Batman Layout

I have another layout to share this morning.  It's the last of the ones you'll see with this comic paper background, but I do have at least one more comic style layout to complete.

For this layout I used cuts from both Treasure Box Designs and the Cricut Batman cartridge.  I almost forgot I had the Batman cartridge and didn't remember until after I had put together the TBD cut.  But that's okay because it all worked out and the layout came together nicely.

The picture is another from our travel to Universal Studios last May.  I think I'm close to having all of those pics scrapped and then I can move on to the ones I have from Disney.

In the meantime, I'm entering this layout in the scrapbook page challenge that's going on over at Hiding in My Craft Room.  The challenge ends tomorrow so you still have a little time to play along too.

Batman Teen Birthday

Our challenge for this week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a birthday card for a teenager.  Talk about the perfect time to own Forever Young, Rock Princess or Dude!  But I have none of them and I didn't really want to do the whole "rocks" thing so I wasn't really sure just what I was going to do.......until yesterday morning.

I was looking at my cartridges and kept thinking what are my kids into (all but two are teenagers - one just turned 20 this year and the other will be 13 in a couple months).  Then it hit me, Batman!  Teenage boys still read the comics and watch the movies - even my husband still gets into some of that stuff so why not?

Plus this was the perfect opportunity to use some of those comic strip papers I found on clearance at Michael's for .14 cents not to mention using the cartridge for the first time.  And thus my card was born.  I will say that for smaller cuts this cartridge did much better than the Cars or Tinkerbell ones did.  The only cuts I had issues with were the eyes and teeth but even then they cut perfect - they just didn't seem to fit right so I painted in those parts. 

And now it's your turn to play along with us.  Just click on the link above for more information and to post a link to your teenage birthday card.