CHA ROCKED!

I just got back from CHA and may I say WOW! The new lines are awesome and I cannot wait to get my hands on them! :) Needless to say, I had a blast with Kiki, Felipe, Nan, and other wonderful ladies at the Zutter booth while we created the cutest make-n-takes. :)
I got to come across a group of wonderful people... Here are some pictures to prove it:

Tim Holtz
Melody Ross
Donna & Bill Downey
Theresa Collins
Claudinne Helmuth

I also wanted to show you a bit of what I have been working on...

(It is not clear in this picture, but I think it is funny how my son does not look excited in the top picture, yet there is a bubble next to him as if he was saying: "This is Awesome!" LOL)


Thanks for visiting!

Love in Christ,

Nana

My Rising Star

Sketchy Thursdays is an awesome Sketch challenge blog. Even though I do not always have time to play there, I HAD to be part of their GDT challenge. The challenge was to include the color yellow in the layout made using their sketch, and to add a hand made embellishment. This is the sketch they posted:
and this is the layout I created:

My son is notorious for two things: for throwing things to the floor just to say "Oh Oh!', and for playing Peek a Boo. When I saw the pictures my husband was able to capture I could not resist but to scrap them and call him "Momma's Peek A Boy".

I cut the star out of chipboard and used Glossy Accents and Alcohol Inks to give it its color and texture. All of the patterned paper is from Momenta, an AMAZING and versatile scrapbooking company. Make sure to check out their blog so that you can see their product and what other designers are creating with it! :)

Thanks for looking!

Love in Christ,

Nana

FCCB 3 Flower Challenge

I have been more busy than what I like to admit, but when I saw the challenge for this week over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog I had to participate! We had to create a project using at least three flowers. I am a flower junkie, so I HAD to use more than three.. :) Here is the layout I created using the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge:



Thanks for looking!

Love in Christ,

Nana

Drum roll please....

for the WINNER of the Let's Scrap blog Hop: HRH!!!!



This is what she had to say:
HRH said...

I love the look of stitching on LOs but I am not good at it. I followed your suggestion of using rub-ons. Why didn't I think of this earlier? I love the way it turned out! Thanks for choosing a great sketch and technique!

Your layout is absolutely stunning! :) The official release of the kits is June 1st so I will ship your prize then. :) In the meantime come and play with us over at the My Paper Tree House page so that you can have many other chances to win...

Please e-mail me your information over to mypapertreehouse@gmail.com..

Thanks to all of you that participated with us in this Hop. It was tons of fun!

Love in Christ,

Nana

FCCB Crawl Winner!!!

I am sorry for posting this so late, but I truly had a blast reading your comments and seeing what you all created! I used random.org to generate a winner and came up with Kate as the blessed winner. Here is what Kate had to say:

Kate said...

Thanks for the challenge! I don't have a Gypsy but did pretty much everything for the Cricut Crawl challenge using my DS. I don't cut without it! I did add some swirls to my layout though. You can find details on my blog (http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/2010/05/lady-lenore-layout-fantabulous-cricut.html). I posted at Fantabulous Cricut as well. Thanks for letting me play!


Please send me your information so that I can mail the caddy to you... :)

Love in Christ,

Nana

Let's Scrap New Sketch

Hello! :) Let's Scrap just released the sketch of the month and it is Outstanding!!! :)

It is meant to be a double layout, but I fell in love with the first page and came up with this layout...


I will attempt to create a double-page layout that also features the challenge that we are playing with over at Let's Scrap.


Hope to see you over there... :)

Love in Christ,

Nana

Fantabulous Cricut Crawl...

Welcome to my blog and the "Fantabulous Cricut Crawl"...our version of a progressive blog hop!

If you've come from visiting Lori at Organized Chaos, you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, start here.For our Fantabulous Cricut Crawl, each Design Team member will be featuring a specific element related to using your Cricut. There will be a wide variety of techniques and elements that will be featured so make sure to check out each DT member's blog! There will be prizes along the way AND there will be a grand prize for the participant that incorporates the most featured elements on ONE project!!! How fun is that?
The element I've chose to feature for the crawl is...

the FAMOUS Gypsy!
Many of you own the gypsy and use it mainly to cut your images. Although this is a great idea, (and truly its' purpose) I like to use the Cricut to come up with designs. I love the fact that in one sitting I have access to all of my cartridges and that I can design in one page using ALL the cartridges I own. I must admit that what I design might not always end up being my actual creation (like in this example), but I can start to formulate some ideas.
As many of you know, my grandmother passed away on the 19th of April. I wanted to create a project where my mother could keep a picture of her mother and her father (who also passed away). So this is what I designed while laying in bed chatting with my hubby... :)
In this design I have elements from 4 different cartridges: StoryBook, Potpourri Basket, Straight From the Nest, and Pink Journey. Even though the cartridges are all different I can combine them and design with all at the same time because I was using the Gypsy!!!

When I started designing, this is the frame I had in mind. It has sentimental value but I no longer find it attractive so I wanted to change it. I painted the frame with Acrylic Black and yellow paints and used a heat gun to dry it.

I then covered the frame with a White Wash....
and finished the look of the frame by Glimmer Misting! :)

Finally I added all of the elements that worked well with the picture I chose to use .

I understand that not all of you have the Gypsy, but if you do please leave me a comment telling me how you incorporated your Gypsy into your project. I will be giving a Cricut Cartridge Caddy from Scrapcessories to a random participant. In order to qualify you must become a follower of my blog, post your project over at FCCB, and leave me a message telling me you have done all of the above. If you do not have a Gypsy your challenge is to incorporate some type of swirl from any Cricut cartridge you may own into your project. :)

Now it's your turn! See if you can use your Gypsy to create your own project. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Next stop...Penny's blog, Light Whimsy. Go see what Penny has in store for you today... And when you're done, make sure to link up your project to FCCB's Fantabulous Cricut Crawl post to be entered into the contest! Try to see how many elements you can add to your project!!!

Happy Crawling!