Monday, July 25, 2011

4 Month LO

Here is simple LO I have done to show my Godson at 4 months.... he's pretty much adorable!

I had a hard time coming up with a theme for this LO... but his shirt was too cute to not play on. I pretty much love the crabs flag ... "Too happy to be crabby!" He's a happy baby so this really fit.

The font is from Mickey Mouse Font, the crabs are from Create a Critter, and the flag is from Paper Doll Dress Up, and the scallops are from Plantin Schoolbook.


Thanks for looking!

Happy crafting!!

Easter Eggs LO

Happy belated Easter, everyone! :)

Even though the four of us are way too old to enjoy dying eggs every Easter-- well, us girls are too old and we make our guys enjoy it.... We do it anyway!

The two large eggs below are from Doodlecharms... and smaller eggs are actually just store bought embellishments that I had in my stash.

The font I used on this Lo is from Simply Sweet (another favorite font of mine!)

I think I've posted about this before, but I wanted to mention it again. The picture below shows a close up of the collage I printed in a 5x7 format. I love the collages because they keep your photos organized and small enough you can pack multiple photos in a LO. The more pictures, the better. :)

Happy crafting!!

Valentines 2010

I guess I'm a little late for posting Valentines Day stuff... or I'm really early for next year... either way.... ;)

I must say I totally scraplifted this LO from Scrapbook.com - I just can't find the original post to give the author credit. If I find her post again, I will update this ASAP.

For the border of this page I used the Martha Stewart Valentines border punch... love the pink on black!

I also did a paper rosette.. this time I scored it 1/8 increments.. I was a bit grumpy afterward because it was pretty tedious.... I've still got to play with the rosettes to find a way to to them thin enough for scrapbooks....


The font for this LO is from Lyrical Letters - using the Loop Dee Loo feature... one of my all time favorite fonts!


A few simple silver heart brads just added to the page.


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy crafting!

Husband Caught Crafting!

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me... to SEE my hubby in my craft room. He has been known to create something to surprise me.. but this was a first for me.

He had to create a valentines box for a competition at his work. So he created..... an outhouse. Haha!!

"Caught" is from Lyrical Letters & "in the act" is also from Lyrical Letters using the Jumbo feature.

My embellishment pieces for this LO is all from Locker Talk. One thing I did this time that was different for me was using the Cricut Markers to highlight the embellishments.

The blue dots from on the paper wouldn't really have shown up with just the blade from my cricut, so I used my Gypsy to cut the paper out, and replaced the blade with a light blue cricut marker. I used my Gypsy and the hide contours feature to hide the outline of the paper and when I hit "cut" it only "colored" the lines on the paper.

I repeated the same steps on the glue bottle and ruler. I used a thin mini sharpie marker instead of a cricut marker this time.



Well this was a simple LO today, but if you have any questions feel free to ask!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy crafting!!

Baby Shower LO

Hello crafters! I am playing catch-up with a few of my scrapbook layouts so I thought I'd share them with you.

This LO is from a baby couple of baby showers I help host - I just combined them into a double page LO.

I'm always leaning on the side of putting as many pictures on a LO as I can. Because I realize as my grandkids go through my books someday... they aren't going to worry about how I decorated the pages, but rather the pictures and how well I explained who was there and what we did that was memorable.


The mommy and umbrella shown below is from New Arrival.


The title "Showered With Love" was from the Hello Kitty Font cartridge, and the flourishes are from the Straight From the Nest cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by!!

As always -- Happy crafting!!!

Musical Scrapbook Pages

So I'm lucky enough to see some GREAT musical shows in my area. Since I keep the memorabilia from the shows - I'm always needing a way to make it all fit in a 12x12 LO.

Below I show a close-up of how I get the memorabilia to fit. For the Wizard of Oz LO I scanned the program and shrunk it down and printed it. I used the original ticket, but I could have easily shrunk it down if I needed to.





The high heel came from Gypsy Wanderings cartridge, flipped.



This LO is from my favorite show this far... Legally Blonde. It was a blast!!

Below I show that I have again shrunk the program to the show so it would fit well in my page.


This was my first time to use paper rosettes.. I love them. So I used three. :)
This was my first time with the rosettes so I need to play around with the still because they are a little bulky for a scrapbook... but I hope to play around with the rosette I use for my next LO.


Thanks for looking!

Happy crafting!

Saturday, June 25, 2011

I'm hooked on Glimmer Mist!

I ran across a YouTube video the other day that did a make-shift Tim Holtz Grunge flower. I had a bottle of Glimmer Mist so I went for it. I am AMAZED at the results!!

Now keep in mind I don't have the best camera, and it looks a zillion times better in person, but here is what I did.



I took a plain yellow piece of cardstock, cut three 2.5" flowers from my Accent Essential cricut cartridge and stamped them with a brown ink pad. I sprayed the flower and blotted, and repeated. Then as the video said to do, I coated the back lightly with Mod Podge because when you roll the flowers it needs to be sturdier.
I followed the directions on the video and TA-DA!!!! I am in awe that a plain piece of yellow cardstock looks so vintage and detailed. I love it!!

My next project I will reveal shortly, but I short I had some simple scalloped frames that I covered with plain pink paper, but I sprayed and blotted them with my pink Glimmer Mist and I made them sweet and shiny!!
I will post more pics of that project as soon I decide what going inside the frames. =)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy crafting!