I was a good girl this year and Santa brought me two new Cricut cartrigdes:

Everyday Paperdolls Cricut Cartridge

Cricut Alphalicious

I just love the Everyday Paperdolls cartridge.  This cartridge is very user friendly and you can create a variety of dolls.  Each accessory or layer has simple to follow directions, there is no paper waste when cutting, since you are cutting only the accessory you select.

I created this fun winter layout of my daughter.  I customized the snowsuit girl paperdoll to match her hair color and clothes.  The snow border is an extra on the paperdoll cartridge.

The font is layered with a shadow and I added Stickles to add sparkle to my page.

Snow Day

I love the theme for this month being all about love. I discovered this adorable product line by ADORNit. Owls have been so hot and popular this year.

I work full time and my husband works away from home 4 days a week.  I have two boys under the age of 5.  So when I think scrapbooking I think quick, time savers that look sharp.  So when a company puts together a product line that matches, I go nuts!!!  You'll see how quick and easy this double layout goes together.

I selected to use the Owl Hoot A and cut it into two separate pieces.  I used my Provo Craft 12 inch trimmer a good bit.  After I selected my pictures I chose which elements out of the Owl kit I wanted to use.  I had 3 sheets of designer paper, 3 sheets of Bazzill card stock. a sheet of card stock stickers, and 12 inches of matching ribbon.

I used my Glue Glilder Pro for my adhesive to adhere my ribbon, pictures and paper.

I used s.e.i brads and the ADORNit Owl ribbon to accent along with the coordinating stickers.

I hope you enjoyed this post and I hope you were able to see how with so few products you can create wonderful, fun layouts.  I only invested about $9.00 into these products and I was able to get another double page layout out of the kit.  PLUS I still have enough left over to do another 1 page layout or create a card with the scraps.

Well...it's that time of week again and I was having a rough day. I broke my right wrist and finding projects that I can do easily has been a difficult thing! But....I did find something. This project is sooo nice and easy to do. If I can do it with a cast on....anyone can do it!

The products I used were:

Prima Flowers

Kaisercraft DP

Mod Podge

chipboard coasters

Tim Holtz clip

7 Gypsies rings

Basic Grey half pearls

Martha Stewart craft knife

Random Ribbon

Calendar template which can be found at About.com <------- http://rubberstamping.about.com/od/2010calendartemplates/ig/2010-ATC-Calendar-Template/

This really was a simple project. I put mod podge on my coasters and layered my DP over it and let it dry. Cut out the pieces with my Martha Stewart craft knife...flipped the coasters over and did the other sides.

I downloaded and cut the calendar, used a hole punch and put two little brads through to hold them together and make for easy removal of the month. I put two holes in the top for the rings...and I used my hole punch for those too..the chipboard is fairly thin.

I then just used some cardstock to make some layers, attached it to the coaster and added prima flowers.The other side is for post-it-notes. I just took a glue dot and adhered the Tim Holtz clip to it and there you have it.

What do you think? Do you think you might want to try this quick and easy project? I think the best part is embellishing it. There are so many options and different ways to make this and honestly...it didn't take that much time to do.

What a great gift this would make also....I think when my cast is off I am going to make a few more to give away. I should have done this for Christmas gifts...great little office desktop calendar.

So I'd love to hear what you think? Also....let me know how you'd do it differently...I love suggestions.