Halloween Faux TP Toilet Paper Roll Mini Album

Good morning.

Hope everyone had a happy Easter.  I just wanted to share this mini album that I finished up this past week.  I started it way back before Halloween but didn't get around to finishing it.  But since I have time on my hands as I recover from knee surgery, I am finishing some projects that I started but have yet to complete.



This album is for sale in my Etsy Store

May 2015 Stamp of the Month Just Sayin'

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May 2015: Just Sayin’ (S1505)

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Love Word Mini Album

Good morning.  I wanted to share a mini album that I made.  I cut it from a Design Space file on my Cricut Explore.  In my video below, I walk through from starting in Design Space through assembling the album.




The glue stick that I used in most of the video is Close To My Heart Item 1512

Close To My Heart Consultant

Good morning.  I am soooooo excited.  I am now a Close To My Heart Consultant.  I have a grand opening online party going on right now.  What I am trying to do is get enough orders to get my kit for free!  We have a lot of good products right now.

Here is the link to my shop:  http://paperthisandthat.ctmh.com

Here is a great product for that birthday party

Cut Above™ Birthday Treat Bag Kit

 Item Number: Z2059

Product Description

10 – 5" x 3½" x 1⅜" Printed Treat Bags (5 each of 2 designs)
5 – 4" x 6" Sheets of ¾" Stickers
12 – 1½" White Daisy Circles
12 – 3-D Foam Squares
10 – 5" x 3¼" Cellophane Bags

so check out my web site.  Help me reach my goal of a free kit and I will host a Close To My Heart Give Away once I reach my goal.....  you will be helping me and receive a high quality product as well.

 

VLog #1

The following video is my first video blog (vlog) ever.  I want to do more of these so that you can see me in my daily life and get to know me more outside of crafting.  It is not the best, but again, it was my first.  I hope to get better as time goes.  I don't know how often I will do a vlog yet.  We will see.  But my first one is mainly about my cramped crafting space the the snow storms that keep hitting us.  But I can say, it could be worse.....  could be in Boston.



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Antique Scrapbook

Good morning fellow bloggers... hope you are having a great weekend.

Yes, 100 yrs ago they did scrap.. not sure what they called it back then but I managed to get my hands on a 100+ yr old scrapbook. My cousin passed a year ago. He was living in my Grandmother's house who passed 6 yrs ago. Anyhow, my mother and my aunt was going through boxes in the house. They came across this scrapbook that my grandmother had. It is believed that oine of her aunts or cousins or something like that put it together. There are articles from the 1880's and 90's.. plus turn of the century articles. It is quite thick. It was made from an old hotel register from the 1800's.. The artwori is breathless as well.

I did a video on the book and it is below.



Hope you enjoy it.

Camera Mini Album Video Tutorial

Good evening....  I just finished this cute little mini album today.  It is in the shape of a camera.  I actually got the idea from Custom Crops..  I just took it a step further and did a video  tutorial.  It was made using the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge.  But if you don't have that cart, don't worry, I do have a kit for sale in my etsy shop.  I went ahead and made all of the cuts for you.  Hope you enjoy this tutorial...  just keep in mind that I an still trying to get the hang of this video recording and editing thingy.

New Layout My Marine

Here is a layout that I did based on a sketch from Sketch Inspirations Ning Group.  This is my son, Aaron, whom I have been talking about recently.  He is in his dress blues for the Marines in this layout.

Mini Album For My Son

Good morning.  I just wanted to share this mini album that I made for my son.  I am planning to do a video tutorial this week on how I made it.  I made this for him to take to North Carolina tomorrow when he goes to combat training.

First Laoyout of The Year

Good morning!  I just wanted to share my first 12 x 12 page for the year.  I need to play catch up and start getting my photos from 2010 scrapped.  This one is from the major snow storm that hit the north east US last Feb.  We were with out power for a week and had 2 feet of snow on the ground.

I used MTC to cut my title and the large snow flakes.  The snow flakes I snagged from the MTC gallery.  Don't know who created them.  The smaller snowflakes are from a MS punch.  I am also including the sketch I created.  I have only been scrapbooking for a little over a year.  I have not done very much because of time.  I am still a novice.

Mini Album For My Cousin

Hey there everyone.  I just finished an 8x8 chipboard album for my cousin, Travis.  I had already made one for his older brother Daryl for Christmas but didn't get any pictures of it.  I took pics of Travis's though. 

Warining:  A Long Post

History:  The 3 of us grew up next door to each other.  Our maternal grandparents lived in the house next door on the other side of my cousins.  We are a tight knit family.  Our grandfather passed in 1982 after an extended illness.  My grandmother cared for him with the aid of a nurse who visited every day.  Then around Christmas time, 2005, my grandmother fell sick at the age of 91.  She turned 92 in January.  She passed away the day before Memorial Day 2006.

In 2008, tragedy strikes again.  In May of 2008, Daryl, at the age of 41, got luekemia.  He has been battling it every since.  He had a couple stem cell transplants which didn't work.  He is home now, but he has been bouncing in and out of the hospital.  He lost so much weight.  I almost can not recognize him.  He is now 43 and will turn 44 Sept 4.  Please do keep him in your prayers.

With all of that said, this past Christmas, I decided to create mini albums of the 3 of us growing up from the time we were still in diapers through our teen age years.  I finished Daryl's Christmas Eve and gave it to him.  He teared up over it and was really thankful.  I promised one to his younger brother Travis.  I finished his today and will post the pictures.  I will be doing one for myself as well.

Here is the album..............

This is the cover.  I used a crinkled card stock, cut the title from Platin Storybook Cricut Cart, used a scallop punch and circle punch for the round pic matting with blinging the cover with some stickles. Ohh..  the small border I used a martha stewart border punch.

This is when Travis had just come home from the hospital in July of 1970.  The paper used for the border I created myself and printed.  The rattle and title are svg files which I have available here on my blog. And I used a small flower punch.  I made a boo boo and the paper ripped in 2 places, so I covered the rips up with the punched flowers.

Left:  Just some pics when we were real little

Right:  A pic of Travis and me with Santa.

Again, I used my cricut with Make The Cut for the Titles and the Christmas Tree.

The mat with the holly was a print and cut.  I cut slits around the inside of the holly in upper right corner and tucked the picture behind.  I used gel pens and more stickles.

Easter pictures on the left and halloween on the right.  I cut the flowers on my cricut plus the easter eggs and title.  I used my cuttlebug and embossed the photo mat with devine swirls I believe.  The halloween page...  that year we were in a parade and we were dressed like Raggedy Ann and Andy (me and Travis and my mother) and Daryl dressed as an old lady.  Another neighbor girl was a witch.  We won first place.

The left is some birthday parties as we got older.  The right is Travis (in the window) and Daryl with the football helmet in a toy clubhouse.  I thought the title "Boys Rule" fit perfectly.  The title was cut out of chipboard and covered with paper.  The stars also cut on my cricut out of card stock.

Every year as youngsters, we all took an annual trip to Fenwick Island, Delaware.  Our families rented the same beach house each year. This trip was in 1975.   The lower right corner we were standing in front of Mt Vernon in VA.  This is probably my favorite out of the whole album.

On the left are just some misc pics as teens.  I stamped a floral image and heat embossed it and I had drew the border with a gel pen then went over it with stickles (love that stuff .. like you can't tell).  The right is a picture of Travis and me when we were in the high school marching band.  I got lucky and found our Alma Mater on the internet.  The paper for the pic mat and border I created and printed.  The paw (Leopards) I cut in MTC on my cricut and used 3D foam squares to pop it off the page.

This layout features Daryl in 1984 when he went off and joined the Army.  On the left is when he was either on leave or just after boot camp I think.  On the right was at Fort Dix, NJ at boot camp.

This is the final page.  I dedicated it to our beloved and greatly missed grandparents.

I hope I didn't bore you too bad.  Thank you for taking the time to view my book.