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"Scrapbooking Is Your Own Personal Holiday"~~Sara~~



Monday, November 19, 2012

December Daily Book - Dates Are Finished!!

This year I am going to do a December Daily Book. I will be documenting/ journaling something each day in the month of December. I Will be using Simple Stories Handmade Holiday Collection.
While I'm waiting for supplies. I decided to make up my date tags for each day in December.
This is something new for me. I have never done Project Life or Simple Stories before.
December is a month full of activities and this would be a good way to document the festivities.


Supplies Used:

Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers - Deer and Tree
Martha Stewart - Border Punch and Snowflake Punch
Sizzix Movers and Shapers Die - Scalloped Circle
SU - 1-3/4" Circle Punch
Cricut Mini for the Numbers - Cut at 1" - Using Winter Woodland Cartridge
Cricut Imagine - To flood fill the Snowman outfit from the Imagine More Cartridge.
Cricut Imagine - Santa's Village - For the Tree Cut 1" and Santa and Sleigh cut 1-1/2"
Mcgill - Pine branch punch

I spritzed the Scallop circle, numbers, border punch image and pine branches with Perfect Pearls Mist with Heirloom gold.
I spritzed the snowflakes with Perfect Pearls Mists with Perfect Pearl









~Mary

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Snow Folks Winter Snow Girls




I'm working on Christmas Cards.
I just got the Cricut Snowfolks Cartridge.


Snow Folks Winter Snow Girls

Card Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2

Supplies:
Cricut Snow Folks Cartridge - Snow girls cute at 3.5 true size
Cricut Imagine - Snow Angel Cartridge to flood fill the coats and mittens.
Cricut Martha Stewart Holiday Cakes Cartridge - Merry Christmas cut at W - 5.097 x H - 2.069 in Cricut Craft Room Design Software
For the snow I used the paper tearing technique. Then I chalked the edges.




Saturday, October 27, 2012

Pumpkin Carving

Our Granddaughter was over and we had to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.

Well Chuck got in on the action making this his first Cricut project.

Here is the step by step process.


First cut off the top


Then our granddaughter Scooped out the middle


She said it was gooey


Our Granddaughter Picked out the pumpkin face from the Pumpkin Carving cartridge.
I cut it out on the Cricut Mini.


Chuck traced the face on the pumpkin


Here it is.


Then Chuck carved the face


Then our granddaughter pulled out the pieces to the face.


What a great team!!


Our granddaughter wants to keep the cut out pieces.


Here's a close up of it all lit up.


Now I get to scrapbook it!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

I made a list up of all the Imagine Cartridges available.

These are print and cut images and color and pattern fill cartridges.


IMAGINE CARTRIDGES

Colors And Patterns

1) Ancestry

2) Audrey

3) Berries And Cream

4) Blossom

5) Bubblegum Stripes

6) Christmas Wish

7) Contemporary Nature

8) Elise

9) Floral Emporium

10) Heirloom

11) Hopscotch

12) Industrial Glow

13) Mystical Garden

14) Mr. Frosty

15) Notebook Doodles

16) Snapshot Everyday

17) Snapshot Texture

18) Snapshot Nature

19) Spring Chic

20) Teresa Collins - Black And White

21) Vintage Damask

22) Vintage Papers



Imagine Art Cartridges


1) All Wrapped Up

2) Baby Boutique

3) Best Friends

4) Better Together

5) Blast Off

6) Buccaneer

7) Country Carnival

8) Enjoy The Seasons

9) Greeting Cards Inside and Out

10) Hey Diddle Diddle

11) Imagine More

12) Imagine More Cards

13) JT Art

14) Kate's Kitchen

15) Lori's Garden

16) Nursery Tails

17) Santa's Village

18) Snow Angel

19) The Good Old Days

20) Word Of Mouth

21) Yummy


Happy Crafting!!
Mary

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Cleopatra Halloween Layout

Cleopatra Halloween Layout

I used my Journaling Tag (that I posted in a previous post) in this layout .




The pumpkin is from the Pumpkin Carvings Cartridge. It was cut at W-3.917 x H-5.375

The bear witch was cut from the Teddy Bear On Parade cartridge. Cut at 4.5"

The zigzag cut is from Cricut cartridge - Plantin School Book.

I used Martha Stewart fence punch and paper pack.

I used K&Company Chipboard Ghost.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Make Your Own Journaling Tags

I decided to try my hand at making some journaling tags for a layout I am working on.
I wanted to pass the information along to you so you can get some ideas and try some yourself!
I'm not one to put journaling on my layouts. But, I want to change that and incorporate it in a fun way. I used my CTMH stamp sets and Cricut Cuts.

Here's some of what I came up with. I can't wait to use them on some layouts!



Supplies:

CTMH Stamp sets used:
S1109 - Limited Edition for the lines.
C1526 - Spellbound Cricut Workshop Holidays for Happy Halloween.
C1522 - Creepy Creatures Holiday

~Mary



Friday, October 12, 2012

Bat and Ghost Mobile







 Bat and Ghost Mobile

I made a Martha Stewart Bat Mobile. It's super easy to make.
All you need is a branch, bats, ghosts and some cheese cloth.

Supplies:

Cricut Cartridge Happy Hauntings - Bats and Ghosts
The Bats were cut at 5-1/4"
The ghosts were cut at 4-1/2"

I got the idea from the Martha Stewart website.
Found here.

Martha Stewart Bat Mobile