Wooooot Woooot, I'm getting an Expression 2 !

Yipppppe! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it. I entered all the contests. I entered My Pink Stamper's give away, I entered Cricut Everyday's giveaway, I also entered Creative Critter's giveaway. But no, I didn't win any of them.
I had a night of fun watching all the Ustreams. I watched Joy and Melanie on Cricut Everyday's Ustream and I watched Tammy's Ustream and loved her demo on the Cricut buttons. So cute and so BIG!


I also watched Robyn's Ustream from My Pink Stamper, loved her pj's. By this time I knew I hadn't won the E2 and if I was going to get it I had to buy it. I just couldn't do it. I wanted it and it looked so good on HSN but I hadn't really talked to hubby about it. I told him how great it was but we never talked about buying it.

So during the U Streams and HSN I kept myself busy with my original E and made some fun things and a mess while I was at it.


And then I went to bed a very sad girl. I knew by morning they would be gone. And they were. Hubby came home for lunch and I was watching HSN and we saw they had added 2000 more E2's! He asked if I had ordered mine yet and I said it was to expensive. He said I was worth it- he's such a good hubby. He told me to order it for Mother's Day because I had no other ideas of what I wanted. So it's ordered!!! It won't be here by Mother's Day like they said the first batch would. But it will be here May 16. It's worth the wait, I just wish I were a more patient person. Who else is getting an E2?

Cricut Everyday

Just in case you don't win the Cricut Expression 2 on My Pink Stamper you can go to Cricut Everyday and enter to win there. They have lots of ways to enter so you have more than one chance to win.
How many are staying up til 12:00 CST to see the launch? I'm staying up to watch it and see all the wonderful things it can do and mostly to see some of the wonderful projects made with this great machine.

Cricut Expression 2 Giveaway!

Robyn over at My Pink Stamper is giving away a Cricut Expression 2 machine! Provo Craft was generous and gave her 1 machine to giveaway. You can go to her blog at My Pink Stamper and enter to win this wonderful machine. You have until Monday night at 10:00 CST to enter. Check out her great projects while your there. Her videos are a great way to learn more about your Cricut too.

2 page layouts

I am VERY far behind in my kid's albums. My daughter is 26 and my son is 24 and I am a fairly slow scrapbooker. I don't like to reinvent the wheel everytime I sit down to scrap so I use the same papers and similar embellies for both of their pages. I use most of the same photo's but may change a few to ones that highlight them more.

Sorry for the very bad photos. It was gloomy the day I took these pictures and my camera has been giving me problems. I think it's time for a new one but I hate to spend the money.

The photos in this Easter layout are from 2006 and the paper's arent' my favorite but I'm trying to use up old papers and (gasp!) stickers. I wish I could say I used the Cricut somewhere on these pages but I didn't. I joined the Cricut Circle so I'm trying to pinch pennies in different areas and using some old supplies is one of them.


The top layout goes in my daughter's album. The top main photo is of all the granddaughters with Grandma. You'll also notice the bottom photo right photo on the first page shows my son and cousin in a nice photo.
Now look at the same photo on my son's layout. It shows him and his cousin goofing off and shows more of their relationship with each other. The top photo is of Grandma with all the grandsons.
The cardstock colors are basically the same but are in different places on each layout.
It's a small change but a few details makes each layout specific for them and I don't reinvent the wheel with each layout and I get a lot more photos in their albums and thats the goal.
Again, so sorry for the very bad photos.

Create A Critter Thank You

This is a very late Thank You to Tangee at Kricut Krazy. She had a wonderful give away of the Create A Critter cartridge. It was a cartridge I had been wanting for a long time but hadn't found at a store near me. So I was very excited when I won her giveaway. She was so kind in adding in a few extras too. She has wonderful inspiration to share on her blog and I enjoy her videos too. THANK YOU Tangee!

I cut the monkey on page 46 at 4". I did the 3 layers and used bazzill cardstock to add a bit of texture to the top layer. You can see it in the picture but it adds to the feel of the monkey. I also cut the vines at 4". The card base is kraft cardstock and measures 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. It was the perfect measurement for the envelope I had. All patterend paper is from the DCWV Citrus Stack. The edges were inked with Color Box Cat Eyes Rich Rustics ink. The buttons are from my stash and are tied with Waxy Flax from CTMH. I've never used waxy flax before but I love it. It's so easy to tie and it holds a knot wonderfully. I also popped my monkey up with popdots from Hobby Lobby.

I'm part of the Circle!!

I've never been so happy to see the FedEx guy! He brought my Cricut Circle box. They even decorated the box with fun Cricut Circle heads. It just makes you happy looking at it.


And of course it would have green crinkle paper inside. Do you see the exclusive cartridge peaking out?

The Circle bracelet is cute too.




And now for the whole reason I became a Circle member!!! The Everyday Cricut cartridge. It has soooo many wonderful images on it. LOVE IT!
I'm a happy camper and will be using the cartridge for lots of fun things. There are several phrases I want to cut with vinyl and put on my scraproom walls. I have a few cards in mind and I can use it on alot of layouts about my daughter and I scrapbooking. Don't think I'll use the Cricut glasses but you never know, I might get goofy one of these days.

2 page layout

This is a layout from several years ago on vacation. We love South Carolina and this beach is so quiet and relaxing. Our kids took friends with them so we added them in our family pictures. We always take a family picture on vacation and then we use that as our Christmas card.





It's hard to see with the tan background but the blue shell paper is backed with a tan cardstock. The swirls are white card stock cut from a Cricut cartridge. Sorry I don't remember which one. I added small rhinestones to the center of the swirls for a little bling. The "family" letters are an opaque white acrylic. The clear sentiment at the bottom of the second page is a very old clear sentiment sheet. I attached it with shell brads.
It's 50 degrees here today so looking at these pictures of the beach makes me want to go somewhere warm. Have a great weekend

Anniversary Card

I love the design of this card. It's not my design, I found it on Tracy's blog at Craft Junkie Too. She does a wonderful job and I appreciate the inspiration she shares. My card is very similar to hers. But I did change a few things.




I changed the patterned, added some bling and changed the year for the couple I'm sending it to. This is the card that I'll send to everyone with an anniversary this year so the year changes for each couple. I made this card last year, but it was much larger because it needed to hold a specific gift certificate. I had added ribbon to the top of the card that was from the couples wedding. This time I left the ribbon off the top of card because I need to send it thru the mail so it needs to be as flat as possible.

It's a regular A2 size card and the heart (pg. 35) was cut from the Sweethearts cartridge at 4". The heart is cut in a silver shimmer paper but it didn't photograph well.
The numbers were cut from Storybook at 2" and the letters were cut at 1". They don't have a shadow so I cut the same size in black and just slightly overlapped them so their was a shadow on one side.


The inside is a silver glimmer paper from Target. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the edge. The sentiment is from CTMH and the "Happy Anniversary" is a wood stamp. Not sure where it's from.
Thanks again to Tracy at Craft Junkie Too for the inspiration.

Blogger Award

One of my new followers gave me a wonderful blog award.The Versatile Blogger Award. How sweet is she! Please visit Maquel at PaperManiac. She has a wonderful blog also.



The Versatile Blogger Award requirements:
1. Thank the person who sent it to you
2. Tell 7 things about yourself
3. Send this to 15 bloggers

Seven things about me- I always hate this part. There's nothing to exciting here.
1. I have 2 adult children that are really just the neatest people that you would ever want to
spend time with.
2. My Dad's blind and I take care of him.
3. I use to sell scrapbook supplies and now I clean houses. Uggg
4. I'm a night owl and love to scrapbook late at night.
5. My scrap room is pink and black. LOVE IT!
6. I was never a big animal lover but now we have a black lab that is our biggest baby. She's
spoiled rotten and we love her!
7. My favorite spot in the whole world is a beach. We've been to many many beaches and still my
favorite beach is Litchfield beach in South Carolina.

And now I have to give this award to other bloggers.
1. Karlee Crafts
2. Pink Cricut
3. Made by Momo
4. Craft Junkie
5. Crafting Cricut Mom
6. Monique Griffith Design
7. Kricut Krazy

WINNER!

Thanks to everyone that visited my blog and left a comment and became a follower. I truly enjoyed reading all of your comments. I can't wait to have another give away. I already have the cartridge ready. Keep checking back and when followers have reached 100 I'll give away a Cindy Loo cartridge.
Now on to our winner. Congratulations to SherriB ! You are the winner of the Street Sign retired cartridge. I've sent you an email. Please respond to that email with your mailing address and I will get that out to you. I've been working on a few cards and very few layouts. Hope to post more this week. I also have several Thank You's I need to post on here for blog candy I have won. It's a sunny day here in Iowa so I need to get outside and take pictures of cards, layouts and blog candy. Hope you enjoy your day.
After I posted this I see that Random.org didn't post the winning number. SherriB is still the winner- her number just didn't show up below. I did use Random.org so it was a random winner. Guess I need to figure out how to post with the winning number. Sorry girls, I'm still learning.