Baby Mini-Album

Hi Friends! Here is a baby mini album that I made for a friend of mine. She had a little girl. I super love this pape that I bought from JoAnn's. The album is made from chipboard. The cover and pages come from myscrapchick.com. My friend didn't have a name picked out so I told her that once he decided, I'd put the baby's name on the front.

My Mom told me that I should make something to put on my crafts that said that it was homemade. So, here is what I made to put on the back.

I stickled a heart onto this clear tag that I had bought from Wal-Mart years ago! The pocket that the tags are in is a flattened toilet paper tube covered with scrapbook paper. The tags pull out and are great for adding journaling or more pictures. I inked the edges of the album.

The butterfly is cut using New Arrival cartridge.

I just love lavendar and green together!!! The hearts comes from George cart.

I love this duckie paper. I made some diaper invitations once when I helped with a duckie themed baby shower. All of the cuts are from the New Arrival cartridge. I ran the duckie through my paper crimper.

I made this fold out to display some pictures and tags. Embossed the It's a Girl box using my Cuttlebug. The baby rattle again comes from the New Arrival.

Here it is folded and tied shut with some ribbon. Made the flower on the opposite page with the Cricut. I think that the flower is from George cart but not to sure. Added a crystal gem to the center for some sparkle.

The BABY squares were cut using the George cartridge. It is the signs with the sticks cut off. I glittered them for sparkle!

I seperated the two pages into quadrants using the white rick rack. Used the buttons to add a final end to the rick rack. I stamped the heandprints and the cutie pie circle. Pop dotted them to add interest. You can hardly see it but on the right page at the very top square is a cut out of a stork. It is a cut from New Arrival.

I wanted to add a little bit of blue somewhere in the album. I embossed these with the cuttlebug. Precious and the flower came from Plantin Schoolbook. Added a little bit of blue ribbon to tie the two pages together.

I made the envelope from (I think) Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cart. I added a gift card in the envelope for the parents to be to buy something that they needed and didn't have yet. The footprints are from New Arrival.

It was so much fun putting this together. I am going to work on another baby album for another friend who is expecting a boy. I'll post pictures when I am done.

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend!

Hugs,

Stephanie

Christmas Gift Box

Here is a gift box that I made for my Grandma to put gift certificates to McDonald's in. She loves to go to McD's and get their lattes. (I'm not much for anything other than hot chocolate.) I used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge to cut this out. It is the crayon box. The paper is from My Minds Eye. It was super easy to put together! I slid the gift certificates in and then tied a ribbon around the box. I used the winter faces cut file from MyScrapChick.com for the tag. I think the tag was cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes and more as well. (I don't have a size for you. I am super bad at just making the item and then realizing, "Oh I need measurements for my blog." I'm going to try to make a better effort in the New Year to do that. I used Design Studio and measured the box and the gift certificates and just made sure that I had enough room to put them in and be able to close the lid.) I added a little detail such as the eyes and mouth. Not sure if I chalked the cheeks but on my Christmas cards, I did. Attached the tag to the ribbon and there was her gift. Hope you enjoy looking at it. I loved it.

Hugs,

Stephanie

Gift Card Holder

I have been working on a lot of projects for Christmas this week! I am so excited to have some free time to be working with my Cricut again!! Here I have made giftcard holders for my niece and nephew. I used the pillow box from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut cartridge. I used Design Studio to enlarge it to the size I needed for the gift card. The paper is from My Minds Eye. I wrapped a ribbon that I had from a long time ago. The tags are made from a SVG file from my favorite website - MyScrapChick.com. It is the ornament from the Christmas 2 Collection. I just used some scraps to make the tag. Attached it to the ribbon and Voila!! It was so easy to make. I'm sorry that I don't have the dimensions of the cuts but I made them a couple weeks ago and just finished the tags earlier in the week. I'd like to hear how everyone gives Gift Cards.

Hugs,

Stephanie