Number Nine—We Believe

Only one more page to go after this one and I’m ready to move on to some new projects.  I love the way this album is turning out even if I’m eager to do something else. 

It’s a pleasing page I think.  I used the same DCWV stacks as in the other pages.  I used Storybook for the wreath like border I used on both pages.  I welded three of the squares with my Gypsy.  The title was made using the Alphalicious cart and the holly and berries is from Joys for Seasons as are the tags. 

That’s it.  Nothing fancy but it will keep the momentum going and gets me one more pages closer to being done.  I am off to bed since I can no longer keep my eyes open.

Page 8—Can I get through it?

Two more pages and I can hand this long over due album to my daughter!  I can’t wait to do so.  She’s waited patiently for so long.  So Amy, one more page done and two more to go!  Yea!

A simple page with not a lot of adornment but I think that’s OK.  The paper seemed to me to be enough.  I kept using the gold faux stitching on the photo mats as I have through out the whole album.  The tree on the pocket holding the tags is from the Solutions Christmas cart.  I have to confess that I measured incorrectly when I cut the tree and had to snip the top little curly cue off.  The paper is from the same sources as I’ve used throughout the album.  The title is cut from Storybook and Alphalicous and welded with my Gypsy. 

The tags are the special part of this LO.  The tag comes from  Winter Frolic and the gift is from Joys of the Season.  The jewels are actually brads that I’ve had a long time. I got the ribbon two years ago at Hobby Lobby.  I also used some green Stickles on the bows. 

I love these tags!  I know my daughter will too. 

What do you think Amy?

A Christmas Album

Last year I made or attempted to make a quick album that my daughters and daughter-in-law could pop their Christmas pictures into.  I ran into the problem though that I could not get another pack of the paper I had originally chosen to use.  I got two of them made and then I had to use a different set of papers.  The original pack of paper was the Fall Seasons pack from Debbie Mumm and was quite whimsical and cute.  Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to take any pictures because one of my daughters and my daughter-in-law snatched them out of my hands before I could snap any photos.  However, I did not finish the third album and it has been languishing in a project box in my scrapping studio for the whole year.  My oldest daughter is very understanding and patient. I got a little carried away with this album and made way too many pages! I do that most of the time! Anyway I need to finish it before my daughter gets here the Sunday after Christmas. So I thought I’d share what I’ve done so far.  I hope you enjoy it! 

When I was thinking of these albums I thought I wanted to actually give the girls complete 12x12 LO pages to hold all their photos, so I came up with splitting the 12x12 sheets down the middle and binding them with my Bind it all. 

The is paper is from the premium DCWV stack from 2009.  I used both of the sheets from the pack, and the second to cut the ornaments from and pop dot on top of the ones on the first sheet!  Understand?  I also used real ribbon to cover the printed ones.  It turned out OK.

This paper was double sided so I had to glue two sheets back to back to get the same paper for both sides for the album.  This added extra heft to the album and made it much sturdier.  On this photo, you can also see the dimension added with the pop dots. 

One of my goals with this project, was to give as many spaces to put photos as possible.  With this in mind I limited my pages embellishments to the pocket of the two pages where I put several tags.  I love the idea of these tags and as you’ll see as I progress through the album that they turned out quite nice. 

The sleigh comes from page 23 of Joys of the Season and the snowflakes are page 40.

One more 2 page spread . . . .

The trees are from Christmas Cheer page 32. 

The title comes form Winter Woodlands and I welded it with Design Studio.  It’s cut from some velvet paper that I love. 

Do you see all pen work on this tag pocket?  I did so much of this kind of work on these pages and it adds to the pages without taking up much space.  I also added Stickles to the trees. 

These tags are spectacular.  At least I think so!  I had those brads forever and finally found a use for them. 

Well that’s it for today.  I’ll be adding more pages was the week progresses.

BBTB2 Challenge Card

Over on BBTB2 the challenge was to use this wreath on Joys of the Season.

Now I love that wreath and have used it many time ssince my husband bought me that cart for my birthday the first year I had my Cricut.  I wanted to give it a special twist and came up with this. 

The card is 5 1/2” and I cut the wreath at 5”.  I also pulled the twigs and pine cones from the same cart just one page away. 

I think I cut this at 4” and I used that great Core’dinations gemstone brown that I love for the swirly twigs and some wonderful buffed gold that I got at Joann’s for the pine cones.  Unfortunately you can’t see all that shine!  For the wreath I used two shades of green Core’dinations and some velvet green paper that I have had forever.  I bought several 8 1/2 x 11” sheets a long time ago and have used it every holiday season since.  You can’t see the velvet either. The base of the card is from one of the new premium Christmas DCWV 2010 stacks.  So pretty! 

I heat embossed the sentiment, but I had a little bit of a problem with this so it didn’t turn out as great as I’d hoped.  All in all though, I like the card and not the sentiment. 

Here’s some more shots of the card. 

There, now you can see the velvet paper.

And there you can see the gemstone cardstock and sort of see the great gold paper.

It’s on to the weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Minty and Sweet

Remember when I posted the gingerbread people, I said I was adding something more to my kitchen garlands?  Today I did it! I made those cute peppermints on page 26 of Joys of the seasons.  I used my Gypsy to hide the candy cane, and I didn’t cut the wrapper.  The result was a cute peppermint to add to my garland. 

I used glitter glue from Studio G.  I often use this cheaper alternative to Stickles when I know the project is not required to be archival safe.  It made the peppermints look so sweet!  Then I punched holes on each side, added ribbon to tie two together, and ribbon on each end to attach the two peppermints to the garland and it was ready to go.  Very fast, very easy! 

And now some close ups!

Need a Little Christmas

I happen to love December. From December 1st to the 31st, I love the hub-bub and celebration of the birth of Christ.  All the trappings and ceremony make me look forward with anticipation.  So last Saturday, I whipped up these tags just to tease my anticipation of Christmas. 

I know there are paper crafters out there who have created much more elaborate tags, but these are simple and easy to make.  I’ve got some more elaborate ones in mind and will share them over the next few weeks, but I’ll share these today.

I make all my tags for our Christmas gifts, and with our large family, it takes many tags, so the creation of tags makes it expedient that I be able to do so quickly.  So here are the tags I’m sharing today. 

See, simple.  I used cuts from Joys of the Season, the ornament and gifts, and from Winter Woodland for the poinsettia.  The tags came from Tags, Bags and Boxes, and the rectangle from George.  I embossed the rectangles with the Christmas Ornaments A2 embossing folder and gave them and the tags gold faux stitching.  I used my fanciest hand lettering to write the “to” and “From,” and popped the Circuit cuts off the tags. 

On this poinsettia I detailed the flower and leaves with metallic gel pen, used Stickles on the yellow center and then because I wanted more dimension, I used a yellow tri cornered bead in the center.  You can’t really see it in this photo. 

I used Stickles on the the swirly bits and tip of the ornament and cut the hanging thing on the ornament out some gold holographic paper I had in my stash.  Nice! 

For this tag, I welded the shadow of the gifts in the three different sizes together with my gypsy and then added the gifts with their Stickled ribbons.  The paper is from last year’s Christmas stack.  Fun! 

Now go! Create some thing today!