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!

One more Christmas Card

OK, one more Christmas card to show you! I made this  from this Silhouette file, but changed up a couple of things. I liked the bows at the top of the wreaths, rather than on the bottom and I like using some contrasting patterned papers for the door panels, rather than having them all the same. The papers are from G45's Christmas Past stack (love them!). I cuttlebugged the wreaths with my Swiss Dots folder to give them some texture. The pretty little heart brads were in my stash. All the door panels are pop-dotted for dimension  Once cut, this was pretty easy to put together.

Have a happy Thursday!

Tropical Thank You

It has been feeling so tropical here in New England lately that when I had to make a thank you card, all I could think of was a nice sunny beach and this is what I came up with!

The sand dollar was cut with the Silhouette Cameo

The palm trees were stamped with Versamark and then I added embossing powder and melted it with a heat gun

The adorable brads and ric rac were in my stash from a long ago swap

We will be entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge over at http://blog.docerelashop.com/. Please go check out her very cool stamps! (Thanks, Carri!)

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Baptism Card

A friend at work just had a christening for her grand-daughter. When I saw this file in the Silhouette online store, I knew I wanted to use it to make a card for the baby. It was so easy! 

I cut the first layer out of some off white, textured card stock, then I cut the base layer out of SU! Whisper White. I used my Xyron 510 to adhere the two layers together. Unfortunately, this left a lot of glue residue on the edges of the top cut out layer. I brilliantly decided to use this to my advantage and sprinkled the entire card with a fine glitter! All the places where the glue was showing was now all sparkly! I added some iRock bling to the card, stamped "Congratulations" on the inside and it was done! A sparkly, girly card for a beautiful baby girl. :)  We are going to enter this card in a challenge we found out about from our blogger friend Jessica of http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com/  (her work is amazing) the challenge is at http://creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/

Story time layout by Dawn

Good morning everyone. Thanks so much for your well wishes and words of advice. The first interview went very well and I have been called back for a second one! Woohoo!! Things are looking up!

Now on to fun blog things. How absolutely adorable its this layout? Dawn has been getting so much needed time up in the Scrap Attic! I love this of her two kids. They look so little they are now 11 and 6! Time flies!!!

Here are the deets: Title embellie cut with Silhouette; embossed with Divine Swirls folder and inked up. Everything else from Dawn's stash. She is really trying, as am I, to not buy anything and use our overloaded stash of supplies!!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Graduation Card by Dawn

Good morning all!! Thanks for your well wishes for my Dad. Looks like he will be coming home today! It will be a long recovery road for him, as he is not one to sit still. This is should be interesting!! He is going to stay with my sister (good luck to her).

Here is an absolutely adorable card that Dawn did for one of friend's daughters. I just love this card, so darn cute.

Dawn says "

Cutout card was done with the Silhouette, cut at 5.5", this file:
http://www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/v2/viewShape.aspx?id=18345, Owl and quote are from Cornish Heritage stamps; colored with Copics; flowers, stickers and brad from my stash."

Have a wonderful Tuesday, everyone!!

SILHOUETTE FUN by DAWN

Here is a cute heat transfer Dawn did on her daughters shirt using an image from the silhouette.. Totally cute I think! It's great to expand this hobby past paper! Nice job Dawn

Also WELCOME to our new followers Yolie and Buzzy!

I INTERUPT Cuttlebug Week to bring you total Halloween cuteness!

DO YOU NOT LOVE these tattoos? Omgoshness,, how adorable. Dawn did these on her SILHOUETTE. They are printed on tattoo paper! I just love this idea! These photos GORGEOUS, by the way! have actually been submitted to Silhouette for a contest. We've got Spider Mom, her lil Shark Boy and a fantab Hippie! HOW FUN! Tfs Dawn!

What is the Silhouette?The Silhouette is a digital cutting tool for personal use. It connects to your computer just like a printer, but instead of printing designs it cuts them with a small blade. With the machine connected to your computer, you'll get access to all of the fonts on your PC plus the thousands of cuttable designs found on the Silhouette Online Store.

FRAME WEEK DAY 5

Good Morning fantab followers!! I am so glad its' Friday. I am looking forward to getting some scrapping done this weekend. We shall see, I always say that, then life gets in the way!
A big shout out to Dawn for sending over these frames. I love them both!!
Dawn said: The flower frame was cut on the Silhoutte. The colors are her daughters favorite colors! The yellow layer is patterned paper the shadow layer is teal. The patterned paper ripped in a few spots, so cleverly Dawn put some cute flowers on the rips! Brilliant!! Dawn will be using this frame for her halloween page of her daughter's costume, she is going to be a hippie!! I think a perfect fit!!

Frame number two, also adorable was cut on the Cricut. Dawn used the Camp Out Cartidge, it was cut at 5.5 with shadow and the bears (I just love them) were cut at 1.5 with shadow. The frame was inked in Color Box Chalk in Bisque. Dawn and her family LOVE to camp so this frame will get good use on one of her many camping pages.

Thanks so much Dawn, for sending. I have to say I can't pick a favorite here, I love them both.

Go forth and scrap everyone! Make it great day!!

CARD by Susan

The die cuts are from silhouette. This card was done for a friend who like some gamblin fun! Fun to do!