Happy New Year! New Color Combo #139

 

Color Combos Galore is back!  Janet’s son received a Christmas card which inspired this week’s color combo:  blue skies, misty blue, tranquil green, and toasted olive.   I added just a touch of red in my interpretation.  The pictures were taken on our first Snow Day of the year, during the first week in December.  We don’t get many snow days as we live in California, but this Snow Day turned into two official Snow Days which hasn’t happened since we’ve lived in Jackson.  The snow stayed on the ground for nearly a week.  We used these days to play in the snow, decorate our Christmas tree, introduce snow to our puppies, and we kept warm by drinking lots of hot chocolate and baking Christmas cookies.  I used my Cuttlebug to die cut a vinyl snowflake, some quilted-back snow balls, and embossed these snowballs as well.  Then I used the Winter Woodland, When It’s Cold Outside, and Snow Friends Cricut Cartridges, to help make the title which was welded and brainstormed in Cricut DesignStudio.  The title was drawn first using the basic brown Cricut color pen, then cut out, and layered with the cuts.  A light blue Cricut color pen was used on the snowflake as well.   The blanket stitch, snowflake stitches, and buttons were added using my Singer Futura. 

If you want to participate in the color challenge, follow the link to Color Combos Galore http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/ and post your layouts there. Make sure you label your layouts with the color combination number.

Singer Futura with Cricut, Round 2

I've been successful with the above union again--like a match made in heaven. Just a quick rundown on how this is accomplished, I die cut the desired images using my Cricut with the respective layers. Then I scan it into my computer and retrieve it in the software that came with the Futura--Autopunch. Then I embroider it onto the desired material. For the sweatshirt, I embroidered it onto white canvas, trimmed it out with microtip scissors, applied Fray Check to stop any fraying around the edges, applied heat-n-bond, and then ironed it onto Gwen's pocket of her sweatshirt. She loves it--as do I! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek. If anyone has any embroidery tips, please share--I'm a newbie.

Happy Thanksgiving! Color Combos #136 & 138

My turkey is in the oven as we speak! Perfect time to blog and share some layouts with color combinations from Color Combos Galore. My house is still very quiet this morning--the only sound being the pitter-patter of puppies' feet.

For the first color combo, #136, I used the boy, time, and scalloped circle cuts from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge. That's my husband, Rodney, showing our little boy, Raiden, some things about the drill press--it wasn't on of course. I couldn't help snapping some pics of their time together.

The second color combo, #138, put together by the very talented Jennifer Barksdale, features the two newest additions to our family. We got them the weekend right after Halloween, eight-week-old Pomchi's, Dixie and Dottie. Believe it or not, they are both from the same litter. They've captured our hearts! We named Dixie after my mother-in-law. She doesn't know we even have them yet--that will be one of the surprises Thanksgiving will bestow upon her this year--LOL! My husband used to have a dog he named after his sister, Carrie, that passed away a few years ago. I thought it must be time to have a puppy named for his mother--such a cute name. For this Puppy Love layout, I used the Sweethearts Cricut cartridge for the title, border, and shaped tag, and my Futura 250 for the blanket stitch and decorative stitching on the border.

As always, thanks for stopping by, Happy Thanksgiving, and happy shopping Black Friday!