Cooking with Cricut #79: Make us laugh

Hi everybody and welcome back to another fun challenge at Cooking with Cricut! This week we are celebrating April Fool's Day by making projects that will make you laugh.  I hope you find my project funny- I don't do funny very well, but I saw this sentiment and thought it was pretty funny! So here is my card:

The crab is cut from Life's a Beach. Create a Critter also has a cute one, but this one won out! I used a white galaxy pen to draw in his cute smile and placed some additional black cardstock behind his eyes to give them some more definition. I printed the sentiment on my computer. Here is the interior of the card:

The sentiment stamp is from Whimsical Designs. I thought this would be a cute design for a belated birthday card as well! I hope I made you chuckle a bit today, and can't wait to see all the funny and inspiring things you all come up with! Please come join us!

Supply List:
Cardstock: ColorBok
Patterned Paper: Pebbles
Cartridge: Life's a Beach
Ink: Cat's eye

2012 Scrapbook Trend #4: Nautical Motifs

Happy Saturday Night Blog-land! Welcome to another installment of 2012 Scrapbook Trends. Number 4 is Nautical Motifs. Okay, I might have stretched it a little bit on this one. Pretty sure the Nautical Motifs they are referring to are red, tan and navy colors, nautical stars, anchors, rope, that sort of thing. But I just didn't have any pictures or images that would fit with that right now, and I did have these cute pics of my nieces playing in the backyard pool. Mermaids and fishies are still nautical, right?? LOL Hope you like my project anyway :) I apologize for the quality of the pics- my camera struggles when there is a lot of white.

The sketch design is from the Paper Variety Challenge this week. I really like this sketch, I think there are so many ways you could go with this! All the 'nautical' cuts are from Life is a Beach, including the title. I added the 's' from the font layer (the actual title was 'Little Mermaid') as I have TWO little mermaids. I also added the layers on the mermaid. I cut the title at 4 inches and measured the mermaid to be 3 1/2 inches. I cut the mermaid layers at 3 1/2 inches and it fit perfectly. I liked her better with the layers than just the pink she would have been. I am sure this could also have easily been done with CCR but I am still intimidated by it, lol. The clouds are from Paper Pups. Here are some details:

I added some turquoise stickles to her fin,

I added some Liquid Pearls to make some bubbles. This is a relatively new product for me and I am already in love. I love that you can vary the size of the pearl, and pretty much use it wherever you want.

I then doodled a border around the page and done! I hope you enjoyed my project, and check back later for trend # 5: Chalkboard (REALLY excited to try this one out!)

Supply List:
Cardstock: ColorBok
Patterned Paper: SEI
Cartridges: Life's a Beach, Paper Pups
Liquid Pearls, Zig Pen, stickles

I am also entering my layout in the following challenges:

The Paper Variety - sketch
Scrap Fit - Build your layout around a white paper base
Crafts and Me - Bright colors