Cricut cutouts for my Grandnephew's 5th Birthday.

I spent the month of Sept. glued to my cricut.  For this project I used the Carousel and Create a Critter cartridges.

PART 1:  The invitation which was posted on

my niece's facebook events page.

Part 2:  The animals and Tents for decorations:

Part 3 Words and Lettering for the signs:

I went through over 100 sheets of cardstock both 12 x12 and 8 x 11 1/2, 4 bottles of glue, 1 bottle of red and one bottle of white glitter, some feathers, glitter glue, sharpies for highlights, and acrylics for the elephants toes, Ranger spray distress stains for the cotton candy and 6 cotton balls to make the cotton candy.

Was a lot of work and a lot of fun,  I can't wait to see pictures of how this all came together.  My Niece and family live in Calif. and I live in Florida.

Happy Accident

This journal page started out to be my contribution to the ColourArte texture challenge the journal was one of my smaller ones so I set it aside after adding gesso, stamps using archival ink and H20 Fern and sky Blue.  I picked it back up finished the one flower I had started to paint with spiced pumpkin silks (one whole petal) I added some titanium white to some spiced pumpkin to add some highlights and and acrylic yellow for the center.  I added some texture and some more stamps using archival ink.  I dried all that and let it sit.  Then I used several spray mists and misted a bit of  water to make it run.  What I hadn't counted on is the base and the stamps on top of the base to basically slide off the page.  This is what I ended up with.

This is where I decided I needed a bigger page.

First I added texture paste.

I added more stamps.  Then the sprays.

I used flowers I had and some silk flowers from stems from the craft store that were ment for flower arrangements, lace I had, glitter, gem and beads from Michaels.  I finished with Teal zircon and black ice silks splatters from colour arte.

Up, Up and Away

I did the background months ago, and like a few others didn't know which way to go ..... I had been playing with one of those sponge daubers and made a bunch of circles in archival black ink, then I  used the leftover peachy color from another project (around the circles, thats where it stopped.

This is my finished page.

Yesterday, it hit me!  This is how I finished it!.   I went over the page with clear gesso, then painted the circles making them balloons.  

Products I used:  Background color I have NO clue,
Balloons:  Colour Arte Silks  Fern                    Emperor's Gold
                                                Moonbeams       Sky Blue
                                                Fuzzy Peach       Snapdragon
                                                Wisteria              Spiced Pumpkin
                                                 Sea Spray           Jasmine
                                       Primary Elements        Daffodil
I used the hand of one of the Dylusions "Flossie" Stencils and the strings was from a ball of 3 ply twine which I separated,  cut into various length and glued on.
                                               

Spring is Busting out all Over!I

This piece was after attending one of Terri Sproul's on line live classes and of course I can't find the video that inspired this background.

I did this background and had NO clue where it was going.  I would pick up the Journal and look at it, lay it down and a few days later I'd pick it up again.  Was probably a month maybe even two when I finally finished the page.

Me and My Shadow

This is one of my early Journal pages.  I discovered Ranger Inks.  Including Dyan Reaveley's stencils, stamps and Ink sprays.  I found many of her early items on clearance at Jo-Anns' some I got for a dollar and other for 2 - 3 dollars, I was excited about all my new treasures and came home and started playing.

I got to here and didn't know which way to go.  So this has set for months. 

I had a brainstorm after looking at so many other talented peoples work, this is the products I used.
Dylusions:  Squeezed Orange Ink spray,  Stencils: Flossie 9x12, Bubbles (small), and Chequered Dots (small)
Craftsman Mint green acrylic paint
Daler Rowney simply acrylic Lemon Yellow, and watercolor White
Stamps: Inkadinkado - Meadow and
Studio G  set
Pigma Micron black pens
White Gelly Roll pen
Sharpie Opaque paint Marker
and Inkadinkado Black ink pad

This is the final product without the family stamps.

Time

This journal page was inspired by Tim Holtz, he's a steampunk/grunge kinda guy.

This is the finished page, It was a fun page to do.

This is how it started, I used a stencil for the gears and various stamps in the background.

I added cut out gears from a die I had then added more gears from Mod podge mold "gears", and the border on the bottom is from sizzix.

Magic

I'm posting the finished page first then adding the pages as it progressed (when I remembered to talk pictures)

My very first journal pages

Scrapbook pages from my Aunt's 80th Birthday

I made these scrapbook pages for  my aunt, who  didn't want any of her pictures posted so some I turned over after I gave it some thought and others I had already completed so I had I had to get creative to cover them up when I took pictures.

This is page one, I took the idea from a Tim Holtz page called "love burlap"  and I altered it some to make it my own.

Page 2,  the background is all freehand, you can't tell I'm a butterfly person can you!

This picture is actually sideways but its the background for page 2.

Page 3, the background started with a tree stencil but I added to it to finish the look.

I love this page. The page is a mix of scrapbook paper,  cricut cartridges for the birds and one of the cages, the feathers are wooden stamps and the tree branch is a mod podge mold with glue sticks.

The top picture is of my Great grandparents and the bottom is of my grandparents the paternal side.  This scrapbook paper is the sister to the one above.  Again I made the cages, branches and birds.

This page is from my stash of scrapbook paper the pages were so special I had to find just the right time to use them.

My Aunt was in the Air Force in the 50's she refuses to give details except to say she was a dental tech.  I found a couple of pictures of her and her siblings those went on the stars.  I hand stitched the stars with red white and blue ribbons.