CUC's New Theme for December

Cookin' Up Creations has a new theme for the month of December!!!  This month's Blue Plate Specials will focus on the theme of Santa's Toyland!!!  Stop by for some amazing inspiration.

Show and Share - a few new layouts!

I just wanted to share a few new layouts that I have created!  All of these were fall themed layout and I thought that I had better share since fall is almost completely gone in Northern Michigan!!  I hope that you like them!

A Halloweenie Good Time!

I just wanted to share a few Halloween themed layouts that I created lately.  The first is one of my son listening to his least favorite song.  Around Halloween every year, the radio station plays the Dogman Song. It is about a dog that walks upright and terrorizes and kills people in the Upper and Northern Lower Peninsula. The song has ALWAYS terrified children in our area (to the point that the kids would sleep with a baseball bat next to their bed around Halloween time.) When the song comes on, to this day, my son freaks out. We had to document it!  This layout was based on a sketch from NAS!

 The second is my daughter dressing up for likely her last Halloween.  She found these glasses last year and just knew she wanted to be a Hippie for Halloween!

DT Openings at CUC

Hello everyone!  I know that I have been gone a while - the beginning of the school year this year has been crazy - but I wanted to let you know that I am still scrapping!  I am still a member of a couple of amazing design teams and wanted to share with you a link if you would like to become a member too!

My family over at Cookin' Up Creations is amazing, supportive, inspiring, motivating, and frankly, a group of amazing ladies!  I love to go there to chat, vent (just a little), and get my mojo going.  This months Blue Plate Special Challenges are around the theme Home is Where the Heart is. 

I am not at liberty to share quite yet, but I am so looking forward to December's theme and am hoping for a little Blog Hop thrown in!!!

Anywho . . . the next round of DT entries have begun to roll in!  If you would love to be a part of this amazing team, check out this link and enter!!!

Show and Tell Saturday - Sweetly Scrapped

Today I wanted to share with you an amazing site - Sweetly Scrapped - for freebie printables and here are more.  They offer many freebies and many others that you can purchase!  Exploring this site could take your quite some time but I thought that I might share some of my favorites!

1.  Who can resist this camera?

  2.  I love these banners and tickets!

3.  Check out these cute washi tape strips!

4.  I actually won these in a giveaway at Sweetly Scrapped and they are adorable!!!

5.  And these colorful watches!

6.  And the teacher in me couldn't resist these pencil toppers.  I hate those "cute little pencils that never sharpen as prizes but these little toppers would be cute on any regular pencil!

 

If you haven't checked out this site, please do!  It is amazing!!!

Viewmaster Slides Tutorial and Handmade Embellishment Linky Party

I have loved the trend of Viewmaster slides as of late but I haven't been able to find them in my LSS.  So then I started thinking . . . Cassy . . . why not make some of your own to coordinate with your layouts.  So I started playing with punches and such and here is what I came up with.  I made several of different sizes for the following layout for my NAS DT reveal.  The layout also made Cookin' Up Creation's layout of the week!  YAY!

And here is how I made the slides:

1.  First I gathered supplies.  I needed a circle (mine was a 3" circle), coordinating scraps, a 1" square punch - or you could hand cut them, a rectangle and oval hand punch, and a 1" circle punch.

2.  Next, I place a small mark on the top, bottom, left, and right to line things up.  I used my quilting mat that I work on for that but a ruler would work just fine,

3.  Then I glued a 1" square next to each mark.  You will need 12 squares in total for a 3" circle.

4.  I then glued 2 squares in between each of my marked squares and I trimmed an old paper flower and punched a coordinating 1" circle and glued them in the center.

5.  And finally, I erased the marks and punched 4 rectangles and just nipped the edges in between each square with the oval punch to create the round marks.

Here is another layout that I created recently with a handmade embellishment.  I found the flower tutorial on Pintrest and couldn't resist making a smaller version.  I also trimmed the outside edge to make a more delicate flower when I was finished.

So share with us your favorite handmade embellishment.  Link back to your blog if possible and we will have a collection of amazing inspiration.  Also, I will again send out a small RAK for the random drawing for anyone who enters.  Remember you can link up to five projects, cards, or layouts!  Last week's winner was Jan!

CUC's New Theme

I love the sights and sounds of an amusement park. The cotton candy, popcorn, caramel apples (my personal fav), waffle cones, bright colors, bright lights at night, and so much more! The month's theme at Cookin' Up Creations is. . . . wait for it . . . . Amusement Parks!  Come join us for some amazing challenges and great prizes and frankly, just a fun and supporting place to share!  You won't be disappointed and may even find a new home to visit daily.