WOW! What a week!

It has been a fabulous week! On Monday I got a Gypsy!!! I have wanted one ever since they unveiled it in the summer! Then I was in the Cricut Chirp in the Customer Spotlight section. When you are in the Spotlight section they send you a free cartridge of your choice! I picked Winter Woodland! I am so excited for that one! I love the font and my husband is excited that we get to make a Christmas Village! Then on Sat. I won the Elmo Party cartridge from Monique (aka MonkeyDoodleCricut). She has an awesome blog and right now she is selling some of her kits on clearance! They are pretty amazing! THEN I just checked Twitter and Provo Craft tweeted about ME! They said " provocraft

Did you miss @cricutcrazy's SpongeBob project in the latest Cricut Chirp? Head to the archives here: http://is.gd/7flpY#Cricut". cricutcrazy is my twitter username. For those of you who know me, you know that I am "slightly" cricut obsessed so for me that is a very exciting thing! It has been a great week!

The Gypsy Spot

I found a new challenge blog called The Gypsy Spot. It looks like it is going to be a really fun place to jump in and do some challenges! They now have opened up the challenges to ANYONE, you do not have to have a Gypsy or Design Studio to participate. They have a fabulous prize this week! I will let you go check it out so you can be surprised! Here is the link THE GYPSY SPOT. You only have a couple more days if you want to participate to win this prize!

Spongebob Play Mat

I have been M.I.A. for awhile and it is good to be back! When I was little my mom made a car play mat that we rode our hotwheels cars on. I put many miles on it! I read about the new contest at Cricut for a chance to win a Swarm with the "Cricut Stars" (aka the Provo Craft executive team who brings prizes!!!) and I started to hyperventilate. That is the most amazing prize I could ever hope to win and so I made this Spongebob Play Mat for my nephew who loves Hotwheels! It is about 36 inches by 40 inches. It is made of Periwinkle canvas and then assorted cottons for all of the houses and their layers.

It was my first time cutting fabric and it was so easy!!!!!! There was a lot of layering and I ended up painting some of the details because some of the smaller layers kept snagging. It was also my first time trying the Reynolds Freezer Paper to make stencils so I could paint the flowers on the background and the words "Jellyfish Fields" and that was SOOOOOO EASY. I want to paint everything now!!!!!

I love the way it turned out and I hope Ty will love it too!

Core'dinations Cardstock

I love the Core'dination Color Core Cardstock. There is so many things you can do with it. On this layout I tried ripping the Black Magic Collection cardstock so that it is black but when I ripped it the green shows. I also used my Cuttlebug and embossed the same paper to make the alien. Once I embossed it I gently go over it with sandpaper and the dots turn green. I think it is magical paper! The yellow and white paper that I used for the sun and the clouds is from the Gemstone Collection. It is shiny on one side and matte on the other so when you tear it it gives it a cool effect.

I used the Every Day Paper Doll cartridge for the alien and the spaceship. I used Indie Art for the flame coming out of the spaceship. I also used the Pooh Font for all of the words. Then highlighted all of it with my FAVORITE white pen from Signo. (Everyone should own this pen!)

This week is Core Cardstock challenge at Practical Scrappers. You should buzz by and see the really cool things that the designers came up with! Click HERE to get there quick! You can enter your own cardstock project and win a prize! This week's prize is a $10 gift certificate to Heart & Soul Rubber Stamp Company.

Life is Good!

I am sorry it has been so long since I have been able to post. Life sometimes throws a curve ball at you! My son got very sick and then was getting better and then had complications from his antibiotic. It was scary but I am so grateful that he is doing GREAT now! He went back to school this week and so I am going to get back to creating! I have really missed it!

It is a little overwhelming trying to figure out what I want to do so I started surfing blogs for inspiration! That is my favorite thing to do! I went to Stephanie Castro's blog and besides some amazing cards, she is doing blog candy! Go check it out http://stephaniecastrodesigns.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-my-1-year-blogiversary.html and wish her a happy birthday too!

I will start posting some creations as soon as I start making them! Off to surf more blogs!

LIFE IS GOOD!

Baby Girl Word Book

I LOVE making these word books for baby shower gifts. I have made 3 in the last couple of weeks and I have 3 more to go! It has been a busy baby month!!!! This is the only one that I got a picture of before I gave them away!

Decorative Scissors

Our challenge this week at Practical Scrappers was to use decorative scissors. Now I haven't even thought of my scissors in at least 2 years if not longer. They sit in a drawer and my kids get them out every once in awhile. This was truly a use your stash project. I picked my favorite scissors for this card. They are like giant pinking shears. I can remember how excited I was to get these scissors and I think I used them a lot for a few months and then never again. It was fun to get these out for my thank you card.

We had a Guitar Hero/Wii Family Night at our school. We decided last minute to add a few gaming systems and put them on projectors on the stage. One of our teacher's husband came and set it all up for us and so I made him this "YOU ROCK" card to thank him. It was a SUPER FUN night and I would recommend it to anyone! We paired up with Best Buy and they came and brought TV's, Systems, people to man the stations and then gave us a "TAG TEAM" award of 1000.00!!!!! It was awesome!

Transparency Halloween Layout

My challenge at Practical Scrappers was to use my Cricut and a transparency to create a layout. I cut out a tombstone from the Cricut Cartridge Paper Doll Dress Up. I then used Staz-On Black Ink and stamped the skull and the swirls. I then used red stickles to outline the tombstone. I also used a transparency on top of the picture to stamp Trick or Treat on the 4 sides.

I am working on a whole album for when we went to Little Monsters on Main Street at Disney's California Adventure. The kids got to dress up and go trick or treating in the park! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! We are going this year too! I can't wait!!!!!

Join us for the Blog Hop going on at Practical Scrappers!

Transparency Hands Soap Dispenser? BLOG HOP

Practical Scrappers is part of a fun, fabulous, PRIZE FILLED BLOG HOP! PS has teamed up with several Challenge Blogs to go and get inspired and win fun prizes! The first blog on the hop is Scrapsketch. They have an awesome sketch to try out and you can win a Michaels Gift Card!!! But don't stop there! Don't forget to hop to the next blog and see all of the fun and goodies that are out there! HAPPY HOPPIN'!

**Just a reminder, the blog hop goes from September 25 until midnight on October 1**

Our first challenge for the blog hop is to use Transparencies. I saw this soap dispenser at my Aunt Wendy's house and I LOVED IT!!! It is a transparency inside a soap dispenser that has descriptive words about hands. It is soooo cute in person. I wanted to say thank you to Janet Holdaway who gave me the instructions on how to do this! I print on transparencies all the time when I make my own rub-ons but then I wipe it off so I can use it again. Janet told me that you have to make a copy of the words so that they will be burned into the transparency and the soap won't rub it off! Then cut the transparency and roll to slide in the dispenser. Then when it gets in it will flip open and you can pour the soap into the dispenser. I found that it is easier to have the straw from the pump in a little ways before you put the transparency in to help make sure that the pump is BEHIND the transparency instead of blocking it!!!!

These are adorable and I am giving them as Christmas gifts this year. Click HERE to check out Practical Scrappers for tons of ideas for using Transparencies!!!!

Halloween Decor

Our Challenge at Practical Scrappers this week was to use felt. I LOVE the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge for the Cricut. It has some of the cutest Halloween images! I cut out the tombstone, the pumpkin, the ghost (I love him!), and the bat. Then I traced those images on felt and cut them out. Then I hand sewed on the borders and details. I bought the orange swag at my favorite thrift store (go DI) and wrapped it around my curtain rod in my dining room, which is also our den, and my scrapbooking room. We know how to multipurpose at our house! ;)

I love Halloween and I am so excited for Halloween this year! We are going to go and visit my mom Halloween weekend! She lives about 6 1/2 hours south of us and we haven't seen my family for awhile! It is going to be great! Thanks for coming by!

Baby Girl Framed Art

Our challenge this week at Practical Scrappers was to use stickers. I made the border with some stickers that I have had for YEARS and then used black chipboard Heidi Swap stickers for Girl. I used doodle charms for the duck that I cut out of Co'ordination cardstock. I love that stuff! I embossed it and then lightly sand and the pink shines through! It is so much fun!

If you have time go pop over to the PS blog! There are some wicked talented ladies there!

Thanks for stopping by!!!