#224 Corn Maze Layout + The Hot Blog Hot w/ Jacob the scrappy assistant

Hi everyone! I went to my first ever corn maze on Sunday and it was actually the largest corn maze in California or (Southern Carlifornia) one of those! And boy was I tired and it was so hot on Sunday, I'm so glad I brought plenty of water LOL! But of course I "HAD" to do it and get some great pics since I am a scrapbooker at heart!!

For my LO I used one of my favorite Cricut cartridges. Country Life for the corn and banner. I stamped the sentiment on the banner flags and used a black gel pen for the outlines. I stamped the cute face on the corn with PKS Laughy Taffy faces and embossed with my "snake skin" Cuttlebug filder to make it look like corn kernels. I added pop dots under the green parts of the corn, it's a pretty big piece of corn that's about 10 inces, my son was pretending it was real corn and fake eating it LOL!

I used Kraft paper for the background and a Fall stack from 2010 DCWV "Autumn Splendor" and added a punch from Fiskars as a border and "Lemondrop" yellow twine from the Twinery. The flowers are Recollections and the bling pieces are large bling I got from Walmart. I also added rick rack ribbon on the small photo mats. I used Walnut stain distress ink on the photo mats, and sprayed Olive Vine Glimmer Mist on the Kraft paper, and stamped a burlap stamp on the Kraft paper with white Acrylic paint.

Of course I had to make the corn a girl, with that big flower in her hair!

I wanted a non-Cricut title so I dug out my old Inkadinkado clear alphabet stamps and inked them up using yellow Acrylic paint!! a cheap alternative to inks! I also painted the edges with Burnt orange colored paint. I bought the paints at Michael's for .50- .75 pretty cheap huh!?!

Time for The Hot Blog Hop with Jacob wth Scrappy Assistant!! Plese scroll down to view my last 3 Jacob post to win a $15 Peachy Keen gift certificate!

On Sunday we went to a pumpkin patch and did a HUGE corn maze and I brought Jacob and Clippy the Koala with me on their last adventure in Southern California. It was really hard getting Jacob to wear this shirt in public, I mean he always wants to be naked LOL!!! His excuse was that he can't stand this 93 degree hot weather in October ugh!! Clippy the Koala was getting so freaked out in the corn maze because we kept getting lost, he thought we were going to be trapped there all night and the aliens would come and get us LOL!!!! (Ok I watch way too much TV haha!!!!) Jacob inspired me to make a Corn Maze Layout for today's post... great idea Jacob you are sooo smart and sexy haha!

Today Jacob the Scrappy Assistant helped me soooo much, by helping me put away all my supplies I used for today's project! It also made me realize how many supplies are needed just to create ONE scrapbook page!! I think I need to show this pic to my hubby and tell him I "NEED" to go shopping for more supplies so I can get more Layout's done LOL!

I am so grateful to have Jacob helping me in my Scrapbook room, I mean my hubby has never helped me put away all of my treasures haha!

 Giveaway Time!!! In honor of me having Jacob as my hot Scrappy Assistant Chloe (Jake's owner) is letting me giveaway a $15 gift certificate to Peachy Keen Stamps woo-hoo!!!!! All you have to do is leave me a comment everyday on each Jacob post! Check my blog everyday for a new picture of Jacob helping me! I will announce a random winner who leaves me a comment on EVERY post on Monday October 17th!....

ok scratch that.... since I've been super busy the last 3 days with a garage sale, pumpkin patch w/ corn maze, and an ultrasound appt for my baby I have been so behind!! So I will post-pone the giveaway, you have until tomorrow morningWed. 10/19 to leave me a comment on ALL Jacob post for the giveaway. I am planning on making a Team Jacob card for Chole as a thank you for letting me have Jacob help me! I will include it in tomorrow's post along with the winner, good luck!!

#91 Easter Sheep Card

Hi everyone today is Friday....you know what that means it's time to "Flaunt It" at FLAUNT IT FRIDAY'S, which is my other Cricut blog! For this week's challenge we are flaunting our Country Life Cricut carts and the cut choice is the sheep on Page 42. For this months grand prize we are giving away the Joy's Life "Lot's of Pun" stamp sets sponsored by Cravin Scrappin, you have one week to enter your project HERE.

For my card I decided to make a mini 4x4 Easter card with "My Creative Time Stamps". I added some twine to the side and some stickles and bling to her fabulous bow! Be sure to stop by my blog this weekend for the "Love Your Pet Blog Hop" hosted by Abby.....you won't want to miss it I made something extra cute for the hop =)

#66 Apron B-day Card

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Hi everyone here's another card I made for a custom order I do not have an etsy but if you have something in mind please feel free to contact me. The marquee shape is from Once Upon A Princess, the apron is from Country Life and the rolling pin is from From My Kitchen. The sentiment is handwritten since I don't have a stamp that small. I also added some ribbon and a border from the Apron Lace  Fiskars punch.

#159 Sweet Little Angel

Hello everyone!! Here's a little something new that I experimented with that I LOVE can you guess what it is?? Yep it's Vintage clip Art, I love vintage stuff, lace, glitter and the antique silver and gold look. I cut the word "Sweet" from Country Life, The title "Little Angel" with the halo are from Rock Princess. I did my journaling underneath the vellum and distressed a little bit with my Walnut Stain distress ink. The glitter is from Martha Stewart, the heart is from Rock Princess also. The white/gold ribbon is Joann's Christmas ribbon!! I stamped the sentiment on Kraft paper and also printed the angels on Kraft paper, and cut the top and bottom edges with decorative scissors. I did some stitching on the top left and added buttons and brads. I found the free Vintage Clip Art Images at Vintage Holiday Crafts.

I wanted to give a BIG thank you to Moe Creations for posting a link to a blog that shows all of the current challenges Pile it On Challenges and also to my sister Joanna for telling me and introducing me to the FREE Vintage Clip Art world!! Thank You Both!! Here's the challenges that I am entering for this project:
Our Creative Corner Use at least 3 different embellishments
Tuesday Throwdown 3 different elements, like brads, paper, etc.
Papertake Weekly 3 of a Kind, embellishments

#155 Girl Holding Apple Pie Thank You Card

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Here's a SWEET card I made for the baking theme at Fantabulous Cricut. When I was deciding on buying the Country Life cart, I saw this cute cut and I knew I had to buy it LOL! The girl holding the Apple Pie is from Country Life, the yellow background shape is from Once Upon A Princess. I did some stamping with a wooden stamp from Michael's $1 bin, and some Peachy Keen Laffy Taffy stamps. I punched a strip from my border punch and added ribbon, for this card I also used lots of scraps =).

#150 Make do and Mend Card My 150th Cricut Project!!!

I loooovvveee the way this card came out so much it's so me I love lace and glitter and pink LOL! Even on clothes and purses! I made this card for the BBTB2 challenge this week to use the sewing machine. I finally got some courage and bought some cricut Markers in black and brown, I have been wanting to try these for about a year now but I have been so scared....I don't know why. I just get tired of my tiny cuts like letters, etc. getting ruined because the paper is too thin or something and I get mad! So I really love these cricut Markers and I am going to use them all the time they were so easy, I think it's easier than cutting out an image....can you imagine how the Imagine would be???? Oh and I used a 50% off coupon at Joann's so they were only $7.50 for a pack of 5 black and brown markers. Keep an eye out because I will be posting more projects with them...yay for cricut Markers!

So I cut the machine from Heritage, put in my xyron sticker machine upside down and poured pink MS Glitter on it. I put beige lace on my card with 3 black buttons to make it look kinda like clothes. I did some distressing with my Walnut Stain ink.

#149 Horse b-day card

I made this card for my son's 3rd b-day which was yesterday Oct. 2nd, aka National Card Making day!! I never knew that LOL! He's really into horses right now everything from horse toys, horses on tv, and also seeing the horses in my neighborhood. The horse, fence and bird are all one button feature cut on the country life Cart. I stamped the sentiment on a tag from Fabulous Finds and pierced holes and did some stitching with embroidery floss.  I think I am going to start stitching more on my projects this was only my second time doing it I really feel like I accomplished something once I was done with this card! Oh yeah I forgot...I tied a knot with the twine and put it through the holes on the tag.

#147 My 1st Mother's Day

I am so happy with the way this page came out, it is something totally different than what I was orginally going to do. This is a pic of me and my son when he was 7 months old also My 1st Mother's Day! The 3 yellow cuts are from A Child's Year, the flower border with the brads are from Gypsy Wanderings, the banner and "Mother's Day" are from Country Life. For those of you who haven't read my previous posts...I highly reccommend getting the Country Life cart, it is so freaking cute there are so many feature's on it so keep an eye out because I will be using that cart a lot! There are so many different banners and banenr flags on there. I poked holes in the banner and hand stitched with white embroidery floss and added some black stickers and 2 blue brads at the ends. The journaling tag is a piece of patterened paper from Bo Bunny and I just cut the scvallop out since it was perfect it says 'the 5 ways you make me smile'. I made this layout for the following challenges:

Creative Scrapper's- Make a Layout following Sketch #123 (I flipped a few things around!)
Fantabulous Cricut- Make a project with stitching on it

#143 Bountiful fall Card

I created this card for a few challenges I will list them below this post. First off I would like to say that I highly recommend all of you Cricut Cartridge addicts (LOL! Like me) to buy the new Country Life cart it is so cute and amazing....there is so many cute cuts and sayings on there I was very amazed and impressed when I was looking through the handbook I just got it 2 days ago. The title is from Country Life, the wagon is from a Child's Year, the pumpkins are from Gypsy Wanderings. I embossed the wagon with my cuttlebug and added stickles to the pumpkins and the silk flower. Here's a tip ladies....if you want some very affordable flowers just go to the dollar store and buy a silk flower bouqet and remove all plastic parts and there you have it, a beautiful flower perfect for cards and scapbook layouts!! Very cost effective, the only down side is you might have to iron your flower. I ironed this flower it didn't take very long, I hate ironing I don't remember last last time that I ironed I couldn't even remember how to turn it on LOL no joke!! Well at least I have a new purpose for it and I need to find a home for it in my scrapbook room and also find a very small ironing board! I hope that helps you!  Now for the challenges: 

Always Crafting  for this challenge my friend Stephanie has a new challenge every WED. this week it is to make something that inspires you. So this card totally inspired me when I went to my parents house the other night for my dad's b-day dinner, while I was eating I noticed my mom pulled out her fall decor and right in front of me I saw a wagon with pumpkins in it!! Yep I told my mom right there and then that I was going to make a card out of it....she was amazed, she said "Really, how? How can you make a card from something like that?!?" I  was laughing and smiling and I said "Just watch!" Wow I feel like that was a challenge/compliment LOL! I will give her that card for Halloween or Thanksgiving she will be shocked that I did it!

Fantabulous Cricut challenge is to make something with the fall gardening theme. When I got my country Life cart I saw this title and automatically thought of Fall veggies like pumpkin, squash, etc.

Jitterbuggin challenge this week is to follow the sketch, use plaid, and have something Fall on it. I tried to follow the sketch as much as possible, I just had to flip my card horizontal so my long title could fit.