Cricut project-weekly challenge

I was looking around on the Cricut Circle blog and decided to do the weekly challenge. The weekly challenge was to create something with a word and replace a letter with a shape. I had an empty giant cheese ball container I saved to use as cat food storage. We have two cats and buy the really big bags of food but I hate trying to scoop cat food from the bag. So I always put it into ice-cream pails...it usually take 5 pails to store all the food. Well when my DS and I decided to have a junk food-movie night I saw the container and knew it had kitty food written all over it. (and eating the cheese balls wasn't too hard either!) And now it literally says Jack food and Willow food! Jack and Willow are the names of our 2 cats.

I replaced the 'a' in Jack with a cat from Meow cartridge and the 'oo' in food with fish from Paperdoll dress-up.

All the letters (both Jack's and Willow's) are from Mickey Font. To add color on the welded words (love my gypsy!) I first printed some rectangles of pattern - blue for Jack and pink for Willow on my imagine using the blossoms pattern cart, all on printable vinyl for easy adhesion to the plastic container.

For Willow's sign on the other side of the container, I used fish for the 'll' from Meow cartridge and in Food the 'oo' is a cut from Pumpkin Carvings.
I hope you feel moved to leave a comment and become a follower but neither is a requirement - I just like to hear from bloggy friends :) But I have to add that March is my birthday month and I kinda feel a give away coming on..plus, earlier this week I posted a give away - If you want a chance at winning your very own copy of My Memories Suite you need to leave a comment here.

Have a scrappy day!

Digital Scrapping with a give away!!

I have acquired the My Memories digital scrap-booking software and have delved into the unknown! At least for me it is unknown and quite a departure because of my love of paper. I have been wanting to give digital scrapping a try and finally took the leap. I did a bit of checking to decide what program would be best and discovered that My Memories suite is rated number 1 and it certainly looked like something I could play with and explore without getting too frustrated. I have been creating with it all weekend and so far I give it two thumbs up. Now if you are interested in the fun creative, easy to use software, just click Here to visit the website and take a look around. After you have taken a look-see, come back to my blog and post a comment sharing what your favorite feature of My Memories digital scrapbooking software is - is it the ability to edit embellishments one by one, or as a group; maybe you like the zoom-ability feature (I loved using that when adding photos!); spell-check built in the text feature(MY Fav!); or could it be you like the adjust colors on the items...take a look at My Memories and see all the great features! Now just for sharing your fav feature and the excitement about this software, I am going to randomly select a blogger commenter to win their very own copy of the My Memories software! Wahoo! Leave a comment with your fav. feature of the software by March 31 to be eligible to win.
Now if you are totally in love with the software and just have to have it now (or you want it even if you don't win it!!) click on the blinky in my side bar - and use the coupon code: STMMMS23271 for $10 off. Well now, doesn't everyone feel like a winner when they can have the easiest to use My Memories scrapbooking software?!

And to show what fun I have been having - here is a layout from an album I plan to have printed this week! It was easy to insert the picture in the preplanned page and manipulate the photo right in the My Memories software.

a quick birthday gift

A wonderful friend had a birthday celebration today and I put together a little gift for her.
I found the gift bag with the "Make yourself at home..." sentiment a few months back and instantly thought of Marie so I was hoping for an opportunity to present her with a gift :) The invite for the b-day bash specified no gifts so of course I had to make her one! I used greenbean's crafterole idea of hand scrub and found another body scrub recipe (brown sugar scrub) and voila - two yummy spa treats for the birthday girl! I made the card using the Cricut Imagine and two carts - Letter Envy

for the monogram and inside bracket shape; and Audrey for the colors of the monogram layers and inside bracket-sentiment shape (I adhered it after snapping the photo). I ran the top layer of the card through the cuttlebug using the Moroccan Screen folder and then lightly inked the design with a studioG chalk ink pad and brayer. I used a happy birthday stamp and my Stampin Up chocolate chip ink pad for the sentiment and a brown sharpie to sign the card. I adhered the inside bracket piece with repositional adhesive so Marie can use the card as fancy stationary - kind of like two for the price of one!

fun give away on Royal Things blog

I just like the fun question/ fill in the blank request for a chance to win a MS cake cartridge. Visit Royal Things blog for the entry but peek around for some inspiration!

crafty resolutions

I made a lovely layout to hang in my craft room to remind myself of the goals and resolutions for the 2012 year. I know I will get side tracked many times but this will be a great reminder to get back on track!

The back cut lace and shape shadow is from Cindy Loo cart (cut at 10.5 inches) and the daisy flowers are from gypsy wanderings cut at 1.2. I printed the resolutions on my home printer and cut them apart using my trusty Fiskars trimmer. Each purple flower had a small dot of lilac pearl pen for the center.

a gift for Bobby

My oldest DS will be having surgery on Monday and he's not too happy about that. To cheer him up I made this little popcorn gift.

He loves popcorn with butter and salt and I thought he would enjoy some different popcorn treats. I utilized my new Imagine machine to make the project. The popcorn container is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge and filled the pattern from the Imagine more cart. The letter B, attached with a brad, was made using the Mickey font and Imagine More. The popcorn container cut-outs are from the Cricut Light Carousel cart and colors from the Imagine cart.

On the back of the popcorn container cut-outs I glued on print outs of names of pop corn recipes. I found lots of yummy recipes by doing a search on the internet but I only chose ones that I can make with the ingredients I have on hand. My plan is to give Bobby his gift the night before surgery so he has something positive to cheer him up.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I've been busy with work and crafting and sending cards to loved ones. But never too busy for a little black Friday shopping preparation. I discovered the Target ads and just have to laugh :) Here's a fav. Enjoy!