A Layout - Lauren

Today is Cooking With Cricut Challenge Wednesday

and I have created a layout to meet today's challenge.
The challenge is "what is your poison"? - Favorite cartridge and favorite color.
If you follow or visit my blog, you probably know that my favorite color is green... and even though I do not have just one favorite Cricut cartridge, Kate's ABC's is what I have been using often to create my titles, plus I do think everything in this cart is just too cute.

I used Kate's ABC's to created my Subway lettering?/Title. I was inspired by a file Kerry Bradford created using a different format other than the Cricut. 
Using my Gypsy I was able to weld all the letters with the butterfly while changing the height and width of every single letter (letters/title and butterfly are all one piece). I also cut additional butterflies from the same cart and used around my layout.

 Instead of adhering the butterfly's layers/wings with regular adhesive, I used 3D foam.

I used My Mind's Eye Lime Twist 6"x6" inch paper pad. 
I cut the outer frame using Cricut Accent Essentials.
Additional items: Vellum, dew drops and I do not know if you can tell, but under the title is the cover of the paper pad (yeap!), I place vellum on top to tone down all the bright colors so that my title will show up better.  Additionally, I cut vellum circles and placed under the butterflies on the left upper part so that they would show up better being placed on top of the busy pattern paper!... clever! don't you think?

You can find My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Collection at Happy N Scrappin'

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We hope you can come over to CWC and join us on this week's challenge!

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What's Your Summer Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to GabyCreates
and to Day 2 of
What's Your Summer Blog Hop hosted by Ashley

Hopefully you just arrived from visiting Ashley's Blog and are here to join us!
But if you just happen to be visiting my Blog and wish to participate, start with Ashley.

Yesterday I posted a layout about the beach and today I have a layout of yet another fun activity I love that happens quite often during the Summer months (and into the Fall due to great weather) ...

Grilling! sometimes we say BBQ-ing, but most of the time we say...
Let's have a Carne Asada!

I was inspired (scraplifted!) by a layout Juliana Michaels created a while back.

The accessories are from Cricut Paper Dolls for Everyday; the letters for the Grill title are from Cricut Birthday Bash; the star was cut with a Fiskars punch; (I forgot about the grass?) The red letters are BG. Stittching and brads were added to finish off the layout!

This is DH sticking his tongue at me trying to be funny.... so I told him yesterday that I found this pictures while I was looking for some of him grilling, that just for that! he will now be plastered all over the Internet looking silly! lol    He is OK with it! (he loves the attention).

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Please visit yesterday's post.  I love your comments!

Blog Candy - Melin from
CookingWithCricut (All about the Cricut)
and PaperCraftingWorld (All about her fabulous cutting files)
http://www.page-kits.com/ (Where you can purchase files)
is donating this super cute file for leaving a comment

Here is the link to purchase if you are not the lucky one to get the entire Mini Kit!!
I will be creating something with this file and posting it tomorrow!! Hope you can visit!
It's now time to go visit the sweet ERIKA

Ashley - http://myscrappinpalace.blogspot.com/
Gaby - http://www.gabycreates.com/
Erika - http://www.cricutlove1.blogspot.com/
Tracy - http://adventures793.blogspot.com/
Amanda - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Star - http://starspaperpassion.blogspot.com/
Theresa - http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
Angela - http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com/
Momo - http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/
Tracy - http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/
Tanya - http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/
Paula - http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/

Two-Page Layout Cricut Circle Blog and ScrapTiffany

ScrapTiffany Yellow/Steel Grey 

and

Cricut Circle Blog Back to the Basics Challenges

This is the LO I came up with--  I used several new to me techniques.

Yellow it is not my color, but had fun with this PP from Cosmo Cricket Early Bird

The solid darker grey cardstock is from the PaperCo and the lighter grey is AC

I printed the pictures with a yellow tone-- the pictures on the left page were printed as a one picture on a 8 1/2 x 11" piece of photo paper. I hand cut around to leave a white frame.

Some of you are thinking that my letters/words do not show much, that perhaps I should have used the grey tone on top-- this is precisely the technique I wanted to use so I am OK with it... I cut the letters twice, once in grey and the other in the PP and layered myself.  Were I just could not help myself was on the camera and the smile design. I added a bit of an outline to both and vellum to the camera in addition to a bit of yellow Smooch paint.

The film strip is from a Sizzix die. I cut by hand to split and use on both sides of my picture sheet.

I used Cricut Don Juan for letters, camera and smile designs. Gypsy Font for word "many". And Accent Essentials for circles and scalloped edge.

I used a typing font and printed the journaling on my printer using MS Word.

Finished it with some buttons, Tim Holtz mini screw brads and stitching. And for the first time I used the MM notch maker to "hold" the picture on the side and added another of Tim Holtz mini screw brads.

Weekly Challenge #18: Back to the Basics Challenge!
For this challenge we want you to go “Back to the Basics” . . . by using ONLY the cartridge(s) that came with your machine or Gypsy! You must use THREE cuts on your project (the complete title or words counts as one cut).

Gypsy Font - word "many" welded
Don Juan - All other individual letters -- camera -- and smile design
Accent Essentials - Scalloped edge key 50 -- circles found on several layers
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A Card, A Purse with Cards... and another Card

My sister Gladys text me on my way home from work asking me if she could come over after she dropped my nephew to attend Grad Night at Disneyland so that we can make a card for our niece Vanessa who is graduating tomorrow (or shall I say today!). Of course my reply was yes.

We made more than a card. We made a purse and three cards to go inside the purse and a Pot Flower card.

Oh, our niece loves Tinkerbell and we had but a few hours to improvise and create...

I suggested items that I had previously create with other papers...

First the Pot Flower Card

Than a purse with cards

We created a purse using 12x24 card stock from Provo Craft

I found a sheet of Tinkerbell vellum so we hand cut the purse flap

I had the ribbon but it did not have wire, so we improvised and used some wire I had and sandwiched it between to pieces of ribbon.

We than created three cards with envelopes to go on the inside of the purse for her to give as she pleases. The Disney Tinkerbell cart was used to cut the flower (Duh, I forgot I had the cart before we cut the other flowers and it was too late to redo.)

The inside of the cards read "small is the new Big" from the Tinker cart.  We thought it was so appropriate since my niece is very petite (OK, short!).

I almost forgot to mention that our 7 year old niece Arianna also wanted to participate in the fun, so we gave her some stickers, paper, glue, etc. and with a little help this is what she came up with!

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