25th Birthday LO

Here is a simple LO for my 25th birthday.
I don't know the name of this paper -- but I love this! When I was at GASC I saw a lot of booths with this paper line. Super cute!
With my Gypsy I made the balloon and banner. The "25" and "Happy Birthday" are all from Don Juan... the balloon itself is from Create a Critter and the flags for the banner from Straight From the Nest.



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GASC LO

Oh what fun! This was my first trip to the Great American Scrapbook Convention - and I LLLOOOOVVVVEEEDDD it! We had a blast!

Something I like about this LO - to spell out the GASC acronym (that is the Don Juan font) - I used my sharpie markers, Simply Sweet, and my Gypsy to write out the "Great American Scrapbook Convention". Love the way it turned out!


Instead of putting the cover to the program of the convention, I just cut out the key points and adhered them to my LO.


Here is a picture of the picture collage I did. Love using these collages! :)

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3 Year Anniversary LO

I am so excited to share this LO! The is a double page LO, and on the left side of the LO is from my hubby!! He made this for me! On our 3 year anniversary I came home from work and had a present (with my Create a Critter cartridge in it!) and a scrapbook page that my hubby had made. It has the first picture we had ever taken together... we were so young then! :) He told me I had too many tools and was a bit intimidated in my craft room.... but he did a great job still!

I made the right side of the page and tried to have it flow as well as possible.


The arrow below is from Graphically Speaking. It has three circle in it as it is, I used my Gypsy and the hide contour feature to hide the circles and replaced them with hearts.


"3 year" is from Mini Monograms and "anniversary" is from Sweethearts. The cut from Sweethearts actually says "Happy Anniversary" originally... but I used the hide contour feature to hide the "happy" and just use "anniversary". I love the hide contour feature!

The heart border I made using my Gypsy using George and Basic Shapes. I welded the hearts together. I re-cut the skinny hearts in brown and pop-dotted them to the border to give it a pop of color and dimension. I'm really happy with the way this LO turned out!


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Husband Caught Crafting!

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me... to SEE my hubby in my craft room. He has been known to create something to surprise me.. but this was a first for me.

He had to create a valentines box for a competition at his work. So he created..... an outhouse. Haha!!

"Caught" is from Lyrical Letters & "in the act" is also from Lyrical Letters using the Jumbo feature.

My embellishment pieces for this LO is all from Locker Talk. One thing I did this time that was different for me was using the Cricut Markers to highlight the embellishments.

The blue dots from on the paper wouldn't really have shown up with just the blade from my cricut, so I used my Gypsy to cut the paper out, and replaced the blade with a light blue cricut marker. I used my Gypsy and the hide contours feature to hide the outline of the paper and when I hit "cut" it only "colored" the lines on the paper.

I repeated the same steps on the glue bottle and ruler. I used a thin mini sharpie marker instead of a cricut marker this time.



Well this was a simple LO today, but if you have any questions feel free to ask!

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It's a Boy - LO

Hi everyone!
Just wanted to share with you a 2 page LO I've been feverishly working on. Turns out I'm the slowest scrapper in the world... haha.

For this LO I used 4 Cricut Cartridges and the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Paper Stack.



For the Train I used New Arrival. The animals are all cut from Create a Critter and the letters for the name and date are from Simply Sweet, welded together in my Gypsy. The banners are from Simply Sweet - stretched in my Gypsy. Love my gypsy!!! :)



This LO was fun for me because I did it differently than I have any other LO. Basically I knew the five photos I wanted to use and I layed them out in my Gypsy. (I just used George and Basic Shapes to hold the spot of the photo - even though I never cut it out)
I designed the LO around those photos and this is what my gypsy screen looked like before I started cutting.
To design this two page LO I chose the 12X24 mat option on my Gypsy and designed the left and right pages accordingly.



The animals on the gypsy LO screen were all the base models of the animals. For each animal I added a tab and added the layers there. That way when I was ready to cut I just rearranged the animals according to where I had room for the scraps on my mat.

(Even though the 12x24 mat was chosen - I only cut things out with my 12x12 mat. I just had to make sure the images that were actually being cut would only be where they would be on the screen for a 12x12 mat.)




The banner is from Jubilee and stretched to fit the top of my LO. I put the little boys name in it and welded as much of it together as I could. I liked putting the name in the banner so I knew I had the exact size I wanted.
I did the same thing for the date inside the train to make sure it fit nicely.
(I did delete the banner and train car before cutting!)






I kept this banner blank because I need to ask his momma what his exact weight and length was when he was born. :)


If you would like the gypsy file for this.. just let me know. I'm having trouble with my sharing site for cut files right now. But I'd be happy to email you the file if you'd like.

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Wedding Shower Card - New Cuttlebug Technique

Hey everyone! I am so happy to share this card with you! It took some research, but it was surprisingly easy! The inspiration for this card came from The Cuttlebug Spot's blog - with a new technique called Double Embossing. I had to alter the way they did it because of product availability - so I wanted to share with you how I did it.

First I made a A2 size card on my Design Studio program (you can also do this on your Gypsy). Because I had the size and image decided for the card, I measured where the stamp that I wanted non-embossed to be. I also measured the size of the actual stamped imaged.

I made a rectangle the size of my image and placed it in the card template in DS. I cut out two of these from chipboard.

After I cut out both pieces I placed the stamp inside the hole in the template to double check my sizes and placement.

I then ran everything through my cuttlebug. Here's the sandwich:
A plate
embossing folder with paper in it
both templates (lightly adhered together)
C plate


Here is the finished paper after it has been cuttlebuged :)

I had cut the bride from the Sweet Hearts Cartridge @ 4 1/2 inches. I placed the bride on the card with pop dots.

I wet-embossed "Congrats" with a stamp I purchased at my local HL.

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Let's Eat! Thanksgiving Dinner LO

Hello everyone!!

Just wanted to share with you a quick page I put together the other night. I wanted to highlight our Thanksgiving family gathering. This was my first year to be grandma's official assistant for the entire thanksgiving dinner process. I learned so much from her and cant wait to do it again this year!



The recipe card is cut at 3" with From My Kitchen.


I created "Let's Eat!" in design studio with George & Basic Shapes and Lyrical Letters. Here is the DS cut file. Or you can check in the upper right hand side of my blog. I have to give MAJOR credit to two wonderful ladies over on the Cricut Circle message board for helping me with my dilemma in creating the .cut file. Doxieluv and LAs-Cricut saved the day!

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