Altered Box

My Creative Time's Throwback Thursday Challenge this week is to use an older Cricut cartridge and alter an item with your ciruct cuts.  Alter an item? Sounds fun to me! I went strolling through my kid's piles of ignored items littering the playroom.  I found this wooden box was was looking a little un-loved.  I took the heart off and stained the wood with tea dye distress ink.  My car cut is from Billionaire. The sentiment is from My Creative Time's Cherish This Moment stamp set... perfect for my "fancy" car.

The before- Poor lonely box!

First Swim Lesson

The Cricut Circle Monthly Challenge: Create a layout about a milestone in your family. Whether it is graduation, a birthday, moving into a new house, losing a tooth, or whatever it may be. Be sure to include at least 2 Cricut cuts and use 2 Cricut fonts in your page title. 

Here is my layout featuring my little gal at her first swim lesson.  Love that sweet little face looking at me! Swimming lessons was just not her thing that year... 

Recipe:
fonts: Billionaire and Elmo's Party
girl and goggles: H20
scallop: Elegant Edges
Stamps: Peachy Keen "Wide Eyed Kids"

A Squirrelly Fall Banner

I made this Fall Squirrel Banner to add to the fall decorations in my home.  I keep forgetting about the pre-loaded cartridges that came with the Anniversary Edition of the E2 Cricut machine.  I found this squirrel on the Just a Note cartridge.  The squirrel couple have the sweetest faces from the PK-450 Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment.  I took a marker and made a little button nose as it seemed more animal like.  I colored my leaves with watercolor pencils and added some distress ink.   This is my entry for Peachy Keen's LFIF Leaves Challenge.

Banner Base from Imagine More, font Billionaire, leaves Flower Shoppe

Close up of Mr. Squirrel

Close up Ms. Squirrel