Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #38: Vacation Memories Challenge!

Hello Friends! Back from another challenge! I took a quick break from the Lions club scrapbook (ALMOST finished!!) to enter this challenge for a small prize of $25! but that would buy a Project cart, right?!! I am so behind on scrapping our Cruise pics and this may have given me the bug to get started!!
The Challenge "is all about tackling those vacation photos before they get lost in a drawer or shoved in a box somewhere. We want you to create a scrapbook page or mini album recording one of your vacation memories from this past Summer. Weren’t able to sneak away . . . that’s okay! Find some photos from a past vacation that you haven’t scrapbooked yet and get busy! " We can’t wait to see what you create! But can you believe we didn't go anywhere this year yet!? We are going to St Louis next week for a few days but that isn't really a vacation! To me anyway! I want beaches or scenery! My husband retires in 7 weeks (yikes!) and we are planning a trip to Hawaii to celebrate 40 years of marriage and retirement. We will wait until my daughter and her family can go next July probably! Thats ok! as long as we go! So these are pics from our 35-year anniversary cruise we took with some dear friends to the Southern carribbean! These of course are just a few of the hundreds of pics we took between us and our friends. Sure wish I'd discovered scrapbooking 40 years ago!!Got a lot of catching up to do.

Recipe:
Expression 2
Gypsy
DCWV white core paper pad
Walmart Colorbok paper pad
JoAnn's red paper stock
Life is a Beach: Bon Voyage at 4" tall and waves
MS All Occasions: banner at 1 1/2" and F-U-N banner letters at 1"

Thanks for stopping by! Wish me luck (its random so I have a much better chance!) and hope you have a great week ahead! Hope its cooler where you are than it is in Fort Worth! We did get a little rain but it didn't help much! But a little is better than none right?!! Have a good one!!

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #35

My Submission for the Cricut Circle Patriotic Pride Challenge!

The Challenge: Whether you are from the United States, Canada, Australia or somewhere else, we want you to show us your Patriotic Pride with this next challenge! Create any type of project (scrapbook layout, card, home decor, . . . it’s up to you!) showing off your patriotic spirit!

I used "A childs year" cart for the pop-dotted fire engine and "firecracker girl", the girl was just holding the star and a popsicle, but I cut off the popsicle and turned it into a sparkler! It isn't showing up very well in this pic, the stars were cut out of glitter paper with my MS star border punch! Worked perfectly! Looks great in person! Isn't that little fire engine adorable! The pop-dotted "Celebrate" is from MS All Occasions cart. The paper was printed from a digital page I had. It had a vintage feel and matched the colors to my Imagine cart "JT!". the fire engine looks more red than it is in this pic too. In person it looks more vintage colored red, as is the background red.
Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're having a great holiday weekend! Going to pick up DGD now and she's going to spend a few days. A friend of mine has a DGD the same age and we are taking them to the movies tomorrow! Anything 3d! Faith wants to see any and all 3D now! Took her to see Kung Fu Panda 2 a couple of weeks ago. Of course she loved it and thought she even patted his "belly" it was so close to her, so she says! Love to see the imagination of this child. Its so beautiful to see!