Flaunt it Fridays #8 Give a Hoot Challenge!

Yesterday for Stephanie at Always Crafting I completed a challenge about an elephant... Today Stephanie is sponsoring the prize for Flaunt it Fridays which is the bear in a bin cut from Give a Hoot...eek! The elephant was tough enough... but a bear in a bin!!! Oh NO!!! But as always: the idea came to me and I love the page I created. 

 My car really is always a mess. The boys don't like car trips and food is a great distraction, as a result, there is juice boxes, food packaging, apple cores and lots of other rubbish to clean out when home. (When I can get to it!) Not to mention the tonnes of toys and other distractions in there!

It has been nicknamed the 'Wheelie Bin' by my parents and some of my girlfriends. So funny. The bears represent me and my two boys. I used stamp masking and Peachy Keen Stamps 5/8" to just stamp the eyes from the everyday faces collection. If you are interested in learning about stamp masking click here for my mini tutorial. I must get more Peachy Keens. They really make a character come alive.

 

I don't have Give a Hoot cartridge so I cut my own bin with Sure Cuts a Lot. I was having trouble layering the bears as I tried to cut them out in Bazzills. But then Jacob, my scrapping assistant, had an idea:

 Watercolours and my aqua pen, so I ended using the water coloured pencils on a lot of the page, including title, dumped rubbish and for the definition on the dump truck.

The dump truck comes from Everyday Paper Dolls and so does the road. The Wheelie bin font is from Hannah Montana, the Daddy Girl font. 

Thanks again for a great challenge Flaunt it Fridays. I love your challenges! 

See you tomorrow for Cheap Chirpin' Tuesday!

2011 Calendar... Finished 7 days in! Plenty of time.

Over the last twenty days I have made three calendars. One for our house, one for my mum's and one for the in-laws!
Thats 36 layouts! Phew.

It was worth it. They look great. Before I sent them, I added photos of the kids for their birthdays and holiday information. 

 Bound with the Zutter! 

 

Life is a beach with some Big Shot fun!

 

Sure Cuts a Lot 2 and the Sew Easy got a workout. 

 

All you could need for it on SCAL2

 

Robotz cartridge. 

 

Love the Cindy Loo Font! Hand drawn freedom, Gel Pens in the machine too.

 

A bit of Heritage, Twiddly Bits and a little bit of Songbird.

 

Paper Dolls and Stretch Your Imagination, Stamp masking, inking galore!

  

Looking into SCAL2 fonts for pictures.

 

Walk In My Garden

 

Happy Hauntings. 

 

I-rock and Cropodile

 

PaperDolls, SCAL2 and Ribbon threaders. Finding inspiration in unexpected places. 

 Over the next few days I will post some of the ways I put these together will some mini-blog tutorials. I learned so much about SCAL2 while I was playing!

Good news! Since I am a blogging newby along with my friend Carlene, we are encouraging followers. SO...to my 33 current followers...Thank you! You have a chance to win one of these calendars for Christmas present for your relatives (or yourself) in December, 2011. 

Follow this blog and Me n' Miss Pink Cricut. On December 1st 2011, if you are still in our following lists and so are three of your followers... You are in the draw to win a handmade calendar which I will post Dec 10th, 2011... just in time for a Christmas present for one of your family. Now that I have the hang of SCAL,  and from all that I will learn from seeing other great blogs it will be even better! Thanks for blogging with us!


 

Snowflake Challenges Galore!

Thanks to Fantabulous Cricut blog for their Challenge me Monday! I also found The Paper Variety,  Jitterbuggin Challenges,  Cooking with Cricut and Made by Momo doing similar challenges so I'm entering all of them! I love the theme/sketch challenges because it keeps my layouts rolling!  I am making a calendar for 2011 as a gift for my mum, my in laws and one for home. I got stuck for ideas on July and then I saw this challenge. 

I've never played in snow. I have only seen it from an aeroplane so making a page with snowflakes appealed!

I used Everyday Paperdolls for the cute people. The Snowman comes from Stretch Your Imagination and I designed the template on Sure Cuts a lot2.  


LOVE looking into my crazy fonts on my computer when I am in the Sure Cuts a Lot program... The snow splats and balls are hidden in a font called Smudge and the font for the title was Chiller. 


The snowflake I stickles-ed with Waterfall is from Accent Essentials. The hills are from Everyday Paperdolls too. 


Of course Distress Inks, I used LOTS of colours.

Mini Tutorial on stamp masking:

This cute stamp was from Print Blocks. I wanted to use it in the snowflake layout but I didn't obviously want the  writing or border, just the cute snowflake in the middle. So here is what I did...



  

Apply the stamp to some unwanted cardstock.

 Cut out JUST the part you want to stamp. I cut the snowflake out carefully.

  

Then place your cardstock over desired area and apply stamp again ensuring you line it up correctly with your previous stamped image.

All you will be left with underneath is the part of the stamp you wanted. 

 

Makes you want to look through all those forgotten stamps and look at parts you can use! 

So there is a sneak peak at my Calendar! Can not wait to show you the rest. I only have to finish the cover! 

See you tomorrow!