Monday, November 4, 2013

Birthday Mini Album

At the Paper Girls Challenge this month we're starting with a cutting challenge, "Cut It Out." You can die cut manually, electronically, fussy cut, it just needs to have some serious cutting. 

For my project I used some paper, October Afternoon Cakewalk, that my local store wanted me to use for making samples and whipped up this little birthday mini book. You'll find that I did lots of fussy cutting, and I even used my one little wafer thin die! No electronic die cutting this time, I worked on this one while my computer was dead. 


I used a lot of Imaginesce iRock gemstones in this book to lend a little bling and texture sans glitter. I picked up the album at the fall LSS stash sale, I don't know what brand it is but I have three of them now. 


The first page has the QuickKutz die cut out, the piece of scalloped lined paper. The die is meant as a journaling block and it certainly would work as one in this situation! I love creating mini books and pockets in my mini albums, so here's some of the close ups of this one.






This spread just has a little pocket with a couple extra spots for photos on each side of the cards.



For this next one I split up the shaped mini album pages by inserting some scraps of paper between. The scraps have eyelets to reinforce them, and most of the scraps have stickers as tabs to add interest.





Another page with a pocket. No big deal. 



And finally, the back cover.




Thanks for stopping by and for making it all the way to the end!

Friday, November 1, 2013

Practical Scrappers Card Sketch

Wowzers! I can't believe that November is here already which means it is time for the November card sketch at Practical Scrappers. I used a 6x6 My Mind's Eye paper pad, "All Spice." I just loved how the colors were very autumn-esque. 


I attempted to use the majority of the pad because it has been in my stash for a while, a few days ago I posted a couple of the cards I'd made with scraps. 


I love how the sketch worked for the floral and geometric prints - it's always nice to have some gender neutral cards hanging around. Am I right or am I right?!




And this last one is probably my favorite. The star is from a Little Yellow Bicycle pack that I bought this summer, and the last one. I may still be using my weird photo set up but I sure did use up some of the stash. 



Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Thank You Cards

I have been neglecting my card stash lately, so after making a card for a design team project using a 6x6 My Mind's Eye All Spice pad I set out to make a couple of extras to go into the pile. Enjoy the sneak? Hahaha.

 My seven year old computer, may it rest in peace, died on me last week so I'm improvising a system until we can get a new computer and upload all the software that I typically run transfered around. All that to say, sorry about the photos.


These cards are getting linked up with Scrapbooksteals MCM: #48 Cards and #46 Grateful.  One for each!


Back to the software installation and photo transfer process...



Saturday, October 26, 2013

Taking flight

Words cannot express how much Vance wanted to dress up at Dusty from the movie Planes. Once we got the costume home he was disappointed that there weren't wings with it. Crafty mommy to the rescue!


I just cut a piece of used foam board and then painted the base white again and the orange lines. He helped duplicate the racing number and dutifully watched as the Cameo cut them out. A couple of layers of mod podge and the kid was ready for Halloween.


I'm linking this to Scrapbooksteals MCM: kids . The challenge was to make something for and or with kids. 

Friday, October 25, 2013

Citrine 3: Slinky Cup

Here's another layout I worked on last week but never got around to posting on the blog (though I did take a photo with my phone and shared on Facebook). The page is based on Scrapbooksteals MWM Citrine 3

I just love the mix matched banners, all the last pieces from various MME collections. 


I picked up that flair at my LSS's stash sale this fall, it's from American Crafts 2008. Some of the others in the package have colors that'll be tricky to use but it was a deal worth having! 


Some little cork stars from my friend Denise. That girl needs to set up an online store or blog or something so I can give her some credit. ;)


That shiny plastic had been around the wood veneer sunburst, I rubbed some StazOn on it and pinched it together while blasting my heat tool at it. 

Product list:
Authentique Enchanting and Tim Holtz Coordinations Crackled cardstock
Black album filler paper
American Crafts tab and flair
MME wood veneer (painted red with Fired Brick Distress Paint)
Banners, title card, and journal card from MME Indie Chic, Kraft Funday, and Miss Caroline lines
Pink Paislee Luxe rub ons
Authentique alpha stickers
Simple Stories brad with banner







Thursday, October 24, 2013

More exciting news and a layout

I'm happy to announce that I'm on the fall/winter design team for Scrapbooksteals, they're making the announcement today. Head over and check out who I'm working with, there's some pretty amazing talent on this session's team. 




Needless to say, now I'm really trying to get back into my MWM groove so I was very excited about last week's sketch at Scrapbooksteals, Citrine 5! Melodee had used a bunch of tiny pieces of paper to feature the day's steal but I saw an opportunity to use scraps. *happy dance*


I also made sure to use one of the butterflies I'd cut from some G45 papers a while back so I could SWAT's fussy cut challenge. 

Here's a little close up action:


Products used:
Jenni Bowlin banner stickers
MME Find Your Wings and Fly enamel dots
Cork camera by my friend Denise
BasicGrey PB&J, 7Gypsies, and Fancy Pants stickers
Authentique die cut
The scraps include papers from Fancy Pants, BasicGrey, MME, and Teresa Collins

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Practical Scrappers: Fall Home Decor

I'm up today with my first individual feature post at Practical Scrappers, here's just a little sneaky peak at what I'm sharing today. Head on over to see the entire project.


Products used:
Tim Holtz Coordinations Crackled Cardstock - black and brown
Platter
Amy Tangerine corrugated cardstock
Paper Studios chipboard letters
Brown Ink
Floral dept. leaves
Floral wire
Hot Glue Gun
Twine, natural (from the hardware store)

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