BABY word album

This is my very first word album so please be gentle with me..LOL :OP

A good friend of mine gave birth to a bouncing baby boy 4 weeks ago.. She lives a little bit away, so I don't get to see her everyday. I'm planning a visit for Thursday June 4th. I will be giving this to her as a surprise..
I misplaced my O-rings, which means I have to buy new ones..thats why their missing from the pic..LOL
This is the first letter, of couse..duh!.. She loves bold colors, so I didn't want to use pastels..
Added a pull out tag so she can journal something in there to go along with the photo that I have matted ready for her.
Here she can doodle the time and date the baby was born, plus add a photo.
sorry this is a bit blurry..
Little toes.. love baby toes.. The final page..

I cut the WHOLE album using my Cricut personal elec.dye cutter and the Plantin Schoolbook cart.. I cut it 5" tall and started with the whole matt lenght for the "Y"..and then just made them shorter by letter..
Just welded a long tag to the letter using the design studio software.
I also thought to recycle some of the cardboard that you get with the paper stacks you buy.

Supplies used:

• Cricut Cart: Plantin Schoolbook-Album
• Cricut Cart: Graphically Speaking- titles and flowers
  
• Cricut cart: Accent Essentials- frame(pic)
• Cricut cart: My Community- Feet
• HOTP - For boys to men papers
• blue, red and yellow cardstock
• recycled matt stack back cover-cardboard album
• buttons
• stickle
• ribbon

Thank you so much for looking.. any comments are highly appreciated

Lickin The Heat..

No! its not a "Kiss the cop" layout...LOL
Since I've been sick for the past week, I've been really depressed not having the energy to make a layout.. But, today I'm feeling like a new me and got this one done in only a few hours..
It's my sons' (Aaron) first Ice cream cone.. and boy! did he make a mess..Amber is there as well, keeping a big sister eye on her little brother..
I did not want your typical "First ice Cream" title cause Amber is in the picture as well and so, I found the "Lickin the heat" on www.scrapbook.com.. They have really excellent title ideas, poems, etc..
here is just a close up of Aaron eating his ice cream..and look at the table around him, full of ice cream..

• Cricut cart: Doodlecharms: popsicle sticks
• cricut cart: my community: ice cream truck, trees and road
• cricut cart: Paper doll dress up: ice cream man and grass
• cricut cart: George and basic shapes: truck window and awning, sign and circles
• cricut cart: Home Accent: Sun
• papers used: DCWV Summer glitter stack and DCWV Summer cardstock stack
• stickle: yellow and blue
• Inking and chalking
• distress ink by Tim Holtz-sign
• Cricut design studio for welding, stretching and shrinking.

I noticed that I did not need the jukebox even when cutting two different carts on one mat. cricut will keep carts in memory per session. so, you don't have to keep switching them.
Thank you all so much for looking and any comments are highly appreciated.

Mommys Little Man of Mischief.

Story behind this LO..

We had a huge tree in the front of you house when we lived in Florida(the tree is still there).. Aaron would love to run around that tree and hide behind it.

The title I got from one of my all time favorite movie characters: Austin Powers..LOL

so, instead of man of mystery, I thought of Little man of Mischief.

The bugs and the eaten leaves represent the mischief, cause everyone knows how mischivious bugs are in your garden..

• Cricut All Mixed up cart-title
• Cricut Paper doll dress up-Dinosaurs and grass
• Cricut Doodlecharms cart-little hearts
• Cricut Walk in my Garden cart- Bugs, leaves and foot prints(tulips)
• Cricut My community- tree trunk
• Cricut Design Studio-stretching and welding
• Paper- Basic Grey and HOTP
• Stickle-Lime Green, Blue, Silver and Black

Thank you so much looking and any comments are highly appreciated

Oatmeal Incident of 1997

My boys wouldn't try OATMEAL for nothing when they were younger.. I finally convinced them it was good (and good for them).. Aaron(my oldest boy) is showing me the OK with is fingers and I thought that was so cute...

• DCWV summer stack for the base
• K & Co for the leaved trees
• brown craft paper for the house top, signs and bears
• white craft paper for the fence and titles
• cream craft paper for Goldilocks frame, yellow for hair and dress
• My community cart for trees and houses
• Walk in my garden cart for flowers, signs, leaves and catepillar
• My community cart for 3 bears and goldilocks
• Paper doll dress up for the clothes on the bears
• All Mixed up cart for the titles.
• Design studio for stretching and welding
• Stickle- cinnamon, lime green, icicle and yellow.
• tim holtz distress ink pad for distressing signs

TFL