Sweet as Honey Baby Layout

This week's theme challenge at BBTB2 is a 'baby project or layout'.  One of my favorite subjects!!!  When my granddaughter was barely a week old, she wore this adorable yellow striped dress and shorts set.  I thought she looked like a cute little bee, so that is how I had to scrap these pictures.   There is room on the bottom for journaling (which I am so bad about doing).  I got two bees in a swap on the Cricut message board a few years ago, so this came together very easily.  "Sweet as Honey" is from Don Juan,  the bee on the bottom left I made from Art Nouveau, and the top left bee is from Walk in My Garden.  The border of bees was from my stash.  Here's the link to the BBTB2 blog, take a peek at the incredible projects this week.

Get Well Cards

This week at BBTB2, Emily is hosting and she has selected a Get Well Card as our challenge.   I usually don't make get well cards, but I occasionally need one, so thought I would make several.  I made them with different overlays from the Artbooking cartridge.  The 'Perk Me Up?" message is something I came up with myself when going though the cartridge books to come up with an idea.  I'm sure it's been used before, but I thought I was being pretty clever.  The percolator and the "Perk Me Up" is from Suburbia, and the "Need a Little" is from CCR basics.  For the text bubble, I took a LOL in a bubble from the Artbooking cartridge and edited it in CCR.

Which of the 4 versions is your favorite?   I like the red backgrounds the best.  Now head on over to the BBTB2 blog to see what the team has in store for you this week.

Happy Birthday - 30 years old

Our challenge from design team member Caroline over at BBTB2 this week is to create a Birthday Card with a number on it.   I choose to create a CHEERS card with the number 30 - a special birthday for a close relative.  I emphasized the cosmopolitan drink in an extra large size to play up the occasion.  

Only 2 Cricut cartridges were used for this card - Suburbia for the lady and the word Cheers, along with Nifty Fifties for the martini/cosmopolitan cut.   These are two of my favorite cartridges, I love the vintage look.

Come join us this week and submit a Cricut card with a number on it.

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.

Snow Friends Gift Tag

I made a bunch of these cute snowmen to use for gifttags.   Of course the pink version is for the girls, and a blue version will be for boys.   This snow-girl is made with the Snow Friends cartridge.   Go on over to BBTB2 to see the other gift tags made by the creative team.    Merry Christmas to all, now let's go have a snowball fight!!

BBTB2 - Christmas Tag You're It

This week's challenge at BBTB2 is a Christmas tag - our hostess is calling this "Tag You're It".

I made this using the Cricut Artiste cartridge, cutting the ornament at 5", using white cardstock as the base and gold glitter paper for the detail.  The poinsetta was cut at 4 different sizes, creased and layered to give it a 3D effect.  Gold gemstones were added in the middle.  The name tag was also cut from Artiste, and the white name is cut using Don Juan, that cut can be done at 1/2" very easily, so I use it a lot.  The beads and ribbon were from my stash, I know I wanted to add a spring or a bow at the top, and this just jumped out at me.

Hop on over to to see all the Christmas tags the team has created.   TAG - YOU ARE IT!

Ready for Winter - Snow Layout

This week's challenge at Bitten by the Bug is Winter.  It doesn't snow in my area of Northern California, but lately it's sure cold enough that we feel like we live in the Sierras.  Here is a layout I did of a few of the portraits I had purchased of my granddaughter all dressed up for Winter.  Head on over to BBTB2 to see what else our great designers have to share this week.

The word "SNOW" was done with Speaking of Winter cartridge and the cute little penguin is from the Christmas Cheer Cricut Cartridge.   Stay warm everyone!

Christmas Mini Album for a Swap

Here are pictures of the mini album I made for my partner Carolyn.  This swap was a mini- album swap on the Cricut Message Board.  We could make any mini album we liked.  I used the Artbooking cartridge for a lot of the cuts and the pages themselves.  

Carolyn made me an album and I will post those pictures soon.

Cricut MB Christmas Cookie Recipe Swap - Yummy

Isn't this red and green elf just a cutie?   He's been inked and Stickled and just ready to start some Christmas baking.    This is one of 20 that I made for a recipe swap on the Cricut MB.  I've had to wait several weeks to post this one because they hadn't been mailed back yet.  It's always a surprise until we open our package from the hostess.  There were a lot of pieces to the 20 elves, it took an entire evening to put them together.   I used the Christmas Solutions cartridge for the elf (yes he is so small on the display card I couldn't really make him out) and CCR for the title (using the reverse image and welding in a box over the text).  These are 6x6 inches, making the design a little challenging.  Let's get baking!!

BBTB2 Turkey Challenge - Grateful Plaque

The theme at BBTB2 this week is "TURKEY".  This is a simple plaque using adhesive vinyl.   It will look nice against my mantel with all the fall foliage.  I used the Thanksgiving and Artbooking cartridges.   The swirl is brown and the 'grateful' is black, but they both look black.  If I had additional colors of vinyl, I would add green or yellow too.  However, I'm on the road, and didn't bring my entire stash.  Thanks for viewing.