Scrappin' Saturdays

I have been wanting to get myself on a schedule of sorts for scrapping.  I always make time for cards but never enough time for scrapping my memories. I hope to start sharing at least one page every Saturday from now on - and I have roped Danni into doing it with me :) And she is inspiring me to use my Cricut more as she is trying to use hers more too!

Today's page is another for the sunflower maze that Mike and I visited about 3 years ago.  My friend Jen and I were going to go last weekend but Irene messed those plans up.  I was so looking forward to seeing it as it was in the shape of a butterfly and I think we all know I love butterflies!

I started with Sunday's Studio Calico sketch, in place of the smaller pictures I decided to take two pictures and turn them into mosaics.

Here is my take on the sketch~

I love how the title turned out!  First I cut the title in the orange and then I cut the shadow in brown.  When I was re-cutting the shadow (first time I ran out of paper!), I discovered the word petals by itself on another screen so I cut that in the patterned paper. I think that may be the first time I've ever cut multiple layers for a title and I love how it turned out!

Supply List~

• Crate Paper Lemon Grass - Lime, Straw, Poppyseed papers
• Crate Paper Lemon Grass glitter borders
• Cricut Country Life Cartridge for the title
• Bling from stash

TFL!  

Paper Cutz's Star Spangled Blog Hop!

Good Morning and Happy July 1st!

Welcome to my stop on PaperCutz's Star Spangled Blop Hop! If you arrived here from Shelley's blog then you are on the right track, if not please start at the PaperCutz Blog.  Your next stop on the hop will be Patti's blog!

The challenge is to make a banner suitable for hanging, for the 4th of July, with LOTS of bling!  PaperCutz is giving away some fabulous blog candy to celebrate - a Cricut Summer Collection Luau Cartridge!

Here is my first ever hanging banner - I am so proud of myself for making it lol!

I used the Gypsy to design the banner.  The banner layers were cut with the Country Life cartridge and the stars were cut with the Gypsy Wanderings that came with the Gypsy.

Here are some closer views:

I didn't go overly blingy since I didn't have much in the way of red/blue bling - that's a good excuse to go shopping right? LOL  I embossed the white banners with a star cuttlebug folder and the blue stars were embossed with the swiss dot folder and the red star was embossed with the distressed stripes folder. I used some American Crafts sparkly ribbon to string the banner together.

The entire banner took slightly less than 2 hours to design, cut, and assemble. I am thrilled that the design in my head came out exactly as I planned it.  Now go check out and see what Patti created to share with you!

I am also entering my banner into the following challenges:
My Craft Spot #14 - Seeing Stars
Die Cut Dreams #92 Red, White & Blue
Fantabulous Cricut #66 Happy 4th (use red, white & blue)
PaperPlay Challenges #26 - Anything but a Card
Celebrate the Occasion #20 - 4th of July (red, white & blue)
Going Grey with Scrap Creations - Anything but a Card
Tuesday Throwdown #55 - Red, White & Blue
Cooking it Up with Katie#68 - Colors of Your Flag or Something from Your Country and DT Call!

Have a super weekend!! I will hopefully have some time to finally post layouts I made last weekend!