I love the way my fall cards turned out this year.
I had some beautiful fall paper left over from last year, some even had glitter & flocking.

I cut the pumpkins from the Pooh & friends Cricut cartridge, it's one of the 'icon' functions. I cut each pumpkin a different color then inked the edges to show depth.

I cut these elegent fall leaves from 'A child's year' Cricut cartridge in a verity of colors and sizes.

I then traced the cut leaf vanes with a bronze gel pen to give it that little extra touch.

Don't you just love the way these cards turned out. I do, the only down fall is I used all cardstock on the cover and layering that much cardstock makes them really heavy, it cost me 88 cents each to mail them :(

But my family is worth it:)

Excellent Embellishments

I have collected several of the Cricut cartridges over the years, but I have to admit the one I turn to most often has to be Storybook.

It has all these really cool flourishes that you can cut at an angle, perfect for photo corners. You can also cut them as a border. The cartridge even has 4 different Fonts that are truly divine.

The flourishes are not only perfect for Scrapbook LO but for cards as well. Oh and one of the cartrige functions is called Accent Frames, these too are very detailed and extremely unique. Unfortunately I don't have an example to post here.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

2 page Birthday Layout

I truly love the way this birthday LO turned out. And I was able to use my new cuttlebug to emboss a design on the birthday cake.

The Birthday cake was cut at 4" from Stretch Your Imagination cricut cartridge.

I knew I wanted to add chunky glitter for icing but didn't want it just randomly falling off later. So I ran the icing cut outs thru my Xyron sticker machine (top down so that the top became sticky) I then covered it with Martha Stewart's chunky glitter and tapped off the extra. Now I know non of it will fall of later.

My New Cuttlebug was used to add the texture to the cake, I was so excited to see how it turned out.

I also cut the flower stems from cricut's Stretch Your Imagination cartridge at a verity of sizes,

then used coordinating colored Prima flowers and centered them with buttons to added that little extra touch to this precious LO.

Click on Photos to see them close up.

2 page Tink Layout

Tinkerbell was cut using the Tinkerbell cricut cartridge, and so was the mushroom she's sitting on.

The background grass was just cut free hand from med green card stock. The same color paper was used to cut the flower stems using the Walk in my Garden cricut cartridge. It did cut out a flower tip (tulip) but I wanted some thing 3-D so I cut the paper flower off and added the 3-D flower with a glitter brad center. I also added glimmer chalk to the grass and flower stims to give it some depth. The photo mounts are cut from my new ALL TIME favorite paper company "My Minds Eye", it came from the stack called "just Dreamy". I think Micheal's has this paper, but not a big selection I usually get it from Hobby Lobby they have several stacks to choose from.

My favorite Halloween Layout

I believe this would have to be my all time favorite Halloween Scrapbook Layout that I've made so far.

I cut the fence, haunted house, spooky tree, scared black cat, little white ghost, spider web & spider from the Paper Dolls dress up cricut cartridge.

~I traced the distressed lines in the fence to make it stand out with a brown fine tip marker.
~The windows and door to the haunted house were just blank wholes so I backed them with yellow scraps of paper, then added a few black lines to give it some dimension. I then cut a small 3/4 inch ghost & placed him coming out of one of the upper windows.
~I didn't do much to the spooky tree itself, just added a small 1.5 inch spider web and mini spider. To help make the spider web stand out I traced some of it with a shimmering silver gel pen, I used the same to make the spider's face.
~The cute little scared black cat was also enhanced by using the same shimmering silver gel pen
~The trick-or-treat or's and the pumpkins are from a K&Company multi die cut pack I purchased a few years ago.

Cuttlebug Halloween Card

Here's a cute simple Halloween card I made using my new Cuttlebug (and my big Cricut)

My New Cuttlebug

I just go my new cuttlebug (from provo craft) at A.C.Moore about 2 weeks ago.

Here are a few embossed backgrounds I've created so far.