Easter Mini Album and Cards

Hello! I was recently in an Easter swap and one of the requirements was to send at least one homemade item.  Here are a few that I made, one Easter mini album and two Easter cards. 

The mini album:

The base egg shape is from the Cricut Circle exclusive cart, Sophie. 

Page through the album with me.  Because I was making this for someone else, I left it pretty blank inside so that it could finish being customized by the recipient.  Easter is celebrated many different ways so I didn't want to go on and on about say, an egg hunt, when there are no egg hunts in their family. 

Page one:

Page two: 

Page three:
The yellow flower is the negative cut from the front cover. 

Page four: 

Page five: 
The yellow swirl is also a negative cut from the front cover. 

The back cover: 
Everything is inked brown and lots of ribbon on the clasps that are holding the album together. 

The cards that I also included in the swap: 

These cards are cut from Spring Holiday Cards at 4". 

The lamb is flocked and so cute! 

The little chick poppin' out of the egg: 

Happy Easter to all of you!  I will be back to post more details about the mini, including pictures of each inside page. 

Sophie card and winner!

Hello!  Thank you to everyone who stopped by for the Sophie hop this past Saturday.  I really appreciate you taking the time to hop along with us and to leave such nice comments!  The winner of the KaiserCraft blog candy is...

Joydee, I will be emailing you!

I have another Sophie project to share with you.  I made this card for my mother's birthday. (The glitter paper made a glare on the camera.)

This is the card feature of one of the birds on the Sophie cart.  The card is cut at 5".  In the picture below, you can see I also cut a circle to cover up the inside.  It was the backside of the glitter paper and I didn't like how that looked.  I used the same paper as the card base. 

I took part of the negative from the front cut of the card to make a little flourish on the inside.  I think it looks beautiful when it is opened up with that in there.  The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up set.

Thanks for visiting today!

Sophie Blog Hop

Hello everyone!  Welcome to the Sophie Blog Hop!  This hop will feature projects made using the Cricut Circle Exclusive cartridge Sophie.  This is the first cartridge of the Circle's second year!  All of the bloggers today are Cricut Circle members.  Interesting in learning more about the Circle?  Click HERE (http://www.cricut.com/circle/sign.up.aspx).  

The Sophie cartridge comes with many features including cards, bookmarks, and doilies.  Hop along with us to explore the Sophie cart and gain some inspiration!

 

Cart photos from cricut.com

I made a card to share with you today. 

This card is 6"x6" and opens at the bottom.  It is made entirely with KaiserCraft's Be Merry collection (out last year).  The doily feature was cut at 5.5".  The circle to complete the inside of the doily is from Plantin' Schoolbook, cut at 3.75".  That is the one thing about the Sophie cart - I wish the shift key of the doily would cut out a circle to go in the middle.  I inked the circle with a Brilliance eye drop pad.

The tree was cut at 3.5" with the shift layer as well.  I added a yellow skittle at the top to add that special something.  It's hard to tell in these pictures but the background paper is actually velvety, which gives this card a great texture and feel when it's in your hands.  I added some white ribbon as well across the back.

Before you move on to our other bloggers, leave a comment on this post for a chance to win a small pack of things from KaiserCrafts other Christmas line from last year, 'Tis the Season.  

You do not have to be a follower of my blog to win but I would sure love it if you were!  Don't forget to leave me a way to contact you if you are the winner!  I will announce the winner on Monday evening.  At that same time, I will also be posting another Sophie project so you may want to stop back anyway! 

Please go to Tammy's blog next.  Have fun! 

Here is the entire hop line up for you: 

1. Michele -  www.michelegreen.com <--- You are here.
2. Tammy - www.scrapcavecreations.com <--- Go here next!
3. Jen from Confessions of a Scrapaholic - http://scrapaholicjen.blogspot.com
4. Liz - http://liz-lavendarandroses.blogspot.com
5. Paulette - http://scrapalette.blogspot.com  
6. Megan -http://peacockpaperie.blogspot.com
7. Maria - http://stampcutcreate.blogspot.com
8. Brenda - http://happyscrapper64.blogspot.com/
9. Diane - http://dianesdribble.blogspot.com/
10. Sharon - http://designsbysharon.blogspot.com
11. Alma’s Pink Life - http://almabrooksblog.blogspot.com  
12. Rexann - http://ibecircled.blogspot.com
13. Cindy - www.inlovewithpaper.blogspot.com
14. Marie - http://craftelicious.blogspot.com

Butterfly birthday

Hello!  Thanks for stopping by!  Today I am sharing with you a birthday card I made.  I have never tried this kind of card before but it was presented as the example for the Paper Craft Weekend Challenge this Friday.  The challenge was to make something new.  Allison calls it a ribbon card and I am fine with that! :)  You can see her example and the directions for making this card on that blog. 

Here is my take!  The front:

You pull out the ribbon by pulling on the knot in the middle.  As you are opening it...

And when it is fully open:

The pattern butterfly paper is printed on my Imagine from Elise (a new cart I have never used before).
The butterfly is from Sophie, the new Cricut Circle exclusive cartridge.  It is cut at 3".

Fall Blog Hop winner and Sophie card!

Wow, you guys!  You left me so many awesome comments!  Thank you so very much! Here's the winner of the stamp set:

Hope, I will send you a message!

I also made a card to share with you all.  I recently received the newest Cricut Circle cart, Sophie.  Sophie is definitely not my kind of cartridge.  BUT I am glad to have received her because it will push me to play around with things that aren't usually my style and it will make some cuts available to me that I would otherwise not purchase.

I made this fall card using one of the card features for the leaf.  This is a standard A2 size card.

I cut it too large the first time so I used the negative image of the leaf from that first cut and put it on the inside of this card.

I used the premade scoring marks to put some gold cord through and I used Martha Stewart glitter around the outside leaf to jazz up the card a bit.  Hope you like it!