This first picture is a 8x8 recipe layout I did for a ground beef recipe swap. I used distress inks to ink the bottom edge of the paper, the houndstooth cuttlebug embossing folder for the accent strip and inked the embossing with spiced marigold distress ink. I used a sepia ink pad with the flourish stamps for the back ground.
This get well soon card was made using the D'vine swirls embossing folder, the get well soon is from the Beyond Birthdays cartridge and the flower was stamped in versamark ink on glossy cardstock then brayered over with a rainbow ink pad.
This lid was first painted with a glitter glaze paint mixed with distress reinker in worn lipstick. While the paint was still wet I sprinkled the top with small punched out hearts. I later decided I wanted more of an acrylic type finish on the top of the can. I used UTEE to achieve these results. I spent a couple nights attempting to heat and sprinkle UTEE and blowing it all over the place until today when I saw a post on the cricut message board about using shrink plastic in the oven. This evening I covered the top of the paint can in a thick layer of UTEE popped it in the oven. I set mine at 400 and left it alone for a few minutes, when I checked on it the UTEE appeared to be boiling OOOPPS I turned the oven off and let it sit in there till cool. and it came out really nice. Next time I'll probably have the oven on a bit lower temp and keep a closer eye on it but it has a great smooth finish.
This second picture is of the handle on my paint can. I used some Moda-Dea Dream yarn that is on sale at Michaels this week. I simply crocheted it on the handle using a basic chain stich, if you've ever done the crochet flipflops it's the same basic idea. I really like the way that plain metal wire is softened now. 
This is a layout I did for the Cricut October Swap A Crop. Basically I'm scrapping someone elses pictures. This is the first time I've done a layout without the pictures LOL. Usually when I scrap I start with my pictures, mat them and apply them to the layout then work on my other elements. This time I hadn't gotten the pictures from Walgreens yet so I started with my elements first and worked backwards, at least compared to the way I usually do it. I used a variety of techniques on this layout. The flowers on the right have metal alphabet brads in the centers of them. I used alcohol inks on the brads to give them a little color. I tore the edges of a couple of the papers and used distress inks on the laughter quote. The journaling tag is a clear stamp that I stamped with black ink the cut out. I had a really cute twist tie I used as the ribon on the tag. It says "Memories Last Forever" then used a lime green fasenator staple to attach it to the tag. I used a cuttlebug tag team butterfly that I lightly sanded after embossing and then used a green chalk ink to accent the embossing. 
This is my layout for a Dip recipe swap I'm hosting. The accent paper for the back ground is from Me & My Big Ideas paper stack currently at Michaels. I stamped the back ground with a couple flourish stamps in Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Peeled Paint. The word favorite is also an acrylic stamp I used Distress Ink Tea Dyed. I used Mickey Font in Design Studio for the title.
This is a picture of the Christmas card candy I made for a swap I'm in. I started with 1 1/4 inch white cardstock squares, stamped 3 different images on them with green and red ink, inked the edges in the opposite color ink. The green stamped images are edged with red and red are edged with green. I then used a 1 inche strip of red card stock that I cut with a wavy paper trimmer then used the d'vine swirls cuttlebug folder to emboss. I used pop dots to adheer the squares to the wavy strip.
This is a new magazine I bought the other day at my local bookstore. It is "The Cardmakers's Yearbook 2009" the cover price is 14.95 which is quite steep for a magazine but this magazine is jam packed with great stuff. First off it's a 2009 weekly calendar, each week has a place to record important information about that week and on the opposite page are two cards and instructions on how to create them. This book uses cricut, cuttlebug, stamping, embossing, it looks like just about every technique out there. There are detailed instructions and a detailed supply list for every project. Also each week has a "Top Tip" these are great tidbits from technique tips to storage ideas and everything. The back of the magazine has several pages dedicated to step by step instructions for techniques such as heat embossing, shrink plastic and more. There are also templates, address book pages and a stocklist that contains websites where you can order the supplies for each project. I think this magazine will end up being a great insperation tool to have around.
This is a 6x6 layout I did for a 13 days of halloween book, my page was "and a big scary tree. I used the tree from Paper Doll Dress Up stretched a little in Design Studio, then I used the pumpkin and fence from PDDU also and also a pumpkin from Doodlecharms and used green stickles to color the stems. I hand wrote the saying with a silver metalic marker.
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