BBTB2: Cricut - Easter Layout - Almost All of them are Happy

This is a picture from last year, but I'm just getting around to scrapbooking it now.  I am so behind, I will never catch up.  As you can see in the picture, my grandson #2 is not very happy to meet the Easter Bunny, granddaughter is giving him the eye, but behaving really well, and #3 grandchild could care less about his first time meeting the big guy.  Let's see what this year holds, I'm going to hope it's more fun than fright!  I recently purchased several Easter papers, but ran across this paper and really liked the pastels and flowers, so I went with it.   I still want to add some bling to the egg - perhaps Stickles, but due to the deadline, it will have to be post publishing.

Our theme this week at Bitten By the Bug2 is "Easter - Anything Goes".  You can use any combo of Easter related Cricut cuts to make a card, layout or project and link it to our blog.   HERE is the link.

My layout is 12x12.  I inked all pieces with a chocolate ink pad.  I used a glitter pen on the flower and title.  Ribbon trim at the bottom adds a little embellishment.   I used the following cartridges:

Rounded Square:  Office Help
Rabbit:  Celebrate with Flourish
Egg:  Easter Magic
Happy Easter Title:  Easter Magic
Lily:  50 States

Also linked to Hiding in My Craft Room - Link is # HIMCR344, TicTacToe  (Ribbon,Animal, Flower)
Also linked to the fantabulouscricut blog- #322 Easter

BBTB2: Cricut - Shamrocks for the Irish

It's all about Shamrocks this week at Bitten by the Bug2.  So, Show me your Shamrocks - on a card, a layout, or altered art project.  Then link it up to our challenge HERE.  Thank you Susan at Busy With the Cricky for hosting our big St. Patrick's Day related challenge.

I am Irish, so a little bit of me is in my grandkids.  When I saw this saying on Pinterest, I knew I had to use it on one the portraits of my littlest grandson.  He just looks so Irish with that newspaper boy hat.

I've left room for journaling on the round scalloped circle.  It's simple this week, I wanted the picture to be the focus. You may be able to see some inking and Stickles to add dimension.

Circle:  free shapes
Shamrocks in circle:  Celebrate with Flourish
Shamrocks banners:  Holidays Throughout the Year Iron-on
Title:  Art Nouveau (kind of looks Gaelic to me)
Scalloped Circle:  The First Few Years

BBTB2: Cricut - Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving

There are some days when I get depressed and I want more. More time, more money, more things, more cars, etc.  Then I reflect and realize that I am truly blessed with all I do have - Love, family, a nice house, a newer car, and money in my bank account.  There are many people who don't know where their next meal is coming from, or where they are going to sleep tonight.  I quickly get those thoughts out of my mind and thank God and my family for all the good things that I do have.  At Thanksgiving, we are reminded of things we are thankful for and we also give thanks, say thanks more often, and reflect upon the year.

I would like to share a card I made for our Bitten By the Bug2 challenge this week, which is to use the words Thanks or Thankful on a card or a project using my Cricut.   I used the Celebrate With Flourish, Autumn Celebrations, and Lovely Floral for this very bright card.  Won't you join the other designers, including our hostess, Susan from Busy with the Cricky,  and link up your "Thank/Thankful" card on the BBTB2 blog this week.  Happy Thanksgiving.  Enjoy, Maureen

Here are a few other cards I made for fall/Thanksgiving.  Some use ATC cards and pieces from pocket letters  I received in swaps.  ATCs are for sharing - I don't put them in a book and never look at them again.

Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving Time

I could have made a nice card this week with my cuts, but in a moment of creativeness, I thought to decorate my outdoor pumpkin for Thanksgiving.   Using the Cricut Celebrate with Flourish, Autumn Celebrations, and the Lovely Floral cartridges, this project came together pretty easily.  Of course I like to add ink and Stickles on almost anything. The Love, Family, and Friends are cut outs from patterned paper. I pop dotted all the cuts so that in total it is about 1" off the page.  It is displayed on my out door entry table.  I hope you enjoy my project and my blog entries.

First - I was chosen as the weekly Guest Designer at My Sheri Crafts.  Yahoo, I am thrilled.  The theme is "#146 - It's Turkey Time" - Add a Turkey to your card/project (11/8/14 - 11/21/14).  I love all the fall colors and just came back from a trip to the east coast to see the fall foliage.  In the mountains there were trees full of color as far as I could see. There is always great participation in Sheri's challenges, so come and join.  Gobble, Gobble!

Second - Caroline from http://cardcreationsbycaroline.blogspot.com/ is our BBTB2 hostess this week (starting 11/10/14), and she wants us to use a Cricut pumpkin in our projects.   Join us at BBTB2 to link up your pumpkin card, layout, or project!  Happy Fall!

Also linked to the challenge at Cut it Uo Challenge blog.   http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com

Also linked to the Stuck On You Sketches blog where the theme is fall colors.

Christmas Figurines Layout

Our challenge today at BBTB2 is to showcase one of our hobbies.   I have lots of hobbies, one of them is collecting Lefton and other brands of Christmas figurines.  It started out with collecting angels, and then I added in cute little girls, and Santas, and choir boys, ==== well, you get the picture.  I also collect lady heads (bottom left pic), and put my Christmas ones on display.   This is just some of my collection, I probably have about double what is shown in the top picture, but because I have a 2 yr old granddaughter around once in a while, I didn't want to risk an 'accident'.

I used several Cricut cartridges on this one.  The 'vintage' tag is from Forever Young, the bracket is from Home Accents, the "I Collect" is from Suburbia.  The ornament is from Christmas Cheer, the word Christmas and Figurines, as well as the journaling tag are from Artbooking.  The poinsettias are from Celebrate with Flourish.

Come on over to visit our talented BBTB2 designers and see how they presented their hobbies.

Valentines Spool Swap

OK I GIVE UP - IT'S GOING IN SIDEWAYS

Had this one all ready to go for 2 weeks waiting for the challenges for Valentines Day projects.

I have tried 10 times to get this picture to post the right direction, I give up.   This was a spool swap that I did on the Cricut message board.  I used 3 spools.   Yes those are cupcake liners, also used lace, paper, and a heart on a stick from the $1 store.  The Cricut cut is Celebrate with Flourish.  Added lots of bling in the way of stickles, roses, stick pin, and ribbon/rickrack.  I really like how it turned out.

Linking this up to http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.com/   for a Love is in the Air challenge.

Linking this up to http://exploringcricut.blogspot.com/  for a Be My Valentine challenge.