Spartan Finisher Layout

There's nothing quite like being able to bring two of your favorite hobbies together and I am excited that I can now do that.  After searching all over to find cutting files that were 'perfect' for scrapbooking my various obstacle course races and mud runs I had all but given up.  That's when I got the idea to approach a couple of the people I buy most of my SVGs from and say hey have you thought about....

I am very happy to announce that Little Scraps of Heaven rose to the challenge and created a mud run file in no time.  I was amazed at how quickly she was able to pull it all together.  Not to mention how cute it all turned out.  The file was just released for sale yesterday and of course I snatched that puppy up and started playing.

This layout features a picture of my oldest daughter and I after we completed our first Spartan Sprint.  We ran this in March and we had a blast.  I was so proud of my daughter.  She'd never done anything like this and for the Spartan to be her introduction to the OCR world was a little intense.  But she hung in there and did a terrific job!  Best of all we did it together!!

Other than the cut from LSHD I also used a Cricut cut.  That medal up in the top corner of the picture - that's from the All Sports cartridge.

And with that I think I'll go do some more playing.  With all this rain we've been getting everything is flooded and that means roads and bridges all over the area are closed which in turn means I can't go to work today......

Be Yourself

I am proud to announce that I have been accepted to rejoin the Pause Dream Enjoy creative design team.  Needless to say I am very excited to be back with the family.  And just in time for a new linky party!  

The challenge for this party is all about flowers.  That's it - create a project that uses flowers, link up and play along.  You have two weeks to create your project and join in on the fun.

As for my project, I used the VW Luv Bug file from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs and swapped out the hearts for some daisies that I found on the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge.  My sentiment is from the Cardz TV stamp set Simply Said.

Now before you go off and create your project be sure to hop on over to Pause, Dream, Enjoy and check out the rest of the great projects our team has created this week.  You're sure to find a lot more inspiration to really get those creative juices flowing........


Dates to remember :


Link up begins today, April 29th
Link-up Ends: May 10 @ midnight EST
Voting Begins: May 11 @ 12:01 am EST
Voting Ends: May 11 @ Noon EST

Selfie Time

A couple of weeks ago my son asked if I would help him make a scrapbook to surprise his girlfriend for her upcoming birthday.  Needless to say I was more than eager to help - especially since it was such a heartfelt gesture on my son's part.  Who knew one of my boys could be so "romantic"?  LOL

Anyhow, I told him to gather up some pics and get them to me and I'd go from there.  Well since her birthday was this weekend I figured it was now safe to begin sharing some of those layouts I put together.  I'm not sure how well it was received as they are at Disney right now, but I have a feeling that it went over pretty well.

The first layout I'd like to share is a 2 pager (as you can tell) that I created using the Selfie cut file from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs.  I'm still having a slight problem in judging the sizes in which to cut my files and this one had the girl much larger than I intended.  However, I think it worked out perfectly for this layout.

Sweet As Honey

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to Day 2 of the Cardz TV Anything Goes blog hop.  This weekend's blog hop is all about making projects and cards for any occasion to showcase the wonderful new stamp sets that have been released at Cardz TV.  There are several sets to chose from including:

• "Birds and Bees", 
• "Girl Talk",
• "That's My Boy" 
• "Congratulations" 

I have chosen to showcase the Birds and Bees set using this cute cut from Kadoodle Bug Designs.  This wonderful set is full of fun sentiments that you won't want to miss using in your projects.   The sentiments are perfect for wide variety of occasions, and with spring in the air you're sure to find plenty of opportunities to create adorable projects screaming for one of these sentiments to finish it off.

Who knows you might even be the lucky winner of 2 sets of Cardz TV Stamps.  All you have to do is be a follower of Cardz TV and be sure to leave a comment on the blog posts for both days of the hop.  Mary will chose one lucky winner after the hop so stay tuned.....

In the meantime, be sure to hop around and check out all of the wonderful cards our team has put together for today's hop.  And while you're hoping around remember to leave them some comment love and let them know who they're inspiring you.

Here is our Blog Hop line up - just in case you haven't started from the beginning:

1. Mary - http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/

2. Georgia- http://www.geritolgal2.blogspot.com

3. Cindy - http://www.cindyvernon.blogspot.com

4. Brenda- http://www.friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/

5. Shelly~http://www.cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/

6. Melissa-http://melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

7. Lynn~ http://bootsandblingtime.blogspot.com

8. Sharon ~ http://meemeescreations.blogspot.com

9. Jeri - http://bugnme.blogspot.com

10. Debbie- http://www.craftinchaos.com

11. Gloria - http://www.girliascards.com

12. Barbara - http://www.spotofsanity.blogspot.com

13. Elaine - http://ExpressionsByElaine.blogspot.com

Spring is in the Air

...and that means the birds are out singing their songs, the flowers are blooming, and we at Cardz TV are celebrating by creating Spring themed cards for our challenge this week.

For my card, I used the Spring Bluebird file from Kadoodle Bug Designs.  My sentiment is from the recently released Cardz TV stamp set Count Your Blessings.

So now that you've seen my take on this week's Spring challenge create your own card, link up and play along with us at Cardz TV.  But first if you haven't already checked out the other designs our team beautifully put together be sure you do.  I promise you won't want to miss out on any of them.  In the meantime, I can't wait to see what you create.

Wizarding World of Harry Potter Layouts

Have I told you lately how much I love the fact that I can now cut SVG files?  I started trying to scrapbook our trip to Universal Studios last year and was beside myself not knowing what to do because of the lack of die cuts out there to fit my themes.  So I put it all aside.  But now that I have the new Cricut Explore and can cut SVG's I'm getting those pictures scrapped.

This weekend I worked on our pictures from the Harry Potter ride.  For these layouts I used files from My Little Scraps of Heaven, Miss Kate Cuttables and Cricut.

On these pages the train is from Miss Kate and the other cuts are from Little Scraps of Heaven  For the sign post and the legs on my table I ran them through my Cuttlebug so as to give them a little bit of a wooden type texture.

The cuts on these pages are part of the Spellbound Wizards collection from Little Scraps of Heaven.

On these pages I used cuts from Little Scraps of Heaven and the castle from one of the Disney Princess cartridges.  I wanted to keep with the black/gray look so I didn't cut the various pieces to complete the castle.

And these cute little dragons are from Miss Kate Cuttables.  And thus completes the Harry Potter portion of our trip to Universal.  Now I can't wait to go back and explore the new sections that they have opened and are getting ready to open this Summer.