Sunday, February 6, 2011

Cricut and/or Die Cuts

This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is a real fun one. How many of us got a Cricut cartridge or two for Christmas? I am very excited to say that I did. As a matter of fact, I got 4!! My kids did real good. The challenge this week is to use your Cricut, or other die cuts if you don't have a Cricut.

To create my layout, I followed this week's sketch at Sketchy Thursdays. I really enjoyed this sketch and knew what I wanted to use for my die cuts. Here is the sketch....


Even though I got 4 new cartridges for Christmas, I didn't use any of them for this layout. My friends at Scrappin-n-Chattin are real good about informing the group of sales. Someone pointed us to a site last week that had cartridges on sale for around $16. I ordered 3. I used 2 of them on my page.


For the yellow and light green background, I used the Paper Lace cartridge. I can see I will get a lot of use out of that cartridge. For the title I used Alphalicious. That one has been on my wishlist for a while. I also used 2 Martha Stewart Monarch punches to create the butterlies on the page. The colors I used were chosen to coincide with the Super Bowl challenge at SnC. The challenge was to create a layout using the colors of one of the teams in the Superbowl. I chose Green Bay's colors.

I hope you will play along this week at Lasting Memories. I would love to see how you use your die cuts.

11 comments:

Lauren said...

Beautiful layout! Gorgeous photos! I love the lace in the background - I need the paper lace cart!

Lauren

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

Wowwwwwwww! This is GORGEOUS! I loveeeeeeee the die cut paper, the butterflies and those photos! Thanks sooooooooooo much for playing along with Sketchy Thursdays! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Denise Pustelniak said...

Beautiful! I LOVE YOUR LO! I love cricutI Where is this site for cartridges?

Denise Pustelniak said...

By the way, I love the sketch as well! :)

Dragonlady said...

Hi there

I can see why the cricut is so useful for scrapbooking - you have made an amazing page.

Hugs Ali x

Karen Wilson said...

Oh wow! I LOVE that background! I think I have to add this one to my wish list, it's gorgeous and love your layout! "Rest" is the perfect sentiment.

Which cart's did you get for Christmas?

JustYolie said...

Pretty layout, love the paper lace background.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful page! Love that die cut paper and the colors! Beautiful photo's to! Great take on the sketch!
Thanks so much for playing along with us at Sketchy Thursdays!

Keshet said...

Wow, beautiful background! Thanks for joining the fun at Sketchy Thursdays this week!!

beth said...

I can't remember if I commented on this before but it is so beautiful. I love the colors and the butterflies. The cut is so pretty. You did an awesome job!

Kristie W. said...

This is a fantastic page, Sue!! I love the journaling around the die cut, the die cut itself is awesome and the pics are so pretty. Love the butterflies too!