BFF Birthday Presents

Happy Thursday, fantab followers! Sorry that we have not been keeping up with posting lately, Life has just been crazy busy for everyone. Hopefully, it will slow down soon and we can get back to crafting!

Yesterday was Laurie's birthday and, as promised, here are a couple of goodies that I made for her to celebrate.

This easel card is a Lori Whitlock file that I got in the online Silhouette store. The paper is about 100 years old from my stash (I think it was a very old Spring Stack?) and the flowers were actually a present to me from Laurie last year! The sentiment is a Bazzill chip topper, also from my stash. There are two brads (although you can't see one of them here) that hold the card in standing up position when it is opened.

This mini chipboard album is also by Lori Whitlock and is from the Silhouette online store. I was super excited to find out that Silhouette had their own chipboard to cut! It is just a little thicker that cereal box cardboard, so I doubled up on it for the covers. I used papers from my stash and a Tim Holtz clock on the front cover. Each page is actually a pocket page with a tag, so there are lots of surfaces for pics and embellies. I kept the embellies to a minimum, so Laurie can choose the theme of her album.

These were lots of fun to make and give to a great scrappy friend!

Christmas Configurations Box

Happy Christmas Eve to all! This is my first attempt at at Tim Holtz configurations box. I made it for my mom. I am not great at dimensional stuff, but I think she will like it. It wasn't as easy as Tim makes it look in his videos, but it was fun. Just about everything in it is a Tim Holtz product, with some AC Moore mini tree decorations in there, too.

We wish all our wonderful followers a blessed and wonderful Christmas!!

Fun With Alcohol Inks

Happy Wednesday and Happy Halloween!

I have been having some great fun with alcohol inks and dominoes lately. We had an altered domino swap a while back at Boston Area Scrap Fanatics and I really liked doing them. My mother in law was excellent at making them, so I had a lot of inspiration. There is a great tutorial over at The Enchanted Gallery to check out. And here is a video from Tim Holtz on them.

This is the one that I made for the swap. I used Ranger alcohol Inks in Lettuce and Stream, with some Ranger silver metallic mixative and applied them with the felt applicator tool. The rubber stamp was in my stash, so I don't know the manufacturer. I used Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp it and then dried it with my heat embossing tool. The charm was in my stash. The microbeads were adhered with Ranger Glossy Accents. I hot glued a bead from Michaels on the top to put the black cord through.

This next one was made to send to a friend who needed a little pick me up. I used Ranger Wild Plum and Butterscotch alcolhol inks with the gold metallic mixative this time. The leaf is from a SU! set and the gold flakes and shaped bling were in my stash. A smaller bead and frost cord finished it off. 

Next up is to try alcohol inks on some acrylic tags, Timmy Holtz style. I can't wait to keep playing!

Sweet Friends

Good morning everyone.  Boy is it hot here in New England!!  This is my last day of vacation, so sad!!  I made this sweet card and will enter it in two challenges:
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/  where you have to follow the sketch and
http://www.creativecutterroom.com/ where you have to have a chick or chicken on the card.

Here is the recipe for this card:
Card Base - Tim Holtz Core'dinations - Adirondack Collection
All other papers are DCWV Cotton Blossom Stack
Just Because Cricut Cartridge - Page 30 - Shadowed and flipped
Buttercup Crinkle Ribbon from http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/
Making Memories Twine
My Creative Time Teeny Tags Greetings, http://www.creativetimeforme.com/
Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder - I used this for the wings because the cart didnt' have any layering.  It wasn't easy to do such a little spot, lol!

Hope the week ahead a good one!!

Working on an album for Pa!

Hello everyone!  Anyone that has been around our blog for a while knows that "Pa" is my Dad and he makes cards and scrapbooks!  He also makes awesome doll houses!  Well he is turning 70 in June and I thought what can I get the guy that has everything?  Then it hit me, he loves, loves taking pictures and he posts a ton of them on Facebook. I snuck on and downloaded some of his pictures and I am going to make him an album!!

Here is with his Mom (94 years old, when she passed about a year ago) and his grandson, my nephew. This will be page 1.  Only 19 more to go!!

For this page I used:

StampinUP! Not Quite Navy Card stock
The blue paper and the circle are from a pack I bought that was already cut into shapes.
StampinUP Permanent Parade for all the stamped banner
Missing You Stamp and the Tag (its a die cut, sooo cute) is from My Creative Time,love this!!
The letters are from Tim Holtz Alternations - Typeset
The flower is most of my stash, except the bottom silver layer, it is a cupcake holder that I cut!  I saw that trick in the Scrapbooks Etc. Magazine!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Going back in time.

Hello Everyone!  Hope you are having a good week!  I can see the weekend from here!  Here is a page I made of my grandparents. I had these two pictures of them and I decided that even though they were taken the same year (one 1956 and the other 1966), I would use them on the same page.  I really wanted to give this a vintage feel, so I stayed with muted colors.  The paper strip going across is from 7 Gypsies, their stuff is so awesome.  The clock and flower are from my stash. I sandpapered the clock to give it weather look. The ticket is Tim Holtz.  Have a great day!!  Thanks for your comments!!

Cooool Rider

Hello Scrappin Dudes!!  LOL  Here is a page I did of my son, who is now almost 17, when he was about 5. Boy did he love this motorcycle. He would ride it for ever. We were always charging those batteries.  I really layered this, stared out with a 12x12 piece of green card stock, then I cut down a Coordin'ations 12x12 to 11 and sandpapered that up, then a 12x12 DCWV Argyle Green, from the Guy Stack, cut that down to a 10.5 x 10.5.  I got a little crazy. The tickets (I love me some tickets) are from Tim Holtz.  I cut out Cool from the Paisley Cart at 1.75" then shadowed it.  The word Dude is from EK Success letters that I had in my stash.  Another easy page.  Have a great day!!

Anniversary Card

Good morning everyone!! You will be happy to know I got down to the scrapcave this weekend, it had been a while. Also, Dawn was up in the scrap attic, I got to more awesome layouts from her as well!! I guess everyone is getting their mojo back, or we just need to get away from the kids, lol! I was checking out the blog scene yesterday and I saw on Rhonda's blog, http://bumblcreate.blogspot.com/.

how it was it was 11:30 am and she was wondering how long it would take her hubby to realize it was there anniversary! Husbands are a funny bunch aren't they? Anyway got me to thinking, my anniversary is coming up, so I should whip up a card. My biggest problem is remembering where I put the card when my anniversary comes! Here are the deets of the card:

Create a Critter for the birds, I selected two birds to print and I flipped on before it cut, pg 65, 2.50", with layer 1 and 2.

Brach Create a critter page 25 cut at 2.50"

Card base is 5.5 x 5.5" bigger than the standard card.

Swiss dots cuttlebug folder for the birds and forest branches for the branch.

The calendar is from a Tim Holtz stack I have and the Happy Anniversary is from My Creative Time.

The google eyes (well this is a funny story). I text Dawn a while ago to ask if she had any google eyes, because I couldnt' find mine. She looked and looked and couldn't find hers either. So she order some, I am not sure of the website, but she got a TON. When they arrived, one morning over coffee we sorted the google eyes, we have enough to last us a life time!!!

Have a great day everyone!!!

THANKFUL

Good morning everyone!! It is nice and cool here in Massachusetts, welcome relief from the 95 and high humidity from the past few days.

I whipped up this card from my Dad who will be staying at our house next week while we are on vacation. We are headed down to Florida for the week.

We have two dogs, so I had to put two dogs on the card. My younger guy wouldn't have it any other way. He is always very fair when it comes to the dogs. They both have to get the same thing all the time. Cookies, treats, balls, whatever it is.

Here is a picture of our handsome guys, Lightning is the Golden Retriever and Jake is the German Shepherd. Jake is one and Lightning it 10! I swear Lightning rolls his eyes ALL the time at Jake because he is always getting into something or doing something wrong, lol!!

I used Paper Pups for the little dogs and bone on the card. I have a pet paper stack from DCWV ( I have used the entire stack, time to replenish). I used a Tim Holtz on the blue paper. The thankful stamp is from my stash.

I am also entering this, thanks to Jean, over at http://myshericrafts.blogspot.com.

Pa's Bday card

Good afternoon everyone!! Sorry for the late post, the day just got away from me! Here is a card my made for my Dad, tomorrow is his birthday. I used a lot of Tim Holtz' products on this card. My goal was to make it a manly card. I think I have accomplished that. I did use the Cricut Celebrate with Flourish Cartridge for the Happy Birthday. Everything else, except the hardware (StaminUP) is Tim Holtz!!

I learned a fun little tip from our friend Susan, who sold StampinUp for years. I took a close up picture of the date on the calendar, June 14th, which is his birthday. To highlight I used a pencil eraser and dipped in green in and stamped in on the date. To make the circle light, stamp it on another piece of paper first. So easy and so cute!!

I am sure he will love this card. He is a card maker himself.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!! Again another weekend gone by.

BACK IN THE DAY WEEK - Day 3

Good morning fellow scrappers! I hope all is well in blog land. This week is school vacation for our kids and I am on vacation too!! Such a nice week!

I am working on painters tray, this is my first one so I am learning as I go. This is a picture of the entire tray. As you see the middle square is empty. Still trying to figure out what to put there. Maybe the word Legacy, or Past?


The first square is my Mother, my Grandfather and My Great Grandfather.

The second square is my Grandfather in Brussels During WWI.

The 3rd square is my Grandmother at the World Fair in New York in 1932!

Most of my papers came from Graphic 45. They have such awesome, awesome vintage stuff. Of course some of the embellishments came from Tim Holtz; the clock and the clip. Some embellishments came from Graphic 45. I bought all of these a local scrapbooking store.