Puppy Love

I love this picture of Taylor with our little baby Deuce the day we bought him. He was so little and cute, who wouldn't love him???? He now weighs 80something pounds, but will still jump in your lap like he weighs 5 lbs (hahahahaha)


Products used: Bo Bunny pattern paper, Basic Grey rubons, Foo Fa La letters, Hobby Lobby chipboard letters, Prima felt border, Jolee's, Making Memories journalling paper

Beautiful Autumn

Ok, so this layout didn't photograph well at all. I took probably 10 pictures and still couldn't get a good one, so please forgive the crappy picture of it. I made this layout from the Kitz Girlz kits from last month. I haven't had a chance to get the other layout done but love the way this one came out! I just realized that I need to put a year on this layout, lol. These pictures were taken last year at the pumpkin patch.


Products used: metallic cardstock, Little Yellow bicycle clear embellishment, transparency, diecut paper, Bazzill cardstock, misc. flowers and beaded garland

From Taylor's purse

While doing my Project 365, I let the each one of the girls take a week to take pictures. One of the pictures that Taylor took was all of the stuff that she carries in her purse and can't live without. I thought it was a pretty cool picture and loved that it was "her" favorite things.


Products used: Sassafrass Lass paper and stickers, Queen and Co. felt border, American Crafts Thickers, Heidi Swapp diecut, My Little Shoebox stickers, Heidi Swapp frame, misc. acrylic paint, Creative Imaginations rubon

the Magic of Disney

I switched vacations....again, lol. I actually made this layout several months ago to try to sell on ebay and got lazy and never listed it. I figured since I have a Disney album in progress I would just use it in there...


Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Creative Imaginations paper, KI Memories lace cardstock, transparency, Cricut Mickey Font cartridge, May Arts ribbons, Making Memories brads

Our First Cruise

I have been bouncing from one vacation to another lately when scrapbooking. I think I get bored working on just one set of pictures, so it causes me to go from one to the other rather quickly. I have a total of 3 major vacations to scrap!!!! So here is my cover page for our cruise vacation. I had a hard time with this picture. I wanted my results to be something a bit more tropical looking and I don't think I acheived that at all, oh well....


Products used: Heidi Swapp pattern papers, Sassafrass Lass border, Bazzill cardstock, L'il Davis tag, My Little Shoebox stickers, Prima flowers, Donna Downey tag, American Crafts flair, Making Memories brads and metal signage, Dew Drops, Basic Grey chipboard letters

some exciting news!!!!

Completely on a whim, I sent a submission for a design team spot at lilscrappinmama and could hardly believe my eyes when I got the email that I was selected to be on the design team!!! WHOOOOO to the HOOOOOO! I love doing design team work! It usually pushes me to try new things and products that I probably wouldn't have bought in the first place! If you have a minute or ten, head on over to the site and check things out!!!

Congrats to all of the ladies that made it and will be on the team with me!

BBTB Challenge: Monster from PDDU

Our latest challenge for BBTB was to use the Monster cut from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge. I just love that cartridge, there are so many cool things that you can do with it. Here is what I came up with.....

Don't forget to check out the BBTB blog for more ideas!!!

Products used: Bazzill cardstock, Pink Paislee paper, Doodlebug sugarcoated cardstock, Making Memories stickers, PDDU and Pooh Font Cricut cartridges, Doodlebug spider brads, googly eyes, fun flock

***I used my Gypsy to cut out the monster and my letters all in one swoop. That was pretty cool to be able to set up my mat with my different colors, load it and cut everything without having to load and unload, etc.***

Text....

If you have a teenager then you know what I am going through, lol. Every month I get the phone bill, I check to see just how many texts Taylor can send in one month and we have finally hit her all time high at 9057. In one month. Crazy I tell you!!!!


Products used: Webster's Pages paper, AT&T phone bill, American Crafts Thickers, Fancy Pants felt, Sassafrass Lass stickers and paper, American Crafts Flair, Fancy Pants clear arrow, Pinata alcohol ink, Cosmo Cricket chipboard letters, Heidi Swapp chipboard label plate

Cool Giveaway...

A friend of mine is having a very nice giveaway on her blog that you should really check out. She does these AMAZING photo shadowboxes that are really just to-die-for FABULOUS!!! Go to her blog and check out her work (scroll down a little and look on the left side for examples of her shadowboxes)..

Go to Wendy's blog to enter

BBTB Challenge: Home Decor Chandalier

I loved this week's challenge cut, the chandalier from the Home Decor cartridge. Chandaliers are so hot right now in decorating and I love it!!!! Here is my submission for the challenge this week


Products used: Bazzill cardstock, black ink pot, Glitz Rubons, May Arts ribbon, Cricut Home Decor cartridge, misc. bling

Don't forget to check out the rest of the girls' projects at Bitten by the Bug

Project 365 - Weeks 33-38

I have gotten so far behind on my Project 365 that is was very hard to even get geared up to work on the layouts again. I loved this project in the beginning and I think that it is going to be great to look back on, but wow, it is hard to keep up with on a daily basis. I really do love the concept of the project, I am just a bit burnt on it, lol. I will continue through the end of the year though, I feel like I have to now that I have come this far!!!! So here are the 6 weeks that I was behind on.....

Week 33


Week 34


Week 35


Week 36


Week 37


Week 38

Cricut Gypsy review

Ok, so I when I heard about the Gypsy, I was not at all interested. I love the Cricut and all of the cartridges, but that is where it stopped for me. I wasn't interested in the Jukebox when it was released, nor was I interested in the software. When I heard about the Gypsy, I just kind of blew it off and didn't think much of it. As time went on, I was hearing more and more about it and it finally caught my attention. I heard that HSN (Home Shopping Network) was going to be offering a special deal, so I decided to check it out and see what this little machine was all about... I got sucked in and ordered one.




For $299 you got the machine, a carrying case, car charger, and a Don Juan cartridge in addition to the 2 preloaded cartridges that you can only get on the Gypsy called Gypsy font and Gypsy Wanderings. If you buy the Gypsy anywhere else, the $299 will only get you the Gypsy, so everything is just extras that were thrown in to sweeten the deal. I opted for the free shipping offer so mine came a few days after everyone else got theirs. I watched the Cricut messageboards to see what everyone was saying and there seemed to be LOTS of problems. Most of the problems have been worked through thus far, at least mine have. I do believe that Provocraft is working hard to get all problems resolved, they just need some time. I have had a little time to play with it, so here are my pros and cons on the machine based on my initial use....

Pros:
- I love that you can see all of the cartridges available and play with those images to see if it something that you would like to purchase
-much bigger than I had expected, I was thinking it was going to be the size of a cell phone, the screen alone is about the size of my iPhone
- Provocraft has already sent out a couple of updates that have been major improvements. We can only hope that this continues. From my understanding, it will be similiar to the iPhone where updates and improvements will be sent out periodically
- since I have a Mac, the Design Studio software wasn't available to me (even though I wasn't really interested) and now with the Gypsy I can play with welding words and designs. Now that I have played with the software a bit, I can definately see why so many people liked it, there are lots of great features
- there are lots of ladies that are doing video tutorials online so if you don't know how to do something, more times than not, you can find a video to help. Definately take the time to check out these videos, they have helped me tremendously
- you can upload all of your cartridges to the Gypsy and not have to bring your whole collection with you to a crop, just your Gypsy

Cons:
- once you upload your cartridges, they are linked FOREVER to that Gypsy. I would like to see and "unlink" option. Anything permanent makes me a bit nervous
- I don't believe that the Gypsy was "exactly" plug and play like Provocraft was saying on the HSN presentation. They gave very vague computer requirements and lots of people have had trouble syncing up and updating their Cricuts (myself included). They also stated that the Gypsy is Mac compatible and that isn't completely true. I do believe that they are working on these problems, however. Another thing that Provorcrafts talked about was that they Gypsy will plug into any Cricut and you can use, well, that is not really the case, since the Cricut's firmware must be updated. I am not going to plug my Gypsy into anyone's Cricut and update their firmware for my use

After I ordered it, I was feeling buyer's remorse and pretty much decided that it was going back to HSN even before I received it. After reading all of the problems that people were having initially, I was certain it was going back. Then those problems started being fixed, so I started to rethink my decision. Once I received it and played with it (and had my own issues) I am going to give it some more time, but I think I will end up really liking it. I feel a bit clumsy with it right now just because it is something new.

Here are a few of the sites that offer video tutorials

http://www.mypinkstamper.com/

http://www.obsessedwithscrapbooking.com/

***there is another site, but I can't find it right now, as soon as I do, I will add it. I am sure if you search Youtube, you will find many more, these are just a couple that I have found on the Cricut messageboards**