More baby girl album layouts

Every year their family gets a picture taken among the Texas Bluebonnets.

I made the pink "flower" in the upper left corner.  The butterflies were originally white glitter.

I used pink Stickles to give color to the butterflies and added pink rhinestones.

The deeper blue papers are by Bo Bunny.  The lighter floral print is old paper from my stash.

She was the littlest flower girl for her auntie's wedding.

I think the papers were Anna Griffin.  Not sure.

The flowers were cut from the paper, and rubbed with ink.  They were embossed with

something that resisted the ink.  The blue flourishes were cut with the Cricut.

More Baby Girl Layouts

The paper is years old, from my stash.  The stamps I used were Close to My Heart stamps.

I used micro beads glued on with Glossy Accents to give the texture and dimension to the sun and title.

The background paper is at least a year old.  I don't remember who makes it, and I'm too tired to check.

Sizzix Butterflies and label were cut with Tim Holtz dies.  The Flourishes were also cut w/Sizzix dies.

I think these papers were also from my stash and were probably older.

Baby Girl album 5 month layout

This will be the last scanned image for awhile, although I will be posting more pages from the album.  I gave the album to the mother, and didn't have time to scan everything before I gave it to her.  I did take photos, but they probably won't be as good as the scans.

This is one of my favorite pages in the baby album I did for her.  The papers were in the Disney section at the LSS, but I  may have bought them awhile back.  The paper flowers were also in the Disney section.  It's been so long since I scrapped this one that it would take awhile to figure out the paper manufacturers.  If anyone is dying to know, you can ask.  Otherwise, I probably won't take the time to hunt the info down.

Valentine's Day Gift for my Husband

I made this "Subway Art" for my husband for Valentine's Day.  The background paper was from my stash and is at least a few years old.  It was by Me and My Big Ideas.  I used Cricut cartridges and my Gypsy to do a little welding, although most of the designs were taken right from the various cartridges I used, namely:

Botanicals (font), Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art (font), Quarter Note (musical notes and font), Sophisticated, Sweethearts, Tie the Knot, and Wild Card.

Sometimes it's surprising what you can find on a cartridge.  Even so, it was not as quick a project as I had hoped and expected it to be.  My husband seemed to like it.  I put it on the wall in the area where he uses his computer when at home, so he can have a reminder of my love for him.  We've been happily married for 37 years.

More of my Baby Girl Album

Most of my scrapbooking has been focused on the Baby Girl Album that I have been making for a gift.  I have actually gotten up to 8 months done, but haven't scanned all the pages yet.  Here are the next few layouts from the baby album.

The papers for the above layout are from the 2011 Little Yellow Bicycle Wonder Wishes line of papers.  I used decorative chipboard elements by K & Company.  The Christmas light garland is a very, very old Jolee's  product that I had in my stash.  The title was probably done using a Cricut cartridge and my Gypsy, but I honestly am not sure.  I did this layout months ago.  All of these layouts were done quite awhile ago.  I'm just slow getting them scanned and posted.

The Blessing Day layout was created with papers, flowers, and glittered dots I found at Archiver's in July 2012.  One of the papers is embossed, but it doesn't show up well.  The border was a Cricut cartridge, probably from one of their Paper Lace carts.  The font is also probably a Cricut font.  I have done most of the baby pages while scrapping with friends at the LSS, and I usually use the Cricut when I scrap away from home.  I'm sorry I can't be more specific.

The border on the 3 Month layout was another Cricut border.  It was either a Paper Lace cart or from the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge.  I can't find the paper scraps to identify who manufactured the paper.  Obviously I should have scanned and posted right after doing the layout, so I could have been more specific.

This will be the last layout for today's post.  I used a die that I bought at Great American Scrapbook Convention a couple of years ago.  It is the scalloped circle die and the flourishes.  I think the name of the company that makes it is called Marianne or something like that.  It is similar to Spellbinder dies, in that they are wafer thin dies that allow you to cut and then emboss.  Unfortunately, they are sometimes hard to get out of the die intact.  The hearts and the borders were probably from Cricut cartridges.  The plaid I used for the scalloped border was a paper by Three Bugs in a Rug, but it's an older line.  I am not sure about the polka dot.  I think it was from my stash, so it may have come from a paper stack of long ago.  Hopefully once I get to layouts I've done more recently, I can give better details regarding manufacturers than I have with these layouts that I did months ago.

Christmas Money Card

After being out of town again for half of November, I have gotten back to a little crafting.  I have made some more jewelry, and done some glass etching (projects I will try to post later), but I am also still getting together with my scrapping buddies here and there.  On Friday I made the card above using my new CTMH Cricut Artiste Cricut cartrdige to cut the basic card.  The stamps "Warmest Wishes" and the tiny bird on the right inside of the card are also CTMH stamps.  The "Joy" stamp, the sentiment stamp on the left side of the inside of the card, and the tiny "Merry Christmas" stamp are all older stamps by My Sentiments Exactly. The patterned cardstock is called "Ornament" by Echo Park from their Very Merry Christmas collection.  I cut the card at 4.75 inches (top to bottom), which after gluing the sides of the pocket gave room to slip in either a folded bill or a folded check.  It did not quite fit a gift card.  I think if I had cut the pocket just a little larger, such as at 5 inches, it would have been perfect for a gift card to fit in the pocket.  However, since I was sending a check, the size I cut it was perfect for my purposes.

October Perpetual Calendar

On page 59 of the Close to my Heart Autumn/Winter 2012 idea book/catalog is a bonus project suggestion,  a perpetual calendar for October.  I loved their idea and chose to adapt it slightly.  They used two blocks, while I used three.  I used Halloween and Fall themed stamps that I have been collecting for years since I didn't have the stamps shown in the CTMH project.  Some of my stamps were purchased more recently, some long ago.  I also used a variety of Halloween themed papers. Normally I try to list all materials used, with manufacturers, but I don't have time to do that right now, since there were so many used.  If you see something you desperately want to know, feel free to ask, and I will try to post a response with the information.

I used wood blocks from Michaels, and the black rhinestone bordered tray came from there, too.  I painted the wooden blocks black before applying each of the panels.  The center block does not have a panel on the bottom.  I could have gotten away with only two blocks, but I liked having the month shown, and I have a couple of decorative panels also.  I also wanted to have a zero on the center block, for the single digit numbers, rather than just have only one block on display.