Mom Tile ~ All About Mom!!

I am excited to share my Mom Tile this week at Susana's Scrappin' Corner!

I modified a tile project that I made as a Christmas gift last year.  I LOVE being able to save my projects on my Gypsy and  tweak them for a new project!!!

I used Gypsy Wandering, Hannah Montana, Hello Kitty Font, Home Accent, Mother's Day 2010, Nate's ABCs and Quarter Note for the words and placed them Subway Style on my mat and arranged them around the word Mom.

I cut out the vinyl on my E2 using my Vinyl setting.  If you are using a Cricut or Expression, use setting 3-3-3 for a kiss cut.

I use Clear Contact paper as my transfer paper.  The trick is to de-stick the contact paper on your jeans several times.

I put the vinyl on a 12x12 tile that I bought at Lowes.  I love making tiles!!  You can purchase an easel to display the tile.  I made this for my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day!

Thanks Susan for having me over to play today!!!

Spring Inspiration (Pink By Design Blog Hop)

Welcome to the Spring Inspiration Pink By Design Blog Hop ~ I am so excited to be here!!  Our assignment today was to use the above photos for inspiration to create a project.

You should have arrived from DANA.  If you found me first, please go to the BEGINNING so you don't miss anything!!!  Here is a complete line up just in case you get lost along the way!

Pink By Design Blog http://www.pinkbydesignstamps.com

Lisa - http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com

Dana Taft - http://papermemories4u.blogspot.com/

Lori Apgar - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/ ***HERE

Melisa - http://melisascraftycreations.blogspot.com/***NEXT

L.B. - http://www.coolbeansbylb.blogspot.com/

Annette - http://www.aspoonfullofsugarcrafts.blogspot.com/ 

The things that inspired me from the photos were the colors orange and blue, the triangle banners and the pinwheels in the iced tea.

I started with the paper I found at Hobby Lobby.  I took two papers and cut out the pinwheel from Mother's Day 2010 at 3.62 inches.  I used my Gypsy to size up my project.

I also cut the triangle banner flags out from Mother's Day 2010 at 5 inches using light blue cardstock.

I cut out these scallop shapes from Mother's Day Bouquet at 2.18 inches out of white cardstock.  I used my  PBD Everyday Occasions stamps to add some green, blue and orange color to them.  I inked the edges of the circles green.

I wanted a little bit of color and added the butterflies at the last minute.  I was afraid they would be too big but you can hardly see them once the pinwheels are assembled.

 I cut out the orange polka dot paper first.  Then I flipped my design and cut out the plaid paper.  I adhered my papers together.  I intended on using double sided paper but did not find the right colors so I made my own! 

I used a brad to attach the pinwheel together and to the circle.  I found these skinny straws at Michaels in the dollar bin and taped one to the back of each pinwheel.  I trimmed the straws so they were not longer than the banner flags.

I used orange DMC floss to string my banner together.  I wanted to use twine, but did not have orange and tried to make my own but ran out of patience!!!  I think the solid orange looks better so it was all good!

Here is a close up of my pinwheel.

I hung my banner on my daycare door and one of my moms has been eyeing it all week!!!  I will give it to her and make her day!!  I hope you are having a wonderful spring!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  We hope that we have inspired you to create a project too!  Just use the photos at the top of my post as inspiration and link up your project at Pink By Design within 2 weeks!!

Your next stop is the marvelous MELISA!

Circle Album {BugBytes Designer}

Today I am the Guest Designer at TheBugBytes and I am going to show you how I made this circle album for my Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day.  I hope all of you Mothers out there had a wonderful day yesterday ~ I sure did!!  I saw a circle album during the Disney Pixar Blog Hop #2 last week HERE at Tami's Craft Connection, but she did not show instructions.  So, I decided to create my own.

My first attempt was to use 5.5inch circles, but they were way too small once I folded them.  I made 4 circles at 11.50w x 11.07h out of blue paper  I made 5 circles at 11.0w x 10.59h out of coordinating paper.  I used a paper pad since I did not have 5 matching papers at home.  I used Plantin Schoolbook, but any circle will do.

Then I folded the circles in half, then in quarters (half again).

I used the bone folder from my score board to score the folds.

Here are my four blue circle pages all folded together.

Then I folded four of the patterned papers the same way and glued them to the inside of the blue circles.  This way when you fold the blue circle up, you see blue on the outside, not the patterned paper.

Then I used my ATG gun to glue the pages together into a book.

Here is the cover of the book.  Before I covered it with paper....

I glued a ribbon to the cover.  In hindsight, I should have glued the ribbon a little higher up the spine.

Here is the book covered.

Each page of the book folds out.

Now, I need to decorate the pages and cover!

I designed several things on my Gypsy, but ended up using only a couple.  My Mother-in-Law is very practical so flowery pretty things weren't necessary for her.  I opted for small banners from Straight From the Nest cut at 4.00w x 1.76h.  I cut out I heart U and the flower from Plantin Schoolbook to put on the flags.

I used this title from Mother's Day 2010 cut at 4.04w x 3.82h.  The flower is from Plantin Schoolbook at4.15w x 6.36h.

I inked the edges with Vintage Photo from Tim Holtz.

Here are Tanner's pages.

Here are Tyler's pages.

Here are Kramer's pages.

And here is the last page with the three of them all together.

I cut my photo down the center so the page would fold back together.

Here is a top view of the album.

Another top view with a paged opened up.

I love trying out new things!   I am glad I found this project to tackle!!

Thanks, Pam, for hosting me on your blog!  You are a constant source of inspiration to so many of us!!

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!!