Circle Blog Weekly Challenge

Well I'm finally getting back into a routine after the crazy weather last week.  The kids go back to school today, so hopefully I'll get the house back into order and resume crafting. Hee-hee!  I did get to finish the challenge for this weeks circle blog.  I did a layout for some of last years summer pictures.  It was nice to look at the warm sunny pictures while the weather outside was soooo cold.  My 3 shapes to repeat were the waves which I also embossed with the divine swirls cuttlebug folder.  I used my sparkle spray ink on the flip flops and the sun.  I used the H20 and Life's a beach carts for this layout.  Hope these  pages make you dream of wonderful summer days to come!  Have a great day!

Here's the info about the challenge:

"Weekly Challenge #19: Whatevah! Challenge

“Whatevah!” is a phrase a lot of parents of teens hear around their house on daily basis. We thought we’d take that phrase to heart for this next challenge. What we’d like you to do is use WHATEVAH shape you would like, but be sure to repeat it three times on your project. Project must also include spray ink and must be newly created for this challenge."

Pink Stamper Design Team Challenge

Robyn over at My Pink Stamper has 2 Design team openings. This post is to show the project I made for her challenge. The requirements are: to use the colors pink, green, brown, and one of your choice and to use a favorite Cricut cart in a sb page, card, etc. I chose to use the "A Child's Year" cart. I love the silhouettes on it. They are so sweet. I made a two page layout of our new love, Darby the shih tzu! I hope Robyn likes it. Nothing would thrill me more to be a part of her team. She is amazing and I have learned so much about paper crafting and my Cricut machine from her blog and videos!

Materials used for this project:

Cricut Expression

Gypsy

Martha Stuart heart punch

A Child's Year Cricut Cart

Sewing machine

AC Specialty Paper

The Paper Studio Paper Princess Pack

Ribbon from Hobby Lobby

Zig glue pen

ATG

Got Flowers? flowers

Recipe:

I used my gypsy to cut the letters and their shadow at 3 inches from the Nursery Rhymes cart font. The child silhouettes and shadows were cut at 3.82. I welded the open hearts together to make the side borders. I cut the pink striped paper down to 11 1/4 X 11 1/4 and stitched it to a solid brown 12X12 paper. The photos were matted on two layers of paper then punched at the bottom with the MS punch. I then added ribbon around the photo and tied 2 smaller pieces to make bows. After I placed all the letters, silhouettes, hearts, and photos on the page I added the flowers/brads with pop dots.