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Happy Monday!  I've returned from our trip to the UK to deliver Son#1 to college at Oxford and recovered from the accompanying jet lag.  We had a wonderful trip and needed a week to recover from the trip, lol!  Jet lag is no joke!  I took lots of pictures of all the amazing things we saw, so lots of fun scrapbooking is ahead.

I'm the hostess for our pumpkin challenge for the next two weeks over at BBTB2.  I'll admit this week's project was kind of thrown together, as my fatigue led to a severe creative block.  I do have a wonderful picture of my boys that will go on this week's layout, taken in September on the last time the boys will be together til Christmas break.   I used Designer's Calendar for the September title and a cartridge called Pumpkin Farm that I found on cricut access for the pumpkins and leaves.   I hope you will join us with a project over at BBTB2 and you can see the other designer's wonderful work over there as well.



Cricut:
Designer's Calendar-september
Pumpkin Farm-pumpkins, leaves
Paper-Colorbok Beach House collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink for edging

For those interested, a few snaps from the trip to the UK are below.  We loved London and enjoyed seeing some of the historical sites and rode the London Eye for a fantastic view of the city.  Oxford is like being on a movie set, except it's real life!  Everything is is old and beautiful and amazing.  Seeing the University of Oxford (which is made up of 39 colleges) and learning that the oldest college was founded in the 1100s was incredible.  I'm envious of my son's opportunity to spend a year there.  We spent our last day seeing Stonehenge, which gave me goosebumps as I looked at these ancient stones from 2500 BC.

Happy Monday!  Well, the rain in my neck of the woods has just gone on and on, but nothing like what those experiencing Hurricane Michael have endured.  The KC area has been in a drought, but I'm not sure getting all the rain at once is a good thing....   I am more than ready for some sunshine and crisp fall days instead of the gray gloomy ones of this last week!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a word fall or autumn related word on a project.  I used two of my favorite oldie but goodie cartridges to make this Autumn layout.  The title comes from Lyrical Letters and the sweet pumpkin man is from Stretch Your Imagination.  The designers over at BBTB2 have some great fall projects shared and you can also link one up there over the next two weeks.

Cricut:
Lyrical Letters-autumn title
Stretch Your Imagination-pumpkin man
Paper-Echo Park prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is an anything with a cricut cut challenge.  So if you have that partially finished orphan project, here's your chance to get it finished off and share!  My layout is for pictures from a fall festival last year.  I used several cartridges for my fall themed scene-  Artistry, County Fair, and Mickey and Friends.  Hope you all have a good week and if you are from the areas being rained on by Florence, I hope you stay safe and dry.


Cricut:
Artistry-sunflowers, hey there pumpkin
County Fair-fence, hay bales, chicken
Mickey and Friends-sun, clouds

Happy Monday!  The weather actually feels a bit more like fall here in KC, with slightly cooler temps and we are just starting to see the first color in the leaves!  There are many fall festivals going on-I was at my suburb's festival and parade this weekend to watch Son#2 lead the high school marching band and I think I'm still in a sugar coma from too many funnel cakes!  Can't resist that yummy festival food!!!

In keeping with fall, our BBTB2 challenge this week is to use a pumpkin cut on a project.  I just got the You Are Here CTMH cricut cartridge for my birthday last month and used the pumpkin cut on it for my layout for pics from the fall festival.  I'm having so much scrappy fun playing with it!  The design team over at BBTB2 has lots of pumpkin-y goodness for you to see and you can link up a project too.
Cricut:
You Are Here-pumpkin and leaves
Paper-CTMH

Happy Monday!  Has it felt like fall in your neck of the woods?  It still feels like hot, sticky late summer here in Kansas City.  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is fall....but my current events are full of shorts, t-shirts, and swimming pools.  With a little high school football mixed in.  However, I had pictures from last year of two of my sons playing fiddle at a local fall festival, so I whipped up this fabulous fall layout using the 3 Birds on Parade cartridge.  I love this cartridge and I think I've used almost every single cut on it at one time or another.  Hope you will join us over at BBTB2 and submit a project!  You can see the design team projects for inspiration there as well.  We also now have a Facebook group you can join.


Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug prints, CTMH solids

Hello Monday!  For anyone who lives in the hurricane affected areas, I know it is not such a great Monday...and I pray you come through the storm safely.  Everyone at my house is sick and cranky, so my week is going to be a drag.  I think large quantities of ice cream might make it better though-I'll report back next week if that works, lol!

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is fall leaves.  I used the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge for my fall layout with leaves and pumpkins.  We have several fall festivals on the calendar in the next month, so this layout is made with some of those pictures in mind.  All the cuts are from Cheerful Seasons.  Check out the design team projects and link yours up over at BBTB2.



Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-all cuts
Paper-Carta Bella prints/letter stickers, CTMH solids

Happy President's Day Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge theme this week is cute animals, which inevitably leads me to create with two of my all-time favorite cricut cartridges- Create A Critter and Create A Critter 2.  I have several pieces of Create A Critter goodness to share!  As always, the designers over at BBTB2 have some wonderful projects to see and you can link up a project as well.

 Cricut:
Create A Critter 2-party pig and party chick
CM Be Young-font
Paper-Echo Park

Cricut:
Create A Critter-whale
Wild Card-card base
Plaintain Schoolbook-circle
scallop edge for the waves
Stamp-CTMH Animal Greetings
Ink-Tsueinko Memento Black
liquid glass on whale's spout

Happy Monday!  I hope you had a great fall weekend!  At BBTB2 this week, we have a color challenge using the fall colors of brown, gold, orange, and red.  I made a layout for some of the Thanksgiving pictures I plan to take, using the CTMH Artiste cartridge for the title and leaves.  Since the leaves were kind of plain by themselves, I added some scoring and doodling and crumpled them up  before adhering them onto my page.  I scrap lifted my basic page design from a layout by the fabulous Michelle Snyder that I saw on Pinterest (can I just say I LOVE Pinterest?) and changed it to fit the cuts from this cartridge and add some space for journaling.  Hope you will go check out the many varieties of fall colors from the design team over at BBTB2 and link up your own fall project.  It's a good time to make Thanksgiving decorations and projects…just sayin'.


Cricut:
Artiste-leaves, title
Paper-CTMH solids, Doodlebug Kraft in color polka dot
brown chalk ink, square punch (for photo corners)

Happy Monday!  It's been a busy weekend at my house, with the homecoming dance for the high schoolers and a big extended family BBQ along with smores over the fire pit.  I love fall!  The BBTB2 theme this week is to use a turkey.   Perfect timing, sinceI have a number of shots of the kids eating gigantic turkey legs at the fall festival!  I used the Simply Charmed cartridge for Mr. Turkey and the cornucopia on my layout.  The gorgeous print paper is from the Carta Bella Fall Blessings collection.  I scrap lifted the basic layout design from this project I saw on pinterest, although I adapted it a bit to suit.  The rest of the design team over at BBTB2 have some great projects for you to check out as well!


Cricut:
Simply Charmed-turkey, cornucopia
Paper-Carta Bella Fall Blessings collection print, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Happy Monday!  I am hosting the BBTB2 challenge this week.   I am ready to enjoy all things fall, like  drinking hot apple cider and watching Friday night high school football games.  Since the first day of fall was last Wednesday, I thought a theme using the word fall or autumn seemed just the thing for our BBTB2 challenge. My layout uses the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge for the the delicious Autumn title, basket of apples and apple slice.  The paper is from the Carta Bella fall line. I hope you will check out the fabulous fall projects over at BBTB2 and link one  something you make.


Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-all cuts
Paper-Carta Bella prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Happy Monday!  Our BBTB2 challenge this week is pumpkins, so I made a Thanksgiving layout with the Create A Critter cartridges (with a little help from Doodlecharms for some of the leaves).  My pumpkins are from Create A Critter, along with Mr. Turkey, the green leaves, and the acorns.  The cornucopia, ears of corn, and the word Thanksgiving are from Create A Critter 2.  The print papers are from the beautiful fall CTMH Pathfinder collection.  There are so many cricut pumpkins to choose from…so check out the fabulous pumpkin projects from the design team over at BBTB2 and link a new one up with us this week!



Cricut:
Create A Critter-pumpkins, green leaves, acorns, Gobble, turkey
Create A Critter 2-corn, Thanksgiving, cornucopia
Doodlecharms-yellow leaves
CM leaf punch-red leaves
brown chalk ink
Paper-CTMH solids, CTMH Pathfinder collection prints

Happy Monday!  I've had a really fun weekend watching Son#1's bluegrass band play in one of the local fall festivals Saturday and getting to spend Sunday making Christmas cards with my mom and nieces all day!  And I didn't have to work!  And we've been glued to the TV at night watching the KC Royals sweep the Angels (in extra innings!!!!), so we've all been up incredibly late.  I might need a rest day from my weekend, lol.  But on to scrappy goodness….

Our BBTB2 challenge this week is leaves and since the leaves are really starting to come down in my yard this week, I decided to incorporate fall leaves into my project.  I took a bunch of pics from the fall festival this weekend that will go on my autumn layout.  I used the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge for all the cuts.  Love the beautiful layered cuts on this cartridge.  We'd love to see your leaf projects (fall or otherwise), so link 'em up at BBTB2!


Cricut:
CM Cheerful Seasons-title cut at 2 3/4 in, leaves cut at 5 in, acorns cut at 5 in
Paper-Colorbok Beach House stack for background paper, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink
square punch-squares cut in half for photo corners

Happy Monday!  Is it feeling like fall yet where you live?  We are starting to see some color in the leaves here in KC!  The squirrels have been VERY busy collecting nuts out on my deck, driving my cat crazy!  I get to host our BBTB2 challenge this week, so I selected squirrels and nuts as our challenge theme.   I used the Create A Critter cartridge and some cute fall themed paper from Doodlebug that I had left in my stash from last year for my Nuts about U layout.  I've used this general layout design before, as it's a good one for using up those last pieces of paper from a collection and adapts to any theme.  My cute little squirrel has his stack of nuts beside him!  I'm planning to put pictures of my boys from the fall festival next weekend on here.  I hope you will join us at BBTB2 with a project this week!


Cricut:
Create A Critter-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

It's that time of year for pumpkins and hot chocolate and all things fall!  Our challenge at BBTB2 this week is to use a pumpkin on a project-and there are lots of cricut pumpkins to choose from!  I decided to try the pumpkins on my new Artbooking cartridge for some fall festival pictures from a few weeks ago.  All the cuts are from Artbooking, including the overlays and vine on both pages.  All  were cut at 11 inches except the pumpkins and leaves.   (I had to experiment with the sizes for the pumpkins and leaves to find something that worked -I couldn't use real dial size because then the layers wouldn't cut properly.)   I just used some cheap white cardstock while experimenting until the pumpkins and leaves cut at the size I wanted.





Cricut:
Artbooking-all cuts
Paper-CTMH solids, Imaginescense pumpkin print paper
brown chalk ink

I hope you will make a new pumpkin project to share with us over at BBTB2-we LOVE to see what you come up with!

Our BBTB2 wonderful leader Susan has selected the maple leaf from Art Philosophy for our challenge this week, but since I don't have that cartridge, I went with a similar leaf on Artbooking.  The title font is also from Artbooking.  The scarecrow, basket of apples, and wheelbarrow are all from the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge.  The pretty print papers are from the Doodlebug Happy Harvest collection, which if you a paper junkie like me, is really really cool!






Cricut:
Artbooking-title font, leaves
CM Cheerful Seasons-all other cuts
Paper-Doodlebug Happy Harvest collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

Note:  Artbooking is proving to be a bit tricky for me, if I'm not cutting the projects exactly as shown, for the sizing.  I used the real dial size for my cuts from Artbooking, as I was using individual elements (the font and leaves).   Also, there is no shadow for the font, so I cut it twice and offset it to give a shadow effect.

We'd love to see you link up with us at BBTB2 with a leaf project-you can check out all the fabulous projects the DT has made for inspiration!

So are you enjoying any cooler fall temperatures yet where you live?  It finally cooled slightly here just this weekend, after weeks of miserable heat and humidity.  My lovely DT sister Sharon has selected our challenge this week for BBTB2 and the theme is autumn.  This would be my favorite time of year, were it not for the pollen!  (I must remain heavily medicated at all times to be functional!)  But I love it when the leaves start to turn and it's a little cooler after the hot summer!

My layout is for some pictures taken on a fall hike last year, which I have yet to print (the kids keep using up all my printer ink on ridiculous things!!!).  I used the Give A Hoot cartridge for all the cuts, including the charms.  (I love this cartridge and think it is overlooked-it's full of animal and nature cuts.)  The paper is is from the fun and fresh Doodlebug Happy Harvest collection.





Cricut:
Give A Hoot-all cuts
Paper-Doodlebug Happy Harvest collection prints, CTMH solids
brown chalk ink

You can play along with us easily-just make a new fall themed project with a cricut cut, and link it up at BBTB2!  My DT sisters have some great projects to look at to get you started!

The Fantabulous Cricut challenge this week is "Down on the Farm" and I had some pictures that fit the theme, so I decided to play along.  We were recently at a fall festival where Son#1 was one of the musicians.  The festival is held at a park re-creation of an 1885 town.  There were barns and animals, of course, along with homesteads, saloon, blacksmith shop, etc.  I used the County Fair cartridge for most of the layout, except for the Good Times title, which is the Old West Flourish font.




Cricut:
Old West-font
County Fair-all other cuts
Paper-Reminesce Autumn Harvest

Son#1 performed at a local Fall Festival, so I made this fall layout for some of the pics.  I'd found this gorgeous fall paper by Reminisce that along with the BBTB2 challenge of the week, sort of inspired the layout.  I used the CM Cheerful Seasons cartridge for the pumpkins, basket of apples, and leaves and the title font is from the Baby Steps cartridge.  The BBTB2 challenge this week was to use "happy non-Halloween pumpkins", and I love these pretty pumpkins from Cheerful Seasons.  Wish the ones on my front porch were that pretty!  The festival, by the way, was in an old time town from 1885, in case you are wondering why there are Civil War soldiers and log cabins in the pics.






Cricut:
Baby Steps-title font
CM Cheerful Seasons-all other cuts
Paper-Reminisce Autumn Harvest line

Today I am the guest designer over at Die Cuttin' Divas!  The challenge is to  make a fall project using a die cut and your three favorite fall colors.  I paired the basket with leaves from my beloved Doodlecharms with the super cute bird from 3 Birds on Parade playing in the leaves!  I used red, yellow, and green for my 3 colors (those are the colors on the trees outside my window) and brown for a neutral.  I added some brads and inking to the basket for fun!  And the fun journal box is actually the card cut on Doodlecharms, with a little twine added!  All the cuts on the Doodlecharms cart have a card feature with the image cut out.








Cricut:
3 Birds on Parade-title and bird
Doodlecharms-basket and leaves, journal box
Paper-The Paper Studio All Seasons 2 pad of paper for the prints, solids are also The Paper Studio
brads, twine, brown chalk ink

Don't you just want to go jump in some leaves now?  (That someone ELSE raked, lol!)  Go check out all the other awesome projects at Die Cuttin' Divas this week and make your own fall project for the challenge!