Fantabulous Cricut Challenge- Mum's the word!

Happy Monday! It is a Bank Holiday here, we are meeting my sister and her son for a picnic today. I am really excited!!

But before we leave I have my Fantabulous Cricut Challenge post. For this week the challenge is to use the word 'Mom' on a project. I have used 'Mum' because that's what I call my Mum. I made her this word book using Plantin School book and Design Studio. I used photos from when we were small for my Mum. The quality isn't great for the photos, they are quite old! 

 I am looking forward to seeing what you do for this challenge just link your 'mom, mommy,mother, or mum' projects at Fantabulous Cricut!

Sunbeam Sunday Challenge

Happy Easter Weekend!! We have had a lovely day together. I wanted to share something I made for the Sunbeam Sunday Challenge, this week the challenge was to use something old to make something new. I used some card from a Pampers box. 

I had wanted to bind it with my Bind-it-All, but the card was too thick, so instead I made holes with the Big Bite, and used rings. I put some white card in it. The paper is We R Memory Keepers. I coloured the stamps with chalks. 


Thanks for stopping by, and hope you have a lovely Easter!

Easter Layout

Hello! This week has gone so quickly. I haven't had much time this week to make things because of the school holidays, I usually have some time during the day when my baby sleeps, but this week I have had a four year old to entertain while she has been sleeping! This morning however, he has been playing quietly so I had some time to do a LO-

 I cut the letters from the Hannah Montana cartridge, both fonts. I also used Plantin Schoolbook to cut out the tag, which fits behind the picture. I stuck the picture with foam tape so it makes it easier to pull the tag out. I just need to write a little about the pictures. This is from last Easter. Ethan & I were making all sorts of yummy Easter treats!! He loves helping in the kitchen. I also used a date stamp on a ticket. The buttons were from a Smirk Christmas collection. I tied paper ribbon at the bottom, and the paper is We R Memory Keepers. As this is a picture of my son, I didn't put too many bits and bobs on it, I think for boys' LOs it often looks best simple.

This is for 3 challenges-
Lasting Memories- Easter
Cooking with Cricut- Easter
Getting Scrappy Challenge-Fun with Food

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Birthday Sundaes Challenge and Winner!

Hello, a quick post as I have some much to do this evening. But I wanted to share a card I made for my best friend's birthday. She is coming to visit me tomorrow and it is her birthday this week. So I hope she doesn't look here tonight!! 

The paper is My Mind's Eye. The stamps are MPS and Penny Smith and the mushroom is one from a free set on a magazine. I coloured it with Promarkers and cosmic shimmer, but it hasn't picked it up in the picture. I stamped the 'BFF' with Stazon on ribbon and made a little tag. I am entering it into Birthday Sundaes anything goes challenge.

I also wanted to thank everyone for there comments on my cricut crawl post. The winner of the give away is -

#32-Tanya from http://scrappylandusa.blogspot.com/ 
Congradulations, it is also special as Tanya was my 100th follower!! Please get in touch so I can get it off to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sunbeam Sunday and a Challenge

The Simple Sunday challenge at Getting Cricky last Sunday was I'll Sing You A Song. I have been thinking about what I could do, Then I came across this stamp with the lyrics from As Sisters in Zion. This is one of my favourite hymns and it sums up how I feel about being a member of Relief Society (the organisation in our church for the women)

The words of the hymn are:

As sisters, in Zion, we'll all work together;
The blessings of God on our labours we'll seek.
We'll build up his kingdom with earnest endeavor;
We'll comfort the weary and strengthen the weak.

The errand of angels is given to women;
And this is a gift that, as sisters, we claim:
To do whatsoever is gentle and human, 
To cheer and to bless in humanity's name.

How vast is our purpose, how broad is our mission,
If we but fulfill it in spirit and deed.
Oh, naught but the Spirit's divinest tuition 
Can give us the wisdom to truly succeed.

I love the message of this hymn, and it gives me something to work towards, to be help those around me.

I used Winter Wonderland to cut out the circle and the scalloped circle. The stamp is Sunbeam Stamps, and the paper is My Mind's Eye, and a few odd buttons, and ribbon. The circle dangles, it is not stuck down.

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WOYWW 97

Good Morning! It is Easter holidays here, so I haven't had much time to be making anything so far this week. I managed to clear up my table a bit, enough for me to sit up there again! On my table are some invitations I was finishing off yesterday for my friend's bridal shower happening next month. They are all finished and ready to go out today. I made them with Sweethearts cartridge.

If you want to be nosey and join in visit Stamping Ground 
Don't forget to have a look at my Cricut Crawl post, I have a give away, click here 

Lasting Memories Journaling Challenge

I you are looking for the Fantabulous Cricut Crawl and giveaway click here

I had a great time looking at all projects the very talented DT had done for the Crawl yesterday! I feel very inspired! I am now looking forward to going through everyone that joins in now.

Here is a LO I did for the Lasting Memories Journaling challenge. I do struggle with journalling, I (like most people I think) really don't like my own writing, and I often find it hard to sum up in words what photos mean to me, especially if I scrapbooking a picture that I have just chosen because I think it's cute! I never type up journalling either. But as this was a challenge, I thought I would challenge myself to try journalling I had printed-

 I cut out a flower from a sheet of patterned paper and stuck a little button in the middle.

The paper and the letter stickers are Basic Grey, the scalloped card is Papermania. The rest of the bits were just bits and pieces I had. 

My verdict on typed journaling-I like the finished result, but it was a bit of a hassle. When I am doing a LO, I just grab the bits I want to include, ribbon I like, buttons I think will work, and then see where it all takes me. I never really have a plan. So when I typed up the journaling, I had it in a few different shapes and sizes, because I didn't know where it was going to be. I suppose I could have done it at the end. And as much as I hate my own handwriting, I hope that in years to come it will be a link to me for my children and grandchildren. So I think I will defiantly do more journaling on the computer, but I don't think it will be very often!

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