Cuttlebug Challenge - Noel card

If you haven't check out the Cuttlebug Challenge this week then you should do so! We are celebrating Christmas in July and the Design Team has come up with some super fabulous projects to share with everyone!

Every time I see the word Noel the song just starts going off in my head, which is not a bad thing since I do like the song. For one of my Christmas in July projects I decided to use the Christmas Noel cartridge and make a shape card out of the NOEL cut. It is pretty simple to make, especially if you download the cut file! HA! I did have to weld the shadow cuts since I wanted the card to keep the shape.

I like the basic traditional colors in this card but it did make it look a little plain, so a little doodling really added to it. And of course a dash of Stickles can always make the drab look fab! *okie cracks up at her rhyming abilities*

The cut file is set to cut 2 cards at a time. Also on the base you will need do a hide contour of one of the diamond shapes so you have a solid back.

Wishing Shoe...

I was on the phone with my friend Carol with two hearts this afternoon and she was helping me figure out how to load CD's from the PCHugware collections. I had the October 2008 CD in and saw the Diva Va Voom set and said "OMG! I LOVE THE FAT LADIES!" and I knew I had to make a card with one of them.

I choose the one with the shoe because I know so many women in my life that love shoes and I know I can use these birthday cards to send to them.
Supplies used -
PCHugware Diva Va Voom
Studio G stamp - shoe
Punches
Patterned Paper - Little Yellow Bicycle
Various solid cardstock
Cat Eye Chalk Ink
Stampin Up ink and marker
Spareparts brads

I do have to confess that the image would have been better had I printed on the correct side of the carstock! *okie gives herself a V-8 smack on the head* I usually am good about checking to make sure I am printing on the smoother side, but this time I guess I was distracted *okie really needs to remember not to craft while on the phone but thinks this is a lesson she shall never learn since she loves the phone*.


I used Microsoft Word to make the sentiment circle that would punch out correctly with a 1.5" circle punch. The green scallop is the Stampin Up scallop circle punch and the larger one is a 2" scallop circle punch by EK Success.

There are some more of these luscious ladies in the collection so stay tuned for my next card!!

WHEW! Relabled posts!

I just spent almost 4 hours relabeling my posts. Now if you want to see cards I have made you can click on A2 cards or note cards. If you want to see layouts you can click layouts. Of course when I got over half way done I thought of other labels like Stamping, Stampin Up, etc. But for now this will have to do!

One Cool Chick

I just couldn't resist another Country Life card! I looked through the book and I liked the look of one of the chickens. I did use the sentiment of "cool chick" but added "one" at the front. And I did remember to save this time so I do have the ONE COOL CHICK cut file available *okie does a "yeah okie" dance*. The cut file is set to cut 4 cards at a time. Of course you can delete some cuts if you don't want to make 4. The sentiment is one piece and welded.

Supplies used -
Cricut Expressions
Country Life cartridge
Patterned paper - K & Co. and Basic Grey
Kraft paper for base
Cardstock - Prism, Bazzill
Spareparts Brad
Pop Dot for wing
Stampin Up and Cat Eye Chalk Inks

I did a little doodling on the card *okie can't seem to NOT doodle* and I think it always makes a card look a little better.

I decided to be daring and make that chicken with printed paper, which is a big step for me. If ya'll read my blog you know that I have a problem with making things that aren't appropriate colors. But I am trying to step out my little comfort box and walk on the wild side *okie finds this humorous that using patterned paper is wild side and decides she has definitely reached an older age*.

Oh also, one more thing. I did cut the grass twice to give it a some extra dimension. Well hope you guys like the card!

On the Mend

As some of you guys may know my neighbor Naomi is currently in skilled Nursing Care. She is doing better and I thought I would make her a card to give her tomorrow as I told her we would have lunch together. So not only does she get some of our favorite chicken livers she will get a nice little card to!

I recently acquired the cartridge Country Life and kept looking through the cuts to see what I could use. There wasn't a sentiment I wanted to use but when I saw the sewing machine I immediately thought of "on the mend" since Naomi's condition is improving. Now I want to tell you that I had every intention of sharing the .cut file but my computer locked up and the file was lost before I could save it *okie bangs head on desk since she usually always does save through out when designing a .cut file and feels stupid for not doing so this time*.

The patterned paper is some that my friend LGuild gave me quite some time ago, she had deemed it UGLY paper and while she couldn't think of a use for it I think it looks like fabric and works good for this card.

I do know the sewing machine was set at 3" when I cut it. I spelled out the sentiment and had it grouped as one and welded so it could be easily copy and pasted *okie sighs deeply* and of course all that work went down the drain! I am just glad I did get everything cut before the computer locked up!

As you can see I used small brads for the drawer handles and think it gives a little extra dimension. The little swirl on the sewing machine was a bit of a booger *okie giggles because she said booger* to cut and I did have to recut one that I tore taking up from the mat.

I hope nobody likes this card so no one will be upset that there isn't a .cut file available. I guess if enough people did like it I could go in and recreate it easily enough, but then again...as everyone knows I am lazy! *okie cracks up laughin*

Cricut Imagine

So from what I am hearing that is the new machine that Provocraft is coming out with. "So what" is that what you were thinking? Or was it "well what does it do?". Well from the sources I have found the Cricut Imagine will not only cut but it will print also. Yes you heard me....PRINT! Now how the heck this is gonna work I just don't know. But if you would like to read more just check out this article

Cricut To Introduce "Imagine" Machine That Both Cuts & Prints?

Merci - French Manor

Okay if ya don't know you know now that I did join the Cricut Circle *of course okie only joined for 3 months, the whole fear of commitment thing even haunts okie in her little crafting world*. I just had to see what it is all about *okie thinks her nosiness will one day get her into some serious trouble*. I have been dying to use the French Manor cart but couldn't ever decide what I wanted to make. I think I mentioned in a post before about having too many choices and then getting nothing done because I can't choose!

Yesterday I designed the card in Design Studio and had to do some welding on it for the frame, other than that it is simple cuts. But I didn't have time to cut it then. I was going to get home tonight and get it done but I decided to color my hair *okie knows her facebook friends have seen the non-gray okie now* before I cut the card. Of course I cut four of the card but only got one completely done tonight *okie wonders if anyone always gets everything done that they plan*.


Supplies Used -
Cricut Expressions
French Manor cartridge
Crate Paper Crush Collection
I-Rock
Hot set gems
SU Chocolate Chip marker
Cat Eye Chalk ink dark brown

I did hand cut the golden paper in the tail and wing. I didn't want to spend all that time clicking to do the hide contour and it only took me a few seconds. I also had to make a few snips in the flourish at the bottom of the frame.

Okay I might have lied earlier when I said it was simple cuts. Those dang peacocks and scrolls too FOREVER to get done cutting! It might not be so bad if I could just do one, but....I can't.

Here you can see the gems a little better. That I-Rock...well - IT ROCKS! I had been using a Hot Marks tool and I find the I-Rock much more simple to use. You can see where I added gems to his crown, eye and tail. The crown and tail are 2mm and the tail gems are 3mm. You can click the picture if you want to see more detail.


*******UPDATE*********
Someone asked for the .cut file for this card, not sure why I didn't post it before but here it is now! *okie grins*
MERCI PEACOCK

Sometimes stalkers

Can be a nice thing!! *okie cracks up laughin* There is a Cricut MB member by the name of JenH that is also on facebook. Well she and I have gotten where we correspond almost daily on facebook now. Just a few days ago she pm'd me on facebook

Jen: Hey I need your address.... NO not to stalk you! tee-hee!

Me: OH sure!! Get me all excited thinking you are gonna stalk me and then you say you aren't! LOL

Jen: LOL!! I will if ya really want me to! LOL!!! What I'm sending is better than me stalking you anyway! HAHA!!! Now you can stalk the mail man! Hope ya like it!! I saw it and had to grab it for you!

Well I won't post the rest of conversation but I questioned about what she was sending me. If any of you know Jen you likely would have asked the same question I did! *okie cracks up and knows if Jen reads this okie is gonna be in big trouble*.

So anyway today I get mail. And I get mail from Jen. And LO AND BEHOLD!! I got the most BEAUTIFUL AND BESTEST scissors ever!!

Who knew they made ladybug scissors?? I sure didn't!! But I have some now!

Thanks so much Jen! It was very sweet *okie thinks and maybe a little stalkerish* of you to think of me and send me something you knew I would just love!

Holiday Cakes Cartridge....I WON!

Last night I was getting ready to hit the hay and I got a message on my cell phone. It was from Provocraft's Twitter account saying they were going to have some giveaways during the Martha Stewart Cricut Cake airing on HSN. Of course me being the person I am *okie thinks cheap*, I had to stay up and see if I could win something. I also was curious about the Martha Stewart edition of Cricut Cake. There were some fabulous cakes aired that is for sure. My ability to make cakes that looked that well, I am not so sure about!

Well I didn't win the first cartridge which was Birthday Cakes. For that one we had to tell what our oddest wedding cake was that we ever saw. I said Armadillo, of course it was a Texas wedding so it kinda made sense to me *okie cracks up laughin*. Of course had it been an Oklahoma wedding the cake would likely have been an Opossum! I was watching the HSN airing and posting on the Cricut Circle board and the regular Cricut MB and decided it was time to head to bed when the segment was over.

I had just posted a message that I was going to bed and logged out of Twitter on my computer. When Provocraft Twittered that for the next giveaway of the Holiday Cakes the first person to answer the question won. The question was "Who originally said 'let them eat cake?' ". Of course in all reality no one really knows but it is usually attributed to Marie Antoinette. I quickly logged back in and Twittered my answer and POOF! I WON!

Now mind you I don't have a Cricut Cake but some of the cuts on the cartridge will be great for cards and layouts!! I can't wait to try out the haunted house!! And the borders are great!!

It will probably take a couple of weeks to get here so I have plenty of time to think about what I want to make!

HEEAATTTT!!

It is 105 degrees here today *okie wipe one hand across her brow* and with the heat index it makes it feel like a warmish 120 degrees. My daughter and I were going to go to Walmart and shop for a microwave but we are opting to go late tonight when it is cooler and less crowded. We did go to a restaurant here in town called Prairie Kitchen for supper. It is even too hot to stand out by the grill so there was no way I was cooking anything today!

Since it is so hot I think I will go lay on the couch and take my Gypsy with me and see if I can't get a better handle on how to use it. Maybe a second nap for the day is even in order!!

Hope everyone is keeping cool!

Sweet Treats Thursday! Back 2 School!

It is time for Sweet Treats Thursday once again at the Cuttlebug Challenge! The theme for this week is Back To School. My fellow designers have come up with some awesome projects so make sure to check those out!

For my project I chose to do something for a dorm room since my daughter starts college in the fall and has decided to live in the dorms. I am excited and a little sad about it all. She already knows who her room mate will be so I did include her room mate in the project as well. I thought they could always use a dry erase board and some cork boards on their walls. I went with a music theme for the items because the girls are music crazy! My daughter was very excited about the boards and even sent a picture to her future room mate who was also excited *okie thinks to self...SCORE!*

Supplies used-
Cricut Cartridges - Hannah Montana, Home Decor
Vinyl - black
Crayola holographic paper
Dry Erase board (purchased at Staples)
Cork board (purchased at Staples)

On the dry erase board I used the music note font from the Hannah Montana cartridge and also I used Home Decor for the swirls. I thought the music note font would be good with NOTES written for the top. I cut some very small notes to put on the magnets. I cut the layer hearts out of holographic paper and glued on top of the vinyl hearts.

You can see the magnets a bit better in this picture and see how I cut the notes under 1" so they could be put on there to carry on the theme.

The writing area of this board measures approximately 10x10 inches so there isn't a lot of space but there is enough to write on. And if I remember correctly there isn't a lot of wall space in a dorm room anyway. Well at least once you get your bed and dresser and other items set up!

I have to be honest and tell you that I did have some difficulty with the NOTES and luckily my fellow DT member Capadia had a great tutorial on how to make those letters work and be one. If you are having problems and need help with this one please see Capadia Designs for the tutorial!

For the corkboards I used the star font from the Hannah Montana cartridge. I cut the blackout layer from holographic paper and then the top layer with black vinyl. I really liked that there were music notes with stars on them so they matched the names on the cork boards. The vinyl stuck really well on the cork board but for the names I did have to use Zip Dry glue on the back since it was the holographic paper. I swear that Zip Dry glue will make anything stick!






Here is a close up of my daughters name so you can see the holographic paper better.

I was able to purchase the boards on sale at Staples for half price and if I remember correctly it was about $4 or $5 for the dry erase board and the same for the set of 4 cork boards.

I think this project would be great in the ol' craft room as well!!


I hope you enjoyed my project for this go around and until the next Sweet Treats Thursday...CRAFT ON!

Martha Stewart and Cricut Cake...

WHAT?? Yep, it's true. If you would like to read the official press release then just click HERE. It is in a Microsoft Word document so you might need that program to read it. But you might not *okie thinks she might need to learn a little more about computers*.

Ol' Martha got her fingers into Provocraft. I wonder if she has kicked EKSuccess to the curb now that she is collaborating with Provocraft. I personally really like a lot of EKSuccess tools and have quite a few of their punches. Oh yeah but this is about Martha and the Cricut Cake. Anywho, I posted about Martha not long ago about how she can tell me I can grow my own salad, butcher my own sheep, gather my own eggs and sew my own tablecloth all before my dinner party at 6pm for 30 guests. I guess now she is going to tell me I can make a 3 tier cake for the event also and have it elegantly decorate....*in her best Martha voice okie says* It's a good thing! So she says with her small army of staff! I just wonder how many times she will actually use the Cricut Cake machine and how much she knows about the cartridges available. I am kind of excited to see what her carts will look like since I do like some of the designs she has done. Her small butterfly punch is one of my favorites! However, I won't be getting them since they are exclusive to HSN. The debut is set for July 19th.

Here is a picture of the new Cricut Cake. Instead of red it is white this time. I have mixed emotions about the Cricut Cake. Although I haven't done so in quite some time I was a trained professional cake decorator and I believe this kind of decoration takes out the creativity and expertise of cake decorating. If you ever had to pipe out drapes of strings on a cake you would know what I am talking about. It ain't easy *okie remembers many fine strings breaking sending okie into fits of cussing like a sailor*. But with that said I think it is great for people who want to make and decorate their own cakes.

So tell me my darling readers *okie looks to see if anyone is actually out there and listening* what do you think about this?

My feelings about blogs....

A few years ago when I started my blog I started it for one reason. So people could easily download .cut files without me having to email the files to them. I remember one evening spending over two hours replying to email requests and sending files. I knew there had to be a better way. So I entered the blogging world.

How do I get followers? That is a frequent question on the Cricut messageboard these days. I recently answered as follows "I don't know how ya get followers. I am hateful to my readers sometimes and talk to myself. Personally I wouldn't follow my own blog as mean as I can be sometimes." I was being totally serious too! *okie still is amazed that people wanna read her blog since she is hateful and sometimes threatens her readers* However I am not really talking to myself, the thoughts in my head just sometimes find their way into my posts *okie wishes people would stop reading her thoughts so much and wonders how many mind readers there are in this world*.

I have a love hate relationship with my blog.

I love being able to post what I create where my friends and family can see it without me having to email them pictures. When I tell one of my friends what I have been working on they will say "email it to me". But then I would have to email it to several people I tell them "I don't want to". So then they say "post it on your blog so I can see it". Well okay, that way I don't have to email it to several different people. Believe me there have been times when I didn't want to post something because I thought it looked like crap! But one friend of mine, I won't mention her name *okie thinks ScrapperDelighted gets on her last nerve with this though*, will tell me "I don't care if you think it looks like crap...I want to see it! SO POST IT!"

The hate part comes in because I am lazy! It takes time to take pictures to where they look good and then edit and then write up a post. That is one reason I don't do more video's. It literally takes hours to shoot the video, edit the video, publish the video and then upload the dang thang! *okie cracks up because she loves saying dang thang*

Now days it seems everyone wants to commercialize their blogs. They want a ton of followers and corporate sponsorship and will do giveaways to increase traffic on their blog. While I will do a giveaway every now and then I make it easy. You don't have to link my blog, post my blog, jump through hoops of fire or any of that crap; you just have to leave a comment on that post. Now don't get me wrong here, it does feel good to know people follow my blog and want to see what I make *okie is always amazed that people leave comments to let okie know they have stopped by* but for me I think my blog has now become an outlet for my own creative expression *and okie's thoughts*.

Overall I think blogs can be a good thing. I do like going to blogs of others and seeing how inferior of a crafter I am but it makes me strive to try and be a little better. Although, I don't spend a whole lot of time reading blogs because then it would cut into my time creating.

I guess what it boils down to is that I think blogs can be a good thing. I just dislike people always saying "go to my blog" so I can see a picture of what they made or what they think. Just post at least one picture and then let me decide if I want to see or read more!

And that's all I got to say about that!

The Create comes in....

BLACK?? Who knew? Well I didn't know! *okie wonders why she is the last to know these things and then remembers it is probably because she doesn't like to to to Walmart anymore*.

I had to go pick up some Cricut blades today and noticed this! I was surprised to say the least and had to whip out my phone to take a picture *okie thinks she might be a little addicted to her camera phone but won't admit it publicly*. I am not tempted at all about purchasing one of these since I have the original Cricut and my red Expressions and I don't care for the black color since it would likely show dust very easily.

I wonder if they make one in red.....hhmmm.

Wedding favors...

equal Sour Cream Containers!! I swear these are the easiest things to make for favors! And probably the most inexpensive of the paper crafting favors.

One of the ladies on staff of the agency I work for is getting married this month and I told her for my wedding gift to her I would make favors. She had seen the sour cream containers before and did like them.

Stacie's wedding colors are black, ivory, red and pink. When Linda and I were in Tulsa on Thursday I looked at Michaels and didn't find anything. Then at Hobby Lobby I did find some papers *okie so prefers HL over M's any day of the week*. I couldn't decide what color I should go with for the container. I first picked out some pink striped paper, and it was very pretty but I decided it might be too much pink. I then found some black and ivory paper but Linda and I decided the print was probably too big. So I settled on this smaller print of black and ivory.

I used MS word to print the circle sentiment. The circles and scallop circle are done with paper punches.

If you haven't seen it I did do a video tutorial on the sour cream containers and it can be found here -----> VIDEO TUTORIAL SOUR CREAM CONTAINERS.

Linda's RAK Winner

I am a little behind due to a busy schedule! Linda picked and notified the winner of her RAK from her recipe book project.

The winner is:

bandit said...

Great job! Thanks for sharing the rest of the pages, I really like it.

Congrats Bandit!

Always finish your projects....

in a timely manner! Okay word of advice that I need to follow!

I was looking for something to work on this evening and came across a plastic box full of stuff. I pulled it out, saw what it was and shoved it back in the slot really quick like it was a snake that was gettin ready to strike. I then looked at it again and slowly took the box out of it's slot and took it to the craft table *okie sighs deeply and closes eyes*. I sat there looking at it for quite some time deciding if I really wanted to open it or not. After a few minutes of staring at it *okie doesn't figure people will believe her, but okie knows it really was a few minutes* I opened the box. Fingering through the papers I realized I had gotten farther on the project than I had thought.

I got everything out of the box and laid it on the craft table. I soon realized why I should have finished the project two years ago. I had forgotten how I had planned on finishing this little project!!

This is a time when Design Studio can be a life saver! I went through my files and sure enough I had saved a folder of files to finish the project. The only problem now is that I have so many cool cartridges and this could lead to endless possibilities.....and I need an end to this project! I left most of it the same but just tweaked a few things to make it go faster. I still have some things in DS that are saved and ready to cut tomorrow....or the next day, but definitely by the end of the week!

So what is the project??? A set of 4 recipe books that I had planned on making as prizes for my Girlfriend Christmas party!! You can see what I had posted almost two years ago here ---> RECIPE BOOKS <----. And hopefully next week I will have the whole thing completed and will be posting it!

WISH ME LUCK!! Oh and ya might want to say a little prayer for me also!

About the Gypsy....

Yep, it's true. I do have a Gypsy now. But I have to tell you folks.....I STILL LOVE MY DESIGN STUDIO MORE!! The Gypsy can have it's benefits for sure but there is no way I will give up Design Studio and making files for it. I like being able to see on the big screen. To me it is like going from a movie theater to a tiny tv to watch a movie. Heck DS is like IMAX compared to the Gypsy screen! LOL

Maybe I just need to play with the Gypsy some more so I can see that I do like it. But it will never replace my beloved Design Studio!

Ants!

I went to Stamp Club on Thursday and didn't take a thing with me to work on! I told my friend Linda I would likely just look through my new Stampin Up! catty while there. As I watched everyone make cards I couldn't resist. I went over to the stamps that were out for us to use and then to the paper pile and gather some stuff to make a card. I did have to use Linda's scissors, ATG gun, and markers so I could make the card. I did make 4 of the same thing.

For not having any of my own supplies I think the card turned out pretty good!

I think the second and third ant were suppose to be almost standing up. I didn't notice until I got them all stamped LOL.

Friends.....

I like the colors of this card but not sure if I like all the patterns. I do like the patterns but I think the card might be too busy!

I welded the "Friends" and the block together as a shadow. I then made another block smaller. For the butterfly and flower I used the hide contour feature for a middle layer since I wanted a different color than the shadow cuts.

The papers I used are from Kaiser and I have had them for a few years. I just love pink and brown together!

As for the file for the card....well I can't share it. I don't know how to upload a Gypsy file to my blog!!

Okay so now the cat is out of the bag. I do own a Gypsy now! But I am totally serious about the devil made me do it! Actually it was the Devil's Spawn!!

All I am saying....

is the Devil made me do it!! Stay tuned tomorrow to see what the Devil made me do!

Linda's Recipe Book - and a Giveaway!

My friend Linda, aka LGuild, made a recipe book and posted a few pictures on the Cricut Messageboard and was asked to post all the pictures. Linda doesn't have a blog and didn't want to take up MB space posting all the pictures so asked if I would post them on my blog *okie thinks Linda was just being lazy and wanted okie to take all the pictures and have to post them*. Of course I told her I would be more than glad to help her out *okie sometimes is not such an honest injun and might have lied a little about being glad about it*.

Linda came down for Stamp Club yesterday and we had some errands to run and then came back and took pictures of the pages. I think she did an excellent job on her book. Linda is not a scrapbooker, she is a card maker. So this was quite the stretch for her...matter of fact she said she had smoke coming out her head from trying to come up with ideas for all the pages *okie think the smoke was actually from Linda just using her brain and not stealing ideas from other people*.

Linda is also doing a giveaway of the items in the picture below. Just leave a comment on this post about her recipe book. She will do a random number draw on all comments left before July 7th at 11:00 pm. She is NOT giving away the recipe book it's self *okie already has dibs on it if Linda is gonna give it away*

Linda said "not every page has Cricut cuts on it but this was quite an undertaking for me since I make cards". She did use stickers, stamps and Cricut cuts. She also said "if someone asked me to make them one I would say 'YEAH RIGHT! Not in this life time'" *okie cracks up laughin*.

So without further ado here are the pictures!! Oh and remember you can click to make them bigger if you want to see more detail.

First three pages..the index is actually turned the other way, just turned it for picture taking.











Pages 4 and 5. Pages 6 and 7.











Pages 8 and 9. Pages 10 and 11.











Pages 12 and 13. Pages 14 and 15.











Pages 16 and 17. Pages 18 and 19











Pages 20 and 21. Pages 22 and 23.











Pages 24 and 25. Pages 26 and 27











Pages 28 and 29. Pages 30 and 31











Pages 32 and 33. Pages 34 and 35.











Pages 36 and 37. Page 38












Remember to leave your comment for a chance to win Linda's Giveaway!!

Sweet Treats Thursday - VACATION

Vacation - A period of time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation. Now when most folks think of vacations they think of far away destinations by sparking beaches or filled with amusement rides. Or maybe vacation is a trip to a national park or visiting distant family. Vacation is our theme this time for the Sweet Treats Challenge on the Cuttlebug Challenge. Make sure you hop on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge blog and see what my fellow designers have whipped up to share with you!

When I found out our challenge this time on Sweet Treats was Vacation I knew I needed to dig out some pictures that were much over due to be scrapped! I can't think of anywhere I rather vacation than my little cabin on Lake Eufaula here in Oklahoma. The cabin isn't much, but it doesn't have to be since it fits mine and my daughter's needs perfectly!! The cut file for the VACATION CABIN layout could easily be adjusted for your needs if you would like to download and use. *okie puts on her best television announcer voice* As always, the .cut file is free for personal use! *okie flashes her pearly whites like a tv announcer would do and winks*.

Oh and don't forget to click on the pictures if you would like to see more close up details!

Supplies Used -
Cricut Expressions
Cricut Design Studio
Cricut Cartridges - Campout, Base Camp
Cuttlebug
Cuttlebug folder - Distressed Stripes
Zip Dry Glue
Ladybug Buttons
Cat Eye Chalk Inks
Various Patterned Papers
Prism Cardstock
Signo UM 153 gel pen
Stampin Up! markers

Both cartridges used are available right now in the Cricut Rewards program! I believe CampOut is 400 points and BaseCamp is 800 points.

I cut the title using Base Camp and it could easily be changed to something else if you do want to use the .cut file for the layout. I put the letters through the Cuttlebug using the Distressed Stripes folder so they would look "woodsy".

All the cuts other than the title are with Camp Out. I bought this cart sometime ago so I could scrap my lake pictures...and sadly, these are the first I have scrapped! *okie shakes head at her lazy self*.






I decided to put the word "cabin" on the trees because I have difficulty allowing myself to layer things that aren't layered in life *okie can be a little OCD about some stuff*. I also went with masculine tones for the layout, which is not like me, but I think they were very befitting for the occasion!

The "ties" were crumpled and then brushed lightly with ink to give them a more leathery look. Not sure it worked out that way, but that is what was intended.




Here you can see some detail a little better on the sign. The ladybugs are some buttons and I snapped off the back and used Zip Dry Glue to attach them. That stuff is awesome for gluing embellies!! The grass at the bottom of the sign is actually the negative from the pine trees on the second page. *okie says very prim and proper* Waste not, want not!


Hope you enjoyed looking at the Cuttlebug Challenge layout projectd and reading another one of my goofy self narrated posts! *okie cracks up knowing she is a nerd and loves every minute of it*.