Tuesday, January 17, 2012

cheerful cards using Paisley

For my niece's birthday, I am giving her the Paisely cartridge (for her baby bug), as it's one she has used a lot while scrapping with me.  I have made her birthday card, a mini-album, and 2 more cards for her stash to give her along with the cartridge, all using Paisley.  (I'll be showing the mini on the blog soon.)  I copied and adapted two of these three cards and bright colors from the fantastic http://www.smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/ and made the third from the same general design.  I used some My Pink Stamper stamps for the sayings and added decorations from Paisley for the inside. 








Cricut:
Accent Essentials-scalloped squares
Paisley-all other cuts
Paper-mostly CM cardstock from my stash, the green is Bo Bunny double dot.
Stamps-Happy Birthday is from a Stampin Up set called Birthday Wishes, all other stamps are from My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies.

I'm going to link this to the Exploring Cricut challenge this week to do a birthday project using the colors red, green, blue, yellow and white.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Play layout

This layout uses my favorite cartridge, A Child's Year.  I love the images and the font.  The beautiful soft pink paper from Echo Park's Life is Good collection is so pretty, but didn't photograph that well (although my lack of skill as a photographer might have something to do with that..).  I made a hidden journaling spot that slides under one of the pictures because I had so many pictures I ran out room for a spot!



Cricut:
A Child's Year-all cuts
Paper-Echo Park's Life is Good collection, brown CM cardstock

Sunday, January 15, 2012

2011 calendar month pages

This was my calendar that I had hanging this last year, with all the pages together.  I've shown a few of them separately.  I used Designer's Calendar for the grid and month/day names and numbers, and a whole variety of cartridges for the decorations.  Doodlecharms and Simply Charmed were the carts I used the most (besides Designer's Calendar).

January:

Stretch Your Imagination and Graphically Speaking
February:
Doodlecharms and Paisley
March:

Simply Charmed and Stretch Your Imagination

April:

Simply Charmed and Paisley

May:

Doodlecharms and Simply Charmed

June:

Doodlecharms and H2O
July:

Doodlecharms and Graphically Speaking
August:

Mickey and Friends and H2O
September:

Doodlecharms and Locker Talk
October:

Doodlecharms
November:
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Doodlecharms and Simply Charmed
December:

Doodlecharms and Winter Woodlands


Saturday, January 14, 2012

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

Friday, January 13, 2012

Making Spirits Bright

Another choir layout!  (We had a lot of musical events in December...)  The gorgeous music paper is from Echo Park's Merry Christmas collection and I used the Winter Frolic cartridge.  The little singers were perfect for this.  I'd originally planned to make more singers for a more "choirlike" effect, but they are kind of a pain to cut out and layer, so I quickly ditched that idea!  But I'm happy with my two little singers, and my son liked it, so it's all good.   And I tried another border from Winter Frolic (the music notes)!





Cricut:
Winter Frolic-all cuts
Paper/stickers-Echo Park Merry Christmas
brown chalk ink

I'm going to link this to Amanda's Getting Scrappy layout challenge-anything goes.

Hoppy Birthday card

Just playing around with Paisley and made this child birthday card for the stash (it will go to one of my nieces in the spring).   I love the Paisley cart! 



Cricut:
Paisley-frog
Stamps-My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies
Paper-Nana's kids stack
embossing folders

I'm going to link this to the Celebrate the Occasion challenge to make something for a child's birthday.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Caterpillar card for BBTB2

 The BBTB2 challenge this week was to use the caterpillar on Walk in my Garden.  I don't have that cart, so I used the caterpillar and bookworms on Create a Critter and for a sort of non-traditional valentine card.  It will be for the grandparents, from the 3 kids (DON'T LOOK MOM).  It turned very happy and spring like, so not exactly traditional valentine colors, but since they are wintering in Florida and telling us how lovely and green it is every day, it seems to fit.





Cricut:
Create A Critter-all cuts
Paper-Nana's kids stack background paper, assorted cardstock from the stash
Stamps-My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies