Cricut Circle #39: A-B-C, 1-2-3 Challenge!

Happy Sunday!! Hope you're having a great weekend! I am! I've been doing some scrapbooking and challenges and that is always fun!! The challenge for this week on the Cricut Circle blog:

The Challenge: This week our challenge is inspired by all the kiddos heading back to school. It is a recipe challenge of sorts based on ABC, 123. Please include (A) Pop of (B)right (C)olor on your page, as well as 1 of something, 2 of something, and 3 of something.
I needed a wedding card for my niece so I thought I would combine the 2! Boy, do I need to work on building my cards stockpile! 

Needless to say my pop of color is the red rose! I used 1 ribbon, 2 embossing folders and 3 layers! The 3 layers are self explanatory! and I used 4 carts! for this one little card! Wild Card for the base, Teresa Collins Baby Boutique for the scallop circle with the black center and the flourished ring around the circle! As soon as I saw that on that cart I knew I was going to use it for a wedding card! There are several beautiful cuts on this Imagine cart that I knew they would never be used for baby!! The patterned paper behind the TC Baby Boutique is from Audrey. Love the colors on that cart! Especially love the teal and black and white. If I hadn't had this cart I probably would have bought TC's black and white cart! And the last cart is wedding! The 2 folders I used were the damask (?) and swiss dots. You can't tell from the photo but the bride and groom were cut using the Walmart Opalescent white, very pretty IRL!
Thanks for stopping by again! I have a fair chance at winning, since its random! Prize is $25 at Cricut.com.

Cricut Circle July Magazine Contest - Pop Up Neighborhood

This month the prize is $150 on Cricut.com! Woohoo! Would sure love to win that! The rules for this contest:
Use your exclusive Pop Up Neighborhood cartridge for this new contest! We love the fun versatility of this fabulous cartridge and want you to create any kind of project for this challenge. Design a home décor project, Layout, Card or mixed media project.Use at least 4 Cricut Cuts from Pop-up Neighborhood Cartridge in your design. Contest will open on July 23rd. Entry deadline is Friday, August 12th.
I wasn't going to enter because I have so much going on right now, but I just couldn't help myself! I had a day to play and decided to go for it, since I'd been rolling some things around in my head for a few days. I chose to make a card but I wish I'd made it a layout about 1/2 way through! I would have liked to make a bigger baby bassinet that I put in the window and the silhouette of mother of child, which is an SVG.  They were very tough to get that small!
Here's my card:

I think I used several more than 4 cuts for this!
The recipe:
Imagine
Expression 2
Gypsy
Orange Stickles
Blue Stickles
Peals
Pop-Up Neighborhood - the house was cut 3.7" colors from Imagine Basic colors and the roof, porch and mailbox (cut at 1 1/2") using Snapshot-Texture, the visitor is the "housewife" in the handbook. I didn't think she needed the apron! The dress was cut using  Audrey Pattern Cart at 3". The fence was cut using the gypsy and the E2 so I could size it and cut at 1.6 x .84 to line up with the front of the house.
MS Seasonal for the grass cut at 1/2" with paper from my stash
Birthday Bash -  balloons, cut at 3" but the strings didn't make the cut, so I used sew'n sew thread for them and attached them to the bouquet on the housewife, colors from Nursery Tails Imagine Cart
Nursery Rhymes - the bassinet cut at 1/2"!! The Imagine couldn't cut it very well at that size due to the rocker on the botton so I just printed it and then hand cut it since all I needed was the top portion.
Simply Charmed for the "Welcome Baby" cut at 1.2" with paper from my stash
Wish me luck! and thanks for stopping by! Have a great week! I'm going to be busy selling backpacks at one of the schools in Azle. I hate to see school start this year! My DGD and I have had so much fun and I have enjoyed keeping a couple of days a week. Sometimes 3! I wish there was more time to spend with my DGS!! I miss him!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #21: Animal Magnetism submission!

Hello my friends! I have so wanted to scrapbook this page for a long time. Jana did a layout on the circle blog that inspired me to do this page and be able to use it as a submission at the same time!!

This week we have been paying tribute to the critters in our lives and now we want you to do the same!  For this challenge your project must include something  related to an animal. You can create your project for or about an animal, include an animal cut, use animal print, etc. Project must also contain atleast 2 Cricut images to qualify.

Faith loves Angel, my Schnauzer, to death. And she was so cute in these pics and they make a perfect scrapbook page! I love these colors also! And the title from Winter Frolic just speaks volumes on this page!

Recipe:
Imagine: Colors of dog and "gather here" is from Audrey and green circle behind "angels" is from Nursery Tails 
Paper: Big Lots Baby Boy Bundle
Collar: Paper Pups and black vinyl from Sign Warehouse and Frosted Lace Stickles, that hasn't dried yet!
Angel: SVG and Holographic Embossing powder on Post-It paper
"Angels Gather Here" - Winter Frolic
Dog cut and circle tag at top for journaling: Paper Pups

Thanks for stopping by! The weekend is coming!! Have a great one! I'm cropping with a friend all day Saturday while my husband is at a swap meet! Woohoo! hope you have something fun planned!