I'VE BEEN CROWNED A PAPER QUEEN !!!

I am so excited to tell you that I have been asked to join the design team over at Paper Playtime. I will be a contributing designer (PAPER QUEEN) for them and can't wait to join in with the fun.   They have weekly challenges every Monday.  The project can be anything you want from a card, layout, 3D object, mini album, tag, gift bag... you choose, just make it with my very favorite ingredient PAPER...lol.  Sounds like fun huh?  The ladies that are on the design team are so very talented and I am just so happy to be included in the same design team with these extrodinary and gifted women. 

I was asked to create a project for this weeks challenge, and was so excited to do so here is what I came up with....The challenge theme this week was "Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain".  Use any type of water in your project.  Rain, dew, ocean, waves, ice cubes, frost, snow, bubbles, puddles, bath time, etc.

 I made everything for this card with my IMAGINE.... (except the base) I am still trying to figure out the imagine but my first impression is this machine will be AWESOME when I figure out how to "drive it".  lol....

All the background mats were made from the Imagine(using the Best Friends Cartridge)  and I also used the Paisley cartridge and figured how to "flood fill" the images to match my background mats.  Pretty cool huh?

I pop dotted the umbrella and added a brown ribbon and flower w/ pearl  to tie all the elements together.

The best part about this card is it only used 1 1/2 sheets of 12x12 card stock to make it . (YEAH !!).  I didn't have to figure out if this patterned paper matched that patterned paper, BECAUSE EVERYTHING COORDINATES so well together.  It was "EASY PEASY JAPANESEY" as my daughter likes to say.

The card also has little dots of Diamond Glaze on it to represent rain but my camera just didn't get them.

 Thanks for stopping by and taking a look

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps
Melissa

3D Cozy Coupe to be Honored !!!

First let me say " I would like to thank the academy"... lol, No seriously Matthew's teacher sent home a letter telling me how wonderful Matthew's car was, and asked if it would be alright if they kept it for a while because the principal wants to place it in the display cabinet at the front of the school.  I feel so honored.  Who would have thought anything I created was worth going on display for everyone to see. I think creativity come from deep inside the soul and when you open your mind up the possibilities are endless.

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa  

Cricut Cardz Challenge # 43 Baby Boy Monster

This week at CCC we had to come up with a Baby Boy card using the colors orange,green,blue, and white.  I have been working with the  Mini Monsters cartridge pretty much all week and have been trying to "think outside the box" when it comes to using my cartridges.   It has been my own personal challenge to figure out other ways to utilize them and get the most out of them.  If you haven't bought the Mini Monsters Cartridge it is one of those "must have" cartridge.  The cuts are just adorable and the layering is really great too.

The card is a standard A2 card (Portrait Style)

and all layers are cut 1/4 inch smaller

Monster Cut from the fabulous Mini Monsters

Crib cut at 4 1/2 inches from Everyday Paperdolls

Sentiment is computer generated

I pop dotted the crib and added a small strip to the bottom of the crib for a blanket

All cardstock is from DCWV Animal Crackers

Please take the time and join us at CCC  and play along with us.  It is always fun.

Remember "Think Outside The Box" when it comes to your cartridges you never know what you might come up with

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa

MINI MONSTERS BABY GIRL CARD

For those of you who know me, I really have a "quirky" sense of humor. I think this card sums it all up for how my "brain" works when making cards.  I am the mother to 3 girls (21,17,11) I know I live in the "Estrogen Ocean", but its ok I have learned to deal with it over the years.  Well my oldest daughter is pregnant with my first granddaughter, so I was inspired to make this card for her.

I hope you like it, I think it turned out just PERFECT...

I used pink and chocolate brown cardstock

The haunted house from Mini Monsters (using the card feature)

Stroller is from Everyday Paper Dolls

Look at the "little girl monster in her stroller" (makes me smile just looking at her) ;0)

Porch flap opened to reveal "Baby Girl Monster"

The inside sentiment - Pretty funny huh?

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa



CUTE HALLOWEEN WITCH CARD

I just love the MINI MONSTERS cartridge, the images are absolutely adorable and the layers are so easy to put together.  I made this cute witch card the other day, using the new K & Company paper stack "Spooktacular".  I love this paper stack, (well I love most scrapbooking paper)..lol but seriously this is one of those stacks that every single page is awesome.  I loved it so much that I bought 2 of them one for card making and one for those Halloween pic that are collecting dust waiting to be scrapped.

Well here's the card (simple but the paper and the witch) make the card.

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa

3D COZY COUPE !!!!

My grandson Matthew is in Pre-K this year, and as we all know with back to school come PROJECTS...

I don't understand why schools assign project to 4 year olds.. Knowing that an adult really is the one that has to do it.

The theme for the project is "TRANSPORTATION", the project stated to make a form of transportation using items you have at home. So a first I was going to make a truck out of a shoe box...but then the "wheels started turning in my head" and I SAID "use the CRICUT". They said use things you have at home and I have paper, glue and a CRICUT.(lol)

I have always loved the cozy coupe on the B is for Boy cartridge and is primarly why I bought the cartridge in the first place. So I had to figure out how to make it 3-D. I cut 2 cozy coupe and flipped one. I then had to figure out a way to make it stand up... so I used the Bags Tags Boxes and More cartridge to make a small box to glue the sides of the car too. I cut two strips for the front and the rear of the car to cover up the box in the middle of the car.

Here is a pic of my cozy coupe showing the box insert in the middle

Passengers Side

Drivers Side

I sure hope I make an "A" on my transportation project...lol

Until next time

Hugs & Scraps
Melissa

HSN ENABLED ME !!!

Say HELLO to my NEW LITTLE FRIEND !!!!

 

I am so HAPPY right now.. It will take a "JACK HAMMER" to wipe the smile off my face...   I just ordered my Cricut IMAGINE from HSN.  I was really on the fence about it, but after watching the presentation this morning I had to have it.  I think the Imagine is going to take our scrapbooking and cardmaking to a completely new level.   

*** Remember if you order it today through HSN you will get 3 CARTRIDGES ( Normally it only comes with ONE cartridge "Cricut Imagine").  Also if ordered today you get the option for 5 flexpays of $99.99 and free shipping).  I figure I spend $100.00 a month on McDonald's in a month...so I will ban "Eating Out" to pay for my IMAGINE.  (sorry "GIRLS" Momma has a "NEW SCRAPBOOKING TOY". ;0)

Cartridges that come in the bundle from HSN

 

It will not be here until next Friday (9/24)... I will be waiting patiently (well at least I will try to be patient)

Off to work on a project while I wait...lol

Would love to know what you think about the IMAGINE (Please leave me a comment)

Until Next Time

Hugs and Scraps

Melissa