Mani-Pedi Mini Album

     Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's Fun Friday! Yup today the Design Team was asked to use a Cricut Lite cart for their scrapbook LO and I used Slumber Party to make this cute album of 2 of my grand daughters having a spa day while on vacation. This post is picture heavy and loaded with details but I promise you are going to love it, lol!!!! So let's start with the cover:

     I started with a chipboard kit I got in the clearance bin @ Michael's for a buck! I love the colors brown and pink together so I started with some scraps of paper from K&Company: Best of Brenda Walton and covered front back and inside pages.The title Manicure and Pedicure was cut from the Slumber Party cart @ 4''. I used all the layers and just added some faux stitching around the edge. I also had some word beads that I added to the cover and, of course, some bling.

     I do like to mat my pics. I think it helps them pop!

     I cut all my dies for these girlie pages @ 2". Again I used some faux stitching to make my die cut stand out. I also decided to add a small flower to balance it off.

        This is my favorite LO. I used the make up brush and mirror dies for this page. The small heart on the mirror is from the heart opening on the brush. It makes it like a  vanity matched set. I decided that rather than make a journal tag I would just go for it and use a gel pen that Erica sent me. I love using it and find I use it a LOT!

     What is a Lay out without some embossing? I think it ties the two pages together quite nicely. I used the nail polish die for this page and added some blue stickles since the polish they chose was blue sparkles! I have been going through my stash of supplies and found this blue and pink border and thought it would finish these pages off.

     You guessed it, more doodling. This is Mia and her big cousin Alexis. They were so excited to have a spa day together!

     Check out the water Mia was soaking her feet in. They both use chocolate AND strawberry fizz balls. Oh BTW, this spa is Scoops and is @ the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, VA. It smelled so good in there. The only problem was that they had their spa day the first day we were there. It was not a good idea. Since there is a water park inside the Lodge, the chlorine destroyed all their polish the same day they had it done. Thankfully they went home with their own bottles of polish!

     That's it for my project for today. Before you go please check out Erica's moving sale at her store. Boy does she have some great prices. You can shop Here. Now it's time to see what the rest of the team has to share with you @My Cricut Craft Room. Have a wonderful week end as the summer begins to wind down and as always, I love to read your comments.

Welcome To Motherhood!

     Here is another wonderful image from Pixie Dust Studios. I am getting so much more comfortable with my Copic markers. I loved this image when I first saw it and thankfully I had an occasion to make a card.

     We have some wonderful friends whose daughter is pregnant with her first child and is due in a few weeks. She is just like one of my daughters so I had to make a really special card for her. She has blonde hair so this was fun to color.

     I used the following colors to do her hair:

Y00,Y11,Y21,Y23 and Y28 for shading. 

     When you do hair it is more like laying down colors rather than blending so you get individual strands of hair. I just kept feathering in colors until I got the right effect. Believe it or not the Y28 is a wonderful color color to use for blonde hair. It seems to make the other colors pop.

     I am still practicing on the facial tones but, for now, these are the colors I used:

E000,E00,E01 and R20 for blush

     Since Becca wants to be surprised, she and John have opted not to find out what they are having so I colored the clothing with a pink top and blue jeans.

Shirt: R81,R83, R85

Jeans: B91,B93,B95,B97

Shoes: E25,E27,E29

Heart: R22,R24,R27

     I added some liquid pearls to the bracelet. The background card is from a stack I have. I also added some  flowers I spritzed with Glimmer Mist and added leaves from a Martha Stewart punch.

     Once the image was colored, I hand cut around the edge and mounted on ovals I cut with Spellbinders. Easy peasy!!! I'll be back later with the same image as a brunette.   

     As always I would love to hear what you think. Hugs for now. 

Thinking Of You

     Hi you happy crafters you!!! Today Erica's Design Team was asked to create a Thinking Of You card. I had some stamped images I had done a while ago and hit a creative block. Nothing, no mojo at all. So when I signed up for this day at My Cricut Craft Room, I decided it was time to do something with this.
     I started with the "Snowy Park" stamp by Penny Black and used Tim Holtz distress markers to color the background. Before I stamped the image on watercolor paper, I spritzed it first with some water for a muted effect.

        It is hard to see in this photo but I used some flower soft at the bottom of the picture to add some texture. Now I wanted to add a frame, but how? Well it was time to use CDS.

     I found a card base with a rectangle aperture on Beyond Birthdays cartridge. You can find this on the card feature and it is the 1st button on the left.In order to fit my image, I sized it @ 7.798 x 5.37". This was a nice size card, however, I only needed the front part for the frame. So, I used the design Studio, flipped the design and then moved it off the mat for the part I did not need. This cut perfectly and was just the right size!

     I wanted to really bring out the wood features of the stamped image so I used the branches embossing folder for the Cuttlebug. I inked the folder with Frayed Burlap before I embossed the frame to get this really cool look. I also added a clear plastic so the picture would really look framed. The sentiment was a rub on and went so nicely with the overall look I was trying to achieve. It also was a great way to keep the flower soft intact.

     Speaking of Flower Soft, thanks to Erica for sending me some. You can buy the products I used here in Erica's Store.

     I used the My Favorite Things rub on to add the greeting on the inside.

     I hope you have enjoyed this project and hope you will head back over to My Cricut Craft Room and see what the rest of the Team has to show you.Your almost over Hump Day  (the week end starts in 2 more days, Whoot!!!).

  

Princess Pixie

     Good morning to you all! I hope you are enjoying the remainder of the summer. Boy has it been humid!!! Today I am going to share another Copic project with you. The adorable digi stamp was a freebie bee from Pixie Dust Studios and I finally got a chance to color her. I have also included all the markers I used to color her. Are you ready???? Here she is:

     Isn't she just the cutest little fairy with that pixie face? I started with the scraps of paper that were hanging around on my craft table and used my Copic chart to match my marker colors. Boy that really made the coloring go fast!!!

     This close up will give your a better idea. Here are the colors I used and the order in which I colored the image:

Face: E000,E00,E01,BV00, R20

Eyes: BG0000,BG02,BG05,BG07,W1,W3,W7

Hair: E25,E29,E31

Dress: YG17,YG21,YG25

Wings: V12,V15,V19,BV25

Mouth: R20,R22,R24

Mushroom-cap: E50,E53,E57

   -underneath and stem: E13,E15,E18

   -dots- YR01, YR02,YR07

Bird body: B21,B24,B26,Y15,Y17

Crown: Y00,Y04,Y06

     I used the image from the Storybook cartridge by Provo Craft for the shaped pieces in the background. This can be found on page 67 of the hand book. A little doodling around the edge, some sparkly ribbon and of course some bling on the crown and she is done. I haven't decided on a sentiment yet but had so much fun coloring her.

     I hope you enjoy my creation and have a wonderful day.

Batman Door Hanger

     Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room  aka: WYEGW. Members of the Design Team were asked to use a phrase for our challenge this week but the catch is we could not use a main image but had to use the feature keys. This is such a great way to really explore your carts. For my project I am using Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
     Since we no longer have any children at home (yup believe it or not all 5 are out on their own! Once they graduated college they flew the coop and all are married except for the youngest.) Anyways I digress. I do watch 3 of the grand children 2 days a week and the oldest being 8 years old needed a space of his own. He took over one of the bedrooms but needed a sign to let his young sisters know he needed quiet time. Therefore I decided to make a door hanger for him. Here we go with the details:

     The door hanger is on page 73 and I cut it @ 7". I cut 3 layers in order to make it stronger.The phrase is on the same page using the feature key Layers:outfit. I cut this @ 5.50" and the shadow in black. I am going to show you how I deal with gluing on the individual letters when they are not welded together.

     I weed out the card stock that I am not going to use then, before I remove them from the mat, I use transfer tape and burnish well to make sure the letters are intact. You don't have to worry about it ripping the card stock because it is not really that sticky just supportive enough so the letters don't move.

     This is before I weeded out the card stock.

It also helps to trim the extra card stock down to size making it easier to line up on the shadow piece for placement purposes.

     As you can see I am able to nicely see where to place this on the shadow piece. While I had it on the transfer tape I used my Zig pen to glue it up and then just positioned on the bottom layer.

     Here is where I got into trouble, lol!!! I thought I would use my Xyron double sided laminate to keep it clean. No problem just load it in and crank it through. Trouble is I didn't make sure the laminate was under the bar like it was suppose to be. Here is what I ended up with:

     Will you just look at those creases !@#$%. I was going to start over but thought there must be a way to salvage this. Erica to the rescue. She always sends us extra goodies in our orders and guess what? I found these cute arrow eyelets in my stash. Look how I used them:

     Not only did I find the perfect phrase for WYEGW but I found the perfect way to salvage a project. If I didn't show you my boo boo WYEG  that there was a major mistake hidden in the project, lol.

     You can find this cart as well as all the supplies I used in this door hanger over at Erica's Store. She always has the best prices. Now please stop back @ My Cricut Craft Room and see what my fellow team members have to inspire you.

     As always I love hearing your thoughts on my project so please feel free to leave a comment.