Catching up on scrapbook pages....

Made a few more scrapbook pages. I want to stay as current as possible with my daughters book as possible. These are a just a quick glance at the newest pages I made.

Say cheese!

 There is a empty space in the middle, I stil have to add my jounaling spot there, but at least the page is put together. Plaid paper is DCWV, and the phrase, mouse, camera, and cheese all came from the Create a Critter cart.

Yummy Watermelon!

I think every kid has to have one of these pages. The paper is DCWV. I love that the watermelon is pink instead of the traditional red. I used Doodle Charms to cut out the large melon slice and the border. To keep the light fun feel of the page I wrote the journaling spot in white pen. Such a fun page to make!

Bubble Bath Queen.

The always popular bubble bath pictures. I did a very simple layout here. The paper was cute (a freebie from a friend, don't know the brand, sorry) I wanted to show off the ducks so I did a simple mat and tack job then added two duck stickers. Sometimes simple works very well.

Elegant Birthday Wishes

I wanted to make some more elegant /adult themed birthday cards. I am very happy with the way these turned out.

Two different cards, but they happen to coordinate.

I used the cricut marker to write Happy Birthday, the filled it in with pink Stickles. I really am beginning to love stickels and the versitility they provide!

When I lay two papers together I don't always like the hard line. Tying a ribbon on the line softens it up. I love that this ribbon also says "celebrate".

Materials used: DCWV pink flower paper, embossing cuddle bug happy birthday folder, stickers? ribbon?

Challenges entered:

Challenge up your life - Celebrations

Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything Goes

Having fun with a childs year cartridge.

So here is a usual crafting though process for me: 

..I went into my craft room knowing I was going to make cards and not knowing much else. I browsed my cartridges and took out my childs year since it had been awhile and I had some cute ideas. Then I look at my paper. This DCWV paper with the wood grain makes me think it needs to be boy themed. I search and find the cowboy and boy riding a horse. Perfect! Now to pick colors, boys and cowboys... red and brown work. But it needed more. The shape I laid the images on is from the Sweetheart cartridge (cant' remember the name of the shape off hand). Then I decided I needed just a bit more to break up the texture of the paper... Ribbon! The red and white gingham looks prefect to me. I wrapped it around the front, mounted the image on foam tape to float it above the ribbon, then cut the Sweetheart Image shape in both shadow in red then  regular size in white. I found that adding coordinating colors and shapes inside the card, instead of leaving it blank, makes me feel like the card is completed....

And that is the end of my strange crafting thought process.

And I now have a set of completed cards.

This is a close up of the little detail that I thought was fun. I inked the edges of the shape. But didn't really like the way it turned out. So I was going to use by blending pen, hoping that it might smear or blend in the ink. It didn't work too well, it actully ended up tearing up the little fibers out the paper, but it made it look like distressed wood, which matched the overall look of the card.

Happy Anniversary Jim and Ange

Mom requested I make a wedding anniversary card for Jim and Ange... and what do you know, there is a challenge for anniversary's this week! This is also my very first flip flop card. I like the way it turned out. I will be making more. They are such fun cards!

I used the Sweethearts Cartridge to cut all the images, the paper is DCWV, and the pink ribbon is a Micheals dollar bin grab.

Challenges: Crafty Creations Challenge: weddings and anniversary

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