Birthday Card

Here is a birthday card that I made for my niece who just turned 19. I used the cart Forever Young to make the girl and used a punch to make the lacy edges on the pink and green papers.




The inside of the card is very unique. I made it using Design Studio and the Base Camp font cart. I got the idea of a stand up title from a blog called Susan Blue Robot. It is very simple to create. If you are interested in knowing how to do this, just let me know and I will get some instructions to you.

Great Sale on Cricut Cartridges

I just received an email from CricutMachine.com about a 48 hour sale on carts. I checked it out. All of their carts are on sale and there are some great prices. You should check it out if you are looking for a particular cart.

Here is the address:

http://www.cricutmachine.com/specials.php?page=1

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Gift Bag for Photo Album

I decided to make a gift bag to put the Baseball Album in. I didn't make the bag itself, I just used a plain red bag and cut out a baseball using the Sports Mania PC cart. I cut it at 8 inches and also cut the same shape out of some thin cardboard that I saved from a cereal box. With the multi cut option on my cricut set on three, it cut out perfectly. I mounted the ball on the cardboard and used several pop dots to attach it to the bag. Here is a picture of the finished bag.



Here is a picture of the album and the bag.

A Baseball Scrapbook

Here is a scrapbook that I made to give to my son's baseball coach. If you have seen many of my scrapbooks you will know that this is very simple compared to most, I thought a simple layout would be more appealing to a male. I just used Red, Black and White solids for the entire album.



This is the cover of the album which I purchased at Hobby Lobby. Isn't it cute!


Generally I like to make the title page a little more detailed than the rest of the pages. This is how my title page turned out. I made the cardinal using the 50 States cart from Provo Craft and the lettering along the side and top is the Learning Curve font. This is by far my favorite font cart from Provo Craft. I used a little chalk to highlight the wing on the bird.


The page was made using Design Studio, but it really did not turn out like I wanted. I used a rectangle shape and thought I stretched into an 8 1/2 X 11 size (the album size I am using) then I thought I reduced just the top and the right enough to fit the letters. That is not how it turned out, so maybe the next time I can get it right. Oh well, it looks OK as it is. I used pop dots on the cardinal and bat and cut the word Cardinals using the Provo Craft Cursive 101 cart and welded them in DS. The "Spring 2010" are just stickers I had.


Next are my pages in order as they fell in the book. The balance of my lettering was done in
SCAL (using Gilligans Island font) and the shapes were cut using PC Sports Mania and the Baseball Solutions carts.

I made a page at the end for the boys on the team to write a short Thank You to the coach. Most of them just signed their names, I guess they are just men-in-training of few words!

I think it turned out well for how quickly I put it together. I started it on Saturday and finished it by Tuesday afternoon. That is record speed for me!