Music Fest Layout

My son and his girlfriend recently went to a music festival and wanted to scrapbook some of the photos that were taken at the event.  Perfect idea and timing as I have two challenges for National Scrapbooking Day that I can enter this layout in. 

To create this layout I used paper from the DCWV matstack The Rockstar.  

The diecuts are from the Cricut cartridge Rock Princess.  (Talk about perfect combinations)

The font is not from a cartridge but is the true type font Showcard Gothic.

As for those challenges that I'm entering this layout in - one is in the National Scrapbooking Day Facebook group.  The challenge there was to create a project for a party or an event.  The other challenge is to create a layout and that challenge is taking place over at Hiding in My Craft Room

Happy Birthday to You!

 

I was late getting my entry in for the Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #10 Happy _________.  But I'm not too late getting it in to play along and share with all of you. 

 

That's right the current challenge is to make a card, layout or project using Happy __________ as your theme.  It couldn't get any easier. 

 

For my card I used Rock Princess for both of my cupcakes.  To get a textured and shimmery frosting I applied some Tulip brand dimensional glitter paint and then gently heat embossed until it puffed and laid back down.  I then allowed the pieces to air dry.

 

My larger cupcake is also on an action wobble to add in just a tad bit more fun.  And that stamped sentiment you see, that's from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled Good Times.

 

 

 

And now that you've seen my card be sure to pop in over at Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges and check out the awesome designs the team created this week.  Then create your own, link up and play along like me.

As Soon As I Saw You....

....I knew an adventure was going to happen.  Winnie the Pooh couldn't have said it any better.  And thus begins my week of creating cards around a quote instead of the other way around.  Funny thing is I have found that starting with the quote can tend to make creating the card simpler.

For example, you could do quite a few things with this quote, but I chose to go with a single die cut found on the Rock Princess cartridge.  I wanted to shine it up a bit so I cut the bike out of a red metallic paper and the chrome pieces were cut from a gray metallic paper. My background paper is from the mat stack Rock on Love by Prima Marketing.

This little princess has herself all decked out and raring to go and thus I thought it was the perfect cut for an adventure.  Just to show you how perfect it is I'm going to borrow another "adventure" quote, this time by George Thorogood.....

Get your motor running

Head out on the highway

Looking for adventure

And whatever comes our way

 

Teen Rocker Valentine

This is the week of trying to get valentine's made for my daughters and co-workers and today I want to share with you the card I've put together for my youngest (19 yr old) daughter.  As she was growing up we always called her our biker babe but now she's a little more subdued and is more like my musical, hippie chick babe.  So I decided to go with the Rock Princess as the theme for her card.

I used Rock Princess for the cut but didn't want the "makeup" and stockings as those are things that my daughter  doesn't wear and I was trying to to make this cut look kinda like her.  ::wink, wink::  I cut the girl out at 5 1/2" then used the Sweethearts cartridge for my hears which were cut at about 3/4".

This was a very easy card to put together but I think that my daughter will really like it.

Purse Album

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Today I want to share a new album with you that I made using the booklet purse and pages die from Sizzix along with a couple of Cricut cartridges - Girl's Makeup Party, Graphically Speaking, Indie Art, Rock Princess and Accent Essentials.

This is a smaller album with the pages measuring only 2 x 3 inches at their largest so my cuts were small but they all cut rather well.

Starting with Rock Princess I cut the word 'diva' for the purse cover.

The shoes and word attitude were cut from Graphically Speaking.

The blow dryer, compact, lip gloss, and sleeping mask were cut from Girl's Makeup Party.

The lips - coated with a pink glitter - are from Indie Art.

Finally all of the mats are from Accent Essentials.

Espresso Yourself

Happy Thursday everyone!  Today I want to share a card with you that I made using the new Cricut Lite cartridge Love You a Latte and Rock Princess. 

I was going through some of my old Paper Crafts magazines looking at the quotes/sentiments they have in the back pages.  In so doing, I came across a couple of great quotes that are just perfect for this cartridge and today's card showcases one of those quotes.  Even the font I used is perfect for this theme as it's called Catharsis Espresso.

It looks like this new cartridge has some great cuts and I can't wait to have an opportunity to sit down and play with it some more.

My Favorite Things

After a little bit of an inspirational slump this card popped into my head so I had to hurry up and commit it to Design Studio before I left for work.  And then when I got home I went straight to work before cooking dinner or anything.  Isn't that just horrible?  Thank goodness the kids are out and my husband wanted to chill in front of his computer for a while too.

For this card I used:

Rock Princess for my girl
Mickey Font for the numbers
Mickey and Friends for the diamond ring and shopping bags
Happily Ever After for the shoes

The inside sentiment says "but you are my most favorite"

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

I was at Michael's this weekend and my mom was picking up some of these charger plates to paint on and I got to thinking I could do something with that myself.  Then today my Rock Princess cartridge arrived in the mail and I knew exactly what to do.

The circle background is cut from George at 8".

The Christmas tree is from Christmas Cheer and I stretched it so that it was taller but skinnier at 6 1/2".  The star is from PPDU.  I embossed the tree using one of my Christmas Sizzix plates and then 'painted' the embossed garland using Smooch in Christmas metallics.

The rocker girls were all cut at 4".

The verbiage is from Mickey font cut in vinyl at .85"

And there you have it.....an easy Home Decor project perfect for display or giving as a gift this holiday season.  Now I'm going to have to go back and get some more of those charger plates before they're all gone.