cut the form out of each color and then cancel the cutting after the piece I was looking for was complete in order to save paper.

I added the ribbon around the stem (I had to cut behind the red layer on the form to slip the ribbon closer to the stem) and I think that it's a pretty cute note to the teacher!

Starting Out

Okay, so I will be the first to admit that I am not super creative. I often get inspiration from ideas I've seen from others, but I love to browse the web to find some cute ideas that I can do to make scrapbook pages, cards and other crafts.  So I figured that I would jump on the bandwagon and make my own blog sharing my creations. 

One of my pet peeves from some (not all, but many) of the sites is that I can never quite seem to duplicate what tey have.  I love to use the same papers, color schemes and cutting files, but they are at times hard to find.  So I am going to try my best to make sure to list my supplies and link to the websites that I found files on or share files that I made.  I figure if I spend all this time searching and making things, that I should share so you can do it without all the hassle! 

Since I got my cricut over a year ago, I use it for all my scrap layouts, cards and have even been using them to make decorations for my children's birthday parties.  I have found it so addicting!  And even more so since I got Make the Cut.  This program has allowed me to find and make svg files so I can make just about anything my heart desires!  I tried scrapping without it and was lost! 

So I hope you enjoy my little corner of the web and are inspired by my work.  I'd love to hear from you so comment away and suggestions are always welcome too!