Mini Album

I used #10 envelopes folded in half to make the pages. I inked the edges of the envelopes, cut the tops off and glued paper on the front, inside, and back. I used black card stock for the background of each photo mat and changed the accent color of the photo mats. The stars are cut from George and are placed like tabs on each photo mat.


The inside cover has a wooden birdie, the leaves are from Home Accents and the photo mat is from Accent Essentials.

For the front of page 1 the photo mat is from the Winter Wonderland cartridge.

On the inside of page 1 I used a half a circle and photo mat cut from Accent Essentials. I also covered another little wooden birdie.

On the back of page one is a piece cut from Fabulous Finds. I stapled the ribbon onto each side of it the piece and added a few of the candy bonbon circles to the top and bottom.

On the front of page two I used a star mesh I made using Design Studio and George. I add a few blue rhinestones to the corner of the journaling mat. On the bottom of the corner I rounded the corners.

The inside of page 2 has ribbon glued to the top and bottom of the pages. I've added buttons on top of the ribbon. The hearts are from George and I used pop dots behind them.. I've also a heart to each of the journals.

The back of page 2 has another star mesh cut file using the George Cartridge. I added a few rhinestone to the top of the white mat.

Page 3 has a cute little wooden birdie with a few accents. The branch on the left is from Home Accents and the branch on the right is from Accent Essentials.

The inside has a few more hears on pop up dots and another frame from Accent Essentials.

The back page has a variety of hearts on it along with a stamped journaling tag.

Here is page 4. The photo mat is from Accent Essentials and has a few of the candy bonbon stars at the top of it.

The inside has another wooden birdie that I've covered in paper, sanded and inked the sides. I've use a small gray pearl accent for the eye.

The leaf border was another cut file I made from Walk in My Garden cartridge. I just glued the border on top of the scallop mat.

Here is the last set of pages for this album. I have a piece of acetate behind the photo frame on this page. The photo frame was cut from Accent Essentials.

I've glued the ribbon to the top and bottom. The scalloped mats were are made with Design Studio. I welded circles and squares together to create the mat, and are inserted under the ribbon. Each scallop has a little blue candy bonbon star on it.

These mats were cut from Accent Essentials. I've used an eyelet to hold them together and scored the top one so it will fold up easily.


Supplies Used: No. 10 envelopes. Paper: DCVW the Stack 6, Me & My Big Ideas, black card stock, various colors of solid card stock; Distress Ink: Chipped sapphire, Vintage Photo; Elements: Candy Bonbon Circles and Stars, Rhinestones, Pearls, eyelet Buttons Misc: Red Line Tape, glue, pop up dots, Craftwood Bird Shape Cutouts, buttons Cricut Cartridges: Accent Essentials, Fabulous Finds, George and the Basic Shapes, Home Accents, Walk In My Garden, Winter Wonderland.

Spring Mini Tag Album

Here's a little mini tag album. I used toilet paper rolls to hold the tags. All of the tags were cut with Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. For the most part I alternated the toilet paper rolls with card stock pages. On the cover I used a piece of acetate stamped my border then embossed it. "Tristen" was cut using Jasmine and I welded the pieces together with Design Studio.

The front of page two I left blank, but the backside has a mat cut from Accent Essential with a piece of punched paper.

Pages 3 is the first toilet paper roll with only one side decorated with a scallop frame cut from Accent Essential. Page 4 is card stock with a caterpillar cut from Walk in My Garden on one side and a mat on the other side.


Page 5 is another piece of acetate with a border stamp embossed in blue an My Boy glued to the back side. My is cut using the Jasmine Cartridge and Boy is from Graphically Speaking.
Page 6 is another toilet paper roll with a tag inside.

The next page is this cute little turtle on a photo mat. The turtle was cut from Walk in My Garden. Then another toilet paper roll with a photo mat.

The next two pages are of card stock with a couple of photo mats, the scallop frame from Accent Essential and then Tree from Walk in My Garden.

The last two pages are another piece of acetate, stamped and embossed. Boy is cut from Graphically speaking.

I used eyelets on each page as this little album will get lots of use. I used pop up dots behind the scallop frames, tree, caterpillar and turtle.

Here's a list of the cartridges I used along with what I cut from them.

Accent Essentials - Scallop Frame and Label

Camp Out - Tree

Grapchically Speaking - Boy

Jasmine - My - I welded them together

Tags Bags Boxes and More - Tags

Walk In My Garden - Caterpillar Turtle

Recipe: Paper DCWV The Stack 6, solid colors of card stock, Cricut Cartridges: Accent Essential, Camp Out, Graphically Speaking, Jasmine, Tags Bags Boxes and More Misc: border stamp, embossing powder, eyelets glue and pop up dots, Martha Stewart Arch Lace Punch.

The card base is made with white card stock for a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card. I inked the tulip with Celery and the leaves with New England Ivy, stamped on white card stock, then embossed with clear embossing powder. I then colored the tulip with Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, and Fire Brick Red. The leaved are colored with Peeled Paint and Celery. After the tulip was dry I trimmed around the edges then inked all the edges with Peeled Paint to cover up the white edges. I stamped French writing on tan card stock with brown ink to create the background behind the tulip leaves.




I used a combination of pop up dots and glue to attach the flower to the card. The bottom of the stem is glued, while on the top of the stem I used pop up dots. The flower has pop up dots also. I tied a ribbon around the front and inserted an eye pin into the knot with two beads on top. The ribbon is bias tape I had lying around.







I used Walk In My Garden Cricut Cartridge and cut the tulips at 1 1/2" and and 3" out of red and green card stock. For the inside of the card I layered the 1 1/2" tulip onto two squares of card stock that was used on the front. The 3" tulip is on the outside of the card.

Recipe: Cardstock: White, Dark Brown, Tan, Tan Swirl Paper, Red, Green Ink: Brown, Ranger Distress Ink - Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Fire Brick Red, Peeled Paint Close To My Heart - New England Ivy Stampin Up: Celery Stamps: Hero Art - French Writing, Tulip Stamp Misc: Ribbon, Eye Pin, Beads, Pop up dots, glue, clear embossing powder

Sketch Recipe:

Dark Brown Paper: Card Base: 5/ 1/2" x 4 1/4", Background paper 1: 2 1/4" x 4" Background Paper 2: 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Accent Paper 1: 4 x 3 3/4 Accent Paper 2: 2" x 3 3/4" Accent Paper 3: 3"x 3"

Cards and Envelopes ...

Using the Card Feature on the Cricut. I needed to make a few card to cheer a friend up so I thought I would do a tutorial for you.

***Even though I am showing you how to do this in Design Studio you do not need Design Studio to do this. ***

First determine the size of the card you will be making and set the dial size to that. I am using 4 1/4 for my cards and envelopes. Now leave the dial size alone. You will not need to use it again for this project.

To make the card top press the card feature button and select your image. Load your paper and cut.

Now select the shift lock button and your card feature button again. You may need to cut a couple of different times for the shape to get all the colors cut. I cut four different times for this flower. Twice for green, one each of red and purple. I like to decorate my cards with an image on the inside.

For the card base select the card base, load your paper and cut. The Cricut will score and cut. I have been using 8 1/2" by 11" card stock for card base and another sheet for the envelope.

For the envelope select the card feature button, shift lock, and the envelope. This is the envelope that goes with this card. Load you paper and cut.

I loose just a little bit of the flap when I use and 8 1/2 x 11" piece of paper. It's not a lot, I just make sure that this flap is folded to the inside. When folding you envelope be sure to use a bone folder. I use red line tape for the flaps on the envelope. Since I'm making this as a gift I leave the red plastic on the last envelope flap.

Now that you have all of your elements cut you can assemble your card and envelope.

I like to run my card top through the Cuttlebug to add some interest to the card. I used the Stylized Flowers for this card.

Depending on how you emboss your card front depends on where you window will be. For this reason I use double sided paper.

I then tie a ribbon around the window and the side of the card top before I glue to the card base. I cut off the top of the green tulips before I glued the leaves on. I used pop up dots behind the purple and red tulips.

How you glue the card front to the card base will determine whether you have card that opens to the top or the side.

As I said I like the same design to the inside of my card. I glue the green tulip base to the side, then glued the purple and green tulips on top.

For the Dragonfly Card I used the Argyle folder, Sunflower Card - Bird Call Folder,Turtle Card -D'vine Swirl and the Bumble Bee Card - Mesh folder

Recipe: Cricut: Walk in My Garden Paper: 2 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11", scraps of green, red, purple Misc: glue, ribbon, cuttlebug, pop up dots, red line tape

Glory and Fruit

Once again I used RomanScr D as the font, printed on copy paper and inked in light glue. Tab is a rectangle folded in half with the corners rounded. I punched "Glory" in light blue paper.

Week 17: Glory (front Scripture)
Ascribe to the Lord the Glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
- Psalm 29:2








Glory (back definition)
1a: praise, honor, or distinction given by common consent b: worshipful praise, honor, and thanksgiving
2: the splendor and bliss of heaven





For week 18 I used Michaelmas as the font, printed on copy paper, inked the edges in light green. The leaf border is cut using Design Studio and the Walk in My Garden cartridge. I stamped "Fruit" on white card stock in green and inked the edges in light blue and glued on a precut curvy shape I received from mom. I topped it off with a couple extra floral pins from another project. Click here to go to the post on how I made these.




Week 18: Fruit (front Scripture)
The Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23








Fruit (back definition)
Result product

Recipe: Paper: Scraps of red print two kinds, light blue, dark green, white, and background paper Ink: light blue, light green, Stamps: Studio G Alphabet Stamp Set Series 3 Cricut: Design Studio, Walk in My Garden, Punch: corner rounder Fonts: Roman Scr D, Michaelmas Misc: beads, floral pin, acrylic ink, ribbon, pop up dots.

Once again I have no idea if mom cut the shape with her cricut or used a punch.

Hugs

The paper is from Summer splash pack. I cut the flower paper 4" x 5 1/4" and the striped paper 2" x 4". Both pieces were edged in brown ink, and the flower paper has fake stitching lines from a Gel pen. I used the Cricut Cartridge Walk In My Garden for the flower and cut four of them 1" and two of each size 1 1/2", and 2" on pink card stock, which were then sponged with Orchid. I also used a gel pen to detail the center. I have no idea who the stickers are from.

Here is the inside of the card. I cut the striped 1" x 4" and edged with orchid ink. Glueded 2 of the 1" size flowers in the center.

Recipe: Paper: Summer Slpash Pack, brown and pink card stock Ink: orchid, brown, Cricut Cartridge: Walk In My Garden Misc: white sticker, glue, sponge, gel pen

May Autumn's vibrant . . .

colors lend warmth to chilly days is the quote on my November calendar. You can download the word art here. I used Lucida Calligraphy, Italic 24 pt to type this and it is 3x3, but I printed on a 4x6 so I had room for cropping. I used my corner punch straight across the brown paper to create the edging on the saying.

The background paper is from the Rockstar Pack, the rest of the papers are from my scrap pile. I used my Cricut cartridge A Walk in My Garden for the flowers and Doodlecharms for the two types of leaves.

The flowers and leaves were chalked and detailed added with gel pens. Here is a couple close ups of them. I thinly cut green paper to add a little bit of dimension. The stems were free handed.

The small orange flowers in the corner are punched on orange card stock, pressed into a gold ink pad, and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Recipe: Cardstock: Rock Star Stack and scraps Cricut Cartridges: Walk In My Garden, Doodlecharms Misc: Gel Pens, Chalk, golden ink, clear embossing powder, flower punch, decorative corner punch, scissors, glue, pop up dots.