Shot Book

I recently turned 21.

Well, 21 times 2 plus 3!!

My friend Kylie has a friend who is turning 21 in August and asked for my help making her Shot Book.  Silly me, I thought she meant an immunization book or even a photo shot book at first.

When she told me about all the shots and activities they had planned and wanted scrapbook pages made - I was like YES that sounds like fun!!!  Then I felt a little tipsy just thinking about all that alcohol!!

I designed and cut out the paper and vinyl, but Kylie put everything on paper (including the gems and stickles) except for the vinyl on the cover.  I have Kylie's permission to put the pages we designed and made on my blog.

I used my Gypsy, Cricut and my Cameo!

The fireball is from the Silhouette store and is a baseball with flames.  We deleted the "laces" layer.

The font is Hannah Montana for all pages unless noted.

The hand came from A Child's Year.  I did a search on Pinterest for Spanking looking for an image of a hand to trace.....found a lot of interesting images but none were appropriate!!!

Scooby Snack was fun!  The bone is from  A Child's Year and the peace signs are from Disney/Pixar Cars.  Loved the bright colors - our inspiration was the Mystery Machine!

Kylie put individual gems on the letters!!

The lips are from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2.  There is a giant set of lips under the photos.  Kylie pop-dotted the smaller lips around the page.

This page was challenging.  This is the page where she will take a picture with the bouncer and her ID.  We searched for a body-builder image to represent the bouncer with no luck.  

We created a Security shirt instead - totally Kylie's idea.  We used Impact font (with the Cameo) and the shirt from the Silhouette store.  The drivers license is from Locker Talk.  

The bomb came from Indie Art (the third time I have ever used this cartridge). 

The beer mug is from the Silhouette Store.  I embossed the foam!!  The font is Blackletter.

I welded a border with a camera image from Makin' the Grade.  The cursive font is from Quarter Note.

This font is Liquidism from dafont.com and cut with my cameo.  The shot glass was purchased from the Silhouette Store.

I used vinyl to decorate the cover of the album.  The font I used is from Art Philosophy.

On each page

The F: stands for FROM

The T: stand for TIME

and the X: is for Dana's signature

Kylie created half of the album.  Dana's sister made the other 10 pages.  I am happy to hear Dana's mom will be the designated driver!!  I sure hope it is a birthday to remember!!!

My sister-in-law is turning 40 next month....I told her I would make her a Shot Book.  She politely declined, especially after I suggested 40 shots for 40 years.  Clearly I am not a drinker!!!!

Baseball Pennant

Hi!!!  I am so excited to share my very first CricutDIVA post with you today!!  It is official - I am a DIVA!!!

My middle son is graduating from High School in just over a month (sniff, sniff).  He is also a baseball player (catcher) and I have been working very hard at making his graduation party decorations.

I was inspired by a post on Pinterest to create my centerpiece.

I started with my Gypsy Girl and opened a 12x24 mat.

I used the shadow of this pennant from Locker Talk sized to width 15.24 x height 7.12.

Once I sized the shadow layer to 7.12 inches, I put all of the pieces for the banner on layers of my Gyspy all sized to 7.12 inches.

I used watercolor paper to cut out the base of my pennant.  Watercolor paper is very sturdy and it cuts well on the cricut.  I use it for banner flags and mini album pages too.

I used multi-cut of 2 and the blade depth at 5 (which is the depth I use for cardstock). 

I put the pennant in the next layer of my Gypsy, sized the same.  I wanted the pennant to be white and the tassles to be blue, so I hung the tassles off the mats.

I cut out two in white cardstock, one for each side.  I trimmed off the edges and adhered one piece to each side of the watercolor paper layer.

In Gypsy Layer 3, I put the tassels, borders and the numbers from Varsity Letter sized to 2.28 inches.

I cut them out in blue paper (I call this shade Titan Blue for my son's high school).

In Gypsy Layer 4, I put the baseball layer from Boys Will Be Boys sized to 6.15 inches.  

On the bottom half of the mat, I put the numbers from Varsity Letter sized to 2.28 inches.

I also put the graduation cap from Recess sized to 1.82 inches.

I cut out the baseball in white cardstock and the rest in black cardstock.

I decided later I wanted a second graduation cap so I copied and pasted one to the next Gypsy layer along with the base of the baseball.  I cut them out in black cadstock.

I opened a final Gypsy layer and kept the eyeball open on the tab so I could see the baseball base (shown in grey).  I copied the baseball onto this layer and sized it to 6.74 inches to create a shadow.  I cut the layer out in blue cardstock.

I adhered the blue tassels on the pennant.  I cut several strands of twine and tied a knot in the center.  I used my ATG gun to adhere them to the blue tassels.  Once adhered, I trimmed the edges of the twine.

I used my Sew Easy to punch holes in the border piece.  I used the red and white twine to stitch around the edges. 

I pop-dotted the border piece to the pennant.

I adhered the baseball layers and pop-dotted the number 8 (Tyler's jersey number) and the graduation cap to the pennant.

I used a liquid glue pen to adhere blue and white twine to the edges of the pennant.

Here you can see the dimension.

On the other side of the pendant, I adhered the numbers and pop-dotted the second graduation cap.

Before I adhered the border to the pennant, I used ATG to adhere a wilton cookie/cake pop stick to the pennant.  I reinforced the stick with some tape.  

I pop-dotted the border on with an extra layer of pop dots to account for the height of the stick.

Here is the reverse side of the pennant.

This will be a center piece for one of the food tables at Tyler's graduation party.

Thanks for joining me today!!

School Book Fair Signs

I volunteered to make the signs for our school's book fair.  The theme is a Luau and I was having a hard time tying the two together....then I came up with Books on the Beach!  This sign is 5 feet by 32 inches and will hang in the front window of the school.

I put these books in her hand (so cute)!!  The books are from Locker Talk and everything else is from Life is a Beach.

For our Family night, we have Blimpie sandwiches.  The signs that were used in the past had a clip art mosquito on them (not sure why) so I updated them as well.

It is hard to see here but I used a Peachy Keen stamp for her face.  This was so fun to make ~ way different than my usual boy projects!!

Sassy Graduation Cards

I am a Guest Designer today for Sassy's Blog.  Since May brings graduations, I thought this would be a good time to make some cards for the high school seniors in my life.

I started out creating a background out of 2011(Doodletype 0.73h) and a graduation cap (Locker Talk 0.73h). I rotated the numbers and cap 90 degrees. I did this because I purposely wanted to stack the layers like bricks and ran the rest of the line off the page. That would have been harder to do (for me anyway) without rotating it.

 

Once I had one 4x6 area completed, I grouped it and copied it three times. This way I can make four cards at once. I also kept one set in a separate layer just in case I need one or two more cards. With a high schooler, you never know!!

 

Here is the Amy Chomas pen holder that I won in the First Disney Pixar Blog Hop. I took out my blade housing and replaced it with the pen holder and a black gel pen.

Instead of cutting, the cricut will draw your images.  

I trimmed them down to fit on my card front. I did use card blanks from Michaels for my cards and envelopes because I had them already.

I cut coordinating high school colors and glued them to the face of the card.

 

I went back to my Gypsy and found some banners (Mother's Day 2010 sized at 1.35w x 1.47h) and used the same 2001(0.73h).

 

I loaded up my papers and cut out the images.

 

At the last minute, I copied and pasted 2011 two more times for the blue and orange cards.  

I left the banner pieces on the mat and glued on the numbers. 

I used some thin beading twine to string the banner flags together and pop-dotted them to the paper I made. I mounted this paper onto color coordinated papers.  

I tied blue ribbon between the flags, but it was missing something.....  

I glued the blue paper to the orange card, but it was still missing something...  

I grabbed a pack of Jolee's graduation caps and diplomas with gems in it and got a little blingy! 

Here are the three finished color combinations. This will be easy to save and change up a little bit for next year too!

Thank you for stopping by!!