Speed Racer birthday invitation

I made these invites for my youngest's 2nd birthday next month, I can't believe he's almost 2 - I just had him yesterday, didn't I??!

Since we got him a big race car track for his birthday, I decided to go with the race car theme for his party!  I used the race car from Boys Will Be Boys cricut cart.  I used Kraft cardstock for the base and some new cardstock for the race car that I got from JoAnn's last week, I really like it - it cut so great in my cricut and embossed perfectly in my cuttlebug!  I used the diamond plate embossing folder for the circle behind the car, twine from We R Memory Keepers, the speed racer sentiment is from My Pink Stamper and I used the Teeny Tag Greetings stamp and matching tag die from My Creative Time for the "You're Invited" tag.

On the inside, I put a piece of the grey cardstock that matches the circle on the front then I will print the party details and adhere them to the grey cardstock and it'll be ready to mail.

I'm entering this into this week's challenge at My Craft Spot: Announcements & Invitations.

Big boy bike LO

I'm loving that I'm finally getting caught up on my oldest's scrapbook, though as the days go on - that also means that I'm getting more behind in my youngest's!  Seeing as how I haven't printed any pics of my youngest, guess it will have to wait a little longer!  But the good thing is, these Scrapbook Steals challenges are really lighting a fire under me and seeing as how they have them all the time, I hope it will continue so I can get both their books caught up sooner rather then later!

I used Scrapbook Steals Mid Week Mojo #8 sketch for this one!  I'm trying to get caught up on the Amethyst series before the end of the month.  These long stretches at work threw me off but after doing a lot on my last group of days off, I'm almost done!

Here's the sketch...

Here's my LO!  I really enjoyed using this sketch, I've been wanting to try a hexagon pattern on a page and this challenged me to do so!  I used Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff collection for this one, love the colors in this collection!  The hexagon and star shapes I cut using Accent Essentials cart and the bikes were cut from Boys Will Be Boys cart.

I used thickers and mini alphas to make my title on a banner I cut by hand then I cut another banner to use for my journaling. The twine I used for the picture and to hang the stars and bikes is from The Twinery.

Car and dump truck pictures

Good morning!  Today is my first post as a member of The Bug Bytes Design Team and I'm so excited, thanks so much to Pam for inviting me to join her amazing team of designers!

Today I have some pictures to share that I made for my oldest son's room!  I bought him a quilt to go with his new "big boy" room a couple of months ago, but couldn't find any pictures to match, so I decided to make some!  It took me awhile but I finally started on them and I'm really pleased with how they are turning out!

I found some black 10x10 frames at Michael's on sale and they ended up being less then $4 per frame!  His quilt has a mix of cars and construction trucks, so I looked through my Cricut carts to find ones that were similar.  I used a car and dump truck from Boys Will Be Boys and a car and the roads from Everyday Paper Dolls!

For the paper, I used mostly Echo Park "Little Boy" collection with some from Echo Park "Springtime" collection and cardstock from my stash to fill in as needed.

I took some step-by-step photos to show you my process, as I put together the first picture.  I started with setting them all up on my gypsy, then I laid out the paper on my Cricut mat...

Here's the car cut...

Now I have a trick to share with you, that I learned from my friend Tracy - instead of wasting a whole sheet of paper when you'll only see the edges, she cuts out the middle, leaving enough to adhere the center piece and saves the middle for another project!  It seems so simple (and GENIUS!! ;-) - thanks Tracy!) but somehow I never thought to do it!  It kills me to think of all the paper I wasted over the years but I know now and use this trick as often as I can!

So here is my background paper - cut to 10x10 then I cut the middle out, leaving enough edge to adhere my scene paper to!

Now here's my background paper and 8x8 scene adhered together!  You can't even tell the middle is missing behind the scene paper!

I used Imaginese colored foam tape to give the car some dimension with too much, since it will be in the frame. 

I inked the edges of everything using my Quick Quotes PowderPuff chalking ink - I can't say enough how much I love this ink!  It glides on so easily and looks fantastic!

Here are the completed pictures, framed and ready to go!  I wish I could have taken photos of them hanging against his blue walls but he's asleep, so that will have to be done later!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you have a great week!

Thanks Big Time!!

I made this card for my dad - he helped my husband build our wooden playset in the backyard last month, so we wanted to thank him for giving up 3 weekends to help us out and make 2 little boys super excited!!  :)  It turned out awesome and we are so fortunate to have it for the boys to enjoy for years to come!

I used several Cricut carts on this one, made easy using my Gypsy!  Have I said lately how much I'm loving it these days?  :)  The sun was from Sesame Street Friends, the slide from Locker Talk and the grass from Plantin Schoolbook.  The sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up 'A Word For You' set, the card base from DCWV, the blue layer also from DCWV 'Baby Boy' stack, and the cardstock was from my stash.  I used my Gelly Roll 'Starburst' pens to add sparkle to the sun and detail the slide.

The inside phrase was cut with Boys Will Be Boys cart using cardstock from my stash.

I'm entering this in the Cricut 360º challenge #4 this week - Create a card or a layout representing "The Great Outdoors". 

Thanks for stopping by!

NSD Challenge #12

The final challenge of the day from My Pink Stamper was to make a project that's kid themed and because I have some little boy birthdays coming up this summer, I made a card! 

I just got the Cricut cart Boys Will Be Boys and I love this robot cut, so I wanted to use it!  I cut the circles for the stamp from Cricut Essentials.  The card base is Kraft cardstock and the background cardstock is from DCWV 'Playtime' Stack, another current favorite of mine!  The sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'Boy Crazy' set.

NSD Challenge #2

For the 2nd National Scrapbooking Day challenge on My Pink Stamper, she asked that we make a masculine project using Kraft cardstock.  I made this baseball themed card for a little boy!

I cut the baseball and bat from the Boys Will Be Boys Cricut cartridge using cardstock from my stash, I distressed the edges of the Kraft cardstock base and diecuts using Tim Holtz 'Tea Dye' distress ink.  The plaid cardstock is from the DCWV 'All About Boys' paper stack and the twine is from The Twinery.  The sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'Boy Crazy' set.