Book Review: Scrapbook Tips & Techniques

Friday, December 30, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-



Here is a book that I have found to be awesome! I only have the second book, but there is a first one too.  I really like this book because of all the great ideas to be found in it, but also because there are step-by-step instructions on how to achieve certain looks for your layout.  
This book has great money saving ideas also. Always a good thing of scrapbookers! 


I hope that this will help you all out there. I really did love reading through this book and found it very useful!

Smash Book

Sunday, December 18, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello! 
I got my smash book in the mail today! I am so excited to start using it! I just have to figure out what I want to put in it though. I don't know what I am going to want to make it for.  


Just wanted to share with you that I got a great new thing in the mail today and I am super excited to start using it and sharing my progress with you all too! 


Thanks for joining me today. 

DD: Travel Day One

Friday, December 16, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello! 
This holiday season I am doing quite a bit of travelling. I thought that I would document that into my own version of the December Daily album I am making! 


This page is for the first day of travel. 


The tree was cut from Winter frolic.




The letters are thickers and recollections.


Memories double page layout

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello again!


I made this layout using pictures from our family trip to the beach. Our whole family went to the beach together, and it was so much fun!!






Since I had so many pictures I made a double page layout to fit them all on it. I honestly don't know what paper brands i used, they were just ones that I had laying around for a while and from various stacks that I have from the look of them.


I also used various stickers from my stash in an attempt to use them all up.


Happy creating!

DD: Santa's Workshop

Monday, December 12, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello everyone! Happy Holidays!!!


This is a layout that I made to record our present wrapping fiascos! We aren't the greatest at wrapping presents so this is what we come up for various items. 





The word was cut out using Winter Frolic, and so were the tags.


Happy Holiday crafting!  

DD:Stockings

Friday, December 09, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello again, I am back with another Christmas layout for you!


THis time it is a layout featuring our stockings! Every year I make stockings for family members and my kitties! 



The little stocking in the corner was cut from Winter Frolic I believe. I cut it out using Paper Layerz by Megan Elizabeth which you all know that I love! they are my favourite way of cutting things out but I just used my last sheet on this project.




The tag and words were also cut from that cartridge. I think I fit it to length at 10 inches. Which turned out to be about 4.5 inches I think. 

Sweet Caramelle

Thursday, December 08, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello!
How about a change for today! Instead of a Christmas page, I chose a bright coloured page of my kitten.


I made this layout of my new kitten Caramelle.  She was just 6 weeks old in this picture too.






I got the paper from Michaels and I think that it's Making Memories, but I'm not sure.


I put a mat behind the picture and cut a scalloped border using my martha stewart corner punch, this work great for making a border!


I used lots of pinks on this layout because my other two "babies" are boys and I was excited for using pinks.


I added stickles to the flower centres so that they popped out of the page more.

DD: Christmas tree

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Merry Christmas readers! 


This layout I made for my first entry of my December Daily book. We just happened to have put the tree up on December first without really planning it to happen that way. 


This layout is for one 4x6 picture and one 3x3 picture. 


The trees are cut from Winter frolic. I know I use this cart a lot but I really do love it! 






The words are also cut from that cart too. 


Merry Christmas!

DD: Snow Play Winter Layout

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Here is a layout that I made using the Winter Frolic cartridge and some holiday papers. I used the DCWV seasons stack and some recollections paper as well. There is only one photo mat on here for a 4x6 picture with some faux stitching around the edges. 






The bunny was cut from Winter Frolic.






The letters are American Crafts thickers. 




Enjoy holiday crafting!

DD: Cup of Cheer

Tuesday, December 06, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello! 
This is a posting for the video that I made a while ago showing the page. I thought I would post actual pictures of it as well. 

Since I explain it in the video I won't say where and how I cut things. 




Album for Collection: Dolls: Tweet Twins

Monday, December 05, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello everyone!


Today I am going to share another two page layout with you.  This one is for another set of twin dolls.  These ones are not himstedts though, they are another type, Gunzels I believe.








For this layout I used paper from Amanda Blu's woodland animals paper pad. I used the paper with the tweet birds on it and base papers are the ones with the owls on them, but the reverse side.  I originally wanted to use just the bird paper, but it didn't leave a lot of room for pictures in-between the wording. So I changed my plan and cut the words out to use as border strips instead on a different base.  Then I used the leftover paper for photo blocks.






The sun is cut out from Create a Critter at 3 inches and the rainbow is cut out at 2 3/4 inches.






I wrote the name of the doll(s) in the heart at the bottom of the rainbow and twins in the rainbow itself.  I wanted to include both of those things, but not so that it took away from the title blocks.






The pink photo blocks are 4.5x6.5 and he green ones are 4x4.


Sorry for the flash, I had already put the pages in my album and forgot to take pictures of it. I wanted to minimize the possibility of ripping paper and not take the pages out again. 

Floppa Peach Layout

Sunday, December 04, 2011 0 Comments A+ a-

Hello everyone!


I made a new layout today. It's of my cat Peaches. He likes to flop a lot on his back and stick all his paws up in the air.


I got the Meow Cricut Lite cartridge yesterday. I love it! I think I will be using it a lot because I have a lot of cat pictures to document. I cut out the clothesline image with all the layers and put it together for the embellishment.


Then I used some paper from the max and whiskers 6x6 pad, deja views cat's life pad, bazzil cardstock and DCWV animal crackers matstack.


I used various sayings from the cat's life pad along with a couple little paper punches from the same stack.
The page didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped, but I still enjoy it.


Happy crafting and enjoy!