Once we knew the baby is going to be a boy, Timmy and I decided his nursery had to be train themed. We, all four of us, have worked have worked hard on decorating it and getting it ready. Aside from setting up linens etc, I think we are basically decorated! This was the first time I've had the cricut to use on a nursery...wow did it open up tremendous possibilities!
I made custom curtain rods from wood dowels that I painted white. I painted wood trains and used those for the curtain rod holders...I did white trim to look like stitching on those using my Sakura gel pen. It worked awesome on wood with acrylic paint!
Above the bedroom door
I couldn't find a sign like this that I liked on the cricut, so I made my own with cricut letters and white Contact Paper. Also the tracks you see, circle the entire room. I initially was going to do them with vinyl...but that was cost prohibitive and frankly kinda ugly. So I hand painted these instead and am quite happy with the result! Can't beat $2 for the bottle of paint!
Each of my kids have a verse hanging up in their room that I created on the cricut. Again this is just Contact Paper....so much cheaper than Cricut vinyl! I was inspired by a scrapping friend, Amy, to tie this verse into the room! You can also see a couple more of the curtain rod holders...I did each one a different color.
Got the sign off of the Going Places cartridge. I used Contact paper for the background and regular Black Cardstock for the black part.
I made a five car lenth train because I wanted to spell out Meyer on it. Timmy picked the colors and it turned out pretty well. For each of these I cut using the Blackout feature and then used Cardstock for the colored parts. I made sure the paper I used was fadeproof.
This is a closeup of the engine train, I did a white trim on all these too to look like sewing.
I think I am done with the decorating part for now. I've got some more ideas, but those will have to wait until we meet the little peanut and give him a name!
I made this based on the May sketch for PK Glitz and used glitter as part of the requirment. I also made it for Practical Scrappers this week using vellum to make my flowers and cross.
The challenge this week is to use Stickers. I used school themed stickers to border the picture of Timmy. I also created my title using a lot of adjusted letter stickers, trimming them to make them into the letter that I wanted!
I put down a glue dot and then just started looping my floss to make petals. Covered it with a metal embelli and some stickles. Very simple and easy! I seem to be into layouts with multiple pics right now!
I created this layout based on the sketch from Sketchy Thursday last week. I generally do not work well with sketches, it takes me twice as long and I get stifled and frustrated. Having said that I saw this sketch and loved it, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. This whole layout took a half hour, it went soooo smoothly!
Two more very simple, but done layouts! It's always nice to knock out a series of layouts!
Just a simple but cheery layout with some fun accents, I couldn't believe how well the polka dot cardstock matched up with Miss Lucy's swimsuit!
This week's challenge at Practical scrappers is to use chipboard. I decided to stamp on raw chipboard to see how it would turn out. I am pleased with the result and it was way easier than painting or covering it with paper! The only tricky thing is to find something that the raw chipboard color will work with (layout wise). 
A layout about our annual traidition of the Easter Bunny ringing the doorbell to bring the kids their Easter baskets. I created the flowers and made a video on how to do it that you can find on Practical Scrappers.
I made this layout to tell about Lucy's love of Snow White. The journaling is all about her favorite moments in the movie and her reaction to them.
I love how this page turned out! It looks simple - but the stars and starbursts are stickers and doodles - so that makes it a little more complicated. I saw something similar done on the show "Scrapbook Memories" and liked how it looked. So I decided to give it my own spin :). 
My husband looks at my layouts when I get done and I knew I had nailed it because he laughed out loud. I saw a layout with similar journaling in Simple Scrapbooks and knew I wanted to replicate it to tell my own story.
This is another layout I made for Courtney's scrapbook. Couldn't help but throw all those orange patterned papers in to match her outfit! I haven't been doing a lot of scrapping lately - pregnancy has zapped all my energy! I am hoping to get back in the groove soon!
