Cookbook (wedding gift)-warning: lots of pics

We went to a wedding in July for a beloved teacher of my boys and I had to come up with a gift, so I made a fairly quick cookbook using my cricut.  I used an album with chipboard dividers and clear sleeves with 4x6 pockets by Simple Stories, which I bought at Archievers.  I found a fabulous paper collection called Farm Fresh by The Paper Studio that had recipe cards included, and I decorated the chipboard pages with some of the paper and cricut cuts from the From My Kitchen cartridge.  I also included some photos of my boys taken in her classroom on the dividers.  The boys picked out all their favorite recipes to include-I didn't show all the recipe pages, just the dividers.  I did some fun little twists:  the oven door opens to show a pie and the pot opens to eggs boiling plus one of the boys added a little note later.

Cover:

 Divider 1:

 with the oven door opened:

 back of divider 1 and first page of recipes:

 Divider 2:

 Divider 2 with the pot opened:

 Divider 3 (love that apron):

 more recipes:

 I tucked picture in here and there of the kids at school with her:

I used a thin coat of Mod Podge to adhere the paper to the chipboard dividers, cover and back.

Cricut:
From My Kitchen-all cuts except hinges
Fabulous Finds-hinges on oven door and pot
Paper-The Paper Studio Farm Fresh (bought at Hobby Lobby)

Life is Good tri-fold mini (for the new year)

While I am not one to make resolutions for the new year, I do like to reflect over the previous year and think about the upcoming year in January.  I read a book last year called The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, which inspired me this new year to try to conciously pay attention to the blessings in life that make me happy as this year starts.  My Pink Stamper has a challenge to make a something for yourself or someone else on the theme of "a fresh clean start for the new year". 

I made a tri-fold mini album using Fabulous Finds with my two leftover half sheets of paper and stickers from the Echo Park Life is Good collection.    I plan to frequently change up the items I tuck in here, which may be small pictures, quotes, or notes from my kids and husband for my little happiness project.

I used the tri-fold 2 option on Fabulous Finds cut at 6 inches, which has little flaps cut out.  The trick, I discovered, is to cut one tri-fold 2 with all the cut outs and one tri-fold 2 cut on blackout.  The one with the cut outs goes on the inside.  You need double sided paper for this, since the back side of the blackout cut will show when the flaps of the inside cut are open, although this will be mostly hidden when I put my pics on there

Outside flaps:

Cricut:
Fabulous Finds-tri-fold mini album
Paper/stickers-Echo Park Life is Good collection

Happy Holidays matchbook

This (sort of) came together while playing around with the Fabulous Finds cartridge.  I got it as a free cart last year, but never really did anything much with it.  It's one that really needs more directions, in my opinion.  I decided to try to cut one of the matchbook albums, not at all sure how it went together.  My first attempts at cutting the inserts went tragically wrong and ended up in the trash.  I ended up just using the cover and cutting some 4x4 inserts that will hold wallet size photos.  I think I'm going to have to find a tutorial  instead of winging it next time.  There were some other little minis on there that looked kind of interesting.   Anyway, here's what I put together.

back:

front:

inserts:

inside:

Cricut:

Fabulous Finds-matchbook

Winter Woodlands-holly leaf, winter tag

Nursery Rhymes-font

Paper-Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses (leftovers from last year), plus some stickers from the pack, black cardstock

I'm going to link this to the Clean and Scentsible Tuesday Creative Sparks.

BOYZ

Sadly, swimming for the year is done.  It seems like fall has arrived, and while I'm enjoying the cooler weather, I'm missing some of the summer fun.  I got some pics of the last swimming day in the album with this layout.  I love the Echo Park Splash paper pack-super fun to work with!!!!!

Sorry about the messy scrap table in the background-I'm sure everyone else has a pristine scrap room, but I work best with some creative mess going on!

Cricut: 
Boys will be Boys-BOYZ title, arrow, circles, square with rounded edges
Fabulous Finds-tag on picture edge
Paper is from Echo Park Splash paper pack.
I made my button from a cut from my new Big Kick and inked it it a matching color to my paper, since I didn't have anything that matched.