Pop-up Box Card

My scrappy friend, Crystal, hosted a crop at her house last weekend and as usual she out-did herself with the make-n-take!  She taught us how to make super-fun and amazing pop-up box cards.  We put together a really cute birthday card complete with "floating" balloons.  I am going to give it to my mother-in-law for her birthday later this week.  I know she is going to love it.  :)  

Earlier this week, Crystal asked me to put together a thank you card for a co-worker.  I think it turned out fantastic!  I can't wait to give it to someone that deserves a great big thank you!

 

 

 

Fun In The Sun

My family took a trip to Navarre Beach, Florida back in 2009 and it is one of my favorite vacations ever.  I long for the day when I can return and lay on that white sand beach and float in that beautiful blue water.  Until then, at least I have a million photos to drool over. 

Sparkly Sunday

Today I am showing off a new technique I learned at my LSS on National Scrapbooking Day.  I used double sided adhesive, peel-off stickers, and silk microfine glitter all by Elizabeth Craft Designs.  Once assembled, I "painted" my designs with Tim Holtz Distress Markers and American Crafts Stamp Markers.  I am totally in love!

Happy Easter

I hope everyone has a nice Easter Sunday.  Here is a card I made for my mom.

It's A Boy!

One of the girls in my Bunco group is having a baby boy next month so we decided to have a Bunco Baby Shower!  I originally planned on making her a card to go along with the adorable little outfits I bought, but when I went to my local scrapbook store for cardstock,  I found this really beautiful baby boy paper instead.  It's called Special Delivery by Pebbles.  I thought it would make a cute little baby book so I scrapped the card idea (*no pun intended LOL*), brought it home and got to work.  I was pressed for time so I didn't embellish it as much as I would have liked, but I still think it turned out nice.

Oh Happy Day

Hello everyone!  I just wanted to share the layout I made today.  I love this chalkboard paper from Prima's Optimist collection.  The coordinating chipboard pieces and brads really pulled it all together.

My husband and I at the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas, NV.

Home Cookin'

I've been wanting to make a recipe book for my mom, but I decided to do something a little different.  I made her a book that she can store her own recipe cards in.  I thought she would get more use out of something like this because I can't see her turning loose of her treasured recipe cards.

I used the Cricut Country Life cartridge for the adorable little country folk and sayings.  I used the Cricut Artbooking cartridge for the actual pages and then I cut off the corner in order to make a handy-dandy pocket for housing the recipe cards.  The paper is from the Country Kitchen collection by Farm House Paper Company.  I put it all together with my awesome Cinch binding tool.  I seriously love that thing!

Sparkly Sooner State

I was looking through Cricut Craft Room to see if they had any new, free images out there I might like when I saw the "50 States" images again.  It reminded me of a tote bag I had seen for sale a couple of weeks ago.  I still had an extra bag and some left over Cricut Iron-On material from Christmas so I decided to make myself a bag instead of buying one.  I added a heart over the part of the state that I call home.  It was a super quick, easy, and cheap project that turned out pretty cute!

 

 

It's a Cinch!

Guess what I got for Christmas?!  That's right, a Cinch binding tool!  It is amazing and so much fun to use!  I have been trying to think of things that might need binding just so I can use it.  :-)

I put together a Christmas mini-album using a festive kit from Echo Park Paper Company called "Reflections Christmas".  There were so many cute stickers that sometimes I had a hard time deciding which ones to use.  I still might go back and add on a few more when I am attaching my photos to the pages.  I also used quite a few of the chipboard pieces.  They were supposed to be self-adhesive, but they weren't as sticky as I liked so I had to add a little extra glue to ensure a good bond.

After many days of anticipation while working on my mini-album, I was so excited to finally use my Cinch!  I used the .625" binding wire and quickly realized it wasn't big enough.  I went to 4 different stores and nobody had the 1" wire in black.  I ordered it online and will replace the .625" once the 1" shows up in a week or so.

Now for the final product!  (I scraplifted the cover idea and two page layouts from embellishonline.com.  I hope they don't mind!)