Thinking of You Mom

With Mother's Day closing in, I used one of the NSD challenges to come up with an idea for a card.  This meets the requirements of the Cricut Circle Something Old/Something New challenge.

The challenge required using a newer cart and an older cart, as well as two Cricut cuts.  The newer cart I used was Kate's ABCs for the hat at 2.5".  The older cart was Walk in my Garden, which I used to replace the original flower on the cart with something a little more spikey.  That flower was cut at 1.25".

I placed the original flower from the hat on the inside.  The sentiment is from Pink By Design.

Pool Fun

Here is the second 12x12 2-page layout I completed at the Saturday crop I went to!  This one features my girls and I at a summer college graduation party.  While the layout doesn't say much about the graduation, the family had their pool open and it was a gorgeous summer day!  We had a fabulous time!

The full layout:

 The darker blue strip at the bottom is sparkly and really pulls out the darker blues in the pictures.  It looks great in person!

Here is the left side.  The lettering was done with Cuttin' Up and the shadow behind.

Detail of one of the flowers.  This was done with Walk in My Garden.  The two yellow things that come out of the words at the top are left over leaves from when I cut out the yellow center of my flower.  That worked out great!

Right side:

As always, thanks for visiting me and I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Children's Garden Layout 2

I finished the next pages for my daughter's summer garden program from last year.  I am very excited about this and my daughter is too!  She loves to see what mom does with her pictures.  Tonight she was sitting on the opposite side of the scrapping table from me, doing her own layout about her family.  It was nice to work alongside her and for being 7, her layouts can be pretty good! 

This layout looks very similar to the previous one (see the post below) because I decided that was what I wanted.  Plus, I'm not a gardener myself so there's not much chance of me using this paper for anything else!  :)

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A closer view of each side... 

And the wheelbarrow detail.  The blue thing sticking out is a kneeling pad.  My daughter faithfully takes hers every week so she doesn't hurt her knees (<- that's what she says!) 

Recipe: 

Papers are from DCSW Flower Shower stack

Font and matte papers are from DCSW Brights stack

Shape cuts are from Walk in my Garden

Font cuts are Cuttin' Up welded on my Gypsy

Children's Garden Layout

This layout has been sitting on my scrapping table for two weeks, half finished.  Between kids, activities, and the holiday weekend, there just wasn't time! I finally got to it though and am hoping to get the next pages done tomorrow night. 

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Last summer my daughter participated in a gardening program that was put on by our Master Gardeners.  She really enjoyed it and loved taking a picture each week to see the growth from the previous week.  She definitely must have gotten the gardening gene from my mom because it didn't come from me!!  :)  They do say things skip a generation... 

There were quite a few new things in this layout for me that I don't typically do.  I have never used flowers before and I rarely use brads so those are both things I am glad made it in this layout.  It was definitely too plain otherwise.  That cute little orange sign came from the dollar spot at Target.  There were 6 in a package - perfect for this memory!

Cricut carts used: 

-Walk in my Garden - signs labeling the weeks

-Cuttin' Up - font

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