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. 

Holy Cow card

I just received the Animal Antics Cricut Cartridge in the mail and was so excited to use it.  I hadn't spent time looking at the booklet or anything so I didn't know exactly what this cart was going to be.  I needed to make a birthday card for my niece so I thought it would be the perfect time to try it out.  As I was flipping through the book, I came to the cow - the holy cow.  To me, this is hilarious! Here he is:

The background is the phrase at 2.5" "cut" with the Cricut Markers.  I used the line return button on my Expression to get it to line up perfectly.

Here is a close up of the face.  Something a little different about this cart is how many layers there are to get the final look.  Look how many you can see in the face!

I finished the inside of the card with "It's your birthday" printed from my printer and "Have a moo-velous day" stamp from My Pink Stamper, simply because I couldn't resist yet another pun. :)

Have you tried your cart yet?  Do it!

St. Patrick's Day parade layout

Hello!  Happy March!  Today I am the guest blogger over at Cricut Fanatics.  I'd love for you to stop over and see all of the details of this layout: 

I have submitted this to the Trendy Twine March Green challenge.

Valentine Treat Layout

Hey everyone!  I crafted for the very first time since Christmas!  You can check the details out today over at Cricut Fanatics.  While you're there, you can check out tons of Cricut projects and don't be afraid to leave some love for the designers! 

Here's my layout featuring an evening of making "sour cream container" valentines:

I wish you all a happy Valentine's day! 

December Daily - Cover and Dec. 4

Hello!  Today I am sharing with you the cover to my December Daily album and the page for December 4th.   The album is an sei album, already red with a black spine. I added Coredinations white glitter paper for the snow drifts and used Jolly Holidays. The reindeer is flocked and cut at 6.5". The presents are cut at 2".

The page for December 4 is the day I had all of my Christmas cards sent out. When I saw the picture of my girls, I knew it was the Christmas card picture this year. While it's not the standard posed, face on picture, it captures my girls 100%.

Because the card has unique colors in it, I based my page on black paper. The pattern paper is from a border piece of ______. The 4 is Designer's Calendar at 2".

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are enjoying the last few days of 2012!

December Daily - Dec. 3 and Calendar

I had the chance to finish two more simple pages for my December Daily today.  The first is the calendar page that is the first page you see when you open the album.  I've been keeping mini notes on this calendar about what each day holds.  This is as much for me to use when scrapping the pages as it is for a preview of what the album holds! 

I found this calendar on GetFreeCalnedars.

The next page I finished today was for December 3rd, a Monday that was a pretty quiet day.  There are teacher bloggers that do a "Currently" post each month.  I love reading these as they relate to the classroom so I decided to use it in my album.  You can find the December Currently at Oh Boy Fourth Grade. I printed it as 5x7 and just printed on it with a Sharpie pen. 

Although it hard to tell in the picture, I used sandpaper on the brown background so it has a really neat texture.  The 3 is Designer's Calendar at 2". 

Happy Christmas Eve Eve to everyone ;) 

Dance Team Christmas gifts

Merry Christmas! Last year I made the high school dance team that I coach glitter ornaments.  This year, I found a great deal through Avon and decided to get the girls some small beauty supplies (chap stick, lotion, bath gel, etc.).  I of course had to toss in some candy too!  

Here are the gift bags I made for them: 

 The clear bag is just from Walmart, the cardstock from my stash.

The stamps are from a KaiserCraft and the dancer is from Wall Decor & More at 2.25". 

Merry Christmas all!