Peachy Keen December Sneak Peak!

Good Morning! I have two cards to share that feature the NEW Peachy Keen Stamp of the Month stamps form Peachy Keen Stamps.  Darling stamps for celebrations, New Years, winter, and more sweet faces are included in this stamp set. 
For  my first card, I stamped the martini glass and "cheers" sentiment.  The background is a cut from Nifty Fifties Cricut Cartridge.

My next card is a birthday card for a belated birthday.  I love the single candle's expression inside the card, he looks a little upset about missing the actual birthday.  The card base is a SVG file that is available at Lori Whitlock's store, Flip Swing Card Set 3. 

Be sure to check out the Peachy Keen Blog this week for more projects featuring the new stamps for December 2012.  And mark your calendars! The Release Party is on December 5, at the Peachy Keen Connection Site, 6 pm CST.

My Family's Mustang

Our family has fond memories with our Mustang.  It was purchased by my Dad for my Mom as she wanted a new car to go with her new baby (me,lol).  My brother wanted the Mustang Fastback but Mom had her eyes set on the the Mustang Coupe.  My brother and I both drove this car when we were in high school and I drove this car until I was able to purchase a new car after graduating college. (The Mustang was tired at this point and I honestly thought the car was going to kill me because the engine was so powerful but the breaks... that was another story. ) My brother restored the car and now shows it! His daughter has her eye on this car now.  Here is my scrapbook page to enter in a Challenge at Cricut Circle that requests us to document a family memento with a scrapbook page. 

Cricut Cartridges & Paper Used:
Font- Baby Steps
"original" phrase- Graphically Speaking
traffic light- Going Places
Route 66 sign- Nifty Fifties
Papers- Echo Park Happy Days
DCWV- The Great Vacation Stack

Nifty 50!

My hubby is 50! Makes the math easy for me because I met him when he was turning thirty.  I have known my dear husband for 20 years!!! I made this nifty card for him with a beautiful digi stamp that Market Street Stamps generously gave me for signing up with their ning site. I love this funky radio as I my dad enjoyed fixing up old radios.. and I would ask my dad a bazillion questions while he was working on his radios.

"50" is from Letter Envy, "nifty" and retro base is from Nifty Fifties
both are Cricut Cartirdges

Heather's Shadow Box

My girl has been requesting a shadow box be made for her room for a while.  Thanks to the heads up from by crafting friend Bea, I was able to pick up this wooden box at the Dollar Tree.  I filled the shadow box with goodies that my girl enjoys.  This is my entry for the Fantabulous Cricut's Wall Decor  and More Challenge.

Close up of our Sweet Dog

Hanger was made with Prima flowers and a plastic straw.

Cricut Cuts:

Girls Rule Sign- Imagine, Best Friends

Dachshund (Mr. Ranger) - Animal Kingdom

"Barbie" - Forever Young

Skates - Nifty Fifties

Elephant (her favorite stuffed animal) - Birthday Bash

You're Tweet Bird - Imagine, Best Friends

Sponge Bob- Sponge Bob

Fab 50s Scrapbook Page

I created this scrapbook page for the September Magazine Challenge at the Cricut Circle.  For the challenge, you need to use Echo Park paper or stickers and your favorite cartridge.  I was drawn to Echo Park's Happy Days collection and remembered I had some photos of dear daughter from a 50s party.  My favorite cartridge of all time is Create a Critter... which you don't think of using when designing a 1950s theme project.  Would you believe there are four cuts from Create a Critter on my scrapbook page?  (The "fab" title, the stamp shape turned journal frame, the "retro" design by the ice cream, and the flowers on the glasses.) That is the great thing about our cartridges, there are SO many hidden jewels!  The rest of my cuts are from Nifty Fifties and the background element is from Elegant Edges.  The photo corners are made from a punch.

The glasses have plastic lenses, added a straw to to the Echo Park sundae sticker by using a boarder strip from the collection. The Imagine was used to print some 50s turqoise to match the collection.

Hid the words on the Nifty Fifties motel sign with my Gypsy. "Second" is the font from Nifty Fifites while the other words are stickers form the Echo Park Collection.