A 12th Birthday!

Good Morning! Yay, it's Friday:) This is the last weekend before school starts and I am so not ready. Once again life is going way too fast for me.  I worked on my youngest pages from her birthday last year the other day. Her favorite color is blue and she thinks Hello Kitty is so cute. I do too. 

I realized when I was putting these pages together that her candle was a 6. What? I had forgotten all about that. I think my reasoning was it was half of 12 and hey, it's a candle right. She was a good sport about it:) 

I learned a really great tip from Mary at Cardz TV when putting Hello Kitty together. The trick is to cut out the silhouette and just lay the pieces in. Oh my, this was so much easier! So, thank you to Mary:)

The circles inside the flowers came from the large scallop circle. The paper was double sided so I was able to use the other side too.

Recipe:
2 page 12 x 12
Red Strip Scallop - Ribbons and Rosettes 1.04"
Circle Scallop - Elegant Edges 10.71
Hello Kity - Hello Kitty Font
Flowers - Hello Kitty Font 4.08"
"12" - Hello Kitty Font 3.46"
Circles - George and Basic Shapes 3" and 3.46"
Rectangle - George and Basic Shapes 3"
Happy Birthday - Create A Critter 2.55"
Yellow Stickles, Black ink, DCWV Stickers, White Signo Pen

Entering:
Scrap It Girl Numbers
For Fun Challenges Birthday
Mema's Crafts Anything Goes with a Twist of Red

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Annette

Hello Kitty Halloween

I am still working on Halloween cards and this one today will be for my sweet 11 year old. She loves Hello Kitty and thinks she is super cute. I agree:) Today I am entering this card in Bitten By The Bug 2 and Throwback Thursday. They both required a Halloween theme. BBTB2 asked for something cute and Hello Kitty. Emma asked for the use of the card feature on a cartridge. I came up with this cutie. Hope you like her:)

Her hat is some mulberry paper that has some streaks of gold. I hadn't use mulberry in a really long time. It is a fun paper to play with.

The card feature is from Celebrations and the stars that are on the inside of the card are from the cut out.

Recipe:

Card base - Celebrations 10.69" before folding

Stars - Martha Stewart Fine Glitter Silver

Papers - Stash

Hello Kitty - Hello Kitty Font 3.43"

Witch Hat - Paper Doll Dress Up 3.89

Sentiment - Peachy Keen Stamps

Stickles - Yellow, Black, Orange

Prima Flowers, Pop Dots

Thanks for stopping by:)

Annette

So What's New Blog Hop Day 2

Hello! Welcome back for Day 2 of So What's New Blop Hop. If your hopping over from Melody, then you are exactly where you need to be. If you are starting here, you might want to hop back to Roberta and check out all the creativity from the beginning. Some of us are celebrating the hop by giving away Blog Candy so make sure you check out all the great creations.

Okay, on with the project today. Subway art is very popular right now and I thought it might be fun to create my own. Michael's was having a sale on canvas and I purchased these.

It's kind of hard to tell, but I painted the canvas with an acrylic ecru first. (Paint is still a little wet in this pic)

I then layed out design on my gypsy and cut. Love my gypsy!  

I painted glitter paint over the finished project. This was a lot of fun to make and there are many possibilities for future subway art in my mind:)

Here's the blog candy again that you could win.

Rules to be in the drawing are:
1. Follower of my blog. 
2. Leave a comment on blog hop post for your chance to win.

Make sure to leave email so I can contact if you are the winner:) Winner will be announced on Monday, October 17th.

Now hop on over to Susan and see all her crafty goodness:)
Thanks for stopping by:)

Annette

Musical Cats

Well, I finally did a layout with Fantabulous Cricut as my inspiration! The challenge this week was to do something musical. Boy, do I have a lot of that to do for my older daughter's book. Before I know it, there will be another performance and more to do:) These pictures were taken this summer so I'm not too far behind. We made her cat costume. I have to say the tail, for me, was the most fun. I used 5 different colors of tulle and the base was a nylon hose stuffed with polyester fiberfil.  They were cut in strips, 2 pieces sewn together and when pulled on the ends created a puff ball that was then sewn to the base. Her tail inspired a lot of the other girls too so they also created tails to match their costumes. It was too hot this day, but other peformances she wore one of her legwarmers on one leg. I sewed yarn to just to give some dimension to it.

This particular layout was for the "Cats" Musical song Jellicle Cats

The wheel paper was inspired because the cats live in a junkyard. I drew with the cri-kit pens in
black before cutting out.

This cat is also singing and the black cri-kit glitter pen was used on this one too.

This particular number was the opening act for "Music Man" so the backdrop had some
fun colors that we decided to pull onto the layout.

Thanks for stopping by:)

Recipe:

Cityscape - Plantin SchoolBook 12.70" width on gypsy

Font - Hello Kitty Font 2.38" height on gypsy

Gold Cat - Paper Doll Dress Up 6.56" height on gypsy

Grey Cat - Paper Doll Dress Up 6.69" height on gypsy

Barrell - Paper Doll Dress Up 7.77" height on gypsy

Musical Notes - Gypsy Wandering & Twinkle Toes 2.38" and 1.00" height on gypsy

Cri-Kit Glitter Pen - Black

Copic Markers - musical notes pink and blue RV21 and BG15

Entering:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #77 - musical notes or instrument

Annette

Back To School

I received my order from Emma at My Creative Time and was able to sit down and play with the gift card holder. I think this is a great idea that will get a lot of good use around my house. It was very simple to do and came together quite quickly. Her stamps are really nice too. This little girl is so cute. I cut her from Twinkle Toes. I hid the face cuts on my gypsy and used Peachy Keen Stamps instead. I glittered her up a bit too:)

Recipe:

Gift Card Die - My Creative Time Embossed Gift Card Holder Die

Papers, Bazzill, Basic Grey, Daisy D

Twinkle Toes - height 2.66" on gypsy

Font - Hello Kitty Font height 1.94" on gypsy

Stickles - Diamond

Stamps - My Creative Time Gift Card Sentiment

Peachy Keen - PK-490 Everyday Character Face Assortment

Sakuro Uniball Signo White Pen

Entering into:

Peachy Keen LFIF Back to School

Cooking With Cricut School Days

Quick Quotes Back to School 

Papercraft Weekend Challenge Glitter

Have a great Monday!

Annette