Silhouette and Project Life

     I have this love hate relationship with my Silhouette SD.  I first discovered it from HOF 3 which is no longer active.  It was the collaboration of Heidi, Rhonna and Janet using digital kits and making hybrid projects.  Well, I got a hold of it and just love all the different designs on it.  I wanted to use it a lot more but was having problems with it cutting nice and crisp images. It was especially difficult with intricate and more detailed images.  I still used it occasionally then I decided to try something else.  Instead of using bazzill paper I used American Crafts.  It made a difference!  But...some cuts were still not cutting to its perfection.  So I read that it could be the blade so I just bought a new blade and their new mats.  We'll see if that makes a huge difference.
    I am taking part of Project Life from Becky Higgins.  I started it last year but it didn't pan out after 3 months.  So...I'm taking a different approach in that I'm staying organized, not caring if the pictures are not perfect, edit it if I have time, using a calendar/planner to document and putting important pictures that tell the story during that month. No stress in doing a daily thing.  It's whatever and however you want.  Just DOCUMENT and tell YOUR STORY.
    So I am using my Silhouette to add some elements into my Project Life.  I'm loving all the inspirations out there!!  I love printing the images on white card stock.  The great thing is that I can leave it plain white or I can make it any color I want with a touch of Glimmer.  Here are some examples of what I did using my images from the silhouette.

I then Glimmer misted the Chevron image using Tattered Angels chalkboard mist in 

Doesn't that look awesome?!

                                   

I love this camera image that was designed by Amy Tan with American Crafts on the Silhouette site.

Here's my album I decided to use from American Crafts.  It's the black and white damask 3 ring 12x12 binder.  I just love this design.  The only thing is that it doesn't have a spine label.  So I decided to use Teresa Collins Zach bookplates because these are just my all time fave and is a staple in my stash.  I used hot glue so it would stick better.

Here's my first page of my PL 2012 album.  Photos taken by Momentary Bliss Photography.  Love her!  So talented.  I hope to keep it up.  Loving it!  So come on and join the Project Life movement!

  Moving on to another exciting news are the new products that will debut for this coming CHA winter in Anaheim.  Lisa and I will be going again this year!  So excited!  We just have such a great time meeting all the designers, products, doing all the make n takes and just having some BFF time!  The sneak peeks are showing up.  Check out Scrapbook Update for the latest sneaks.  I'm off to work on my Project Life album.

Happy Scrappin'!

My daughter's 12th birthday.

My daughter turned 12!  I can't believe it! She invited her girlfriends to bowl and then a sleepover.  Our first sleepover.  God help us!  They had a long night but the girls had a lot of fun!  That's what was important.   I created party favors using TC POSH papers from winter CHA 2011 and her Chic and scary Cricut cartridge.  I love it!  I then added some girly tween stuff such as lipgloss,candy and I forgot what was the other one.  Oh well.  Anyways, the girls loved it!  I also created a birthday banner using her POSH collection and the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge.  I'm so login' the Cricut machine.

 

The next day we had a small family get together for her birthday.

A couple days later it was our Abby's birthday.  She's just so sweet.  

blingage

As I sit here... sick and all I wanted to post this project I made with Teresa's blingage and satin ribbon I had created lone time ago but totally forgot to post.  Pretty simple.  I just tied each end to the ribbon and voila..instant necklace.

Sad.

I'm a little sad...today is my last post as Teresa Collins design team member.  I had such a great time getting to know her,Sesil, Cheri and the rest of the ladies on the design team.  She is such a talented lady and her right hand woman, Sesil is amazing!  I truly don't know how these ladies do it.  This was such a great experience for me.  I had such a blast being part of Teresa's successful growth in the industry such as designing cartridges for CRICUT! Wow!  I never knew I would be using a die cut machine.  Thanks Teresa for designing such beautiful images!  Keep on creating those cartridges.   So farewell...Teresa Collins.  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be such an amazing company.  You are such a sweet, caring and talented person.

I'll leave you with my last project using Teresa Collins Christmas Home collection.

I love the Holidays.  One of my favorite things about the holidays are the decorations.  I used Teresa Collins Christmas Home collection, some styrofoam cones and a shadow box frame to create a decor to display in my home during the Holidays.  I just simply wrapped the cone with the card stock and added embellishments.  As far as the frame I just placed a 12x12 card stock and matted my photo and you're done.  A simple christmas decor.

Supplies:

Christmas Home Collection: 

Christmas Labels

Christmas Damask

Christmas Notes

Brads

Adhesive

pop dots

Christmas Home by Teresa Collins

Ghouls and Goblins....Oh my!

It's Halloween time and I've created a Halloween wreath using Teresa Collins Haunted Hallows Collections and her very popular Chic and Scary Cricut cartridge.  Come and check out my post on the Teresa Collins design team blog.  Also, check out Teresa's blog for some announcements she's made.
Here's some examples using the  Cricut Expression 2 and TC chic & scary cartridge.

Aloooha!

We recently went on a much needed and a long time coming vacation.  This was our first time as a family going to Hawaii.  It was such an amazing time!  My husband has a lot of family there and I have a cousin who lives there too.  We were only there for a week and everyday was packed full!  We were all over the island of OAHU.  We got a chance to do things that locals do, eat and most of the beaches that are on the island.  We hit the beach every single day.  Family aka OHANA is very important in Hawaii.  You'll see through my photos that we spent a lot of time with family.  Be warned my blog posts will be photo heavy. 

We were able to board the plane before the rest of the passengers.  Here we are so excited for our trip.

Watching our favorite shows on the iPAD while enjoying some hersheys macadamia nut kisses.  So good!

I created this travel journal to add pictures and journaling while I was on the plane.  Well.....I found out that even on the plane I get motion sickness when I'm doing something such as writing or moving around to grab something.  So that meant I really couldn't do much on the plane.  Oh well.

Once we landed we headed over to my cousin's house.  We were starving since the food on the plane was nasty it made me sick.  Couldn't wait to eat local food.  We first ate at Juriso's.  I had the ahi katsu.  It was so yummy!!   The thing in Hawaii are lunch plates which consists of the meat, rice and mac salad which my daughter loved.  

 Next... SHAVE ICE.  It's the thing there.  Love us some shave ice.  It's not a sno cone either. You can add different flavors such as pina colada, coffee and add ice cream too. 

We then went back home to change so we can hit our first beach in Hawaii.  I was having fun with my camera and the lens I rented which was the 16-35mm 2.8.  Loved it!  I got some creative shots and landscape shots as well.   My photos we're all shot with this lens.

More photos to follow.