Enjoy the Ride

Hi you all I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. The theme this week is teen and this is a card I made last year for my grandson's birthday.

The card was made from the svg file from Creative Pointe "Off Road Set"

  

The one thing I love about SCAL is that everything is there in one project. I brought everything into the program and built my card exactly as I had imagine it would look but now I can have a visual to it.
Each piece is then put on it's separate color page to be cut from that particular color. I had this all put together in about 2 hours, I'm a bit rusty on using the program, lol!

I popped up the rider to give the card some dimension as shown in the photo. The recipe for the card: This card is 4.5" X 6.25". The background is attached to gray cardstock (cardbase) it look like dirt to me and it is from the DCWV Stack 7 pack. The tire tread and rider from Creative Pointe's off road set were cut out of black cardstock scraps and the gray came from DCWV Metallic stack. The letters were cut from a scrap piece of red cardstock I used the Impact font from SCAL. The is the first in awhile that I have used SCAL and look forward to using it more. All cuts on the card was done with SCAL v2.
Have a fantastic day and thank you for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world.......

A 4th of July Layout for the CCChallenge #17

 Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to the service men and women that have or are still serving. Thank You!

Here is the last challenge for Creative Cutting Challenge-off for Summer break. The theme is anything for 4th of July. I decided to do a 2-page scrapbook layout:

 I created the layout from this sketch:
 
 I used the heading, the flag banner as a tip for the arrow and a couple of stars from the Patriotic set: 
 
This isn’t your typical 4th of July layout, but the cuts from the Patriotic set gives a 4th of July feel to the layout. 
 Left Side:

Right Side:

This is what we did 4th of July in 2012. Since it was on a Wednesday we were treated to availability to get to the Lewisburg Farmer's Market, took a leisurely drive towards home stopped in Milton to check out the old train station and then home with the boughten treats at the market for the boys. It was a fun day. Since we both worked the next day, there wasn't a chance to see the firworks that night.
The materials I used in the layout was from the My Mind's Eye American Made collection, the background paper was in my drawer of blues papers so it probably came from a swap or a paper pad but not sure of who made it. The Navy blue paper was from a scrap. the journaling block came from a creative memories pack I have.
Check out the challenge over at Creative Cutting Challenge blog and join in on the fun.

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A Father's Day Card for a CCChallenge #16

Hi Everyone in blog land, I hope all the Mothers out there had a wonderful Mother's Day! Now on to Father's Day cards that need to be made for the fathers in your life. This week is Father's Day Cards at Creative Cutting Challenge and if you need an idea go check them out and then add you own card to the challenge. My card:

I created a card with a classic car from the Car Set collection. 

 

This set has 5 cool cars in it, that are great for anything masculine.

 This was a really fun card to make. The car was cut from black cardstock and vellum in my stash. This was the first time I used vellum with the cricut and it cut the design out perfect at the same setting as the black cardstock. The card base is from the seaside pack I purchase from Joanns, the background layer is from the Colorbok Textures pack, the paper gave a nice background for the car and the sentiment. I found some twill ribbon in my stash for the border (note: need to get some masculine ribbon). I made to blocks from the blue piece I used and the light tan from my stash that the edges were ink with distressed ink Walnut Stain. The sentiment was cut from one of the fonts from SCAL and was cut from a blue in a Metals pack of cardstock from recollections. Added 2 green buttons from my stash to balance out the green from the ribbon. 

Now to decide who is going to get this cool card....

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Strawberry Streusel

Good Morning and what a fantastic morning it is. The sun is out and spring is in the air, predictions are 80's by tomorrow, go from winter to summer in just a short couple of weeks, lol. Gotta love PA weather just never know what each week is gonna bring. With spring comes allergy season, that is why I've been missing in action oh the past week was horrible for my allergies, but enough of that and on to something crafty:

This is a recipe that I did for Recipe Swap with the local group in June 2011. The theme was Strawberries, not sure where I got the recipe (need to start noting that in my computer file) but it's a really good muffin recipe.
Details are:
6 X 6 card-looks like strawberry paper I got at the local scrapbook store
The muffin pan is from Cricut-From My Kitchen
The lettering was done with the SCAL program
The recipe was printed on Staples pastel paper pack attached with brads so it can be lifted up to see the directions under the ingredients.

Recipe:

Strawberry Streusel Muffins

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour, unsifted
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup fresh strawberries or drained, thawed frozen strawberries
Powdered sugar

Instructions:
For streusel topping:
In a medium sized bowl combine 1/2 cup unsifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1/8 teaspoon salt. With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in 6 tablespoons butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Briefly rub the mixture between your fingers to blend in butter. (Leftover streusel can be stored in the freezer and used to top pies, baked fruit or more muffins).
For Muffins:
Heat oven to 400° F.
Grease muffin pan.
In a large bowl, beat together butter (margarine) and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg. Beat until well blended.
In a medium size bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In a small bowl, combine milk, sour cream and vanilla. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternating with the milk mixture. Beat just until batter is combined. Gently fold in strawberries.
Spoon batter into greased muffin cups. (Fill about two-thirds full). Sprinkle tops of muffins wit the Streusel Topping.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool muffins in pans on a wire rack for 5 minutes before removing from the muffin cups. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.


I'm looking forward to what spring brings, we have a garden and last year we put strawberry plants back into the garden and looking forward to fresh strawberries.
How about you, what do you look forward to in the spring season

Stay tune, I got my pictures back from the printer for project life and will get a few of those pages done and lots of birthdays in April so I'll have a few cards to feature too. Friday I'm in a Project Life blog hop so stop by and check out he hop and some blog candy too. Monday I'll have something related to Mother's Day for the Creative Cutting Challenge blog and for the rest of this week I will fill in with some old projects I've done.
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Baby Bath Time-CCChallenge #13

Hi all and if your coming over from Creative Cutting Challenge blog welcome. The theme this challenge was Baby and you could do anything in regards to it. I choose a layout to add to the 1st year baby book I'm working on.

I’ve been working on a 1st year album for our Son and DIL and was able to come up with a great layout using the Baby Heading file from The Creative Pointe 

 

which made a perfect touch to the layout.The background paper is Bubbles & Rubber Ducks I got in a paper purchase off of 2 peas in a bucket. the heading was cut out of silver cardstock in my scraps and the light blue and blue cardstock came from Seaside value pack. These 2 colors I used throught the layout for matting pictures and making my blocks border also the journaling block. I added various embellishiments from Jollies, Karen Foster and Creative Memories (I lucked out to hit a yardsale that had a baggy of good stuff for baby boy scrapbooking page. Both the 6 weeks and 7 months were cut out with fonts in the SCAL program.

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Taco Stew Recipe Swap

Good Morning All
A recipe for you today from a previous recipe swap:

This is what it looks like:

The recipe came from my SIL, she brought it to one of the family gatherings and you want to talk about good! This is Yum Yum Yum! The background paper is from Recollections: Bright lights Big city, The blue paper for the pot is from I think My minds eye magnolia pack, black cardstock and Studio G blue glitter glue. The cut is From my Kitchen cricut cartridge and was cut at 5" and the lettering is cut from SCAL lettering at .75" but squished to 2" wide to fit the spots an cut from DCWV red card stock.

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A New Dog that has A New Home-CC Challenge

Hi you all, hope you had a fantastic weekend. I'm here today with another Creative Cutting Challenge: Anything Goes:

I used the Dog Elements from Creative Pointe for couple of die cuts on my layout.
 
My layout came to be from this sketch:




This layout come to be from the first few pictures we took of Buddy when I brought him home. This was the first picture I took of Buddy in his new house, we kept him in the basement till we could get him and Jake acquainted (that is another layout coming on the blog soon). The journaling tells of the story of getting Buddy.

I used the die cuts to emphasize the title of the layout Dog for A New Dog and the House for A New Home for Buddy.

I think my smashin is carrying over to my layouts, startling to use more stickers, and adding more elements. Might be a good thing it might not.
The items used in the layout are:
Background paper and the brown cardstock is from the ki memories Playful Pets pad, black cardstock, and the borders are from scraps. the journaling and photo matting came from a pc of Staples cardstock. The A & N came from Animal House sticker page, 7 weeks came from Authentique petite type letters. I used a fiskars round punch on most of the pictures and matting and I used SU 2 3/8" scallop punch. Stickers came from Animal House diecut stickers and Sticko Family Dog pack and the metal index tab clip came from making memories-dog pack.

I just loved doing this layout and completing part of Buddy's life with us as I catch up with my scraping. This is Buddy today almost 8 years old:

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Red Raspberry Muffins

Good Morning All
A recipe for you today:

I belong to a local recipe swap group and we do the swaps as a paper craft. the dimentions of the cards are 6 X 6 so you have plenty of room for the recipe and any embellishment that you want to add. This recipe is from February 2012 and the theme was Red. So first I located the recipe on the internet that I wanted to do.
First I worked on the lettering files that I wanted to use for this recipe in SCAL. Also purchased a cut file collection from SVGcuts. com: Moonlight Garden Party for the raspberry, there are other cool files in this that I will use for other things too.
So all the prep work is done:

All the pieces were cut from DCWV: Cotton Bloom pack I had gotten at TJ Maxx for a steal! Oh they have not had any good deals like that in a long time, lately no scrapping stuff at all. All the words were cut from SCAL except muffins which was cut from My Kitchen Cartridge @ 2". The recipe was a bit long for the card so I folded in half and attached to the card that way. the recipe is held down with a flower type jewel I have in my stash. The background paper is Basic Grey: Vintage tee.

The recipe is:

1½ sticks plus 3 Tbsps of margarine

1-1/3 cups of sugar          2 pinches of salt

1 Tbsp. vanilla                   4 eggs

1-2/3 cups of flour           1-3/4 tsp. baking powder

1 cup of fresh raspberries           

1 Tbsp. & 1 tsp. of vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream butter, sugar, salt & vanilla with mixer until fluffy. On medium speed, add eggs one at a time and mix. Mix dry ingredients together in separate bowl. On low speed, add the dry ingredients in two increments. Mix in oil. Then fold in raspberries. Divide among muffin tins that have been lined with paper. Top with streusel. Bake for 25-28 mins. Or until tester comes out with very few crumbs. Let cool for 10 mins, top with glaze.

                Streusel:

5 Tbsps. of margarine    1/3 cup of sugar

1-1/2 cups of flour           ½ tsp. cinnamon

Mix all together with a paddle attachment on the mixer at a slow speed until it begins to cling together. Or crumble with fingers until it clings together.

                Glaze:

½ cup of confectioners’ sugar

2-3 Tbsp. of milk

Whisk together till smooth. Add sugar or mild as needed to obtain the right consistency, Drizzle over muffins

It's a quick and tasty recipe.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I got cooking up for you today and I hope you enjoyed the view from my little corner of the world....

Happy Birthday Albert

Hi you all and today this is my submission card for Creative Cutting Challenge: Birthday Card. This card was especially made for my step-son’s birthday

It has 2 cuts from Creative Pointe’s Car Set (perfect for a masculine card).  

 

I used 2 of the classic cars from this set, the side view and a front view. I also used the side view car on the inside of the card too.

I brought in the border from the front into the inside too. The sentiment is something I thought up just for a fun card, remember how you felt when you turned 35. I inked the edges of the sentiment paper and the other papers too with walnut stain distressed ink. The front sentiment came from a sticker I had. The Create Pointe SVG files are so easy to use and it’s all there for you.  This card took 2 hours from beginning to end to put together. Fantastic!
The card is a 5 X 7 and the cars were cut out of scraps I had on hand. The background and the border papers came from DCWV pack Heirloom (Love this pack!)  
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Not Your Typical Turkey

Hi you all and welcome to my blog. I have designed this card for the Creative Cutting Challenge blog.

Created this card from the Thanksgiving 2 set from Creative Pointe. The heading was cut from cardstock from the DCWV Rustic Stack and K&Company Alleghany Plum stack. The turkey was cut from Recollections chocolate lovers pack and the variety of color cardstock from my scrap stash. the background paper and the acorn border came from DCWV Stack 7 pack and came from one sheet of paper. The card base is from the collection of cardstock I have on hand. The corners are fashioning Viva pearl pen-copper. (I still need to work on my application of pearls) I popped up the turkey to give dimension. The colors of the card reminds me of the leaves in their fall beauty right now.

All cuts were done from my SCAL program. The program is sweet for using up scraps:

You can lay it out on the screen and on the mat in the same spots, great use of scraps.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at all the Thanksgiving projects and cards that the team has done and maybe considering doing you own and joining in on the challenge. Thanks for stopping by and seeing my little corner of the world....

New Challenge Site-Enjoy the Ride

Hi all and welcome to my blog. I want to tell you about a new challenge blog I am designing for: Creative Cutting Challenge.What makes this challenge blog so different is that the challenge is to use SVG cuts. It's sponsored by Creative Pointe it is a twice a month SVG cut file challenge blog  Each submission must have at least one SVG file (from any source) used in the project. Come check it out! and if you have the software to cut SVGs then I hope you'll join in on the challenges.

This is my design for today. My grandson's birthday is at the end of the month and this set of SVGs was perfect for his birthday card:

The SVG cuts came from: Creative Pointe "Off Road Set"

 
The one thing I love about SCAL is that everything is there in one project. I brought everything into the program and built my card exactly as I had imagine it would look but now I can have a visual to it.
Each piece is then put on it's separate color page to be cut from that particular color. I had this all put together in about 2 hours, I'm a bit rusty on using the program, lol!

I popped up the rider to give the card some dimension as shown in the photo. The recipe for the card: This card is 4.5" X 6.25". The background is attached to gray cardstock (cardbase) it look like dirt to me and it is from the DCWV Stack 7 pack. The tire tread and rider from Creative Pointe's off road set were cut out of black cardstock scraps and the gray came from DCWV Metallic stack. The letters were cut from a scrap piece of red cardstock I used the Impact font from SCAL. The is the first in awhile that I have used SCAL and look forward to using it more. All cuts on the card was done with SCAL v2.
Have a fantastic day and if you have access to cut SVG's I hope you will play along and join the challenge. Happy Craftin'