Lemonade anyone?

Wow- it is Thursday already- where does the time go. We had record temperatures 48 hours ago, over 100 degrees, now today feels like we are only going to be in the 60's maybe low 70's. How weird is the weather this year for everyone, right?

I was lucky enough to have received one of the  Provocraft Mother's Day flowers from Robin over at Robin's Creative Cottage. The flower allows me a chance to experience the Cricut Circle for 3 months.  

I have discovered that there is a member only Cricut Circle Blog and they have a bunch of challenges going on all the time. You know how I love challenges. 

So here we go....

We have a local week long summer festival here each year and one of the events is the Lemonade Art Fair.

It's a great event with lots of crafters, fresh squeezed lemonade and music. 

The Cricut Circle Monthly challenge this month is to do a project using at least 4 Cricut Cuts from any cartridge in your design and at least 3 Imaginisce products like their paper, I-top, I-Rock, Stickers, ribbon or any other product they produce in your design. 

I love this brand. They have the cutest paper. 

I put the thoughts of lemonade and the challenge together for a layout that I have already for my pictures that I will have from the art fair later this summer. Isn't this paper just perfect for a lemonade themed page.

The Imaginisce products I used are the Berrylicious Pattern paper, Canvas stickers, ribbon from the Animal Cracker collection and my i-rock for a bit of bling. This was such a fun challenge.

Here's how I did it...

12x12 background paper is Imaginisce from Berrylicious collection

All other paper from my scrap stash

Glass of lemonade/layers cut at 5" from Just Because Cards

Lemons cut at .5", 2.5" & 2.75" from Simply Charmed

Lemonade/layers title cut at 5.05" x 1.82" using my Gypsy from Simply Charmed

Art Fair/layers cut at 1.42" sized with the Gypsy from Mickey Font

Scallop mats cut at 4.5" x 6.5" sized on the Gypsy  from Elegant Edges

Canvas stickers from Imaginisce from Berrylicious collection

Red polka dot ribbon from Imaginisce animal cracker collection

Rhinestones using my i-rock from Imaginisce

PKS Happy Lashes faces

Yellow stickles on the lemon

Glossy Accents on the lemonade in the glass

Food Fare Friday

Years ago I was traveling quite a bit for work to Orland, Disney World specifically. I was there so much I had an annual pass to the parks. I love Disney - even my scrap room/office is decorated with my mementos from Disney.

I stayed a couple times at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge. If you have not stayed there, it is worth at least a trip over just to see it. It is very calming and different than anything else at Disney and have some awesome restaurants. 

One of them serves a Corn and Avocado Salad that is really good as a chip dip. I loved it so much I took a risk and asked for the recipe and they gave it to me!!!

So here it is. It makes a huge batch as you can imagine, but I just cut it down to make a manageable amount.

 

 If you want to try the recipe and cannot read it from this post, just drop me a note and I will be glad to email it to you.

Here's how I did it.....

Background 8x8 paper from American Tradtional Designs: Recipe Time

all other papers are from my scrap stash

Bamboo/layers cut at  7.5" from Life's a Beach

Leaves cut at 1.55" and 1.75" from Life's a Beach- some I flipped to go the other direction

Mickey head cut from Mickey Font

Animals all cut from New Arrival cartridge

• Elephant/layers-2.31"
• Giraffe/layers-4.05"
• Monkey/layers-2.2"

Animal faces stamped using Peachy Keen Bird Faces and Everyday Character Face Parts stamps

Used CM circle custom cutting tool to cut recipe once printed from my computer

Chalks and doodles with my gel pen