My Pink Stamper Design Team Call

Yikes, I can't believe I'm doing this but I decided to just go for it and enter a submission to be on a design team over at My Pink Stamper!!!  I came across the design team call only this morning and thought it'd be fun to try out for a design team and then looked at the deadline and saw that it was TONIGHT, oh no!!!  I almost gave up right then and there because I knew I wouldn't have much time at all to design and execute a project.  Actually I have to admit that I had decided against it but then I had an inkling of an idea and I can't resist a good idea so I went ahead and scribbled out a design on a scrap of paper (literally scribbles).  I had to wait for the kids to go down for a nap before I could head downstairs and start cutting and putting papers together for it.  I had a couple of hours to get most of the cutting done before the kids were up again and then I had to wait a few more hours before I could head down again to finish it up.
Robyn over at My Pink Stamper is picking a handful of people to be on her design team for the next 6 months.  When I saw the call this morning there were over 150 entries already!  I have no idea if my work is up to design team par but if I don't give it a shot there's no way I'll ever be on a design team so here goes!!!  There are so many talented crafters trying out and I would be so extremely honored and excited if I were chosen (like jumping up and down and screaming excited)!  If I'm not chosen, oh well, I absolutely love designing cards and scrapbook pages for myself and my family and friends and I'll at least have a wonderful page of memories added to my scrapbook to show for it.  Here are the requirements for the challenge:


*You will need to have a blog that you regularly post on for at least 3 months.*You cannot already be serving on a DT that has product that is a conflict of interest (most DTs are just fine as long as they do not sell product that is similar to My Pink Stamper Original Cricut Stamps idea)*Your project must be made just for this challenge*Post a pic on your blog with a full recipe along with what the challenge is about*This needs to be a new project that you make just for this challenge*Only one entry per person, please*You do not need to be a professional but you must have a love for the craft!  :)
Challenge:  Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......
OrangeTurquoise GreenBrown(other optional color of your choice)Here is my submission.  

Here is the "recipe."
The layout is 12x12.
The background patterned paper is Imaginisce's Happy Camper line (Tree Hugger to be exact).
All of the cardstock is from Core'dinations.
The orange paper for the moon and fox is from Basic Grey's Romani line.
I used Chestnut Colorbox ink to distress all of the edges.
The tent was my "lightbulb" idea that got the ball rolling.  I used Camping Critters to cut it.  It's from a badge feature so I had to guess at sizing to get the size I wanted.  I originally had the pic printed at 5x7 but after my first attempt to get the tent big enough realized that I'd have to print the picture smaller.  It's a 4x6 pic under the tent and I still had to trim the picture to get it to fit perfectly.  I ended up cutting the tent at 10 1/2" (badge setting).  I did some fussy cutting to make the entire tent flap up to reveal my picture.  I plan to add some journaling to the underside of the tent flap.
The tree stand is also cut from Camping Critters at 6".
I embossed the background with Tim Holtz's Woodgrain embossing folder.
I used Cuttlebug's Tiny Dots for the trees in front.
The fox and layers (I LOVE this sleeping fox image) are cut from Give A Hoot at 1 3/4".
The moon is cut at 3 1/2" from Camping Critters and flipped.
The title is cut from Camping Critters using the sign feature and flips up to reveal 2 more photos.  I cut the sign and all layers at 4".
The woodgrain paper on the inside of the sign is from Cosmo Cricket's Mr Campy collection.
The cloud border at the top is just cut freestyle by hand.
The starry night paper strip is also from Imaginisce's Happy Camper line.
The little stars are cut from A Child's Year at 3/4".
I used glitter star brads from Recollections in the center of the cut stars.
The phrase on the tent is from Fundamentals Petite Letter Stickers.
I used twine by American Crafts to hang the sign from a star.

My 2 year old daughter is currently obsessed with flip books so I did all of the flip ups on this layout with her in mind.  She loves looking at my layouts, especially is she is in them!  The pics are from our recent camping trip.  She doesn't look too happy in the pictures but she had fun!  She just doesn't like sitting still for pics right now (toddlers!?!).

Whew, I'm exhausted now!  Time to sit back and relax and check out all of the other amazingly talented entries!  Happy crafting all!

Jacob's scrapbook (Months 2 thru 4)

I finished 3 scrapbook pages in the past day and a half and there are a couple more in the making which brings me almost to my goal of 1 page per month plus special occasions for my baby!  Of course I still have about a year of catch up to do for my daughter but that shouldn't take me too much time, LOL!
The first one is my boy at 2 months old.  I love the look on his face here.  He really is such a little flirt, today he was smiling at me and raising his eyebrows, beyond adorable!

As I was scrapping this page I remembered that Unity Stamp Co has a challenge going on right now to use circles so I flipped through my Unity stamps searching for some circular stamps to fit my page and found 3 different stamps to use all from different KOM's.  The dandelion circle is from April 2010, the flower circle is from May 2011 and the heart sentiment if from June 2011.  The patterned paper is from Bobunny's Adlib line.  The title stickers are from Fancy Pants.

The next layout is Jacob at 3 months old.  The papers, epoxy owls and tree ribbon are from TPC Studio's Woodland Whimsy line.  The title is cut from Give A Hoot.  I am entering this one in a challenge going on over at Paper Cutz called The skies the limit.  All your project has to have in it is something found in the sky...OWLS!!!

The last layout is Jacob at almost 4 months old (he'll be 4 months this Friday).  I love this pic of him, he's got such a sweet smile!  The paper is from KI Memories, the frame is patterned paper by Heidi Grace that I cut into strips to make a frame.  The banner is from My Mind's Eye except for the green scalloped pennants, they are cut from Birthday Bash.  The paper line I had was browns, blues, yellows and oranges and I really wanted some green pennants to tie in with the colors of the layout and the Cricut comes to the rescue!  I cut them real size at 1 1/4" and they blend right in with the stickers.  I popped up the banner with dimensional tape and strung some twine behind it.

And now off to work on some more pages!!!

Carefree Summer

Woohoo, it's Friday again!  Thankfully it seems to have come early this week because I really needed another weekend!  I've been able to spend all my free time this week (when the kids are napping or in bed for the night) crafting in my cool corner of the world (my craft space is in the basement where I can beat the summer heat)!  I've gotten a lot done too.  Here is what I accomplished yesterday.  The first is my fun little summer card for Friends with Flair using the June KOM.

The paper is some Scenic Route from scraps I had laying around from a LO a couple of weeks ago.  I paper pieced a couple of the items on the clothesline.  The sentiment is heat embossed and I cut the labels out with Spellbinders.

The second project that I made yesterday is a layout of my daughter at 1 year old.  I was going through my photo pile (pics I have printed that I want to scrap eventually) and was inspired by this one.  It's such a bright and summery photo and I just adore the silly, sassy look she's giving the camera.

The PP is from October Afternoon's Fly a Kite collection.  The chipboard is old Bobunny.  I used my Dymo label for the journaling.  The sun was cut from Cricut's Give A Hoot at 3 1/4".  The clouds were cut from Create A Critter at 2" and 2 1/2".  I stamped the clouds with Unity's distressed dots.
Thanks for stopping by, hope you all have a fantastic carefree summer weekend!

Color Me Silly Frog

I made this card for Project Sunshine and Smiles over at My Cricut Craft Room.  They are collecting cards for the children at St Jude's Hospital to fill their day with sunshine and smiles!  I stumbled across this blog and project only last week and made some cards to get to them ASAP since their original deadline was today but thankfully they have extended their deadline by nearly TWO MONTHS which gives me plenty of time to make lots of cards to cheer up a sick child's day!  If you are interested in making cards for this great cause then check out Erica's blog for all of the info.  Cards must be postmarked by August 25th so there is still plenty of time to get crafting and bring a smile to a sick child's face! 
The finished card is 5x7.  I cut the frog at 3 1/2" from Give A Hoot.  The papers I used are some fun (and ancient) papers from Basic Grey from a collection called Color Me Silly.  The sun is from an old Unity KOM (July 2009) and the sentiment is also Unity (Watermelon Gazpacho Soup).  And googly eyes of course cause I just love googly eyes on kids cards!!!