Main Dishes

This divider page for my friend's recipe album was based on sketch #58 by Card Positioning Systems.

The plate and silverware are from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I used my Cricut markers to trace the silverware before cutting it out, leaving a nice outline around the pieces.  The words are from A Child's Year.

This page will be entered in the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut--#195, 3 different patterns of paper

Scrappy Moms Stamps--use yellow and red

My Time To Craft--use 2 images--1) the plate 2) the silverware

Mixes Page

This year my friend and I got together to try making some mixes--herb rice mix, ranch dressing mix, and onion soup mix.  So, I decided to make a "mixes" divider page for her recipe binder.

I used a sketch I found here.  The jars are from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I used my Gypsy to get rid of the labels they came with and then used my Gypsy and Cricut markers to write labels on them.  The dark blue strips on the side were run through my Cuttlebug in the Argyle folder.

This page will be entered in the following challenges:
Desert Island Crafts Challenge--#70 No flowers, Not a card, Do not color your image
Simon Says--Emboss it

Soups page

This is the latest installment in the set of divider pages I'm making for my friend's recipe album.  The layout is based on a sketch from Pamela's World of Scrap.  The bowl and spoon image is from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  Although hard to see in the picture, the background behind the bowl and spoon was run through the Scalloped Dots embossing folder by The Paper Studio.  The word "soups" is from A Child's Year  (I welded the letters with my Gypsy) and the tag behind the word is from Gypsy Wanderings.

This page will be entered in the following challenge:

Little Claire's--#40 Make a gift

Crock Pot page

This is the latest page I created as a divider for my friend's recipe book.  I used a sketch from Card Positioning Systems for inspiration.  To create a Crock Pot, I used the pot from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I stretched it on the Gypsy to make it wider and hand trimmed the handles down.  I also used part of the timer image from the same cartridge to make the dial.  I had thought about cutting out one of the other appliances from that cart that has a cord, but after adding the dial I thought it looked close enough to a crock pot that I didn't need it.  The words "Crock Pot" were cut from Gypsy Font.

This card will be entered in the following challenge:

Paper Playtime--#24 Anything Goes

Desserts

My friend and I have both started printing out the good recipes we have found online.  We've discovered that if you don't, it can be hard to remember later where the recipe was, and sometimes the recipe is no longer there when you go back to it!  I saw my friends giant binder of recipes the last time I was at her house.  They are all in sheet protectors.  I asked her if she had them organized by categories, and she said, "Not yet."  I decided that for my Christmas gift to her, I would help her organizer her binder.  I went to Office Max and purchased a set of tabbed sheet protectors.  There are 8 in the pack.  I'm going to make sheets for different sections of a recipe album.  (I just hope I make categories she will use!)  Here is my first one:

The sketch for this page came from Sketch Saturday.  The word desserts is from the Cricut cartridge Cursive 101 (I welded the letters together on my Gypsy.)  The oval and piece of cake are from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I ran the oval through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

This page will be entered in the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays--CFC121  8 of something (There are 8 letters in desserts.)

Sketch Saturday--week 286  I really need to start watching the ending times for challenges.  I just missed this one!

Paper Playtime--#24 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday--#297 Anything Goes

Simon Says--Anything Goes

You can BEAT this!

A recently retired coworker is in need of some cheer.  She was thought to have an aggressive form of lymphoma.  The doctors now say that is not what it is, but they are not sure what she does have.  The staff where I work has created a calendar where we each signed up for a day to send her a card so she can keep receiving them over a period of time rather than all at once.  Tomorrow is my day and this is the card I created for her:

The mixer is from From my Kitchen.  The shape behind it is from Gypsy Wanderings.  I embossed it with the Cuttlebug folder Spots and Dots.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Skipping Stones Design--sketch challenge 146

Simon Says--emboss it

Little Claire's--Stand up straight (easel card)

Father's Day

Tomorrow is Father's Day, so I guess it is time to make some cards!  In addition to my dad, I wanted to make one for my brother-in-law.  My sister said he was bummed when I didn't get make him a card for his birthday this year, and he and my sister are having us over for dinner on Sunday.  I thought a card with a grill would work for both men.

Please excuse the poor photography.  I don't have access to my camera and had to use the one on my laptop.

The grill is from the From my Kitchen cartridge and the circle is from Graphically Speaking.  It was run through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder.

This card will be entered in the following challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #115--Father's Day

Cricut Cardz Challenge #110--Father's Day

More than Favors--Wacky Wednesday #72: Father's Day

Die Cuttin' Divas #69--Father's Day

Celebrate the Occasion #66--Father's Day

Craft Spot by Kimberly #59--King of the Grill

Reto Dilo en Español #2--Dads

Creative Time for Me--Color challenge

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge--sketch challenge

Happy birthday to Ewe

My sister's birthday is approaching and she used to love lambs (or "woolies" as she called them) when she was younger, so I decided to incorporate one into her card.  I made a few extras also to add to my stash.

Here are the details:
sketch--Skipping Stones Design
diamond--Gypsy Wanderings
sheep--From My Kitchen
embossing--Spots and Dots (background), Swiss Dots (on diamond), D'Vine Swirls (sheep)
sentiment--printed from my computer

This card will be entered into the following challenges:
Skipping Stones Design--sketch challenge #121
Fantabulous Cricut--#104  Out like a lamb
Carson's Creations--embossing blog hop; I didn't try any new techniques here, but did use 3 different Cuttlebug folders
Creative Time for Me--Throwback Thursday; any cartridge, any project
Tuesday Throwdown#91: Outside the box; Have part of your image go outside the frame (I made the sheep a bit larger than the diamond he is mounted on.)