Yo Gabba Gabba...

 I remember when my children were Sesame Street enthusiasts. Then came my youngest (who is thirteen years younger) and it became the Rug Rats.  Well I watch my three year old grandson on Friday's so now it is Yo Gabba Gabba.  Funny how the names and characters change but their enthusiasm for them remains the same.  Now instead of putting in a VHS tape so we can watch anytime it's  push the DVR button.  Time passes but kids remain a constant, LOL. I ran across a request on the message board looking for these characters and I remembered a couple of months ago my grandson and I sat at my computer and I made cut files for him.  He loves to pick characters from his favorite shows and watch me create the cut files to make for him.  I haven't cut these guys yet but did plan to use to make a book to incorporate my grandsons pictures with the characters using my Your Story.  So many projects never enough time in the weeks lately. I thought someone else might enjoy doing a project the these cute little critters so I'd like to share.  I would love to see what anybody does with them. Just click their names for the files.

FOOFA

TOODE

MUMO

PLEX

BROBEE

YO GABBA GABBA

Forever Young...

There are so many recent releases for the Cricut as of late, I am forever lost to keep up buying the ones I like.  Forever Young is one of them I just can't resist.  I love the cuts from this cart.  Heritage is another that was hard to resist and my granddaughters love the new Princess cart.  So much for cutting back on my spending there are just way to many. Thank you so very much Provocraft for keeping the dust from gathering on my Visa, LOL.  I have finally come to a solution that I am only going for the ones  that tie in with my style of scrapping.  OK and maybe just a few that the grand daughters seem to think I can't do without. This layout was done with cuts from the Forever Young cart, one that both the girls and I found to be a must have.

Files a little old, a little new...

Well two days and hopefully that darn groundhog will see no sign of his shadow. I am really tired of winter no mater how pretty fresh snow looks. It has been so cold out lately here in Michigan. So its seems I have been doing more making cut files than cutting them the last couple weeks.  I love to sit on on my couch on the cold nights at the end of a long day with my lap top and play.  I really don't know what I ever did before Inkscape, LOL.  When I was saving a couple cuts I found the file for 'Love Opens All doors'.  I had posted the layout on December 28th but didn't share the file because I thought I had mistakenly deleted it. So for anyone who still would like to use it you can find the link Here. The door knob was made from a large gold button I found in my stash

This is a new cut file for a layout in progress so I thought I would share it now for anyone who might like to try it. I have been using silhouettes long before Cricut came out with A Child's Year and Heritage.  Silhouettes have always been one of my favorite cuts. The cut file for all seasons and titles are HERE.

Happy Belated New Year...

I should have been toasting but instead I was just wishing to be toasty 'warm'.  New Years Eve around 6 pm sitting in my scraproom I was thinking my feet were getting a bit nippy.  My first thought was maybe I need to put my fuzzy slippers on.  I got up to get my slippers and check the thermostat and it said 62.  I keep my house on the cool side but not that cool.  Now mind you I had been on vacation for the previous ten days, could it act up during that time?  No it has to wait til a holiday, and according to furnace repairman a three day holiday at that.  My three grand kids were due over at 9 pm to toast in the new year, or should I say to chill out with me, LOL. Luckily I did have a large ceramic heater that we use for the garage or emergencies when needed.  I live ranch style home so we just closed of all the unoccupied rooms, put on extra socks and a sweatshirt and toasted the New Year in with a pajama party in the middle of the living room.  Kids are so resilient, they had a ball and I got lots of pictures to scrap when my scraproom is warmer than 56 degrees.  The repairmen didn't come until Saturday morning so I spent half my weekend under my snuggy on the couch playing with my files on the laptop.  Seeing as I didn't get to post new any files I found this one.  It is an older layout I had posted before but had never posted the cut file to go with it.  I cut my Reading Fairy at about 8 inches so the pieces were fairly easy to work with. She is one my favorite pieces I think I have done this past year. I hope you enjoy her if you should decide to use the cut file. May 2010 be a wonderful year for everyone.