Tryin 2 Craft: April 2012

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Paper Piecings by Nikki DT Posting

Today for my Paper Piecings by Nikki DT post I am showing you the I Love Hoo You Are set. This is another adorable piecing set available at the Paper Piecings by Nikki store.

Have you ever visited the store? You should check it out. Paper Piecings can be cut with a machine (Silhouette, Cameo, etc) or even hand cut. Nikki also makes sure she gives you a variety of file types so you can simply print the images, already colored, or print and color yourself in a digi format. I'm sure there's something there for you!

Make sure you join us on Facebook too for tons of inspiration on using Paper Piecings by Nikki's patterns

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!!

Friday, April 27, 2012

My Cricut Craftroom Design team post

Hi and welcome back for Scrapbook Friday at My Cricut Craft Room. Today's theme is colors: Green, Purple & Blue. I used Fancy Frames and Art Philosophy to make this scrapbook page dedicated to my mom. My mom passed away last November. My daughter and mom were very close. I took this picture when we went to visit her last summer in Arizona (if you visit often you've seen several layouts from our Arizona trip!)

The frame was cut from Fancy Frames at 8 1/2 inches.
I used my Gypsy and measured the frame against a 4x6 rectangle

I cut two dragonflies, one at 3 and the other 2.5 inches from Art Philosophy. I just love dragonflies, can you tell?
I used some random pattern paper for the main cut and then used Firefly and Starry Night Stickles on the body.

These are chipboard letters from Thickers

This is flourish bling I picked up for $1 at last years Scrapbook Expo!
All my cuts were from Paper Co. Seaside set and Paper Studio Sugar & Spice

I so hope you liked my layout today. I really love it. Make sure you stop by at the beginning of May for the 100 Cartridge blog hop to see more dragonflies!

To see more projects like mine today be sure to visit My Cricut Craft Room.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrappin!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

My Cricut Craftroom Design team post

Welcome back to another addition of Card Creating Tuesday at My Cricut Craft Room. Today I am making a Thank You card.

Card base is 4.25 x 5.50,
Sentiment was cut at 5.09" from the
Base Camp cartridge on page 125

Embellished with a flower and brad,
just from my stash so I don't have brands

Sentiment was cut from the Cypress collection by The Paper Co.

To see more projects like mine please visit My Cricut Craft Room.

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Mega Mother's Day Giveaway at Ginger Snap Scraps!

One lucky mom will be the winner of over $300 worth of

scrapbooking and paper crafting items

from Ginger Snap Scraps.

Included in this giveaway:

$20 gift card to Ginger Snap Scraps

Giant Flowers Cricut Cartridge-Set of Cricut Blade Refills

Dearest Collection kit from Echo Park-

Dear Lizzy 24 spool ribbon value pack

Spellbinders Nestabilities Flower-

Love Chipboard Album from Bo Bunny

Tim Holtz Ink, Refill and Stickles set-

Tim Holtz 4th of July Embossing folders

5 Snag 'Em Stamps-Our Mother stamp set from Pink By Design

3 DoodleBug 6x6 paper packs-Bright Twine by Doodlebug

4 rolls of glitter tape from American Crafts

Die Cut with a View Chateau Lavender Solid and Print Stacks

Zig fine and jumbo glue pens-Imagicut Ribbon Cutter

Summer embellishments from Little Yellow Bicycle

Button Set from American Crafts

Copic Blender pen-Copic Marker Black

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Chocolate Covered Strawberry card

Good morning everyone! Hope your weekend is off to a great start! the weather is playing tricks on us again, warm yesterday, cold today. I wish I knew how to dress when I get up LOL. Seems I put my winter sweaters away a little too early.

Today I have a quick card to share with you made from a freebie from Paper Piecings by Nikki. That's right, it's a freebie, so if you haven't tried Nikki's files yet, go grab this one and give it a try. Nikki always has great freebies, all kinds, and if you snoop through the store I'm sure there will be something there you will fall in love with.

Four simple cuts, that's it. A pink layer, a red strawberry layer, green stem and chocolate covering layer, how simple is that? I stickled everything a little just because I love all the sparkle and I'm addicted to stickles. the base of the 4 x 5.5 card was stamped with Versa mark and the Leaves and Flower Scatter stamp by Hero Arts. I then used Perfect Pearls in Forever Green and Forever Violet to bring out the stamp design.

If you want this strawberry file grab it here. Also make sure you become a fan of the Paper Piecings by Nikki facebook page to get in on all kinds of contests.

That's it for today, go enjoy your weekend!

thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!

Thursday, April 19, 2012

My Cricut Craftroom Design team post

Hi and welcome to Theme Day at My Cricut Craft Room. Today the DT members can make whatever they like as long as it falls under today's theme of Vacation!!! I chose this day because I have tons of vacation photos to scrapbook and need all the incentive I can get to finish them. So for today I did a one page layout using the Paper Dolls Dress Up cartridge.

I used my Gypsy to make all my cuts, I usually do. I lay everything out on the mat to check for sizes. I even do this for 2 page layouts just by selecting the 12 x 24 mat to lay everything out. Did you know you can switch back and forth between mat sizes while you are in your project? This is also helpful if you've selected alot of images and they aren't on your mat, just switch your mat to 12 x 24 and drag them over, then switch back to the 12 x 12 mat!.

My dinosaur was cut at 3.97 x 3.24 and then I inked him a little for definition because there aren't any layers on this cut.

The palm tree was cut at 5.18 x 3.48. I cut it twice so I could have a brown trunk. I then inked the leaves for depth.

The yellow strip down the side was ripped and I placed two smaller photos over it.

This was from our trip out west to Arizona last summer. We visited the Grand Canyon Caverns and this dinosaur was out front. We had fun taking turns "running" away from him! That is my daughter running away and my daughter-in-law slowing Rex down by holding his tail LOL

I hope you liked my quick layout today. For more projects like mine please visit My Cricut Craft Room.

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

April Showers bring May Flowers Blog Hop - WINNER ANNOUNCED

Thank you everyone for visiting during our April Showers blog hop, come back next month for the follow up...May Flowers! Now to announce the winner of my blog candy. Drum roll please.....................

................c'mon the candy isn't that exciting!!

Michele from MS said...

1st of all...I get so tickled every time I visit your blog and see the frazzle haired little woman! Thanks for making me smile! I love camping and the smell of campfire! What a super cute layout and something to bring back memories years from now! Thanks for sharing your story!
http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com/

Congrats Michele!!

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Something Special card

HI everyone!! Today I made a cute little card, based on a sketch I found on the challenge blog at My Cricut Craft room. I don't do challenges very often but this one was pretty quick and I had some extra time, I can't believe that, usually I don't have "extra" crafting time. But some how I found an extra hour this week.

So here's the sketch.....

...and here's my take on the sketch...

The card is 4 x 4 Kraft card stock
The cloud was hand cut from the DCWV All about me paper stack
Other paper is just from my HUGE scrap pile
The sun was cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut Cartridge at 3 "
The Flower is the tulip cut from the Garden Soup Cricut Cartridge at 2 3/4"
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper Family & Friends set
Everything was inked with Versa Magic in the following colors:
Turquoise Gem
Persimmon
Night Sky

I might hunt around to see if there are any other challenges I can enter this card in

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

My Cricut Craftroom Design team post

Hi and welcome to another Card Creating Tuesday with My Cricut Craft Room! Hope you all have recovered from your sugar comas!

One theme today was Get Well cards. I remembered I had seen an adorable card, perfect for any occasion, at CardzTV and tried my hand at it.

This is a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch card. The different paper layers were cut at 4 x 5 1/4, 2 x 3 3/4 & 3 x 3 3/4. The frame was cut at 3 inches from page 61 of the Song Bird cartridge. The bird/fence was cut at 2 inches from page 71. Again the paper is all from my scrap pile, I am slowly using it all up to a manageable stack LOL.

The Get Well sentiment is from Pink by Design Scripted Year set. Yep, it's a simple card and could be used for just about any occasion with a switch of the sentiment!

I hope you enjoyed my "lifted" card today and to see more projects like this please visit My Cricut Craft Room.

Thanks for stopping by and happy scrappin!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

April Showers bring May Flowers Blog Hop Day #2

Welcome to day #2 of the "April Showers Brings May Flowers" Blog Hop! This hop will showcase things that are all about spring so please sit back and relax and let this hop put you in a springtime mood where the sweet smelling cool rain gently wets the ground so the seeds poke their heads out and become beautiful flowers.

If you happened to stumble upon the hop here by chance, and want to start from the beginning, it all starts with Lissa at www.somanycrafts.com , this will take you through the entire hop of inspiration.

Be sure to give some love throughout, as each one has worked hard on their projects for you today.. Other hosts may be giving out blog candy so keep an eye open since they may have different rules on how to win.

For my project this month (you didn't know this was a monthly blog? It is!! with a different theme each month) I made a two page layout dealing with April and rain LOL, Today I'm showing you the second page, I hope you visited yesterday to see page one.

Paper is from the From the Heart by My Mind's Eye paper pack, letters were cut from the Cricut cartridge Mickey Font, clouds were also cut from a Cricut cartridge, but because I used my Gypsy, I can't say which one.

Now that I see Pg2 up it's a little plain for me, so I will be adding more, probably rain drops and a border on the bottom.

So to finish off my story, the "kids" were so excited to work on the new fire pit, they designed it, pulled all the stone out and were set to building the new pit. My husband of course was totally satisfied with the old pit and kept telling the kids they better know what they were doing because he wasn't doing any of it lol! He wanted a pre-made one with a metal ring. So all the stones are pulled and it starts to pour. All the kids run for cover and my husband and at the time soon-to-be son in-law stay out in the rain and now mud and finish up the fire pit. So, there is my husband and oldest grandson sitting in front of the not so roaring fire, under an umbrella because after all the hard work my husband was determined to have a campfire! It was a fun afternoon even with the rain and mud!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you made it both days, and if you did make sure you comment and leave a way for me to contact you in case you are the winner of my blog candy:

Now please continue on this fun hop by visiting: Jearise

Here is the complete line up in case you found yourself chasing a butterfly:

Lissa Marie                     www.somanycrafts.com
Ellen Card Monkey Jarvis   http://www.cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
Zenita Barnes Smith         http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com/
Liz Sternal Cline                http://www.tryin2craft.blogspot.com/
Jearise Havenga                http://www.lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
Lisa Peters                       http://www.handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Cicily Lesher                     http://www.pinkdalmationscrapper.blogspot.com/
Katina Martinez                http://www.twochicsandacricut.blogspot.com/