#99 Happy B-day to me!! (BBTB2 Challenge)

In honor of my birthday today I decided to make a B-day card with the ice cream cut from this weeks challenge at BBTB2 . I cut the card feature ice cream, frame and used my Gypsy to cut the 3 layers. I cut this card to fit in a 5x5 envelope, I also stamped the sentiment.

#98 Sock Monkey B-day Card (Jitterbuggin' Challenge)

For this week's Jitterbuggin' Challenge we had to follow a sketch, use purple, a cricut image, and it has to be a child's b-day card.  I finally got to play with my new Lite cart that I gave in and finally bought LOL! The circles, scallop oval and girl sock monkey are all from Sugar and Spice...What a cute cart! I embossed both circles with my cuttlebug, stamped both sentiments, added butterflies and some bling on the monkey girls bow in her hair!

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#97 Thinking of you Owl card for (My Pink Stamper's Family)

Here's a card I made a while back ago for My Pink Stampers family who lost a loved one. The owl was cut from CAC, the tree branch and leaves are from Serenade. I stamped the background of clouds then added blue chalk. I also stamped the sentiment. I embossed with my Cuttlebug, using 3 different folders. The pink border strip is from a border punch and I added some ribbon. Oh and how can I forget the Peachy Keen critter face stamp!!

#94, 95,96 Three vacation Layouts!

For this LO I originally made it for the Throwback Thursday birthday challenge but I didn't realize it ended on Saturday night, that's okay though! The birds are from CAC I embossed their wings with my cuttlebug and added a pop dot to the wings and hats, party hat is from ACY, sombrero hat is from Designer's Calendar I colored in the design with markers. Music notes from Hannah Montana, font is from Lyrical Letters, balloons from OUAP I stamped their faces, I handmade the black flower with the red button, I did the journaling on the green polka dot paper. This was my last page of my Mazatlan B-day Vacation book, I wanted to highlight some of the things we did and saw.

For this entired LO I used CAC for the title, mouse, cheese and camera...they were all on the same button feature! I made the mouse look like he was standing on top of the camera with a pop dot I also put a pop dot behind the cheese. I embossed the camera with CB and added silver stickles to the camera's "Flash". I inked the camera and the cheese with my Walnut Stain distress ink.  I put the large piece of patterned paper behind the pic of me and my son so it could "look" like it's in a picture frame. I cut 2 strips of border paper and put it on the bottom with 3 buttons on the left.

I did this page a while ago and didn't realize I haven't posted it yet, this is my 1st page for my Mazatlan album. I cut a large heart on vellum paper and did faux stitching from AE, the 2 other hearts on the left are also from AE. The red heart on the right which I stamped is from PS, also the brackets and font are from PS. I did some stamping (floral and bird) with my Tim Holtz stamps which I love! I also added a border from a Martha Stewart punch, ribbon, and fancy large black brads.

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So for this post I decided to post 3 in 1 since my goal is to complete 365 projects in 365 days....I'm kind of behind so this is my way of catching up! There's a description for each LO under each pic, if you have any questions on which carts I used for each LO please don't hesitate to ask!

#93 Yummy cupcake card (Cricut Cardz)

For this weeks challenge at Cricut Cardz you had to make something sweet so I decided to make this cupcake bithday card. I cut the cupcake card and layers from Sweet Treats, then I embossed the pink and red with 2 different Cuttlebug folders. I added silver stickles to the swirls and used my white gel pen on the slit parts of the cupcake.

#92 Fun in the Sun lighthouse LO

For my lighthouse LO I cut the title and lighthouse from LAB, the sun's and scallop circle from GW and the circle is from PS. I added stickles to the swirl part of the suns. Stamped the floral image on the right and added orange stickles to it, I also stamped 'lighthouse'. I embossed the lizard and put black chalk ink on him. For the lighthouse I added some chalk ink and a blue bling on top. I did my journaling on school paper.

#91 Digi Xmas card for (Cardz TV)

Here's a card I made for the Christmas in July theme at Cardz TV  the girl is a digi stamp and the sentiment is an actual stamp. I colored in the digi with chalk, markers and stickles. I used my border punch and also embossed using a Sizzix plate in my Cuttlebug.

#90 Sunset LO

For this sunset LO I cut the sun from LAB, stamped the title and embossed with my Cuttlebug, I stamped the 2 larger butterflies, cut them out and added stickles to them and also to the sun. The scallop border is from AE and the butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch. The Mexico embellishment I made from Destinations and cut a small border from a border punch and added a tiny cactus flower sticker and I did my journaling there. I also added buttons and ribbon.

#89 Fairy card (Challenge w/my sis Joanna & Jitterbuggin')

So here's my 8th challenge with my sister Joanna this time she chose the cute fairy cut from A Child's year, I also posted this at Jitterbuggin' challenge for their Pretty Pastel challenge which you had to follow a sketch, use pastels and buttons. I made this for my friend who is having a baby girl. I put 3 strips of ribbon on top, cut the circle from PS, fairy from  ACY, stamped the sentiment and added one button, I also did some faux stiching and added pink stickles to the fairy wings and wand.

#88 Happiness flower card (Paper Sundaes)

Last night I found a new challenge blog called Paper Sundaes so I decided to participate since the challenge was make your own paper flowers. I love making flowers for these I cut them all from Accent Essentials embossed with my cuttlebug inked them with black chalk ink and layered some of them. For the dots in the middle I put a glue dot with a sprinkle of gold Martha Stewart glitter. I stamped the sentiment and put a little bit of stickles over the swirl.

#87 Flower Power digi skunk card for (Paper Playtime)

For this week's challenge at Paper Playtime Maria is Queen and we were sponsered by Digital Delights by Louby Lou and our theme is Flower Power. I colored in the skunk with ink and stickles. The butterflies are from a punch, the heart is from ST, the flower is from GW, the brown border is from a border punch and the sentiment is also a digi stamp. I embossed the border, butterflies and the heart with my Cuttlebug. I attached the flower to a paper clip with a large brad. I used my Walnut Stain distress ink for the outer part of the card.

#86 Beautiful World LO

I wanted to do a pretty LO for these beautiful pics I took while hiking on vacation, the views were breath taking. I hiked to the world's tallest lighthouse and it was worth all the pain LOL! The title, owl, flower border, butterfly border, leaf, and flower charm were all from GAH. I put the butterfly and leaf in the sticker machine and put glitter on top. The small butterflies were from a Martha Stewart punch. I used my 1st transperency here and filled it with butterflies and my journaling, I addded 2 different ribbons and a peaarl to the flower charm.

#85 Creepy and Cool LO

For this LO I challenged myself to use a lot of non-Cricut products since those products are piling up in my scrapbook room. I couldn't resist and I just had to use my Cricut! The gator is from EDPD I found the perfect embossing plate for my gator it was actaully a Fiskars plate. The title "Creepy" is from Blackletter, "and" is from ACY and "cool" is from Paisley, I added stickles and chalk ink to these. The large pink marquee for the background was from TTK. I did some stamping with a border stamp, I placed two flower stickers on my page, one I put on top of the red silk flower, and the pink frame around the gator is from K&Company. So for the pictures in this LO I did some major zooming in on my camera to capture all the detail in these "Creepy and Cool" animals, the green frogs blend in with the leaves, the tan frogs looked like raw chicken gross! And look at those sharp teeth on that monster!

#84 Just like Riding a Bike Card (challenge w/my sis, Cricut Cardz)

I chose this card from Just Because Cards for challenge #7 with my sister Joanna and also for Cricut Cardz Challenge which was to make any cut from any cart.  I cheated a little bit because I did not cut the card or envelope, I did cut the bike and added stickles to all the different colored paper. For the sentiment I used the Stencil feature and got a cotton ball and blue chalk ink to make it look like a stamped image, then I added blue stickles over it. I also put a strip of purple satin ribbon, tied a knot and added stickles for faux bling, for a final touch I misted with glimmer mist.

#83 Forever card (BBTB2 Challenge)

For this weeks challenge at BBTB2 they are using the owl from SB. I made a love style card the owl's are from SB the circle and heart are from Plantin Schoolbook and the scallop border is from Accent Essentials. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the swirls and the dots on the owls. I did some distressing with my Fired Brick distress ink and stamp the sentiment and added some stickles on the sentiment,  I also added some black ribbon and a ribbon bow.

Can you find the baby!?!

I just had to post this pic of Aidan's 1st Christmas it's just too cute he blends in with his presents! He was about 2 1/2 months here and he slept through the entire day, this pic was actually taken at 2 am LOL! I also wanted to tell everyone that the 4x6 photos are on sale at Walgreens for .10 cents each!! Yes ladies time to stock up that's what I'm going to do. I am almost done with my Mazatlan vacation scrapbook album I've done 36 pages and only 4 pages left!! Next I am going to finish my son's baby album, so look out for a lot of baby layouts. So the catch is you have to buy 50 or more prints, submit online and then pick up in store the coupon code is JULY4X6  Walgreen's photo sale

#82 Bubbles theme for (Paper Playtime #7)

Plenty of bubbly embossing LOL!

I am so happy and excited to be Queen again at Paper Playtime for the Bubbles theme. I decided to do a LO of my son's 1st trip to the Aquarium when he was 10 months old while on vacation in Mazatlan, Mexico 2 years ago!!! I was inspired by the fish tank he was looking at in the picture here, so I used my creativity to make this Layout look exactly like a fish tank what do you think!?! I embossed pretty much everything with my cuttlebug, added some stickles, distress inks and used my Peachy Keen stamps on some of the faces.  I used 6 different carts so here is a list:

Plantin Schoolbook-   circle
Zooballo-  title and orange fish
Everyday Paper Dolls-  Purple fish
Create a Critter-  Seahorse, green plant, blue waves (it was a layer to something else that I welded together to make one long 12 inch strip) starfish, sea shell,  and yellow/red/white fish
Life's a Beach-  coppery colored coral reef
A Child's Year-  bubbles

#81 Feathered Friends LO (For Throwback Thursday)

A close up of my handmade peacock and parrot!

I love making my own flowers.

For Emma's Challenge this week it was animal themed so we had to use Zooballo. I cut the birds from Zooballoo and created my own peacock, parrot and baby parrot! I used 2 different inks to color them, then embossed and added stickles. I embossed the little red plant from CAC. The title and the large paper flower embellishment are from Give a Hoot. To make the flower I cut it in 3 different sizes then put a pop dot under each layer.The circles are from Plantin Schoolbook.  The tiny flowers, butterfly, and border strip are all punches. I added stickles to the title and places several eyelets and washers on my page finally I sanded 2 corners of my page and misted with glimmer mist.

#80 Apron recipe holder (Challenge w/my sis Joanna)

Here's the front of the recipe holder. Cute huh!

This is what the back looks like.

Here's the index cards for recipes.

My sister Joanna and I do challenges with eachother just for fun since we are collecting carts so fast! This week she chose the aprom from FMK. It's adorable I decided to make a recipe holder to give as a gift (maybe I will make these for christmas!). I cut everything around 5 1/2 inches except for the index cards those were about 4x5. All cuts are from From My Kitchen except for the tag, that's from Sweet Treats and the pink butterflies are from a Martha Stewart Punch. Come check out Joanna's Super Cute Layout!

#79 I'm Your's (Made by Momo Challenge)

Love those pop dots!

Close up of my Cuttlebugged blinged out butterfly!

Aidan insisted on modeling with my projects in my photo shoot ha ha , so I said sure why not, the theme is What "Love" means to me! I did this LO with some very old pics before I had my son....actually these pics were taken at the San Diego Fair 6 years ago. I cut the title from All Mixed UP then I put Martha Stewart Glitter all over. The butterflies are from Walk in My Garden I cut them at several different sizes then embossed some of them with my Cuttlebug and added stickles, bling and ribbon.  I used my funky monkey scissors for the large red background paper and for the green strip by the ribbon. I used my lacey border punch on the white paper. I made my own corner frame thing (can't remember the name) for the pic on the left side by cutting two skinny papers and adding some bling to the middle.  The last and final step was to do a little distressing with my Walnut Stain ink (my Fav!) Please check out Momo's page for some more awesome ideas! Momo's Challenge

#78 Princess Crown Card

I found the princess crown in Sweet Treats and I didn't even know it was on that cart! This was a pretty easy card I made the crown the main focus and I found the perfect stamp to go with it. I embossed the green parts and the heart with my CB, then I put blue stickles on the heart.

#77 Panda Grad card

I made this cute Asian inspired Panda Graduation card for my sister in law who graduated high school last month. The gold frame is from SYI panda is from Pagoda, cap and diploma are from EPD and the title is from WC. I used my gypsy girl to adjust the cap and diploma to fit perfectly on the panda.

#76 Genie Lamp bday card (For BBTB2 Challenge)

For this weeksBitten By The Bug 2 Challenge  they decided to do a project with the genie lamp from PDDU I sanded the cardstock first then I embossed with my cuttlebug and added some stickles to it. The sentiment is from Sweet Treats and the heart border punch is from Martha Stewart. I used the negative tiny hearts and put it over the "i" and on top of the swirl. The swirl is also a negative from a sun fron Gypsy Wanderings (for another project I will be posting) I also distressed with my Frayed Burlap ink and I used all scraps for this card...Yay me!

#75 1st Bath LO (For Throwback Thursday Challenge)

For Emma's challenge this week she wants us to use NA, I actually created this LO months ago and I haven't posted yet so I decided to submit it to Creative Time for Me  . I censored my son with a duck and I embossed the tub and inked it.  The bubbles, bath, baby, and duck are from NA. The title is from PF and the orange ticket is from FF. I stamped the sentiment and the small duck on top and I used some blue acyrlic paint to "splash" on the page.