Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Embossing Folders – POPPY

I’m back with Day 2 of my Cuttlebug Anna Griffin embossing folders projects. Today I will show you the projects I created using the POPPY embossing folder.

POPPY Embossing Folder

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Wedding Invitation

SUPPLIES:

Cricut Machines Used:  Cricut® Expression Electronic Cutting Machine, Cuttlebug® Machine

Cricut Cartridges Used: Cricut Picturesque Cartridge, Cricut® Paper Lace 2 Cartridge, Cricut® Lacy Labels Lite Cartridge

Cuttlebug Folders Used: Cuttlebug® 5” x 7” Embossing Folder & Border, Poppy; Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder, Swiss Dots

Other Supplies: Cardstock (cream shimmer), Creamy Brown chalk ink, Computer & Printer, Scoring tool, Photo corner punch, Adhesive, Terrifcally Tacky Tape, Foam squares

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Seed Packet Card

SUPPLIES:

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut® Expression Electronic Cutting Machine, Cuttlebug® Machine, Cricut® Gypsy Handheld Design Device

Cricut Cartridges Used: Cricut® Sentimentals Cartridge, Cricut® Holiday Cakes Cartridge, Cricut® Florals Embellished Cartridge

Cuttlebug Folders Used: Cuttlebug® 5” x 7” Embossing Folder & Border, Poppy

Other Supplies: Cardstock (white, gray, lavender, aqua, dark moss), Patterned Paper (green polka dot, pink floral), Ribbon, Mini safety pin, Seed packets, Creamy Brown chalk ink, Corner rounder, 1/16″ hole punch, Adhesive, Foam squares

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Four Seasons Framed Artwork

SUPPLIES:

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut® Expression Electronic Cutting Machine, Cuttlebug® Machine, Cricut Craft Room^® Design Software

Cricut Cartridges Used: Cricut® Serenade Solutions Cartridge, Cricut Noah’s ABC Animals Cartridge, Cricut Craft Room® Basics Exclusive

Cuttlebug Folders Used: Cuttlebug® 5” x 7” Embossing Folder & Border, Poppy

Other Supplies: Cardstock (light cream smooth, cream textured, kraft, dark brown, pink, soft red, soft orange, moss, aqua), Patterned Paper (green/cream pattern, green polka dot), Ribbon, Buttons, Mini black pearl stickers, White pearl stickers, Dark brown Embroidery floss & needle, Twine, Brown spray ink, Dark yellow spray ink, Creamy Brown chalk ink, Brown chalk ink, Paper piercer, Sewing Machine & cream thread, Edge distressor tool, White frame (with 8″ x 10″ opening), Adhesive, Foam squares

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I hope you will back tomorrow for the final installment of my Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Projects! See you then!

I’m the Lucky One

I really do feel like the lucky one. I love my family so much and this St. Patrick’s Day I am doing a lot of reflecting about how lucky I feel to have these 5 people in my life. I won’t get too sappy on ya, but I just want the world to know that I LOVE my family!

Today I have a St. Patrick’s Day layout going up on the My Mind’s Eye Blog. My kids totally get into St. Patrick’s Day … they get into every holiday, actually. Don’t you love that about kids? Every day is a reason to celebrate, and holidays are even that much more special! Here are my kidlets all decked out for St. Patty’s Day last year. It was a Saturday, so they wouldn’t be at school with friends and the threat of getting pinched … yet they STILL wanted to dress up in their green and asked me to spray their hair green with Halloween hair paint. They looked so funny with their sickly green hair, kind of like they had been swimming all summer without baths. LOL!

I’M THE LUCKY ONE

I used the My Mind’s Eye Collectable Memorable collection. Aren’t the colors perfectly sweet? Playing with it has definitely given me a case of Spring Fever! I love how MME does softer color palettes. Soft and Spring-y, yet not washed out and pale. This girl needs COLOR! Hehehe!

I began this page by figuring out how I wanted to place my pics. Sometimes I will print my pics out in random sizes (by changing the reduction percentage) and just force myself to try a new size. For these I set my pics to print out as 3.5″ x 5″ at 80%. They came out as 2.75″ x 4″. I grouped the girls together on the bottom, and then paired my son up with a journaling card on the top row.

I wanted green on this page (of course!) for St. Patrick’s Day, so that’s why I chose the tweed looking green pattern in the background. But my kids green hair next to that green paper was looking a little seasick … so I chose to mat the photos on complimentary papers. Pink for the girls, and tan for the boy. The striped paper ties all of the colors together (Thank you MME wonderful designers for doing the hard work for me! you make picking paper so easy!   ).

The title and shamrocks were created with my Silhouette Cameo machine. The title is a welded phrase from the Silhouette store (by Samantha Walker Designs). I cut it out in three colors: hot pink for a shadow, green for the base, and then a lighter green. I used scissors to snip out the word “Lucky” from the lighter green, embossed it with my Swiss Dots embossing folder and my Cuttlebug machine, and then adhered it to the other green layer. A few butterflies (with enamel dot bodies) and a brad make it a little more fun!

My grid design filled up most of the page, but I HAD to have some Shamrocks on there! I cut them out with my machine, embossed them, and then accented them with My Mind’s Eye goodies (label stickers, chipboard, decorative brads, chip buttons, and a bit of twine). I used to spend HOURS looking for a four-leaf clover during recess when I was a little girl. My friend found one once … but I never did. Awww, well. Maybe some day! Hehe! In the meantime, I will just make my own with lots of cute, scrappy details!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! And that you get to spend it with the people that make you feel blessed and “lucky” for having them in your life!

Thanks for coming by! See you again soon!

Love is in the Air!

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day and we have had our Valentine “factory” going in full swing this week. We just finished up the cards and box tonight. Guess what?! I only had ONE kid that needed to make a Valentine box this year. I was actually a little sad. Valentine boxes were always my favorite thing to make as a child and now as a crafty adult, they are an excuse for me to get creative and have fun with it. Do you get into the Valentine box making? I told my kids that when they grow up, I will be happy to make all their kids Valentine boxes for them … it’s just too much fun!

Here is what we made Maryn. I used a Circus tent box cut file from SVG Cuts (Summer Street Carnival). I used my Cuttlebug machine to emboss some of the layers with two folders, Seeing Spots and a folder from the Decorative Tile set. The flat at the top is premade, I just added a couple of punched hearts and rhinestones for fun. Next, I adhered the circus tent to a flat box created from a cut file available in the Silhouette store. The gate and animals were then adhered to the base around the tent.

The gate was created with two paper straws. I made the banner with my Cricut Expression machine. The pennants are from the Birthday Bash cartridge, and the letters are from the Carousel cartridge. I used Cricut Craft Room to hide the inner contour of the letters to make them easier to cut. They letters were adhered to the pennants with foam dots and then strung together on red wire.

All of the cute animals are from the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge. I used the Cuttlebug machine and the Swiss Dots embossing folder to add texture to some of the layers on the animals.

For the juggler, I cut out two circles for each ball. I then glued them together with a piece of wire in between to make it appear as though the balls were really flying through the air.

I usually create a seasonal home decor piece or two to freshen up our decorations each year. This time I found an abandoned white frame in our closet and decided to make a dimensional art piece using the My Mind’s Eye Lost & Found 3 Ruby collection. Here is how it came together.

I cut the pieces out using my Silhouette Cameo machine. I folded each heart in half and then used my sewing machine to zig zag stitch down the center.  I added a pop dot in between each layer as spacers so that the heart wouldn’t fall flat.

As a finishing touch I adhered a few Enamel Dots to look like paint spatters.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a Happy Love Day!

Winter Cricut Projects

Last weekend, we were hit with a HUGE snowstorm. We received 24″ within 12 hours and school was cancelled the next morning. My kids were excited to be home from school and the girls ventured out to play for a bit.

Maryn LOVED the deep snow. Here she is *trying* to make it to the front door … she gave up halfway and came back.

Snow angels are a little hard to do in deep snow.

Cam wasn’t that big of a fan. She wasn’t feeling well and wanted to play so badly. But it was too darn cold. She took a few obligatory photos and then headed back inside with the dog.

In the spirit of snow, I thought I would share a few wintry projects for you that I created for Cricut awhile ago using the Snow Folks Cartridge.

HOT COCOA KIT

A clear craft paint can makes a cute container to make a hot cocoa kit with. Just layer together hot cocoa mix and marshmallows and add a tag with instructions. It’s sure to warm up someone’s day! Instructions and a Cricut Craft Room cut file can be found HERE on the Cricut.com website.

SLEDDING PARTY INVITATION 

Are you getting friends together for a sledding party soon? This window invitation would be a fun way to get everyone excited. Instructions and a Cricut Craft Room Cut File can be found HERE at the Cricut.com site.

I LOVE WINTER Scrapbook Page

This fun and happy snow page uses the Bella Blvd. Winter Wonder collection. I added a heart to the title block over the existing heart with the Doodlecharms cartridge. The heart and snowman are embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, and the snowman’s sled gets a woodgrain texture with the Distress Stripes embossing folder. Instructions and a Cricut Craft Room Cut File for this project can be found HERE on the Cricut.com site.

Thanks for coming by today! I hope you are staying warm in your neck of the woods!

Birthday 2-Pager

Hello Tuesday Readers! I’m back with another page featuring photos that I have been ignoring for awhile. Hehe! I’m starting to call these “Get ‘Er Done!” pages in my head while I’m working on them (said in my best tow truck Mater voice). Hmmmm. Maybe that will become a weekly feature on this ol’ blog of mine … who knows?

SWEETIE PIE

I “shopped my stash” on this one pulling out an older collection by Echo Park Paper called Summer Days. I used mostly the “B” sides and a few striped paper strips. The banner sticker, word stickers, and journal blocks are also from this collection.

The hearts are inexpensive, glittery foam hearts that I picked up at Michael’s last year. They don’t even have a company name on them to give credit to, but they sure look girly and cute on this page.

The “Sweetie Pie” title and pie are from the Silhouette store. I cut them using my Cameo machine. The layered circles, cupcake, and ice cream (Sweet Shop Cartridge) were cut using my Cricut Expression. I embossed the white layer of the circles with my Cuttlebug machine and the Swiss Dots folder.

I added texture to the cupcake paper with my crimping tool.

Thanks for coming by today! Tomorrow I’ll be back with a few wintry projects created with my Cricut. I hope to see you then!

My Sweet Kids

Today I have a page up on the My Mind’s Eye blog using their NEW Six by Six Two paper pads. I love using these smaller sheets of paper with my die cutting machines! On this page, I created a colorful title and quilt-inspired background using the papers from the A Mother’s Love paper pad.

The title is simply a mix of three fonts from my computer, cut out on my Silhouette electronic die cutting machine. I love how crisp and neatly the Silhouette cuts out the letters! I tied a bit of Lime Twist baker’s twine around the letter “S” and added Lush 2 orange ribbon/button to the border strip beneath the letters. The lacy white borders were created with border punches. The top one is by EK Success and the bottom one is by Martha Stewart Crafts.

I think Quail families are the cutest thing ever! I love to watch them scamper around the neighborhood … the little ones trying so desperately to keep up with their momma all the time. Kind of reminds me of my own family at times. This quail cut is from the Silhouette store. I anchored each bird on a simple layered circle background embossed with my Cuttlebug machine and the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Thanks for coming by today! I’ll be back tomorrow to share a Back-to-School teacher gift with all of you. I hope to see you then!

Magical Memories

Hello, friends! Are you gearing up for another great weekend? I’ve been on a roll lately scrapping some family vacation memories and today I have a Disney page to share. Typically, when people think of scrapping their Disney pages they reach for the red/white/black/yellow colors that are so iconic of Mickey Mouse. This time, I took my inspiration from the bright colors of Disney cartoons, instead. So what makes this page feel “Disney” . . . how about a magical, Cricut castle cut?!

The castle cut is from the Wrap It Up Cartridge anchored on an oval created with the Cake Basics Digital Cartridge. Stars act as a great supporting element to the castle cut! The felt star stickers are oldies, but goodies. I updated them a bit by adding plastic stars on top of them.

I added circle mats to the circular pages on the left page with the Cake Basics cartridge. The “Magical” letters were cut using Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art Digital Cartridge. The banner image from the Jubilee cartridge was stretched on my Gypsy Design Device and used to house the word “memories” (cut with the Billionaire Digital Cartridge). All of my other page accents were items that I had in my stash. I used my Cuttlebug Machine to emboss a few layers of the castle with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

See the “Remember” tab stamp? I created that myself! Woot! Woot! Last year I bought the Teresa Collins Stampmaker from HSN.com and I had yet to try it out. Ummmm . . . LOOOOOOVE this thing!!!! I am totally addicted now! It took me a few tries to get the hang of it (didn’t quite figure out that I had to “flash” the back of the stamp first for the smaller pieces to stay put), but I can’t wait to create more stamps!

Thanks for letting me share my page with you today. I’ll be back tomorrow with another Disney page. Hope to see you then!

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut Expression Electronic Cutting Machine, Gypsy Handheld Design Device, Cuttlebug Machine, Cricut Craft Room
Cricut Cartridges Used: Wrap It Up (Castle), Cake Basics – Digital (Oval, Circles), Jubilee (Banner), Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art – Digital (Font: Magical), Billionaire – Digital (Font: Memories)
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Used: Swiss Dots
Other Supplies Used: Cardstock (brown, white, red, green, yellow, aqua), Patterned Paper (My Mind’s Eye Lost & Found Two “Rosy” collection), Felt Star Stickers (ProvoCraft), Plastic Stars (Unknown, purchased at Michael’s), “Together” Sticker (KI Memories), Mickey Button Stickers (EK Success), Journal Card (Collage Press), “Good Times” Sticker (October Afternoon), Letter Stamp Stickers (Martha Stewart Crafts), Black Gel Pen, Dark Brown Distressing Ink (Colorbox), Adhesives (Scotch), Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives)

Buffalo

Last summer, we went on a road trip to see the Grand Canyon. We stayed at Jacob’s Lake near the North Rim. It was BEAUTIFUL! I never expected that we would be in a wooded area full of pine trees and mountain meadows . . . for some reason, I pictured it dry and arid. Anyway . . . on the drive over to the Grand Canyon from Jacob’s Lake we stumbled upon a herd of Buffalo. They were right next to the road! Literally, four feet away from us. It was soooo cool! Of course, I snapped a bazillion photos and had to scrapbook a couple of them. Here is the resulting page.

BUFFALO

I thought that the American Crafts Campy Trails collection would be perfect for this page. I began the page by adhering my photos to the orange strip of paper and then adding the handcut border of pennant flags underneath. Next, I knew that I wanted to find a buffalo cut from my Cricut cartridges. My plan for adding a Cricut cut buffalo to this page was to create a visual triangle with the buffalo pictures on my page.  This one is from the Destinations cartridge. I added him to an oval cut from the Cricut Cake Basics cartridge and added a few border strips of grass cut from the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge to give him something to “eat”. Hehe! The trees were a sticker from the Campy Trails collection, that I matted with dark brown cardstock. If you don’t have a similar sticker, you could easily create your own trees with your Cricut. I also embossed the cream oval with my Cuttlebug machine and Swiss Dots embossing folder for a little more fun. Finally, I added a bit
of twine and an orange button to the buffalo’s neck.

Next, I added a title to the top of the page. When I am working on rustic or masculine pages, I especially like to pull images from the Fabulous Finds cartridge. This time I cut out an extra large bookplate to serve as the home for my title. This time I embossed the cream background with the Woodgrain embossing folder. I added a few eyelets  to the holes before adding some interlocked lengths of twine. Finally, I added a dimensional sticker from the Campy Trails collection and my title using the font on the Quarter Note cartridge. I welded the letters together and then cut it three times. Once on brown woodgrain patterned paper, once on dark brown cardstock (to serve as an offset shadow), and a third time in yellow woodgrain patterned
paper. For the yellow woodgrain layer, I used my Gypsy Design Device to hide the openings in the letters so that the color would show through the brown woodgrain layer. This is a fun way to add a bit of color to your titles!

Thanks for taking a look at my outdoors-inspired scrapbook page! I hope you take a few days this summer to get out and enjoy nature’s bounty.

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut Create Personal Electronic Cutter, Cuttlebug Machine, Gypsy Design Device, Cricut Craft Room
Cricut Cartridges Used: Destinations, Fabulous Finds – Digital, Cake Basics – Digital, Plantin Schoolbook – Digital, Quarter Note
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Used: Swiss Dots, Woodgrain
Other Supplies: Cardstock (brown, cream), Patterned Papers/Stickers (American Crafts Campy Trails collection), Eyelets, Eyelet Setter (Cropadile by We R Memory Keepers), Twine, Buttons, Needle & Floss, Brown distressing ink, Adhesives

You Make Me Smile

I feel so grateful to be the mother to four amazing kids. I love spending time with them, and try to capture our everyday moments together through my scrapbooking. It doesn’t matter if the only pictures I capture of us being together are just a few casual snapshots caught with my cell phone, I want them to know that they make me smile and that they have enriched my life beyond what I ever expected. This page is one of those moments! Just me and my kids out having ice cream after a trip to the dentist. (Yep! Ice cream after the dentist . . . a little counter-productive, but hey! You gotta live a little sometimes.)

I used my Cricut Imagine Machine and the Imagine Hopscotch cartridge to print off almost all of the patterned papers. I didn’t have any bright blue cardstock in my stash to go with the papers, so I printed that off, too! (LOVE that!) The banner shapes, clouds and “Smile” letters are all handcut from the Imagine papers. I used my Cuttlebug machine and the Swiss Dots embossing folder to add texture to a few of the clouds.

The journal blocks and title are from the Creative Memories This & That cartridge. I was initially going to use the entire phrase from the This & That cartridge, but decided at the last minute to handcut out the letters from the Imagine Hopscotch paper for the word “smile” to add a bit more color and tie into the colors of the handcut banner piece at the top of the page. The background of the title block is embossed with the floral folder included with the Cuttlebug Machine.

The hearts are from the Create a Critter cartridge, and I couldn’t help but incorporate the darling mother & daughter nesting dolls from the Simply Charmed cartridge. I’ve been wanting to use those cuts for a long time and this was the perfect opportunity! I embellished the doll cuts with Pewter pearls for eyes, and tiny button brads for cheeks. I also embossed the bottom of each doll with the Cuttlebug A2 Border Frills set.

Cricut Machines Used: Cricut Expression Electronic Cutting Machine, Cricut Craft Room, Cricut Imagine Machine, Cuttlebug, Gypsy Handheld Design Device
Cricut Cartridges Used: Imagine Hopscotch (patterned papers), Creative Memories This & That (journal block, title), Create a Critter (hearts), Simply Charmed (nesting dolls)
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders Used: Swiss Dots, Flower Folder (included with Cuttlebug Machine), Frills Borders
Other Supplies: Cardstock (green, white, yellow, tan), Patterned Paper (Imagine Hopscotch Cartridge, American Crafts – pink swirl, October Afternoon – green/cream floral), Twine (Stampin’ Up), Brads (Making Memories), Pearls (KaiserCraft), Buttons (Americna Crafts), Foam Squares, Adhesives

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CRICUT CUTS:

Use the Cricut Imagine Machine and the Imagine Hopscotch cartridge to print patterned papers

• Yellow/white floral background

• Banner paper

• Cloud paper

• Large multi-colored alphabet paper

• Striped paper

• Blue cardstock

Use the Creative Memories This & That Cartridge to cut the following

• 2.25″ Icon Feature <SpcShp-s> with gray cardstock

• 3.35″ Monogram Feature <Purse> (use Gypsy or Cricut Craft Room to hide inner line) with green cardstock

• 3.35″ Monogram Feature <Purse> (use Gypsy or Cricut Craft Room to hide outer line) with white cardstock

Use the Simply Charmed Cartridge to cut the following

• 4″ <NstDoll1> and all layers with blue, yellow, tan, gray, and pink cardstock

• 4″ <NstDoll2> and all layers with pink/yellow/green/tan/gray cardstock and red swirl patterned paper

Use the Create a Critter Cartridge to cut the following

• Two 2.25″ Real Dial Size, Phrase Feature <Balloon3> in red swirl patterned paper and gray cardstock

• 2.25″ Real Dial Size, Phrase Feature <Balloon3> (use Gypsy or Cricut Craft Room to hide inner line) with white cardstock

Thanks for letting me share!

Meeting Rapunzel

Several weeks ago we snuck away to Disneyland for a Spring vacation. It was so much fun to watch my kids get caught up in the magic and enjoy seeing and meeting their favorite Disney movie characters. On the last day we were slammed with a huge rainstorm. We tried to wait it out, but it just wasn’t letting up. As one last ditch effort before leaving the park, we decided to go into the Gepetto’s restaurant to have lunch and see if it got any better while we were eating.

My kids were soooo excited when they found out that Rapunzel and Eugene were right next door and ran to wait in the line to meet them. Owen especially loved Eugene’s “smolder” face. The kids posed for a picture and then ran back to eat their lunch . . . but now, instead of “Gepetto’s” they call that restaurant the “Snuggly Duckling.” Hehehe!

These pictures were quite dark with the photographer’s flash and there are A LOT of colors going on with Rapunzel’s painting in the background. Usually, when I have photos like that, I convert them to a sepia or black and white, but I didn’t want to lose the cartoon-like colors of this magical moment. I decided that I would use the candy pastel colors from the Noel Mignon Primrose Kit in an attempt to do the trick.

I used my Cricut Expression machine and the Something to Celebrate cartridge to cut the hanging lanterns and hung them across the top of the page using the pink baker’s twine from the kit. I wanted the lanterns to have a bit more dimension so I used my Cuttlebug machine and the Swiss Dots and Paper Lace 2 Embossing Folders to emboss one of the layers. The word “Rapunzel in the title was also created using my Cricut Expression machine. The font is from the Botanicals cartridge. I cut the first letter a little larger to make it more of a focal point. The October Afternoon blue letter stickers are from my stash.

Finally, I added a spritz or two of blue spray ink to the background to represent all the rain we experienced that day. We actually ended up leaving after our lunch and spent the rest of the day watching “The Wizard of Oz” in our hotel room. The rain never did let up, but we still had a great time being together.

Thanks for coming by today! I hope you will stop back in again tomorrow when I share a few new My Mind’s Eye projects with you.

Take care!

Jana