In the Garden Journal

Do you know a mom who loves to garden?  This may be a wonderful Mother's Day gift for her!!

I covered a composition notebook with some paper from Good Day Sunshine paper pack that I found at Hobby Lobby.

I purchase the cut in the Garden from the Silhouette Store.

I trimmed a file folder to 7 inches wide and adhered it to the inside of the cover.

I made a pocket inside the folder for notes about plants - plants you like/dislike/want/don't want.

I included a pocket in the back cover for notes for next year.  I used Walk in My Garden Cricut cartridge for the flower pot borders (.87 inches each) and flowers (1 inch each).  I used Hannah Montana for the font sized to .88 inches.

Here is the back.

I included some butterfly ribbon and a paper flower to the cover.

This will make a great gift for anyone who love gardening!!

Spring Garden Layout

This week at Frosted Designs, our Fabulous Friday challenge is Weather.  The weather in Nebraska was so warm early spring this year that all of my bulbs bloomed and looked beautiful BEFORE Easter. I host Easter and was worried that the tulips would be blown away by then, and they were.  I am so glad that I took these photos!!  

We moved around so much that I would plant my garden and not be able to enjoy it every year.  This is our 4th year here and I have really enjoyed this garden!!

Here is a little sketch I drew.

I cut out several flower pieces, lady bugs and grass from Walk in my Garden.

I cut the flowers out in the same colors as the ones in my garden.

I took the title Spring Garden from April Showers.

One of my other challenges is to use more than one piece of patterned paper in a project!  I used this butterfly paper from Michaels and some scrap green paper with a leaf pattern on it to mat my photos.  I colored and cut the background shape from my Cricut Imagine using Vintage Papers.

I inked my grass and stems with green ink.

I layered the flowers together and overlapped the grass.  At the time I created this project, my Gypsy was still not able to cut welded pieces.  Normally I would weld the grass pieces together but I actually like this look even better!!

I put a sun in the top corner.  I have several metal ladybugs in my garden so of course I had to add some!!

I added the all important date and my initials.

I hope you join us this week with a Weather project of your own at Frosted Designs!!

Note Pads for my Kids!

I made personalized note pads for my daycare kids and their siblings who are in school.  I personalized them by using several cricut cartridges and papers.  Ayla loves cats and her sister Abby loves dogs.

 William and Eli love trucks and trains.

 McKenna and Elle love dance.

Luke and Tanner love baseball.

Mallory loves lady bugs and Sierra loves tie dye and soccer.

 Sterling and Alex love football.

 Colton loves soccer and Jadon just started karate.  Jadon also loves orange!

Max loves golf and Stone loves to wrestle.

 Here is a screen shot of some of the cuts and layers.

 I welded the names (using Don Juan) to the Sports Mania images.

 Here is a link to a tutorial on how to make these notepads with a Bind-It-All HERE.

In addition to the note pads, I also gave the kids some "grown up" pens to use in them.  My son has already filled up his note pad with drawings and words.  I need to get busy with some more!!!

Two cards....not bad for a scrapbooker!!

I am trying to make more of my own cards this year.  I am off to a pretty good start!!  This first card used leftover snowflakes from my Winter Fun layout yesterday.  I added a bit of ribbon and a stamp that my awesome Stocking Sister sent me!

My second card is being sent to my cousin's daughter as she recovers from surgery.  I made these flowers last May for Mother's Day and found my leftover stash (score!) so I decided to make one into a card.  The flower layers were found on Walk In My Garden.  I used a stamp from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occasions set.

Two cards down, about 100 more to go LOL!

Hello My Friend

I bought a plain mini album with a paper machet cover at Michaels.  I covered it coordinating paper and ribbon.  I used pink, green and brown as my main colors.  I was inspired to create this for the My Pink Stamper design team call after I saw the picture below:

This is an advertisment for BoBunny in Creating Keepsakes.

The challenge was to use my favorite Cricut Cartridge, but I have so many favorites.....

I used Songbird for the tag, Walk in My Garden and Accent Essentials for the flowers.  The leaves are from Walk in My Garden as well.  I used the Hide Contour feature to hide some of the flower cuts.

I inked the edges of the flowers, leaves, tag and album with my Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink pad.  I used gems for the centers of the flowers and pearls to tie the flowers together.

I had the perfect shade of brown ribbon, but it was 1" thick.  In order to make it thinner and add some texture, I knotted it and glued it down.  I put a layer of pink crystals under it.  I put hot pink ribbon going up the side and replaced the creme ribbon that binded the album with a green that matched the green paper.

I stamped Hello my friend (My Pink Stamper of course) on the tag and added a flower.

Here is another shot of my finished Mini Album cover.  This will make a wonderful gift for one of my friends!!  One of my resolutions is to put myself out there on other awesome blogs, and this is my first of 2011 ~ I am submitting to My Pink Stamper.  Wish me luck!!!

Textured Flower Layout

I made the page on the left at CKC Kansas City last month.  Except the flower I made there turned out too green, so I took it off.  I also put a sticker (I know ~ yuck) on the top left corner of the page.  Well, I can't really do much with a one-page layout so I purchased a couple pieces of paper and took everything home.

The first thing I did was make new flowers.  I used Walk In My Garden and white card stock to make these daisies.  I then ran them through my Cuttlebug and embossed them with Swiss Dots.

I took some Distress Ink and sponged over the top of it.  I layered three flowers (the same size) and glued them together.  I bent the petals up just a bit.

I replaced the sticker in the center of the larger daisy and put a flat pearl in the smaller ones.

For the smaller flower on this page, I cut out the smaller flower to stick on top of the same flower.  I cut out some 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 mats and matted again with green.  I added a spot for journaling.  This page can be turned either way, I kind of like the big flower on the top but I usually don't take many vertical photos.

Here is my two page layout....now I just need to find some photos that will work and add a title.  What do you think?

Spring Stretch #2 ~ Gypsy Challenge

My favorite flower of all time is the tulip. I get so mad when the bunnies eat my tulips ~ so I just had to share this little story!! I am having Easter at my house and my yard looks so yucky after such a long snowy winter. I went to Michaels and bought some silk tulips and daffodils. I stuck the flowers in my pots out in my front landscape. Well, the other morning a bunny was trying to eat my silk tulips. The bunny was very confused ~ I got a good laugh!!

I decided to make a LO using stretched tulips for Easter. I took the tulips from Walk In My Garden and stretched them on my gypsy. I put all three pieces on the mat and grouped them together and then stretched them. I copied two more. On the third set I reduced the size a little bit.

I embossed the tulip flowers in my cuttlebug using dots and paisleys.


The grass is from Everyday Paper Dolls. I welded two images together and cut it out in three different shades of green. I inked the grass and tulip stems with a green stamp pad.

Zoo Fun

Here is my take on the LID 2-page sketch for this week. I turned the first page to fit the orientation of photos I had. I used my cricut carts Opposites Attract (for the title) and Walk In My Garden for the leaves.