Kalib

This is a page I did of my nephew Kalib. I used Street Sign Cricut cartridge for his name, and the striped circles were punched with my CM Circle Maker. The 3 layered circle on the ribbon was cut with the CM Cutting System Circle Makers, as the sizes of those were slightly larger than my shape maker punch could do. I still need to do my journaling on this page, but I like the end result.

Giddy Up Cowgirl!

I saved this embossed leaf paper from K & Co. for YEARS waiting for just the right photo to use with it. I took a regular photo and used photoshop to give it that "aged" look. Also used fabric photo corners from Martha Stewart to keep with the vintage look of this page. The copper metal embellishment was another one of those items I've had forever, and it looks great here!

Sweet Baby

This is my niece at 6 months old. I love the jacket she is wearing, because I too like to wear my leopard print accessories. I used Ashlyn's Alphabet for her name, and the heart came from Plantin Schoolbook cartridge. This was a fun page for me to create. The scallop under the ribbon was Creative Memories Scallop Circle Maker.

Cute as Can Be

I was at a scrapbooking crop Friday night and all day Saturday. Wanted to share some of my completed pages. The one with this post is my niece Rylee. I had tried several times this day to capture a nice smile, only to get some form of goofy expression from her. This shot was taken after she had made some more silly faces and as she headed towards me and the camera she gave me this nice smile right at the very end of her approach towards me. I used the Storybook Cricut cartridge for the swirly shape behind the photo. The only other embellishment I did was stitch around the outer edge with white thread.

The Gypsy 24-hour Design Challenge Project by K Wiggins

The Gypsy 24-hour Design Challenge Project by K Wiggins

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Check out this awesome layout using the new Gypsy from Cricut and the Life's A Beach cartridge. What an inspiring and fun layout!! You can vote for her to win the challenge by clicking on the link above.

Strange Brew

These are two of my guy friends clowning around at a brewery tour. They both love being funny and they both love beer. I used the All Mixed Up Cricut cartridge for the title on this page. The patterned sheet came from a discontinued Creative Memories paper pack called Asian Miyabi...I liked the way it worked with the rest of the layout.

Thommes' 50th Anniversary

This was the photo taken for my great-grandparents 50th Anniversary. I am proud to say both sets of great-grandparents on my maternal side made this milestone celebration. It certainly doesn't seem to be the norm anymore, although there are rare occasions that it happens.

I used my Cricut for the lettering and stamped the word "celebrate". I really like the fancy metal embellishments in the corners. I saved these for a long time until I had that special photo that was just right to use them.

Shanty Town page

This is a layout I worked on over the weekend. I used the Cricut Printing Press cartridge for the title and other lettering. For this Jaycee project we camped out overnight in a mock shanty town to collect donations of food and clothing for the local area. We built our "headquarters" from wooden pallets that were lined with cardboard. This was done the weekend of Thanksgiving and it was actually pretty chilly out, despite the lack of snow...probably in the 30's.

Laff Olympics

This is a two-page spread I did for an event back in 2000. Teams did various relays and races. It was a cool September morning, but it was a fun time!

The title was made using Cricut's All Mixed Up cartridge

Weekend Accomplishments

Here are a few pages I finished over the weekend. This is another big book project I have started to highlight my 13+ years as a Jaycee. The organization has been a great influence in my life and I strongly encourage any men & women ages 18-40 to join their local chapter. If you don't have a chapter one can be started in your area with enough interest. The people in this organization are like my second family, and the skills I have learned have made me a better person.

For the first layout, "#1 Chapter, I used my Cricut and the Mini Monograms cartridge for the scalloped layers, Street Signs for #1 and the sub-title "in Minnesota", and I used Stone Script for the word "Chapter" and "2006".

The second layout used Going Places cartridge for the arrow and couple, and Alphalicious for the title. I like the way both of these turned out.

Family History Title Page

This is a title page I made for a family history book. I used my Cricut machine to cut the letters and tags. I used Opposites Attract cartridge for "Thommes" and "Family". I also used some satin ribbon and brads inbetween the two layers of paper. I think it turned out very pretty.

This is a project I wanted to start a long time ago but never got to until the middle of 2008. I still have some pages to do, but have a large chunk of it done now.

I hope to show you more of my family history pages in the future. Hope you enjoy looking at them!

Survivor Pages

These are my latest two scrapbook pages. They are from some friends "moving away" party, which was Survivor themed because or friend wants to be on the show some day. I used several Cricut cartridges to make the Survivor logo: Don Juan for the title and evergreen trees. Tags, Bags & Boxes for the brown oval, Street Sign for outwit, outplay outlast. Going Places for the campfire and Plantin Schoolbook for the grass. I cut the ovals with the Cutting System from Creative Memories. I really like the way the logo came out...I gave it a "winter" theme since the party was held in January in Minnesota...we even had a challenge outside that night...a little chilly! The campfire also was made with various sizes of "flames" from the Going Places cartridge.

Storing Cricut Cartridges

This is how I am storing my Cricut cartridges as of late. I have 15 cartridges, so by no means do I have them all (over 50 of them available). The frosted plastic boxes are old Storybox containers from Creative Memories that when purchased had a bunch of 4.5 x 6.5 color coordinated sheets in it for matting 4 x 6 photos. I can fit 7 cartridges in each Storybox. The black box is also CM and no longer available. I stack up the overlays to one side, and use the organizer from my last post as a reference to find the cartridge I want to use. This is working well for me, especially if I want to bring them with to a crop. I still have plenty of room to add more cartridges if I remove the cords. I have one of my Storyboxes full of my tool kit supplies at the moment.

I am keeping my boxes and the booklets, but I don't refer to the booklets very often, but they are there if I need them. I know there is more than one option for storing these, but I like to be compact and light.

Portable Cricut Reference Book

This is an idea I put together to have a quick reference of all the Cricut cartridges I have. It is small enough to keep in your purse when you are shopping for new carts and also to carry with to crops if you don't want to have a large binder to haul around or the storage boxes with booklets in them.

I bought an inexpensive 4x6 photo album at Walmart for $1.00 (you know, the cheap ones we never know what to do with or might only be used for a quick grandma's brag book). I photo copied 4 x 6 size samples of my carts to slip inside the pages. I also included a complete list of all the carts made by PC and highlighted the ones I own and also marked the ones I still want to buy.