Here Comes Santa Claus! OH NO!

Okay I had to put away the earlier pictures and move on to some more recent things! I don't wanna forget a thing! This year Olivia was so much more excited about Christmas! We went to church the day that Santa came to visit.. Even though Santa was a very familiar person to Olivia (shhh it was Daddy) she wasn't so sure she wanted to visit with the big guy!

I love this title... It was cut from the "Christmas Noel" solutions cartridge.. I love the S and the C... the holly was cut from "Winter Woodland" and the snow flakes were punched with my Creative Memories snowflake punch.

The Santa, reindeer, and sleigh were also cut from the "Christmas Noel" cart. I cut it as a silhouette in black and I love the way it turned out. I saw this done by someone else somewhere but it wasn't a Cricut cut. I decided to switch it up and use Cricut and love the way it came out.

This paper stack is so beautiful! I bought it last year at Michael's. I think it is Basic Grey. I had split the stack with a friend so I didn't have the covers of the stack to tell you exactly. I love this Santa he is so handsome!

I  really enjoyed making this page. I think this is the first Christmas page I have completed in a long time. I know it's the first Christmas page I have made with Olivia.. I have got to get busy!!!

Again, I used my fabulous Gypsy to create the cuts. If you have any questions I still have it on my gypsy and can give you approximate sizes if you need them. 

Look Who's Having a Birthday! Olivia! That's WHOOOOOO

Working on Miss Olivia's first birthday.. I know it's only a year later! But I have been extremely motivated! I used an unlikely combination of carts with this one... I started out with Mini Monograms for the blue and green scallop pieces that I cut in half and used one half on each page. The strip across the top believe it or not came out of my scrap box. I was very impressed with myself for using my scraps :-)

The flowers were all cut from "Forever Young" I love this cart! The big daisy was cut and then layered with a pop dot between the layers to give it depth. The title was cut from "Hoot "N" Holler" One of the Cricut Lite cartridges from Wal-Mart. I love how it gives you all the different color layers without having to trim them out yourself, makes paper piecing a breeze!

I can't for the life of me remember what cartridge I cut the one from.... sorry! The title block is one from a My Mind's Eye collection I believe.

Doncha love this owl? I fell in love with her the instant I found her on my gypsy... she came from "Disney Princesses - Happily Ever After" I don't have the sizes on any of my cuts because I used my awesome GYPSY!!! Gotta tell you if you don't have one of these it MUST be your next purchase. You can actually size each item to fit your page without worrying about what "size" it is with the dials. Super dooper easy.

Believe it or not Olivia is going to be 2  years old in 16 days and I am still working away on her baby pictures and  her 1st birthday party is yet to be scrapped.... Nana has got to get the lead out!!

I hope you enjoy this layout. If you have any questions please be sure and leave a comment. I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Thanks for visiting!

Olivia - my Beautimus Tiny Dancer!!

After all the bad press with the "Shall We Dance" cartridge I thought maybe I would try a page with it.. I was surprised at how many things I could use on this layout from that cartridge. I do have the perfect picture for that cartridge though :-)

I use a lot of brands of rubber stamps but my favorite brand by far is TECHNIQUE TUESDAY. The background on the white strip was made with a group of their stamp sets that I pulled one from this set and one from that set. I have decided if I can't find the right background paper I can pull out my stamps and create it! I encourage you all to give it a try.

The dancers along the side of the layout are all from Shall We Dance.. I used glitter to dress up the tutu

This title came from "Once Upon a Princess" I dressed up the bows with my I-Rock which I have decided is a pretty good investment! The only problem I have is chasing the little blings down. If anyone has a great way to add them to a page I would LOVE to know what it is. The ballet slippers came from "Shall We Dance".

I just love these little dancers! I can't wait for Olivia to see them I think she will like them too!

Again I used my Technique Tuesday stamps to make a co-ordinating piece for the second page of my layout.

I think the papers are from K & Company... At least I know the floral piece is.

I hope you enjoy this layout, pink and brown is one of my favorite color combinations for little girls.

Halloween Pumpkins

Cut these images from vinyl for my bosses wife... We put them on her pumpkins today... I love them!

These spiders were sooo realistic that they gave me the willies pulling them off the vinyl! The vinyl was just movable enough to tell my eyes they were moving on their own! UGH!!

The spider and the small "corner " web are from October 31 and the rest of the cuts are from Pumpkin Carving... I cant wait to do my pumpkins!

Found a Peanut Found a Peanut Found a Peanut Just Now

Do you remember that song as a kid? It conjoured up all these pictures of some poor soul finding a peanut eating and then getting sick! Poor fellow!. Not this peanut he is the cutest ever. Thanks goes to Pat P for showing me how to use the cuttlebug and the mesh folder to create a true peanut shape! The peanut was cut from Create a Critter and then I stamped the faces with Peachy Keen face stamps (the greatest ever) and then lay them in the mesh cuttlebug folder and ran in through the cuttlebug. Be sure that the face side is on the side that makes the embossing down in the paper. In other words make sure the dimples are down not up. I had to redo mine because they looked better that way in my opinion. This picture makes it look like the dimples are raised but its quite the opposite.

Nana and is was cut from the Cuttin Up cartridge and go really well with the font of the the Nuts about you piece that is cut also from the create a critter.

I went ahead and ran the word nuts and the circle around the U through the cuttlebug too so they look like the peanut as well.

The little elephant is also from Create a Critter he reminds me of dumbo!

I like the way it turned out! And never a truer word was spoken than the one here because I am truly nuts about Miss Olivia!

Nana's Sleeping Angel!

Took me virtually all weekend to get this just the way I wanted it to be... but I am quite pleased with the end result. The paper was some I had gotten of QVC before they went out of the scrapbooking business and I fell in love with it!. The angel wings and wing corner pieces came from the new Picturesque cartridge which is an absolute dream of a cart! The font is Lovely Floral which is one of the walmart lite carts and when you pick up the font you have to look closely to see what font is there but its a gorgeous font! So elegant! The paper I used to make the angel wings and corners is from the Shimmer paper pack from DCWV.

I layered one of the cuts on top of the other to make the textured wings and to give them depth. I started to ink them but was so happy with the results I bypassed the ink. They shimmer enough with just the paper.

This was a bit tricky.. I had to lay my picture down on the purple paper then add the corner pieces and trim them down so it turned out like this...

Someday I am going to be shot for using this picture of her in a scrapbook much less posting it out there for you to see too.... OH WELL the price a Nana pays for the cute shots! I hope you enjoy this layout. I am planning on putting in a 12x12 frame for my scrapbook room for awhile...

Gettin in the Halloween Spirit!

I was at a SWARM this weekend and one of the make n' takes was this Halloween layout.. I decided to embellish it up and add some of my cricut style to the layout along with Liv's first Halloween pictures. The cartridges I used was the Original Paper Dolls along with Black letter for the font. I think the Black letter turned out to be a fantastic font for Halloween. Can't wait for the new Halloween cart to get here because I love the fonts on it. Anyway here is my creation! I hope you enjoy

The pumpkin and the black glob (which is supposed to be a spider but obviously I don't know how to stamp with paint ) were stamped with foam stamps using black paint... Not one of my greatest mediums. I think personally the foam stamps are hard to work with and are too "squooshie" when you press them down..

I love this picture of Olivia looks like she is really in the Halloween spirit and screaming at that spider!

The mummy became part of my journaling tools I love that fellow I have used him several time

The cat and the bats were super easy to cut out, I did use my gypsy for all cuts and the cat was cut once in black then again in white to make the whites of his eyes.. I did use the hide contour and took all but the outside lines off him before I cut it out. The cat has what was left of my white pen to make the high lights

Thanks to Erica and Jill for making the the make in take! And of course all the credit goes to my gypsy and cricut for the rest of the layout! I hope you enjoy!