Two for Two

I am back this week with two layouts as promised. I worked with my Cricut Expression on both of these layouts. I needed to put this machine to use. You know! Its easy to get caught up in buying all the cool cartridges (And boy did I get my collection started with a vengeance). But I tend to forget to pull the Cricut out when scrapbooking. So I have challenged myself to use it in at least one out of every two layouts in some way or another. So far I am really liking the results of using this plotter.

My first layout this week is on some pictures I had in my stash of my DD. No sketches used on this layout. I mean, really, its just three pictures. I decided to stick to my usual style of Classic and Clean. The twist for me was in using my Cricut.  Here is a picture of the layout:

I used a few cartridges on this layout: for the clouds I used April Showers, then for the title (which I could have made larger) and the tree I used Just Because Cards, then finally for the top scallop border I used Martha Stewart's All Occasions Cake. I love this layout. It is so cute and so totally my daughter.

For the next layout, I worked on a page from Annie's Attic Scrapbooking with Cricut. When I saw this in the book, I just knew I had to make it for our recent trip to DC. I am still waiting on the pictures to come in the mail but I couldn't wait to get this page ready to go. Are you ready? Here it is:

OMG! I just love this one! I used Independence Day for the Capitol Bldg and Serenade for the cherry blossom trees as the book stated. As for the title the book used a couple of images from the Destinations cartridge but since I don't own that one, I had to improvise. Instead I used Martha Stewart's All Occasions Cake and her Elegant Cakes cartridges for the font. I welded the letters together  and then did it again with the shadow layer. The spread holds two 4x6 photos and two 4x4 photos.

I really like how this layout turned out. You really need to see it to appreciate it. The trees are popped up for added dimension as you can see here:

Isn't it a nice touch? That was not me, it was as the book instructed. I love it! There are a number of cute layouts in this book. I highly recommend it. I have quite a number of pages bookmarked for future use.

Well that's all for this week. I will see you next week with some more scrapbooking and other ramblings.

Have a great weekend!