Disneyland Album Here I come

Last year we went on a trip of a lifetime to Disneyland Anahiem,  it was awesome.  As you can imagine we had loads and loads and loads of photos.  With three camera's on the go it was going to happen.  lol  I was saving the album for a scrap retreat in a few weeks but I have had to cancel.  So sad  :(  but on a plus side I get to start the album now instead of waiting and I dont have to cart all my stuff anywhere.

I got the Mickey and friends Cartridge just before Christmas and I love it.  I used it earlier to make a card for my in laws.  (click here if you want to have a look).  So that's where mickey came from and many other characters you will see as the album continues.

Kindy Glitz Mickey pants because I can.  lol

Another good thing of many on this cartridge are the different borders.  I fused Mickeys gloves together to go around the photos.   Love it.  The font I used was from Robots.  It is very similar to the Mickey Mouse font (which I dont have) so I am using that instead.  I know this page looks a little busy but it is just what our holiday was - very busy.

Stay tuned for more pages............

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Another Fridge masterpiece.

I was given another one of those little tin fridges from a friend (thanks Chloe) and decided to use it to hold all my clear stamps.  I realise the importance of stamps when I was making mums card.  I cant seem to get the cricut to do small things without the paper ripping and thats when I realised I need stamps, rub ons or stickers.  I honestly thought that once I had the cricut I wouldn't need any of that stuff but you still do.  Yes I know it took me a while but better late then never I suppose. lol

Here is the little tin fridge.  My other one was red so I couldn't use the same paper again.

So off hunting I went to find some paper.  My patterned paper is running a little low because I have challenged myself to use what I have instead of buying.  I found this paper.  It is double sided (love double sided paper) and it is by My little shoe box.  It matched prefectly.

The lets play is from toy story Cart and the gold are a couple of the stamps that I have already.

I love this paper. So bright and colourful.  I got this when I was in San Diego last year and of course I only ever buy 1 piece and I always need 2.  Stickles the name and added a few rub ons.  I tried to keep this one simple because  I just love the paper.

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Cooking with cricut flower challenge

I have decided to enter into the challenge  with Cooking with Cricut.  In this challenge you have to use three flowers.  So this is what I made.

I pulled out my gypsy and had a search for flowers.  Found the roses on Indie Art and I stickles them up.  and added the bow.  I made this for mum, who is in hospital at the moment. Red roses because red is her favourite colour.

Hope you get better soon Mum.

Storage Container

My hubby got one of those tin fridge like for Christmas.  Once the fudge was gone,  I got the tin and turned it into storage for my glitters and distressing inks.

I have used Kaisercraft paper (not  sure of the collection), small flowers, little silver and pink rhinestone flowers and the rub ons. I distressed some words and glittered the others.  Gotta love that stickles and kindy Glitz.  So easy to use.

I have also used a few different cartridges. Plantin Schoolbook for 'distressing inks', Zooballoo for 'Stickles', Gyspy wanderings for vine on the top.

I will admit I wasn't sure now this was going to work out but I am really happy with the result.  My first decorate tin.  Woo Hoo.

Earlier Work

I wanted to show some of my earlier work without the cricut.    These are from my album because like most mums we are often behind the camera.  We sorted that problem out by getting hubby a camera too.

I got this idea from one of my many magazine - couldn't tell you which one it was ages ago. lol  100 things I love.  Can you name 100 things?

This next layout is very simple and easy.  It has a lot of journalling.  I used it for 2007 - the year I turn 30.  A lot happened that year and I really wanted to remember them.

I have inked some of the highlights during the year to make it more inviting to read because of the amount of journalling. (sometimes you need to be in the mood for that much reading.  lol)

Simple but effective layout.  Give it a go.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #57

Since I have been blogging I have watched from afar all the entries for scrapbooking competitions so I decided to try my luck at one.  It's all about getting interesting ideas for different pages and cards.  So here goes.

At Cricut Cardz Challenge #57 there is a challenge to make a card using black,white, and red only.  I  just had to do  Mickey Mouse. 

I have used the  Mickey and  Friends cartridge and some good old fashioned rub-ons.