Cruise Book Cover

For our 10th Wedding Anniversay my DH and I got to go on a cruise (without our children!). I made a scrapbook of our trip, here is a picture of the outside of the album. I was able to find a scrapbook with a shadow box on the front.  Unfortunately the picture does not demonstrate the dimensions you get by using a  shadow box to create this.

It is really hard to tell from this picture, but the "water" is made from toothpaste!  I know what you are thinking, and no, that is not a typo, I really made it from toothpaste.  I put gel toothpaste (it has to be gel toothpaste, the regular toothpaste does not look like water) in a ziplock bag and put it in the shadowbox.  To be honest with you, I have no idea how this will hold up over time.  I can say that I created this at least 3 years ago and it is still fine.  The picture I used was not the original, just incase the ziplock bag began to leak, so I took a copy of a picture from the cruise and turned it into a black and white copy.  The ship was just a sticker I purchase awhile ago, the clouds are from cotton balls and the moon is a circle that I cut from scrap yellow paper and inked to make it look like a cloudy night moon.

Travel Packet

I have a great friend who recently went on a cruise, so for her birthday I made a book for her to organize all of her travel documents.  This is the front of the book, I used cereal boxes to make the pages and covered them with paper from a beach themed packet that I purchased at a Big Lots store a long time ago.

I wanted to make the book a size that would easily fit into a purse or would be easy to store in a small carry on.

When you open the book you will see the section where you can store airline tickets, your passport books and a small section to store a passport card which is an optional item to purchase when you order a passport and is the size of a credit card.

On the last page I created a section to store note cards where you can jot down things you did or saw for each day.  This is great for scrapbookers who want to make sure and journal the trip correctly when they are ready to scrapbook the event.  I even made special color coordinated paper to journal on.

I bound it using my Bind-it-All machine.  The project was much easier to complete by having a color coordinated packet of paper instead of having to pick out matching papers from my supply.

I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for stopping by!

Victorian Birthday Card

This is a card I made for someone who loves purple and who lives in an old Victorian style house.  I used the Heritage cartridge from provo craft and chose the hat design.  I cut it at 3 1/2 on black cardstock.  The background paper was cut at 5 1/4 X 4, the paper that I used was double sided, so I cut 1 1/2 inches off of the bottom and turned it over to have a matching design on the bottom portion which I stamped Happy Birthday on.  I wrapped the ribbon around it before placing it on the card.

I mounted the hat and added flowers to it using glitter.  I also added glitter to the ribbon of the hat.  I did not mount the hat on pop dots because I wanted the glitter flowers to come off of the hat onto the background paper. 

I hope you enjoyed this, let me know if you have any questions,

Hello Kitty Birthday Card

This is a birthday card I made using my Hello Kitty cartridge from Provo Craft.  I will no longer buy any Cricut cartridges because I dislike what Provo Craft has done to the makers of Make the Cut and Sure Cuts A Lot, but I will use the ones I currently have as long as possible.

I cut Kitty at 3 inches, but that size does make some pieces very small and hard to work with.  I actually got frustrated with the small pieces for the center of the two flowers and just used glitter instead of the small dots that were part of the cut.

The letters were cut at 1 and 1/2 on pink paper with pink polka dots.  I do like the font because it was easy to work with at such a small size.  The background for the letters was cut using the shadow feature of the same size, I just used brown ink pad to ink around the edges.

The card itself was made using and 81/2 X 11 inch size of white card stock which I cut in half to make two pieces 8 1/2 X 5 1/2.  I scored that in the middle length ways at 4 1/4 and folded it in half.  The piece of green background paper was cut at 4 inches by 5 1/4.  I attached a ribbon to it prior to placing on the white folded cardstock paper, then placed my Hello Kitty and Happy Birthday sentiment on it.  I did use pop dots on Kitty to make her pop off the card.

One thing I have found out while making cards is that it takes the most time coming up with the design, the paper colors and ribbon color to use for each card, so when I decide on a combination of these items for a card it is very little extra effort to make two or four of the same design and put aside for another birthday.