Paper Bag Mini Album

WARNING!! : SUPER PHOTO HEAVY! Be prepared. Lol.

I made my very first paper bag mini album for my sister-in-law Amy of our babies, who are cousins :) I absolutely LOVE the way this came out! All the paper is from Best Creations Safari Boy 6"x6" collection

I started with 3 standard size lunch bags and I stacked them so every other page would have the opening of the bag for a pocket and folded them in half. I punched 3 holes and binded them with ribbons from my stash. I welded the letters for "cousins" from the Simply Sweet cartridge using design studio and inked the edges with brown and black then used stickles around the entire title and popped it up on foam dots. The lion sticker is from the Safari Boy kit and the flower is recollection from M's.

I used enamel accents in white for the little white dots.

I used diamond glaze for the water droplets on the flower.

All stickers are from Safari Boy collection

The second page has a pocket formed by the opening of the bag.

I took a 6"x 6" page from the collection, trimmed it to fit in the pocket and stamped it with a Hero Arts quote stamp and rounded the corners.

I put a picture of Amy, her baby sister, Angela, Kenzie, and her son Gyasi

I cut out one of the journal spots from the collection and popped it up and used an "angel" circle sticker also from the Safari Boy collection

I popped up "cuddly" on some pop dots as well from the collection

I just used a very pretty flower with a leaf from the sticker page of the collection to keep this page very pretty and clean

I added a monkey and 3 little flower stickers to this sweet page.

The monkey is a chipboard piece from the 12" x 12" collection of Safari Boy

This page also has a pocket

I did the same thing to all 3 pull out pages

and added a picture of the babies at the pumpkin patch on the back

I used the little letter stickers from the collection and spelled out "ouch!"

and a little crocodile picture popped up on pop dots to emphasize the chomping the kids are doing to the tray of Kenzie's stroller :)

again I cut out a journal spot and added a little circle sticker

And the last page has a pocket that holds the last pull out page

I left this one blank so Amy can write anything that she wants

I created a little pocket for the back of this page and added two little journal spots

I left these blank too for anything Amy wants to add to the book, I cut out half circles of the same pattern paper and adhered them to the tops for the little pull tabs.

And of course the back is stamped with "handmade with love"

I Hope You Like It!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Baby Shower Layout

This is a double layout of my daughter's baby shower :)

I wanted to keep it simple since the paper is so detailed and pretty but I also wanted to get a lot of pictures on the pages!

(click on image to view bigger)

This is a 2 page spread. I used pink and green paper from the DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies paper stack and cut the green one in half and used a scallop punch for the edge in the middle of the page.

This tag is from Echo Park Country Drive (LOVEEE EP!) I stamped the parentheses and the date with Recollections Year Round Fun clear stamps. I also used glossy accents on the butterfly but you cant tell in the picture. 

TIP: I cut the tag out with scissors in just a rectangle shape, then I took my one hole punch and punched out the half circles to give it a stamp look.. it was printed that way and the scissors kept bending the edges.. this was wayyy easier and came out cleaner :)

There were my baby shower party favors, I took the plastic half spheres that held the candy off of the rattle so it would lay flat and glued it down with 3d glue dots

This was a hand drawn and colored part of my invitations if you go back and see them here.

The blue butterflies are Martha Stewart, inked with blue and I used enamel accents for the little white beads. I glued down only the middles of the butterflies so the wings would stick up.

All of my photo mats are also inked with blue ink.

Happy Scrapping!

Adorably You layout

This one-pager I used a sketch that I found on Pagemaps in the gallery of past sketches, and I loved it.

Here is the sketch:

And here is my take on it: 

I used my Sew Easy to punch holes around the edge and over the little hearts like in the sketch, the threading of the floss was a pain though! I love this picture of Kenzie when she was 2 months:)

This stamp is Recollections

I used a rub-on with gems for the title from Imaginisce and used stickles on the little swirl, but you cant tell in the picture

The hearts are cut from the CAC cartridge. I used stickles on the pink ones in all the little whits spots.

It is really clean and simple and I love the way it came out so I thought I would share :)

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Baby Shower Paper Bag Card

Last year my cousin and I were pregnant at the same time and our daughters were born 2 weeks apart.. I made 2 paper bag baby shower cards, one for a girl and one for a boy, both for my cousin and my friend that was also pregnant at the same time (2 months younger than Kenzie)

This was my first time making this type of card and I know I will be making more in the future

I cut the bottom of the paper bag off the bag and cut a double sided strip of paper long enough to go around it with about an inch and a half left to overlap the front again for the little flap.  I used my deco scissors to trim the edge and wrapped a ribbon around the flap. "baby" is cut from the Simply Sweet cartridge with its shadow and popped up on pop dots. (the safety pin is not part of the card, I think it got stuck on the pop dot and wasn't noticed when taking the picture)

I stapled a small piece of ribbon to the matching cardstock inside the card and wrote my message. I wish I had little velcro dots when I made this card because if you notice the front top, the little glue dot I used to close the card ripped the design off the paper. Other than that I LOVED these little cards, they were perfect and one of the very first cards I ever made :)

Merry Christmas!

I made my friends and family these cuuuuute little xmas cards and got them mailed out a couple of days ago:)

I started with a blank white "tag" card and spritzed it with smooch spritz. Then I inked the edges with red and green ink and stapled red and green ribbon through the hole at the top. After the reindeer was put on I went around the edge and stamped with a little white star to indicate him flying through the sky :)

I cut out the little reindeer from CAC and glued all of his layers together. I used stickles to make his nose shiny:) Then popped him up on pop dots so he would "fly" on the card! His edges are all inked with black.

I used a clear mini stamp from Inkadinkadoo on the inside for my sentiment.

Here are a couple of the variations I made :) 

I love them! :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Michelle and Kenzie:)

Happy 1st Birthday Kenzie!

Today was Kenzie's 1st Birthday!

I made her a cute lady bug banner for her party because it was lady bug themed. I love it!

I cut the lady bug from CAC at 6" on the shadow feature. Then I cut her wings and heart which is layer 2. I used the circles that were cut out of the wings for the antennas. Then I cut the letters from the Simply Sweet cartridge at 2.5" and faux stitched around the whole bug.

I cut "st" at 1"

I used a ribbon punch to make holes for the ribbon at the top and strung it through.

I really like how it came out and it added a really great touch to her decorations, everyone loved it! :)

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Happy Halloween Rosette Wreath!

I made my first tutorial on how to make a rosette wreath (just in case someone who follows me doesn't already know!) :) I know I didn't know how until I followed along with Faith Abigail Designs. This girl is a paper genius! Her tutorial was amazing, so I remade it with my own project.

Okay, so here goes. I wanted to make a wreath for Halloween and I loveeedd the way Faith's came out so I scraplifted her idea and just used different paper and added a Happy Halloween Title to my wreath and an LSHD pattern. I LOVE the way it came out.. I am sooo proud that I finally made this!

So here is how I made it :)

First I wrapped an orange glitter ribbon around a styrofoam wreath from Michaels.

Then I chose 4 papers from K&Co's Spooktacular 12x12 paper pad

I then cut them into strips of 1.5x12 for the biggest rosettes, 1.25x10 for the medium rosettes, and 1x8 for the smallest rosettes. I scored each strip at every quarter inch with my Martha Stewart Score Board.

After scoring the strips I accordion folded each one or mountain-valley folded, and cut one section off each one so one end had a mountain fold and the other had a valley fold.

Then I added adhesive to one end and put the two ends together...

And got this. :)

Here is a picture of all my paper rosette rings.. I did every step in an assembly line way which made it easier I think.

39 in total. But that's because the 4 sheets of paper yielded this many. I only used 33 on my wreath and liked how it looked so I didn't add anymore. It depends on how big you want your wreath or how full.

Then I punched out circles, out of cardstock to glue to the backs and to keep the rosettes flat. Any size circle should work fine. As long as it's not bigger than your smallest rosette. Or too small to use a generous amount of glue.

I used a hot glue gun, I read from a bunch of blogs that this is the best adhesive to use since it bonds fast and holds strong and it's true!

Push the centers of the rosettes until they are flat and glue the circles onto the back to keep them that way.

Then you will have a pile of pretty rosettes!

I added rhinestones in purple, orange, and clear to coordinate with my papers and inked the edges and folds of each rosette with black to create more contrast.

I hot glued each and every one on to the wreath until I liked the fullness of it.

I added a "Happy Halloween" dimensional sticker from Recollections to finish my wreath and I LOVE IT! It made a perfect sentiment and the colors matched exactly :)

Final Product! :)

I pulled this wreath out this year and revamped it with a Double Trouble Witch from Little Scraps Of Heaven Designs along with her cauldron and broomstick to give it a little more oomph!

(sorry for my horrible lighting.... the only time I can do any crafting is late night when the little one is asleep so I either use flash or my lamp. I couldn't wait until morning to take pictures so this is what we get! lol)

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Michelle:)

Cricut Cartridge Storage

Hi everyone!

I wanted to take a second to share my method of how I store my cricut cartridges :)

I bought this SnapWare container from my local hardware store and it works perfect! :)

In the top section I have all of my handbooks and overlays, I don't have that many cartridges to this works for now, but as you can see it's filling up fast! But the good thing is, these are really cheap and I can buy another one and take the lid off and add to this...

In the bottom section I made these partitions out of thin chipboard and cut slits to make this fit into each other and there are 27 slots, but like I said I don't have that many so this is a lotttt of extra space for right now :)

Here is a view f the front. I made labels with my label maker to organize them a little bit. Right now I currently own 7 cartridges so I have a while to go before this section is full :)

And my last picture is of the whole thing filled up and with the lid back on :)

I hope I helped someone to find a new way to store your cricut cartridges!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Michelle & Kenzie :D

New "Recent Work" Tab!

Hi Followers!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have added new tabs at the top of the page so you can see my most recent work more easily without having to scroll through my whole blog. :)

Let me know what you think!

HAPPY SCRAPPING

Michelle:)

Beautiful :)

Hi everyonee! Okay so I know I haven't been around in foreverrrr... but I'm coming back!

I made this before I disappeared and I never got around to posting it so I'm making my comeback with this "beautiful" layout :)

I used this sketch by Sketchy Thursdays

Here is my take on the sketch.

I folded down the edges and put a different paper behind that I then used for the lacey edges in the center and for the butterflies. The butterflies are punches by Martha Stewart and I inked them with pink on the wings and added 2 pink rhinestones to the center of each one. "November" is a rub-on. 

 The title and the pregnant girl are dimensional stickers from Recollections and I used a heart shaped die as a mask off for the background and spray misted with smooch spritz to create my background :) It was my first try with misters and I loved it!

 I used the same heart die to create the heart on the top corner also. I sprayed first with Walnut Ink spray and then moved the heart and sprayed with smooch to create the two different hearts.

I was too late to enter in their challenge because of my move but I still loved the sketch and I'm entering into the one due next thursday so check back!

HAPPY SCRAPPING!