Paper Flowers

My mil is in the ICU. She can't have flowers so I made her a pot of paper flowers. This is my first attempt and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I used the George cartridge on the Cricut and the paper is from an old DCWV Spring Stack.

Misc Cards

Europe Album

I have been working on my album from our trip to Europe last summer. I am about half way done. By the time I'm finished, I will not want to look through the album anymore because I'll be sick of it. I went through the pictures while we were on our trip, then again when we came home. Then I went through them again-twice for each day-to pick out the ones I wanted for the album. I only have three days of pictures left to go through and print out. Everything else is printed. I'll start posting some of the layout's I'm doing for this album.

To make it simple, I chose a paper stack from K and Co.and purchased 5 or 6 of the pads. Between the sales and using coupons, I was able to stay within a reasonable price for the paper. Then I purchased some of the matching embellishments for this stack. I used the Happy Trails specialty paper stack. Click here for a picture of the paper stack I used.

By using the same papers and embellishments, I am able to streamline the album and save some time. Of course, it still takes me forever because I have to figure out the layouts for everything. Since I blogged the whole trip on my personal blog, and I'm just revising what I wrote and printing it out. I've set up the album so that each day has a minimum of a 2 page LO. Some days have 4 or 6 pages. It will be a thick album by the time I'm done.

Ok, I have only one layout on my computer so here it is. I'll share more as I take more pictures.

Christmas countdown calendar

Two years ago (or maybe it was last year-I have a terrible memory for this kind of thing) I participated in a Christmas countdown calendar swap on the Cricut messageboards. 25 of us each got one number, made 25 of the same thing and ended up with 25 pieces for a calendar. I can't find the original thread on the message boards because it is too old.

I love our calendar and wanted to do one on my own. Who to give it to? I wanted it to go to someone I know would appreciate it. Now, I don't need accolades for my work but when I work on something this time consuming, I want to know the recipient isn't going to just toss it out next year. I gave this calendar to Ellie and Angel today.

Many of the pieces were directly inspired or copied from our own calendar so I will not say every piece is my own idea. I took pictures of a couple of my favorite pieces too.

I would love to make more of these. I love doing Christmas themes! So fun.

Christmas cards

Here's a peek at a few of the Christmas cards I am making.

Pay It Forward Pictures

On my regular blog I participated in a Pay it Forward. Since I have finally finished them and given them out, I can post a few pictures.

This is a box I made for holding cards and then I made cards to put in it. I love the colors on this box! The papers are from Stampin' Up and I used some to make boxes for holding my Cuttlebug folders after making this because I love it so much. The cards that follow the box are a few I made for the box. Most of them were inspired from other cards I have seen. I can't take direct credit for most of them because I usually peruse internet scrapbooking sites when I make cards. I think the cherry card was from the Pink Stampers blog.

This is a recipe box I made with some recipe cards in it. Although I really like this gift, I think it is a bit impractical. Who wants to pull out pretty recipe cards and make them a mess while cooking? Or am I the only one who gets my recipe cards messy?

Again, I like these papers and have some left over I plan to use to make something for myself. I needed a red, white and blue theme for the person I made this for but I didn't want it to look like a Fourth of July decoration.

Soccer LO

I'm pretty happy with this LO.