Crocs and kits

Earth Day Expo

I was really fond of this set of papers but now I can't remember the brand! I loved the colors.

Anyway, the little gator is from cricut.

Super cute halloween page kit from Deb at StaacKits scraps. This was a 2 layout set, and included some Tim Holtz pre-stamped images as embellishments and glitter die-cut shapes. I really liked this kit set for those reasons!

Here's the 2nd layout of the 2 layout kit set.
More stamped images and more glitter die-cuts.

I added "Boo at the Zoo" myself.

Kits and Licker

Boys will be Boys

Another title I'm not a fan of but this too was a pre-designed page kit. And the embellishments don't really go with the subject. LOL  oh well. I'd already scrapped all the train pictures I had I think, so I had to make do with what  I had.

Crazy Mary's Licker 'n Beer

No, it's not a misspelling. :)  My stepmom chose the spelling on purpose. Hence the "crazy" part! I helped her make the sign by cutting the letters and shapes on my cricu
t out of vinyl!  She loved it. Her little liquor shop was open until they built a Casey's in her tiny town, and she couldn't compete.

Dinos

This was a pre-made page that I found at JoAnn's craft store on an end-cap. I didn't buy them at first, but eventually they went on clearance and I'm okay spending less than a $1.40 on a page I just add photos to. lol

I added a little dino skeleton cricut cut to make the page more personalized. Other than that... glue, write, done!

2015 layouts catch-up!

90th Birthday

I did not scrapbook as much in 2015 as I have in years past. But I must still catch them up. :) Unfortunately I don't know the order in which I made the pages, so I'll just have to post them.

My son's great grandmother's 90th birthday party. A spritzed doily, punches and a cricut background die-cut are features of this page.

All Boy

I actually don't like titles like this...  I personally think a girl can do exactly the same with the same toys and I don't make assumptions on what kind of toys my kid wants to play with based on gender. He likes some traditionally "girl" stuff too. This page was a pre-designed page when I got it, and I just added a few things to it like the fake "stitching".  Whenever I have a kit that comes with a title like this I've just used it. But that may change as I have so many pages with titles like this. I'm tired of them! lol

Believe in the Magic

This is a kit I purchased from Irene at Little Masterpieces. I love having kits for Yule holiday pictures. This and July 4th I tend to almost always use a kit! lol

Last of 2014

This boy

A layout with stash, I was hoping to use up everything in this line. I think I finally did.

Another friend of mine, Melissa, made this kit to sell, and I snapped one right up. I love the WRMK paper line this is from, and the kit was perfect for the memorial pictures for a friend of ours.  I found out that Melissa also put memorial pics on her example layout. Great minds.

Unique

I picked up this page kit at a scrappy garage sale for next to nothing. I used it for the last pictures left of the time period these were from and I think that finished out all the pics from that year! For such a simple layout, I like it.

Wrist

I broke my wrist the summer of 2014 at a festival. It sucked.

But you know, that's life. Might as well scrapbook it. lol
The layout is mostly a stashbuster, with a simple circle background from the cricut.




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Curious and Kits

Passionately Curious

Super simple page, loved the colors of this line.
Our public library has summer programs for kids, this one has to do with science. Mentos in the soda bottles. The science part was comparing the soda reactions... which soda shoots the highest geyser?  Turns out it's Root Beer. lol

This is a kit I designed for sale to friends. I don't make a lot of kits, and when I do there's usually only 5 available for purchase. This one featured colored burlap flowers and offering a custom title cut on the cricut for each buyer.

Fun on the 4th

This is a kit I purchased from Little Masterpieces by my friend Irene.
I rarely buy patriotic papers, mostly because I don't have enough photos to use up an entire line of them... it's just easier to buy a page kit and be done with it.

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Merry Go Round

Hi all!

Here is another kit from my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces Kits, the last of it's kind. This one is unusual in that it does not have any flaps or fold outs for extra photos! So I had to make one myself lol, which is why my finger is in this picture, holding the accordion fold-out of extra pics.

These pictures are from our county fair, 2012. It was the first year that Kevin joined me on many non-kiddie rides! This was a special day for me, as I love rides, and my hubby does not. I've been hoping and hoping my son would enjoy rides as well, and while he's not ready for the really scary ones, that's totally fine as I don't need to ride those that much, I just wanted something more than the carousel or kiddie cars that I can't fit in! lol  This was a fun day.

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Boo!

Greetings!

So, I mentioned a few posts ago that after I finished working on wedding layouts that I was kind of burned out on thinking up inspiring page designs. I had the strong urge to just work on kits for a bit, so I bought several and they will my next several posts.  This one was designed by my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces kits, and it was the last one and she'd put the last ones of several kits on sale. As usual, she had flappies for adding extra pictures. :)

These pics are Kevin's halloween from 2013. It was rainy and chilly, so instead of walking a neighborhood, we hit 3 of the HyVee stores. They had treats and games and activities, and Kevin was perfectly happy. We also swung by his great-grandma's, and a few houses around her (as the rain paused for a bit), and then last we stopped at grandma's.

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Scrapopoly!

Hello!

So my friend Irene holds a big crop once a year. She goes ALL OUT to make it super fun, with a theme, games and prizes. This years theme was Monopoly or, Scrapopoly. She had huge game props, dice taller than me, a Jail prop, game piece props. Table centerpieces were dice and a top hat. She had a caterer that made AWESOME food in spite of the fact that the site's kitchen was under renovation and not available. She also had someone design the kit that was part of our goodie bag.  So I made the kit at that crop and then printed the pictures from the crop as soon as I could to put them on the layout at the next crop. :)

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A Sparkling 4th

Hey all!

So, after I decided to stop working on wedding layouts, I found myself feeling somewhat burned out (just on the thinking part of scrapping, not on the doing part).  So, I dug through my stash, but I didn't actually have very many kits. I really wanted to work a little mindlessly, just on kits. I did find this kit, one of the very first ones I ever purchased from my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces Kits. I had started making it but had stopped working on it since I didn't have pictures to fill it. You see, Irene specializes in kits with flaps and booklets that allow for LOTS of pictures. This layout opens by lifting the 6x12 sections where "sparkling" and "4th" are, to reveal enough space for another 12 or more pictures! I didn't have any July 4th pictures that could fill this layout.  I had printed some pics from 2013 but went back and printed some more so I could finish this layout. So that meant that some of the pictures on it were less than the best prints but that's ok! It turned out that this layout was perfect. I put all of Kevin's "I'm super cool with my big sparklers" pictures on the front, then inside I put the rest of the pictures of Kevin and my friend Katie's daughters, as well as some fireworks pics. I left a couple photo mats open for journaling.

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Sizzlin' Summer Days

Hello all,
Here's a layout I made as a kit. I was able to use some My Mind's Eye stash for it. Then I used lots of cricut of course. ;)  The grill is from Summer Celebrations cartridge. The sun is from Just Because Cards. Unfortunately I mixed up the title letters so I don't remember all the cartridges the words came from.

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Teacher

Greetings!

A friend of mine sells scrapbook kits in her booth at big crops, and one time her assistant could not go along. So I was invited to help her out, which meant I got to go to a crop I couldn't afford at the time. I wasn't very inspired by the stuff I'd brought, and my friend suggested, if I wanted, I could try designing a kit for her. She had a new school line from Echo Park that was super cute, so I decided to try designing with that. I ended up designing 3 layouts, and this is one of them.  Everything on the page is from the Echo Park line except some cardstock.  What a fun line to work with!

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The Great Outdoors

Hi all,

Here's a super simple kit I made up for a few people. I used some papers from my stash, and all the rest is cut on my cricut. I love that little camper, and the main title that came from Graphically Speaking cartridge. The camper came from Pop-Up Neighborhood cartridge!

Anyway, hoping to have pictures this summer for it, if I can't find pics in my stash. :)

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Back To School

Happy Sunday!

Here's a second layout with the Echo Park collection, Paper & Glue that I made a few weeks ago as a "guest designer" for my friend Irene of Little Masterpieces kit company.

This one is very busy! lol but the papers are a little busy. I think they are super cute! I love the globe sticker.

Kits to make this layout will be available through my friend's website soon, if you want one, drop her a line and she'll save you one. :)

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Knight in Shining Armor

Hello! :)


I don't always design my own pages. I occasionally buy kits. I like to use kits when I first get to a crop and need to "get in the groove" or toward the end of a long crop when I'm not ready to quit but don't have a lot of time left to come up with something but don't want to quit too early either... so pull out a kit!  I bought this kit from my friend Irene, who has a kit business Little Masterpieces. I bought this one from her some time ago, and recently finished it. It uses BoBunny papers and embellishments.

The pictures are of my hubby on our wedding day. :)

My only worry is that I'm nearly out of kits!

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Best of Times

Hello!

Here's a kit I designed for the couple friends who like to buy kits.  I used a lot of cricut cartridges for this one.

Elegant Edges for the die cut shape on the right, and it's shadow.
Flower Shoppe for the rolled flowers
Party Picks and Pennants for the banners (CCR exclusive cartridge)
Phrases for the words and oval

Unfortunately I can't remember what manufacturer the paper came from! I just know I bought it at the last remaining LSS we have here, Scrapbooking Studio. I also used some lace from my stash.

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2 of Us Together Making Memories kit

Greetings all!

This layout is from a Basic Grey kit of the month kit. I bought it at Lorado for $5. I'm going to put wedding pictures on it.

This last Lorado was 3 days long, and at one point I was feeling uninspired and unmotivated. When that happens, I pull out a kit and work on that, it usually jump starts me! (which it did!)  The kit is pretty but it was not a paper collection I would have bought, which is even better that I only had to do one layout with it. I like the layout and it will go well with wedding pics. :)

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Moments in Time

Hey all,

Here's another "use your stash" layout. Love me some Graphic 45!!!  One of the reasons I love G45 is their prints, especially "back side" prints. I love the small repetitive patterns. Often far more versatile than the larger, themed prints on the main side.

This is the sample layout, I made 5 kits of this layout to sell to my friends.

I used the cricut to cut the title, both "moments" and "time" come from the Gypsy Font. "in" came from Cake Basics font.  The parentheses at each end are a border cut, from Elegant Edges. The large banner in the middle is Art Philosophy, with some size adjusting in my gypsy. The rose leaves are from A Child's Year.

The roses are felt and cut with my Sizzix Bigshot, and the 3-D Flowers die. Not sure why the red color is so saturated in the picture. In real life, I "grunged" up the red and tan felt flowers by inking them with distress black soot ink before rolling the flowers up. It made the felt color not quite so intense.

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Give Thanks

Greetings!

Here's is another project made entirely from my stash.

It's a kit that I created for some friends... since I create most of these kits from stash, I only make a handful of them. The papers used are from DCWV and cardstock.

The Cricut cartridges I used were Autumn Celebrations (Cornucopia), Elegant Edges (large label shape), Art Philosophy (tags), MS Seasonal Cake Art (Title).

Here's a secret:  The brown shadow of the large label shape is not whole... I cut the base of the cornucopia and the shadow of the title in the center of the label shape shadow to conserve paper! You'd never know because the top green layer of the large label shape hides the hole left by cutting those out. :) 

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We Are Together

Here's a kit I finished a couple weekends ago. We just came from a couple months of doing things with our families. Not all of it may have been holiday related! I design these kits for a few friends of mine and they like these more general pages sometimes.  :) As a bonus, everything in this layout was from my stash!

I really like the "bird on a wire" imagery I found in the printed papers. I wanted a border along the bottom that mimics the print. I did a search on my Gypsy and didn't find anything like that on any cartridge I had. So, I created my own!  I am providing a link to the gypsy file below, please feel free to use it on your own pages! If you post it on your blog, let me know, I'd love to see it. :)

The images I chose are a little whimsical but kind of formal. I wanted a bird image but I also chose the chair because when we visit some of my family, we spend a lot of time sitting and watching the birds through their patio doors. The images evoke those wonderful memories of past gathers for me.

Adhesive-backed pearls add accents to the cuts.

I design on my Gypsy and sometimes I don't pay much attention to sizes. I will list the sizes here but if you don't have a Gypsy, you can always round the size to the nearest quarter inch.

The bird and birdcage are from Sophie, and were cut at 5.38"

The label behind is cut from Elegant Edges at 4.7"

"Together" is from Sophisticated and cut at 2.75"

"we are" is also cut from the Sophisticated font, cut at 1"

The chair is from Sophisticated and cut at 5.69"

The birds on a wire were welded from several cartidges: a stretched dash from Plantin and birds from Heritage, Everyday Pop-up Cards and Picturesque.

Here is a link to the Gypsy cut file of the birds on a wire only.

Cricut Info and supplies used:

Cricut machines used:  Expression, Gypsy

Cartridges used: Sophie, Elegant Edges, Sophisticated, Plantin, Heritage, Everyday Pop-Up Cards, Picturesque

Other Supplies: Bazzill Cardstock, We R Memory Keepers Antique Chic printed cardstock, adhesive flat-back pearls, Distress Ink Black Soot, adhesives

Gingerbread Lovin

Hello all!

Last weekend I went to crop at the scrapbook store across the river. The whole time I worked on kits for friends. This is the first one I got done! The paper used for this kit was not from my stash, as most of the papers I use for kits are. I had something very specific in mind, and I could find nothing in my extensive stash to use! Since I was at that store anyway, I went ahead and bought some papers that were what I was looking for.

I used the Gingerbread cricut cartridge for the "cookie" shapes along the bottom row. The "ornaments" at the top were made with an ornament I found on the Heritage cartridge. I resized them slightly on my gypsy so th that the white layer would be slightly smaller so they would look more like the ones that came from the Gingerbread cartridge. The font is Type Candy cartridge... two different fonts.

I like it, and as soon as I've sold the kits and they've put them together, I'll add our pictures of my son's gingerbread house. :)

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