PINKALICIOUS!

Reagan's Girl Scout troop had a Pinkalicious party to celebrate all things pink just like in the great books by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann.  What is more pinkalicious than teaching the girls how to decorate up some cake pops!  I made a strawberry cake with strawberry frosting mixed in for the cake balls and then had a whole slew of pink toppings for the girls to add after they finished dipping them.  It took awhile, but each girl got to fix up 2 pops and they all had a fun time!
I also made up little cupcakes and labels using my Cricut machine so the girls could decorate them and label their pops so we would know who's was who's.

I will post pictures once I get them from one of the other moms that had a camera...ours was still out of commission since I dropped and broke it at Funday :(  Thankfully Best Buy came to the rescue with our extended warranty and we got it back shortly after!

The rest of the layout

Here is the other 2 page layout I did to complete Kathleen's baby shower.  I was again inspired by an old layout sketch from the Nuts About Sketches blog.

I wanted to match the paper from the shower cake pops layout and since I don't work with this green color very much, I decided to use up some of my button stash.  The embellishments I used were all buttons and I did the lettering using my Storybook Cricut Cartridge.

Past TEC banner

Last year I used my Cricut with one of my newest font cartridges (Hannah Montana) to make a banner for Mid America TEC.  I am so happy with the way it turned out and I can't wait to make some more.  I have plans to make 2 more that are very similar to this one and hopefully once I get them made I can add them to the site too!

2 Challenges in one Layout

I finally took some time to do some crafting!!! I was inspired by the Nuts About Sketches Week 182 Challenge and the Cooking with Cricut Challenge # 55 (bears, cakes and cupcakes).  I found the perfect occasion to combine the sketch with the cupcakes and bear theme.  I used the Animal Kingdom, Sweet Treats and Accent Essentials cartridges to make the cuts for this layout.  I used the spread of cake pops I made for my sister's baby shower.  So happy with how it turned out and so glad to have scrapped after all this time!

Soup to Share

Reagan made these jars of soup to share and I fixed them up with labels from my Strech your imagination cartridge.  The fall theme one we gave to her teacher and the winter one went in a gift basket for her school last fall.

Old homemade gift projects

This is a simple compostition notebook that I gave a facelift to before gifting it to my bff for Christmas.  I was inspired by Joy over at Joyslife.com to make this simple journal.

I created an 8x8 baby's first year memory book as a gift to a 3rd time mommy.  I didn't want to just get something ordinary or something they might already have so I decided a ready made - just add 4x6 pictures - would be the easiest gift to give.  I like the layouts so  much I took note of the fonts and sizes I used so I can replicate the book in the future if I need/want to.  It is was done gener nuetral since they didn't know the sex of the baby.

Some old cards

These 2 cards are some of the first projects I did for challenge blogs.
This was my first ever challenge submission it was for a MAG challenge where you can only use images from one page of a certain cricut cartridge.

This card was made for a Cooking with Cricut challenge.  It required the use of a snowman image from and cricut cartridge.  I decided to make a costumed snowman using both of my Paper Dolls cartridges.  It is just too cute (in my opinion!).

Some old layouts

Here are few layouts I have done in the past that were submitted to challenge blogs!

This right-hand side of the layout was submitted for the Nuts About Sketches design team call.

This layout was created for the Cricut Cardz 3 flowers challenge that required the use of flowers (and what goes better with flowers than butterflies?)  It is one of my favorites and I can't wait to get the pictures added from our 2010 family vacation and butterfly festival event.

 

This layout is designed from Nuts About Sketches #145 - I love the high number of pictures included in the sketch...it let me put all my great giraffe shots on one two-page spread.

This layout was a scraplift of a Papercraft Star DT member...it was a Nuts About Sketches project, I think it worked well for our Air Show pictures from the Zoo.