12 Month Scrapbook Challenge Layout

Christina from Creations with Christina issued a challenge earlier this month to complete and post a layout every month.  Here is the link to her post.  Creations with Christina: Scrapbook Challenge I SOOO needed to get back on track with my scrapbooking. 

Since discovering the world of blogging, I have been distracted by all the wonderful inspiration afforded to my through the wonderful world of blogging.  BUT, I have been so engrossed in reading posts and entering contests that I have neglected the one thing I love to do with my free time: SCRAPBOOK.  (Can I get a witness?!)  I want to take all this great inspiration and apply it to my scrapbooks and card-making!  In defense, my love for cardmaking has been revived thanks to all the talent on the blogs I follow!  My Christmas cards were great and I've learned to make great, simple cards using my Cricut and stamps!

Below is my layout for this month.  I started this layout back in Thanksgiving of last year.  I hate to admit that the pictures are from 2007! Yikes!  A lot has happened in our family in the last couple of years ad hence the backlog.  Hopefully with this challenge I will get back on track and soon up to date. Wish me luck!

Let me first apologize for the glare on this shot.  I'm not a professional photographer and I still need to learn how to take better pictures of my creations.

 On this two page layout I used the following:

Creative Memories Winter Reflections paper pack

Cricut Cartridge Celebrations for the banner pennants

Cricut Christmas Solutions cartridge for the "Christmas" title and the ornament

Creative Memories White mini letter stickers on the banner

Imaginisce i-Rock and gems.

Creative Memories sticker tag

DMC White embroidery floss

 Stickles

Silver star eyelet on the tag

Below are a few close up shots.

If it were not for my blog friends, I would not have thought of the banner, i-Rock, and using the embroidery floss (I couldn't find baker's twine so I used the floss instead. Worked out great!) Thanks bloggers!!!  I think my layout turned out great! It's ready to go in the album, pictures and all! Let me know what you think! I love hearing from others!

TTFN, Scrappymama Elaine

Busy making birthday cards!!

November is full of birthdays! I have a list going of all the birthday cards I want to make.  Here are three I made over the last two days.

The cake was cut from Cricut Doodlecharms using the Gypsy to cut the layers/contours. The birthday greeting was cut using Cricut Gypsy Wanderings and I used Stickles to add some glitz.

This card is similar to the first one except I left out the candles.  I used the Cuttlebug Swirls folder to emboss the cake.  I chose not to use the shadow feature. I also sprayed the cake with Glimmer Mist.

This card was made using Cricut Smiley available only on the Gypsy. I played around with the layers trying to figure out the order and colors  She turned out cute!  I'm sure one of friends will love this one.  I also used my iRock to add some bling to the party hat.

All of my paper is paper I have had on hand for some time. 

Still have several more cards to make.  I will post soon.  Tomorrow: a wedding card and gift.

Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by.  Leave a comment if you like what you see.

Can you see what I changed on the glass block?

I can be rather obsessive at times.  I love the original glass block I made but there were just a few things bothering me about it so I corrected it.  Can you tell what it is?  Leave a comment if you do. 

i-rock - My new embellishment toy

I just purchased a new toy. I was in one of those moods to try something new. So I headed to Michaels with coupons in hand and got a GREAT deal! Never pay full price. At first I found the i-rock tool only. As I browsed around the store I found another package that included a container of Glam Rocks for the same price. Well, you know what I did right? Put the other one back. The deal just got sweeter. I first saw the i-rock as one of the items on HSN. (I'm not an HSN shopper but that day Provocraft was launching their new Cricut Imagine and I had to see what that was all about. The Cricut Imagine is for another topic.) The I-rock heat sets little gems on many types of medium like paper, fabric, wood, glass, etc.

Here are some pictures of the i-rock tool and the glam rocks.
 

 

  It adds a touch of sparkle to the page.