Spring Break and "Fancy Nancy's Tea Party"

Hello friends, I'm posting today on the CricutFanatics blog today. If you haven't been to this blog, you need to check it out! lots of talent and inspiration and I'm proud to be a small part of it! They have challenges every month too!

Our awesome library has programs for the children during spring break and summer reading program. This year during spring break they had a "Fancy Nancy's Tea Party" and it was awesome! They had a professional ballerina come in and teach the girls some ballet steps for about 20 minutes and the girls were "Ecstatic"!!! to say the least! One of Fancy Nancy's favorite words I'm told. I never read the books, did you? But my granddaughter will be reading them now!! These are the first 2 pages my DGD and I worked on this weekend. And my DGD being the wonderful drama queen she is, and thats DRAMA with a capital D!, said "Nana, I can feel it!" and she had been complaining about a sore ankle from a fall at school so I asked it her ankle hurt. She places hands on chest and says "No, I can feel the love in those pages"! OMG! I about fell out of my chair! 

The pages are 8x8 and they are from a scrapbook I bought years ago on clearance because the pages were already decorated and I was just started to get into scrapbooking. Now they are perfect for this occasion. The title and the Ecstatic card were from the party. The top pic title as well as the teaparty die cut and tea set was cut using my own font and an SVG with older version of SCAL. The white doily mat was cut using one of the new WRMK mini 8 and matching border punch.The tea set looked kinda plain even though it was cut using DCWV shimmer paper. So I "stickled" them! The tea cup border was cut using Wall Decor at 1". The Tea party invite and balloons and princess was cut using "Best Friends" Imagine cart. I will post more later!! She'll be back next weekend but only for Easter, so it'll probably be in 2 weeks!

The Easter card is an A2 size card cut using CTMH Art Philosophy cart. The cross is from "Wedding" and they were embossed using Swiss Dots and a new AG Pirouette folder. Butterflies were cut using DCWV glitter paper and MS punch. And was glimmer misted with Dazzling Diamonds, of course!

Hope you enjoyed both! Happy Easter! Leave me a comment! I love to hear from you!

Cricut Circle August Monthly Challenge: Create a Scene Submission

Hello my scrappin' friends! Been a little while. I've been on vacation for a few days visiting family in St Louis. And thought about this challenge while high in the sky! I have so much scrapbooking to catch up on it was hard to choose which group to do a "scene challenge" with! But I always love spring and Easter! so...for this challenge I chose a few Easter pics from Spring from a couple of different seasons, thats why some have jackets on and some don't! The Easters in March are sometimes cool here in Texas! Just having to pick out a few pics helped remind me I really need to get all the years scrapped!!
The Cricut Circle challenge is to create a scene with cricut cartridges! of course...preferably, but not required, using the 4th quarter Circle Cartridge: Pop-up Neighborhood. This was my favorite circle cart until we just received "Sophie"!! Love this one most of all the Circle carts! Awesome...Well, you only had to use 2 cuts! I used a whole lot more than that! and I made some I didn't even end up using! The winner is chosen at random (thank goodness! I might have a chance!) and the prize is:

Recipe: (yikes, I hope I remember them all! The gypsy doesn't show you what carts it uses on the Imagine app)
Imagine
Expression 2
Gypsy
The background pages were printed on the Imagine using the Better Together Bonus section and printed full pages.
Cuttlebug and d'vine swirls and swiss dots
Imagine Better Together: little girls on right side cut at 2.5" and balls cut at 1"
Imagine Best Friends: girls on left side of page cut at 2.5", kite at 4", doghouse at 4", flowers cut at 1"
April Showers for the Spring Banner cut at 9"
Campin Critters for the tree with dog peeking out
Pop up Neighborhood for the tree with tire swing
Kate's ABC's for the little bunny in the left hand corner
Lori's Garden for the butterflies, cut and doubled at 1"
Playtime for Playtime title
Enjoy the Seasons for the barbecue pit cut at 3"
Thanks for stopping by!! Hope I remembered them all! Wish me luck! and if you're entering, I wish you luck!! That would certainly buy a few carts at least!

Cricut Circle Monthly Let's Eat challenge!

Hello Friends!!
Time once again for the monthly challenge at the Cricut Circle Blog! I've told you numerous times that I'm working on the scrapbook for the Lions Club outgoing Pres. and this month the challenge on the blog was to create something with a BBQ, Picnic, or Patio theme, AND a gingham or check pattern. Well, that announcement made my day!! I'd been working on one of the Texas Lions Camp pages for the scrapbook and of course its at camp! so it helped me decide what to do with the picnic table on the page!! These are very busy pages because they are very busy at Lions Camp! Its a camp for disabled and/or diabetic children that is owned and operated by the Lions Club, I'm proud to say! Lions club is all about glasses for kids but there is also this camp that a disabled child can go for a week and learn and do things they never thought possible. When we have our yearly meeting with the school nurses to encourage parents to utilize this free camp there are parents that volunteer to come with their child that has been to camp to speak to the nurses as well. Well, there is never a dry eye in the house because these kids come to tell us they "learned to ride a bike when they never dreamed it was even possible!" Or swim or horse back ride! There are tons of things to do, everyone there has a handicap as well as they all learn together! Its awesome. If you know a handicapped or diabetic child in the state of Texas they too can go for free!

This is my submission!

Well, Blogger is having a tantrum I guess again and can't load a close up of the page with the gingham table cloth. I'll try again shortly because thats the page I want to load on the Circle Blog site. I had forgotten to take the picture before I added the pics to the page so I have covered faces using Photoshop Elements. They weren't bad pics!
I used several carts and my Imagine for this layout.  The paper is DCWV Green Stack. The Wood looking paper is from a stack of hodge podge papers I picked up at CK Convention last year from Little Yellow Bicycle. They had a sale where you could fill a box for $20. It held probably 200-300 12x12 papers at least and I filled it to the brim! That was the busiest booth in the center, beside Tim Holtz' booth! The wheelchair is from one of the Paperdolls carts, I use both of them a lot! The #1 badge is from American Alphabet I think on the E2.The papers were from Michaels package paper of 8 1/2 x 11. I should have written all this stuff  down! The lettering for Texas lions Camp is from Old West, paper is again from the hodge podge of paper! The cute little tent with the cute little boys is from Nate's ABC's! I flocked the little doggie with Martha Stewart flocking! Love that stuff! The little girls, the sun, the owl,  and the birdie on the tent are from Better Together and Imagine More and done on my Imagine! Love it! The little cooler and the picnic bench is from an SVG that was in a kit called "Panda Picnic Party" from www.svgcuts.com. I bought it because of the picnic table. I don't have a cart with a picnic table!! It had a bunch of cute little things for picnicking! The sunglasses is from Best Friends. The cookie jar is from Kate's Kitchen. The wheelchair and the bike was cut using a metallic paper so they look really cool in person! And vinyl for the tires!

And last but not least and the whole reason for posting this is the gingham paper! Its from DCVW Flower Power Paper stack and was cut by hand! hence, the reason its cockeyed but I figure a tablecloth's corners are never straight and even anyway!! But it looks cute anyway! I thought so anyway! I'm going to try to post that pic here! Woohoo! it worked.
Have a great Sunday! Get some much needed rest and relaxation and have a great week!  I'll be back later to post my cute snow cones for the day the lions actually went to the Lions camp and served snow cones! They are awesome looking and look like real snow cones! Thanks to "diamond dust" and glimmer mist! Wait til you seen them! Thanks for stopping by!!