It’s a Girl Mini Album

The challenge this week over at Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog  anything goes. Here is my first post as a Design Team Member. I recently bought the Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge and knew the book creative feature would make a great mini album. I also had the want to make a mini album for a co-worker who is having her first baby, a girl this summer. Mindy challenged us to go out of our comfort zone and make something we don’t usually make. Since I am a diehard card maker what a perfect time to challenge myself to make a mini album.  The album isn’t bound yet, I am waiting for my wires for my Bind-It-All to arrive probably Monday or Tuesday and will get it bound and a picture added to this post when I do.  I used the Elegant Edges and one of the images from the cartridge to cut the image for the cover. I cut the wording from the Nursery Rhymes cricut cartridge. I sprayed the green mat with some Honey Dew Mist Glimmer Mist and the pink with Pearl Glimmer Mist.

I used the Lace Edge image from page 44 of the handbook and use the book creative feature to cut my pages at 5” for my mini album. Since I didn’t have chipboard I cut each image twice out of colored cardstock and then again from my patterned paper. To cover the base pages I used some heavy patterned paper from K & Company.

I also used Images printed and cut from my Imagine and the Nursery Tails cartridge. Lace, and trims from my stash adorn many of the pages as well as some stickers and embellishments from K & Company and from my stash.

The tag on this page is actually from the Imagine More cartridge. It is the one with the little strawberry on it. I cut it at 3” and flooded the base layer with green, the next layer with pink and then left the lined paper image as is. I did not use the strawberry or the word Sweet. All of the frames in the book are also cut from the Elegant Edges cartridge. I left the back of the back cover as is. It is the same patterned paper as the front cover. This was a huge challenge for me as I do not scrapbook and have never made a layout. This is the second mini album I have made and the first of this kind. It was a lot of work but I am very happy how it turned out.

Altered Notepad

A few weeks ago I came across this little notepad at Michael’s in the $1 bin. I new I wanted to do something with it and finally had a chance this afternoon. This is what I started with, I love the saying on it. And this is what it looks like when I got done with it.I cut a front and back cover out of some Bristol board. I cut the covers approximately 1/2” larger than the actually pad size. My covers were cut to 4 1/2” X 8 1/2”. The patterned paper is from a K & Company paper pack. I cut the patterned paper the same size as the cover. I adhered the patterned paper to the outsize and inside of the front cover.  I then punched the cover with my bind it all and bound it with a 1/2” size wire. I adhered the pad to the inside back cover with some scor tape. To finish the front cover I added a piece of lace from my stash and a flower to the lower corner. I cut the word Notes using the font from Once Upon a Princess and flooded it with a brown from the Nursery Tails Imagine cartridge. I used a piece of  shimmery cream card stock so the letters have a shimmer to them. It went together fast and I am very pleased how it turned out.

Cricut Cardz Challenge #65

 

The challenge this week over at the Cricut Cardz Challenge Blog is to make a a tall card (4 X 9”). For my card I stared with a piece of Kraft card stock cut to 8” X 9” and scored and folded it at 4”. I then used my Imagine and the 1:2 proportional rectangle in the stock images on the Imagine. I sized the rectangle to 4.5” and flooded with the darkest green on the Nursery Tales cartridge. I then printed and cut the striped Icon on page 31 of the handbook at 2”. I also used the new Mother’s Day Bouquet Seasonal Mini cartridge to cut my flowers. I cut three layers at 2.5”, 2.3” and 1.3” and chose several different flowers. I flooded the first layer of one flower with the darkest blue on the Nursery Tales cartridge and the other two with a dark orange from the Nursery Tales cartridge. The second layer was flooded with either an orange or blue pattern from the Nursery Tales Imagine cartridge. For the final layer I flooded all three flowers with the lightest green from the cartridge color pallet. I sprayed this layer with some Honey Dew Mist Glimmer Mist. I attached the flower layers together gluing only in the very center of the flowers. This allows the flower petals to curl slightly and add some dimension to my card. I added a small button to the center of each flower and attached the flowers with some foam tape. To finish off the card, I added some faux stitching to the top and bottom of the card and some doodle dots to some of the flower petals. Thanks for visiting.

It's Twin's

My cousin had twins Dec. 29th.  A little boy and a little girl. This is the card I made to send her. I used my Cricut Imagine and the Nursery Tail's imagine cartridge. The card base is 5" X 7". The solid green mat is cut 1/4" smaller than the card base and the patterned paper mat is cut 1/4" smaller than the green mat. Both the green mat and patterned paper were created using colors from the color palette on the Nursery Tail's imagine cartridge. I added some blue eyelets to the blue onesie and some pale green  pearls to the pink onesie. I also added some of the pale green pearls to the lower right and upper left hand corners of the card. I used my white gel pen to add some faux stitching around the edge of the green mat and to high light the white stitching on the boy's onesie.