Christmas in July (Layout)

Inspired by all the Christmas in July challenges going on I decided to pull out my daughters 1st Christmas pictures and scrapbook them.

Here is my daughters first meeting with Santa.

I am really excited at how well this turned out. I knew I wanted to use the Night Before Christmas paper. Everything else just fell into place after that. After I got the picture, the word Santa, and the tag for journaling on, it still seemed flat to me, so I added the ribbon to "hold" the journaling tag, and cut some of the key words from a second piece of paper and mounted them on black and raised them with foam tape. That added just enough dimension to finish it off.

Santa Letters- Plantain Cartridge

Tag and Santa Silhouette- A Childs Year

Paper- My Minds Eye

Challenge entered:

Candy Shoppe Designs- Chrismas in July

Miami Doodles- Anything Goes

Flourishes Times Tuesday Challenges- Christmas in July

Creative Inspirations- Anything Goes

Cup cake card challenge

I finally had a bit of time to enter some challenges. This time I was able to qualify for 3 challenges with one post! So exciting. Here are my cards:

Card one: Zigzag Cupcake Birthday Card

Card two: Mini Cupcakes Birthday Card

 

Materials:

Paper-DCWV

Cupcakes- Doodle Charms Cartridge

Cake stand- Celebrations Cartridge

Textures:

I used my cuddlebug to add dots to the cupcakes for some texture.

I used stickles to create sparkles on the cake stand and candle flame.

Challenges:

Cricut Cardz Challenge- cake or cupcake

Crafty Creations Challenge- Happy or sweet

ABC Challenge- Z is for zig zag card

More pages for my daughters book

I have really been trying to get some pages made. Here are a few of the newest pages I made for my daughters book.

Stickers from: ?

Paper: DCWV Nanna's Stack

Entered in the alphabet challenge

Finally used my Graphically Speaking Cart!

I finally put my graphically Speaking Cart to use. When I bought it I was very excited with all the possiblities, then I set it to the side and never used it. I am glad I have it though because it was perfect for this family vacation layout.

This is a close up of the car. It is hard to tell but I glued the tires flat on the page and used foam behind the car to make it pop a bit.

Here is the full, two page, layout.

All the graphics are from Graphically Speaking, the paper is from Kay and Company.

Here is a close up of a few of the cuts I used.

Entered in:

ecpchallenges- summer challege

crafty calendar challege - summer challege

if the shoe fits challenge- summer challenge

Redone scrapbook

I have been working for two years on redoing my baby book. I originally did it during the late 90's in the beginning of the scrapbooking movement. There were significantly less tools and accessories than there are now. My methods and techniques have improved quite a bit too. I picked a few of my favorites to share with you all.

Calendars

I bought the designer calendar cartridge a few months ago and have been using it to make my own caledar pages. I thought I would share some of them with you. Here are April through July.

Entered in Paper Play Challenges- Numbers Challenge