Number 10# and done!!!

Yes, I am done! I did a little happy dance and then promptly showed my husband the whole album.  So without further a-do, I will show you the last page of this album that’s a year over due! 

Very simple and easy to put together.  I’m still using that 2009 DCWV Christmas stack with a little of 2010 stuck in there.  The card stock is Core’dinations.  The sentiment comes from Winter Frolic which I’ve not had a chance to use much with being sick.  The trees are from the Christmas Solutions cart.  I love this tree.  I continued with faux gold stitching to bring continuity to the album. It’s done!  I am so excited.  The tags came from Winter Woodlands.  This cart has some beautifully shaped tags if you haven’t checked it out.  Now for some close-ups and the tags.   Oh, and did I say I’m done?

I can’t wait to get this off to my daughter.  We’ll see how long it takes her to get her pictures in it!

Family—another lO for Amy’s album

Yep!  Another page LO for that album.  I’ll have it ready next time I see her.  I know she’s going to be happy about that. 

I like the contrast between the beige and red in this LO.  The poinsettia cut is from the solutions Christmas cart that was part of the 6 cart download for Gypsy owner last December.   I really like the elegance of this cartridge.  The paper is from the 2009 DCWV Christmas stack. Family is from Ashlyn’s Alphabet at 1” inch and using the script feature. 

Hmmm I didn’t notice that was blurry when I took it, but I was very tired and I was in the process of coughing up a lung when I took the picture, so I guess it’s possible it slipped by! 

Well, that’s better! 

Pretty!

I have to admit these are some of my favorite tags. They are so sweet.  The tag comes from Winter woodlands and so does the poinsettia on the tags.

Every once in while I like to pull out my Fastenater stapler.  The idea of it is always better than the reality.  Still I can’t bring myself to get rid of it.  I love those decorative metal staples. 

The back of the tag is nice too.  This is from Winter Woodlands—I think. 

Have a great day all you fellow paper crafters! 

Those Moments-page 5

Whew!  Another day of Christmas preparation and I am exhausted.  I did get some time my scrapping studio and did this page for my daughter’s album.  I’m getting close to being done and hope to get at least 2 done tomorrow. 

In the morning, I get the privilege of having two of my granddaughter spend the morning with me.  I hope I can crave some time out to bake some cookies and that will provide me with some excellent photo opportunities!  Can’t wait. 

Every once in a a while there are moments that make you proud ,or make you take a moment to reflect ,or make you cry, or take your breath away, and I don’t think that any Christmas should pass without at least one of those moments.  That’s why I created this page for my daughter.  I know how proud she is of her 3 boys and we are proud too.  That’s part of the reason we scrap, isn’t it!  We want to get those moments down on paper and keep the pictures that represent them safe for the future. 

I love the colors on this LO.  It has a sort of peaceful elegance to it and if truth be told, I am more of an elegant scrapper than a cutesy one.  I like cutesy but it’s not my first reaction to a scrapping challenge. 

This paper is from last year’s Premium Christmas stack.  The cardstock is Bazzill except for the title which doesn’t show up that great in this photo,  which is Core’dinations.  That gold gel was in use again. I like to carry a detail like this throughout an album once I start it. 

The title and the pine branch are from Winter Woodlands. I used the shadow feature to cut the title because I didn’t want the fine detail of the regular font.  That pine branch, well let’s just say there is something to be said about the simplicity of it!  It seemed to me—enough. The tags from this page are from Winter Woodlands page 43 and the ones from yesterday are from page 44. That little corner cut is from Storybook page 50.  When this cart came out I bought it immediately and I can’t tell you how often I pull it out for just this kind of cut.  Those fancy corners sort of echo the design of the paper and I cut them from Core’dinations Gemstone paper. 

Cutting something this tiny and fine when using your Gypsy or Design Studio can be really challenging when you can’t regulate the speed, and to get my Cricut to cut it,I set the blade depth at 4, the pressure at 3 and I set it to multi cut at 2. Anytime I have an intricate cut and I’m using my Gypsy or Design Studio and I can’t regulate the speed, I use this method to get those tiny, fine cuts.  Works almost every time. 

How about some close-ups? 

I added the rhinestones for some bling.  It’s hard for me to resist bling. I’m a girl!  Show me a jewelry box and I swoon. I feel similarly about bling!  I think you can see the luster of that gemstone paper in the title and those tiny corners. 

Now for the tags!  I’ve had this brushed silver trees for a while and thought they might look good on these tags. They do! 

I’m off to bed.  It’s been a rough and long day! 

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.

Another Word 12x12

I’ve got another 12x12 canvas for you!  This one was inspired by the reason for this season and all the names given Him in the scriptures.  I think it turned out great and love the elegant look of it. 

I don’t have a tutorial for this one.  I used the same procedure as for the Thankful  one I did in November.  After I was finished I brushed some very light and scattered brush strokes of gold paint.  Nice! 

With the help of my Gypsy, I laid the whole 12x12 piece out on one mat fitting all the words on it and adding the star and corner pieces.  It really helps to design it this way first and then move the separate elements to separate pages to cut them. I used Designer Calendar’s script font which has no capitals for the red words and Winter Wonderland for the word Jesus.  The star is from Christmas Solutions and I blocked out the tree that is included in this cut.  The shadows of the word Jesus and the greenery in the corners is a very deep green . 

I used 1 sheet of green patterned paper for the background and one sheet of gold dotted paper for the word Jesus from one of this year’s premium DCWV Christmas stacks per I used for the word Jesus.  The center of the star is a sheet from the DCWV’s Glittered stack and the other papers are all Core’dination Cardstock. 

For this project you will need:

1 12x12 artist’s canvas

Mod Podge

6 different papers including 3 full sheets

gold paint (I used Folk Art.)

Tools

Cricut

Gypsy

Designer’s Calender

Christmas Solutions

Winter Woodland

Paint brush for painting the Mod Podge

sponge brush for the Gold paint.

Here some more photos of the project.