Lorado

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Here's a layout I did with stash from We R Memory Keepers. :)  The die cut background, camera, tag, and chevron border strip are all from my cricut. The camera and chevron strip are from one of the newer iron-on cartridges... Boho or Brooklyn... or maybe CTMH Artbooking... can't remember which. (this is what happens when you have too many cartridges) And the chevrons are actually several that I adhered together to make one long strip. Some chipboard letters for the title and date. Ribbon and a turkey shaped button from Charlene's Button Box. I had lots of pictures I wanted to inlcude so I made a flipper book for them.

The pics are from one of my favorite crop retreats! Love this crop.

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Mabon

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Today's layout is another I did with We R Memory Keepers stash.  I may have mixed up papers from two different fall lines but it doesn't matter to me, since they go well together if I did. :)  I also used corrugated letters from Jillibean Soup that I've had forever and have been trying to use up.  I found some 6x6 pads of corrugated paper at Joann's and I bought them. I used my Tim Holtz sizzix tattered flowers die to cut out flowers that I layered together and used for embellishment.  The 3 little flags on the left were cut on my cricut. I think I did them on my gypsy. That bottom row of leaves, I cut extra leaves out and randomly popped them, to give some depth on that part.

My son and I made "gods eyes" for our fall decorating, we love seasonal crafting. ;)

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Finding the Perfect Pumpkin

Greetings all!

Here's a cricut-y page I made last year. I used We R Memory Keepers papers for it. Let's see if I can remember some of the sources for the cricut cuts...  the sign came from Campin Critters cartridge, I used my gypsy to add the words to cut out of the signs, and cut two signs (one flipped) and glued them together. I tried welding them together but for some reason that did not work. I cut two more signs out of the light color to put behind the brown.  The horse is from Create a Critter (of course!).  The fence I think came from Everyday Pop-up Cards, though I am pretty sure I stretched it taller on my gypsy.  The pumpkins came from Pumpkin Carving I think. However, that cartridge doesn't have layers so I probably cut two sets, one in orange, one  in green, and made my own layers. I think I also drew lines with a fine pen. I don't remember at all where the leaves came from! There are so many to be found on cartridges.  This is one I really had fun making! ;)

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Pumpkins

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Here's a page done with stash. All the papers are from We R Memory Keepers, though I think I have at least 2 lines of papers in it... but they went well together so it doesn't matter to me. I also used some chipboard letters from Thickers, and ribbon. The pumpkin embellishment is a metal brad thing that is also from WRM.

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Brick Town

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Here is another layout from our trip to Oklahoma to visit mom a couple years ago. I used We R Memory Keepers collection (one about family from a few years ago) for almost this whole trip. However, there's an aditional WRM sheet that had this map of Oklahoma on it. I used my cutter to cut a star out of a square and adhered that right over the town my mom lives in. I also cut the title. There's a cute banner made of circles printed with maps but I don't remember the manufacturer... maybe Studio Calico? hmm. I'm too lazy to go dig it out of my embellishment bag to see. lol

We went into Oklahoma City to Brick Town, a downtown attraction that has been completely rehabbed into a canal with a water taxi tour. Kevin loved the boat ride, and the sites were fun to see!

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Jo's Famous Pizza

YUM!

If you ever get down south, in this case, Edmond Oklahoma... you should really stop in a Jo's Famous Pizza restaurant! One can easily get bored of pizza around the QC, but this small southern franchise does have something unique (to me!) to offer.  Firstly, they had some pizza flavors I'd never tried. Second, they allow you to order pizza in different flavors up to 4 quarters. Perfect for us since there were four of us!  But best of all, they brought my son a small pizza cardboard and a small ball of pizza dough to play with while we waited! BRILLIANT!  He was completely consumed by the novelty of playing with the pizza dough. Mom and I dug through our purses for things he could use to press patterns into the dough since a fork wasn't enough! lol  And their pepper poppers were AWESOME. I don't often scrapbook restaurant visits unless they are tied to a birthday celebration or something but this one was memorable.

I used a We R Memory Keepers collection from a few years ago that was in my stash, which I believe I've used for this most of the pics from this vacation. :) The embellishments all came from the collection except for the tiny buttons. The paisleys were fussy-cut from one of the printed papers. I used the cricut to cut the title letters, I believe the font is from the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge. 

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I love it when layouts kind of just make themselves, like this one did.

The papers in this layout are an old We R Memory Keepers line. I loved their stitched papers! The stitched "Family" paper saved me from coming up with a title. ;)  I used a punch to make the alternating scallop borders. 

I used the CTMH cricut cartridge Art Philosophy and the chipboard banner pieces to make the banner covered in coordinating printed cardstock with a black scallop shadow, and tulle to hold it together.

The rest of the embellishments are mostly from the line of papers, though I did use some word stickers from K&Co, and some mini alphas.

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Family Gather

 

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On a message board we have a weekend challenge to make a party related project.  These photos are from a July 4th party some of my family had a couple years ago. Most just family standing around or sitting and chatting. lol  but we did do karaoke! I scrapped those pictures separately. ;)

I used We R Memory Keepers paper line from several years ago, that was in my stash. Plus stash pom ribbon and stash flowers and bling. :)  The font used for "gather" is from the cricut cartridge Fontopia. :)

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Duck Duck Goose!

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Here is a layout I did with We R Memory Keepers line from a few years ago. My photos were fairly neutral so I could use just about anything with them, but you know I'm on a use the stash kick so when I pulled out this line, I planned to use it up!

The geese or duck die cuts came from the Cricut cartridge Wildlife. I majorly changed them up though, cutting not just the standard layers included on the cartridge, but I cut extras or made some extra snips to make my birds kind of match the birds in the photos.

Unfortunately I don't remember which cartridge I used to cut the title. :)

I also used some Kaiser rub-ons that I had in my stash.

And hey! I'm posting this layout for the Stuck On U Sketches blog! My favorite challenge blog, wish I had time to do more challenges!

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Witches Rule

Hello everyone!

Today's post is my first as a Designer for a new challenge website, Left of Center Creative Challenges!  Please head over there right away to see all the other designer's projects, they are gorgeous!!!  This challenge blog specializes in steampunk, goth, dark, grunge, Halloween, mythical, anime, edgy, etc. I really love the idea of designing for it!

The challenge is sponsored by Floppy Latte, who provided the crow-on-a-branch image in the upper right corner. LOVE IT!!!

So let me tell you a little about the layout. Of course, I'm the witch in the big pointy hat! lol  This was taken at work, my co-worker here and I were the only ones in our department who dressed up in costume! Everyone else were party poopers! lol

The papers are We R Memory Keepers line from last Halloween (gifted to me!). I really wanted to use the spider web paper as the background since my co-worker is wearing a web-y cape, but the die shape just seemed to disappear on it. So I glued the die shape to some Kraft cardstock and cut around it to create a "shadow" of the die shape, so that when I glued it down to the background it would stand out more.

  I used some ephemera around the photo, and the mirror is cut from my cricut from the French Manor cartridge but this mirror does NOT have a shadow feature, so again I glued it down to Kraft cardstock and trimmed around it to create my own shadow. I used a piece of adhesive-backed metal from Ranger for the mirror part, it cut just fine on my cricut!  I hand-snipped some ribbon for the upper right corner.

The raven image from Floppy Latte was printed on adhesive-backed canvas! How cool is that? I've never tried that before but it worked super well. I think the adhesive paper backing gave it enough stiffness to go through my printer. I took an edge distresser to the edge of the canvas to get it looking distressed.

Now off with you! Head over to Left of Center Creative Challenges and see what the other designers did with the challenges and then join in!

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oh and PS... everything in this layout is from my stash! :)

True Love

The store I work at, Scrapaganza, just received the next line from We R Memory Keepers! Be My Valentine!  (I know right? valentines stuff ALREADY? I wish they'd slow down over there at WRM).

Anyway, it's a gorgeous line of papers and embellishments!  And yes, there's lots of hearts and valentine theme in it. But I decided to show that it doesn't all have to be Valentines. WRM always has a couple sheets of sewn cardstock, and I LOVE this one, that says True Love if stitching! I had to use that with this photo of my son the day he was born. I also adore the little typewriter stamp!

So check out this line at Scrapaganza if you are in town!  Thanks for stopping by!