#145 Boys Will Be Boys Layout

***This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the DDLL New Releases!!****

Here's a close up of my painting and helicopter!

Hi everyone! This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the awesome new release from DDLL. 

Here's a scrapbook page about my son and nephew Jacob who were being silly boys on a hot summer day. I had just bought my son some Thomas the Train underwear for potty training and they both were crying to wear them so we put them on and then they were being boys and started jumping on the sofa and dancing when they heard the Justin Bieber song "Baby" LOL! It was pretty funny! 

All of the papers are from DCWV All About Boys stack. I used a border punch for the ribbon border and threaded the blue Christmas ribbon through it. I made my own chipboard pieces with a Ritz cracker box for the title and journaling spot. The helicopter is from the Boys Will Be Boys cart. I did some embossing and painting with green acrylic paint.  Also, the other funky zig zag shapes are from Gypsy Wanderings.

I am so proud to announce that I finally made an Etsy shop  after tallking about opening one for almost a year!! My shop is called DISNEY LOVER DESIGNS and I have a few things in there right now. I just added a layout pretty identical to this one. I will be specializing in lots of different things like....cards, layouts, mini albums, banners, party favors, party invites, wall decor and altered art.  Here is the link to my shop again http://www.etsy.com/people/DisneyLoverDesigns

Have a great day!

# 41 Koala Anniversary

Hi everyone here is an Anniversary card I made for my sweet friend Melissa. The Koala's are from Create A Critter I stamped their faces with Peachy Keen Stamps. The scallop shape is from Gypsy Wanderings which I embossed with my Cuttlebug. The sentiment is also from Peachy Keen Stamps.

Please be sure to check back tomorrow for the Paper Doll Dress Up Blog Hop going on right Here!!

#9 Sexy Nurse card LOL!

Hi everyone I have some very exciting news to share with you....Abby from Scrapbookaholic By Abby has asked me to be a Designer on her SEI challenges. The challenges will be held bi-weekly with Blog candy sponsored by SEI! I am so trilled to join her on her creative journey. For this week's SEI challenge the theme is Smiles/and or laughter, well I chose both LOL! I cut the doll from Everyday Paper Dolls and cut her hair from Paper Doll Dress up it's actually my favorite hair from both of those carts and it's the Vampire Girls hair LOL! It kinda reminds me of my hair except I have brown hair. I stamped her face with PKS BABY FACES, the syringe, and giant band-aide are from Everyday Paper Dolls also. The tag where I stamped the perfect sentiment is from Gypsy Wanderings. I used the SEI With ALL MY HEART paper line for her shirt, and 2 background papers. On the white colored paper I stamped a pink swirly and inked the edges with pink chalk in and added some ribbon. Please make sure you head over to Abby's  blog to enter her Smiles and Laughter Challenge to win some beautiful SEI paper!

#206 Santa Bird

Hi everyone I hope you all are having a great weekend! Here's a quick card that I made but love it! Inseat of Santa Clause he is Santa Bird LOL! I love the  3 Birds on Parade cart the birds just make me crack up especially this Santa wanna be bird LOL! The complete bird is from 3 Birds on Parade, the scallop shape is from Gypsy wanderings, I stamped his eyes and the sentiment from Peachy Keen Stamps. I also added some ribbon that looks like candy. I am entering in the GABY AND ABBY CHALLENGE which is to use Santa or Snowmen.

I hope you all have a good evening and make sure to check back tomorrow to see if you are the winner of the Peachy Keen Blog hop, and also for an awesome project I made you guys will love it!

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#197 & #198 Winter Frolic Projects and Flaunt It Friday's Blog Hop

Thank you so much for joining us for our first ever Grand Opening BLOG HOP!  If you have arrived here from Flaunt It Friday's then you are in the right place!  If not, click HERE to start at the beginning. Remember to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps and Market Street Stamps!

Flaunt It Fridays - http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/

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Janis - http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com/
Theresa - http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Amanda - http://www.myscrappinobsession.com/
Christina - http://cardcreationsbyc.blogspot.com/
Stephanie - http://www.alwayscrafting.com/
Jess - http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com/
Ruthie - http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/
Dorcas - http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com/
Laurel - http://www.blog.littlepeaceofmyheart.com/
Raven - http://www.love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Now for our first ever challenge at Flaunt It Friday's we a "Flaunting" the WINTER FROLIC cartridge and the image is the SNOWMAN on PAGE 29 you will have one week to enter your project to Flaunt It Friday's

Just look at her makeup she is definately having fun!

For my first project I used the Winter Frolic cart for the snow"lady" and cut the boots from Paper Doll Dress Up, the Talk bubble is from Gypsy Wanderings. I had a vision for this card I wanted her to look like she was having fun playing dress up, the whole time I was creating her I kept singing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" yep, now I have that song stuck in my head LOL!I stamped her face with Peachy Keen Stamps Winter Faces and put some makeup on her! She has to have the best glittery winter clothes and accessories so I put some pink Stickles on her ear muffs, scarf, and her snow boots. I also stamped the sent. in the talk bubble, did some inking, faux stitching and added some bling with my i-rock. Now onto my Winter Frolic Bonus project a Penguin Candy Cane Holder:

Here's how I attached the candy cane

This year I decided to actually dress up my candy canes before I give them out to people. I also cut the penguin from Winter Frolic, I cut him at 4 inches with my Gypsy. I was going to use my PKS here but I really wanted the yellow beak to be seperate so I cheated and used googly eyes, I think kids will enjoy the googlies LOL! I attached the back piece cutting a small strip that is 2 1/2inches x 1/2 inches and the candy cane fits perfectly this was super easy and fun to make and I think it's a perfect cut because the penguin is actually holding candy!

****Now for some fun Blog Candy! I giving away a set of Simply Stitched Borders sponsored by Market Street Stamps to one lucky winner all you have to do is leave me a comment telling me what you think of my new Cricut Challenge Blog Flaunt It Friday's and be a Follower!!**** (must have USA shipping address)

 Now, I'm sending you to  Janis my Co-Founder who is your next stop on the hop.  Remember, if you get lost along the way, CLICK HERE to start at the beginning.  Don't forget to leave comments on every stop along the way, and leave a 2nd comment on the Flaunt It Fridays blog saying you've visited everyone and left them comment love for a 2nd chance to win the Grand Prize sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps and Market Street Stamps!

Thank You all so much for hopping along with us on our 1ST EVER Flaunt It Friday's Blog Hop! Thank you all for your support on our new Cricut Challenge Blog it means the world to me =)  And a Special Thanks to Peachy Keen and Market Street Stamps for sponsoring our First Hop! Have a beautiful day and a nice weekend and don't forget to enter our 1st Winter Frolic challenge at Flaunt It Friday's

#167 Softball Just Because Card

Hello and good evening everyone! I made this card for Throwback Thursday which is Sport's Theme. This was a real challenge for me since I don't like sports, I just got this sentiment stamp at the Scrapbook Expo that I went to on Sat. and I was thinking of Emma's Challenge and how perfect this would be to use this sentiment with a baseball/softball player swinging a bat, or even a golfer, tennis player! Yep I was thinking of you Emma while I was shopping LOL!!! The scallop sqaure is from Gypsy Wanderings and the girl is from Everyday Paper Dolls I love making dolls! I then added some Prima flowers,brads and a pop dot to the ball to complete the look. Keep an eye out because I will be posting more projects tonight HINT Halloween cards, baby card, and a layout! Stayed glued to your computer LOL!

#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.

#142 Spooky Drippy Candle Card

I made this Halloween card for the BBTB2Challenge which is to make a project with the drippy candle from my favorite Halloween cart, October 31st! I welded the zig zag shaped square from Gypsy Wanderings to make a 5x5 card. I also cut it in 2 more colors and did some stamping, and added two green buttons to the left side. I am also entering this card to Getting Cricky for the Halloween challenge.

#137 Scary Scarecrow Card

For this week at  Paper Playtime everyone is asked to make any project with the theme "Autmn" in mind, you may translate this in any way. We were sponsored by Robyn's Fetish Digi stamps/papers. I chose to use a Halloween Digi Paper that was my very 1st time using a digi patterened paper I have to say it was pretty cool! The orange background paper was the digi paper, the marquee and the oval tag are from Gyspy Wanderings, the very scary scarecrow in from the October 31st cartridge. Instead of cutting him completely out....which my cricut doesn't do so well with detail cuts....anyways I went over the small detailed parts with a black marker, so in a way it kinda looks like a stamp. I embossed the Marquee with my cuttlebug and inked it with white Dew Drop ink. I stamped the sentiment which says "Happy Haunting" and colored in with an orange marker and added stickles. I also inked the edges with black chalk ink.

#131 1st Train Ride

Here's a close up of my son's funny faces and the train from CAC!

I had a blast making this layout, I've been wanting to do a train themed layout for my son's baby album for so long after 4 hours I finally got it done...lots of interruptions from my 2 year old LOL! I was able to submit this layout to a lot of different challenges out there right now I post them at the end of this. I cut the large cloud on patterend paper, the little clouds, the stars I inked then layered and attached a pop dot, the train and all animals notice the peanut driving the train LOL, added bling with my i-rock to the wheels and pop dots underneath the animals and stamped they're faces with Peachy Keen stamps, these are all from Create a Critter. The "1st" is from All Mixed Up I attached them with a skinny ribbon/yard type of fiber it's beige with teeny tiny balls all over it I don't know what it's called but it's cute! I purposely added blue and white striped paper under the train so it looks like it's on a track. The tag and flower where I did my journaling by the cloud is from Gypsy Wanderings I put a brad on the flower. I corner punched a blue paper and put it on the right photo, the black letter stickers a great on a tight spot, they are Making Memories.

1. 2 pic Sketch 80-The Scrappiest Blog
2. Number Monogram-BBTB2
3. Transportation-Crafty Creations
4. Layout -Erin Lee Creative
5. Baby-More than Favors

#130 Quite the Pear Card

For this week's challenge at Frosted Designs they are challenging us to use a photo for inspiration, right away when I first saw it I thought of the colors green and white. I decided to make a card for a special friend of mind who just celebrated an anniversary I originally made a different card for her but never sent it out because I didn't like it...I hope you like this one Janis!! I cut the green card base from Sweethearts cut at 5.15x5.15 on my gypsy and cut the marquee from Gypsy Wanderings, the pears are from my free Home Accents cart hooray for Cricut rewards!! I rolled my brayer through my antique linen distress ink then put it on the cuttlebug plate the embossed the marquee. I punched the entire outside borders of the card with a MS punch and also punched the butterfly. I stamped the sentiment and added stickles to it and bling to the pear leaves and one on the butterfly.

#111 and #112..... 1 Owl, 2 Ways (More than Favors & Jitterbuggin' Challenges)

The theme for Wacky Wednesday at More Than Favors was to create a birthday card. My hubby asked me to make a b-day card for his brother so I decided to make an owl card and use my owl stamp set that I got recently at M's. The talk bubbles are from Gypsy Wanderings and the stamps say.."Who's having a birthday...Jovanny is" " I hope it's a Hoot!" the owl and party hat are from Hoot n Holler. The reason I did 1 owl 2 ways is because I originally cut the orange layer yellow and I wasn't happy with the color combo, I didn't want to waste that yellow owl layer LOL so I made this Thankgiving owl card for Jitterbuggin':
Here's the sketch we had to make a card with a cricut animal and add stripes.

My version and the original yellow owl layer!

For this weeks theme at Jitterbuggn' we had to follow the Born to be wild sketch ***see above***. I am getting a head start on my many Holiday cards that I'm going to be making this year. The owl is from Hoot n Holler  the paper is from the new Autum stack from DCWV the lacy punch is from Martha Stewart. I cut a strip of striped paper and stamped Happy Thanksgiving and adhered to the brown lacy paper.

#109 Broom Rides Card

When I first got the Pumpkin Carving cart I knew I had to make something with this stamp they go perfectly together! The white marquee frame is from Gypsy Wanderings then I stamped the sentiment and added green and purple stickles to it. The witch is from Pumpkin Carving (Great Cart!!) all though there are NO circle backgrounds or shadows,etc I got the green circle from Plantin Schoolbook and did a little inking.

#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.

#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.

#69 Water LO

These are some cute and funny pics of my son on a very hot August day while on vacation. We bought a big gallon of water and he got so happy and was reaching for it he wanted to hold it and drink it all, my husband and I felt the same because it was hot! The title and water faucet are GS, the red frames that I CB'd are GW. The water drops are from EPDDU. I made one large water drop for my journaling.  I also put 4 buttons and 3 different strips of ribbon.

#64 Red, white and blue card for (Paper Playtime)

The challenge this week is red , white and blue, so I decided to start making 4th of July cards. I got a red card and layered it with blue then white paper. I stamped all of the red stars. I cut the talk bubble from GW and put stickers for the title. The boy is from ACY. Come check out the other great projects from this weeks theme. Paper Playtime

#59 Baby Boy Card (Challenge 4 w/Joanna)

I used a star stamp for the background. Stickles on animals.

For this weeks challenge  Joanna chose the elephant and giraffe from Zooballo. I decided to make a baby card. The circle scallop and circle are from GW. I stamped the entire tan paper with a small star stamp. I added Broken China distress ink to the blue scallop circle and a blue ribbon on top.   I cut the balloon, hat and gift with tan paper and I completely changed it, I colored them with orange and blue markers and orange and blue stickles. For  the elephant and giraffe I cut them with the same blue paper I used for the scallop circle and added blue stickles. I stamped the sentiment and added more stickles. The card is 5.5x5.5

#49 Baby's 1st Boat Ride

For this LO I cut the blue frame from Wild Card, boat from GW, and font from AMU. I did some distressing all over the page and stamped a black swirl  by the boat to look like water. I then colored in the stamped image with a blue marker and used some blue stickles over the stamped image. I also did the same thing to the compass by the title. I got a piece of school paper for journaling. For the final touch I sprayed some glimmer mist all over the LO. When I did this I was thinking of a pirates map for inspiration LOL!