Baby Shower Card

Happy Monday to you all, only 5 more sleeps till we head of on our Holidays to Caloundra. We all really need to get away for this one as we have had a few stressful months so I am really looking forward to this holiday.
We had a friends Baby Shower on the weekend and the girls decided that I had to make the card, I wonder why.... they would have just bought one, not very crafty some of my friends.
I have used Cricut Cartridge New Arrival for the pram and the words, and a Martha Stewart round the page punch as well as some Kaiser flourishes and a little bling.

Just a side on photo to show you that its an easel card and its quite large 8" x 8" in size.

Maybe you can guess that she is having a BOY!

Well I hope I will get a couple more posts in before the week is out, I am trying to get a few things packed and then onto my craft as I am not sure what I am taking with me this time.

I have got a fair few of the Marianne Craftables Dies as well as some new Nestabilities and new Cheery Lynn's so I think that may be my choice?

Cheers Shelley

STRUT YOUR CUTS WEEK # 1

Happy new year to all of you, this is my first challenge of many I hope for the year 2012.
Mandy at Scrappy-go-Lucky was inspired by another friend of hers Lisa from My Craft Empire to try and use all of her Cricut Cartridges to justify the expense.
The challenge is going to go like this:

Over the course of 2012 Mandy will randomly select five cartridges each week from the 268 cricut cartridges available right now (excluding the imagine carts). From that list of five you use the ones you own (or can borrow) in a project. Challenge starts on Sundays, and concludes on Saturdays.
Here they are:

New Arrivals
Jasmine
Songbird
Sweet treats
Lite Sweet Shop
Remember, we want everyone to be able to participate and use what you own so…if you own NONE of the week’s featured cartridges you may use up to 5 of the following: Gypsy Wanderings, Gypsy font, Craft Room basics, George, Don Juan, Plantin Schoolbook, Accent Essentials or whatever electronic cartridge came pre-loaded on your machine if you have the E2. Head over to see Mandy's blog for more details.
Week 1 challenge closes Saturday 7th January 23.59 Western Australia standard time.

I have used New Arrivals and Jasmine for my page layout. My Niece is pregnant and I thought I would design a few pages or even a whole album to give to her as a present and she can just add the photo's onto the pages.
I used New Arrival first and cut out Mommy on page 82, Rattles on page 109, Baby on page 124 and I made the green shadow feature a little bigger to sit behind the letters.

I then cut the congratulations from Jasmine using the oval shape and I used the shape instead of the letters.

The photo frames are in two sizes and there are Oval frame on page 119, then I cut the oval shape again just using the oval and shift key.

This is such a great idea it has really inspired me to use my Cartridge's what about you?

Cheers Shelley

Throwback Thursday Challenge

This is all made from New Arrival for a Little Girl of course because it's Pink

You can veiw it here on the Thursday Throwback Challenge

Card for Baby Wilson

I haven't got around to making a New Arrival Card so instead I though I would make this instead.

It's actually already made for you it opens like a little book and I have just decorated the inside with the pictures and bling of course. Just decided to make it this afternoon as we are going to there house for Dinner tonight so its all done and ready to go.