Pinch Me!

Hi, everyone!  This is Lori from The Singing Shell blog and I have decided to do another layout.  Yes, I am not giving up on my quest to become a better scrapbooker. :)

My sister got my five month old, Matthew, a cute little outfit that said: Pinch Me, I'm Cute!  There was a funny little crab on top of the words and I thought to myself:  Well, wouldn't that make a great title for a layout?  I never think about layouts by accident and usually force myself to make them.  So I further thought to myself: Well, I better scrap it, then!

This is the original picture which was cropped for the layout.

I used the Martha Stewart Crafts Birthday Cake Art cartridge for the letters: Chic Font.  They are cut at 1 in.  The fun crabs come from the Life's a Beach cartridge.  I cut those at 1.5 in.  I sprinkled on some Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter.  This stuff is great because it is see through but you can get still the sparkle!  (Which I am milking until the boys get older because by then I don't think glitter will quite cut it.)  

Close up of crab

Lastly, I cut some yellow and turquoise rectangles at 2.25 x 5.5 and arranged them on the side.

I am finding - at least, for myself - that if I keep scrapbooking simple I enjoy it more.  Which is kind of funny because I can make some pretty complicated cards. :D

I hope you enjoy your weekend, get crafty and find some good deals for National Scrapbooking Day, May 5th!

Cricut Info and Other Supplies:

Designed By:  Lori Sjogren

Cricut Machine:  Imagine

Cricut Cartridges: Martha Stewart Birthday Cake Art, Life's a Beach

Other Supplies: Stampin' Up and Hobby Lobby cardstock, Clear Rock Candy Dry Glitter

Vacation Mini Album

Hi everyone! This is Angela of Angie's Paper Passion and I'm very excited to share the mini album that I created with the Mini Books cartridge. My son and his family went on a cruise last month and I wanted to make my granddaughter, Viviana, her own little book for her cruise memories. The Mini Books cartridge has many different options for those quick little books that you can make for yourself or for gifts. They are very easy to make and put together. I used glittered cardstock, ribbons, brads and pop dots to embellish my project.

I used a lot of other cartridges for this mini including Life's A Beach, Pack Your Bags, Traveler, Ole and Destinations. There were just so many cute cuts for a vacation cruise! 

There were some pages of the mini album that were cute but I felt that they were a little too small for this project. So I cut two each of the small pages and adhered them together to make packets for a larger tag. This gave me more room for photos and/or journaling. 

This mini also has pockets to hold all of those vacation extras like tickets and other souvenirs.

This project was so much fun to put together and so easy, too. I know that Vivi will enjoy completing it with her cruise pictures and memories. I have many more photos of the mini album on my blog with all of the cut sizes. Just go to Angie's Paper Passion.

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope that I have inspired you to create something special with your Cricut today! Until next time, Happy Crafting, Angela

Cricut Info & Supplies Used:

Designed by: Angela Cromwell

Cartridges Used: Mini Books, Life's A Beach, Pack Your Bags, Traveler, Ole, Destinations

Criuct Machines Used: Cricut Expression and CCR

Other Supplies Used: Assorted cardstock and patterned paper, glitter cardstock, ribbons, brads, pop dots, adhesive

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Hawaii Vacation Layout

Greetings Everyone!  This is Cindy of Scrap-obsessed Blog . Happy September and the last holiday weekend of the summer. I hope everyone is having a nice three day weekend. I'm hoping to spend some quality time in my craft room at least two out of the three days I have off work. I'm not ready for summer to end. There are still so many things I want to do while the weather is still warm. One thing I would love to do is go on vacation to Hawaii. Unfortunately I will have to wait until January. Until then I can have fun preparing for it though.

My layout today was made using three different Cricut Cartridges.

For the title of my layout and for the airplane in the clouds I used the Cricut Circle Exclusive cartridge Something to Remember. They were both cut at 4" except for the word Hawaii. That was cut at 1 1/2".

The green scallops on the top and bottom of the pages were made using the Art Philosophy cartridge, cut at 1/2". I used my Gypsy to weld 4 of them together to get the 12" long size that I needed.

The hibiscus flower was cut at 1 3/4" from the Life's a Beach cartridge. The photo mat on the left side will hold a 5x7 photo and the mat on the right side will hold a 4x6 photo.

I hope you've enjoyed my project today. Other Hawaii pages and projects will be posted to my blog as I prepare for my first big vacation. I have a feeling I'll be needing a lot of layouts! Thanks for looking. Cindy

Cricut Info and Supplies Used:

Designed by:  Cindy

Cricut Cartridges Used: Art Philosophy, Life's a Beach, Something to Remember

Cricut Machine Used: Expression, Gypsy

Other Supplies Used: cardstock, patterened paper

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