RAK (Blog Candy)

To celebrate my Bug Head on the cricut MB, I am giving away some blog candy. I am giving away a new K&Co pad of paper TC Blossomwood, a coordinating pack of butterfly 3D stickers and two pair of spa socks that are all the rage for cupcake gifts.

In order to qualify, please leave me a message here on my blog. To qualify for an additional chance, become a follower. Please note in your message if you are a follower and a way for me to contact you.

I will draw on February 19th at 8:00 pm ~ that gives you a week!!

****I have 83 followers as of 2/14 at 8:30 ~ this is amazing!!! If I hit 100 followers by Friday I will add a second helping of blog candy!!! Thank you for all of your wonderful comments and feedback!!

Good Luck~!

Summer Fun

This LO is my take on the Practical Scrappers Brad Challenge this week. This is a collage of Tanner's summer fun this past summer. I used square brads to go along with the square photos and I used the arrow brads for fun in the center of each page.

I bought these arrow brads because they were soooo cute, but I have never used them until now!! I have made several layouts like this (because I take way too many pictures) but I never thought to use brads on the pages until now ~ thanks PS!!

Zoo Fun

Here is my take on the LID 2-page sketch for this week. I turned the first page to fit the orientation of photos I had. I used my cricut carts Opposites Attract (for the title) and Walk In My Garden for the leaves.

Grandma J (LID) sketch

This is my take on this week's LID (Laying It Down) sketch from the cricut message board. This is my Grandma Johnson ~ we called her Grandma J. The smaller photo is of her holding me when I was a baby (and bald). I plan on doing a similar LO of my Grandpa J to turn this into a 2-page spread.

Snow Day

This LO is based on the SOUS (Stuck On Us Sketches) sketch. I spent waaaay too much time on this layout! This was difficult for me for several reasons: First ~ I have all boys and I REALLY wanted to use purple on this LO. I struggled with the shade of purple, how much purple, how to tone it down...you name it! Then, I had to stretch it into a 2 page LO because I could never match purple with any other boy page!! I am also a 2 page scrapper 99% of the time. Finally, I agonized over the title ~ what to use as a title, could I stick a snowman in the title in place of a letter, do I need to title both pages, what color (originally I wanted purple but then black shadow with white and finally just black). I decided to spread the title over both pages.

I had to bling it up just a notch just because I could get away with it on a purple LO!!

I can't believe I spent half of the weekend on this!!! I could have completed a small album in the amount of time I agonized over this!! Oh well, each page is worth it once it is completed!

From my cricut library, I used Snow Friends for the snowmen, gloves, hat and snowflake. I used Winter Wonderland for the square snowflake. I used Ashlyn's Alphabet for the title.

A Decade of Memories

This was a challenge from a Practical Scrapper member (mtnmommyscrapper) and I had sooo much fun putting this all together. It took me several days of gathering the information I needed for this. I wanted to hightlight key words, so I used my computer for those. I used bright colors (the same as my basement) because they make me happy!!

Best Friends

This layout is for the Practical Scrappers challenge: Die Cuts. This is my son Tyler and his best friend Ariel. I wanted to make a page for his book that highlighted their friendship. I used the A Child's Year cricut cartridge.