Super cute and fun boy word book

This is probably my favorite boy word album to date. I made this for a neighbor who loves hand made items.

Instead of ribbons on the binder rings, I used sports beads, a zipper pull embellishment and some boy themed charms. The paper is All About Boys by DCWV and recollections cardstock.

This is a chipboard embellishment from k&co.

 The blue jean looking photo mats are re-purposed cardboard from a sticker package.

 I made a lot of interactive pages in this book. Here I have tucked a journaling tag behind the photo mats

I loved this part of the paper so I cut this page out first on generic paper and then slid the cowboy paper underneath template and cut again.

These next two photo's I used stickers from the paper pack and mounted them on cardstock. Each page has a pull out for photo's

here is the pull out photo mat

These next two pages turned out so cool between the embossing and the phillips screw brads to the gatefold closure--it really makes for a fun interactive page.

Here are the pages opened up. There are journaling tags and room for photo's

I used some very old tiny ric rac that I believe was from my grandmother! I had the little metal license plates in my stash and used another sticker from the paper pack and put it on the journaling tag that is peeking out of the photo mat.

This is the last page. I didn't take a photo of the page opposite it but it is set up the same way.  These lift up to expose photo mats and tags as you will see in the next picture.

This is the back of the book

Diaper cake and card

Here is a super quick and fun diaper cake I made for my husband's co-worker. I bought a ton of cute baby embellishments from the dollar tree and stuck them all around the diaper tiers. There are rattles, large safety pins, booties, baby bracelets, baby buggy's, blocks, an "It's a Boy" ribbon, stuffed animal and I put an "ingredients" label on the back that was computer generated. I added little pom poms to the silver platter that really makes it quite cute!

The back view of the cake. The ingredients label was scraplifted by someone on the cricut message board. I hate when I write down a persons name to give credit to and then lose that info--ugh!

side view

This is the card that I made from Cricut Wild Card cartridge to have all the guys sign and give to him.

Fairy Album

Well it has been way to long since I have posted. I have been busy creating but have had computer issues and posting issues. Sometimes I think my blog has a bug--we will see how it goes!

This super adorable album is made from a pattern that I purchased over at www.followthepapertrailwithlaura.com Each page has a darling little fairy and pockets for lots of photos. For the most part I used her template for the face and hair but then also used paper doll dress up for some of the fairies faces and hair--worked beautifully!

This is the cover. I used Martha Stewart butterfly punch and border punch (can't think of the name of it right now); retro flower punch; sizzix flower layers die; leaf punch; prima flowers and I actually used some of my skittles that I bought hoards of two years ago-lol! The patterned paper is prima fairy flora(absolutely gorgeous stuff) that I bought from scrapadabadoo.com

This is the first page--the cute fairy slides out of the pocket for more photo space
Here is the left side. The top part of the page has a pocket that has a pull out for photo's or to be used as a journaling card. The lower half has a pocket that has two pull outs. One is a large photo mat and the other is a tri-fold for photo's on each side!
This is the tri-fold
opened up
This is the larger photo mat

This is what the fairy pull out looks like when pulled out of the sleeve

For this fairy I used cricut paper doll dress up cartridge for face and hair
This is the pull out from the top of the page pocket



Again, I used pddu for face and hair and bow



This album is so darn cute that I am keeping it for myself!!!!!

All occasion card

This is one of my all time favorite cards from the cricut wild card cart (pg 32 cut @ 3-3/4")! I used patterned paper for the for the outside liner and solid card stock for the inside liner of the card. The circles used for closing the card are the "icon" mode on that page; inserted brads through them and attached embroidery thread. Printed paper is from best of Brenda Walton stack and solid is recollections.
The envie with the liner. I just love how I was able to line up the paper so the daffodil would show right in the middle. The printed paper again is best of brenda walton and the solid white is from stash. It has embossed swirls in it.

sweet treats card

I made a another super quick card using sweet treats cricut cart. I love all the layers it has on it! I did a lot of inking to give the ice cream cuts detail; added a gem on the flame and a little bling with flat back pearls.

Today's post-cute card

A super cute and quick card. Image from the internet, martha stewart border punch, some epoxy stickers and ribbon. Inside sentiment is a cute one year old birthday poem.

Layout using my $4.99 cart!

This layout is for the April 1st sketch challenge over at stuckonusketches. I bought several cricut cartridges on clearance a couple months ago for $4.99 and $9.99. One of the carts for 4.99 was Elegant Cakes. I used it to cut the bottom scalloped border in cream cardstock and the swirly vines in cream cardstock then glimmer misted the swirly vines in green. There are so many great cuts on this cart not to mention a beautiful font! I water misted the plum background paper and smooshed the edges while it was still damp, let it dry then inked.

Supplies:

cricut carts: Elegant cakes for the scallop border @ 1" that was welded together and I think the

swirly vine was cut at 3-1/4" then cut apart; George and basic shapes circle @ 8" and 7-1/4" cut out of that.

paper: patterned is K&Co best of Brenda Walton; cream and brown cardstock is recollections

plum flowers are from the dollar store floral dept. that I pulled apart.

white flowers are prima

flat back pearls

sizzix tropical paisley embossing folder on bottom brown strip of paper

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Tim Holtz antique linen and vintage photo inks

Studio G green ink

close up of the embossing folder detail and elegant cakes border detail