You are Invited to Join the Cricut Circle!

Are you interested in joining the Cricut Circle?  I have been a member for a couple months now and I'm really enjoying it!  As part of membership, you will receive exclusive Cricut cartridges (4 times a year with the yearly membership).  The new Cricut Cricle messageboard is also great... so much faster than the original Cricut messageboard!  One of the best parts of being a members is socializing with all of the other members!  There are also Cricut Circle swarms that you can participate in.  You will also be first to hear about the latest products.  Plus, there are lots of Cricut Circle contests!  There is also a great monthly e-magazine full of wonderful project ideas!
If you would like to join, please let me know, and I will e-mail you the invitation.  If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at ascrapbooknook@rogers.com. 
This invitation is only available until September 13, so please e-mail me right away if you'd like to join!

Images from French Manor, the first exclusive full cartridge for Cricut Circle members

'Play' Layout from our Cuba Trip

Here's a layout I made tonight of the kids playing at the Kid's Club at the Sirenas La Salina Resort in Varadero, Cuba.  I think the Kid's Club was one of their very favourite parts of our trip!

For this layout, I used all TLC products.  I wish TLC was still around... I loved their scrapbooking products.

Cars Room Wall Decor

Last weekend, my husband and I took on the project of redecorating my son's room.  Our little guy is 2 1/2 now, so we thought it was time to change his room from the nursery to a big boy's room!  I bought him a Cars bed on Saturday, so Saturday afternoon we decided to start the room and we had it all done by Sunday!  I just wanted to share a picture of the wall art I made for his room.  I used the Cars Cricut cartridge to create these two wall hangings. 

Oh, and he loves his new room! :)

Cruise Contest

This is a little off topic for my scrapbooking/crafting blog, but I just wanted to share an awesome contest that is going on right now through Expedia CruiseShipCenters.  We are giving away 25 cruises to the Bahamas aboard Norwegian Cruise Lines! 
Each prize consists of one interior cabin (for two people) onboard a Norwegian 4-day cruise to the beautiful Bahamas! 
To enter, please visit my website and fill out the online ballot:  www.cruiseshipcenters.ca/christinakoch

Good luck to everyone who enters! 

Family Vacation/Pool Layout

Here's a two-page layout I did tonight of the kids by the pool on our vacation to Varadero, Cuba.  The kids were both wearing wetsuits with floatable padding in them and they looked hilarious!  It looked like they were both really muscular!!  After we got them all ready in their wetsuits, we headed to the pool and the water was way too cold to go swimming!  

I used my new Summer Vacation Cricut cartridge to cut 'Family Vacation'.  I used a lot of glittery DCWV cardstock on this layout and the patterned paper had a lot of bling too!  The palm trees were a dollar store find.  

My First Cricut Cake!

Here are some pictures of my first cake decorated with my Cricut Cake!  I experimented with some cupcakes last weekend and today I thought I'd do a cake for my mom's birthday.  I used Wilton fondant for the shapes and the cake is covered in a buttercream icing.  I'm thinking next time I'll try covering the cake in fondant.  The cartridge I used to cut the flowers was Elegant Cakes.

Stamping Bella Birthday Card

Here's a birthday card I made today using a Stamping Bella stamp, 'giftabella.'  I coloured the image with Copic markers.
When I got home from work tonight, the kids wanted to go to the 'craft room' to do some crafts, so while they made some paper towel roll creations, I made a card! :)