Mrs. Geek

Colorful layout

Ever since our return from Disneyland in January the idea for this layout has been forming in my brain. I used this sketch from Sketchsupport.com. I love thier sketches, awesome ideas, and examples AND detailed instructions including cutting sizes and placement. Love that!

Dr. Geek returned from a trip to home depot one day with a stack of paint chips from the Disney paint line. I have him well trained! I used one of those as an embellishment and used the title I cut from Sure Cuts A Lot and sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

I love how it all came together!

Disney Paper Piecing

After I posted this Retro Disneyland paper piecing on the Disney Scrappers board many wanted to see something similar for Disney World. I got the inspiration for the Disneyland piece from a T-Shirt I bought during the 50th Anniversary celebration. I have yet to go to Disney World so I wasn't sure what would work.  I did a bit of searching around the web and found this pin that had a similar look. I used a few fonts and the shapes in the Sure Cuts A Lot library to create this:

Essie Watermelon

Summer is the perfect time for Watermelon, even on your nails! I don't know what it is, but a dark opaque polish can really make my nails and fingers appear longer. This is a fun pink for summer. I do love my Essie polishes.

A "Minnie" French Manicure

Another selection from the vintage Minnie Mouse collection from OPI. I used "Nothin' Mousey About It" on my ring fingers and used my usual French Manicure colors on the rest of the nails. I saw on Pinterest a "recipe" if you will using Essie' Mademoiselle as the base, Marshmallow on the tips and Pink Glove Service over the entire nail.

(note the picture was taken about 3 days after I painted my nails so there are some chips showing)

More Father's Day Craftiness

One more crafty project. I used the Dad is Tops card and bag kit from Lettering Delights to make a card & gift bag for my dad. I used the Green Tea stack from DCWV. I like how it turned out. It screams ugly 70'a tie!

Sometimes it pays to be the squeeky wheel

I'm a big fan of the coupon, loyalty cards and rewards discount. I'm not about to be on Extreme Couponing, but I like to get a good deal that is relevent to me. I don't need, nor do I have the space for, a stockpile of deodorant and shampoo. But 20% off all purchases including sale items at my local craft store -- I'm there! Thanks to apps like KeyRing and SnipSnap, this is made so much easier!

About 2 years ago I recieved an invitation to pilot the rewards program for a large chain craft store. I guess they figured out I used their coupons with quite some regularity. After my purchase reached a certain level I would be mailed a $5 gift card for the store. I must have been a good customer becasue I received a fair amount of gift cards.

After one year they were done with their trial period, thanks so much, don't call us we'll call you. A few months later they launched a semi nationwide program. I was a bit surprised to learn that those of us who were in the pilot program weren't automaticlly rolled into the new program or issued new cards. No in order to be enrolled in the new program you have to physically pick up a card at one of the brick and mortar stores. Not a problem, I have 4 that I frequent with in a 30 mile radius of my home, surely one of these establishments must issue the cards. WRONG!!!! The only one in my state is 584 miles away, I've done some scrapping road trips but that is outside the relm of any excursion I care to take.

What's a girl to do? Well I kept checking the list and for the past year and the list hasn't added any stores closer to me. I started to think about how many times I've shopped over the past year and how much money I'd spent. The more I thought about it the more I thought "Hey, I helped pilot this program, I should be part of it in it's new form!" So over the past weekend I sent an email to the address listed on the rewards page stating just that.  Well in the next few days I got a response - they were sending me a new card for the program! Yay! Bring on the rewards!

Father's Day Craftiness

Each holiday baby geek "commissions" a card that he sends out to loved ones. Father's day is no exception. After doing this a few times, and now that I have my Expression, I've tried to streamline the process. I set up a SCAL file laid out to make 4 5x7 cards out of one sheet of 12x12 paper. I use a Fuji Instax camera to take multiple instant pix of Baby Geek -- the outtakes make for some cute scrapbooking pages! The Instax prints are the same size as a gift card so I added the SVGCuts Gift Card Holders file to my layout. (They no longer have the link to this free file on their website) I then come up with a theme for the card. I'll use one item on the card and then make a few props for Baby Geek to hold in the pictures. For this card I'm using the Father's Fancy Footwork set from Lettering Delights. I'll take the pictures of him barefoot while holding the "Happy Fathers' Day" sign and lay the diecut socks along side him. The Grandparents and others who have received the cards love them. They like that they have a snapshot of Baby Geek they can keep.

Minnie Manicure

So the Zoya polish lasted about five days. It would have gone longer but I had some chips and nail breaks. I was impressed with how easily I could remove it for being such a vibrant coral. I splurged on a mani pedi and had the latest OPI put on both my fingers and toes, The Color of Minnie! I'm loving this collection. It's combined two of my favorite things -- Disney and nail polish!

 

OPI - The Color of Minnie

 

A bit more Disney craftiness

I've been percolating an idea for a World of Color layout almost since we returned from Disneyland in January. I wanted to include the logo as the title. Today I decided to play with a logo I found online and then cut using Sure Cuts A Lot. If ever there was a time to use Glimmer Mists, I'd say this would be the perfect time! the blue and purple turned out a bit muddy. I think I might try again but first spray a strip of white cardstock and then cut the title once it is dry. I've been really into adding shadow effects bu simply cutting the same image from either black or grey and adhering it to the back. For a first attempt I think it turned out rather well.

More from the scrap table...

After seeing this video and this one. I decided to give the Mouseketeer Kids a try. Here is the finished product.

I made them for a friend of mine who also wanted me to make her a set of my Small World Paper Dolls. I'm loving using my Cricut cartridges! It's great to have the flexibility to use the cartridges as well as SVG files with he third party software.