Peek A Boo Photo (How Neat is That Hop & Tutorial for Frosted Designs)

If you are looking for my Day 1 project of the How Neat Is That Hop, please go HERE.  I have to say I am floored at the wonderful comments from Saturday ~ thank you all so much!!  That is the reason I keep creating and sharing!!

Today I am combining my tutorial for Frosted Designs with Day 2 of the Blog Hop.  If you found me first, please to the BEGINNING so you can qualify for more Blog Candy!!

Here is another layout where I have hidden some photos in it. I am currently catching up on last year's summer vacation layouts. I have way too many pictures for the pages I want to use. We also go to the same place every year so a lot of the pictures are repeats from year to year. I am always looking for ways to put as many photos in a layout without it looking like a photo album. This is one of my favorite tricks!

I start with a piece of white cardstock and cut it to 8x6.

I score it in half at 4 inches to make a "card" that is 4x6.

I use my Martha Stewart Score Board to score and crease the fold.

I put a piece of ribbon on the bottom of one edge.  I use my ATG gun to glue it down.

I take the best of the three photos and glue it to the front of the "card" over the ribbon tail.

I glue the other two photos to the inside of the "card."

I use my ATG gun to adhere the "card" to my layout.  Here I matted all of the photos in blue.  I added the title and a little embellishments.

I hope you find this technique usefull!  It is also a fun way to hide your journaling by writing on the inside instead of adding photos.

I do have some blog candy!  In order to qualify, you just need to #1 be or become a follower, #2 leave me a comment with a favorite vacation memory and #3 leave me a way to contact you if you win!!!  Your next stop in the hop is Patricia!

Blog Hop Winner!!

My Christmas In July Blog Hop Winner is:

Sheryl who said (on day 3 of my Hop):

my Christmas memory - is our dad would always put a new set of PJ's on our bed on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day we always got silly puddy, a Slinky and a deck of cards in our stocking.

Congrats Sheryl!!

Mix It Up ~ BBQ Layout

Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway with this week's Mix-It-Up project for SweetSassyDiva.  Our theme was to use several cartridges (check) BBQ theme (check) and a Bold Color (check).  I do not have either of the BBQ themed cricut cartridges, so my Gypsy and I got to work!

The tree is from Just Because Cards sized to 6.23w x 14.93h (real size is 5.78 x 6.92).  The sun is from H20 sized at 2.56w x 2.54h.  The grill shape is from Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons ~ it is the watermelon at 3.79w x 1.59h (minus the slice) and the oval is from George 0.99w x 2.68h rotated 90 degrees.

For the legs of the grill, I used 2 "A"s from Cherry Limeade at 1.52w x 1.94h.  I put another oval on my mat for the grill top.  Again I used George and sized the oval to 0.99w x 2.68h, rotated 90 degrees.  I cut these out in black.

On the 3rd Layer, I put some grass from Everyday Paper Dolls at 12.0w x 2.73h.  I copied a second grass on the mat.  I put the banner from Birthday Bash on the mat at 6.01w x 4.06h.  I put BBQ from Cherry Limeade at .80 inches and the watermelon from Creative Memories at .73 inches.  I copied the watermelon and layer and then hid the watermelon half from each as I only needed the slice. 

I put four skinny balloons (aka hotdogs) on my mat from George and Basic Shapes sized at 0.21w x 0.57h.  I put four circles (hamburgers) on my mat from George at 0.36w x 0.33h.  I put three clouds from Create A Critter on my mat at 2.49w x 2.06, 1.92w x 1.59h and 2.63w x 2.18h.  I hid the inner cut on all three.

Here are the pieces all cut out.

Here is my grill all assembled.

Some hamburgers complete with grill marks! 

Some hot dogs with grill marks!

 

I used some stickles to create the grill top and the smoke.

I put orange stickles on the bottom layer of the sun (under the swirl) and some waterfall stickles on the cloud.

I added some journaling and twine to my layout.

I cut the bird off my banner and added BBQ and the watermelon slice.  I did change my paper for the banner to match the photo mats.

I put some gold stickles on the swing rope.

Here are a couple of photos from our 4th of July BBQ.  I can almost smell the grill!!

Three Trees LO (Christmas in July Blog Hop Day 4)

Welcome to Day 4 of the Christmas in July Blog Hop!  You should have arrived from HERE!  If you found me first, please go to the BEGINNING so you don't miss any great projects or blog candy!!

I do a layout every year that shows our trees.  We are kind of tree freaks!!  We cut a live tree every year, put up a 12' tree in our entryway way and put up my grandparents gold tinsel tree.  The gold tree has a rotating base with music and red and green spotlights!!

This year, my 5 year old decorated our live tree mostly by himself.  Most of the ornaments were at his eye level, so of course I had to take a close up of that!!!

I put the shadow of an ornament shape from Christmas on my Gypsy mat at 4.80w x 6.23h.  I put the words "three trees" on the mat at 1.34 inches and welded them together to fit on the ornament.  I put the scroll (Window function on Ornamental Iron) sized to 1.31w x 11.24h (using Real Size) and rotated -90.  I copy and pasted the scroll to have one for each page.

I cut out the words and scrolls in gold paper and the ornament in burgundy.  Yikes my mat is dirty!!!

I put the ornament on the page at an angle and adhered the title on with my Xyron.  I put a little ribbon on the top of the ornament.  I used paper from Recollections Old Fashioned Christmas pad from Michaels last Christmas.

I added some embellishments from Making Memories from my stash.

I handwrote the journaling on paper that matched my embellishments.  As much as I don't like my handwriting, I know it is important to use it!!  Your children always know your handwriting!!!

And here is my final layout for the Christmas Blog Hop!!!  I was so happy to get caught up on my Christmas layouts from 2010!!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Don't forget, Lynda from Memories in Tyme is giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person. In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower on all of the blogs in this hop!

You also have one more chance to win my Blog Candy (I will add up all of the entries from the past 4 days and use Random Number to generate my winner).  Please be or become a follower and share with me how many trees you decorate for Christmas.  If you don't celebrate Christmas, please share your favorite holiday decoration instead!

Your next stop in the hop is HERE!!!

Christmas Eve LO (Blog Hop Day 3)

Welcome to Day 3 of the Christmas in July Blog Hop!  You should have come from HERE.  If you found me first, be sure to go to the BEGINNING of the hop for some awesome projects!

I took this photo of my youngest son and his cousins in front of the gold tree that used to be my grandparents.  We gather at our house for Christmas Eve. 

I started out with the title from Storybook with the letters at 1.35 inches.  I welded the word cousins from Quarter Note (LOVE this cursive font!) at 1 inch.  I found these ornaments from Christmas and they looked similar to the paper I used.  I cut them out at 2 inches.  My mom collected angels, so I thought it fitting to put the angel on the page (at 2.65 inches) as a tribute to her.

I used gold paper, creme paper, silver paper and metallic light blue paper (that matched the photo mat) to cut out all the pieces.

Here they are cut out.

I ran the letters through my Xyron and used the paper negative piece as a template to get my title on perfectly!

I pulled up the template.

I pop dotted the angel to the top corner.

I pop dotted the ornaments around the photo.

I lost the dot to the i (once again), so I used a crystal instead.

Here is my layout all finished.  Thank you for stopping by my blog!

Don't forget the blog candy!!! 

Lynda from Memories in Tyme is giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person. In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower on all of the blogs in this hop!

You can also qualify for my Blog Candy!  You need to be or become a follower and tell me a Christmas memory.  You can come back tomorrow for one more chance to win!

Your next stop in the hop is JENNY!

From Our House To Yours (Christmas in July Blog Hop Day 2)

Welcome to Day 2 of the Christmas in July Blog Hop!  You should have arrived from HERE.  If this is your first stop, please go HERE to the beginning!

For my project today, I wanted to make a layout that showcased our annual Christmas Picture Card.

My card measured 4x8, so I started with a rectangle from George and Basic Shapes sized to 4.25 x 8.25.  I used the Hello Kitty Font cartridge for the words.  House is sized at 1 inch in capital letters.  I copied and pasted the letters to a second layer to cut them out in a different color too.  The "from our to yours" is cut out of "round" at 1.12 inches.  I welded the words to my rectangle.

I cut it out in black.

I cut out a mat in maroon to put behind the photo card, but decided I liked the black better.

I cut out the word "House" in maroon and adhered it on top of the black.

I found this paper from the Deja Views Fair Isle Christmas Paper pad.  Because the paper is a little busy, I wanted to keep my layout simple.

Don't forget you have a chance to win some blog candy! 

Lynda from Memories in Tyme is giving away a $25 gift card to use at any store to one person. In order to be eligible for the drawing, you must be a follower on all of the blogs in this hop!

You can also enter once a day for my Blog Candy for the 4 days of this hop!  Just be or become a follower and tell me what your favorite Christmas/holiday photo was (that you sent or received)!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Your next stop is JENNY.