LOAD18 - Be Jealous

Ah! I have been terrible about uploading my pictures here to my blog. I've gotten into the habit of doing my layout as the last thing before bed so by the time I get to uploading my pictures to the challenge I am beyond ready for bed.  While I am still having fun, some nights I find that I feel like my inspiration and creativeness is running out. I also am missing a lot of sleep consistently and that's starting to not feel the greatest.  BUT here I am 18 days in and have completed a layout every single day!

I am going to go back and post layouts as if I were to post them on their original day so if you are interested, you can take a scroll backwards through my layouts :)

Today's prompt was about jealousy.  I really wasn't sure what to scrap here but then I rifled through my picture box and found these from when I won a Cricut Imagine at a Cricut Circle meet up.  It was when they were first launched and you couldn't even buy them yet. It was a very exciting day!

(I'm not in love with this layout but it is what it is and I'm leaving it for now.)

LOAD17 - Tiny Dancer

The 17th prompt was about the ballroom. I chose to scrap pictures of my daughter's first dance class.  All cuts are from Twinkle Toes Lite cart.

I even got out my sewing machine for this layout!  I love the sewing on the right, but wish I would not have gotten crooked on the left! :( Oh well, still cute.

Here's my little secret about this layout - I only had the one piece of solid pink and I wanted all of the pieces to match exactly so...

I cut them all out of the paper where it would be covered with the dark pink paper! Hee hee...

I used a Page Maps sketch to bring this one alive.

LOAD16 - Home Improvements

Day 16's prompt was the wrench.  Hmm... what to scrap about a wrench?  Well I went with the home improvement idea and created a page that will be for my husband remodeling our bathroom.  I sent the pictures to the printer and will insert them once I go pick them up.

The cuts here are from the Handy Man Lite cart.

LOAD8 - EAA

Ooh, today's prompt was a doozy - Colonel Mustard.  It took me quite awhile to get around to where I was going to go with that one.  I eventually thought of Colonel meaning military and one aspect of the military is it's planes.  Since I don't have anyone close to me in the service right now, I thought of the military planes that we saw at last year's EAA, which is an aviation convention. So I took the long way around but I arrived at scrapping pictures of us at EAA.

The paper is from the Travel set of AC Patterned Papers. The biplane is cut from Cricut's My World cart at 4".

LOAD7 - Why?

Today's LOAD513 prompt was "Why?" Just simply that. It made me think of two pictures I recently printed of my daughter's playing school together. It is really sweet to hear them play this but they play it in the middle of the hallway! I have no idea why but it seems to work for them even though it inconveniences the rest of us. Oh well... it's worth it. 

The journaling reads:

"You two like to play Miss Sunny School. I understand why you like to play - Sadie gets to be a teacher (complete with written out lesson plans sometimes), Ashlyn gets to try out going to school, and you can play it together peacefully. What I don't understand is WHY you have to play it in the hallway! Sometimes it seems as if you both empty your entire rooms into the hall! No one can pass through if class is in session. I love you girls but sometimes... :)"

The pictures are hard to see here on the computer but I know when my kids look at them, they will know exactly what they are. 

The papers here are from We R Memory Keepers, the Show & Tell Story Time line.  The font is Cricut's Pooh Font.  Why is 3.5" and Miss Sunny School is 0.5".  

One week in and I've managed a layout every day!  Phew! 

LOAD6 - Fishing

For LOAD513's sixth prompt of "red herring" I went with a fishing layout.  I have so many pictures of our family out on the boat. I always make sure to have the camera with because you never know when that giant fish might come along!

This printed paper is Gone Fishing Collection Caught B by Carolee's Creations.  It was originally a one piece 12x12 that looked like this:

I cut it and used a matching blue cardstock to expand it into enough for a two page layout. The mini title pieces are from the Fishing Adventure sheet in the same collection.

Today was also my day over at CricutFANatics so be sure to check out this baby card there!

LOAD5 - First Haircut

Today's LOAD5 prompt is "And then there were none".  This is an Agatha Christie mystery book.  I had a hard time with this prompt but ended up thinking of something that resulted in the removal of something.  I scrapped my daughter's first haircut, which would be the removal of hair.

The papers and puff stickers are from American Girl.